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721.
by waqf 15y ago
Citation?
722.
by waqf 15y ago
I just don't expect professional typography from the web yet. Can you give an example of a site that does it right?
723.
by waqf 15y ago
No, the sequence is correct as originally posted and the rule is: 0, 1!, (2!)!, ((3!)!)!, (((4!)!)!)!, ...
724.
by waqf 15y ago
> rare/unusual Or "misspelt/misspelled", as we prescriptivists like to call it. Though when I see hypercorrections like "humourous" on the internet, I begin to suspect that people are using UK/Commonwealth spellings because they think
725.
by waqf 15y ago
I guess you code in ML/OCaml/Haskell the rest of the time.
726.
by waqf 15y ago
No, although other things being equal it seems more likely that someone would switch in that direction if their current personal convictions were aligned with B. His posting to CNET is worth reading too: http://news.cnet.com/8618-31921_
727.
by waqf 15y ago
I didn't understand that comment, either. Was your argument "he's right, but nobody agrees with him, so he's wrong"?
728.
by waqf 15y ago
It's sad that the only way to get customer support from Google is to get to #1 on HN. It's almost worst than no support at all (because less equitable).
729.
by waqf 15y ago
I don't understand. If you're smart enough to shut down an account before it does anything fraudulent, then you have no conceivable excuse not to pay the balance out when you close the account.
730.
by waqf 15y ago
What you're saying now is reasonable (though I still don't agree that HN needs identities). Your previous comment read as implying that from "all opinions are equal" followed "creationism is as valid as evolution", which is a total straw ma
731.
by waqf 15y ago
"Comments stand on their own merit" ≠ "all opinions are equal".
732.
by waqf 15y ago
In case you cared, "zo" is valid in the UK/international Scrabble wordlist, but not in the US (yet, until we persuade them to use the same wordlist as everyone else).
733.
by waqf 15y ago
To be precise, that's only true if you pay in cash. Pay with plastic in Australia and you're charged by the cent.
734.
by waqf 15y ago
The USPS is funded by its federally granted right to deliver dead-tree spam to my home against my express wishes. Which then has to be removed by the city at taxpayers' expense. Forgive me if I have limited enthusiasm for this "unmatched b
735.
by waqf 15y ago
Better, meaning better than Tor? Better than I2P? I think we've got to get people to start using the decentralized internet we have.
736.
by waqf 15y ago
Or have the background colour of the display changed, by contracting with the original suppliers for a few million more taxpayer dollars.
737.
by waqf 15y ago
Nonlinearity of the ear is thought to be the explanation for sum and difference tones, which most certainly exist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combination_tone .
738.
by waqf 15y ago
Paralipsis ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paralipsis ), or parasiopesis or præteritio as it was called when I was in school, means something very like what you describe.
739.
by waqf 15y ago
GP didn't assert there weren't poor disabled people; merely that if you are a [sc. non-disabled] poor person it is possible to scam the government into paying you disability benefits.
740.
by waqf 15y ago
I agree with your general point, but please could we lay off the "does not $X make" snowclone? I think it annoys me more than any other. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowclone
741.
by waqf 15y ago
Discovery of free apps can be accomplished by downloading all of them and finding out which ones (if any) suit you. This method sucks, but it sucks much less than paying $2 for each of them and finding out which ones (if any) suit you. Tha
742.
by waqf 15y ago
I go to the kitchen because I need to stretch my legs, not because I actually need the coffee. If the coffee came to my desk, I'd have to find another excuse to take a two minute break and walk around. Take up smoking, perhaps.
743.
by waqf 15y ago
I agree that GP overstated the problem, but I think you understate it. The USPTO systematically and recklessly grants patents that should not be issued.
744.
by waqf 15y ago
Maybe you could put unpopular posts in shades of grey? Or smaller fonts?
745.
by waqf 15y ago
The problem with wanting to get the full story every time is that you look something up on Wikipedia and you end up reading the entire site.
746.
by waqf 15y ago
right, I don't go anywhere I can't get to on ... Amtrak. I'm still trying to figure how, when I emigrate to Europe, I'm going to get there. (Cruise ship?)
747.
by waqf 15y ago
Presumably for the same reason that one would normally attend a conference or convention, except with the added benefit of being a few hundred dollars richer.
748.
by waqf 15y ago
It's not "who you know", but " whom you know".
749.
by waqf 15y ago
I only count three Australian coins: the 20¢ isn't yet worth more than a US quarter though it's getting disturbingly close.
750.
by waqf 15y ago
I don't know a lot about SOCA, but I agree that the amateur, bullying tone of the page reads more like the work of an interested party than of a police agency.

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