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"1% may not sound like a lot, but it's more than the typical casino edge in a game of blackjack or slots." The house edge for slots games is anywhere from 2% to 15%+ and is one of …

"I met a man on the street, he said he had two children. I asked him, is at least one of them a boy? He said yes. What's the probability both of them are boys?" This removes the wh…

I guess you're being purposefully obtuse? Hipster: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hipster Ism: highly active and well-understood suffix that means, among other thin…

Having following this story since July, it was almost certainly an inside job and the perpetrator had access to the rooms (cleaner or other staff).

Agree, but you're only criticising the submitter, not EFF. There's no mention of "2x matching" on the page; it only says "you receive a 2x powerup," which is accurate. There's no a…

Perhaps more accurately put, the " English language has no master." Many--perhaps most--European languages, do have prescriptivist masters. Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Rus…

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Nope, I meant irony. The word has multiple definitions. In its most popular - "the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for…

It's funny, i so rarely browse reddit, but i somehow happened upon this story this week - i guess it came up in some kind of mega "what are you most ashamed of" thread or somesuch.…

If anything, the woosh would be for you. I'm sure conductor understood the irony of the statement.

"Based on my training and experience" seems like boilerplate for whenever a supposition is introduced.

Minor nitpick: Very often editors pick the click-baity titles, not those writing the articles.

I'd love to know what the use-case is for a page with 6000 form items!

Thanks, that clarifies a lot. Different worlds.

Good point :) Grocery shopping is such a small part, maybe 5%; going out to eat once or twice a week would be part of recreation budget.

A 4x factor sure sounds very high, though maybe the costs in SF (or in the US in general) are different to my own;from my experience over the last 6 years, living in a variety of s…

If memory serves, this will install it side-by-side with existing install, whereas doing it in-app upgrades (windows). Could be wrong though.

I see it as common marketing strategy. It's all about shifting the conversation from "do I really need an incremental smartphone upgrade?" to "are you getting the gold or sticking …

I've tried a lot of IDE's for python development in the past and always went back to a basic text editor; the extra features never outweighed the bloat. But then i found PyCharm an…

The first time I saw this was Human Planet, in an episode about Kazakh hunters training Golden Eagles to hunt foxes for them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y3Dl0BGFfw The extras…

I see there's lots of insightful comments here from "digital nomads." Are there any good forums or communities online where you congregate to discuss these issues?

> So you might say you allocate additional "privilege" to this subset of the population's opinions? Not in the slightest. I checked the definition of "privilege" - a special right,…

I do not think the opinion of a person who works with computers for a living has a more privileged opinion than anyone else. I do, however, enjoy coming here very day and reading t…