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Actually, he mentions the base was taken from another chair. I found two Herman Miller Eames chairs being thrown away. The bases were missing, so I pulled two chrome chair bases of…

Actually, bartering is already covered in the US tax code. You're supposed to claim the fair market value of the goods/ services you received as income. http://www.irs.gov/taxtopic…

Starting Strength is a good resource for learning proper weightlifting form and routines. http://www.amazon.com/Starting-Strength-2nd-Mark-Rippetoe/dp... There is also a wiki cover…

Hacker's Diet Online has a nice graphing utility. It's much easier to see progress on the average than with daily fluctuations. https://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/HackDiet

Exactly, and while you're at it, don't ask your barber if you need a haircut. I'm sure the low ink warning is justified somewhere on the grounds of ensuring consistent quality, but…

All-in-One Gestures saves me a good bit of time. It's the one addon I find myself missing when I'm not on my computer. Using the scroll wheel to switch between tabs in the bar = pr…

The issue with having individual fishing companies determining policies is that it invokes the tragedy of the commons. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons This is a…

And now you have two problems.

The speeds are 1 gigabit connections. The Dark Knight Blu Ray was approx. 35GiB. At 1 gigabit connections speed it would take 280 seconds in a best case scenario. That doesn't acco…

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." - Arthur C. Clarke

Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=729556

Speaking of tabs, I often use the middle mouse button to open a link in a new tab. While you can left click anywhere on the text to open in the current window, the only place you c…