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by ricree 9y ago
>If something planet-scale happens while we wait on a single planet, the entire species would not make it On the other hand, the list of disasters that would leave Earth less inhabitable than Mars without also destroying any Mars colony
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by ricree 9y ago
Wasn't that going to rest on the tired old "10% of your brain" trope? Pulling that one out would have bothered me a great deal more than the battery analogy.
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by ricree 9y ago
Strictly speaking, Morpheus held up a battery at the end of his little talk. Humans make no sense as an energy source, obviously, but fat has a reasonably solid energy density for its volatility. My personal headcanon is that the machines w
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by ricree 10y ago
>where I instantly ALT-F4'd Google Chrome and added 'medium.com' to a permanent blacklist Medium.com is essentially just a blog host, isn't it? Seems a bit harsh for one story you didn't like.
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by ricree 10y ago
4 year election cycles, so 10 years from now would be just after midterm elections.
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by ricree 10y ago
For Python, at least, the most popular numeric computation library (NumPy) uses a fair bit of Fortran under the hood. I'm not certain whether the matrix operations do, but it certainly wouldn't surprise me.
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by ricree 10y ago
While those books are fairly good, they seem like a poor recommendation for someone sick of nihilistic sci-fi.
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by ricree 10y ago
>Animals have the same rights as humans. Indeed, we are animals By that reasoning, oughtn't we grant the same rights to a sea sponge? It's not clear to me that animals, as a general class, deserve any particular care or rights
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by ricree 10y ago
They didn't raise crops, but still practiced a considerable amount of agriculture based around grazing herds.
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by ricree 10y ago
Speaking of Sanderson, the podcast he cohosts - Writing Excuses - is well worth a listen. http://writingexcuses.com/
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by ricree 10y ago
Anecdotally, I've heard from a number of people that catering is one of the larger profit centers for restaurants that do it, with the dine-in service acting almost like a marketing tool, or sometimes even a loss leader.
102.
by ricree 10y ago
I'm not sure the number is constant. I think it scales with either the age or the prominence of the comment. I've seen threads where I was unable to downvote top tier comments, even though I could downvote their children.
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by ricree 10y ago
Do you have any evidence for that? Many MMA proponents claim that the long term effects should be less severe than boxing, because their fights generally involve less repeated head trauma. I don't know enough about the issue to argue o
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by ricree 10y ago
This seems like a good use case of their community wiki feature. List the major ones, and suggest the rationale and tradeoffs for the different major choices.
105.
by ricree 10y ago
It has a separate etymology, but pronunciation seems to have been altered by the fruit/color into its modern form. The color was adopted later on after the two terms merged.
106.
by ricree 10y ago
Command and Conquer, followed by Starcraft here. Also, one of the early GTAs had networked multiplayer, and I remember doing a fair bit of that when I was younger.
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by ricree 10y ago
Your way has its own set of pitfalls, and I'm not sure that they're less than the alternative. If you do business in New York, Chicago, and Boston, then you have to worry about laws in all three places. The more you lean upon loc
108.
by ricree 10y ago
> You want a person at the kiosk so that they can gently guide the SUV driving suburban wife with the high maintenance order gently out of the way of the rest of the customers. Even if that's the case, you could still plausibly turn
109.
by ricree 11y ago
On my current monitor, that search doesn't show even a single result without scrolling.
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by ricree 11y ago
Wikipedia has it listed at about 10ish kT, with higher end estimates up around 40ish. By comparison, the Trinity test during the Second World War was roughly 20 KT. Were they actually able to produce a 9MT weapon, it would be more than half
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by ricree 11y ago
What does this mean for Taxi drivers in California? My understanding was that they also frequently operated as contractors.
112.
by ricree 11y ago
The last (and so far only) time I was called for jury duty, the judge's instructions were very explicit that the word of a police officer was to be given no special weight compared to other witnesses. Jurors were questioned about this
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by ricree 11y ago
And for at least some these, it's definitely come post-success. Twitch.com redirects to twitch.tv, but was a music site as late as the end of 2014.
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by ricree 11y ago
thefacebook.com also comes to mind.
115.
by ricree 11y ago
I have no idea about the Sims, but I've run Spore under Wine without noticable issue.
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by ricree 11y ago
It also doesn't explain why the effects of sleep are so strong, when an instinct for watchful stillness would have been every bit as effective for that purpose.
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by ricree 11y ago
"When I'm developing software... I don't talk. I might do an odd grumble to myself every once in a while, but the loudest thing in the room, by far, is my keyboard" That's often true of games too, though, and Twitch
118.
by ricree 11y ago
Goes hand in hand with the old adage "comment why, not what".
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by ricree 11y ago
Alternately, watch SMBC's more explicit version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFCOapq3uYY
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by ricree 11y ago
Regardless of what you feel about the original upload, the article does in fact claim that she is barred from criticism: "Pawluck is also prohibited from posting anything about police or anyone associated with the judicial system.&quot

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