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by sparky_z 2y ago
>Why only 16 of the possible 18 tiles would ever have the Whammy, I have no speculation. I'll speculate. I imagine they simply never audited the 5 patterns for full "whammy coverage". They just created 5 random patterns an
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by sparky_z 2y ago
That doesn't help you figure out where to go to change the setting, unless you want to list all the available language options at the top of every single page.
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by sparky_z 2y ago
The particular country wasn't the point. I was just illustrating the concept that just because Y exists in a place without X isn't proof that X won't cause Y. But that's kind of abstract, so I came up with an example tha
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by sparky_z 2y ago
There are a lot of different well-meaning policies that can fuck up a housing market by restricting supply. Rent control is just one of them. This is like if you say that privatizing prisons is a bad thing and then somebody else comes along
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by sparky_z 3y ago
Arctan(friction coefficient) gets you the "friction angle", which is a meaningful angle to know in a lot of physical systems. For example, it tells you how steep of an angled surface your object can rest on before it starts slidin
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by sparky_z 3y ago
I'm not sure exactly what point I'm making here, but I can't help but point out that Sears didn't build the tower themselves. They outsourced it.
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by sparky_z 3y ago
This doesn't look like a rendered video to me at all. I'm not enough of an expert to point to specific reasons, but the lighting, reflections, shadows, etc just seem 100% real to me. I feel it in my gut. You apparently disagree? W
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by sparky_z 3y ago
This got me thinking, just looking at the number of entries on the nutrition label seems maybe a little misleading? Most natural "whole" ingredients would have hundreds of entries if you had to list all the constituent substances
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by sparky_z 3y ago
I'm sorry, but your suggestion doesn't make any sense to me. Saying "I have zero coconuts" would mean that you have a coconut? Would you have to say you had "negative 1" coconuts if you didn't have any? At
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by sparky_z 3y ago
Okay, I'll bite. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/smear Noun: "a usually unsubstantiated charge or accusation against a person or organization—often used attributively" Verb: "to vilify es
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by sparky_z 3y ago
The Ever Given didn't lose power, it was just a very big ship trying to navigate through a very small, shallow channel and was hit by strong enough winds to knock it off course.
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by sparky_z 3y ago
Also, on Firefox for android, you can't move pieces downward. The browser hijacks the "drag down" gesture and refreshes the page.
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by sparky_z 3y ago
So is the idea that the dark red squares are inaccessible and you just can't move to them? I spent way too long trying to figure that out. I was stuck thinking along the lines of not being able to to move into check, even after transfo
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by sparky_z 3y ago
I'm not on the Elon hate train (not a fanboy either, but I mostly agree with the positive things you said about him.) However, I did think pointing out the comparison would head off any "how dare you, Aaron deserves to be called a
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by sparky_z 3y ago
He wasn't really a founder though. He was brought in months later because his own startup idea hadn't got any traction. He's a founder only in the same way that Elon is a "founder" of Tesla - a retroactive title tha
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by sparky_z 3y ago
I took this to mean quitting without notice and staying to live in Canada. Reminds me of the California gold rush. So many passenger ships were stranded in the bay because the crews would just quit en-masse once they arrived and saw what wa
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by sparky_z 3y ago
Stefan Fatsis also being the author of this article, so if you've read the article you've already gotten a preview of his writing style. (Just mentioning in case someone hadn't put that together.)
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by sparky_z 3y ago
My first thought from the title was that they had somehow managed to repair the Antonov An-225 Mriya that was destroyed during the invasion of Ukraine. Kind of a let down, to be honest.
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by sparky_z 3y ago
Ah, that makes more sense. Thanks. It's still a little surprising to me that the process doesn't abort early if the egg isn't fertilized. But maybe that's such an unusual occurrence if the wild that it just doesn't
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by sparky_z 3y ago
What I found surprising is that there's only a 15 minute window (in the infindibulum) where fertilization can occur. But the chicken still goes through all the steps of forming a complete egg even if no fertilization happens, which see
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by sparky_z 3y ago
Huh? That doesn't sound correct, and isn't supported by the video you linked. Panera doesn't just make bread. They have a huge menu that includes bagels, pasta dishes, etc.
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by sparky_z 3y ago
More specifically, the color is named after the plant, which is named after the guy.
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by sparky_z 3y ago
Do you really want to wait 2 days for a "boil water" notice to make its way through the mail?
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by sparky_z 3y ago
Nothing surprising about it. $7.99 per person for everything was obviously unsustainable. It wasn't enough to fund the creation of the content that it was selling. Something was always going to give.
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by sparky_z 3y ago
Fahrenheit 9/11
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by sparky_z 3y ago
Wouldn't that just give the fakers a tool that lets them easily tweak their fakery until it can't be easily caught? The saving grace here is that many of these scammers don't have the sophistication or expertise in the wide p
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by sparky_z 3y ago
To clarify, it's not that a particular point of coastal land moved 800 ft away from where it had been previously. It's that some of the land was uplifted past sea level--essentially it "rose up out of the water"--effecti
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by sparky_z 3y ago
It's because California and Texas were both pre-existing political entities when they were annexed by the US. Most of the other Midwest and western states had their boundaries defined by Congress as they carved up the US's unincor
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by sparky_z 3y ago
The question wasn't why can they, it was why might they.
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by sparky_z 3y ago
That is almost certainly not known at this point in time.

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