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by polytely 6y ago
That whole series is really good, life on a submarine is so interesting
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by polytely 6y ago
Seems very unlikely? This joke is obviously punching up instead of punching down. Feel like a lot of people worried about cancel culture have some kind of bogeyman in their head that doesn't reflect reality at all. Even if that wasn&#x
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by polytely 6y ago
While that is true it doesn't take into account what happens once hospitals reach capacity. Once all doctors are busy and beds are full the fatality rate of strokes, heart attacks, car accidents, cancer goes way up which is something t
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This is a really good interview podcast, I also recommend the episodes with Olivia Colman & the one with Ian McKellen. Honestly most of the episodes are worth checking out.
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by polytely 6y ago
Huh, I guess I have to do a reread then I never connected those dots.
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by polytely 6y ago
The 2 volumes of Ballard's short stories are some of the favourite books I own.
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by polytely 6y ago
>there are themes in the book which are sexist (weak willed females/effiminate men are at fault for dooming humanity...) Huh, that wasn't what I took away from it while reading, might be lack of awareness on my part but I feel
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by polytely 6y ago
I always have https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/ open when I do css work. their guides are very good
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by polytely 6y ago
Wow that sounds amazingly corrupt. I have never experienced anything like that in my life. The school I went to was not a university I think (I'm not sure how to compare the Dutch & US education systems) but they would change and i
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by polytely 6y ago
It's a combination of The Queens Gambit making chess more popular to the general public and PogChamps making chess more popular with gamers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PogChamps
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by polytely 6y ago
A lot of online games have a chat component to them so while not in-person in the strictest sense it's probably educational in some way. I learned English selling and buying stuff in RuneScape and I know a lot of my friends did too.
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by polytely 6y ago
This page has been extremely helpful to me in writing stories, it's a distillation of Campbells' the heroes journey for tv/film writing by Dan Harmon (Community/Rick an Morty).
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Story Structure 104: The Juicy Details – Dan Harmon(channel101.fandom.com)
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by polytely 6y ago
Why do you need patents for secret technology anyway? Like if they were working on UFO-like crafts, why wouldn't you just keep it completely secret. It's not like China is going to care about US patents, so whom is it for, US comp
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by polytely 6y ago
Have you ever read that story about the NRO just donating two spare spy satellites to NASA, which are basically superior to the Hubble telescope? I feel like the US military has orders of magnitude more money and material compared to NASA.
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by polytely 6y ago
You can, but I found it very helpful to know that upvoting this boosts the signal of someone who I despise. So now I can just skip reading this.
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by polytely 6y ago
But how do you know that the thing that is uploaded is legitimate? You can move information into the blockchain but the actual use of that information still happens in the real world so I don't see blockchain changing things that much.
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by polytely 6y ago
I know Iran is very likely responsible for 2 assassinations in the Netherlands,[0] so these things already happen. 0: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/08/iran-behind-tw...
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by polytely 6y ago
But you should also keep in mind that organizations (or factions within organizations) will use these channels for their own purposes, to test public opinion before an official announcement, as propaganda channel or to undermine elected off
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by polytely 6y ago
Some really nice photo's in this article, love the double exposure of the astronauts on & in the simulator
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by polytely 6y ago
Huh, Anonymous Content sounded familiar so I did a quick search and I discovered that they are responsible for producing a lot of stuff I have really enjoyed: True Detective, Mr. Robot, The OA, Flint Town, Maniac, Eternal Sunshine of the Sp
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by polytely 6y ago
Twitter has a lot of journalists on it which in turn influences the news. Twitter can be used to influence how the people that make the news view reality
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by polytely 6y ago
That isn't that clear to me, I feel that you are reading to much into it and seem to be looking for a fight where there is none?
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by polytely 6y ago
G Suite is the worst piece of shit I have to use in my work and I curse the developers every time I'm forced to use it. It's like they went out of their way to make the worst design choices at every point. It would be impressive i
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by polytely 6y ago
But that is just managerial incompetence and the inability of the devs in question to push back against that managerial incompetence.
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by polytely 6y ago
This is an amazing read, highly recommend it if you are scrolling past
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by polytely 6y ago
Got this as a gift from my teacher at the end of my last year in primary school, still one of the greatest gifts I've ever received
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by polytely 6y ago
Someone else posted this recently in a similar thread: https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/system-font-stack/ where you have a list of system fonts across platforms that for serif, sans-serif and monospace. a
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by polytely 6y ago
I recently listened to the Penrose episode of the Numberphile podcast, where he is interviewed by Brady Haran, it was quite interesting. https://www.numberphile.com/podcast/roger-penrose
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If people don't trust that the vaccine is safe, they will not take it, which will basically throw away a year of vaccine development and lower trust in vaccines in general and prolong the pandemic.

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