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by sickofparadox 3y ago
Leaving a negative review of the product because it doesn't work where you want it to work is absolutely not "toxic fanboy" behavior, its called being an advocate for your own interests. As the person paying up to 70$ for the
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by sickofparadox 3y ago
There's a fully simulated solar system (Stanton) in game right now with 5 (I think?) populated planets that have cities and towns to visit and more space stations and moons to explore in first person. As for missions, there is fully fu
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by sickofparadox 3y ago
Those battles all take place under .25 or lower time dilation so that the servers can handle the load. Star Citizen plans on having a massive player count per shard under full normal time.
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by sickofparadox 3y ago
Since it's somewhat related to the topic, does anyone have a recommendation for where to buy USB 3.0 or 3.1 is cords is that are relatively inexpensive? I've gotten burned by Amazon too many times to trust.
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by sickofparadox 3y ago
You can make as many accounts on protonmail.com as you'd like and I've never had a problem with it being accepted by websites I'm making an account on. If or how long this continues to be the case, I don't know, but for
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by sickofparadox 3y ago
"It seems that POPU (Problematic Online Porn Usage) is not only one subtype of hypersexual disorder, but currently the most prevalent since it also frequently involves masturbation. Although this is difficult to accurately determine gi
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by sickofparadox 4y ago
Firstly, Law of Headlines - the answer is no. But secondly, Volcanologists are not even worried about Yellowstone erupting anytime soon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypn3Fe_PLts
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by sickofparadox 4y ago
If by "socialized medicine" you mean public option health insurance, then yes it does work. I'm willing to bet, though, that the poster you're replying to only received care from privately run hospitals/clinics, so
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by sickofparadox 4y ago
Probably not much, since California routinely can't even import enough electricity to power itself now.
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by sickofparadox 5y ago
A lot of random blue checks on Twitter are journalists.
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by sickofparadox 5y ago
Not feeding the trolls almost always worked because they'd get bored and go away when no one too their bait. You can still see it in action on smaller message boards and IRC servers if you use them, where an idiot will come in and try
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by sickofparadox 6y ago
Hopefully to clear some things up about polygraphs in America: 1. You almost never go through them unless you're in the process of obtaining a security clearance (I'd be quite surprised if the UK didn't do something similar f
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by sickofparadox 6y ago
https://archive.is/NMJXT
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by sickofparadox 6y ago
I feel like the economic benefits of not detonating a little over a gigaton of nuclear explosives in your country outweighs the benefits of having a (highly irradiated) competitor to the Suez Canal. Would you even be able to move food throu
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by sickofparadox 6y ago
Tom Scott has an excellent short video about just this topic if you're interested in further information about it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfSIC8jwbQs Quite an interesting video, definitely worth a watch!
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by sickofparadox 6y ago
https://www.sceptre.com/ makes dumb, consumer TVs. As far as I can tell they are basically the only brand doing it.
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by sickofparadox 6y ago
I understand and completely agree. I suppose my comment would have better been directed at the original commenter, as their take was so alien to my reading of the text.
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by sickofparadox 6y ago
Dog Whistle (Politics): The use of coded or suggestive language in political messaging to garner support from a particular group without provoking opposition. [Wikipedia] To what group is this directed? What about this speaks to the "C
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by sickofparadox 6y ago
It seems like there should be some sort of process within these large companies like Google or Twitter to rate limit or even restrict companies that repeatedly abuse DMCA claims in manners such as this. If you do something as absurd as try
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by sickofparadox 6y ago
I agree that there is probably some other genre that would describe it better, but I think it wouldn't be unfair by any means to describe GTA as a third-person shooter.
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by sickofparadox 6y ago
Its the second best selling game of all time[1], and because Minecraft doesn't have guns, I suppose that would qualify it as the most successful online shooter (even if I think another genre would be more applicable). [1] https:/&
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by sickofparadox 6y ago
What planet do you live on where there is no one throwing money to end world hunger? Western Governments provide billions in foreign aid to poorer countries to assist with development programs, there are hundreds of charities dedicated to t
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by sickofparadox 6y ago
I've seen this argument so many times, and it always strikes me that those who cite it often have either not read, or completely miss the point Karl Popper was trying to make. He goes so far as to even say: "I do not imply, for in