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by slyn 11y ago
This might be a dumb question, but is there any reason other than costs that we couldn't eventually just blast unrecycleable nuclear waste off into the sun/space? There must be an inflection point where the cost of storing the haz
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by slyn 11y ago
Humans can eat raw meat and do. Tartare, sushi, uncooked shellfish, blue rare, and so on is all raw, though not necessarily common because of disease caused by unsafe handling of the meats and the potential for eating live parasites from wh
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by slyn 11y ago
By building and providing a product or service that you need/want/like enough to pay for?
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After Catching 1000 Pedophiles Computer Generated Child Scores First Conviction(dailytech.com)
2 points by slyn 12y ago|0 comments
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by slyn 12y ago
None of the vaguely famous underground/above-ground roads in Chicago, notably Wacker, Congress, and Michigan Ave, are pedestrian only above ground. It would also be pretty much lying to define those three roads as "large parts&quo
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by slyn 12y ago
This is pretty reductive and ignores the fact that America is exceptionally racially, culturally, and economically different from region to region, state to state, city to city, et al. Policy that works great in NYC isn't guaranteed to
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by slyn 12y ago
Displaying in the native resolution would lead to an even curiouser case where the iPhone 6's 4.7" screen displays more content than the iPhone 6+'s 5.5" screen (assuming integer scaling factors of 2x for the 6 and 3x fo
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by slyn 12y ago
>No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame
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by slyn 13y ago
Hello, half-mile away neighbor.
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by slyn 13y ago
Literally the whole point of the hollywoodization of a natural environment was to prevent the damage done to an actual natural environment of having 350+ people there for a wedding, something both recommended by a conservation group and the
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by slyn 13y ago
There was of course that one amusing Onion article about some US intelligence agency making its own social network so that everyone would just voluntarily give up all their information.
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by slyn 13y ago
>> The problem with this reasoning is that it presumes that GPA + test scores is the definition of merit. >So let me get this straight: GPA + test scores don't show merit, but race does? I think he's implying that cultural diffe
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by slyn 14y ago
Most consoles sell at a loss, that is the price for a profit, including the cost of windows (while steambox will be linux), and at a manufacturing scale that is probably 1/500th or less of what Valve will be contracting. Not to mention that
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by slyn 14y ago
Target knows you're pregnant, Facebook knows you're gay, now the government is working on knowing if you're a terrorist. Big data isn't the future, its today.
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by slyn 14y ago
Clearly you didn't take time to read the aforementioned article at all, or you would've seen the graph that puts the USA at roughly a bit more than triple the assault deaths per 100k vs an eyeball average of the other OECD nations (down fro
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by slyn 14y ago
>15 of the 25 worst mass shootings in the last 50 years took place in the United States. In second place is Finland, with two entries. That's a bit of a disparity. Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2012/12/14/n...
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by slyn 14y ago
I agree, the language is ambiguous as to what defines a "chip", but I assume given the context of the sentence and the technology that it is meant to be read as: the only manual layout of an ARM core to hit the market in several years. Even
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by slyn 14y ago
No offense, but you should probably read at least the sections you're commenting on. Your reasoning is pretty correct but your conclusion is opposite the truth. The full quote: "Generally, logic blocks are automagically laid out with the us
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by slyn 14y ago
Slavery was fucked up, so we got rid of slavery. Patent law is fucked up, so we get mad at Apple. These two things are not alike, and the latter reaction doesn't really make sense. I never said anything remotely close to the idea that I thi
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by slyn 14y ago
The backlash toward Apple seems silly to me, they're playing the game within the rules that exist. If you're mad that patents consisting of obvious combinations, evolution's, and (ux) optimizations of prior or existing technologies are a th
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Nvidia Forums & Dev Zone Breached; Up To 400K Password Hashes Taken(anandtech.com)
1 points by slyn 14y ago|0 comments
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by slyn 14y ago
Slightly OT: Maybe I'm just underestimating to the power of familiarity as a plus in marketing, but I've never been able to wrap my head around meat-imitation vegetarian and vegan options. I understand things like veggie dogs or burgers, pa
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by slyn 14y ago
Love the site, just wish I could have this at a different volume than Mumble/Skype.
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by slyn 14y ago
I believe technically this would be considered APM in all games. In starcraft 1+2 even selecting a control group is considered an action, so simply hiting 1 2 3 4 5 in succession without building units or changing rallies or really doing an
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by slyn 14y ago
I'm not hugely privy to the storyline, but it is my understanding a loose group of forum-goers from reddit, 4chan, neogaf, and probably other communities banded together to vote EA into the #1 status of worst company in america for various
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by slyn 15y ago
It would be a mistake for Sony to forget Valve and Steam in that list as well, rumor being they have a console in development as well.
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by slyn 15y ago
As long as we're hitting this one out the ballpark we can imagine all the online services getting in on the action: like the OKCupid speed date commute, the Yelp surprise me whats for dinner restaurant ride, or the Groupon deal of the day c
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by slyn 15y ago
I believe click green works as size to content or size to vertical max. shift-click green is maximize.
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by slyn 15y ago
AT&T DSL here, pretty good for latency (low jitter, sub 60 ms, in WoW, SC2, TF2, and others while on wifi as well), not so good for throughput (only goes up to 6 mbps in my area, we have 3 mbps I think).
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by slyn 16y ago
>> "ISPs also dislike high-PPS low-packet-size" This is presumably what was specifically causing the WoW throttling from the article. >>"We recently introduced a software modification to solve the problems our customers are

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