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tdoggette
14y ago
Always tricky to prove intention, especially when so many related details would be secret.
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tdoggette
14y ago
To kill junk mail would be to kill the US Postal Service, I think. I'm not sure if it's worth the price.
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tdoggette
14y ago
More likely is that it'll do both-- there'll be cheap Chinese smartphones that compete feature-for-feature with much higher-quality products, some of which might be heirloom quality.
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tdoggette
14y ago
One perk of competing with Wikipedia is that you can use Wikipedia articles as a base.
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tdoggette
14y ago
What if you're on IRC or Usenet instead?
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tdoggette
14y ago
Knuth's suggested pronunciation is kind of awkward. I'd suggest using it like it's a homophone for "tour".
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tdoggette
14y ago
I'd like to see the author of this piece respond to the criticisms in the "uninstalling" article. Some of the answers will be "it's a lot better with a touchscreen," of course, but I'd like an experienced user to weigh in.
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tdoggette
14y ago
I've been to restaurants where you get a random word instead of a number, and it solves that problem nicely.
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tdoggette
14y ago
I like that stupid comments are consistently voted down.
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tdoggette
14y ago
That's the traditional definition, but it's neither a good nor a modern one.
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tdoggette
14y ago
I'm in my early 20s, and I have heard of (and respect) Zagat. I'd never heard of Frommer's until this story broke.
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tdoggette
14y ago
Why are you tempted to say that?
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tdoggette
14y ago
Sparrow is an email application for OSX and the iPhone.
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tdoggette
14y ago
If they release a phone, they're competing directly no matter what.
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tdoggette
14y ago
He clearly is.
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tdoggette
14y ago
Yeah, but what does it mean ?
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tdoggette
14y ago
Yeah, that picture is misleading-- the two devices aren't on the same scale at all.
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tdoggette
14y ago
Do you guys support Chrome for Android? BTW, I just checked out the application for the first time. The [Fax Document] [Request Signature] page is lovely-- Yes, those are exactly the two things that I this to do. There's no doubt I'll be us
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tdoggette
15y ago
I liked Louis CK from before his $5 special. When he released it, I read all about what the deal was, bought it, and thought it was at least five bucks worth of funny. I also like Aziz Ansari, so when I saw this, I skipped the reading par
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tdoggette
15y ago
What an awful headline.
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tdoggette
15y ago
I could never own a laptop without 3 hardware buttons, ideally set up like a thinkpad: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_nVGyx975u38/SkzCHnkMbAI/AAAAAAAAGg...
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tdoggette
15y ago
OCR, duh.
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tdoggette
15y ago
Offensive like an offensive smell, not like an offensive remark.
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tdoggette
15y ago
"If you don't have an iPhone, well: you don't have an iPhone.* I found those ads particularly offensive.
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tdoggette
15y ago
I just donated 200 bucks to the Against Malaria Foundation. Your comment is the direct reason for this.
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tdoggette
15y ago
The site isn't loading-- does anyone have a mirror?
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tdoggette
15y ago
Right, that's what they'd have to do.
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tdoggette
15y ago
What on earth does his karma have to do with anything?
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tdoggette
15y ago
Please delete this. It's stretching the page.
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tdoggette
15y ago
I agree with you about most/all voluntary transactions being win-win (it seems almost tautological), but the question then becomes, "How many transactions involving both the very rich and the poor are truly voluntary and non-coercive?"
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