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smallblacksun··on Move to SF and hate it?
"San Francisco is flat and open and that makes the piles of human feces somehow harder to take."

I've heard San Francisco called a lot of things, but "flat" is not one of them. Am I misunderstanding you here?

smallblacksun··on Website pulled on US church that wants to burn Korans [by Rackspace]
Source on what? I made 3 claims: 1. Muslims are offended by images of Mohammad. Do you really need a source for this? 2. There are images of Jesus in churches and Christian stores. Again, do you rally need a source for this? 3. Muslims are not offended by those images of Jesus. If you are claiming that they are offended by them, then the burden of providing sources is on you.
smallblacksun··on Website pulled on US church that wants to burn Korans [by Rackspace]
No, he is not given the same respect as Muhammad. If he were, Muslims would be grossly offended by the images of Jesus in every church and Christian store in the world, like they are when images of Muhammad are drawn.
smallblacksun··on Website pulled on US church that wants to burn Korans [by Rackspace]
The response on this thread shows just how hypocritical people are. If they had yanked a Planned Parenthood site (there have been numerous cases of violence regarding abortion), or a site promoting being gay (there are plenty of examples of violence against gays), HN would be condemning them. But because they are yanking a site that people on HN disagree with, not a peep. Yes, what they did was perfectly legal. That does not make it right.
smallblacksun··on Rebranding Carrots as Junk Food
No kidding. If parents would do their damn job and not let kids eat junk just because they want it, we wouldn't have an issue.
smallblacksun··on Hackers accidentally give Microsoft their code
Windows caches error reports when you're offline and uploads them later. I've had error reporting give me links to third-part patches for products with no relation to Microsoft based on error reporting. But feel free to continue with your misinformed ranting.
smallblacksun··on Conde Nast refuses to run Prop 19 ads on reddit
No, they are avoiding ads that they think will cost them money.
smallblacksun··on Wooden Mirror
It's not a mirror, its a video screen.
smallblacksun··on 24 Things You Might Be Saying Wrong
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtMU8nvZzOs#t=0m29s
smallblacksun··on Ask HN: What is an alternative to Google? Really.
If you have moral objections to Google, you don't want to be using Baidu.
smallblacksun··on Federal workers earning 2X their private counterparts
The big difference is not in salary, but in benefits.
smallblacksun··on A Classic of Soviet Engineering - The Typhoon-class sub
By not reliable I mean were much more likely to need to be shut down to avoid something really bad happening. The second reactor allowed them to easily return to base (or even continue their mission) if they were forced to shut one of them down. An American sub with a reactor failure would be more or less stuck, and if it were under the icecap or something like that would be in big trouble.
smallblacksun··on A Classic of Soviet Engineering - The Typhoon-class sub
The Soviets had to build huge subs. Their missiles and reactors were larger than the US versions. Also, their reactors weren't nearly as reliable, so they put two in each boat. They are impressive to look at, though.
smallblacksun··on "God's Number" is 20 - Rubik's cube has been "solved"
They didn't optimally solve every position, but they did solve every position.
smallblacksun··on StarCraft 2: help us mourn the death of content freedom
The company that spent millions making the game intends to make money off it? The horror!
smallblacksun··on StarCraft 2: help us mourn the death of content freedom
Well, the Zerg do have suicide units....
smallblacksun··on Sauce Labs responds to UK govt's decision to stick with IE6
"was guaranteed (literally, contractually)"

What benefit does Microsoft get to offset this huge potential liability?

smallblacksun··on This Is Why The American Dream Is Out Of Reach
Um, that would be the baby boomers, not their parents.
smallblacksun··on Richard Stallman answers Reddit's top 25 questions.
What if I want to change what the buttons do? On my microwave, you have to type in the power setting before the time, what if I always want to default to 100% power unless I hit a specific button first? What if I want to hook a smoke detector up to the microwave so it will automatically shut off if its burning something?
smallblacksun··on Richard Stallman answers Reddit's top 25 questions.
His anti-business views, if widely adopted, would lead to a massive economic meltdown.
smallblacksun··on Richard Stallman answers Reddit's top 25 questions.
Who gets to decide if there is "no reasonable need"? Apple clearly believes (just like the microwave manufacturer) that there is "no reasonable need" to extend the iphones software.
smallblacksun··on What Do You Lack? Probably Vitamin D
> and also supplement my animals' diets with garlic powder.

Sweet, garlic flavored pork!

smallblacksun··on Ask HN: My brain refuses to think, what should I do?
I prefer using a physical notepad for my list. I really like being able to physically cross out items after I have completed them.
smallblacksun··on One of the most amazing physics engines I’ve ever seen
The problem is that the fine tuning only works for one particular situation. In a game, it has to work for every situation the user can create.
smallblacksun··on GNOME 3: The Future of the Desktop
The activities window sounds a lot like the Start menu in windows Vista/7.
smallblacksun··on NSA Hooking Up Ominously Named 'Perfect Citizen' To Watch The Internet
When they film inside an intelligence agency, they either turn off monitors displaying sensitive information or show non-sensitive information on them (like the NSA logo).
smallblacksun··on NSA Hooking Up Ominously Named 'Perfect Citizen' To Watch The Internet
If you are a US Citizen within the US talking to another US citizen within the US, this is true.
smallblacksun··on Using your browser url history to estimate gender
Men (in American culture and similar ones) aren't interested in cars because they are transport. They are interested in cars because they make noise and go fast.
smallblacksun··on 1995: The Internet? Bah
Also, some of his criticisms were very real issues that lead (in part) to the dot com bust.
smallblacksun··on Planning for Failure - Greyhound Knows How to Fail
Having traveled by Greyhound a few times, that is definitely the case. Most travelers are poor, and many of them don't even have credit cards (either because they are poor, or illegals, or both).
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