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by ilovetux 8y ago
I think all gas stations in the areas I frequent in the US (New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York and Virginia) are prepay only. I haven't seen a gas station that you could pump first since I was a teenager in the 90s.
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by ilovetux 8y ago
I remember playing this a while ago and I just introduced my 4 year old son to this game (a couple of weeks ago). Needless to say we are big fans and being able to play over the lan will be awesome!
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by ilovetux 8y ago
Germany censoring things makes me nervous. I think they tried something like this before.
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by ilovetux 8y ago
IMO art is all about working within constraints. i think this might be some of the most beautiful (if not maintainable) code out there. No body needs to maintain a picasso, just preservation.
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by ilovetux 8y ago
I would use another language for distributing a script (probably) python. Awk and sed I use more on a one-off basis although I do have a list of ones I use frequently.
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by ilovetux 8y ago
Perl aside, I would say that's almost imperative to learn sed and awk. They invaluable tools for getting things done in *nix. They seem cryptic at first, but put a weekend into learning them and you learn that they are simply concise.
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by ilovetux 8y ago
I hope other people feel differently if you are ever in need of help.
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OK, I agree with this, but Google could've easily curated the content to be kid-safe but instead relied on immature algorithms instead of hiring a few people to manage curation. At some point you need to hold corporations responsible f
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by ilovetux 8y ago
The problem really is that a multi-billion dollar company decided to release an app targeting children (youtube kids) and through sheer negligence choose to allow access to the worst kind of content through said app. Google easily has the r
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by ilovetux 8y ago
I would argue that there is a design to evolution. At least in the case of sexual reproduction. True, its not one big, upfront design but rather an iterative design built up from the collective decisions of the partners.
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by ilovetux 8y ago
I agree with most of this...except the Linux/GNU thing. Early on GNU was an operating system in need of a kernel and Linux was a kernel in need of an operating system. Today we have a number of distributions which could rightfully be c
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by ilovetux 8y ago
How so?
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I use plain old access.log files fed into splunk. Anything more than that borders on creepy IMO.
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by ilovetux 8y ago
I think specialization can be a good thing. With tools, specialization can make you faster and more effective for a variety of reasons. It is, however, a tradeoff with flexibility as you've pointed out. I think the balance we strike he
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Knowledge Organization(en.wikipedia.org)
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by ilovetux 8y ago
> This requires the enterprise to run up to date browser however. Why is this so hard?!? I agree with you, but this sentence rang so true it was sad. I've been forced to work with/around unbelievably out-of-date browsers in ord
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by ilovetux 8y ago
You seem to be looking for imaginary crusades. There are already a number of organizations who are actively helping in effective and thought-out ways. Planned Parenthood is a great organization which provides actual help rather than fear ba
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by ilovetux 8y ago
I wouldn't really like to manage multiple subscriptions, but what I would be willing to do is pay for membership to a service which offers me access to a wide variety of ad-free websites. Kind of like how a cable subscription gets me a
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by ilovetux 8y ago
I agree that giving money, contraceptives, free (voluntary) sterilization and education would be a good idea, but to make the money contingent on either sterilization, the use of birth control or even a promise to not have children would ha
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by ilovetux 8y ago
How is this different from eugenics?
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by ilovetux 8y ago
Reminds me of https://github.com/hacksalot/HackMyResume
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by ilovetux 8y ago
I hope we do see some of these models come back. I know that it will probably be a small market segment, but I really liked my Samsung captivate glide.
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by ilovetux 8y ago
> Drugs aren't harmless, and we shouldn't pretend like they are Agreed, but IMO the "war on drugs" has caused far more damage than drug abuse. While there are recreational drug users they tend not to be drug abusers.
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by ilovetux 8y ago
That's kind of half-way there, but there doesn't seem to be a way for advertisers to actually choose specific channels to maximize brand-fit just packages of channels deemed "brand safe" which is a very generic term. Als
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by ilovetux 8y ago
I've never liked advertising companies and have noticed a downward trend in the moral implications of different advertising business models. The least creepy IMO is when you would see a television or radio host cut away to promote a pr
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by ilovetux 8y ago
> The concern is Google having it, in the first place This. I think it's the only responsible thing for the police to do. Since they know the data probably exists they have to look, but does this data need to exist? What we need is
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by ilovetux 8y ago
Here is the wikipedia article [0] on protein poisoning. Like mentioned above adding fat to the diet helps avoid this condition. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_poisoning
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by ilovetux 8y ago
the article said he had $163,000 euros stuffed in a bucket. As legitimate funds (I hope) dont often end up stuffed in a bucket I would surmise that he had some way of selling it. He was also caught by listing a stolen item on ebay, maybe Eb
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by ilovetux 8y ago
Being a financial supporter does not make one a proponent. There is nobody out there that I know of (maybe lobbyists) who actively argue that there should be more animal cruelty.
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from merriam Webster online [0] > Definition of proponent: one who argues in favor of something Even if people are enabling something doesn't mean that they are proponents. Let's stop with the newspeak and use the correct words

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