DanTheManPR

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by DanTheManPR 6y ago
It's genuinely weird that they still don't have a virtual console for anything other than a select few NES games. We're midway through the Switch's lifecyle already!
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by DanTheManPR 6y ago
Monopoly poisoned the expectations of generations of people about what a board game is. It's terrible not just because it's a bad game, but because it keeps people out of the hobby.
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by DanTheManPR 6y ago
Eudaimonia dramatically improved my late game economy in Alpha Centauri.
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by DanTheManPR 6y ago
It's never been perfect, but Xubuntu has been my secondary OS of choice for more than ten years now. It's Linux without the nonsense.
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by DanTheManPR 6y ago
Anecdotally, I was never able to complete signup for Instagram, for similar reasons.
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by DanTheManPR 6y ago
Similarly, I mostly stopped playing video games few a few years after getting out of the habit in university. When I tried playing a new game, it just didn't grab my attention and I didn't feel like continuing playing. In the last
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by DanTheManPR 6y ago
Thanks for the explanation. As a layperson, the headline was very confusing to me, it gave me the impression that another pathogen was causing the pneumonia.
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by DanTheManPR 6y ago
Glad it retains the fingerprint reader, sad that Apple is so deadset against including the microphone jack that the iPhone 6 had.
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by DanTheManPR 6y ago
The poor mobile support is pretty unforgivable. I do really like old-fashioned websites such as Craigslist or very straightforward blogs such as Paul Graham's. But this particular example does have a lot of usability problems.
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by DanTheManPR 7y ago
I would prefer not to be homeless and starving.
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by DanTheManPR 7y ago
Anecdotally, I think they have better instincts for how to stay concealed in natural environments. Wildcats are the same way. Bobcats are everywhere in the lower 48 of the US, but most people have never seen one, and may not even be aware t
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by DanTheManPR 7y ago
I wonder why they didn't just revert to the 1963 logo. A lot of mid-century logo designs seem to actually express the flat minimalism that is currently fashionable.
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by DanTheManPR 7y ago
All evidence I've seen indicates that the right wing engages in this kind of manipulation at a scale much more massive than other political groups.
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by DanTheManPR 7y ago
I've found myself gravitating back to ballpoints specifically because I find the pressure gives me more feedback and helps me write more neatly.
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by DanTheManPR 7y ago
It comes out to about 0.4 liters per square foot, for those of you who are confused.
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by DanTheManPR 7y ago
Part of the reason is that the framers of the US constitution hated parties, and seemed to take a "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil" approach. With no backbone of written law to fall back on, US political parties only rely
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by DanTheManPR 7y ago
Major parts of the web can and have worked just fine without advertising. The forums and hobby websites I spend most of my time on don't advertise, and easily survive on voluntary donations. We even have built in hosting for user uploa
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by DanTheManPR 7y ago
I saw the John Cleese video about creativity years ago, and it completely changed my perspective for the better about how to actually achieve creative results reliably. In particular, I found very valuable the insight that you need to screw
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by DanTheManPR 7y ago
The F-35 has been highly successful at it's goal of funneling hundreds of billions of dollars into the military industrial complex.
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by DanTheManPR 7y ago
This is the most pedantic thing I've ever seen posted on HN. If an object is illuminated by the sun or by a flashlight, you see the light. When you illuminate a single strontium atom with a laser while it's suspended in an ion tra
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by DanTheManPR 7y ago
I'm not seeing the difference between this and two lane roundabouts. We have a bunch of these in the southern suburbs of Minneapolis/St Paul, and they work well even on roads with moderately high traffic. My only issue with them i
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by DanTheManPR 7y ago
Connect N type games seem almost certain to exist elsewhere, as are connection games such as Hex. The fundamental concept is very basic, and the there are not a lot of variations. There are a plethora of abstract games that have been invent
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by DanTheManPR 7y ago
It is a tough series to get into, and I won't apologize for a lot of it's pacing issues. All incarnations of Ghost In The Shell have prioritized communicating ideas about future society, which often comes at the cost of narrative
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by DanTheManPR 7y ago
Do you not? My work laptop has very high DPI, and I hate all the scaling issues I encounter with all the corporate software I have to use. To the point that I much prefer to plug it into a 1080p monitor.
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by DanTheManPR 7y ago
I notice that with my airpods, they drop into a lower quality mode whenever I'm going for a walk. It's too bad, it means they can never be a replacement for wired earbuds for me.
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by DanTheManPR 7y ago
Double bingo. Money is only useful insofar as it has velocity. If speculators are just sitting on it, it's not facilitating economic activity.
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by DanTheManPR 7y ago
If I said "Britain has draconian libel laws" or "The US has absurd copyright laws" would I be wrong? Off the top of my head, I can't name a single rule or law that supports my claim, I only picked up a sense of that
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by DanTheManPR 7y ago
Russia has absurd IP hijacking rules that are being exploited.
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by DanTheManPR 7y ago
The inequality in access to service around the US is stark. I'm currently living in a suburb of a large city, and have some of the most awesome internet I've ever had (I can finally host my minecraft server from home!). My parents
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by DanTheManPR 7y ago
We are geoengineering already, so we are going to have to deliberately geoengineer our way out of the problem.

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