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by wmil 10y ago
The PS2 needed a modchip for piracy. Most people don't want to go through that trouble. Pirates realized that it was possible to boot games on CD-R on an unmodded Dreamcast. Sega and game devs weren't eager to advertise that fact,
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by wmil 10y ago
Piracy was a huge problem on the Dreamcast. The bios devs accidentally left some code in from the developer consoles that would allow home consoles to run games from standard CD-Rs. Developers didn't want to invest in a system that had
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by wmil 10y ago
I don't understand how they can legally do that. When you repossess a truck you don't get to leave it at someone else's loading dock for free. Wouldn't it be the creditor's obligation to pay the fees or move it some
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by wmil 10y ago
The other big issue is that there's no local economic boom driving the increase. Which is very confusing to locals -- salaries aren't going up, unemployment is fairly high, but prices are skyrocketing. Apparently low interest rate
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by wmil 10y ago
Indeed. This is actually the point of DHH's much maligned "Rails is Omakase" article.
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by wmil 10y ago
There's a long wait list for street food vendor permits, so it's not as simple as you think. But the bigger issue is that's it's glamorous to own a restaurant. You can take your friends there and brag about owning it. Ta
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by wmil 10y ago
Humans are social creatures. We try to find success by imitating people we know, or that we've heard about. So harsh punishments can be effective. If people see that breaking a law usually results in bad outcomes then they'll ofte
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by wmil 10y ago
It's incredibly powerful. The President can actually pardon entire classes of people. Carter issued a pardon to all draft dodgers. Ford had previously issued a limited pardon to some. Obama could actually commute the sentences of every
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by wmil 10y ago
The distinctive scent/flavor is probably highly influenced by soil conditions. Also they're symbiotic with trees, and the tree health probably also affects flavors. It'd probably be easier to GMO standard mushrooms to taste m
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by wmil 10y ago
The most expensive liquid is actually bull semen. Yes, that's a real product. Dairy/cattle farmers often need it.
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by wmil 10y ago
You can go all out and get a reverse osmosis system installed under your sink that also has a re-mineralizer. Adding the right minerals back in is important for flavour.
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by wmil 10y ago
He's using MathJax to display equations. There are a lot of equations. https://www.mathjax.org/
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by wmil 10y ago
Clicking the Google search link is working for me. Did you install some privacy proxy that may be screwing with referrer headers? Or is there some new requirement they're checking?
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by wmil 10y ago
No. People arguing for "safe spaces" are generally arguing that the entire university should be a "safe space". So it's really about control over shared space and the right to police offensive dialog.
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Gossip site Gawker will shut down next week(nypost.com)
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by wmil 10y ago
> PNG and JPEG files are also universally usable outside of browsers. JPEG files were the standard for photographs before the first browser was written. PNGs are super easy to support if you don't care about gamma correction, so it&
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by wmil 10y ago
A W3C standard has to be open. Macromedia / Adobe used their EULAs and IP law to fight all third party swf renderers. Macromedia / Adobe thought they had something too valuable to share, so now it's dying. Also binary formats
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by wmil 10y ago
Facebook looks at your phone contacts, recent calls, and saves that info. It does the same for your colleagues. Another possibility is that your co-workers are browsing your public profile details without adding you. Really you're lea
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by wmil 10y ago
The problem is that the ivy league elitists control access to most of the best jobs. Resumes from the affordable school your daughter is attending are quickly filed in the round bin. The quality of education doesn't actually vary much,
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by wmil 10y ago
Sr political people don't need complex PR strategies. They have working relationships with the top reporters. If they're unhappy with press coverage they just phone the reporters and try to explain their position.
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by wmil 10y ago
This is actually an important use for Rust. Many font renders were initially written for speed on single user systems running trusted programs. Vector rendering creates a lot of edge cases that C tends to ignore. The initial X-Box soft mod
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by wmil 10y ago
There are specific clarity optimizations that are important for font rendering but don't generalize to all SVG rendering.
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by wmil 10y ago
California only ended up with the majority of those markets due to the how federal agriculture subsidies are structured. You can grow carrots and strawberries almost anywhere in the US. Peaches need things a bit warmer, but again most of t
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by wmil 10y ago
Some of the other subs auto ban any user who posts in /r/the_donald, so even trolling under your own account is a risk.
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by wmil 10y ago
Subreddits are separate communities. It doesn't make any sense to ban AMAs outside /r/iama. /r/fantasy has AMAs with authors all the time.
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by wmil 10y ago
Fundamentally the problem with Greece is that the IMF & EU are focussed on saving the Euro. Meanwhile Greece is unable and / or unwilling to meet it's Eurozone obligations. The only real solution it to toss Greece out, but neg
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by wmil 10y ago
Apple has been dominant in the non-budget laptop category for a while. PCs still control the corporate market, but that isn't growing like it used to.
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by wmil 10y ago
> There were problems with skeuomorphism, to be sure One big problem was that UX people never figured out what the correct way to operate a thumb dial with a mouse was.
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by wmil 10y ago
Well it's more likely that a photographer submitted a bunch of public domain images claiming he/she owned the copyright. Then Getty images handled the situation poorly. Look at another Getty case. Haitian photographer Daniel Morel
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The biggest advantage of tests is that you can move (possibly new) devs on to unfamiliar parts of the code base and they can be reasonably confident that they aren't breaking things with their refactors.

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