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by Paul_S 10y ago
How, please tell me. I'll pay you for that list. Do I have to sacrifice my firstborn for this?
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by Paul_S 10y ago
Unfortunately goodreads doesn't offer any kind of meaningful stats. I'm guessing it's 50/50 fact & fiction split but I could be wildly off. What goodreads does tell me is that 1/10 of them I rated 1 star. This i
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by Paul_S 10y ago
The problem complicating re-reading "the best" book is how do you know which one is the best? Reading a new one has a non-zero chance of reading a better one. A variation on the secretary problem where interviewing can have a nega
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by Paul_S 10y ago
I decided to read a book a day this year. So far I'm ahead at 336 and here are my counter opinions. "* It’s much better to read the best book on the topic 5 times, than to read 5 different books on the topic once." Flat out n
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by Paul_S 10y ago
I see it as burning down the modern day Library of Alexandria for music and scattering the community that maintained it.
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WHAT.CD servers seized by French police(reddit.com)
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What.CD is shutting down(what.cd)
607 points by Paul_S 10y ago|267 comments
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by Paul_S 10y ago
In my current job I get paid for writing emails, reports and filling out forms. Programming is just something I sneak in when no one's watching. The company I work for is super successful so there must be something to it.
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by Paul_S 10y ago
Linux won a long time ago and now it's doing a victory lap. I'm glad Microsoft joined the team.
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by Paul_S 10y ago
There is also the generational difference in cultural references: G. K. Chesterton VS 4chan.
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by Paul_S 10y ago
Technically you also kill (indirectly) the crew of the ship you scuttle, Maggie, the Area 51 staff who are outside when you diverted the missile etc.
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by Paul_S 10y ago
The installation along with mods is less than a GB so I optimised by not uninstalling it in the first place.
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by Paul_S 10y ago
The media paints the far right as some evil geniuses which is just stupid. People hold opinions that elites disagree with, in fact they find them deplorable and the sane politicians refuse to even discuss them. And here are some politicians
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by Paul_S 10y ago
I want to offer a differing opinion. I found the writing terrible which is excused on account of being a translation. The alien parts are quite imaginative but the rest of the action was just too surreal to stomach. The characters are carto
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by Paul_S 10y ago
That's just the trailer. Actual documentaries are somewhere else: http://mediastorm.com/clients/japans-disposable-workers-over... http://mediastorm.com/clients/japans-disposable-workers-net-..
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by Paul_S 10y ago
List of studios bought by ea. Orange ones are the ones they closed down officially but a lot of them exist only in name. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acquisitions_by_Electr... Buying a studio 9/10 is the
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by Paul_S 10y ago
Good and bad agents? This stuff is pure evil.
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by Paul_S 10y ago
If you are willing to pay the ransomware demands who are you going to pay when your HDD fails? I'm not saying ransomware isn't a problem in itself but from a user's perspective it's indistinguishable from HDD failure and
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by Paul_S 10y ago
Still the same content (and old bookmarks work fine) so I can live with the new bizarre delivery system (could've been worse, like one of those old flash websites). You can overwrite the css style to make it look normal.
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by Paul_S 10y ago
"Will Facebook fade out like MySpace?" ...in our lifetime? Not sure actually. Unlike those that came before them they somehow managed to get a monopolistic position. Seems to have done the trick for Microsoft.
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by Paul_S 10y ago
I'm genuinely curious why the old men running the world haven't got this off the ground yet.
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by Paul_S 10y ago
I know it's not a compression format. My point is most formats that you put in tars are already compressed! Jpgs - compressed, RAWs - already compressed, any text format that isn't a plain-text file - already compressed. Compressi
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by Paul_S 10y ago
Funny coincidence, I'm reading The Prefect by Alastair Reynolds right now (literally). It has exactly what you say. People whose votes are vindicated get their votes weighted accordingly. They end up lobbied to but can't outright
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by Paul_S 10y ago
I just put files in tars because everything is already compressed. Really, 99% of formats already have their own compression - you might get a couple % by recompressing them. Maybe a few text files that I have are not compressed but I can p
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by Paul_S 10y ago
Racing for the nuke does work. You turtle yourself, get the nuke and cripple your neighbour. You won't be able to take anything from him (not because of radiation but because you don't have any offensive units) but he won't r
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by Paul_S 10y ago
That's akin to racing in time trials instead of a race with other cars beside you. It's more challenging when you engage with the enemy because then instead of just developing your own economy you have to second guess your opponen
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by Paul_S 10y ago
The before and after pictures (mountains) are two completely different pictures. Is the trick that your photo gets substituted by a better one? That would actually be not a bad thing... Anyway, this has got nothing to do with kodak cameras
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by Paul_S 10y ago
Based on alcohol metabolism rate, how long would the pub crawl take (ignoring liver failure)? What's the optimal rate of inebriaton - equal intervals or concentrated intakes. We need an equally dedicated team of doctors to get on this.
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by Paul_S 10y ago
The Age of Em can be read in two ways. One is to treat it like an RPG setting book. An imaginative world with highly detailed descriptions, complete with cool potential plots for your campaign. The second way to read it is as a book trying
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by Paul_S 10y ago
There's the vidya gaem awards, an alternative to the mainstream awards ceremony.

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