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int_handler

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    Comment #17964556

    It seems you fully consider cars to be an appliance. Today, manual cars aren't about efficiency. Manuals are about driver engagement and the feeling of connectedness with the car a…

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    Comment #17964544

    Driving a manual car isn't about efficiency. It is about driver engagement. Yes, you can row your own gears with paddle shifters, but no automatic will ever give you the same kind …

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    Comment #17771295

    While I agree with you that stories about the plight of the underprivileged are certainly underreported, I strongly disagree with you that most of the hype around this story is due…

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    Comment #17771255

    If you want to go that route, then you'll need to also remove the following instruments: * Ropes or any kind of cords that can be used for hanging * Blades of any kind (kitchen kni…

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    Comment #17676248

    Can you please elaborate on your reasoning?

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    Comment #17289817

    Kindly do yourself a favor and re-read Zeller's last words in its entirety. While yes, his attacker's actions are utterly despicable, and the experience in no doubt has been more t…

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    Comment #17050181

    So you enjoy being on hold for long periods of time and having to deal with unhelpful customer service representatives?

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    Comment #17050169

    I think people are missing the point that one of the reasons why Duplex exists is that there are many businesses such as restaurants that do not offer some kind of online service f…

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    Comment #16981628

    Can you give some examples of popular apps that are not "a fucking pain to use?"

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    Comment #16935159

    In his video he made for Magnasanti [0] (which I really recommend watching by the way), Oscala did mention that an earlier version of the city was in fact inspired by the Kowloon W…

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    Comment #16434232

    If Waze's police and red light camera indications cause more people to comply the law while driving, isn't that already better than not having this feature at all?

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    Comment #16434225

    > result is mass deaths and injury Do you have some hard evidence that shows that most traffic accidents are caused by people not complying with speed limits vs. people being inatt…

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    Comment #15103401

    There is a similar reason for why English swear words sound Germanic: http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2015/06/swear-words-etymo...

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    Comment #15103388

    It's not named after the sky. It's named after the God of the Sky, which doesn't bother me any more than other planetary bodies being named after deities of couriers, beauty, war, …

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    Comment #15103087

    Can we officially rename Uranus to Caelus? Uranus (more accurately, Ouranos) is a Greek god. Besides Earth, all the other planets are named after Roman gods, thus Uranus should be …

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    Comment #14897156

    I believe mywittyname is specifically referring to the LinkedIn profile pages that are publicly visible without requiring a login and is not claiming that all LinkedIn's data is pu…

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    Comment #14793220

    Or other parts of California with plenty of space such as the Central Valley. Unfortunately, similar to how homeowners don't want high-rise buildings in their neighborhood, compani…

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    Comment #14754891

    That's not a valid comparison. Different websites can and already charge different amounts of money for their services. However, we do not have Premium Luxury Highways where rich p…

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    Comment #14591275

    > Liberal western politics are based on individual liberty and free will. > However, mainstream science maintains that we're neither individuals nor have free will. You are conflat…

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    Comment #14008633

    To be fair, this is not the entirety of C++ but C++ following the Google C++ Style Guide, which limits use to a more manageable subset of the language. For instance, exceptions, wh…

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    Comment #13982367

    That makes sense. Thanks for explaining!

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    Comment #13981960

    You bring up a good point that many people might not have realized: relying on the FCC to regulate solely without the backing of legislation will not result in the kind of long-ter…

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    Comment #13927668

    Completely agree. I was wondering the same thing as I read this.

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    Comment #13825958

    > This coding style is standard practice for Win32 API development. Do you have a public style guide that indicates this? I worked at Microsoft, and while there are teams that (ver…