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by sparky_z 3y ago
Which doesn't rule out, say, a design flaw that allows the bolt to loosen over time under certain circumstances.
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by sparky_z 3y ago
Named after US Steel found Elbert Gary, back when "Gary" was almost exclusively a surname. Later, a burgeoning young actor named Frank Cooper needed to change his professional name to avoid a conflict with other Frank Coopers in t
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by sparky_z 3y ago
Thanks for chiming in! If you don't mind, I'm trying to understand the exact accounting implications of this for you. In the context of self-publishing, what does it mean to order "author's copies"? Are they: A) off
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by sparky_z 3y ago
> Marketing copies of your own work are normally part of your contract with the publisher. Why is he getting them retail? Because he's self-publishing. I can't imagine printers would offer that perk to self publishers, because
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by sparky_z 3y ago
If I go into a physical bookstore, buy a book, walk out with it, walk back in and return it still in good condition, should they not just put it back on the shelf? Would that be fraud? It's technically no longer "new" at that
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by sparky_z 3y ago
But is that any time a book is returned and resold, or is it just for a few "author's copies" that (I would guess) weren't eligible to receive a royalty in the first place?
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by sparky_z 3y ago
Before getting pitchforks out, I'd like to see what this person considered "damaged". If - and I know this is a big if - but if it's something extremely minor, such that almost anyone would consider it to be in "lik
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by sparky_z 3y ago
That's a common pattern. https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/craproot
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by sparky_z 3y ago
Not by 1000%.
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by sparky_z 3y ago
Hold the key down.
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by sparky_z 3y ago
That's dominated by the scarcity value of the land, not the value of the labor required to repair or replace the building on it. The "inflation" we should worry about here is contractor salaries and the cost of building mater
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by sparky_z 3y ago
The question here was why they didn't use lower case letters exclusively instead of using upper case exclusively . In other words, if you have to pick one, why did they pick upper case instead of lower case? The difficulty of mixing
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by sparky_z 3y ago
As someone not too familiar with the underlying nuts and bolts of the internet, I wish the article had been a little more detailed about the direct aftermath of the "takeover". It wasn't clear to me if it was a permanent chan
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by sparky_z 3y ago
For those who don't know, it's a reference to the "Hot Dog Stand" color scheme that was one of the built-in options for early Windows https://blog.codinghorror.com/a-tribute-to-the-windows-31-ho...
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by sparky_z 3y ago
The business side was absolutely destroyed. Atari was broken up and sold off by its parent company. Every other 3rd party developer went out of business (or took enormous losses and closed their game division) except for Activision, which s
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by sparky_z 3y ago
You absolutely can finish it. I've done it. It's a confusing mess of a game, but it's not broken.
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by sparky_z 3y ago
NES didn't come out until the tail end of 1985 in NYC and 1986 in the rest of the country. Since no new Atari games we're even released by anyone in 1985 (with 2 minor Activision games as the only exception) your claim seems dubio
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by sparky_z 3y ago
This has real "Netflix shouldn't be eligible for Emmys, it's not a television show if it's not broadcast over the air or on cable" energy.
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by sparky_z 3y ago
So add it...
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by sparky_z 3y ago
They know. They're saying to read the original tweet more closely. It was very carefully phrased. Technically, it doesn't say what everyone assumes it said. He never says "Sam has accepted an offer of employment." He jus
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by sparky_z 3y ago
Did the sentence "He surely knows high up people at OpenAI and may have talked to them." not clue you into the joke?
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by sparky_z 3y ago
That's a bit like saying that the Spanish Armada was "defeated in battle by women" because Elizabeth I was on the throne at the time.
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by sparky_z 3y ago
Disclaimer: I can't read the article. But this is my understanding of this particular scam: It's not that they advertised normal hangers and sent small hangers. Technically, they advertised small hangers. You can't tell that
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by sparky_z 3y ago
As someone who knows nothing about cars, I'm trying to figure out why a glass roof would necessarily result in more headroom and can't find any more info. I've found other references to this stated as a given, but with no exp
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by sparky_z 3y ago
How is it possible to be shocked but not surprised?
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by sparky_z 3y ago
If that were the only reason, they could just ban them from online play. There's no good reason to also ban them for single-player experiences .
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by sparky_z 3y ago
It seems to me that an even more relevant metric (if there were a reasonable way to calculate it) would be deaths "per passenger mile" rather than "per vehicle mile".
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by sparky_z 3y ago
Were any of the services hard to cancel before Apple? I didn't think so. Maybe Amazon Prime (which is more than just a streaming service). For the rest, I don't recall any dark patterns or required phone calls to some sort of &quo
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by sparky_z 3y ago
Don't forget that if your way of making sense of the world is based entirely on what's in the spotlight, then you are always at the mercy of the spotlight operator.
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by sparky_z 3y ago
Poorly phrased. It did happen long ago, but they're also so far away that the light that was emitted back then is just reaching us now. Astronomical distances are so vast that looking at things that are further away also means seeing t

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