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I had a bad stay with airbnb. I can't be bothered to repost the whole situation but their customer service was fucking shit.

I use them all the time. I think they're fantastic. They make me so relaxed I almost cannot move. I relax in a very different way compared to when I meditate (with these it's a muc…

Solves a non-problem.

Ha ha, great video :-)

That's exactly how some vaccines work. See: http://www.bt.cdc.gov/agent/smallpox/vaccination/faq.asp "Most people experience normal, usually mild reactions that include a sore arm,…

It's about time we stop giving religious beliefs any special treatment at all compared to actual measurable evidence (e.g. inhumanely killing animals, mutilating/indoctrinating chi…

Apparently not: "HMRC can prosecute tax advisers if they try to hide schemes, but has no sanction against those that create and sell artificial trading arrangements designed solely…

At least it hasn't taken the Tories nearly a whole term to begin to address this issue... Got to say I agree with this http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/politics/article4285739.e.…

...and it looks like one's in the works: https://aws.amazon.com/codecommit/

I assume this is new as well given the 2015 release date...

PCI compliance.

Baking everything into AMIs is the "right" way to go, but if AWS had a supported, hosted git server inside their network to push into, I'd rather have the speed of deploying from g…

"The next real step in this, and one that is really at the core of the microservices architecture, would be to cluster etcd and remove nginx completely" Nginx is useful to stop slo…

He claims he's building the first functional 3D printed house, but the Chinese seem to be way ahead: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-27156775 . Still pretty coo…

I read a book once - I think it was the Gift of Fear (but I might be wrong) - that said that plane crashes often occur in clusters, same with other tragedies like mass shootings at…

Because if you watch that film and believe Apollo went to the moon, the only conclusion is that light has different properties on the moon compared to Earth. I'd like to know what …

I'd like to see some refutation of the claims in this film (and not by the guy - physicist as I recall - in the film who just hand-waves say "well we know they went there and it ca…

This is like: http://userscripts-mirror.org/scripts/review/1341.html

I picked up "The Founder's Dilemmas" and the first chapter tries to talk you out of starting a business by telling you that your business will probably fail, and you'd probably end…

Check out devpi ( http://doc.devpi.net/latest/ ). We build our projects as wheels with pip using devpi as a custom index, i.e.: BUILD_DIR="/tmp/wheelhouse/$PROJECT" pip wheel --whe…

Unless you want to host a site for peanuts on S3...