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by skwirl 13y ago
"Default Installation You will need to create a SteamOS System Restore USB stick to perform this install. The image provided here requires at least a 1TB disk." I don't understand this at all. I wonder if there is actually a
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We've noticed this with Microsoft's e-mail services already with some confirmation e-mails that display items from the customer's order. In fact, we think they might be loading the images despite the customer not opening the
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This article (and comments) reminds me of the fake interpreter at the Mandela memorial service: there's a lot of repetitive hand waving without conveying any meaning.
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Exactly. If your life is lived online, especially in the tech community echo chamber, Snowden is going to mean a lot more to you than he does to most people. There are 1.2 billion Catholics in the world. I attended Catholic church growing
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There are many tools that will save your credit card information and fill out payment forms automatically. I'm not so sure this is a great benefit of Bitcoin.
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I have no idea how your reply relates in any way to what you replied to, but in defense of credit cards, if my credit card is stolen I'm not liable for any charges and if the airline screws me over I can dispute the charge with my cred
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If the lectures do not do a good job of teaching the material and the assignments do not actually do a good job of testing your understanding of the material, what is the point of the course? I think epsylon is accurately presenting the pr
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Well, now the grandmother can just pay $85, and as long as she hasn't led a life of crime, she can take the easy path through security and blow the plane up with her granny panties bomb.
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"Opening the enrollment centers, 300 in all, will be a step toward TSA Administrator John S. Pistole’s grander plan to reduce the security hassle for low-risk passengers so his workers can focus on those who give some reason for suspic
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by skwirl 13y ago
By your definition of a "mistake", the biggest mistake you probably made in your life was not buying all the Medifast Inc stock you could get your hands on in 1999. It went up 16,210% in ten years. But wait, it gets worse. Even
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I would really appreciate it if acdha could explain how they view this comment as a threat. acdha made the same claim elsewhere in this thread as well. It appears that some people are attempting to lower the bar for something to be a &quot
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What was the threatening message? Could you link to it?
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This seems to be the same person. The seller in the app store is "Mohawk Apps, LLC" and the GitHub account is for "MohawkApps." I only point this out because there was an indignant reply here expressing outrage that so
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As I said in my other reply, electronic revolving doors can and do stop and trap you. So it's exactly the same. Understanding that this will get me downvotes, the concern is, quite frankly, stupid. Before you ever get to this door, y
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by skwirl 13y ago
Electronic revolving doors can stop and trap you, yes. For example, if it bumps into someone in another segment, it will stop and then you are trapped. If "big brother" had a camera that identified you in one of these doors and
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Do you consider yourself as being "detained" every time you walk through a revolving door?
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I completely agree. I replaced (a good chunk of) my reddit browsing with HN browsing. I may burn excessive time here, but I feel like I'm at least learning/gaining something while I'm here. And the commenters here are actu
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This article requires a paid subscription to read it. The link is to a brief introduction which links to the real article, which requires you to subscribe.
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If you were to claim economics is not science because it rarely involves repeatable experiments, you would have to throw out a large chunk of what we commonly think of as science. Did we discover that the moon orbits the earth with repeata
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This is a silly and useless comment. "Why did Facebook offer $3 billion for Snapchat?" "Because Facebook offered $3 billion for Snapchat." Thanks.
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You're fedorable. For such an expert on human psychology, you are having an awfully hard time understanding why you are not being well received here. You don't seem to be able to figure out how to get a bunch of nerds like us to
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They've actually been around since 1988, initially only in print. I have personally never seen a print copy, either.
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So when it comes up for renewal, you go around saying "I hope they don't renew treason this year." That use of language must make communication somewhat difficult.
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What do you call the PATRIOT act?
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While I personally am OK with the Affordable Care Act, and do not doubt for a second that many conservatives and libertarians are reveling in the troubles the federal healthcare exchange website has been facing, I do not for a second believ
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The author is the CEO of a company that sells the first (and only?) commercial Haskell IDE. I point this out because the author (from his background) clearly knows about the subject matter, while reading the content of the article would le
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This is yet another shallow puff piece on Haskell. Reading it, you would think that the author has only ever used Ruby and Haskell, as he gives the impression Haskell is the only language that supports functional/declarative style pro
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A 10 year old child has spent 5 months sleeping on the bus at night with her father. She's getting off the public bus and onto a school bus each morning. I'm not saying that the adults deserve to be homeless, but can't ever
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They are a U.K. publication. As far as I know, there isn't much diversity of opinion on the topic of gun control in the U.K. They don't like guns, but they don't like impractical or pointless gun control measures either.
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You only get 90 days of phone support with new Apple products unless you buy AppleCare. I don't know about the person who wrote this article, but many people do not live near Apple stores. Even where I live in metro Boston, it takes

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