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by piptastic 6y ago
I use a blank keycap keyboard. There are little raised dots on the F and J keys to find your placement without looking down. Two reasons to use one: 1) security - slows down most people when “borrowing” your computer. 2) looking cool and b
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by piptastic 6y ago
Sure, but let's say you're on the other side of the milky way. You can travel at 1% the speed of light. Why would you come to Earth or anywhere near it? It takes 2 million years to get here, so unless you know something is ther
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by piptastic 6y ago
Not sure I buy this argument... here are some random thoughts on why: 1) Someone has to be first. Let's say that there is no filter, and every species that doesn't destroy itself or get destroyed will eventually become technologi
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by piptastic 6y ago
ex·tor·tion noun the practice of obtaining something, especially money, through force or threats.
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by piptastic 6y ago
Hmm, maybe I'm missing something, but the main argument for the Great Filter is that we haven't observed any extraterrestrial life. If we started observing that life, that might just mean that so far our observation technology ha
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by piptastic 6y ago
I've heard from a lot of people at certain companies who know that if they want a certain salary bump, they need to leave for a year or two and come back. So if you're still interested in your first organization, don't disco
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by piptastic 7y ago
Not only that, but people will need new stay at home entertainment more than ever for a while.
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by piptastic 7y ago
Architect. - currently no regularly scheduled meetings. Sometimes I'll have a recurring meeting for a particular project, but even those end up being useless as we talk about the project all the time outside of the meetings, and we end
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by piptastic 7y ago
Just an note, the article got the text wrong here. The bulb actually reads: "Property of H.M. Government."
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by piptastic 7y ago
I don't think this is necessarily true. I've seen plenty of disagreeable people making it much further than their "nicer" counterparts over a longer period of time. In business, politics, etc.
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by piptastic 7y ago
the second "here" in the Canada sentence is referring to the USA, so the poster is saying it is a bad thing.
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by piptastic 7y ago
World of Warcraft just had a classic release, which I would hardly call stale. https://www.newsweek.com/world-warcraft-subscriptions-triple...
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by piptastic 7y ago
And with the benefit of hindsight, Waite says, Watson clearly doesn't deserve that C she gave him. "Goodness, he certainly proved he knew how to work the Constitution and what it meant and how to be politically activ
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by piptastic 7y ago
You need a big-ish city to find them with any frequency. They’re on the menu at my favorite restaurants in Vegas and San Diego. I also just recently saw them in Tallahassee. I’ve also had marrow delivered via crowd cow, a crowd funded bu
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by piptastic 7y ago
Which is why there are no murders in states with a death penalty.
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by piptastic 7y ago
According to the Wikipedia entry, in the initial incident they were just trimming the tree, not cutting it down.
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by piptastic 7y ago
I mean technically it's both threat OR to overcome active resistance. It could be argued that he was actively resisting by not standing.
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by piptastic 7y ago
I'm an old man (38) playing video games, and I'm fairly successful. I've played games back in the day with at least one person who has become a billionaire in software. Everyone is different, your way is not the only way. Now
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by piptastic 7y ago
The author basically just had a job for a while. They aren't charging 18K for a web page, they're charging 18K to commute/be there for 7 weeks. A lot of big companies aren't paying for output, they're paying for bu
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by piptastic 8y ago
I've played Roblox with my kid. It's actually a bunch of different games, some of which are entertaining and complex. Try experiencing what your kids experience and judge for yourself.
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by piptastic 8y ago
Really? You can't imagine that it's easier to search for a new song on Spotify and play it immediately VS buying a physical disc, transferring the files to your computer, then transferring them again to each of your devices? Just
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by piptastic 8y ago
it's fun to drive entertainment has value to some people
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by piptastic 8y ago
is it capitalism or the fundamental emptiness of life?
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by piptastic 8y ago
They didn't exactly turn a blind eye. They tried prohibition in the US, it didn't work.
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by piptastic 8y ago
It was for a King, so potentially it was just ceremonial..
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by piptastic 8y ago
Companies do want all the requirements listed. They're just well aware they're probably not ever going to get them. Unfortunately not everyone knows this, I've had many conversations with people looking for jobs who decline
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by piptastic 8y ago
The amount of alcohol you consume doesn't really matter. It's the behavior that is punishable regardless of whether you were drinking or not.
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by piptastic 8y ago
rentals, leases pretty easy
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by piptastic 8y ago
I don't think a smartwatch would help, you'd just change what you're looking at. What I do if I need to not be distracted: - turn off all essential notifications on phone - put your phone on silent - place phone behind your
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by piptastic 8y ago
it's not all bad, you still can :)

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