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by jowday 7y ago
Unconditional. Quoting from rational wiki: "U/Acc claims that there is no action that can lead to acceleration or deacceleration, and that "To the question ‘What is to be done?’, then, she can legitimately answer only, '
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by jowday 7y ago
I remember a similar project to port Morrowind over to the Oblivion engine. I wonder if we'll eventually end up with a chain of total conversion mods where each installment of TES is ported over to the next installment's engine.
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by jowday 7y ago
Dumb question - does the way the cannabis was consumed affect the accuracy of the device? Does it work as well for edible cannabis as it does for a joint?
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by jowday 7y ago
I think I remember seeing similar comments in 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018... Snark aside, if your timeline is more than 10-15 years, why should you worry at all about recessions next year? On a long enough timeline, a recession is just a gre
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by jowday 7y ago
I remember reading somewhere that the amount of helium used in industrial processes vastly outweighs the amount used for party balloons.
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by jowday 7y ago
Reminds me of Gene Wolfe's use of language in Book of the New Sun. BOTNS is set on a far-future dying earth, and (unreliably) narrated by the protagonist Severian and translated into contemporary English. Close readings reveal dramatic
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by jowday 7y ago
I wonder how soon we're going to see an uptick in torrenting now that the streaming landscape is fragmented.
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Wasn't left out of the history books I read.
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by jowday 7y ago
There was a much-hyped recreation of a train crash at last year's Burning Man. The crowd that turned up to watch it was massive. The actual crash was a bit anticlimactic; To avoid generating a bunch of debris, the crash happened at ver
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by jowday 7y ago
I wouldn't believe anything coming out of Project Veritas. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_O'Keefe
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by jowday 7y ago
There's a definite genetic component to addiction and alcoholism. Anecdotally, people seem increasingly aware of this - several friends of mine who have alcoholics in their family abstain from drinking entirely knowing they're pre
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by jowday 8y ago
Googler here. This is how it works. If you find a team with an open position you want to work on, and you and the teams hiring manager agrees it's a good fit, your manager can't do anything to stop it. I did something like this my
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by jowday 8y ago
A few years ago, I was told by someone knowledgeable about clearances that I shouldn't visit China or Russia if I was interested in getting a clearance or applying for defense or intelligence related work in the next couple of years.