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by qbrass 9y ago
AOL had been slowly dying since it's 2000 merger with Time Warner. It's just so large that it's been flailing about for almost two decades. I'll give you Yahoo. While their current demise may have been related to wounds
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by qbrass 9y ago
Not more, but I wouldn't let my guard down just because it's playing dead.
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by qbrass 9y ago
>Unless you can tell at a glance that a firearm is not in a ready-to-fire state, you treat it as if it is That's when you need to treat it like it is the most.
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by qbrass 9y ago
>So let me ask you this: how are you any more right than alternate-universe-you? Other than the status quo bias that you're defending the way things currently are where you (and I) live. The "I have a tank and I'll go wher
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by qbrass 9y ago
The odds are better for people rejecting the ranting against a Flat Earth than accepting the concept on it's own. So flat-earthers must be Bayesian.
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by qbrass 9y ago
They can't be Google. Google survived the bubble by staying a small private company that bigger companies didn't see as worth acquiring. It saved them from dying with those companies when the bubble popped.
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by qbrass 9y ago
Then you just lock your machines down when there's no internet access.
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by qbrass 9y ago
But it's not in English and French.
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by qbrass 9y ago
That's basically the history of most delicacies.
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by qbrass 9y ago
The guy on the right was throwing dogs into the air for the archer to shoot, the two suns are actually dog gibs. How shooting dogs with a bow caused them to explode is still a mystery, but the deer was trying to save the last dog by attac
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by qbrass 9y ago
It optimizes out the part where you try to do anything.
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by qbrass 9y ago
https://xkcd.com/1455/
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by qbrass 9y ago
They can't be that important if they were blocked from Twitter.
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by qbrass 9y ago
The movie is paced really slow. A lot of it was to show off the special effects. I find Blade Runner to be similar. It was a good call at the time, since that's what got them awards, but I'd like to see both of them with the non-c
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by qbrass 9y ago
Quit giving Disney money.
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by qbrass 9y ago
The Million Dollar Homepage offered something for the people who bought into it. You're not giving people a sense of ownership of the work they've done for you beyond a leaderboard that's pseudo-anonymous. Let them leave a me
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by qbrass 9y ago
The target audience hasn't changed. The fans of the original grew out of the demographic, but are still looking at the originals through the rosy tint of their childhood.
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by qbrass 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_pulse_propulsion
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by qbrass 9y ago
The 80/20 rule is just recursive. On the bright side, that makes the last 1% closer to 98% of the work instead of 99%.
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by qbrass 9y ago
Better sell before the winter solstice, just in case.
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by qbrass 9y ago
You're jumping the gun and assuming it's artificial. You may have a case for intelligent, but you haven't established that it's artificial, so you can't claim it's a project, either.
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by qbrass 9y ago
CFonts according to the source code. https://github.com/dominikwilkowski/cfonts
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by qbrass 9y ago
Why 12 days though? Did you quit after seeing the downturn, or were you planning on 12 to begin with?
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by qbrass 9y ago
I remember that commercial, and Audrey Hepburn's chocolate commercial. And Bill Clinton's role in Contact. More recently there was also some news about actors having to double check their contracts to make sure they didn't si
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by qbrass 9y ago
https://falkvinge.net/2017/06/11/right-money-bitcoin-hits-30... https://falkvinge.net/2017/11/17/new-google-management-decid... Guessing that he moved it to Bitcoin Cash.
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by qbrass 9y ago
They don't need consciousness, they need to quit ignoring the laws of physics when making things move. They keep breaking the viewer's suspension of disbelief because they want to show their characters being so bad-ass that they d
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by qbrass 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_(2002_film) "When Nicola Anders, the star of out-of-favor director Viktor Taransky's new film, refuses to finish it, Taransky is forced to find a replacement. Contractual
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by qbrass 9y ago
Here's the 2011 HN posting if you want to see what people thought then. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2596475
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by qbrass 9y ago
Think of it like casino chips. The house is giving them out instead of money when you win, hoping you'll lose them playing instead of cashing out. That way they only need the money they expect to have to cash out instead of the value o
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by qbrass 9y ago
By answering their own question, the headline doesn't end in a question mark, so Betteridge's law doesn't apply.

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