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by vpilcx 4y ago
There's already a insulin project where they're trying to open source (or something like that) insulin. They just made headway this year or the year before, but it seems like they're a long way from having any kind of effect.
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by vpilcx 5y ago
I think the number one thing, at least for me, that keeps Steam so competitive is its refund policy. Devs, especially indie devs who make short games, hate it, but I don't know any other platform that has something like it. For those u
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by vpilcx 5y ago
I don't think you understand how the GOP operates now. 8ft now, next year, they increase it. It's like what they do with abortions.
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by vpilcx 5y ago
You had to take a picture of your face in order to match it with your ID or something like that. We took the picture ten different times in varying light conditions inside and out, and I don't know if the phone was too old or what but
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by vpilcx 5y ago
It reminds me of the Flappy Bird guy who was making $50K a day or whatever. Its ridiculously privileged and only someone who's already well off would do something like that. I mean, maybe they'd have a leg to stand on if it was li
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by vpilcx 5y ago
I had the exact same experience. A barely smart phone being used to verify ID and we had to do the facial recognition more than 10 ten times, each time having to go through a whole step by step process to get there. And it still didn't
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by vpilcx 5y ago
That's so weird because I'm currently using the T420. My desktop has basically stopped working so I had to start using this one with Ubuntu 18 something. Pretty disingenuous to say you're using an old Thinkpad when you'v
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by vpilcx 5y ago
To confirm their own assumptions as to how the media operates.
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by vpilcx 5y ago
This isn't specific to web3 but more crypto but the idea of having an integrated method of collecting royalties on resale of an item indefinitely is pretty exciting. That said, the hype seems a little bit overblown. When people are so
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by vpilcx 5y ago
It's anecdotal evidence because I was responding to an anecdote someone else was giving with my own personal perspective.
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by vpilcx 5y ago
If that were the case though, why wouldn't that apply to credit card debt?
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by vpilcx 5y ago
> There are certainly a lot of useless majors. But that doesn't imply all of them are useless. It's not so much a critique of the majors but rather the professional requirements of the job listing. For jobs that don't have
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by vpilcx 5y ago
> You've established that education is a good investment. My friend often comes to me and says, "Hey, man, how come you don't invest your money in <x>?" Because I'm living in poverty. People who live in pov
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by vpilcx 5y ago
In another discussion, someone tried to make the argument that Buffet was a real-life rags to riches story. Like, my guy, his father worked as a stock broker, and he used to hang out at his dad's office when he was a kid, and his dad e
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by vpilcx 5y ago
I don't think it will except for maybe a trickle down effect from making rich people in their countries slightly richer. People who are working remotely aren't poor or living in poverty. Most work done by people in poverty can&#x2
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by vpilcx 5y ago
I'm one of those people living in poverty that distrusts school institutions. My main philosophical gripe is that it doesn't seem to really matter what your major is. "Oh, you got a bachelors in Biology? Well, I guess that&#x
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by vpilcx 5y ago
Thanks a lot for posting this. I've been meaning to take some audio from my grandpa to resurrect my grandpa's voice before my grandma dies, so maybe I'll finally get around to doing it now.
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by vpilcx 5y ago
How does it work to be able to legally kick someone off their property like this? Because I've been working on a hypothetical idea for a while now that's kind of weird version of a commune. A facility that is autonomous and self-s
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by vpilcx 5y ago
I'm being pretty clear with my expectations. I didn't expect to pay for a service I wasn't using and I didn't expect to be charged after the fact without being informed ahead of time, when I signed up for new service.
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by vpilcx 5y ago
For me, I had a bad experience that soured me on them. I signed up for service and forgot to change over my credit card or something and the service lapsed. So a few months later, I signed back up for another six months of service and it sa
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by vpilcx 5y ago
Wouldn't that just kill a f2p userbased and just have cheaters go to gift cards?
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by vpilcx 5y ago
For me, it's already ruined the game. There's a type of player that every time they take a bad beat, they'll be like, "Oh, we've got a cheater!" I am not like that. At all. It requires an enormous amount of evi
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by vpilcx 5y ago
If they weren't bluffing and you're in the same county, it could just be the dispatcher remembered you from last time. I had something analogous to this where the local PD left a voicemail saying my brother had gone missing and le
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by vpilcx 6y ago
It's a decade since this was created. Is QuakeNet still the biggest? Because it feels like FreeNode is now the only place left.
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by vpilcx 6y ago
I've always been searching for another MMO experience. Eve Online was close but not quite the same. While not exactly an MMO experience, Rust is the closet modern approximation that I've experienced.
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by vpilcx 6y ago
> The younger generation has no concept of listening to a song you "don't like" 50 times, simply because you listened to the album you purchased 100 times. I'm not below the age of 25 but this seems like a really arch
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by vpilcx 6y ago
Who's the author? There's three different books with that title on Amazon.
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by vpilcx 7y ago
That was actually the entire comedic premise of an I Love Lucy episode. The gang is in Italy and wants to call back to the states so they have to wait for a long distance operator to call them back with an open line. They, unfortunately, ar