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by zargon 17y ago
That comparison is like saying that when someone gets diagnosed with diabetes, they should preemptively amputate their feet so as to avoid trouble with them later.
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by zargon 17y ago
> By that standard, it's just as impractical in a car. Which is why we should get rid of the stop signs and traffic lights. In addition to slowing traffic, their presence is correlated with increased accidents vs. intersections without
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by zargon 17y ago
Traffic signaling designed for cars makes drivers lazy. This would help: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1533248/Is-this-the-e...
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by zargon 17y ago
From comment #7 (R.K.) "Guilt naturally morphs into resentment... What works? Parents in therapy. This will help a lot."
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by zargon 17y ago
I switched to wetshaving with badger hair and a safety razor because of irritation from cartridge razors. A few months later I was in a mad rush and used my cartridge razor with a new cartridge -- it felt like it was ripping my face off.
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by zargon 17y ago
Great reason not to do business with the state. In any other transaction you get to dictate the form of payment, but in the government's case it's the other way around because you have no recourse if they renege.
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by zargon 17y ago
Orkut still exists?
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by zargon 17y ago
Looks like consumers had too much credit.
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by zargon 17y ago
How about people learn critical thinking and filter out the quacks for themselves? I don't care to pay for nanny-state regulation, or have content censored because some source doesn't have a "formal qualification." They will always be pla
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by zargon 17y ago
Sleep paralysis has probably been responsible for quite a lot of superstition through history. I experienced it myself regularly while I lived in a particular apartment, but neither before then nor after, so I wonder if there are some envi
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by zargon 17y ago
Do they refund your taxes if you decline to use government services? If not, it's the best kind of monopoly since they still get paid even if they don't provide the products or services... Also, in 6 out of 10 Canadian provinces, it is ill
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by zargon 17y ago
I have only clicked an ad once in my life. I was searching Amazon but couldn't find anything suitable. Then I noticed they were showing me an ad from a 3rd-party site for exactly what I was looking for. I clicked it, and bought the produ
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by zargon 17y ago
"Pages are dead"... but his article is divided into two pages?
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by zargon 17y ago
I did some of my first programming in HyperCard in elementary school, so it's a nostalgic subject. It was a clever and flexible program. Its game-creation sibling was WorldBuilder, which I "borrowed" from my 5th grade computer teacher, be
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by zargon 17y ago
My conventional grocer ships the kale to Wisconsin from Georgia, and by the time it gets here it is yellow and wilted. Compared to the farmers market, where the kale I find is dark green and crisp. Same story for most other produce. The
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by zargon 17y ago
Can anyone explain how blocking incoming access to a server reduces the affect of that server's outgoing traffic (presumably required if it was participating in a DOS attack)? Or are they saying that people who happened to visit img.4ch
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by zargon 17y ago
If being ignorant of statistics is such a terrible thing, then it shouldn't be very difficult to persuade people that they should learn it. Make your case, and let them make a value judgment. I question the value of locking people in room
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by zargon 17y ago
False dichotomy. Forcing people to take classes does not make them educated. Yet if they are free to participate in the activities they choose, they will educate themselves.
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by zargon 17y ago
I prefer these instead: http://freakinghugeurl.com/