sdurkin

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by sdurkin 17y ago
Adolescent common chimpanzees form bands of males that stay up later than the rest and patrol the group's perimeter. I'm guessing human teenagers are genetically programmed to be the night watch.
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by sdurkin 17y ago
His father was born in Lebanon. Slim was born in Mexico City, Mexico. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Slim#Early_life
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by sdurkin 17y ago
"Never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity." I think the grandparent is just looking to score a few cheap karma points by stirring up some populism.
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by sdurkin 17y ago
Why not just have an "adult" section that doesn't show up on the Top 25, or only shows up when you opt-in? That seems to be a better solution than arbitrary censorship.
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by sdurkin 17y ago
The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit app is still live. Apparently, Apple's determinination of obscenity is a function of your corporate clout.
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by sdurkin 17y ago
China, Spain, Portugal, France, Great Britain, the Ottoman Empire, and Argentina all defaulted on their debt. Some of those nations were Great Powers at the time of their default. If the United States defaults, it will lead to breadlines, b
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Sovereign Defaults (Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Debt)(mitpress.mit.edu)
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by sdurkin 17y ago
Yeah, I just didn't think a person deserved to be insulted for what I saw as a relatively benign comment based on an assumption which was reasonable for a person who only saw the video clip.
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by sdurkin 17y ago
No more than during The Stephen Colbert Presidential Campaign brought to you by Doritos. Part of the beauty of Colbert's television persona is that he can shamelessly shill for products, and then pass it off as "just part of the character."
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by sdurkin 17y ago
That's a reasonable assumption, you horribly prudish person.
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by sdurkin 17y ago
No more stories about no more stories about the iPad!
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by sdurkin 17y ago
Swing and a miss.
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by sdurkin 17y ago
I think you're right, but I think it's both.
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by sdurkin 17y ago
I agree, and you also risk alienating 50% of the population by tacking a big "no girls allowed" sign on the Android clubhouse. Also, yes, while Android and Droid are not synonymous, I think for most American consumers the brands share quite
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by sdurkin 17y ago
I wonder if the author realizes he's parroting Verizon marketing. Since Verizon realized the iPhone was more aesthetically polished, they decided to make the Droid's rough edges part of the brand. They portrayed the Droid as androgynous and
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by sdurkin 17y ago
Even if it works it suffers from serious Segway Syndrome. Anyone using one looks terrible.
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by sdurkin 17y ago
The Red Cross has a large operating budget, and knowing the donations are coming allows them to draw down their level of cash on hand.
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by sdurkin 17y ago
Remember how stirred up the Democrats got when the Cheney threatened to gavel the filibuster out of existence? Krugman called it the "atomic option" and said it would destroy "centuries of Senate procedure." The Democratic Party painted it
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by sdurkin 17y ago
Mentions Bump for the iPhone (YC S09).
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by sdurkin 17y ago
Haha Touche.
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by sdurkin 17y ago
I've always thought that the best rationale for the OLPC was that it could be used for development by the people that bought them. Can you really write software without a physical keyboard?
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by sdurkin 17y ago
We need a downvote button.
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by sdurkin 17y ago
If I am half as remembered as Michael Collins, I will consider my life well-lived.
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by sdurkin 17y ago
Damn. I was hoping to be able to write off a cool hundred-bill from the national debt. :)
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by sdurkin 17y ago
The most significant military assistance that Europe receives from the US comes through the network of US bases throughout the Continent. Because of those bases, many of the European security problems of the past two centuries have disappea
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by sdurkin 17y ago
Excellent reasonable answer. But isn't this space very valuable? Its not only climate controlled, but protected by a variety of security measures. All of these are expensive. So you would assume that whatever goes into the vault would have
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by sdurkin 17y ago
"While the theft of the lunar and martian geological samples had made headlines last summer, the missing clothbound journals, the work of NASA Senior Scientist Everett K. Gibson Jr. on the origins of the universe, were unknown publicly unti
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by sdurkin 17y ago
Hmm... Why not put an armed guard directly in front of the vault? In my experience, most geeks don't mind fooling sensors, but blanche at the thought of physically hurting someone.
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by sdurkin 17y ago
Female Programmer Privilege Checklist: Guilting every male programmer for both real and imagined slights. The beauty of startups is that no one cares who or what you are, so long as you can deliver. So stop complaining , AND BUILD SOMETHING
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by sdurkin 17y ago
You're quite right. I apologize for my vagueness. Excellent clarification :)

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