wickes

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by wickes 11y ago
I'm not convinced nationality or accents have much to do with it, the overwhelming majority of American English speakers I know also can't use voice tools on their phones. My American English is pretty regular and it certainly nev
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by wickes 11y ago
The only way you'd ever get users to disable their ad blockers on your website would be injecting them with a fast-acting poison and publishing directions to the antidote. If a regular publisher of article-based content tried this, the
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by wickes 11y ago
>America has also had public execution pretty much since day one. Hanging was our preferred method before the electric chair, and then lethal injection. We make sure that both the families of the victims can witness these deaths, as well
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by wickes 11y ago
LIBOR doesn't demonstrate that banks rely on trust. None of the involved banks or brokers trusted that anyone else was actually being honest about LIBOR submissions or predictions. Even if there were any system safeguarding LIBOR whats
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by wickes 11y ago
>What I think is the same philosophically though, is ceding the power over fundamental activities/interactions for functionality. I'm not sure what this means. If you're referring to the fact that groups are usually requir
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by wickes 11y ago
Congratulations, you've nailed down the Culture's biggest quandary in one sentence. The best answer I can give you is "good question." The best answer Banks could give you is spread out over an award-winning series of ni
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by wickes 11y ago
That's not really what he meant by "exponentially more powerful." The Culture is a helpful example, because it's a society administrated by ludicrously intelligent machines called "Minds" that are obviously and
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by wickes 11y ago
Did movie piracy go anywhere?
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by wickes 11y ago
>They have Windows, OSX, and Linux apps. That's sort of a crucial distinction. You have to run the application, but pretty much everybody has something that can run it. That's very different than requiring an application that o
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by wickes 11y ago
>They have Windows, OSX, and Linux apps. That's sort of a crucial distinction. You have to run the application, but pretty much everybody has something that can run it. That's very different than requiring an application that o