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For those wondering... I posted this because its history is fascinating, taking so long to pass something that maybe should be sort of obvious... And because some countries really need similar laws (example: Brazil where I live has Congress
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Twenty Seventh Amendment of US Constitution
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There is also a interesting post from a person with Asperger's Syndrome about how the new CoC causes discrimination toward him in first place.
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8y ago
I have a core i5 with 32gb of factory oced ddr3 ram that is faster than many ddr4 ones My machine randomly has input delay or mouse even after new install...
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8y ago
Utf-16 is always 16 bit, utf-8 is variable, can go from 8 to 32 as needed... This does make coding for utf-8 harder, but when it works is really wonderful stuff.
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Lotus series was some cool racing games that actually were intended for Amiga, the DOS version not being just as good, but to me were still mind blowing. Later when they were making a sequel it ended in Super Nintendo, with cars changed (Lo
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One past incident I had: I was working as intern in a tech support company. We had there some 1.44mb discs with the game "Lotus III", so whenever we were bored we would play a little. One day I arrived at work... And they were scr
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The article wonders, why people got upset about Red Shell on Conan Exiles for example, but not on Civilization VI... I think it is related to two very important details. First, Red Shell purpose, as stated by Red Shell themselves, is to cre
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A certain huge multinational once tried to hire me, and disappeared when they were supposed to send me a test. Cue some months later I see in a magazine a interview with them, and complaining they can't find someone for that job. So I
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Some important details many posters here might miss: 1. Jessica Price was seemly fired before for having conflicts with her costumers, in another company. 2. Jessica Price did some other stuff on twitter that were ticking fans off, for exam
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8y ago
Also, only work on specific screens. My main computer I am still using a CRT, and the flat panels I own some of them are with pixels in funky patterns, and when enabling sub pixel the image instead gain lots of random color fringes. And you
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8y ago
I used to read random people's tumblr, some gamedevs and whatnot had posts there. What tumblr did was that suddenly all "NFSW" things to US standards (that are different from say... Japan standards), was hidden, not showing a
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A really bizarre data that I saw during US elections, was that during pooling (before actual elections) the map of Trump voters, was almost identical to the map of places with high death rates. Also largest trump voter demographic, as the m
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8y ago
Link please? One of my difficulties was when I had college debts, I kept trying to find remote work for around 25 USD, and people still thought it was too high, on freelance.com and whatnot, but I couldn't go lower because then I would
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I am in São Paulo I never got full time job offer, only contracts, some that were joblike (ie: company treated me as actual contractor but expected me to be present 9-5 every day in the office). When I was fresh out of college I did got som
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I am Brazillian Still, sadly that stuff also applies here... Me and my friends around my age, that were born in solid middle-class families (of the sort that could own only one car, a cheap house or apartment and so on), were taught that th
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Tried to read this on my Android. Got sent to a page claiming my Android had four viruses, spawned endless popups and dialogs and I had to force close the browser :(
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Seemly after the canadian guy killed people with a van, a witchunt for Involuntary Celibates started... For example: https://twitter.com/ekp/status/991817194987114496
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This person videos weren't even strange or fringe... The attacker videos seemly were mostly about exercising, vegan diet, and some lighthearted videos... AFTER demonetization, seemly some videos with criticism about Youtube and US, say
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Where I live Internet providers deliberately make self hosting anything extremely hard. Then they charge often 5x or more their normal price to let you host things, but add lots of exceptions, for example all providers put in contract they
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I am from Brazil, we have largest amount of Japanese when not counting Japan itself. One of the most popular "Japanese" dishes is Tempura that is actually a Portuguese dish seemly introduced in Japan in 1600s or so... Theory is th
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I see... So my project wasn't just me being complete nuts. My parents put my computers near them after I moved back with them. I kept insisting I needed one where I wanted... After sevearal months arguing and not getting anything done,
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What you changed in your environment? (I ask because I had same experience, except now that I am diagnosed I am struggling to find what I am supposed to do... I am kinda spinning in place without going anywhere)
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9y ago
Another way to think about it, is how time effects the object itself. Photons are completely immutable, while they travel they don't change at all, if a photon was a "smergsboard" it would remain "smergsboard" durin
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I think you got it the other way around. I am 29, and single... But I am single BECAUSE I am nowhere near owning a home, in fact I don't own a home, or a car, or anything, to the point I stopped looking for a girlfriend because... why
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9y ago
I actually love the idea of Watson being used for healthcare... Sadly I think it is being used wrong... IBM is focusing on using Watson to cure very specific diseases, like certain types of cancer. I think a far better use for Watson would
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This one I can reply: I am someone that don't like feminism (but I won't discuss that now). My political position is kinda anti-authoritarian, and I don't trust corporations, early on my life it was considered left, people wo
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I was forced when I was 17, to pick a private college, people didn't let me do what I wanted. At same time, I was repeateadly promised by all 'adults' that I was very intelligent, and that getting into a college would ensure
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I have to really disagree. I don't have friends... But it is not really a self-inflicted problem, I did tried to strike conversations with random strangers the most I could, be pleasant, whatnot. But the places where I lived, it just d
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You can, but if I remember the resource noone had was bricks, that is very important... So the game pace slowed to a crawl... Also, the funky dice never rolling bricks meant people would quickly rack up random resources, sometimes like 3 of
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