ric2b

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by ric2b 9y ago
You can't just compare those periods and assume that currency properties are all that matters, you're comparing periods that included: - slavery - the civil war - the industrial revolution - two world wars - huge growth in populat
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by ric2b 9y ago
It's also simply more efficient, it's one less thing to think about instead of searching for a table every time.
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by ric2b 9y ago
> Humble Bundle only gives you a Steam key so you are back to Steam and its potential issues. No, you can download the game directly from Humble Bundle but sometimes (often) they also give you a steam key.
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by ric2b 9y ago
> They're constantly trying to figure out why they're dropping frames or why SLI is suddenly fucking up. But consoles drop frames as well, people just don't care. You can also not care on PC, like lots of people do. And ha
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by ric2b 9y ago
> Otherwise it's just more resilient (a good thing), but not permanent. It's not "just" more resilient, It's also much more elegant and convenient: with the current web you need to go find some archive version of
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by ric2b 9y ago
If literally no one in the world bothers to keep a piece of content, not even archive organizations, what do you suppose could possibly work?
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by ric2b 9y ago
> but the fact remains that the US has done it for 225 years and Bitcoin has done it for less than 9 years. The USD was backed by gold until Nixon, you can only count the last 40 something years against Bitcoin's 9.
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by ric2b 9y ago
More like GNU/Linux/Microsoft/NT. Windows is more of a distro name such as Ubuntu.
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by ric2b 9y ago
The best part is when you wait so long that the link breaks when you finally open the tab, and then you feel free because it wasn't really your fault that you didn't read it!