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by cisstrd 10y ago
People who liked the old Sim City games might also like OpenTTD, a gplv2 licensed and heavily improved clone of the old Transport Tycoon Deluxe, it also includes Multiplayer. Under active development and also a nice community. You are the m
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by cisstrd 10y ago
Then the gravitational pull you have on your friends and family seem to be far greater than what I have. Because besides incredibly few exceptions no one uses another Smartphone App for me, no one wants to have an explanation how IRC works,
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Using Prediction Markets to Enhance US Intelligence Capabilities (2006)(cia.gov)
25 points by cisstrd 10y ago|7 comments
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by cisstrd 10y ago
Oh nice, I agree... normally I don't have the problem since I pretty much constantly use VPN-Servers in english-speaking locations, but whenever I don't or are on another machine it's somewhat "weird" and frustratin
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by cisstrd 10y ago
Oh I see... just tried it, k, can see why some like that feature, I actually think it's something a search engine isn't supposed to do, but ok, thanks for the hint :)
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by cisstrd 10y ago
Is there a really good in-depth up-to-date comparison somewhere between duckduckgo and google? For example: I don't see any advantage in those search bangs, simply searching "shoes amazon" on google will do the job, or if I r
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by cisstrd 10y ago
I think you read it wrong, parent is calling him "one of the few successes" which to me actually is recognizing his achievement, but instead of "this is great", what he sees in the story is "how the hell was it so h
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Coding school 42 plans to educate 10,000 students in Silicon Valley for free(techcrunch.com)
3 points by cisstrd 10y ago|0 comments
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Preliminary results of studies about Body-Worn Cameras for police(rand.org)
1 points by cisstrd 10y ago|0 comments
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by cisstrd 10y ago
Also on assisted suicide and interesting: "By the time you read this, I’ll be dead - Between 1999 and 2001, I helped eight people die, including the poet Al Purdy. Now, as I prepare to take my own life, I’m ready to tell my story"
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by cisstrd 10y ago
Why are they calling it WhatsUp on multiple occasions? Are those typos? (I am not a Smartphone user, but I thought it was WhatsApp?!)
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by cisstrd 10y ago
They took a lot of inspiration from NixOS[1], which many people successfully use and it isn't in beta (not meant to badmouth GuixSD of their efforts, just wanted to put it out there) [1] https://nixos.org/
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by cisstrd 10y ago
1) The death penalty is more expensive 2) People sometimes are wrongly convicted, happens, will always happen, another point: Law is different, depending on where the trial happens, what state you are judged in, sentences differ. There is n
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Clever and effective use of shell commands to process data(aadrake.com)
2 points by cisstrd 10y ago|0 comments
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by cisstrd 10y ago
What is a "health" product or not is of no value to the discussion here I think, we can debate all day long about what way of eating is correct or not, then let me put it in broader terms: Targeting different groups with different
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by cisstrd 10y ago
https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/linuxemu.html This way you can run Wine... PC-BSD users have done so for a long time now as far as I know.
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by cisstrd 10y ago
I don't know it from the top of my head, but FreeBSD runs Wine iirc and afaik FreeBSD 11 (I know, not OpenBSD) will introduce bhyve, a hugely hyped hypervisor/virtual machine manager supporting among other things Windows Operating
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by cisstrd 10y ago
And I appreciate it, I don't doubt that OS X isn't the best choice, and for sure there is some kind of trade-off going on, most likely, yet I assume a lot of it also has to do with how those products are used, meaning an inexperie
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by cisstrd 10y ago
I am an OpenBSD user, there is no OS I'd rather use currently (obviously) and I am sure there is no OS with a greater focus on security and clean code, the project as a whole deserves a great deal of respect and admiration for setting
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by cisstrd 10y ago
Nestle is a very big company making all kinds of products, and since ever more people are following the health and fitness craze, there are so many people obsessed with health, they want to profit from it. They want to adjust their company
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by cisstrd 10y ago
15 page terms of service document versus an easy to read table that lists sugar, salt and fat content of a product? It is my view that companies have the obligation to make information available about their products and do so in an easy-to-
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by cisstrd 10y ago
I am not saying it's an official stance or such, not saying you are someone who would say that, but don't tell me "nobody says that" when that was what I got multiple times from emacs users. If I hadn't then why wou
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by cisstrd 10y ago
And as soon as you complain you are confronted with "emacs is supposed to be run with the graphical interface, just install it with the gui and don't use -nw (no window) option"... yeah, right... no thanks.
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by cisstrd 10y ago
(still speculating on the basis that he is not Satoshi and did it for reasons of getting attention) Also a possibility of course... his method to safe at least some of his self-image, depends on how good he is at self-manipulation, people a
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by cisstrd 10y ago
If he is not Satoshi and just wanted the attention: Narcissists have an incredible high rate of suicide, because when they fall from their high horse, the floor is quite some way down and the landing is too hard for them. Rather than being
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by cisstrd 10y ago
considering what websites used to run on 10 or 20 years ago, today's mini-computers (pyra / raspberry pi / ...) are more than capable of hosting websites and can deal with more traffic than you might think. that being said I
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by cisstrd 10y ago
The site is very slow for me, can someone confirm this? (when I click on "Click here to preorder" for example, maybe it has problems handling the traffic?!)
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by cisstrd 10y ago
Sorry since this is not exactly "on-topic", but wanted to share my favourite video about the F1 "Ferrari Enzo versus Mclaren F1 - Fifth Gear" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kLlmxUAB5A I absolutely love
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by cisstrd 10y ago
The way systemd is structured it's next to impossible to use any parts of it outside of systemd, nomenclature is ridiculous (system daemon, what's that even supposed to mean?), it suffers greatly from feature creep, took over logg
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by cisstrd 10y ago
No point in discussing systemd anymore quite frankly, it won, doubt that it's good it did, doubt the methods by which it won - I do both - but it won. Many of the major distributions are not really following the Unix philosophy anymore

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