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Comment #12191855
I couldn't upvote this enough. The lack of objective comparison in comments is astounding, and it fits a pattern.
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Comment #12141712
This story reflects most poorly on the author himself.
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Comment #11978636
The strange barb at music synthesizers was uncalled for.
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Comment #11492799
Compared to many other institutions, Stanford does a good job of dealing with that issue. 85% of students receive some form of financial aid. There is no family financial burden fo…
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Comment #11433943
Taller, flexible buildings are much better at distributing shock waves.
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Comment #11175157
You might want to consider naming your pricing plans differently. There is a plan offering standard definition streaming called "Basic", and a plan offering high definition streami…
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Comment #11151681
Yeah, they really seem to have taken it up a notch this year. I was presented with a refund that was only possible if I purchased a small business plan. When I declined, the UI red…
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Comment #10807945
Here's a little taste of how things have turned out since SCE and SDGE decided to give up fixing and maintaining San Onofre: http://www.kpbs.org/news/2015/aug/03/counting-customer-…
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Comment #10263249
There are more than 2 million "farms" in the U.S. Snag "One in Three" of those as paying customers (at nearly $1k/year) and it's very unlikely you'd need to use TechCrunch as a mar…
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Comment #9736863
You have a strange way of congratulating someone who achieved what they consider to be happiness.
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Comment #9472194
If search optimization is what you're after, why not just use "local"
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Comment #8045575
Great idea and gesture to the community. Does any of your land receive irrigation? I'd like to send you several surface and subsoil sensors to deploy that will communicate back to …
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Comment #7913832
SoCal. The professional/industrial environmental sensor market sucks. Pretty much any sensor offering high precision is sold exclusively through authorized resellers that in turn h…
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Comment #7913528
There are not, though I am building such a thing. RF-equipped sensors (315 or 433 Mhz) transmitting to a GPRS or WiFi enabled hub would be best. A fairly affordable foundation for …