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by scrumper 8y ago
I missed this. Thanks for pointing it out.
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by scrumper 8y ago
The feasting might go a little bit easier if you also join in every time the hobbits or Gandalf smoke "pipe weed."
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by scrumper 8y ago
It'd be OK if you added it in the contract. "Deliverable will degrade in visual appearance through a 10% daily reduction in opacity if payment is not made on the schedule and according to the terms described in section X.Y below.
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by scrumper 8y ago
A famous contemporary account is Ten Days that Shook the World. it was written by an American who, it's safe to say, was fairly pro-communist. But really it's such a pivotal moment in modern history that you're not going to s
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by scrumper 8y ago
I agree with you I think. I took it as more an anti-authoritarian story than purely anti-capitalist or anti-communist. The anti-capitalist parts are fairly self-evident, at least to me: that's the rather brutal system the farmer has im
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by scrumper 8y ago
I was ten years old, Harold.
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by scrumper 8y ago
Animal Farm was a really important book for me. I picked it up aged about 10 or 11 and I remember being really struck by how easily the pigs were able to exploit the other animals' grievances with humans to secure their own power. It f
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by scrumper 8y ago
Affects circadian rhythms, damages retinas: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4734149/ Evening use of LED screens alters circadian rhythms and has a detrimental effect on cognitive performance: ht
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by scrumper 8y ago
> explicitly Chrome-only That’s a thing?! Web developers have already forgotten those ridiculous “Made for Internet Explorer” badges and the mess that caused? We won that fight! Wtf!
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by scrumper 8y ago
Something's up. I got a letter a couple weeks back from my kid's school requesting a permission slip for a theater trip on Thursday Feb 2. Couldn't figure out how they landed on that date.
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by scrumper 8y ago
There's some powerful dissonance going on. I once interviewed an engineer. We spent a good 15m of the hour-long interview talking about the moral implications of social networking, the potential for powerful technology to cause harm, a
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by scrumper 8y ago
That that website took a long time to load. I hope that in itself was a subtle element of the satire.
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by scrumper 8y ago
Perhaps the ring is the remains of the impactor. It struck Uranus (when the planet was rotating 'normally') on a trajectory aligned with Uranus's current, post impact, equatorial plane. Hence, the ring and the equatorial plan
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by scrumper 8y ago
D'oh. Got it. Thanks!
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by scrumper 8y ago
I can't figure out that Athon steering wheel at all! I know it's just a cleverly-shot photo but it looks like it's floating there, connected to nothing. (The rest of the car is painful to look at though; to my eyes the uglies
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by scrumper 8y ago
That's not what the article says. It says that, thanks to its unusual axis of rotation (it's lying on its side, with the axis more or less parallel with the ecliptic, unlike every other planet), it spends decades in solstice (sun
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by scrumper 8y ago
I went through the entire FAQ to try to figure this out. Best I can tell, it's a port forwarder so you can serve content from a firewalled Mac over the public internet.
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by scrumper 8y ago
Point is the shape is unknown. A cigar shape is one possible explanation that fits the light curve data; a solar sail is another.
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by scrumper 8y ago
A lot. It's half the instrument. Of that, the loudspeaker(s) and the cabinet it's in are as important as the circuit.
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by scrumper 8y ago
Because the power source isn't the problem. It's the mechanicals in the speaker.
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by scrumper 8y ago
There isn't a hope. The MP3 player itself, with solar panels, encased in glass? It could last a good long while... if it weren't that it'd be buried by sand very soon. The mechanical transducers in the loudspeakers are the bi
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by scrumper 8y ago
I found it a bit weird to "normalize" everything back to C. Couldn't just use numbers instead? (To make it friendlier for those less comfortable with that, put a hover over to show what that means in each key at each point in
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by scrumper 8y ago
The point there is that virtualization permits operation of necessary computing services that previously relied on dedicated hardware. Dedicated hardware that has uses a lot of power - more than a civilian ship is capable of providing - and
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by scrumper 8y ago
> * Provides no evidence... I'd go further and say it provides the opposite - it shows a low and declining search trend. The rest of it is a fairly sloppy guide on how to set up Atom for D development. Seems to have been written jus
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by scrumper 8y ago
It's interpretable as a subtle threat to Yang. The message looks on the surface like solidarity: "We'll step up tensions over your arrest. We're on your side. Hang tight." But really, it says, "We have no issue
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by scrumper 8y ago
I found the fact that they're backing away from missile warnings and that Massachusetts has no provision at all for nuclear emergency response (see the footnotes) quite worrying.
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by scrumper 8y ago
I'm not rational enough to really get behind your "right way" to look at it - it's a bit too homo economicus for me! Sure, the acceptable odds for both are similar and very low, but the outcomes are vastly different. Onc
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by scrumper 8y ago
A message of solidarity, which when you unwrap it contains a subtle threat.
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by scrumper 8y ago
That seems a little glib. They're not going to scoop out your brain in prison and you have _a_ future, even if it's not the one you were planning for. Invert it: if faced with the death penalty, how much effort would you expend to
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by scrumper 8y ago
Part of the ex-Beatle's wealth (particularly Paul's) is savvy investments. McCartney bought up Michael Jackson's back catalog, for example. There's lots more here and obviously the Stones didn't just bank their loot

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