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jgross206

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    Comment #6479388

    Can you provide some examples?

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    Comment #6402137

    why "captain" in quotes?

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    Comment #6383671

    Can you expand on that? Under what definition of terrorism is the NSA a terrorist organization? It seems to me that their intent to be as clandestine as possible makes them distinc…

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    Comment #6291629

    > Why? Because them caring about outward appearances would signal to me that they have a fundamental lack of understanding about what factors are relevant to running a successful b…

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    Comment #6221550

    The difference, to me, is that the lack of freedom you describe is simply a part of the human condition (food and shelter require work, which has been true as long as life has exis…

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    Comment #6214818

    > ...alcohol is involved in the majority of car accidents. This didn't sound right to me, so I did some digging and found: "In 2010, 10,228 people were killed in alcohol-impaired d…

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    Comment #6208204

    can you share some of your reasoning behind this (quite extreme) belief?

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    Comment #6143950

    i am not joking

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    Comment #6143740

    cops also ask you if you have drugs in your car.

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    Comment #6098609

    i think its tera-hashes per second

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    Comment #6035700

    You can't just call everything you disagree with "trolling". This is exactly the lack of diversity of thought OP was asking about. Now we're not even allowed to question the Snowde…

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    Comment #6029886

    > Looks like somebody wants to nominate themselves for a government contract. Interesting how when the news media baselessly questions the motives of whistleblowers it's a "smear c…

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    Comment #6023456

    In what way does your anecdote support your assertion that "a year is much too long"?

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    Comment #6021846

    Your parent's point was that 99% of people do not own a license to the file.

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    Comment #6015626

    your link doesnt work for me, here's a different one: http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/index.shtml#a13

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    Comment #5973536

    I think the parent was talking about the content of the games, not ancillary business practices.

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    Comment #5894679

    predictability doesn't imply innacuracy

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    Comment #5869832

    what's the proper use? I'm one of the clueless

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    Comment #5820733

    Talk is cheap. It's very, very easy to criticize from afar when you have no skin in the game. So, that type of criticism holds very little weight.

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    Comment #5787404

    This is splitting hairs a bit. They are, for all intents and purposes, world champions.

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    Comment #5771606

    Not sure of the universality of this, but my intuitive way of understanding O(log n) is as follows: An algorithm is O(log n) if you can reduce the solution space (the set of all po…

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    Comment #5768180

    what school was that??

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    Comment #5754387

    This is very common usage, though technically incorrect. The poster meant 50 cents.