rquantz

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by rquantz 14y ago
Yes, owners definitely rent out rooms in New York apartments.
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by rquantz 14y ago
There absolutely is a right to privacy. See the earlier response about Griswold v. Connecticut. I see people frequently saying privacy or things are not rights because they are not enumerated in the Constitution. Please note, however, the N
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by rquantz 14y ago
Perhaps something like wikileaks for internet security? Located outside US jurisdiction?
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by rquantz 14y ago
I think it was referring to the earlier-mentioned practice of companies firing someone and then splitting their work between two people.
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by rquantz 14y ago
I posted this as a separate submission, but it didn't seem to catch on. Since this is the only hurricane-related post on the front page, I'm going to add it here: startups, apply to YC and keep your change until you're making money. Those o
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by rquantz 14y ago
Maybe this isn't the sort of thing that should be posted here, but so many of us here have money to spare, and so many people are facing such hardship. Please consider donating or giving blood.
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American Red Cross Disaster Relief Donation Page(redcross.org)
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If you already have some skills, consider Hacker School (hackerschool.com) -- it's in NYC and it's free.
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by rquantz 14y ago
I haven't gone skydiving, so maybe you know better than I do, but wasn't this exit more perilous than most? He had to leave the platform with as little spin as possible since there wasn't enough atmosphere for him to control his descent. Or
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by rquantz 14y ago
It was a blog post explaining to customers why they could no longer pay with PayPal. I don't think it needed to be a polemic.
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by rquantz 14y ago
It's funny that I'm seeing this today, since just yesterday I was reading about varnish. I've been given the task of scaling up my first big Wordpress site for a client, which has been running pretty slowly -- it's been getting about 3 mill
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He did say "on average."
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by rquantz 14y ago
On the one hand, yes, facing death over and over again, combined with a psychological willingness to accept whatever happens, can probably take a cool headed person and give them nerves of steel. On the other hand, repeated exposure to extr
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by rquantz 14y ago
I'm sure it can be helped, but I'm not sure if the kind of cool Neil Armstrong displayed can really be developed. If you want a good illustration of this, hang out with pilots and listen to their stories. I recall one pilot friend of mine,
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by rquantz 14y ago
But seriously, why the downvotes? I responded to a joke about pretend early 20th century spammers with a joke about pretend early 20th century rickrolling. Are we only allowed to be completely serious here? Did I do harm to the level of dis
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by rquantz 14y ago
It's actually an old, yellowed photograph of Rick Astley.
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Probably more disturbing is the modern law enforcement emphasis on militarization and crowd control. Witness the response to OWS. Imagine if they were actually attempting to overthrow the government.
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by rquantz 14y ago
"If guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns." A typical remark from gun-loving Americans. They seem to miss a couple of things: if guns are outlawed, and you catch someone with a gun, that indicates they posess the gun with criminal
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by rquantz 14y ago
Rye? Are you a cocktailian? Edit: given the Wondrich reference further down it seems that you are. I've decided that cocktails have an appealing relationship to programming: they're arcane procedures that require specialized knowledge, but
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by rquantz 14y ago
I don't want to defend the handling of this particular estate, but the justification for estate taxes in general is that it is counter to the interests of a democracy to have a hereditary aristocracy. It's not just that we hate the idea of
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by rquantz 14y ago
I don't support scalping but wish the artists and promoters would step up the fight themselves too. That's exactly what Louis CK is doing.
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by rquantz 14y ago
When you travel to a rich or poor country, you don't have to look at people's bank accounts to tell which kind you're in. You can see wealth—in buildings and streets, in the clothes and the health of the people. And you can see in the US
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by rquantz 14y ago
I've heard of the lost cosmonauts before. But what is the first sound? I haven't listened to all of it yet, mainly because you grouped it with the lost cosmonauts, and those recordings scare the hell out of me as well, even though I believe
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by rquantz 14y ago
The only people who are going to be able to tell the difference between that picture and any other Mac from the last few years are people who don't need the tagline to tell them that it's all new, since they're going to be looking at the sp
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by rquantz 14y ago
"All-new" in advertising is so overused as to be meaningless. It would make 25% of those eight words into white noise.
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by rquantz 14y ago
Funny, I was going to throw some concurring examples from sports your way. "Michael Jorden was cut from his high school basketball team." "Yogi Berra was repeatedly denied a spot on a major league team." But in looking for citations, I seem
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by rquantz 14y ago
Yes. Although it sometimes takes less clear-cut forms than "you fail this course, therefore we make you repeat the entire grade." my mother, for instance, taught at a school (this was ~2000-2006) that kept students perpetually in 8th grade.
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by rquantz 14y ago
As a musician (string player) and programmer, my neck, back, and wrists are under constant stress, and I find biking tends to exacerbate problems with those joints. Also, I live in NYC. I can go run in the park, or I can ride my bike and ge
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by rquantz 14y ago
Can anyone recommend an editor with a really good API for making custom buttons? My admittedly shallow research hasn't uncovered anything that is particularly joyful to use.
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Isn't this a bit like responding to someone asking for a primer on web development by pointing them to the w3c? I realize the comparison isn't perfect -- IAB's docs aren't nearly as opaque as a w3c spec, and I should probably go back and lo

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