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841.
by shasta 16y ago
> there must've been something else that tipped you off before or during the show... Not that I recall, but maybe so.
842.
by shasta 16y ago
> Pinocchio's nose Bing
843.
by shasta 16y ago
No. I will say that the solution is more notable than of the guesses thus far, with the possible exception of "yesterday's news"
844.
by shasta 16y ago
No
845.
by shasta 16y ago
That's a good guess, but no, that wasn't it. I guess I was just really lucky that the right thing popped into my head :) SPOILER: .--. .. -. --- -.-. -.-. .... .. --- ... -. --- ... .
846.
by shasta 16y ago
Nope
847.
by shasta 16y ago
Apostrophes help you alot. I solved the following puzzle with no letters: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ' _ _ _ _ _ Category was "Thing". (Err, formatting isn't helping. That's two words, with 9 spaces, an apostrophe and a 10th space in the first wor
848.
by shasta 16y ago
I'm not going to dig up a link, but a number of people think your total productivity goes down (not just per-hour productivity, as I emphasized in my post). So if it's a strawman, it's a strawman with internet access and an HN account. I
849.
by shasta 16y ago
Presumably he meant "impossible in a 40 hour work week," so that if you're killing yourself with an 80 hour week to meet deadlines, you're not a counterexample. Of course, there's a prevalent opinion around here that working over 40 hours a
850.
by shasta 16y ago
Don't forget that the courts can also amend the constitution, and it only requires a simple majority!
851.
by shasta 16y ago
You left off the brilliant conversion to metric - "200,000lb per square inch (14,000 kg/cm²)"
852.
by shasta 16y ago
I think he was referring to the product, not the website.
853.
by shasta 16y ago
The post you're replying to contains three questions you don't know the answer to without signing up for the service.
854.
by shasta 16y ago
Four testimonial quotes, a short fluffy video, and a sign up box? That's your launch website? You're kidding, right? Is it online only? Is it free? Forever or for a trial? ...
855.
by shasta 16y ago
"I was going to guess nickels."
856.
by shasta 16y ago
Huh? The Tea Party is a good example of how to unify people behind ideas - exactly what I was talking about. And I never said I didn't vote. What I find stupid is the idea that you have some kind of obligation to vote just to voice your
857.
by shasta 16y ago
Eloquent and wrong. Voting for anything other than one of the two entrenched parties is usually a waste of time and gasoline. There is no cabal of evil masterminds responsible for cynicism and apathy - it's an emergent property of the rul
858.
by shasta 16y ago
That's not true - bad jokes also get you a bunch of downvotes. Downvoting is how you emote a groan on here.
859.
by shasta 16y ago
I guess we'll have to start screening people before they get in the line, then.
860.
by shasta 16y ago
That reminds me of what my cabbie said when I asked if there was much crime around here (this was in Jamaica). He responded, "there is crime in every country." He was clearly offended, so I decided not to press on with discussions of stat
861.
by shasta 16y ago
That would be hypocritical if they were trying to get people to be less selfish and to give more to the government . It's certainly not hypocritical if they're giving a significant portion of that would-be-taxed money to charities.
862.
by shasta 16y ago
So they preach that the government doesn't spend money on the right things, but then in practice don't want to give money to that government? The hypocrites!
863.
by shasta 16y ago
I find it almost impossible to read the sentence your way because you'd have to split the phrase "acquired after September..."
864.
by shasta 16y ago
I love how the conclusion to all of this is that you should expand blue birds before impact - a conclusion I reached in twenty seconds by just trying it both ways.
865.
by shasta 16y ago
Yes, and the latest round of terrorists seem to be incapable of detonating anything. You think they're just incompetent, or they've figured out that the damage inflicted is greater with an unsuccessful attempt that generates a flurry of ne
866.
by shasta 16y ago
My point was just that there is no simple "value" that determines the price point. One of the factors that determines the price of things is unit cost, commodity or no.
867.
by shasta 16y ago
That's not a single number, it's a distribution, and it's much more complicated than that since the distribution of prices people are willing to pay for any particular item depends on the prices of the other items in the store.
868.
by shasta 16y ago
> In a non-commodity market, price is determined by value, not cost. Cost is irrelevant. What is the "value" you're talking about here? Certainly not fair market value, when DRM and device lock-in leave little semblance of a free marke
869.
by shasta 16y ago
Or how about a day-long hearing, early into the process, where a judge looks at the balance of evidence and decides who's going to be paying for the next phase of the trial?
870.
by shasta 16y ago
Sure, you go back and file a bunch of patents

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