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I wonder if there's any documentation of great panics around these. I'd imagine the people of the time would think this was some sort of negative sign from their sun god (Horus) an…

Agreed; the point of the game is to make you feel like a God. Sid Meier gave a talk at the GDC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtzCLd93SyU In it he explained how Civilization test…

I'm a fan of the book "Win the Crowd: Unlock the Secrets of Influence, Charisma, and Showmanship" - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060742054 Written by Steve Cohen, a magician,…

You can still buy it as part of a controller bundle for now: http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Xbox-Wireless-Controller-Win... Not sure if Amazon is just working through the remainde…

They'll probably always need some human around for liability reasons. That is unless the robot bartender is going to add some sort of breathalyzer component to see if people have h…

Slooh has pretty good coverage if you're in a cloudy area: http://live.slooh.com/

There's also the self employment tax to consider for contractors working for themselves in the US. Employers pay 7.65% and you pay 7.65%. If you're on your own in addition to the i…

From his twitter it looks like it's a coop. https://twitter.com/davidgraeber It says he wasn't on the original occupancy as he wasn't born when the paperwork was originally handled…

The problem isn't that I think my comments won't be endorsed. It's more I'll self censor my comments that I think would be less popular because I'd be afraid if I'm censored I woul…

Since this will probably be the last time a comment of mine appears in HN due to the new system I figured I'd give my take on it. I'm someone who doesn't join in threads pretty oft…

I'm on some Walmart T-Mobile plan. I heard about the plan after getting my Nexus 4 so went to a local T-Mobile store and asked them if they could give it to me as a new customer an…

It appears to be some opt in program called DevShare. Here's a link to the filezilla forums where the dev team appears to be justifying its use: https://forum.filezilla-project.org…

It really depends on what facet of business you think she'd be interested in. To be honest I think better than any specific business resource out there would be to just get her on …

This is only partly related but just a heads up some courts have found TOS agreements illusionary in the past for including clauses that mention they can be altered at any time wit…

Her lack of trust with their HR department worries me more than any silly restriction on the candidates they hire. I mean if she's going to sit around and personally review every s…

Yeah I use Amazon Prime for all of my renting as well... It's very easy to get the movies on my xbox, they cost about half as much as they would on itunes to rent, and they have a …

It appears to be just an issue related to the rollout of timeline and people freaking out. I joined in 2004 and remember how people always just wrote on each others walls myself (i…

Many users reuse passwords across their web presence. So there's the chance of gaining access to other accounts as a result of the data leak... such as their bank accounts, etc.

There was an issue where a user could steal the nickname of other users. https://twitter.com/homakov/status/239061158043213824 https://twitter.com/homakov/status/239107933290520576…

Ended up finally finishing level 8. Was a huge pain but definitely feel so much better for completing it -- what a rush. Yeah it was pretty tricky but once you get down the approac…

(Not a referral link - just a video review by someone who bought it) http://www.amazon.com/review/R2M4YOUB8J3F84/ref=cm_cr_dp_tit... If you check out that review it shows that the …