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by sparky_z 7y ago
That's definitely the exact joke they were going for.
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by sparky_z 7y ago
I have no special knowledge about Honey, but I think the distinction being made is that Honey redirects them to a _new_ seller that offers a cheaper price, essentially poaching the customer. The blog's affiliate never makes a sale in t
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by sparky_z 7y ago
I not sure where you're going with this. If someone committed 10 murders, but the turns out to have been wrongly accused for the 11th, should that be a get-out-of-jail for the other 10?
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by sparky_z 7y ago
You can still have a a "speedy trial" even if you're not arrested until 20 years after you committed the crime.
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by sparky_z 7y ago
Oh please, that's a _thouroughly_ incomplete answer. I wasn't questioning the importance of Pakistan's military, but the importance of this particular military cable. My question was _why_ it constitutes an "important hi
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by sparky_z 7y ago
Okay, I think I'm starting to get some idea of why someone might find this interesting. While I knew that Pakistan and Bangladesh had split up up at some point, I didn't know the year offhand, or the details of why. Without that k
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by sparky_z 7y ago
Okay, but I assume there are thousands of diplomatic cables every day. Does each one deserve its own wikipedia article? What's special about this one? I really feel like I'm missing something here.
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by sparky_z 7y ago
I don't understand... this seems so random. Why is there a wikipedia article about this? It doesn't appear to have some larger historical significance (like, say, the Zimmerman Telegram). It says it's known for its "coin
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by sparky_z 7y ago
You're accidentally including the cases where montysPick == myPick. You have to discard those cases. Monte has to show you what's behind a different door than the one you initially picked. The game doesn't make sense otherwis
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by sparky_z 7y ago
Prove it.
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by sparky_z 7y ago
Genuine question: does the keyfob depend on a battery that can run out? If so, there's your answer.
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by sparky_z 7y ago
That's from almost 30 years ago. And it's not like there's any hard data, mostly just gossip from a single source. Now that many of the writers aren't anonymous anymore, is there anybody still saying that it's all y
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by sparky_z 7y ago
"Go-bikes" were never run by Ford. It was a start-up called Motivate[0] that licensed the Ford brand for their bikeshare service. Lyft bought Motivate last year, and is just now getting around to the rebrand. [0] https:/&#x2
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by sparky_z 7y ago
It's true that there is an ambiguity in this particular sentence you've constructed. But that's always going to be possibile when pronouns are involved. Just pick two subjects that share a pronoun, put them in the same senten
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by sparky_z 7y ago
No more than saying "yours truly" means you are literally that person's property. A more modern phrasing of the same sentiment might go something like "happy to be of service, as always".
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by sparky_z 7y ago
The other replies are correct, but there are also subtler problems that title insurance can cover. One example I remember reading about was an old surveying error that resulted in an inlaw unit encroaching 6 inches on a neighbor's prop
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by sparky_z 7y ago
It's not "The person people from Lansing searched the most." It's "the person from Lansing that people search the most". Worldwide, Larry Page is certainly more of a public figure than Magic Johnson.
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by sparky_z 7y ago
That can't be right, or at leats not the whole story. For example, "Joaquin Pheonix" is the most searched person from Gainesville. But there's no mention of Gainesville, or even the state of Florida, on his Wikipedia pag
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by sparky_z 7y ago
I would suggest recording one of those calls. There's no telling how long that voicemail will remain active.
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by sparky_z 7y ago
I edited in a 2nd paragraph about trendlines while you were responding, sorry about that. Country boundaries aren't arbitrary because they are where policies are made. If you could just pick the top 1-billion polluting individual human
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by sparky_z 7y ago
Surely, as far as the planet's concerned, the total numbers matter more than per capita. If, say, Andorra hypothetically had the largest per-capita numbers by an order of magnitude, that still wouldn't make them the biggest threat
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by sparky_z 7y ago
The people producing those innovations and discoveries don't represent a random sample of the population as a whole.
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by sparky_z 7y ago
Is it really easier, though? I don't know if there's a palm print database (like I think there is for fingerprints), and even if there were, there's no guarantee the murderer would be in it. So pursuing this would involve op
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by sparky_z 7y ago
FYI, this appears to be from 2009.
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by sparky_z 7y ago
I use it this way all the time. Bart into the city from a suburb and then if it's not in walking distance and there's no convenient bus, I take a Lyft to my destination.
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by sparky_z 7y ago
> I want underperforming mechanics out ASAP and the best ones rewarded. That would be nice. I think it's more likely that it would be the mechanics that don't make waves and keep costs down who would be rewarded. Woe betide the
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by sparky_z 7y ago
I though that only affects processing time, not the end result.
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by sparky_z 7y ago
I think a better (and more charitable) way to put that is that the meaning of the phrase has changed over time. Just because a certain sequence of works has one meaning in the context of ancient Roman jurisprudence doesn't mean that it
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by sparky_z 8y ago
Those people that show up will require goods and services. The economy will act to meet that demand if it is not restrained from doing so. So yes, in broad strokes, if more people show up, more work will need doing and more jobs will be cre
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by sparky_z 8y ago
That's completely different though. That's like referring to the Israeli government is a headline as "The Israelis" vs "The Jews". They're both overbroad when taken literally, but the former is standard sh

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