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by pavement 10y ago
Okay, point taken. You'll only get to see the artificial air-brushed façade of the nightmare. But, uh, how could a tour of a genuine dystopia actually work any other way? Would a dystopia ever advertise the horrors if its own shortco
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by pavement 10y ago
Pah! No delete or edit? Useless.
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by pavement 10y ago
Tell me about it! I grew up in the tri-state area, and thought Penn Station was The City for most of my childhood. There's a ghost of this sensation that still haunts me, when I'm in that part of town. Most of the time, trips to
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by pavement 10y ago
That the old Penn Station was destroyed in 1963, in favor of what stands today really sounds like some kind of horrible urban planning debacle no one likes to think about or talk about anymore. But New York was a different place back then,
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by pavement 11y ago
I think it's strange to see this sort of conflict crop up as a cultural, racial division. Providing time to goof off, unwind, relax, and release tension isn't really a "dumbing down" of curriculum. Hyper-competitive atmo
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by pavement 11y ago
Correction: 1TB for the default image [1] (...although, there are alternatives [2], and will probably require some technical effort to pull off) [1] https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=6372-YZB... [2] htt
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by pavement 11y ago
That's because it's not sexy work, and requires paying some salty dogs from the stateless realm of web programming and server administration to do the work all proper. Perhaps a crisis such as this will motivate some people to she
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by pavement 11y ago
I think it's strange to see this sort of conflict crop up as a cultural, racial division. Providing time to goof off, unwind, relax, and release tension isn't really a "dumbing down" of curriculum. Hyper-competitive atmo
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by pavement 11y ago
But trivia is still worthy of knowing about, however tired and overdone, or dated and played-out. Just like, if it were XKCD yesterday, it was The Far Side twenty years ago.
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by pavement 11y ago
These are just some good-time bikes for fair-weather friends, man. They're not all-weather mil-spec bikes for the intrepid explorers safari and mountain climbing club.
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by pavement 11y ago
There's a small part of me that feels as though this might've been something that should have happened maybe as early as 1990, but didn't, somehow.
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by pavement 11y ago
If you click on the dots, it takes you to a city: https://air.plumelabs.com/Dallas https://air.plumelabs.com/London https://air.plumelabs.com/Bogota https://air.plumelabs.com&#x2
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by pavement 11y ago
2006 era hardware [1] is actually still pretty relevant and current, in terms of the standards and features available on the motherboard and hard disk, so it's not surprising that this software works. Once you go back as far as a machi
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by pavement 11y ago
http://home.ronsor.gq:12321/cgi-bin/irc.html <script type="text/javascript">alert('you guys better watch out for dat XSS and XSRF bidness');</script> Oh god, this shit i
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by pavement 11y ago
Hidden tracks were pointless with the advent of compact discs. Arguably, in any medium, it was trivially evident that there might still be content remaining on a record or a cassette based on eyeballing the position of the needle, or the re
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by pavement 11y ago
Honestly, it takes a lot of motivation and bravery to chart courses that extend beyond your normal radius of activity. Most people need someone or something to force their hand. What makes us get out of our cozy beds every morning? Probably
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by pavement 11y ago
We found out in the 1970's that flying home from Viet Nam was still too fast and still too much of an abrupt culture shock for many returning soldiers. Long slow boat rides and a quiet, personal welcome home seem to have the most succe
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by pavement 11y ago
Not one link in that entire blasted article. http://www.humansofnewyork.com/ Come on, New Yorker, get it together.
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by pavement 11y ago
You know where coal would be awesome? The moon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_coal_gasification Now all we need are space-based oxidants. Maybe we could capture a large-ish comet or two.
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by pavement 11y ago
So, I guess all that drinking finally succeeded in killing off that one memory I had about... something... Too bad I have no idea what else got taken down in the process.
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by pavement 11y ago
better, smarter, well-paid, un-stressed, empathetic teachers Totally, but a teacher in charge of usually 30 children, for probably 8 hours a day, still isn't going work miracles. Divide your attention across thirty energetic pe
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by pavement 11y ago
Certainly is an echo chamber in this whole thread. Count the motivations to resist alterations that would doubtless improve Chromium's respect for privacy.
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by pavement 11y ago
None of this precludes the capacity to alter the program's behavior, except the willingness of the developers.
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by pavement 11y ago
There's an implicit corollary that, if your trying to avoid leaving behind traces of activity on your own computer, you probably would also like to minimize traces of activity left behind on other computers as well. This might carry th
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by pavement 11y ago
> there's nothing to be afraid of Eh, except, like, you know that whole thing with the being naive to the pitfalls of addiction, and the the lurid, carnal prostitution that is often associated with certain hard drugs, and wh
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by pavement 11y ago
So... The weird thing about DNA and genes is that the data, should you have access to it in it's original form, as samples of biological material, is never anonymous. The techniques that effectively anonymize genetic information, typic
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by pavement 11y ago
I guess 32.7 meters above sea level is reasonably uphill. I'm too lazy to calculate the approximate volume of fresh water that represents, based on the lake's surface area. Pretty safe to say that the rest of the lake's volum
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by pavement 11y ago
Totally not going to happen during peacetime, while there is zero pretense for live-fire open warfare. This sort of posturing is likely to occur, before any actual sabre-rattling or actual shots fired in anger.
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by pavement 11y ago
...because Windows is intolerably awful now, presumably getting worse every day. Seriously. It's been downhill since Vista. Every upgrade since XP has been disruptive, and destroyed time-saving behaviors.
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by pavement 12y ago
> At least with the technology today. Why would anyone ever consider a theoretical concept purely under the terms of an environment bound by obviously inferior technology? It's not so impossible to conceive of a perfectly accurate

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