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    Comment #1724463

    Now's the time to start. But yeah, you don't say "we're doing it my way." It probably sounds more like, I'm broke, I want to pay you back, what can we do to help me make it happen?…

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    Comment #1722588

    In my book, that makes it even worse. I can at least have sympathy for people who write and talk that way because they've never known anything else.

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    Comment #1707629

    I love it! Just re-subscribed thanks to your comment.

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    Comment #1707113

    Fecious?

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    Comment #1704769

    Do you know the etymology of the word "pornography?"

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    Comment #1698522

    I just read the article. In it, you assume the product could be better, as you just repeated here ("could be a lot better"). Please explain how that's not begging the question.

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    Comment #1655062

    That's why you have to insist on http://tapdny.com . (I know, it's filtered.)

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    Comment #1642156

    I cannot understand your last sentence. Please help. "This kind of tempting?" "Eschewed?" Eclipsed? Eschewed in favor of?

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    Comment #1537118

    Good essay, but paragraph six is redundant.

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    Comment #1470467

    The "earned income" credit is a negative tax ("refundable credit").

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    Comment #1315399

    Have you tried adding a function that converts between locales and ordering/indexing by that in Postgres? Like in this thread: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2004-09/…

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    Comment #1307404

    Yeah, it's a terrible sentence. First they're "we," then they're "Adobe," then they're "we" again, and while you were distracted by all that, behind your back they snuck in "as we …

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    Comment #1292018

    Last time I pulled my credit report, the security questions included "Choose which of the following is true: you have an account at XXX Bank / you have a loan in the amount of $YYY…

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    Comment #1207660

    Agreed about the diagonalization method , but that's not what he said was unintuitive. He said the statement was unintuitive.

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    Comment #1197311

    I think it's nice of Garmin to let them use the company's property like that.

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    Comment #1142121

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercar

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    Comment #1130669

    Was the last time you checked thirty years ago?

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    Comment #1061647

    Important note: incorporation is required neither for SEP-IRA nor for my favorite, the individual 401(k).

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    Comment #749431

    Not to get off topic, but Warren didn't write that, did he?

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    Comment #736405

    Would you please explain how driving a small car (let's take a Prius as the obvious example) has exactly the same effect on the environment as driving a gas-guzzler? I don't get it…

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    Comment #723745

    Of course, Dos Equis was created by a German.

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    Comment #714896

    So as little as $300,000? Unless the amount was much greater, I'm betting there've been far more expensive Javascript mistakes.

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    Comment #713477

    Truth isn't truth if it isn't falsifiable. Quite a claim. Is it falsifiable?