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by surge 10y ago
Addendum: To be clearer, it's usually short hand for the spectrum, or more accurately someone on the shallower end of the spectrum (like a Sheldon or a Sherlock/House to draw from pop culture versions of it) whose an adult who can
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by surge 10y ago
Clueless isn't what they really mean, clueless means you have no idea what's going on. You can know what's going on but obsess over minute details or exact accuracy of statements that have no real bearing on the larger conver
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by surge 10y ago
Suggest one? Is there another word to describe the inability to detect the subtle greater context and meaning of an interaction and instead obsess over the literal meaning of individual words? It's tech, there is very high chance nearl
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by surge 10y ago
Super Size Me was ridiculous, I bought into it too, but he was going out of his way to eat unhealthy at McDonald's. Even McDonald's puts nutritional information out there and doesn't recommend the daily intake of calories tha
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by surge 10y ago
You make the mistake that "on a computer" is the only people are lazy or take short cuts or risks for the sake of convenience. Just look at driving behavior when someone's in a rush and floors it when the light turns yellow.
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by surge 10y ago
Well, since most media is advertising dependent, they're dependent on access to information to give you something of value, to in turn sell ads. If investigating or reporting on something shady means, a press operative can no longer be
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by surge 10y ago
It scaled better than Twitter, it hit the same active user count (or close to it) in a month that took Twitter years to reach, and Twitter would sh*t the bed all the time with the infamous "fail whale" popping up for users constan
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by surge 10y ago
We pay taxes now, it just goes to everything else but local communities. Politicians decide where that money goes. The military gets a lot of it, which could be argued is a socialist plan to employ at risk youth fresh out of high school and
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by surge 10y ago
Weirdly, the mortality rates from surgeries can go up with much older doctors, for a variety of reasons, but mostly because they have lower volume of work so aren't as in practice and may not be current on latest techniques that may be
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by surge 10y ago
A "revenge of the nerds" archetype is celebrated in The Big Bang Theory, not how actual nerds are. Some of its for the sake of comedy, but its more a stereotypical perception being celebrated not what actual nerdy people look&#x2F
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by surge 10y ago
And now I have a tiny adapter I have to keep track of that will get lost, bent, and need replaced, and probably damage the port and I have an extra long fulcrum sticking out into a tiny little shallow port that when pressed will either snap
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by surge 10y ago
Or even two USB-C ports, then you could have USB-C headphones.
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by surge 10y ago
Mostly that an artist had to pay legal fees to defend himself because he told the truth and someone didn't like it. The ridiculous litigiousness of the whole thing is disconcerting. The last name wasn't even spelled correctly, if
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by surge 10y ago
Yep, happened at my last job. I survived several rounds or layoffs, each with my manager reassuring me that my job wasn't being targetted. Even so, each time a few of our best people would find something elsewhere, even if their positi
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by surge 10y ago
Sega has done alright doing what Nintendo delayed to do, which is just becoming a third party developer for other platforms.
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by surge 10y ago
I wouldn't buy it anyway. I already have a gaming device in my pocket, with a plethora of other options, the only person missing out is Nintendo for not putting their IP on it.
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by surge 10y ago
Mostly by prosecutors looking to make a name for themselves by putting another sex crime conviction on their record and not giving a damn about the long-term consequences of the young life they ruined.
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by surge 10y ago
When I signed up, it only said basic account info or that they'd like to know who I am. Nothing else.
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by surge 10y ago
From an OPSec perspective, yeah, you shouldn't expect that your location couldn't be compromised somehow, even with countermeasures. So in some sense they're right, in a legal sense is where its a bit scary.
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by surge 10y ago
That switch better have one helluva buffer.
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by surge 10y ago
Isn't auto starting if someone hits the port effectively the same as having it running. At least from a security standpoint.
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by surge 10y ago
https://www.penny-arcade.com/news/post/2014/06/30/screen-tim... Subsequently: https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2014/06/30
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by surge 10y ago
I was 8 and I ran all over my apartment community/neighborhood. I just had to be home before dark. Now my parents would get reported apparently.
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by surge 10y ago
That's on a normal day, not going out.
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by surge 10y ago
Well, it's not always so bad, at least not during the warmer seasons, just the crabbing seasons. Deadliest Catch - Wild Pacific Salmon wouldn't be anywhere near as deadly or engaging for television. I don't imagine it'd
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by surge 10y ago
Thanks for this, hopefully I'll remember to watch the next part.
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by surge 10y ago
It'll be good for truly last mile users, I imagine SF bay area has plenty of options (although I know they want Google too), this seems to provide a possible broadband ISP option for those that would otherwise have none.
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by surge 10y ago
Yep, US Cellular seems to be the only cell phone towers I can get on roaming when an area is "middle of nowhere" and I'll see a small dealer/shop in small towns. Like you said, they seem to specialize in markets that oth
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by surge 10y ago
I was already doing this with ABCMouse for a while for my toddler, paying for a subscription through iTunes, which allowed me to use the app. So this isn't new, its just now not through a iTunes subscription, just directly through the
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by surge 10y ago
MyCroft? https://mycroft.ai/

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