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Comment Re:I was shopping for one recently (Score 1) 444

This right here, so fucking hard. Newegg's packaging is universally shit, and is probably a reason they are usually cheaper than everybody. That said, I have had too many items to count shipped to me from them over the years, among that 10 or so hard drives, and dare I say not a single item from them has ever failed despite the horrendous shipping. The hard drives were almost entirely Seagate. The thing with them is that there are models that have extremely high failure rates, and they are usually the ones that are discounted. When buying a drive, regardless of brand, you've gotta do some research on individual models/firmwares and failure rates for them. Off hand, I remember Seagate's 7200.10 line had a huge failure rate, up near 20-30% however their 7200.11 line which came after was solid. I still have several drives from that line going strong. I strongly believe that most, if not the vast majority, of the drive failures have to do with very poor shipping methods. I've sold 20-30+ used hard drives on eBay, and I've never once had a customer complain that it didn't work once it got there.

Comment Re:How about... (Score 4, Informative) 231

He didn't have to run a campaign at all. Illinois' 4th district has been so grotesquely gerrymandered that it's been nicknamed 'earmuffs.' It's designed to include two majority Hispanic areas.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a0/IL04_109.gif

This man hasn't ever received less than 75% of the vote, and has had this seat for 20 years. He hasn't had to run so much as a primary since around 1994.

Comment Re:Predicting groups versus individuals (Score 1) 290

To be fair, Nate Silver got all 50 states right on the presidential level. In the senate he only got two wrong; Montana and North Dakota who he called for the Republicans, but went Democrat, one of which was within 1%, and the other of which was because of an unexpectedly strong libertarian showing. And this is coming from a constitutionalist libertarian who thinks Obama is leading us off a cliff. Gotta give credit where credit is due.

Comment Re:With an average high of about 70 degrees... (Score 1) 97

Bullshit. I live in Seattle, where the average during the summer is around 70F, but when it gets to 70+ I'll be sweating even if I'm naked in my house sitting still. I typically wear a t-shirt and shorts for most of the year, unless it dips below 40F. I like to cool my room down to 60F during the summer, and during the winter I never turn the heat on. I moved here from Florida, and after living here for 3-4 years I became very accustomed to the colder weather.

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