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Further your point that ti has been integrated into our culture, I've read interesting pieces (probably linked by HackerNews) where it was integral to the founding of culture at al…

My wife and I have elected for no A/C in the city for the last 5 years. Pretty much an experiment in stubbornness, but I'm sure it's also saved real money in electricity and we're …

It's only marginally quieter with the windows closed ... and our's are always open anyways. Was down in FL on vacation and the wife kept waking up because of the faintest repeating…

They say they don't keep shadow profiles of your external Web traffic [though I can't imagine that's true]. In line with other responses, I use a browser plugin that blocks all tra…

I'm a little late to the party, but can't believe so few people brought up the lack of availability admitted in this article. The OP is admitting that the company's official stance…

Dyson? You're so far off ... it's clearly Darth Vader. I can't believe no one has recognized the classic Lucas handiwork. The helmet descending on the tangled mass of circuits. The…

Hey bruv, another fellow alum from the engineering school. I agree with your sentiment regarding the value of connections, and that's where the premium cost of on-campus MS program…

Except no GRE, which is removing another unnecessary barrier to entry. The admissions process also seems to be an effort-based process of testing out of some initial curriculum. Mu…

Looks like Jeff Bridges to me ...

It's about recruitment. Every IBank and top tier consulting firm recruits heavily from the Wharton graduating class. That's what you're paying for. You're also getting the opportun…

OS X has an delightful affinity for Emacs bindings in standard implementations - try Ctrl-d to delete without leaving home row. Mind you, if you're in MS Word for Mac then you'll j…

Assuming this guy wasn't naked when you posted this ... but he is now. This floated around on the interwebs a while ago - part of a vulnerability study that was posted to the blog …

Check out the Oglaf.com landing page for a funny play on this paradox (somewhat NSFW ... really funny, too). It amounts to: * If over 18: Select "Over 18". * If not over 18: Get yo…

Don't need rail, just rapid bus transit like Bogota. Have folks pre-pay so loading is snick-snick and give them an enforced lane to themselves. Bogota does it right, here. NYC is s…

Arguably a little off topic, but it struck me that Louis XIV had a well known "trademark" of always wearing contrasting red soles and heels, and that this was even historically not…

IBM? 400k employees and they kinda know their *nix.

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Well it took significant willpower not to submit a pull request for a screened-in porch and a water slide ...

I'm a little late to this, but my wife and I share an iTunes account since we have shared devices. The fact that the same password is used to download a free app and to REMOTE WIPE…

This. I'm all of punishing the hell out of cabbies that cheat (e.g., fare refusals or the out-of-city overcharged fares that were discovered via GPS data), but the failure to get i…

Tracking doesn't start at "pressing Like", but the Like button is actually loaded from an HTTP call to Facebook's server with the referer of the site you're on ... so they know cou…

All the responses about supply and demand aren't accounting for the fact that taxi drivers are a protected industry in New York. You are unionized, have benefits, and have protecti…

I'm OK with it because I see it as a necessary evil - always considering the worst implementations of any new rules. Right now we all have the same expectation of privacy - that is…

I'm completely with you on the reckless automated DMCA notice system. That does not seem to be the case here at all.

Was going to note the same thing. Pearson executed an appropriate request for taking down copyrighted material with all the rights for opposition that the DMCA enables. The questio…