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North Virginia has a very large Indian community. All the schools in the area have days off for Indian Holidays since so many would be out of school otherwise.

Pretty sure this is satire and not even remotely true.

I just did the same thing for my kids, they love rotary dialing. Plus Grandpa can call them anytime.

Ireland sponsors a bunch of local leagues all over the World to promote Hurling/Camogie and Gaelic football. Lots of fun if you want to give it a try or just watch some games. Link…

Back then the Second Amendment was read as a right to an Armed Militia. SCOTUS probably would of allowed these laws at the time. It's only the in past few decades that the Second A…

We use it for our bare metal management and like it for the most part. It does require a lot of planning though. But the company has been great to work with and super helpful in sl…

Since they are owned by Amazon. I would think their cost is close to nothing.

Traditional media political ads can't micro-target people that are more likely get sucked into their made up "facts" and conspiracy theories. They also are broadly broadcast so tha…

Also check what your insurance covers in regard to the child birth. Try to get the plan with the best coverage and least amount of deductibles. We walked away paying nothing where …

It's fine, we just wash it on high. Ask your OB about it though if you want a more professional opinion.

This x 100. We get used clothing from friends and goodwill all the time. They blow through clothing so fast it's not worth buying new. If you buy a used crib just make sure it's in…

It's not even half. Only ~25% of registered voters, voted for Trump[1]. It's a problem of how to drive turn out and get people to the polls. Trump is the result of apathy toward po…

Their docs site has always been decent enough for us. https://docs.joyent.com/private-cloud Anything missing or questionable could usually be resolved by looking in the docs folder…

We're using Joyent's Triton platform and like it a lot. It's been super stable and great for us. Plus #smartos has been incredibly responsive and helpful with any problems we run i…

They just finished animal trials in the US and are hoping to start human trials soon. https://www.parsemusfoundation.org/projects/vasalgel/

It's been talked about a lot for a long time. But nothing ever gets pass congress. Obama tried to pass a lot of infrastructure spending as part of the 2008 Stimulation package, but…

For Lost Vikings it was most likely for easy porting. Wikipedia mentions is was available on the following platforms: Amiga, Amiga CD32, Game Boy Advance, MS-DOS, Mega Drive/Genesi…

Oh I agree. That's why we ditched ec2 for our own bare metal cloud based on joyent and saved over $200k/year

I don't see how anyone can afford SaaS metrics/alert services at any sort of real scale. $15/month/host gets expensive fast. Datadog doesn't start providing discounts till you are …

I've used it with Influxdb, Elasticsearch, and Prometheus. They all worked great. I can't think of any reason to use Graphite.

I get long hangs (5 secs) when saving Ruby code. I think it just takes a long time to load up all the gems rubocop relies on, then to process the syntax. I put the blame squarely o…

The take away I got from the article is that these people are being replaced by workers here on H1-B visas. Which are suppose to be used only for positions that you can not find an…

The git repo has a MakePkg script that will generate deb packages for you. I found it really easy to use.

I showed it to a former patent examiner. It's just an application for a patent. It was rejected on 2/20/15. Now it's just kept around as prior art. They also requested and then den…