MrZongle2

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by MrZongle2 7y ago
Yes! Omega! I had it for the Amiga 500 and also remember it fondly.
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by MrZongle2 7y ago
If the author never had reason to suspect Epstein of anything unsavory.... why is the apology required? I can understand the need to make a statement, but seems to me that there was no lapse in judgement exercised at the time, but rather a
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by MrZongle2 7y ago
Say what you want about its applicability to human subjects, the quality of life for lab mice and rats has increased significantly in the last 50 years!
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by MrZongle2 7y ago
Why does this strike me as just a 21st Century variation upon the "mining town Company Store" concept?
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by MrZongle2 7y ago
In 1991 the Army unit I was assigned to was getting modernized -- instead of paper maps, transparencies and grease pencils we were going the way of digital terrain data and maps via some custom software running on SPARCstations. I was part
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by MrZongle2 7y ago
That's awesome! Great job!
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by MrZongle2 7y ago
Wow! That's a heck of a rabbit hole I fell into there. Lots of cool stuff there.
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by MrZongle2 7y ago
Great job! This is an excellent example of being able to contribute to one's community with a small but nonetheless substantive project.
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by MrZongle2 7y ago
"What will it take to have China removed from the UN?" Until Taiwan can be reinstated at the UN, I don't think your question will have a satisfactory answer.
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by MrZongle2 7y ago
FTA: "The score would not be reported to the student, only to college officials." Brilliant. Another aspect of the already sketchy admittance process that will be overanalyzed and ultimately gamed to death -- assuming that this
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by MrZongle2 7y ago
FTA: "This is Antstore, the world’s first specialist ant shop, a business with around two dozen employees, a glass-cutting workshop, plastic and plaster modelling studios and a full-time social media manager." This sounds like a
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by MrZongle2 7y ago
Thanks for posting this! I was disappointed that the article didn't feature an audio clip at least, so YouTube was going to be my next stop. Growing up, rhubarb was neither sweet nor interesting. I'm now quite intrigued.
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by MrZongle2 7y ago
And my point is that nobody in the present has the insight as to state what "the right side of history" will be. And "the right side of history" could also change. Consider what "the right side of history" w
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by MrZongle2 8y ago
I've always found people declaring a particular position on any current event "on the wrong side of history" to be incredibly arrogant. Nobody knows how history will portray (if it will record it at all) a particular curren
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by MrZongle2 8y ago
So what if a user uploads a photo they don't own? If I take a group picture with my friends (but I'm not a Facebook user), send it (outside of Facebook controlled means) to one of those individuals pictured, and THEY choose to po
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by MrZongle2 8y ago
This was inevitable as soon as Ecuador started making uncomfortable noises about Assange camping out in the embassy. He's made too many enemies. If there's any truth to the charges, that just made things easier for the authoritie
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by MrZongle2 8y ago
Headline from next week: "GitHub Was a Haven for China's Censored Internet Users".
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by MrZongle2 8y ago
> the government is willing to strip your rights if they feel you’re a threat. And most citizens won't make a peep about it if it's painted as "fighting (or preventing) terrorism". Case in point: the door-to-door sea
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by MrZongle2 8y ago
Unconventional, but as a means to fill a "Mechanical Turk gap" it seems like a fine approach as the results can be isolated and tested. Inmates read and summarize with the benefit of being paid (and perhaps learning something in
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by MrZongle2 8y ago
Seems like upper management pays about as much attention to that as the average consumer pays attention to an EULA.
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by MrZongle2 8y ago
"The article is a lot more accurate than I would have expected from a mainstream publication like Atlantic." Well, I would hasten to point out that the article was written in 1981 (which might not have been appended to the HN ti
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by MrZongle2 8y ago
I'm sure people would consume less if the simply put slaughter pictures on each piece of meat they buy. Certainly if the picture of the cow itself were on the package, and a randomly-generated name printed below the photo.
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by MrZongle2 8y ago
Yep. There are two sides to any story. We only get one anymore; which one depends upon the political affiliation of the media organization or author and how it relates to the subject. The other side of the story is immediately dismissed as
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by MrZongle2 8y ago
You're right, but there's a difference between journalism that attempts to be objective and present all sides of a story.... and the tabloid-level partisan garbage that is presented by major media outlets today. For a while, The
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by MrZongle2 8y ago
The other thing going for Rimworld is Steam Workshop integration and a very robust modding community. You want Warhammer 40K in Rimworld? Got it. You want Lovecraftian horrors in Rimworld? Got it. You want different types of cats, or barb
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by MrZongle2 8y ago
Amen. Sunlight is the best disinfectant. Yet we are repeatedly bombarded by stories of this nature and voices telling us that well in this case, maybe we shouldn't have any sunlight because the subject is just too horrible to behold
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by MrZongle2 8y ago
So let's step away from the "Nazis" part for a second, and rewrite the headline: "Facebook Decided Which Users Are Interested in ____________ -- and Let Ads Target Them Directly". Isn't this how it is supposed
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by MrZongle2 8y ago
"If anyone were to get access to my things I'd rather it be the government and then have them disclose it to me." In the United States, I'm inclined to think that the former has already taken place and the latter will
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by MrZongle2 8y ago
Remember when Big Bad Ol' Microsoft bundled their Web browser with the OS, and that was beyond the pale? That was so quaint.
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by MrZongle2 8y ago
Unfortunately, that logical line of thinking can't fuel the new Two Minutes Hate. It's a shitty situation and I feel sorry for the government workers affected, but there are clearly multiple parties responsible here. If the pligh

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