Alex3917

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by Alex3917 6y ago
> The point was that the parent poster was talking about a full ban on games and posted an example which did not support the assertion. It was basically a full ban on video games for anyone under 18. IIRC even games like Super Mario Bros
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by Alex3917 6y ago
A significant percentage of the political content on Facebook, Reddit, and elsewhere is coming directly from 4chan.
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Why do you think 4chan users were spending all their free time making pro-Trump and anti-Clinton memes? The GTA ban was one of the main things Clinton did to make that demographic hate her.
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> The fact that this legislator seriously proposed this, much less entertained the idea, proves we've got some seriously incompetent people running the government. Hillary Clinton also tried to make GTA illegal, which is a large par
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by Alex3917 6y ago
If you're going to park 600 military planes wingtip to wingtip, you might as well just program the software to purposely crash them all into the ground. Didn't we learn anything from Pearl Harbor?
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by Alex3917 6y ago
> Why should i send a dimension as a string? You shouldn't because a dimension is a number. Something 4 feet long is twice as long as something 2 feet long.
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by Alex3917 6y ago
I mean out of the 2,000 mushrooms in North America, there are all of 20 or 30 that are seriously poisonous. So it doesn't take all that long to learn the most harmful ones. Especially since you don't even need to know whether or n
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by Alex3917 6y ago
> I dabbled in mycology and identifying mushrooms is super hard, probably one of the hardest taxonomy things. There are a lot of mushrooms that are very easy to identify, and learning edible mushrooms is imho a lot easier than learning e
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by Alex3917 6y ago
This. Just because something contains numbers doesn't mean that it's numeric. Times aren't numbers because 6pm * 7am doesn't yield a meaningful result. Same thing with serial numbers, VIN numbers, building floor numbers,
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by Alex3917 6y ago
> didn't allow players to box themselves into their own segregated safe experiences For the first year or two at least.
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A request for Pinboard old-timers(prettyfwd.com)
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by Alex3917 6y ago
> Exult could seem like abandoned software but it's really not There is a new release within the last year. And there are still lots of commits happening, including several within the last 24 hours.
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> probably won't have that exceeded by an MMO again It'll happen once VR takes off, even if that takes another 20 years to happen.
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It only killed the franchise if you don't count Ultima Online, which is probably one of the most important games in video game history.
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by Alex3917 6y ago
FWD:Everyone also creates an Atom feed for subscribing to the uploaded emails from any user or organization. E.g.: https://www.fwdeveryone.com/u/alex3917 Becomes: http://api.fwdeveryone.com/user/in
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by Alex3917 6y ago
I mean if you have a strong network in multiple cities that you're letting them access then they should absolutely pay for that. Or if you're traveling around and using the stuff you learn to improve your design skills or whatever
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by Alex3917 6y ago
> If they're paying "lifestyle" choices, based on bullshit cost of living make believe metrics, they should reward my lifestyle choice to travel constantly and pay that cost of living accordingly. Why not ask them to? Comp
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> The author claims to have _existing code_ for the first stage, but provides no code and no benchmarks in the post or linked github repo. Since he was only asking for payment once he hit his benchmarks for each stage, why does it matter
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by Alex3917 6y ago
> The API is criticized because (in addition to enabling malicious actions) it does nothing to increase the wall's permeability to users. Now, sure. Less so in 2010 or whenever.
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Before the Cambridge Analytica thing, everyone was saying that Facebook was evil because they were a walled garden. So they created an API, and now everyone is saying they're evil because they created an API. Go figure. There's ev
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Big miners who would otherwise need to sell it for USDT. Instead they get Elon to create an American shell company for them to get their money out of China or wherever.
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by Alex3917 6y ago
More like 150k. You don't pay anywhere near retail when you buy in that quantity.
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by Alex3917 6y ago
Those are all games. Sports are things like running, cycling, rowing, cross country skiing, ski jumping, shot put, etc.
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by Alex3917 6y ago
> Every display sport has a consensus aesthetic that is being optimized for. If it's not measured in meters or seconds, it's not a real sport.
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by Alex3917 6y ago
If akathisia from SSRIs is supposedly associated with adolescent mass shootings, I wonder if Apple Watch can predict this also. E.g.: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3513220/
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by Alex3917 6y ago
> Today, Oregon became the first state in the United States to decriminalize possession of small amounts of all drugs and greatly increase access to treatment, recovery, harm reduction and other services. There are other states where dru
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by Alex3917 6y ago
> As mentioned in other threads, robinhood wasn't able to come up with the deposit needed for their customers trades. That's not true, they only blocked trades on those specific stocks. If it was really a liquidity issue then t
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by Alex3917 6y ago
> The mRNA vaccines are 95%, J%J is 66%. I get that, but what makes you think that mRNA are any more effective than the J&J? You can’t just compare the numbers across trials. Just because 95% is bigger then 66% doesn’t make it more e
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by Alex3917 6y ago
> The mRNA vaccines are obviously the gold standard, they're what you want, if you're in a position to pick. Why? There isn't any evidence that they're more effective than the J&J one.
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by Alex3917 6y ago
Meanwhile WSB is adding over 1,000 subscribers per minute.

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