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I agree they are deadly serious, but to the parent commenter’s point, why wander the streets grabbing random people when they could go straight to the employers? They would have fa…

I have wondered this myself. I can see how it would be useful if you missed your target and it returned to you. But the demonstrations I have seen, where the boomerang is thrown an…

Are you sure? He certainly engaged in a lot of military operations in several countries without Congress's approval. He also ramped up drone strikes dramatically.

I feel seen.

Kolyma tales. It's a collection of essays from Varlam Shalamov, a Russian writer and reporter, who was imprisoned in the Gulag for nearly two decades. It was a shocking first hand …

I think if you are careful there is little risk of rupturing your eardrum. That being said... I have ruptured my eardrum with a q-tip. It wasn't my finest moment. My wife was behin…

I commented to my wife this past week that I was suddenly contacted by multiple recruiters, seemingly out of nowhere. It had been many many months prior since that had happened.

Everybody would rather write Python than php or c++. It isn't because of the type system.

I use reusable food grade silicone bags I bought from Amazon. They are not vacuum sealed but I don't think that matters at all. As long as the portion of the bag containing the foo…

I haven't touched a lawn dart since 1989. I was a nine years old and I tossed it as high and as far as I could. I realized it was coming dangerously close to a friend. Everybody ha…

Honest answer, I have no interest in doing that research. I wouldn't know how to make that determination with any degree of confidence. Even if I could, I feel like it would requir…

I allowed ads for a long time, believing a site should be able to earn revenue for the content they provide. I started blocking ads when ad networks failed to properly vet their ad…

As somebody who has put a dog through training, that tracks with my experience. As I recall, the first lesson did not involve our dogs at all. It was just a long list of all the wa…

Agreed. But I still laughed

Looks like somebody is gunning for a head writer role on Sharknado 4.

What the airline industry has done is amazing. Had they fixed the seats in place so they could not move at all people would be directing their ire at the airlines for the cramped c…

I am not an expert in this field by any means but, Planet Money did a piece recently that suggested some people are putting forward a serious theory for how a profit-price spiral w…

How is Santa over a large body of water in a sleigh pulled by reindeer? Magic my friend.

I use Feedly Classic which is clocking in at around 37 MB. But I am looking at the other apps on my phone and the majority of them (maybe 90% roughly estimating) are well over 59 M…

It's clear that one is a mirror image of the other with minor Photoshop edits. I think it's clear to just about everybody. I don't believe you are arguing in good faith.

> Git is the interface. What? That doesn't even make any sense. Aside from the CLI I can think of almost half a dozen GUIs off the top of my head. All different interfaces for Git.…

> Try this - have the lowest ranking engineer announce they’re going to go have drinks and see who follows. Track that number for ten announcements. Out of curiosity, what outcome …

Then it's a fixed point?

Damn. I didn't know he had passed. I liked him.