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jojopotato

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    Comment #28502667

    As someone that lived through it, two things stuck with me 1. YouTube just worked, it relied on Flash and that was installed on almost every computer. IIRC google video required so…

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    Comment #22863015

    The California DOI is requiring that companies issue some sort of "reasonable" refund, which has to be justified to the department in some way. Other states will likely do somethin…

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    Comment #16635447

    I was under the impression this wasn’t really believed anymore. The only discussion I can find for it is here though: http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/06/27/the-myth-..…

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    Comment #15891107

    It’s not always a volunteer activity in social situations, unless you want to go around telling other people to not take any photos of you.

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    Comment #8083708

    Don't forgoet that the monopoly comes at the cost that they are required to keep a lot of post offices open in rural areas, which is a very unprofitable enterprise.

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    Comment #7808013

    Credit score isn't allowed in pricing of insurance for a lot of states, including California. It depends state to state though.

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    Comment #7410910

    Neat idea, but it looks like the site was last updated in 2005/6.

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    Comment #6170275

    Apparently it's groovy, I just knew it as the templating for Play before now :) http://www.playframework.com/documentation/1.2.5/templates#s...

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    Comment #6169864

    Moving to 2.x still seems like more trouble than it's worth, but maybe I'm just burnt out on learning another templating system =/

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    Comment #5829076

    I believe what you want is: http://www.kayak.com/explore/ Google Flights has something similar, it lets you see prices for destinations: https://www.google.com/flights/explore/

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    Comment #5369859

    I haven't required a cable for an iOS update for a while.

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    Comment #5306237

    Interesting that they show the approximate number of searches / second at the bottom. Is that an otherwise publicly available number?

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    Comment #4679918

    Does he say what Google search data he is looking at or where he got it?

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    Comment #4546551

    On a side note, could you imagine Google changing their search results to this kind of layout? I think it would probably trigger a ton of lawsuits.

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    Comment #4384561

    Sad to say I know where one is non ironically posted.

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    Comment #4142417

    I would imagine that there is an easement agreement of some sort on the island for residents.

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    Comment #3904269

    I was given the opportunity to talk to two teams before and decide where to go when I joined Google.

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    Comment #3811212

    It feels to me like any large company is a punching bag on HN. I do think it makes some sense though, because a fair number of people on here are trying to build things that disrup…

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    Comment #3774180

    I feel like I've been seeing this for a while, a couple of months I think (TBH I am not very sure). It's been nice to see be able to skip to the result I used before.

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    Comment #3743358

    Is there another alternative out there? I feel like the mozilla developer docs are the only thing that comes to mind offhand.

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    Comment #3727774

    I think it would be a tough to balance between providing useful information to users and not revealing too much to spammers. It looks like from http://support.google.com/mail/bin/a…

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    Comment #3722528

    Regardless of the content of the article, it was laid out beautifully.