waylandsmithers

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by waylandsmithers 13y ago
New Hampshire's State Liquor store, just over the border, seems to enjoy tons of business from thirsty Bostonians who don't want to pay sales tax.
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by waylandsmithers 13y ago
I'm not from the bay area-- do the train operators seem to have any public support? I feel like it's hard to sympathize with striking workers who are already among the highest paid in the country for this line of work.
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by waylandsmithers 13y ago
I think most here would understand "bounty" as "bug bounty", a reward for finding a bug. I personally didn't think any of it until I read your comment, but I get that the title could lead one to believe that the hac
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by waylandsmithers 13y ago
helpdesk/support guy here-- I think a small part of this is a weird desire to be liked by the person asking for help-- the 'wow, thanks!' after you flick their wi-fi switch back on. You often don't make friends by tellin
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by waylandsmithers 13y ago
Well, that does it for me as far as non-fiction goes. Is it so much to ask to just be able to be a LITTLE bit lazy and believe something I read, without having to stay on the lookout for a complete tear down from an expert in the subject ma
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by waylandsmithers 13y ago
I'm not sure I entirely sign off on this complete lack of separation between art and artist. I understand that context is important, but does the artist really need to be a good person for his or her work to make you think, or feel an
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by waylandsmithers 13y ago
>>Hey, just because I don't have a kid, doesn't mean I shouldn't get time off - why punish me for that. Not fair. I think the main message we can learn from this comment (which I think is mostly written in jest in playi
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by waylandsmithers 13y ago
It's always seemed to me that news stories and features tend to be wildly inaccurate when they happen to be on a topic you know a lot about.
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by waylandsmithers 13y ago
>Somewhere along the lines, college changed from being a stepping stone to the goal in and of itself.. and no one considered what comes after. I think some colleges and universities themselves are a part of this. The attitude from my sch
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by waylandsmithers 13y ago
Should be retitled, "Ten things I think about America"
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by waylandsmithers 14y ago
Definitely an interesting story, but I hate the "$2.5 Mil per Day" framing of the headline. This isn't anything noteworthy-- lots of companies have annual revenues of over $900 million.
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by waylandsmithers 14y ago
I really love that song by The Who. I think it's called "Teenage Wasteland"
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by waylandsmithers 14y ago
I like that the subheadline on their front page for the story is "The Rumors Are True", implying people were talking about Digg.
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by waylandsmithers 14y ago
that's what the firefox nuke anything extension was created for :)
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by waylandsmithers 14y ago
Colgate alum here-- cheating was just as bad when I was in school as it seems to be at Harvard now. All you had to do is look in your fraternity's 'library' and how about that? the test hasn't changed in 15 years? Edit: I'll add that there
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by waylandsmithers 14y ago
Usually doing some sort of number crunching to figure out which deals might make sense, eg. Company A and Company B should merge because of X, Y and Z. Then pass that information to the higher ups (rain makers, big swinging dicks, and what