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wolfish

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    Comment #3189847

    What happens when your chilling in a coffee shop and your arch nemesis orders a latte with your name?

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    Comment #3177110

    Does anyone know if this book would be good on a kindle? I.e. is it straight text, or does it have graphics and sidebars, etc.

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    Comment #1957744

    Unless you download them from Amazon they will not sync across devices. But, I see you're point, they are already formatted.

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    Comment #1423997

    Intereseting example of a connectivity problem that site wouldn't spot.

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    Comment #1423664

    I find that committing parts of a file in GitX is much easier than using interactive mode in the terminal. That's not a question of understanding the git model, it's just choosing …

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    Comment #1405411

    I started feeling the same way a few months ago. It is hard to define exactly what changed. Some of the time I question whether it might have been me that changed rather than Grube…

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    Comment #1386665

    Does google consider gmail users to have value? Be it via ad views or good will, etc. If so, then is it in their interest to provide a commensurate level of support to their users?…

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    Comment #1368060

    When I bought my first Macbook Pro a few years ago, I purchased it for the hardware and intended to use it to run Windows in Bootcamp. After spending a little time with OS X I came…

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    Comment #1364894

    Spiderman, just because a thing takes effort and is well done, does not mean it is insincere.

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    Comment #1363906

    The article doesn't have any actual hard facts regarding the hellish conditions. For instance: "According to Liu, the plant makes employees work around the clock, only pausing brie…

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    Comment #1362537

    My guess would be that it is the body of information that google indexes and ranks that has skewed over time, and not that google is skewing the results. It is also likely that goo…

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    Comment #1205090

    Jury nullification is not a recognized part of the US legal system. Its something that can happen, but its viewed as more of a loophole than anything else. Incidentally, I was rece…

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    Comment #992863

    I've never read a book that didn't make me think for myself.

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    Comment #969703

    I regret clicking this link. I should have stopped myself when I saw (sethgodin.typepad.com).

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    Comment #961126

    Interesting, when I went to the Wakemate site I was hoping for a product that looks like a tennis wristband, which I know to be comfortable. I didn't pre-order because I'm not conf…

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    Comment #959405

    Setting an industry back has no relation to when it started.

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    Comment #953554

    http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/local&id=...

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    Comment #877027

    That's a question we should be constantly asking ourselves as indivuals and as a society. This misleading and flawed comparison serves more as a distraction than a call to arms.

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    Comment #876665

    Smallpox was eradicated. If it wasn't they probably would have spent more, that's just one reason this isn't a valid comparison.

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    Comment #787938

    Cash for Clunkers reminds me of the Broken Window Fallacy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window

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    Comment #785780

    I've never said either of those things. The first one is absurd.