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bsghirt

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    Comment #45349017

    You can't find a group of people to share a lease with, but you want to live in a residence which excludes people by race or gender? Sounds like a you problem.

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    Comment #45348985

    Why are the cities that you happen to have lived in a relevant data set here?

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    Comment #45215897

    Certainly I would not take the television series as proof that they happened with regularity or in the way depicted.

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    Comment #45214821

    What you are demonstrating is that already in 2003, people talking to each other during their commute was a fantasy rather than an actual occurrence.

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    Comment #45214765

    But the New York Times on a phone is not particularly more or less addictive than the same content on a piece of paper. Nor does reading it on a phone cut anyone off from the rest …

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    Comment #45214733

    I commuted by public transit for around two decades before the ubiquity of smartphones and never experienced or witnessed this.

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    Comment #45214305

    Why is the exact device the problem? 20 years ago everyone on suburban trains would be looking at a newspaper, magazine or book throughout their journey. Then they would watch a co…

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    Comment #45209002

    Are the CSVs with literal newlines in string fields in the room with us right now?

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    Comment #45202063

    I would tell you to escape the newlines. Then you would know as much about CSV with multiline text in it as most other people in the world.

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    Comment #45196566

    Can you provide a reproducible example of how sorting rows can lead to unrecoverable data loss? Also, commas in quoted strings are quite mainstream csv, but csvs with quoted string…

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    Comment #45196422

    How would you deserialise the entity "0.4288"?

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    Comment #44788730

    No I mean just consider the money spent on the annoying ones lost and buy another pair. No one wants to do that but for a relatively low ticket item which one uses for hours every …

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    Comment #44787473

    I know it's annoying to suggest that consumer preferences will fix stuff like this when clearly it comes from some corporate design culture that completely ignores consumer prefere…