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by saraid216 11y ago
Do you actually play on Kongregate? I check it on occasion and have noticed that it hasn't really changed over the last five years. 90% of the games I see at a glance aren't any different.
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by saraid216 11y ago
Apparently it was only Chrome-users who cared enough to do something about their problem.
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by saraid216 11y ago
How big is Flash gaming these days? I feel like it's mostly dead at this point.
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by saraid216 11y ago
I'd really like to be able to collapse sections from the bottom of a section, rather than scrolling upwards frantically trying to find the header so I can re-collapse it.
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by saraid216 11y ago
It's worth learning. It's one thing to not like it; it's quite another to be simply unable. Learn to float. Then learn to use your limbs to move around without a ground to push against.
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by saraid216 11y ago
So, as a Seattle resident myself, I have a bit of an odder definition of "downtown" that the OA might be sharing. To me, downtown stretches from Belltown to Chinatown: the Space Needle marks one edge whereas Uwajimaya might mark a
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by saraid216 11y ago
> described in the book On Intelligence Said book spends a good deal of time on criticizing neural networks, FYI.
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by saraid216 11y ago
There are a lot more than two ideologies in those terms.
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by saraid216 11y ago
It's not really talking down on something to say it shouldn't be placed on a pedestal.
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by saraid216 11y ago
Not sure whether or not I'm allowed to plug stuff that I have no connection to, but you may be interested in this Kickstarter I stumbled across recently: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/546469190/the-urba
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by saraid216 11y ago
I searched "dune star wars plot similarities" and got back plenty of hits, and the articles look pretty long-winded at a glance. You can probably find something convincing in those results.
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by saraid216 11y ago
As long as people who trust the system also trust untrustworthy others using the system, that perk is not going to be particularly relevant.
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by saraid216 11y ago
> Of course one might worry for those one leaves behind - but in most cases, this does the living a disservice, as to think one essential in the life of another is egoistic at best, and controlling and damaging at worst. You are in a fir
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by saraid216 11y ago
A very misleading title, yeah. This is what I clicked through hoping to read about, not a brief and vague summarization of the author's encounter with Bhutanese Buddhism.
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by saraid216 11y ago
There's a great mental model called the Circle of Concern and the Circle of Influence. Happiness, according to this model, is about making the former circle only slightly smaller than the latter. For some people, "focusing their t
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by saraid216 11y ago
This is all I know: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9387929
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by saraid216 11y ago
My read on the deletion is that they didn't want bad press going into the next attempted landing, which is going to be on land.
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by saraid216 11y ago
I'm too lazy to go turn on showdead for GP, but... > I don't know pixie_ but non-native English speakers hear "could of" and "would of" when we use the contractions "could've" and "would&
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by saraid216 11y ago
It's American English. For Americans, the word we just stole means whatever the fuck we want .
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by saraid216 12y ago
What specific barriers were removed in France that should have been kept in place?
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by saraid216 12y ago
> Because that's what happening in several countries now Please list these countries.
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by saraid216 12y ago
I didn't say that was what you were saying. I said that was the message you were sending.
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by saraid216 12y ago
I might be reading you incorrectly, but what you appear to be saying is that the ability to "find and organize information" doesn't give you the "necessary reading abilities to handle topics beyond high school". C
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by saraid216 12y ago
> It is great if it works, but I think colorblindness isn't a first category Medical issue to be solved now. That's not how innovation works. It's not a tech tree in which you choose what advance you discover next. You ref
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by saraid216 12y ago
> Personally I think saying most web apps are a waste is like saying the space program is a waste. While I think you have a point, I think this line is taking it a step too far. If a successful space program completely failed to actually
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by saraid216 12y ago
In this case, the message you're sending is, "A human being is only as valuable as their ability to contribute." Now guess how much you contribute to the NSA's ability to prevent terrorism. (Hint: if you're unwillin
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by saraid216 12y ago
The reason, if anyone is wondering, is because of their base meanings: eleven -> one left twelve -> two left thirteen -> three and ten fourteen -> four and ten According to the OED, the only non-Germanic language th
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by saraid216 12y ago
> but I'm running into adults who have trouble reading. Yes, but unless you're in Finland, what this suggests is that you should move to Finland's model, not away from it. Finland has a 100% literacy rate. > The abili
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by saraid216 12y ago
Yes.
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by saraid216 12y ago
> Not sure if OP is the author The OP is eduardordm, which can be found right underneath the article link. If you look on his HN profile, his GitHub name is also eduardordm. The repo author is gogotanaka. So, no. He's not. And the r

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