Maursault

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   by Maursault 5y ago

   > what crime was committed? Several kinds and several counts of felonious fraud, all prosecutable, just for starters. If they signed their employment contract, which they most certainly did, that's perjury. If it was mailed back to
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   by Maursault 5y ago

   > As an end product, I would have doubts that anyone could hear a difference past 24/48. Honestly 16/44.1 is just fine for most people. On both accounts I agree. But since many can hear the difference between 16/44 and 24&
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   by Maursault 5y ago

   > Where did it come from originally, and how does it spread from person to person. > When we started going downhill on the loose gravel, my back wheel slid out from under me and I was thrown from my bike, scraping up my arm and elbow
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   by Maursault 5y ago

   My apologies, I didn't remotely intend to suggest every single comment was a troll, but only that there are yt-dlp users that have trolled that thread. The criticism of supporting python2 is fair, but not unassailable. I am personally
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   by Maursault 5y ago

   > he sent tokens to smart contract's address and they will stay there forever, not associated with any account. Wait... so the tokens are really still there, just inaccessible? In what way do the tokens still exist? What makes them
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   by Maursault 5y ago

   This is a post about youtube-dl. Why are nearly all the comments about yt-dlp? If I didn't know better, I'd think yt-dlp users have massive inferiority complexes because they never seem to miss an opportunity to attempt to recruit
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   by Maursault 5y ago

   Just my poor attempt at humor. I should have said, "surprisingly." Nice catch.
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   by Maursault 5y ago

   Thanks, but I was trolling the shameless, senseless and topically irrelevant plug for homebrew. Get homebrew! Don't miss out! Everyone's doing it! All the hip youngsters know! Come on. ><
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   by Maursault 5y ago

   > You're equally wrong about the suburbs, which have grown as the city center shrank. Nonsense. My mistake, but my math is at least good enough to know I was not equally wrong. That would be far too unlikely, but if so, some kind
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    by Maursault 5y ago

    > It doesn't get really get more 'top of the food chain' than that. Sure it does. Aside from giant birds, crocodiles, and leopards, early humans likely had to contend with bears, sabertooth cats, snakes, hyenas, Komodo dra
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    by Maursault 5y ago

    Yes, quite obviously and as it should be. Excellent tautology. /t
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    by Maursault 5y ago

    Author has a point yet inexplicably dresses it up with bashing classicists. Author sure seems to know a lot about all classicists all from what a single one of them said, apparently carelessly and without rigor, in a setting that no one sho
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    by Maursault 5y ago

    That's great, but it didn't cost anyone anything. > Joe Rogan is telling the truth about things that the government is lying about The truth is Rogan just cost Spotify FOUR BILLION DOLLARS. Let's see him conspiracy theory
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    by Maursault 5y ago

    > Also, humans were comfortably at the top for the food chain even before we needed arithmetic or writing. Definitely, except for lions, tigers, leopards, jaguars, cougars, anacondas, pythons, sharks, crocodiles, alligators, bears, wolve
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    by Maursault 5y ago

    The wolves vs. killer whales debate here is pretty intense. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8V97_DKfhw&t=0m44s [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDJgv1iARPg&t=0m28s
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    by Maursault 5y ago

    > there is a real problem here of how to build and maintain a modern city that is smaller than the older one that it replaces. I'm nearly certain Pittsburgh itself, the city, and its immediate surrounding boroughs has grown in popul
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    by Maursault 5y ago

    What's homebrew? I've been using macports so long, I've never heard of it.
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    by Maursault 5y ago

    > Chinese noodles and Italian pasta have nothing in common save for the shape of some variants. While Chinese noodles may be made of rice or wheat flour and Italian pasta is made of wheat flour, the noodles, regardless of what material t
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    by Maursault 5y ago

    The most sold book in the world, by a large margin, for a long long time, is The Bible. If genetic historians and biblical scholars succeed, perhaps someday the unknown decedents of the unknown authors and other known valid holders of IP ri
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    by Maursault 5y ago

    You are wildly incorrect. Intellectual property rights were invented by ~500BC by Greek colonists in Sybaris (Italy) predating the invention of movable type and the use of gunpowder in warfare by well over a millennia.
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    by Maursault 5y ago

    Thanks, that is quite interesting, but I was already aware. So let's not confuse which culture invents with which culture consumes. Also should add the stirrup, paper, hand guns, and using petroleum as fuel. I wonder if any of these IP
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    by Maursault 5y ago

    It is vanishingly unlikely pasta was invented in Ancient Rome. China had been trading with the West since the earliest possible founding of Rome, at the latest. American-Chinese cuisine was invented by Chinese in America, and I doubt any Ro
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    by Maursault 5y ago

    The problem with AirTag and similar is that it's sole purpose is to provide an extremely minor convenience at the expense of allowing anyone at all to expose anything and everything its technology possibly can expose. It puts advanced
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    by Maursault 5y ago

    Also gunpowder, pasta, and Chinese food.
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    by Maursault 5y ago

    A moisture vaporator, also known as a vapor spire, was a device used on moisture farms to capture water from the atmosphere. Though stationary, they included programming that used a binary language to communicate with other equipment. Autho
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    by Maursault 5y ago

    All it needs is for someone to come along with a vision for a residence for the Canadian head of state that embodies Canadian ideals, is environmentally conscious, appears timelessly grand, yet is inexpensive to construct and maintain. It&#
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    by Maursault 5y ago

    Climate change implications are interesting, I think a net negative in the long-term for all the greenhouse gases released, but an unknown short-term global cooling trend expected. Was the recent snow storm in Eastern US affected by the Ton
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    by Maursault 5y ago

    Quarks are supposed to be tiny. Why is the Top quark so gigantic?
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    by Maursault 5y ago

    It'd only be fair that if certain types of misfolded proteins are fatal that other types make you immortal or give you super powers.
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    by Maursault 5y ago

    You can guess a prime relatively easily given a few attempts, as besides 2 and 5, all other primes will have a 1, 3, 7, or 9 as its least significant digit. So, for starters, you'd never guess a number with any other least significant