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McDiesel
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Comment #9195535
Isnt this more tron than snake? Blue and orange? Two of them at once... no apples to nibble on.. no growth...
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Comment #8498653
You can't "defend" your code, period. Not front-end code at least. Go ahead and minify and obfuscate it all you want (or add domain or date protections) ... anyone with minimal kno…
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Comment #8494725
More like visit the skeletal remains of teh late 90's internet...
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Comment #8469118
Firstly, im not saying this to be a dick... but it sounds dickish... sorry. What it comes down to, is that its foolish to rely on a business that lives entirely in someone else's g…
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Comment #8464783
Can we just work on increasing the amount of intelligent human beings before we jump to super-intelligent? Thanks.
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Comment #8367538
Because negativity is a bane on scientific progress. People who claim something can't be done are foolish. Claiming a negative - claiming something you can't prove - is anti-intell…
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Comment #8304317
I think you got your numbers backwards... 1600 IRN ~ 1 USD, right? Your way, your lasik costs about $54M.. So you can get full Lasik for ~$50USD?
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Comment #8304303
It's not their salaries? Watch them come to work, note the care they drive. Follow them home, note the house they live in. I've yet to see a dr in the US come to work in a civic, o…
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Comment #8284715
Its a shame that a simple button label would be the cause of an education tool to be rejected... sissy-state for the win!
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Comment #8267878
put a ? before it... address bar of [? alignlib.py] searches for alignlib.py ... not sure if this is intentional or just htat google drops special chars, but it works 100% of the t…
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Comment #8242232
This kind of thing is just unnacceptable in a free nation. We're not peons to be treated like animals. "Get on the fucking ground", "Don't you fucking move" ... these aren't the co…
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Comment #8224297
Its a shame they cant even set it to min-wage in the country they are hosted/based in.
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Comment #8202511
A new version number. Seriously. Most people would be happy if he pushed the code up unchanged but with a new version number just so they can feel like the project is fresh again..…
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Comment #8099553
The pattern lock actually tells you its insecure... so I dont see the gripe? I use it to keep my toddler from messing up my phone while letting him play with it (and hes happy just…
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Comment #8091493
Thats a very, frankly, stupid comment. And short sided. MJ has a HUGE group of people who use it medicinally. My wife can not eat or drink without it, due to chronic nausea to the …
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Comment #8091472
benadryl does. And nyquill. Allegra and claritin can as well (though to a lesser degree). thats not mentioning the 100s of prescription drugs that do. None of them need a roadside …
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Comment #8091460
I get that... its a legitimate concern, as I said. However, its no more legitimate than the other 100s of prescription drugs that can cause drowsiness or slowed reaction time. Or d…
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Comment #8091207
The problem is the studies that show that MJ use is far less of an impact on driving than talking on a phone... The paranoia over stoned drivers is a little high (no pun intended) …
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Comment #7952746
To be fair, the phone in the cardboard costs more than the rift, especially if you're using something like an HTC one, etc...
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Comment #7949337
It appears to be implemented in JS... so... none?
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Comment #7901387
It comes down to a simple concept. You change with progress or you get left behind. Even when progress is, in your view, undesirable... our world isn't a private place anymore... o…
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Comment #7899840
At some point you will just have to realize that this illusion of privacy you have is just that... an illusion. Privacy exists in small pockets, and only in places that you control…
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Comment #7853634
Why does it matter anymore? Even most undocumented foreigners pay taxes... as long as you pay taxes, why does it matter? Why does imperialism/nationalism still exist? Why does it m…
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Comment #7845737
Since when does the google store update an extension not installed through the google store?
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Comment #7824197
There is way too much hyper paranoia about glass... it makes little sense. "Public event, but someone might be recording, so I'm nervous" . . .