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orc

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    Comment #4301974

    This is an important point. I've always found lecture to be a very inefficient method of teaching. Why not switch to an entirely written format? You can say a lot with diagrams and…

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    Comment #3237205

    Hm.. I tried doing this on windows but it turned out to be a lot of work to get it setup correctly. npm is hard to install on windows, and the jquery project depends on contextify,…

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    Comment #3235333

    Wow, I was just thinking this morning how awesome it would be to make a desktop app that could crawl websites with jquery. And since node.js has a windows installer, it sounds like…

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    Comment #2846431

    Wow. Yeah, that's pretty misleading. Hope they have a big warning label to go with it.

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    Comment #2846374

    "Researchers at Columbia University claim the mChip has a 100 percent detection rate, although there's a four to six percent chance of getting a false positive" That sounds like a …

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    Comment #2506604

    I've had an Intel X-25M for over a year now and it's been amazing performance wise. In that same time span my 1TB data drive did die. The only problem I've had with the SSD is that…

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    Comment #2486777

    If they pay you and let you buy the MacBook, it's after tax.

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    Comment #2368981

    I am disappointed by this: "Lesser protection of commercial speech" I would like it to be illegal for a news organization or an advertisement to lie to or mislead the public. If yo…

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    Comment #2368937

    I like how you dismiss the argument as invalid. I want to read more about this kind of reasoning, and I found this site: http://www.logicalfallacies.info/

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    Comment #1844639

    That's a little ambitious. 3 years of medical school before they graduate high school? How about we catch up to the rest of the world first. The US K-12 education system is actuall…

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    Comment #1218677

    Yes. I was pretty astonished by this comment: "At the moment I can see 3 viable alternatives to Flash for animation: HTML, Canvas and SVG"

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    Comment #1205029

    If I was going to read an entire book on a monitor, it would have to be e-ink.

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    Comment #1205012

    It says they're trying to compete with the kindle too, but I couldn't tell if the WePad can do e-ink?

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    Comment #1143349

    I think this is an important question - do you "NEED" to become a 10,000 hour "expert" ? I would never want to stereotype the entire population of earth and say that you're a failu…

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    Comment #1104093

    Microsoft has no part in this. Highgate Media Suite is creating the Ogg Decoder as a Silverlight library.

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    Comment #739544

    The real question here is, of those .5% who had their policy cancelled, how many of them actually lied about a preexisting condition that they then filed a claim for? Because if th…

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    Comment #734617

    I think that's an interesting point - should articles be flagged based on source? In most cases, the answer is no. But for a source that has proven time and again to produce conten…

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    Comment #527454

    So are you saying that 90% of the people who want privacy want it for illegal reasons? Then you won't mind if I read all your email? That's what I thought.