Lewton

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by Lewton 15y ago
I did this for four months. (Started drinking again around new years because it seemed highly appropriate) I definitely got the "Wow, you've been sober for 4 months?!? But we partied so hard last friday!" thing a lot. When people are drunk,
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by Lewton 15y ago
I know :) I was just enjoying being snarky
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by Lewton 15y ago
I'm scientifically literate because I understand the scientific method.. How to set up a hypothesis and test it... Not because I'm good at memorizing factoids I'm not surprised that a site with the words "Christian science" in the title doe
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by Lewton 15y ago
The apologists in the comments are pretty sickening. But I guess that's what I get for clicking on a link to the sun
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by Lewton 15y ago
Chrome is designed to be memory hungry. It doesn't NEED the memory, but if it's there it sure as hell will use it to try and speed up your internet experience. What's the point of having a tonne of ram only to let it sit idle? I "only" have
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Temple Run's switch to free more than quadrupled its revenue(gamasutra.com)
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by Lewton 15y ago
> Science will never be able to transfer your mind into a machine. Yes, maybe one day in the distant future some miracle will happen where all of your mind can be analyzed and copied, but that will only be a copy. The "real" you will di
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by Lewton 15y ago
Defeatist implies that there is in fact a way to eliminate piracy. There isn't. "Giving in" is being realistic, not defeatist
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by Lewton 15y ago
I can't see any obvious disadvantages to having a set limit of, for example, 10 article submissions a day.
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by Lewton 15y ago
for me, in chrome, it takes 8-10 seconds to stabilize. and looks really wonky
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by Lewton 15y ago
Does that mean we expect there to be more than a couple of leap seconds every year? (Based on the "more than an hour over 500 years" statement)
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by Lewton 15y ago
>Over decades, the difference between Earth-based time and atomic clock time would amount to a few minutes, but over 500 years, they would be out by an hour. Over millennia, the discrepancy would grow even more. Is this really true? Ba
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by Lewton 15y ago
Shows how effective khanacademy.org is when, after watching the entire video, I discovered I wasn't logged in and was disappointed I wouldn't get my points!
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by Lewton 15y ago
They win points for clearly stating in the first paragraph how they would be affected and why they oppose it.
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by Lewton 15y ago
>we've refunded anyone who asked for it If you don't mind me asking, how many refunds have been requested? It might give an insight into what people expect from Kickstarter
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by Lewton 15y ago
It's impossible to tell in advance what good will come out of such research. Noone could have foreseen that the general theory of relativity would be fundamental in developing GPS for example
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by Lewton 15y ago
Turn off safe search and it's the top result