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by throwaway613834 9y ago
You can put on rose-colored glasses (or AR goggles) when you walk into a store, too. I don't really see a contradiction.
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by throwaway613834 9y ago
What part of sending a GET request to view a web page corresponds to ordering chocolate bar?
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by throwaway613834 9y ago
> My computer, my rules Or maybe their website, their rules? Otherwise this is like walking into a store and telling them to take off their ads, because your eyes, your rules.
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by throwaway613834 9y ago
This seems great for sending but how does it work for receiving? Or did you somehow do this on both ends?
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by throwaway613834 9y ago
> So being a foolish 18yo I called directly assistance and sure enough Cogent NOC was listed. So I called them pretending to be a Comcast support employee. No questions asked. How in the world did you find the correct phone number? And h
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by throwaway613834 9y ago
> That... wasn't really the point. The 15 minutes wasn't really my point either, but you assumed it was and I went along. > OK, replace it with coffee -- do you think an adult would wait 90 minutes for a second coffee they m
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by throwaway613834 9y ago
> You're focusing too much on the amount of time, but fine. I'm going to assume you're 30. 15 minutes for a 5 years old is at least 90 minutes for a 30 year old. Would you wait an hour and a half for a marshmallow? I'
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by throwaway613834 9y ago
> Intelligence and other temperamental traits aside, You can't just conveniently "leave these side" for no apparent reason when they could easily explain the effect that you're trying to explain otherwise. > do you
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by throwaway613834 9y ago
> People who can delay gratification are likely those who have the means to do so to begin with. You're saying this after reading that researchers gave 5-year-olds marshmallows and told them they would get a second one if they wai
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by throwaway613834 9y ago
Do you also mind having free public schools and roads...?
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by throwaway613834 9y ago
I'm skeptical that it's good to be skeptical of everything ...
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by throwaway613834 9y ago
This is from... 1994? How relevant is it to 2017?
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by throwaway613834 9y ago
> One of our main goals as a parent is to create independent kids who can function alone in the world - we don't want them still living in the basement at 30 FYI this is a cultural thing. Not every culture's parents kicks out t
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by throwaway613834 9y ago
> 1. Status quo bias. Ask whether any complicated policy should be changed and most people will say it should not. Leaving aside the question of whether net neutrality was a "complicated" thing for people to understand for a mo
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by throwaway613834 9y ago
> Biased poll with leading questions. Ask them if they think the FCC should outlaw unlimited video streaming on T-Mobile Binge On. The 80% evaporates immediately. Your potentially good point got lost in how awfully you put it. This wasn&
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by throwaway613834 9y ago
> For $3 trillion less than bailout, we could have paid off every U.S. mortgage! I seem to recall the "bailout" was a purchase of bank assets (including stocks, etc.) which was subsequently repaid as the market healed. Which so
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by throwaway613834 9y ago
> I've yet to have anyone mention something with a "didn't you see that on Facebook?" Any chance this is because you don't know what you've missed, and hence you don't talk to people about them?
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by throwaway613834 9y ago
>> is not generally seen as a desirable end goal. > According to who? There are two or three of us who absolutely see anarchy as a desirable end goal 2-3 people? What claim are you even contesting? I said it's not generally s
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by throwaway613834 9y ago
> Yes, thanks SEC for preventing free people from entering into voluntary transactions. Allowing free people to enter into whatever voluntary transactions they would like is basically the definition of anarchism. It's surprising to
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by throwaway613834 9y ago
> I mean, when we help people in Ghana, do we check to make sure they don't have any conflicting political values? I think there is a critical difference between Ghana and Alabama, and that is that Ghana does not have representative
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by throwaway613834 9y ago
Specifically the last sentence!
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by throwaway613834 9y ago
> As a general rule, it's safe to assume every word in the abstract of a paper is significant. ...what? The sentence quote above was from the introduction, not the abstract. Nothing in the abstract answered my question of why a stab
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by throwaway613834 9y ago
Thanks! I even clicked on the link and read every sentence that had "half" in it but didn't see anything... didn't expect it to be somewhere else in the introduction haha.
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by throwaway613834 9y ago
In what sense does DNA have a half-life? It can't be radioactivity so is it seems to be just about molecular disintegration? Which is weird because why should a stable structure have a half-life?
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by throwaway613834 9y ago
Is it as good as Shazam at finding songs? I remember trying it early and not being impressed, but it was very brief so my sample size was too small.
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by throwaway613834 9y ago
One of the funniest ones I've seen: http://bash.org/?127039
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by throwaway613834 9y ago
You consider MS Word and Internet Explorer in the same DLL to be "the same software" rather than 3 different pieces of software packed in the same DLL?
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by throwaway613834 9y ago
> Really, the only way economics make sense is if you assume that everything is valued at its real value at any time -- not just when it changes hands. Why? The other way seems to make sense to me.
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by throwaway613834 9y ago
> Even higher-ups are replaceable. Gov'ts need to really catch the shareholders, they own the misbehaving company, and they push them so hard for profits that the workers/managers are lured into cheating the system. OK, I was w
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by throwaway613834 9y ago
To be honest I might be at the copy machine to make a copy but I might not actually need to make it then and there. I might be able to re-print it, or do it later. When someone tells me he needs to do that then I think maybe it's m

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