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> Did it cause headaches? It did for me. I was 12 when it came out, and the local Blockbuster Video had one and they let me play it from time to time that summer (I rented games from there every weekend during school so they kind of kne
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Did you even understand the frustration of OP's post? It's not the terms, it's the fact that the terms are stated with no context. If OP is frustrated about the assumption that everyone knows what terms like Zero Rating and N
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Do you have a specific example?
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Yeah you already said that elsewhere, also without any kind of proof or even a hint that it might be true.
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11y ago
> the edge of the lake has brown sparkles, and the inner lake has green ones Thank you for answering a question I've had for 26 years or so now
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11y ago
Great point. Here's a visualization of what you're talking about: http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/fe3f75700e70416e37cd > Uniform random is pretty terrible. There is both severe under- and oversampling: many sa
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Okay. Thanks. Acceptable for what use in production? E.g: is it an internal tool? Is it a landing page? Is it a SPA that has to do a bunch of things before content can get rendered? These considerations have an effect on what is an acceptab
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11y ago
It's crazy how applicable the Presumption of Stupidity article that was posted a couple of days ago has been. Your comment is basically a re-hashing of that post. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10034883
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11y ago
No. He's realized the errors of his past ways and his thinking which included treating a human like a possession that is slightly more valuable than a few pairs of trousers. That's the joke. Sometimes jokes are hard because they r
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Only the first part is ironic
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They also charge a lot more and sometimes never show.
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11y ago
Similar page for Source Engine: https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Source_Multiplayer_...
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https://xkcd.com/1377/
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Do break-ins increase during security conferences because hackers realize the watchmen are busy? Or do they go down during these conferences because the people breaking in are also the people at the conferences?
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Every satellite needs to use propulsion for station keeping, satellites at LaGrange points included. Orbits aren't as stable in real life as they are in math.
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Same. I wasn't even sure if the web form submitted properly.
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Hey good for you guys!
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> but sometimes things just get worse. (Look at television as an example.) You can't just write it off every time when someone notices the decline. What decline are you talking about? You don't mention anything specific - just
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For anyone who loves a good rant, Maddox talks about this topic: http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=buzzfeed
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It's worrisome that they're not reading the essays based on this specific post. These could all be OP's opinions and I wouldn't know because the post doesn't back up any of its points with data. Just a few dismissiv
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It is. Except for geothermal energy brought on by radioactive decay, all energy on earth originally comes from the sun. Fossil fuel is sunlight that was absorbed by plants which then either decomposed into fuel over millions of years, or we
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> First the olive flavor dissapear even before it becomes frying temperature, second it is being replaced by a rancid taste that is totally awful due to the low heat resistance of olive oil It sounds like you're frying with extra v
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> One of the biggest early obsticles in RC flying is training your brain to know which way to push the stick when your plane is in various positions relative to you I took at test to be a Navy Pilot a long time ago that had what they ca
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Before the content even loaded there was a light box that blacked out the content behind it asking for my email.
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Betting on the future is a pretty common tactic in all aspects of life.
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There's a section on that article called recent development. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_curve#Recent_development "For example, rather than finding that the probability of telephone communication inc
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That's a different than "this isn't very impressive because I think these achievements should be happening faster."
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It feels like they saw the Bloomberg piece "What is code" then decided to do that but more that than that.
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> The Reddit community is not the customer. They're the product. Yay, this meme again. What a silly oversimplification. Of course reddit users are customers of reddit. Reddit does not exist without their continuing visits. Their ab
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I don't necessarily agree. I think his actions show the downside of having a nincompoop as a CEO. I think the fact that he was an active redditor is circumstantial. I mean, he went on reddit and had an argument with a former employee a
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