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If their only other option is to pull themselves together and get a job, then I suppose that's true. It seems unlikely. Don't use this as an excuse to do nothing. Be smart, but be …

Thank you OP (kennethologist) for fixing the title of this article. The nymag title is "JCPenney Permanently Cuts All Prices by 40 Percent" which is certainly not true. Copy editor…

That wasn't a quote from the article; it was a quote from the wikipedia page.

The author gives his email address at the end.

Funny how articles about computer-generated prose are never computer-generated.

rsnapshot. It uses rsync to be fast. It creates directories with full snapshots of my backed-up files and uses hard-links to avoid duplicating files that haven't changed.

If you're using Firefox, try Lazarus: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6984/

Be creative! How about Facebook only exports proxied @facebook.com email addresses?

How did they know how much money to transfer if it was stored on the lost card?

This is often quoted, but I suspect it's no longer true. When I referred him to an online article last year, he immediately replied about it. I bet he has access to a web browser w…

Ah, I love the ending! Aren't credit cards great? They actually believe their customers when you tell them you didn't get something.

Thanks for the link to the video. I had imagined it acting like expanding polyurethane foam. I see it looks more like mush, which doesn't seem as dangerous.

What happens if you swallow a dozen of these?

Whenever I read about bypassing real estate agents, I wish there were some good statistics instead of just anecdotes. You might think you saved money by doing it yourself, but coul…

Actually, the main reason for putting the important parts first is to give the newspaper editor flexibility for fitting stories onto the page. The end of a story can be left off if…

More importantly, you need to go through the string to determine where the nth character is. You can't jump to a character by index.

Please don't write "begs the question" when you mean "raises the question". http://begthequestion.info/

"It's a TAX on the YOUNG to care for the OLD." Yeah! Who do those old people think they are, getting all weak and sickly!? Most of the western world believes that society should be…

I don't buy it. It's all anecdotal. Is there a statistical correlation between the cat remaining with a person for more than X minutes and the person dying within Y days? My bet is…

> What is the pure copper supposed to help? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-end_audio_cables James Randi will give a million dollars to anyone who can tell the difference. > elec…

It's not a matter of skipping Starbucks, buying clothes from a department store, and having a "staycation". When you're paying $3000/mo for your mortgage, $1000/mo on school tuitio…

Somebody asked me today how to write a script that would find all phrases (1 or more sequential words) in a text that appear more than once.