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I was about to say, maybe it was supposed to be 1,015 of some other kind of unit of time.
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Are you using a rooted Android phone? There are open PDF readers that you can flash as an apk into your rom image, if you’re trying to avoid spammy adware from the market. Apple supports PDF files on iPhones natively, by default.
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Time to face facts. Some of us are weeds.
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Except half of the modern popular video content discussed in this clip represents evermore uncanny depths of said surreal valley. Overly glossy blockbuster movie FX sequences, subversive glitch gif style viral media, vaporwave, and so on. S
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_Home http://www.htc.com/us/smartphones/htc-first/
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Addendum: for an example of how it's done right, look at Slack. Slack has a completely different business model and general objective in serving the user, but divorcing this conversation from that fundamental idea, Slack (without being
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I'm not trying to be disrespectful, and I fully understand that there's a huge, huge ream of people working to deliver Facebook, but honestly, I could fill multiple volumes of multiple books with the things that Facebook does wron
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As a developer, I fully understand that the nails and girders used to assemble a building aren't expected to reflect the preferences embodied by the final construction they contribute to, but would you just look at the React website,
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The most amazing thing, to me, regarding React, is that it's a pretty awesome framework, from the perspective of a developer. ...and yet, I go and try to use Facebook, and the experience is totally fucking repellent. Even in a closed t
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With churches, there are a few problems that are intellectually repellent, meaning they won't solve for certain personality types. Namely: 1. artificial social heirarchy 2. magical thinking 3. group think 4. rules without rea
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woah
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“YOU LET PEOPLE SIGN CONSENT FORMS IN PENCIL, HOW CAN YOU JUSTIFY THAT?!” The funny thing is, contracts are legally binding agreements, whether they are verbal, scribbled on a napkin, signed in pencil, pen or blood, and whether
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The actual Microsoft corporate subculture is bizarre to behold, when contrasted with the perceived subculture of the Microsoft user, operator, systems administrator, penetration tester, et c.
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I tend to revolt against this kind of bullshit by creating terrifyingly primitive, pathetic passwords, and flagrantly sharing what my password is, in front of relevant admins, while complaining loudly about the concept of " character d
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I don't agree about that being a problem.
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everyone that uses a telephone API How does one enforce such a thing, around the world, where interoperable telephone systems interact across multiple jurisdictions, some of which might not be as advanced, in technical terms, as oth
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What, no Java?
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Ah, see, but this is where the communication breakdown emerges. Most people do not intuitively consider a body suspended in space as a constituency of atoms, with subatomic particles operating in static, yet relativistic motion about a nucl
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as a result of the curvature of spacetime So... why does this curvature, or slope have any affect on systems of bodies at all? An abstract gradation of some property alone doesn't necessarily provoke further side effects, so wh
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In other words, does this amount to abuse of an already maximally efficient organ, resulting in short term gains in exchange for what amounts to injury or perhaps chronic subclinical injuries? From the abstract: based on the assumption
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogs namesake of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POG_(drink)
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...or more to the point, intelligent enemies unbound by human reaction time, common grade school intellect, and the requisite hand-eye-coordination of rival human opponents in multiplayer games.
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It'd be interesting to see an overlay of areas that are inhospitable to wild animals, perhaps excluding birds. Mostly because that would be a useful indication of how much inhabitable land is monopolized by humans.
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I try to think of crypto-currencies, and their collectors as a class not unlike POG collectibles and POG collectors. The age bracket associated with each probably experiences significant overlap too, so the idea seems fitting. Taken to extr
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LTSB (aka: long-term servicing branch) I'm not sure if it's comedic or tragic that the version so very many users would want most, is not only the version with the worst name, but also the version Microsoft discourages people from
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Ugh. No particles will ever be detected by these plastic toy block sculptures. While a non-functional LEGO version of something the resembles a experimental equipment might be fun for some people, none of these things are actually particl
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People regularly perform backups of their mind. In the case of death or injury or illness, a new body is grown and their backup is restored into a new body. ... and their backup is restored into a new body. Well, yeah,
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Is it possible to damage human hearing with sufficiently loud pulses above 20Khz? Most search results point to a miniscule wattage delivered by typical ultrasonic noises, but controlling for wattage, I feel like it might be possible to over
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Now I think there are probably way many more rare earths. Like neodymium from headphones and the odd USB device tossed directly into the garbage. Gold is an obvious target, but there are probably larger quantities of other valuable metals t
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Don't worry, all the car makers with whom we spoke assured us that you probably won't be killed by hackers, and antivirus companies have patched up vulnerabilities revealed in the Vault 7 documents. Sh-sure.
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