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by cecilpl 13y ago
It's more like Doom being "You can play the whole game for free, but you have to pay $0.50 every time you want to reload your gun."
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by cecilpl 13y ago
There are four rovers that have successfully moved around. Sojourner stopped working in 1997, Spirit stopped working in 2010, and both Opportunity and Curiosity are still moving around.
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by cecilpl 13y ago
This is awful advice. 1. Neither getting married nor getting divorced should be done for financial reasons. Get married because you love someone and want to spend the rest of your life with them, and get divorced because that is no longer t
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by cecilpl 13y ago
A regular kettle is far more efficient.
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by cecilpl 13y ago
Leaded gasoline. Using it allows you to increase the compression of your engine, which improves fuel economy. The total cost of lead in the environment by far outweighs the economic benefits, which is why it's banned, yet for each indi
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by cecilpl 13y ago
> If this is interesting, and you don't already own kerbal space program, head over to the steam store right now. And if you like Kerbal Space Program, but you find it isn't quite sadistic enough, go download Orbiter.
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by cecilpl 13y ago
To be fair, the Nexus 5 is the only device that is currently running 4.4, and it's only been available for the last week (I'm still waiting for mine to arrive).
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by cecilpl 13y ago
Shares trading down 3% in AH.
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by cecilpl 13y ago
I'm in the video game industry working on AAA console titles, and the last game I worked on sits right around a million lines for the runtime executable, and maybe another 1-2 million for all the supporting toolchains. I worked on a ga
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by cecilpl 13y ago
She doesn't get anything in lieu of benefits, but she gets a full 1/180th of the annual salary per day she works (there are 180 teaching days in the year). On top of that, she still contributes to the pension and can claim unemplo
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by cecilpl 13y ago
My wife is a high school teacher. She taught full time for 3 years, and burnt herself out with 70 hour weeks of planning, marking, parental communication, and miscellaneous bureaucracy. Now she's working as an on-call substitute, worki
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by cecilpl 13y ago
Interesting thoughts. As a professional software engineer (~7 years working) I disagree on a few points. > Nobody cares that you work at a prestigious tech company that gives you ~cool benefits~. If you're taking a job to impress ot
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by cecilpl 13y ago
This is interesting to me - I had precisely the same reaction. In fact, I've noticed that throughout my life my initial reaction on reading something that contradicts my previous beliefs is not rejection but extreme interest at the pos
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by cecilpl 13y ago
Did you just learn this from the reddit ELI5 on Rubik's Cubes this morning? :)
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by cecilpl 13y ago
This erroneously uses the life expectancy at birth rather than the life expectancy at <current age> - a common mistake. If my parents are 80, I don't expect them to die in 1 year just because life expectancy at birth is 81. I exp
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by cecilpl 13y ago
What pisses me off is having to wait in a kilometer-long line of people merging when what I really want to do is turn right down a side street. Please keep that line as short as possible by using all the lanes available.
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by cecilpl 13y ago
... and then also actually critique it? Fair use involves more than just a declaration.
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by cecilpl 13y ago
I've been typing exclusively on Dvorak for 12 years, since I was about 16. Does colemak offer any significant advantages over dvorak that would make it worthwhile attempting to switch?
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by cecilpl 13y ago
No, it's a demonstrator for a full reusable rocket that returns all stages to the launch pad autonomously.
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by cecilpl 13y ago
For detailed discussion of this comic, see the following 51000 comment thread on the XKCD fora: http://forums.xkcd.com/viewtopic.php?t=101043
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by cecilpl 13y ago
We actually placed the story in April 13291 AD via astronomy. There's a section that shows the night sky clearly and the stars have moved slightly from their current positions. Also interestingly enough Antares has gone supernova in th
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by cecilpl 13y ago
Context: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130724/15475723929/amash-...
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by cecilpl 13y ago
They're similar, yes, but they're aren't one and the same. GP is pointing out that there are two experiments underway.
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by cecilpl 13y ago
Making the user press a button then manually copy/paste the url is okay. Making the user press a button then automatically copy/paste the url is bad. Got it.
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by cecilpl 13y ago
Yes, many large businesses do some kind of expected value calculation when deciding what course of action to take.
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by cecilpl 13y ago
The human brain is not a Ferrari, exquisitely hand-crafted and intelligently tuned. It's been cobbled together over hundreds of millions of years out of whatever spare parts were lying around. It does its job remarkably well considerin
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by cecilpl 13y ago
In 2002 I made a paypal account with my yahoo email address. I attached my bank account to it, the same one I still use. I haven't used that paypal account or that email address in years. A while back I realised the folly of this and r
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by cecilpl 13y ago
I can't tell if this is satirical or not. This reads like a Swiftian condemnation of the needless wars we're fighting.
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by cecilpl 13y ago
You also have the right not to tell the principal of your high school about all the drugs you're doing.
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by cecilpl 13y ago
He generally does that anyway. See http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/06/01/raising-a-family-o...

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