sandollars's comments

sandollars | 11 years ago | on: How Drinking Bottled Water Became a Thing

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.

sandollars | 13 years ago | on: Saudi Arabia implements electronic tracking system for women

> 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.

sandollars | 13 years ago | on: Show HN: Feathers, blogless writing for everybody

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.

sandollars | 13 years ago | on: Living outside America

> 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.

sandollars | 13 years ago | on: JQuery 1.8b1: what’s new?

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.

sandollars | 13 years ago | on: Show HN: A new way to view IAmA's on Reddit

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.

page 1