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by polytely 6y ago
Fasted hover to click I got was 93ms, it's really hard to get under a 100ms, very curious to see who the fastest clicker on hn is.
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by polytely 6y ago
Wow that is interesting, never thought about this usecase for Tor before, that looks like a fun project to figure out
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by polytely 6y ago
Oh very cool, I didn't know that, I really like the story bits in Alpha Centauri, I love how each faction has an arc. I have never found another game that scratched the same itch as Alpha Centauri, truly an exceptional game.
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by polytely 6y ago
I have only read Point Omega and The Angel Esmeralda but I've really enjoyed them. Which of his books should I read next? Are there any other authors adjacent to DeLillo that are worth checking out?
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by polytely 6y ago
Yes, the redefinition of 'enemy combatant' happened under Bush if I recall correctly, but I think nobody is disputing that Obama really intensified the drone war, a trajectory that Trump seems happy to continue[0][2][3]. This is n
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by polytely 6y ago
It's really hard to get to the facts of these drone cases because every military aged male automatically gets classified as enemy combatant unless intelligence proves after the fact that they were innocent. Most news sources will blind
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by polytely 6y ago
I would love it if a laywer could explain to me how the following is not applying the legal system in a biased way. From the article: >The cross-examinations showed the weakness of the thirty minute guillotine adopted by Baraitser, with
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by polytely 6y ago
I just stumbled upon this on a random subreddit and was completely surprised that there was a whole class of lighting adjacent phenomena that I knew nothing about.
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Red Sprites and Blue Jets Explained (Transient Luminous Events) [video](youtu.be)
2 points by polytely 6y ago|1 comments
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by polytely 6y ago
The wind is mainly a problem for everyone else, not the passenger themselves. Imagine being a pedestrian in a city where a chunk of all taxis is replaced with flying taxis, seems like a lot of hinder for everyone else just so some rich assh
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by polytely 6y ago
Twitch already mutes parts of VOD's (past streams that are archived) when they detect copyrighted music. There is a loophole though, you can stream video-game music all you want because detecting those would mean they have to remove 90
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by polytely 6y ago
I think that would just stop my reddit usage all together, it's fun reading material but I don't feel that connected to reddit as a platform
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by polytely 6y ago
One of the often repeated talking points from the government/intelligence community is that Snowden traded away US secrets to an enemy country. That narrative has way more impact - I think - when he is stranded in Russia instead of Ec
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by polytely 6y ago
My guess it's will be very useful for helping weak writers write better texts. Like the user tells the computer what they want to convey through a letter/email/text, the computer gives them like 3 example sentences that could
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by polytely 6y ago
Clarification: He was in Russia when the US cancelled his passport stranding him there, his intended destination was Ecuador. I think stranding him in Russia was a deliberate choice to discredit Snowden and it seems to be working very well.
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by polytely 6y ago
This, posting on this site lets me interact with people who would probably never give me the time of day in real life. It feels like being a handyman who gets to hang around engineers. It's like getting a little taste of what being suc
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by polytely 6y ago
With this comparison you should keep in mind that the new reddit mobile website seems to be designed to be as annoying as possible to force people into their official app.
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by polytely 6y ago
Weird to see Louis Theroux on that list, who isn't that controversial at all, is Spotify afraid to incur the wrath of Scientology?
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by polytely 6y ago
Yeah my guess it's one big psychological warfare magic show, the modern equivalent of the WWII Ghost Army https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_Army
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by polytely 6y ago
Seems like a nightmare now that I think about it, like you get a ransomware popup beamed into your visual cortex saying: "We are in your brain, wire the contents of your bank account to the following bitcoin adres: <adress>. If y
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by polytely 6y ago
Honestly I don't think there is anything wrong with doing fake accents for the purpose of satire (as long as you are punching up, not down).
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by polytely 6y ago
There is a really cool article by buzzfeed of all places detailing Lehrer's career: https://www.buzzfeed.com/bensmith/tom-lehrer
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by polytely 6y ago
Totally agree, discovering what the Pale was, had a real impact on me that I don't think any other piece of fiction has ever had on me, it's like a sinking feeling, like: ow, oh no, this is what the world is?! It's very cool
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by polytely 6y ago
My favourite is Wernher Von Braun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjDEsGZLbio
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by polytely 6y ago
>Everything is extremely based on reality Very much disagree on that one. SPOILER WARNING: There are enough weird things in there, it's possible to miss them, but discovering really changes your whole outlook on the world. Things li
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by polytely 6y ago
I can't imagine SpaceX helping Amazon to create a competing satellite constellation while they are setting up starlink
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by polytely 6y ago
itch.io is a great place to get drm free (indie) games.
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by polytely 6y ago
The "Smith Glitch" is a fascinating mystery, very curious how they ended up together on the map
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by polytely 6y ago
My grandparents live in Groningen (The Netherlands) near the border with Germany and saying 'moi' to everyone you meet is one of the highlights when I visit the village they live in. PS: I think I visited this wikipedia article ea
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by polytely 6y ago
Add another bullet next to that: don't submit generated comments.

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