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by sparkpeasy 7y ago
"Although its unlikely a policy change this momentous would be made, Valve has a history of making changes based on court rulings it’s involved in." Sooo...Valve has a history of changing its policies to follow the law?
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by sparkpeasy 7y ago
If you're seriously interested in the magic of Heinz Ketchup, this New Yorker longread by Malcolm Gladwell from 2004 remains the benchmark- https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/09/06/the-ketchup-c
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by sparkpeasy 7y ago
Artificial refrigeration and air-conditioning also serves as a handy proof of work for all the cities that in fifty years will have newly hot climates battling scorching temperatures and partially underwater. https://www.wired.co
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At the Far Ends of a New Universal Law(quantamagazine.org)
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by sparkpeasy 8y ago
Just last week on January 28th Vogue Business ran a huge feature on Angela Ahrendts with an exclusive interview and photo shoot, and now this? Seems like weird timing with how "work in progress" Vogue characterized her work at App
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by sparkpeasy 8y ago
I find it's easiest to avoid a lot of these scammy practices without the mental load of double- and triple-checking labels by only shopping at places that stake their reputation on the quality and curated nature of what they carry. Co
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by sparkpeasy 8y ago
Can't wait till rogue arrays of lasers start beaming advertisements directly into your ear while walking down the street.
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by sparkpeasy 8y ago
If so, it'll weigh a lot more. It's easy to make a light vehicle that isn't reinforced.
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by sparkpeasy 8y ago
How do these do in a crash test?
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by sparkpeasy 8y ago
But Target and Walmart have a large amount of products in stock within an hour or so ready for pickup from small towns on up. That's not true for Amazon except in large cities. For most of the country, you still have to wait one or two
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by sparkpeasy 8y ago
This is what the pros use- https://www.christmasdesigners.com/100-light-2800k-warm-whit... They are full-wave rectified so they don't flicker, and have an interesting semi-directional output them gives them visual inte
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by sparkpeasy 8y ago
No one uses Bing.... except every user of Windows 10 by default
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by sparkpeasy 8y ago
I always wondered how Chinese sellers on Ebay could sell small toys and trinkets for less than a dollar with free shipping that took several weeks to arrive. It would cost more than that to send a small empty box between two addresses in th
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by sparkpeasy 8y ago
Your comment bot is acting up
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by sparkpeasy 8y ago
"Direct primary care only works as a complement to insurance that pays for more catastrophic care like emergency room visits and specialists." This is like saying: "I've found a solution to high auto insurance costs! You
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by sparkpeasy 8y ago
"Because society is sexist against women, society should be sexist against women."
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by sparkpeasy 8y ago
"Apple removing the iPhone SE from sale does not mean you can stop designing for its resolution soon. Non-Plus iPhones can be used in zoomed mode, which means they’ll have the same logical resolution as an SE." https:/&#x2F
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by sparkpeasy 8y ago
If only the journalists that reported these stories in 2017 at BuzzFeed were real: * Helping to free an innocent man who'd spent 23 years behind bars * Exposing the true scale of Russia's targeted assassinations in the West — and
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by sparkpeasy 8y ago
The front page of NYTimes.com currently lists among the hard news the headline "Dogs in Poofy Dresses. You're Welcome." but I don't think that prevents a wide range of age brackets from reading and supporting it.
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by sparkpeasy 8y ago
All this plus-it is so much easier to have all my subscriptions for apps in one place to know who I'm paying monthly, and to able to cancel them all in one place through Apple. I'm tired of signing up for subscriptions and going t
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by sparkpeasy 8y ago
Counterfeit goods are made and sold at a scale unseen in the West in China. There are markets the size of football fields hawking these rip offs. How is it racist to suggest the Chinese have a laissez faire attitude about copying others&#x2
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by sparkpeasy 9y ago
To get accurate prices on ebay, check the filtering options in search results for your query and tick "Sold Listings." It will then show only recently sold listings along with what they sold for. Completed listings that didn'
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by sparkpeasy 9y ago
What do people actually use voice for besides playing music, smart home, transcribing and "widget" stuff like timers and weather? Are there lots of people out there actually using it for productivity like scheduling, communicating
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by sparkpeasy 9y ago
Scary to think that the reveal of all passwords on MacOS shoulders on one person's accidental copy + paste of one line.
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by sparkpeasy 9y ago
That they've nailed down a price point yet haven't defined the exact GPU beyond saying it's a Radeon makes the whole enterprise very suspect.
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by sparkpeasy 9y ago
Richard Serra's most controversial piece, Tilted Arc, was removed after 8 years from a plaza in front of a building in Manhattan because "those who worked in the area found the sculpture extremely disruptive to their daily routine
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by sparkpeasy 9y ago
The major player currently is Walmart for most Americans. It's investing into online at a rapid pace, they recently added free online pickup for groceries and purchased Jet and Bonobos, so I think the real war will be between Walmart a
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by sparkpeasy 9y ago
Capitalism was a game in which the most clever Baby Boomers found a way to profit without recompense.
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by sparkpeasy 10y ago
I've played Zelda on Switch docked for 10 hours and have not yet once experienced input lag. It occasionally hits seemingly 20-25fps with a lot of enemies and environmental grass and such for a few seconds but that has absolutely not s
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by sparkpeasy 10y ago
Player agency in a medium without unlimited outcomes is a Choose Your Own Adventure, where the trick is done in plain sight and therefore unconvincing. Loom is just trying to tell a linear story in a convincing manner with the tools it has

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