duallain
- bio:I'm a 20 y.o. male attending the University of Idaho and majoring in Economics
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Commented on Hiding Your Sexual Orientation From Your Parents 101 (teen-made video)
If you want to call the phrase, "I'm gay" icky, go right ahead, but let us know. That phrase is (part of) a discussion of sexuality and I, for one, see nothing wrong with it. I imagine you don't either,...
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Commented on Airlines that charge fees lost more money than airlines that didn't
There are tradeoffs to every change. And in this case, it seems, that the costs outweighed the benefits. However, it would seem to be a mistake to assume that the reason the other carriers are making money is because they...
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Commented on Working handcuff keys printed on a 3D printer
#7 If handcuffs are the only thing keeping police officers safe then they are going to be assaulted. People already have methods for opening up the restraints. To pretend that this key drastically alters the risk of assault to police...
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Commented on If literary classics had been titled today
Then: Fahrenheit 451 Now: 450 degrees Celsius, the temperature at which paper self-ignites....
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Commented on HOWTO avoid cognitive blind-spots, save money and be happy
If you haven't seen them, Ariely's TED talks are fantastic. http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_ariely_on_our_buggy_moral_code.html http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_ariely_asks_are_we_in_control_of_our_own_decisions.html His book is pretty good too....
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Commented on Tip to encourage dinner party guests to dispose of olive pits
I wonder if there is a difference between placing a single pit in the discard plate vs. eating an olive and placing the pit on the discard plate. Not because it actually matters, but I wonder what the power of...
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Commented on Reading Lamp
My first thought is: how well would this light really work for reading? It doesn't appear to be bright enough. My second thought: what happens when you finish reading a book? You'd have to do something silly to get it...
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Commented on Retro-futuristic designs by the bushel
Big pictures are big?...
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Commented on OpenSBP, a simple, free standard for CNC machine programming
The, "ShopBot CNC routers" link, links to gadgets.boingboing.net....
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Commented on Software reveals drummers who used click tracks
I wonder what Keith Moon's line would look like....
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Commented on An amazing and insane Commodore Amiga table mod
I love the website too. Fits the subject matter quite well....
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Commented on Pocket Shark: The Pen of Death
I'm really disappointed their Jokes of the Week page didn't have a link to their homepage....
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Commented on Life at Wal-Mart
Wal-mart gets low prices (partially) by exerting pressure on some (all?) of it's suppliers through sheer size, I'd imagine that rubs many unions in the wrong way....
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Commented on Add the Benny Hill theme tune to any YouTube video
http://james.nerdiphythesoul.com/bennyhillifier/?id=HcbXBdIvefc So many great videos to be made with this little site....
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Commented on Arab shoe-tossing isn't a gesture of friendly affection
All I want to know is if throwing shoes is a common insult in the "Arab world"....
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Commented on The US Presidential Election: Open Thread
I just want to say thank you to all the Obama Volunteers. Without you this couldn't have happened....
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Commented on Sarah Palin, proud socialist
This just proves the hypothesis that Republicans (and conservatives in general) have zero coherent concept of what it means for something to be socialist, or why that is in any way bad....
