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by v0x 7y ago
Just wanted to point out that point 1 is very rarely valid; while you do get a tax break from donating to charity, what you save in taxes is not offset by the cost of the donation. The only case I can really think of where that is the cas
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by v0x 7y ago
I don't suppose the term "Asgard" means anything of significance to you, does it?
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by v0x 7y ago
Do they really, though? I recall there was quite some controversy about that: https://twitter.com/tomscott/status/1076160882873380870
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by v0x 7y ago
I really like a lot of what Tesla and Musk do, but their PR campaigns are absolutely repugnant. Like in this case where they try to make the NTSB out to be the bad guy when in reality they go completely against accepted NTSB standards in an
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by v0x 8y ago
Well, yes, online games should be resilient to memory modification, but few are coded perfectly to prevent this (and many games, even AAA MMORPGs like WoW, let the client get away with way more than it should). The smart thing to do is to
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by v0x 9y ago
McAfee comes packaged in the installation of some other software, e.g., Java, where it can easily be installed by mistake if you aren't paying attention.
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by v0x 10y ago
They are just saying that metastasis occurs more frequently with monitoring as compared to active treatment , not that PSA testing itself causes metastasis.
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by v0x 10y ago
Part of the Stanford article is highly misleading. They say: "That study, published in September in The New England Journal of Medicine, revealed that prostate cancer patients randomized to either active monitoring, surgery or radiatio
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by v0x 10y ago
I never understood why security-conscious people would choose to use a service (e.g. Lastpass) that stores all of your passwords in the cloud. Why not just use KeePass instead? Yes, it's a little bit more hassle, but all of the other p
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by v0x 10y ago
Regarding Blizzard passwords: an old acquaintance generated his own SHA-1 hashes for his Battle.net account - which did not resolve to characters which could be input by a regular client - so nobody else would be able to login to his accoun
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by v0x 10y ago
Looks like it's the second time he's used the maneuver: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36400365
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by v0x 11y ago
Lync status updates automatically, whereas getting up to open and close a door takes work every time. Plus, it's just a fun little project. Lighten up.
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by v0x 11y ago
Having played a number of hours of Kerbal Space Program, I can verify that this information is correct.
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by v0x 11y ago
Interesting. I'm using uBlock Origin 1.5.2 and the site refuses to load.
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by v0x 11y ago
You seem to imply that all rules are equally as important as one another, while I would say they are not. For example, in a casual game of chess, most would be okay with some of the aforementioned deviations, like taking back a move. I do n
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by v0x 11y ago
>It is your brand that sells your product. This is backwards - the product sells the brand. Brands do not just come out of nowhere; people have to like the product first before they can establish loyalty.
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by v0x 11y ago
I still think Win2k was a great operating system and I wish I could go back to it, but you do eventually have to upgrade. I eventually had to upgrade Win2k to Win7 because of the many performance benefits and the lack of support for the OS.
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by v0x 11y ago
As someone with an occasional passing interest in playing the piano, Synthesia has been great for me when it comes to learning songs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WolqGAgiolM Of course, it is not exactly a substitute for