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by deathcakes 10y ago
Straw man - no one is saying we won't survive but you would have to be monumentally dim to not perceive that what has just happened, and what will continue to happen in Britain as a result of this decision will be orders of magnitude w
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by deathcakes 10y ago
I've had this conversation a good few times and I quite like "could care less" - to me it implies more choice on the part of the speaker. I COULD care less. I have that capacity. I actively choose not to. Although this is def
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by deathcakes 10y ago
Sounds like a pretty empty way to approach life. You've never considered that reading more around a subject than just the facts might open the way to greater insight? Or are you genuinely of the opinion that everything in life can be e
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by deathcakes 11y ago
Minor nitpick - hoi polloi means the masses/people so the additional 'the' is redundant. On your actual comment though, I feel I have to disagree; at least based on anecdotal evidence from people I know who use Facebook. It i
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by deathcakes 11y ago
1) Sure, eventually. 2) Sure, eventually. 3) Sure because you are so averse to being taxed that you will deliberately destroy your own potential to get to work rather than acknowledge the idea that this could be a shared problem solveable b
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by deathcakes 11y ago
And therefore the people who end up making the most money are the people who are the most philanthropic and that is worse than the current system how?
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by deathcakes 11y ago
Is usenet still going for that sort of thing? I found it started drying up massively about a year ago, have switched to torrents ever since...
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by deathcakes 11y ago
C++ but yeah same deal, as unread as the day I bought it! Having said that I have fallen so hard for the kindle, to the point where I have been known to complain about the really poor ui of books - two hands to operate? Pshah! I find it hel
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by deathcakes 11y ago
Because this is the furthest away from Earth that we've managed to photograph in any real detail. Because exploration. I really get depressed reading comments like yours, and I don't mean to have a go at you, I understand where yo
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The Moral Imperative for Bioethics(bostonglobe.com)
1 points by deathcakes 11y ago|0 comments
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by deathcakes 11y ago
> The electorate wished to be ruled by these people, and they pretty accurately represent the majority view on data collection in the face of risk. MPs are a symptom, not a cause. Patently false. The people chose these sad sacks as being
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by deathcakes 11y ago
I was thinking the exact same thing - the failure cases are possibly more interesting than the 'successful' ones. The Wan Chai skyline particularly seemed to pulse between day and night in a very interesting manner.
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by deathcakes 12y ago
To which I would say that you are completely missing the point of the complaint levelled here - that you can work around a stupid design decision does not negate the stupidity of that design decision. Personally I think the default of show
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by deathcakes 12y ago
Surely the idea that a VR 'rig' will cost about as much as the monitors it replaces would change that though?
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by deathcakes 12y ago
Yes, perhaps you should bow out.
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by deathcakes 12y ago
Yes. That would certainly help. Another thing that would help is prefacing this and similar statements with "in my opinion". Should clear up any ambiguity.
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by deathcakes 12y ago
Has it occurred to you that perhaps people aren't looking for real love from prostitutes? Evidently not.
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by deathcakes 12y ago
"This is something hoi polloi would enjoy" May sound weird but thats only because people have been using it incorrectly for so long.
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by deathcakes 12y ago
There is an option in the config to limit the amount of bandwidth used by the relay. BandwidthRate N bytes|KBytes|MBytes|GBytes In combination with accounting you can limit monthly or daily usage - has to be over 30kb/s to be usable by
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by deathcakes 12y ago
Also it is frequently misused - hoi polloi means 'the masses' but people always say 'the hoi polloi', meaning the the masses. </pedantry>
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by deathcakes 12y ago
This is a disingenuous analogy - the reason people keep eating rotting meat is because there isn't a usable alternative for the vast majority. Fridges are unknown, to hopelessly overload the metaphor, to the masses and those that are a
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by deathcakes 12y ago
I agree with you - using the same password in multiple places is a dumb thing to do. However, you seem to be totally missing the point made in the previous post, namely that people are, on the whole, pretty dumb. The vast majority do not sh
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Far out(3quarksdaily.com)
1 points by deathcakes 12y ago|0 comments
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by deathcakes 12y ago
While I agree with the main thrust of your point, there are exceptions. A program can work, but be 1000 lines too long with a ridiculous set of branching if statements. There is also the concept of working well, or efficiently, or elegantly
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by deathcakes 12y ago
The point the GP is making, from the books that he mentions, is that being an underwater species precludes the discovery of fire, which is the basis for many technological innovations. It is possible that there are other technological route
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by deathcakes 13y ago
True - but that I would argue is a slightly different thing. Referring to a thing is not the same as addressing the thing. Would Siri have been as successful were it to be addressed as Apple?
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by deathcakes 13y ago
Not sure why but saying 'Ok Google' feels a little creepier than saying 'Ok Glass'. More obvious that you aren't interfacing with a mere gadget, but a multi billion dollar corporate entity...
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by deathcakes 13y ago
Sorry, you have also missed the point - I'm not defending the gp's point by saying that there is in fact software available currently that you can use to video edit on linux. I am saying that stating that linux _can't_ do vid
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by deathcakes 13y ago
In fairness you said can't and not doesn't, which implies that video editing is not possible on linux.
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by deathcakes 13y ago
Or is the birth rate of mockingbirds substantially higher than you suspect?

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