Ntrails

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by Ntrails 7y ago
Counterpoint. The gig turns into a night out, which you don't really enjoy but heck you had to say 'yes'. Now you're tired, and you are snappy at a work friend, who takes offense and you miss out on an invite to some o
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by Ntrails 7y ago
Jfc the last thing i want is a fucking voicemail, to listen to the tortuous preamble of robo voice saying the source phone number before listening to that empty click.
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by Ntrails 7y ago
> French GPs earn ~25$ (base price) per patient My GP sees ~10 people per hour, ~7 hours a day. That sounds like it would be worth 1750 per day. Assume 250 day working year for the ease of my mental maths, you've got ~450k revenu
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by Ntrails 7y ago
It's a bit like discovering the Americas when people already lived there. The falls were discovered and reported for the West by Livingstone. That doesn't make the discovery less important from a Western history perspective? I
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by Ntrails 7y ago
I don't think it's unreasonable to say that "you cannot use our game world / universe" in your game? Valve and Blizzard came to a pretty reasonable arrangement. AFAIK Skeleking -> Wraith king was a purely -China
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by Ntrails 7y ago
I maintain there is a fundamental difference between an electronic system which attempts to aid a car do what the driver has asked , and one which just puts the brakes on hard and without driver input. I know what you're saying, but I
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by Ntrails 7y ago
Breaking hard loads weight onto the front tyres, which changes handling in every car ever. My car breaking (unexpectedly) when I'm maneuvering (eg around an object) means I have no idea who is responsible for the outcome. My decisi
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by Ntrails 7y ago
Show doesn't necessarily mean show right? The subject might not wring their hands and shuffle from foot to foot. Instead they might feel their pulse start to race, or feeling sweaty palmed or whatever. It's about describing a
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by Ntrails 7y ago
For a given value of Chugging Away, sure.
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by Ntrails 7y ago
I cannot help but feel community cannot exist if you don't have single shard worlds with no cross server play at all
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by Ntrails 7y ago
I am not sure I buy into this narrative so much anymore. The game is old and the original userbase has moved on. I am not convinced that WoW could ever have kept catching new players and retaining the old ones however they chose to proc
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by Ntrails 7y ago
> There was also that whole bit about how he thought he should break up with her because he didn't belay him properly or something. Relationships have ended over a lot less than one person potentially ending the others career by bei
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by Ntrails 7y ago
When large MMO guilds have had a mostly trouble free chat client that supports a few thousand concurrent users on the free time and good will of admins I'm loathe to believe that this shit is impossible
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by Ntrails 7y ago
That Mirana arrow is definitely pay to lose xD
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by Ntrails 7y ago
> If your tax rate is 30% and you pay a $1000 fine, you save $300 in taxes. But you paid $1000 for that right! What it actually means is that your effective net punishment/fine is $700, irrespective of the headline number. Which
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by Ntrails 7y ago
If I donate to cancer research and find out that the money went on a "diversity in research" campaign, I'd be of the opinion that my money had been misused. Not because diversity in sciences isn't important, but because
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by Ntrails 7y ago
There but for the grace of God...
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by Ntrails 7y ago
Convenience is only part of the story though. Price matters - and for me at least it is often as cheap or cheaper as a single person in a car to drive than get a train. I live in London, I can train anywhere pretty conveniently. But, s
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by Ntrails 7y ago
> I stopped enjoying math for about this reason. My university tried to teach with proofs, which to me is about as far from an intuitive understanding as possible Interesting, because until I had the proofs for eg differentiation, or hec
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by Ntrails 7y ago
A 200km/h head on collision with equivalent modern cars is absolutely survivable. Gravity is pretty potent at getting you moving faster than that, and with extremely uncertain impact point
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by Ntrails 7y ago
> We still do get single use plastics for meat sales, and I reuse them as my bathroom bin-liners, so still have double duty without the dozens of other pointless plastic bags per trip I may use fewer carrier bags - but I use a hell of a
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by Ntrails 7y ago
> The VCs do everything they can to drive up the valuation, except make money. They then sell their shares to the public markets for an incredible profit... The VCs are still locked in and haven't been able to sell afaik? The publi
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by Ntrails 7y ago
The argument isn't that it is riskless cheap energy - but that it is far better than fossil fuels and necessary to complement other renewables in energy supply. There is no question that there are risks and they are non trivial - but t
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by Ntrails 7y ago
How does fraud detection work on newspaper sales figures, or television viewer numbers? The internet has seemingly decided that without tracking ads don't work. No. Serve your static ad or I will continue to see nothing. :)
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by Ntrails 7y ago
> Features have appeared and disappeared, boxes have been arranged and rearranged. But there's rarely a big fuss I mean, I pretty much hated everything Facebook did since I used to have an actual news feed of things my friends did&#
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by Ntrails 7y ago
I guess I feel like I'd be amazed if she hadn't seen you naked a bunch of times growing up anyway? Maybe my family was odd! I'd still probably not have the conversation for fear of embarrassing her and that seems fine?
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by Ntrails 7y ago
That's a terrible feature in an instant messenger client for work use? I cannot recall the precise details of my conversations with smart people who know things I do not. I can recall that I had the conversation and remind myself w
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by Ntrails 7y ago
Weirdly I've only played vanilla survival but this genuinely sounds precisely like my experience. First we built a zombie farm. Which gave us some weapons and xp. Then a chicken farm, for food. Then a spider farm. Then we found an
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by Ntrails 7y ago
> The equivalent is impossible today. I am not convinced that is true. In many ways the barriers to being an officer are far less pronounced today than they were in the days of the Empire.
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by Ntrails 7y ago
Never got server firsts, but wasn't far behind. Certainly I remember grinding mats and gold for raids. However. To suggest that a bot renders gameplay meaningless doesn't make any sense. Is it meaningless to tend a garden becaus

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