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by skwirl 12y ago
I thought Reid might have been on to something when he said that. I'm glad that Tesla seems to be shooting straight, for now anyway.
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by skwirl 12y ago
You're completely missing that Comcast is a "monopoly" because its customers have no choice while Uber is becoming a "monopoly" precisely because people do now have a choice.
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by skwirl 12y ago
You did, though. Whether or not you completed that goal because "it was easier to complete it than to not complete it because of my cultural upbringing" or because you had to push yourself and struggle every day doesn't real
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by skwirl 12y ago
I'm wondering if anyone is considering building a new version of what Foursquare used to be. If this were was built and done well and had a point system, mayorships, badges, etc. and allowed me to browse and export my old check-ins, I
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by skwirl 12y ago
The plane was shot down deep in territory controlled by the rebels. Here's where it was shot down: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Torez,+Donetsk+Oblast,+Ukr... Here's the territory controlled by the r
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by skwirl 12y ago
You think the recent Gaza conflict has been "barely news?" Are you kidding?
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by skwirl 12y ago
If this was the typical attitude of techies in SF, I would be able to understand some of the "Google bus" protests. That was incredibly patronizing.
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by skwirl 12y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitchenware_Revolution
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by skwirl 12y ago
Are you Norwegian? Because my understanding is that Scandinavians tend to be the most trusting of their governments and have the least corrupt and most transparent governments (perhaps excluding Iceland). It would strike me as odd to hear
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by skwirl 12y ago
If I understand correctly: Broadcasters: Aereo is a cable company! Aereo: We're not a cable company! Supreme court: We decree that Aereo is a cable company. Aereo: Ok, I guess we're a cable company, so let's litigate under th
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by skwirl 12y ago
I don't see this anywhere in that thread. The one person who mentions being helped says they did help.
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by skwirl 12y ago
What specific conditions are you referring to?
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by skwirl 12y ago
What is "this?"
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by skwirl 12y ago
Did I miss a paragraph in there that involved torture? What specifically are you referring to?
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by skwirl 12y ago
You seem to be implying that, because Assange leaked government documents, it is impossible for him to afterwards commit crimes. It's like some people in this community believe that leaking documents automatically bestows saint status
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by skwirl 12y ago
What exactly is the point you are trying to make?
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by skwirl 12y ago
I'd highly recommend reading the ruling. It's a good read and the points are made more eloquently than I can put them. I'm not speaking as to whether or not the law is a good law, but this interpretation of the law seems pr
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by skwirl 12y ago
If you read the decision, you will see that you are absolutely allowed to do this. The length of the antenna or wire has nothing to do with anything. What is not allowed is public rebroadcasting (or what the law refers to as "perfo
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by skwirl 12y ago
If you are actually wondering "Why the Japanese Don't Litter" let me save you the trouble of reading this article, which basically can be summed up as "Because they don't."
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by skwirl 12y ago
C# takes it even further by not allowing you to override methods unless they were marked as overridable in the base class with the "virtual" keyword.
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by skwirl 12y ago
Maybe this goes against the beliefs of 90% of the programmers and engineers that /you/ interact with, but I really don't think that it's 90% of /all/ programmers and engineers. Go join the hundreds of thousand
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by skwirl 12y ago
No, because of the risk of someone calling the police. And I don't have children and stories like this weigh against any decision to have children. We're to the point of arresting parents for not parenting the way the media want
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by skwirl 12y ago
You can't have your child out of your sight for a single instant without a chance of them getting hurt. When you are asleep they could easily leave the house and get run over in the street. I'm generally a fan of your comments b
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by skwirl 12y ago
From the very first article: "Sgt. Steve Martos said the child's mother was loading her purchases into her car when Jose darted between vehicles and into the driving lane. The driver did not see the child and ran him over." I
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by skwirl 12y ago
Perhaps we should flag down the cops for people who take their kids into the store instead: http://www.azfamily.com/news/Child-run-over-killed-in-parkin... http://kansasfirstnews.com/2014/06/0
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by skwirl 12y ago
If you look at the text between Microsoft and IBM, it seems to imply that the number 5318 is just the sum of the top 5 universities that feed to Google. They are only considering the top 5 feeder universities for each company.
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by skwirl 12y ago
Even in the United States, Target is priced higher than Wal-Mart. People still go to Target. It's viewed as a somewhat higher class store than Wal-Mart.
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by skwirl 12y ago
Only 20% of AP CS test takers are female, and in three states (Mississippi, Montana, and Wyoming) not a single female sat for the test. Female CS graduation numbers have been falling for decades, since long before "brogrammers" a
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by skwirl 12y ago
You're saying that if a unit has two 500 square foot bedrooms, and one is in the basement with no windows next to the furnace and the other is upstairs with bay windows on two walls facing a garden, there is always someone willing to p
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by skwirl 13y ago
> Intuitively, it seems like the reporting weather stations would not be uniformly distributed geographically, but would rather show a higher concentration near urban areas Why would this be intuitive at all? First, if you play the anima

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