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by samplatt 9y ago
>It sounds ridiculous to us Not sure if calling your own example ridiculous is a good argumentative tactic in short-form debates like this... >because our murders are by guns Sure, but a cleavers' main manufactured purpose isn&#x
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by samplatt 9y ago
Pretty sure OP was just adding that in so that they'd avoid needless discussion regarding emotionally-charged labels like 'terrorist'. The term almost certainly applies, but lets talk about the acts and the environment itself
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by samplatt 9y ago
Cruise-missile payload, maybe?
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by samplatt 9y ago
I think it depends what you want to call a "pirate". I feel that some material and energy collection will be able to be automated, and the corporations will be able to steal from each other and so will do so given the opportunity.
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by samplatt 9y ago
The best part is if you remain almost motionless, sometimes their curiosity overcomes their fear and they come up to check you out. I've been more struck by intelligence in an animal than with cuttlefish.
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by samplatt 9y ago
Foolish, puny human. You think your neuroplasticity is a good substitute for offsite backups and automated-nanobot onsite parts replacement? Once your programmers figure out how to make threading actually easy to do, it'll be all ove
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by samplatt 9y ago
The ending of Clarke's Light of Other Days involves a motif that's common to his work - a civilisation of small, chitinous creatures that existed prior to the accepted cooling-and-then-life-arises theory. How awesome would it be i
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by samplatt 9y ago
I'm getting a new laptop soon to start tinkering a bit more with my keyboard and a synth, and I'm considering a Macbook for the first time in my life based on a recent HN article regarding latency. Have you found that a linux mach
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by samplatt 9y ago
>Good grief, it's like an invisible war going on inside your browser. I find it incredibly interesting that the evolutionary-arms-race of ads and viruses versus blockers is mimicking the development of actual genetic evolution. Ther
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by samplatt 9y ago
I feel that you would adore Dan Simmons first two "Hyperion" books. They're predominantly about poetry and how it's affected the human race, far into the future.
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by samplatt 10y ago
Both, actually: scripting by mood :-D
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by samplatt 10y ago
>UTIL/2B.BAT Copies files to the B: drive Aw, man. I thought I was so original. (guess what I named copy copy-files-to-A:-drive)
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by samplatt 10y ago
Australian here. Seemed an odd usage but the syntax is good so it parsed fine, and didn't even notice it until you mentioned it.
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by samplatt 10y ago
No, but they probably have a fairly decent small set of expensive failover servers for their web site and customer databases, and will almost certainly have a desktop to communicate the days' financials back to head office in a differe
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by samplatt 10y ago
Seriously. I actually thought the 'rapper' had some decent-power beat poetry going on, and measured up favourably against real-world artists (talk about backhanded compliments...)
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by samplatt 10y ago
>The difference between 2000 and 2015 is so absurdly radical it begs disbelief. The first movie I watched on my GearVR headset was called Strange Days, a 1995 film rather aptly about the introduction of Virtual Reality and how the govern
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by samplatt 10y ago
>if you subtract minecraft on Xbox That's a toughie and ventures deep into anecdote-only-data territory. For about 3 years running, my PS2 was a Guitar Hero facilitating machine, and my PC was a Kerbal Space Program facilitating mac
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by samplatt 10y ago
Isn't it a bit early to be calling it a cycle? I mean, we've not even completed one full iteration yet. Unless I'm wrong, and the tectonic plates existed and were moving long before the oceans did?
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by samplatt 10y ago
I'd change "often" to "always", given enough viewers/exposure/popularity.
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by samplatt 10y ago
They implemented bash into Windows 10, and their web-ish/app-ish "platform" Silverlight does not work in their own browser in Windows 10 and isn't intended to. Microsoft have improved leaps and bounds in the last few yea