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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 -- certainly seems to be an institutional thing. I have no doubt that thousands of their paying customers have complained about this to Microsoft over the years and it had to have been ridiculously simple to address.

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 has one, a licensed refurbisher, or your manufacturer (for instance, Dell or Lenovo) for a fee.

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

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 companies have to be sensitive to this when expanding into new markets too.

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 filter would shift the frequencies of part of the signal rather than (mostly) filtering some of the frequencies away...?

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 exciting even if parents detest it...

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 using an ambulance you're going to need someone to provide medical assistance on location and/or help load you onto a stretcher.

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 stocks...?

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 located in your time zone, DST might actually put the shortest shadows closer to noon anyways.

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 process without explaining the whole thing, no?

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 through the foreseeable consequences, I don't necessarily attribute that to malice. But I hold adults to a different standard and I don't consider avoiding destruction of public or private property to be an issue of "conservation" but one of respect for my neighbors.

I'm all for people trying to recapture the wonder and excitement of their youth. Maybe it was just two unfortunate examples that struck me as things that adults should not be aspiring to do...

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 accident -- the fact that kids (and some adults apparently) don't think through such things is not some sort of admirable trait.

I don't shake sign posts for fun because I've had to fix enough things in my life that I know how actions like that can weaken or destroy an object that most people consider very durable (or indestructible) and therefore would amount to vandalism for the sake of "fun".

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 communication to the public about it because the office was closed.

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 believe that willpower can be depleted in a similar way. In fact, there were many published studies consistent with this hypothesis (as the abstract states).

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 10, 2028...

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 fastball's point.

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

Edgar forgot the comma that was mandated to appear between his state and country.

I commute 60 minutes each way (give or take depending on traffic). I wish the commute was shorter but I personally wouldn't work from home regularly even though I technically could.

Between a chatty wife, active kids, and unfinished projects around the house, I don't have the willpower or ability to avoid distractions at home. I'm more productive going into work even if you factor in the time spent driving.

Plus, my drive gives me some down time to listen to audiobooks or podcasts. I do look forward to self-driving cars though (adaptive cruise control helps a lot in the meantime...)

Maybe you're already aware of this but being in a gilded age would not be a good thing. The gilded age described a society where serious problems were masked by a thin veneer of gold.

Copyright does have a time limit. In the US, I believe the work just had to be older than Steamboat Willie.

Doesn't look like Greenspun has any affiliation with Harvard. They just host his blog for some reason.

I think they have to be better than you in something you care about (or aspire to be better at) for it to matter to you. Seems like you're overcomplicating this... :-)