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0.016%, not 1.6%

> The backwards-compatibility is probably an institutional thing. And the apparent routing of all bug reports and feature requests to /dev/null -- er, the recycling bin -- certainl…

Unemployment numbers in the US don't include students.

> The first is an actual prize for scientist works This article is about the Nobel prize for literature .

Did you forget in the past 7 hours that already posted this to this thread...?

The article addresses this: Of course, if you don’t have a DVD burner (remember, this was a while back — these days you’d use a USB drive), you’d have to get one from a friend who …

What makes you say it's weird and different? Match.com lets you filter by ethnicity and faith...

Seems like a weird place to brag about how gifted your kids are.

Well, if it's being marketed to an English speaking audience, they will need to consider whether the name has negative connotations regardless of where it originated. American comp…

> Couldn't they obtain a 7khz tone by mixing any two tones seperated by 7khz and applying a low-pass filter? I don't understand this comment. Are you implying that a low-pass filte…

> Toys 'r' us is amazing for kids - but go back as an adult. It kind of sounds like you're agreeing with the GP. Kids love mountains of cheap plastic crap so for them it can be exc…

Ambulances do a lot more than transport patients. It's already the case that you can usually get someone to the hospital faster than waiting for an ambulance. Typically if you're u…

>I have consistently done better retail interesting on individual stock than my IRA well ever do Your comment doesn't make sense to me. Don't IRAs allow for investing in individual…

> If natural light matters, shift society to do everything earlier! Shift society so we can have the shortest shadows closer to noon than 1? No thanks. Depending on where you're lo…

I think opensourcenews was just pointing out that "is" (in the article title) is more absolutist than "can be".

I assune you can patent part of an overall process (certainly that's the case in virtually all software patents), which could be a way to prevent others from replicating your proce…

I didn't criticize kids for their naivete. I was pointing out that I don't think that sort of naivete is something to aspire to. If a kid breaks something because they didn't think…

I don't avoid those things because of social pressure. I don't try random doorknobs because I wouldn't want people intruding on my space if I happened to leave a door unlocked by a…

Are you sure about that? Is that the Chicago crash your talking about? The reports I was able to find indicate that the investigation did proceed but there was limited communicatio…

Well of course it sounds ridiculous when you use an absurd analogy. A more reasonable analogy was something like muscle fatigue, or even mental fatigue, and it seems reasonable to …

I thought he faded away... (?)

I'm gonna do the same but sell when it gets to 10x. Have fun being half as rich as me!

"staff this week told salary payments will be delayed until February 10, 2018" For real?? What sane person would continue working for them at this point? Might as well say February…

Your level of exposure to science fairs and debates sounds about the same as mine (an American). Yet we still know what they are from media portrayals, etc. I think that was fastba…

I thought the responses in the Facebook thread were the most interesting/disturbing part of the submission...