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xlnt

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    Comment #264340

    Maybe the system should actually check what's at each page. And you should read more carefully. I did not suggest the thing you say is a bad idea.

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    Comment #264258

    The point is that we don't want duplicate content, even if it's at slightly different URLs.

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    Comment #264234

    First they'd need to have an idea of what intelligence is. At which point they could probably write a simple AI anyway.

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    Comment #263835

    I hope no one is shot.

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    Comment #263159

    Don't feed the trolls, especially not with long posts.

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    Comment #263108

    Lists are for authors who can't figure out what's important and emphasize it. It's just a long, monotone drawl that abdicates some thinking.

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    Comment #263105

    dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=113050

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    Comment #263062

    So how do you move it down? Fast for a few days?

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    Comment #263056

    > Since when do people have a choice? Free trade.

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    Comment #262694

    Just don't eat when not hungry. Most people eat large quantities of food all at once. Stop half way and wait 20 minutes and you might not be hungry anymore. If you eat too quickly …

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    Comment #262611

    Why do you close outlook...?

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    Comment #260756

    I'm going to have to blame the parents, then. They sent their children to schools that bad. :(

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    Comment #260752

    I'm going to have to blame the schools, then. Anyone who bases their view of nuclear power on The Simpsons obviously needed a better education. ;p

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    Comment #260699

    ok i agree

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    Comment #260680

    How is it possible to "generalize" from one data point? The normal method of generalizing is finding a similarity shared across many data points, and proposing it applies more wide…

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    Comment #260667

    Who's fault is it that we don't have more nuclear plants?

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    Comment #260160

    The way he "compared" them was to say the list of criterion applies to both of them, and that it clearly shouldn't apply to the other things. What's wrong with that?

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    Comment #259517

    If it has certain merits, and certain demerits, then as long as you carefully select which things to read normally, and which to read with it, it will help you. If you want to skim…

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    Comment #259145

    Guy is amazed you can get 28th on google in no time. You can get first on Google for obscure terms just by commenting on YC. The site you are on matters, the issue is only whether …

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    Comment #258001

    I'm not. Should I /slit?

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    Comment #257655

    Not the same. "Depending on the number of screens used, these high-definition video teleconferencing systems that deliver life-size images of the participants used to cost $500,000…

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    Comment #257608

    so the limit doesn't apply to old accounts, even if they post stuff today. thanks. don't see why that'd be bubble bursting or anything. i wanted to know.

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    Comment #257583

    The article says youtube vids are capped at 10min, but http://youtube.com/watch?v=EsEYpJMYIIw 30min vid

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    Comment #257332

    I think that was when I downvoted all the congratulations in your wedding thread. :)