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by wobbleblob 10y ago
If you've tried driving in the Netherlands, you know why so many people prefer to ride a bike instead. Well maintained, but narrow and extremely busy roads, densely packed with tiny vehicles. Wearing a helmet while cycling in the Dutch
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by wobbleblob 10y ago
If you want to take that approach, then why not compare Skåne to Staten Island, Zuid-Holland to Manhattan etc. These European countries aren't homogeneous blobs either. You shouldn't feel competitive (pun intended) about this kind
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by wobbleblob 10y ago
I once had a pascal compiler for a 6502 machine: http://www.acornelectron.co.uk/info/electron/acornsoft/Spasc...
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by wobbleblob 10y ago
Glass? This is not the iPhone we're talking about, it's the Macbook Pro. The top layer of the screen is the polarizing filter, it's plastic and really not very scratch resistant.
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by wobbleblob 10y ago
If they didn't care, why would they bother with a survey? Asking 'do you use this feature?' is almost the opposite of saying 'Lol, I'm removing this feature, I don't care if you use it'
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by wobbleblob 10y ago
The gap between the surface of the screen and the bottom of the laptop is so tiny that when you close the lid, any dust particle, even so small you can barely see them, gets squashed against the screen. When you leave the laptop charging fo
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by wobbleblob 10y ago
Yup mine too, one grain of sand is all it seems to take. You could follow the path the single grain must have taken during a single commute. When the macbook is charging, a bit of static charge seems to build up on the screen, which can att
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by wobbleblob 10y ago
Survey me about the damn screen. Make it less prone to scratching.
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by wobbleblob 10y ago
I like your comment about cubicles being a luxury. I don't know why they became a funny cliche of office horror. You don't have to be autistic to be driven mad by the constant interruptions enforced by office culture. When they tr
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by wobbleblob 10y ago
There's another one of these loaded terms: 'heavy handed'. In what way has the EU influenced your every day life, other than the freedom to travel? Where is this European oppression people are suffering under? Is the EU polic
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by wobbleblob 10y ago
People like you are repeating that 'anti-democratic' mantra all the time, without really explaining what they mean. When politicians hear people say 'not democratic enough!', they think you mean 'more power to the E
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by wobbleblob 10y ago
> I would guess no small part of them will try to move to the remaining EU states. Ironically, that might not be as easy as it sounds. Closing the borders works both ways.
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by wobbleblob 10y ago
Driving is nice there, but I think you've taken it too far. Why are there no sidewalks in the suburbs? People actively campaign their local government to stop them from building sidewalks along their street. Sometimes we visit relative
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by wobbleblob 10y ago
It would never occur to me to interpret it that way, rather than him moving the block closer to the trees. Wouldn't it take a human life time for a tree to grow that much?
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by wobbleblob 10y ago
I imagine a culture, 10,000 years down the road, that reads from bottom to top. Wow, awesome, let's excavate one of these disease absorbing blocks! Why not stick the waste in an old Uranium mine? Maybe our future descendants will be ab
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by wobbleblob 10y ago
I didn't say it wasn't well made, I didn't like the writing. There were so many nods to the old trilogy that my neck started to hurt. Spoiler alert! Young adventurer on a desert planet unaware of their Jedi powers? Resourcefu
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by wobbleblob 10y ago
> You were meant to relate to Han Solo Funny coincidence: the other day my youngest stabbed me with her light saber edit: spoiler alert. If you don't want to read spoilers, don't read the sentence above.
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by wobbleblob 10y ago
Not exactly the same story. It wasn't the plans for Death Star mk.III that were hidden in the cute robot this time. To be fair, my wife liked it because the protagonist action hero was a girl, which is original in the genre I guess.
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by wobbleblob 10y ago
> One of the most common refrains among ex-Disney staffers was that Disney had a strong aversion to risk. Now why does that not surprise me. Disney stopped making art somewhere in the 1940's (fantasia) and started shipping product.
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by wobbleblob 10y ago
Being able to fix your own sink is actually a useful skill.
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by wobbleblob 10y ago
> "with President Obama pushing for legislation to include computer science in every public-school curriculum." Computer science or computer literacy? The latter would probably be quite useful.
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Server side applications in Apple's Swift(blog.trifork.com)
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by wobbleblob 10y ago
This clearly illustrates what's wrong with the San Francisco tech culture: it is stuck in the 20th century, and assumes that 'tech' means white or Asian male in their 20's. Actual cutting edge tech companies order foosba
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by wobbleblob 10y ago
Maybe there's something different about the metabolism of people who manage to reach a weight of 450lbs in the first place. Without exercise and watching what you eat, almost everyone will gain weight, but most people never get anywher
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by wobbleblob 10y ago
This article is about the Silicate-Carbonate cycle, a geologic process, not politics.
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by wobbleblob 10y ago
A little off topic, but what's cycling like there? From what I've heard (never been there) Australia is about as close as it gets to the perfect society... except they hate cyclists like the plague?
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by wobbleblob 10y ago
It's not so much a comment on their situational awareness, it's that they're riding one vehicle with the style of another. It's behavior that would probably be harmless if they were going half the speed. If you drive a c
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by wobbleblob 10y ago
Doesn't that kind of defeat the purpose? Why not ride a scooter? Not aimed at you personally, but in my commute I'm not happy with all these motorized bicycles on the bike lane nowadays. They're usually ridden by people who d
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by wobbleblob 10y ago
Why do you need a cheater bike?
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by wobbleblob 10y ago
No reason except it being a $15,000 bike, personalized and tuned? Or over $50,000 if it's fitted with one of these engines, apparently. They're not going to trust someone else to pick it up, even if it's a completely honest b

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