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Re:How Drinking Bottled Water Became a Thing on Tuesday November 11, 2014 @02:59PM (#8591810)
Except you can taste silica, which is available in much higher quantities in bottled artesian water than regular tap water.

Ask someone to help you double-blind taste-test FIJI water and your tap water. There is a big difference.

Re:Saudi Arabia implements electronic tracking system for women on Thursday November 22, 2012 @07:11PM (#4820507)
> what do terrorist organizations exist to do? To terrorize.

Seriously?

One mans terrorist is another mans freedom fighter. There is always an agenda, and terrorism is merely a means to an end that frustrated and (usually) deeply disturbed human beings turn to when they see no other viable course of action.

> who owns a photo of person? the photographer or the person himself?

The photographer.

Re:Why it is Awesome to be a Girl in Tech on Friday November 02, 2012 @12:05AM (#4731189)
Progress is being made, but there is still a long way to go.

This happened in a talk at a programming/web/tech event two weeks ago: http://i.imgur.com/4hL6X.jpg

Re:Lay off W3Schools on Thursday August 09, 2012 @02:05AM (#4359768)
Step 1: Log into Google.com

Step 2: Block w3schools at http://www.google.com/reviews/t

> Sites will be blocked only for you, but Google may use everyone's blocking information to improve the ranking of search results overall.

Re:Show HN: Feathers, blogless writing for everybody on Sunday July 22, 2012 @06:37PM (#4278744)
Thanks, nick. Good luck to you :)
Re:Show HN: Feathers, blogless writing for everybody on Sunday July 22, 2012 @06:21PM (#4278695)
Looks great!

This reminds me of the 'Show HN' posted here two or three days ago. Who inspired who?

It strikes me that such a service could be almost completely cacheable (static)... which raises the question of why you're restricting usage.

Re:Living outside America on Sunday July 01, 2012 @09:51PM (#4186872)
> Religious people commit less crime, get and stay married more, use less illegal drugs, donate and volunteer more... It would make more sense to fear people becoming less religious.

Citation please.

"A 2001 review of studies on this topic found "The existing evidence surrounding the effect of religion on crime is varied, contested, and inconclusive, and currently no persuasive answer exists as to the empirical relationship between religion and crime." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morality_and_religion

The Nordic countries regularly feature at the top of the 'Best places to live' and 'most atheistic countries' lists. Correlation doesn't imply causation, but that should be enough to at least question your assertion.

Re:Wikipedia founder steps in to help UK hacker on Monday June 25, 2012 @07:12AM (#4155976)
> Firstly, building a website like this in the current legal climate is basically asking for trouble.

His website has been in existence since 2007.

Re:JQuery 1.8b1: what’s new? on Friday June 22, 2012 @07:08PM (#4149355)
Few of them are major, but the worlds most popular CMS, Joomla, runs 2-3% of all websites, and they will be switching to jQuery (from mootools) later this year.
Re:Show HN: A new way to view IAmA's on Reddit on Friday June 22, 2012 @06:55PM (#4149302)
It looks like you grabbed every comment by the OP along with the comment it was a response too.

In at least one instance, I see a situation where someone asked a question, I (not the OP) provided an answer, and the OP then commented on my answer to confirm that my answer was correct. The original question doesn't appear on your website.

This is the sort of comment that keeps a lot of people from publishing their source code.

Make a pull request, sir.

OMFG Kippt just tweeted my bookmarks :O
You can find sales figures on the site, so it should be easy to extrapolate from there.

Note that until you've made a lot of sales, Envato takes almost 50% as commission.

Re:What the hell does ≡ do, anyway? on Thursday June 14, 2012 @07:27PM (#4114119)
No, you do not have OCD. Having an interest in icons does not mean you have OCD.