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Are letters taken more seriously than emails? That's good to know, thanks.

I say the same thing every time I read a "slacktivism" post, but here we go again: if this is useless, what do I actually do to help? Seriously, I'm not posing this as rhetoric. I'…

This is a known problem with C's (and other functions in languages based off C's) "rand" function. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10984974/why-do-people-sa...

That's a good point. That said, I still take objection to the tone of the article. The author didn't motivate his solution in the way you just did; it was more of a "this is the ob…

> I have rarely had anyone complain to me about my seat recline, and nobody has ever offered me money, or anything else of value, in exchange for sitting upright. I bet no one has …

Well, putting aside the endless war between cars and bikes... Several of my friends who bike regularly (hasn't happened to me, thankfully) have been hit by cars while biking, even …

That's very different than being able to examine the source code and the data to see where everything is going. Also, though I'm not a rabid proponent of FOSS software, in this cas…

I think you're placing too much emphasis on genetics. Genetics play a major role in determining the traits of an individual, but the way the individual was raised and the culture t…

Poor customer service? That would be enough for me, in the purely hypothetical scenario where I had a choice other than "no internet", "hook up an antenna to steal internet from th…

What were you trying to do? I don't understand your original post at all.

I'm not sure I understand. It seems like you're implying that the two people would be moving away from each other faster than the speed of light, but I was under the impression tha…

From the abstract of the actual study: - "Cool" => "Pseudomature behavior—ranging from minor delinquency to precocious romantic involvement" - "Lose" => "Early adolescent pseudomat…