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by rquantz 13y ago
I think it's interesting that in conceiving "nasty" icons, the images are almost entirely either violent or scatological, rather than sexual (the bare-breasted woman being the only exception I noticed). I imagine a few possib
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by rquantz 13y ago
If you feel the need to tell other people what they can and can't find sexy, then you're the one with a problem.
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a pint's a pound the world around I always wondered if butter was the basis for standard units. There's something rather wonderful about that idea to me.
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Not sure if you got that this new icon set actually changes the image to be more legible at different sizes by showing different amounts of detail. The big microphone has more dots on it than the little one.
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By deteriorating physically, mentally, and socially.
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Do you think astronauts (or people making decisions on the ground) have a tendency to make the wrong call when things go sideways? They train exhaustively for just about any possible emergency, and if they can't train the panic out of
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by rquantz 13y ago
I accidentally upvoted this with my big fingers. Now, having seen the video, I wish I could take that upvote back.
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This reminds me of the recent episode of Radiolab that suggested the extinction event at the end of the Cretaceous might have taken only a few hours[1]. If you thought this article was pop-y, you might be in for a surprise, but I found it q
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by rquantz 13y ago
The line about the rich taking on greater risk is particularly absurd. The rich risk making less money in a recession relative to their baseline income, sure, but that graph doesn't seem to suggest they face destitution, which a factor
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by rquantz 13y ago
Adding to the chorus of people who disagree with you, I'd like to also say that this was put up very quickly. I'm sure when time permits they'll build out the front end further.
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Agency officials insist that if Mr. Snowden had been working from N.S.A. headquarters at Fort Meade, Md., which was equipped with monitors designed to detect when a huge volume of data was being accessed and downloaded, he almost certainly
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by rquantz 13y ago
To be clear, I was using free in the sense of "unencumbered." However, since you bring up freedom of speech, I say, what use is freedom if you're not free to offend people?
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by rquantz 13y ago
Yes, english is my first language. Yes, I thought it through, and your hand wringing about profanity being imprecise and childish are typical of people who complain about its use. It also misunderstands the purpose of language. Liberal use
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It's kind of sad that you think the word fuck is indecent.
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What are you talking about? Edit: oh I see, you think strads are nothing special. Too bad for you.
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$100k lands on my bed. Poof go my student loans and credit card debt. With enough left over that I could take a nice vacation and take a 6 month break from work if I live very frugally. Sounds like a worthy goal. Edit: this is why claims
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I guess you just have to call him "Steve Jobs"
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And your comment leaves the impression that you have an inferiority complex about being a web developer. I'm pretty sure the GP was just commenting on the narrowness of the topics covered. We web developers aren't the only ones wh
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by rquantz 13y ago
This sounds like NYC's stop and frisk, which, while still nominally requiring probable cause, became in practice blanket permission to stop any black or Hispanic person for any reason. However, it might be different from a law allowing
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by rquantz 13y ago
I haven't seen numbers about Snowden's approval, but the Bush advisor's statement was factually inaccurate for most of his second term.
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Of course my self-involved reaction to this discussion is "what does a geek do to land themselves in prison?" I'm guessing probably mostly drug offenses, and maybe occasionally hacking related activities. Anything else? I&#x2
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Nobel winner declares boycott of top science journals(theguardian.com)
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but if this were an accurate metaphor, wouldn't cancer incidence decrease with age, rather than increase?
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The story behind the most important photograph in space history(slate.com)
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This article demonstrates everything that is wrong with science journalism(nymag.com)
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You'll notice that the triangular composition shots had three figures on three different levels in the shot, when most shots with a single figure in them had their head at basically the same level, right below the top of the frame. If
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I remember reading a marxist-oriented article about the trend toward apocalyptic movies and books, and the quote that stuck out for me was, "It has become easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism." I suppo
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I got a prescription for them from my doctor at the time (for PA, not high blood pressure), so it should be doable. Definitely would be helpful for job interviews too (I'm sure 20-40% of the people you see appearing before news cameras
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Beta blockers are used by musicians to control performance anxiety. I used to take them for auditions. For a stage performance it can leave you a bit emotionally flat, but when you have ten minutes in which you have to be perfect, it can re
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The question is, will API access be billed per transaction, or some flat fee? The former will make it difficult to do much that's very interesting, but you could have a lot of fun experimenting within a flat fee structure.

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