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yankyou

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    Comment #12905662

    > Other than that it's a clever (and yes, entertaining) way of displaying margins of error. No dispute that it's clever and entertaining. These are undesirable qualities in a relia…

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    Comment #12905529

    That would make sense, if they didn't have _actual_ error bands as well.

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    Comment #12905516

    I'd venture further to say it's a perversion of "news" for a news site to be injecting garbage into the data for entertainment purposes.

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    Comment #12870358

    Don't want to pay for engineering work? You can get it for free! All you need is to rack up a decade of experience, then put in 60 hours a week plus 20 hours of professional develo…

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    Comment #12870108

    The tenth time this caused me to lose data and when my home server shut itself down and failed to boot, I set my internet connection to "metered", which Windows graciously seems to…

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    Comment #12861972

    Have you considered outsourcing? Hire a few more more smart people to activate their unlimited vacations. Split the winnings. Imagine the cash if you did it recursively!

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    Comment #12741213

    First, he hasn't been charged. Second, he faces the threat of extradition and execution if he answers the call to be questioned on Swedish soil. Third, the UK has spent millions ea…

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    Comment #12731537

    It _did_ trip a lot of BS detectors. The sound was drowned out by the overwhelmingly non-technical consumers of the game's PR. It's the modern day version of selling snake oil. Tec…

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    Comment #12712494

    You're two thirds of the way to completing the reductio ad absurdum.

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    Comment #12705723

    So was I. VR can be social in the same way Facebook can be social. You might be able to argue that Facebook-style interaction replacing face-to-face meeting is a bad thing, but you…

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    Comment #12705379

    Countless technologies, including the internet and social media, have become augments and indeed sometimes substitutes for human contact. Some of the biggest companies in the world…

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    Comment #12694188

    OSX El Capitan 10.11.6 (15G31) Chrome Version 53.0.2785.143 (64-bit)

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    Comment #12694144

    > Drop an English image on this page to OCR it! This looks great, and I'd really love to but > Uncaught ReferenceError: progress is not defined EDIT: works now!

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    Comment #12602817

    > Actually, the point of the app store was distribution. That's what the 30% cut was for IIRC. Nobody was paying Apple 30% because that was cheaper than distributing yourself. They…

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    Comment #12523268

    > Lego's customer service department should run the world. This isn't customer service; this is guerilla marketing in the Twitter age.