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by pault 6y ago
Which is why we locked down major cities to slow down the spread. We don't know how many would have died otherwise but it would have been a lot more. Saying that the experts who urged us to lock down to avoid millions of deaths were wr
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by pault 6y ago
GP is talking about pre-WWII civilization, not medieval serfdom.
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by pault 6y ago
> Basically all RP systems do have player-choosen character details and progression with gameplay consequences, be it a points system, a skill tree, just attributes that cause the game world to react. A renaissance fair is RP without the
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by pault 6y ago
Myth was one of my favorite games as a teenager. The dark fantasy atmosphere really captured my imagination, and I still have a little giggle when I think about exploding dwarves. :D
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by pault 6y ago
I always give this advice to juniors and stakeholders. If you bullshit an engineer they can smell it from a mile away and they'll never respect your opinion again. If you tell them you don't know, you'll get an hour of expert
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by pault 6y ago
Isn't this the reason that non-technical founders are a thing?
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by pault 6y ago
Are these worlds created in-game or using an external editor?
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by pault 6y ago
Isn't the whole point of the RP in RPG that the player is responsible for fleshing out the character?
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by pault 6y ago
Consider the state of the art from five years ago and reflect on the nature of technological progress.
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by pault 6y ago
Alternatively, one could argue that postwar prosperity was strongly correlated with friendly diplomatic relations with the US, the only major world power that didn't have its entire industrial capacity reduced to rubble during the war.
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by pault 6y ago
That's odd. I was just searching a directory of PDFs for a title and I was getting irritated that it was returning results from the file content. Are you sure this doesn't work for you? I am using the insiders build so that may be
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by pault 6y ago
Oh cool, we can just abandon all other languages and toolchains so we can switch to windows native. Why didn't I think of that?
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by pault 7y ago
Are you the author of popcorn time, or did you just operate a popcorn time web service?
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by pault 7y ago
Source?
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by pault 7y ago
If you can genetically engineer a more efficient plant for growing in a field, you can genetically engineer a plant that's more efficient to grow under LEDs, no? I don't see how a hypothetical breakthrough in generic engineering m
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by pault 7y ago
The grocery stores are low on stock because of selfish people panic buying, not because there's not enough food. The supply chain is still functioning normally.
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by pault 7y ago
Sibling is correct. Aquaponics is a (partially) closed loop system where fish provide nitrogen for the roots, and the plants clean the water for the fish. You still need to feed the fish and sometimes balance the water pH.
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by pault 7y ago
The shelves at my local HEB in Austin, TX were completely cleaned out on Monday. There were entire aisles that were completely empty.
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by pault 7y ago
The doomer and prepper crowd will twist any news to fit their narrative. You can go back through the last 20 years of blog posts and see these same predictions made about every large news story. If you hear people quoting this stuff remind
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by pault 7y ago
Your and GP's comments are a perfect illustration of the social media bubble effect. Some people saw an entire news feed telling them it was nothing to worry about, and another group saw a news feed saying it was going to be a global p
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by pault 7y ago
Learning react at a bootcamp and becoming a front end developer?
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by pault 7y ago
The help > search menu is the thing I miss the most from Mac OS since I switched to windows. Especially in programs like Photoshop where there are dozens of nested dropdowns, hitting cmd + ?, typing a few characters, and hitting enter is
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by pault 7y ago
Would the world be worse off if people who have no interest in working and will siphon off as much money as they can from their employer until they get fired left the workforce? Those jobs would be freed up for people that actually want the
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by pault 7y ago
I grew up poor in a very wealthy suburb and went to high school with a lot of children of high powered executives and attorneys. In my experience they were in no way prepared for the real world, unless by prepared you mean living with zero
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by pault 7y ago
Anecdotally, I experience the same thing when I'm on keto. I have much more energy during the day and I'm not groggy in the morning. Otherwise, it's nearly impossible for me to wake up even if I've had 8+ hours of sleep,
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by pault 7y ago
That's not much consolation if someone close to you dies. I'm frustrated with the lack of empathy on display in discussions about this virus. People see 2% and then blow it off because "it probably won't happen to me&quo
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by pault 7y ago
The thing I've always wondered about is: if governments can put street signs for humans on every road, why can't they do the same for autonomous vehicles? Sure, you could vandalize the signs and wreak havoc, but you can also remov
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by pault 7y ago
English too. Policeman, bathwater, catwalk, headstone, toothbrush, etc.
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by pault 7y ago
I found it thoughtful and of much greater effort than your dismissal.
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by pault 7y ago
> hitpoints, encounters, npcs, etc. Those are the rules, not the game.

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