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Comment · 13 years ago
This doesn't handle daylight saving time.
Comment · 13 years ago
How long until Apple makes something the size on an iphone with the screen size of a note? (With some sort of magic, like the thinkpad butterfly keyboard.)
Comment · 14 years ago
Also:

>By winning a prize in this event you agree to transfer ownership of your submission to TopCoder.

So do TopCoder resell the submission to NASA?

Comment · 14 years ago
Comment · 14 years ago
In the UK a certain over-the-counter drug that can be used to commit suicide is only sold in quantities insufficient for suicide.

There is nothing to stop a person from going to several shops, but the measure is effective because that takes longer.

Comment · 14 years ago
It's well meaning.

"Hearing about a suicide seems to make those who are vulnerable feel they have permission to do it" -- David Phillips https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copycat_suicide

Unfortunately http://www.reddit.com/r/Music/comments/16e15s/i_transcribed_... was posted and front-paged yesterday.

Google returns a local suicide prevention line number when you google suicide. Perhaps social media sites should discourage posting on the subject at the time of submission, or trying to wrap such content with reminder to the readership that they matter.

Comment · 14 years ago
It is more regrettable. I don't see suicide as a shame thing. Just very very sad.
Comment · 14 years ago

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