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Turing_Machine
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Comment #40816625
Nah, man, I'm good. Bye now!
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Comment #40805797
> He has an estimated net worth of $3M. Now do his stepchildren, and exactly how much of their net worth came from Bernie's "campaign contributions". The way the game is often play…
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Comment #40801608
> If you're too feeble to walk, you're probably too feeble to drive. Again: patent nonsense. Do you even know any old people?
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Comment #40790066
In the future, when you're old and quite possibly disabled, you might rethink the whole "walkable cities" thing. I mean, it's easy to say "just walk (or ride a bike)" when you're 2…
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Comment #40789963
Putting an item up for sale to the highest bidder insulates a seller from future claims that the item was sold for a low-ball price in some kind of sweetheart/kickback deal.
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Comment #40784996
Woz is a technical genius, no doubt about it. But Jobs is who made the boxes something that non-nerds wanted to have in their homes. There were dozens of computer companies at the …
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Comment #40784061
Definitely location dependent. I estimate mine is about 50% USPS, 25% UPS, and 25% Amazon's own delivery service. The proportion that's Amazon-delivered has been increasing noticea…
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Comment #40784041
Yep, came here to say this. I don't use it often, but it's pretty handy from time to time (e.g. checking to see if an important package requiring a signature is coming that day, so…
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Comment #40783991
> The shotgun needs to be reloaded. Eventually, certainly, but you can put it off for a while without much trouble. You can get 20 round drum magazines for 12 gauge shotguns, and k…
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Comment #40783936
Thanks for giving the OP some firsthand advice that answers his question and might actually work, rather than chiding him with some variant of "You shouldn't have trusted YouTube i…
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Comment #40782240
Well, it depends on what you consider challenging: Most work in terms of hours spent: compilers (you had to write one from scratch) Hardest due to inherent difficulty of the materi…
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Comment #40782028
You can't open the door if you don't have the key You can't open the door if the battery is dead (or, presumably, the battery has removed by a would-be car thief). I'm not sure why…
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Comment #40781992
IMO, the FDA's authority should be limited to making sure that the snake oil does indeed contain genuine oil from genuine snakes. They could put a label on it to the effect of "We …
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Comment #40770067
I personally think FOSS software is a fine thing, while not being overly fond of the GPL. If you allegedly "give" me something for "free", but still assert the right to tell me wha…
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Comment #40769980
The "critical difference" here is that in other cases the car wasn't manufactured by Elon Musk, the currently-designated Emmanuel Goldstein who needs to be the focus of a Two Minut…
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Comment #40769948
How is it "not remotely the same"? In both cases the child is in the car and the door cannot be opened. In my city, the fire department solves the problem by bashing out a window, …