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by xsmasher 5y ago
I never realized how un-climbable railings are until your comment. Thanks for the new perspective.
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by xsmasher 5y ago
Not OP but Librivox has a bunch of Lovecraft, Howard, HG Wells, Mark Twain, etc that I use. I often listen to books that I've listened to before, or that I don't really care about. I turn it down low enough that I can barely hear
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by xsmasher 5y ago
As Mark Twain said "Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts." Once you get out and about you have a new lens to look at your own society too - another v
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by xsmasher 5y ago
The terms of service is a contract. Suing someone who breaks a contract is what civil courts handle all day long. In this case, Twitch claims to have damages from the breaches. > As a direct and proximate result of Defendants’ material b
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by xsmasher 5y ago
If I get taxed on my income, and then give half of it to you, should it be exempt from taxes because it was "already taxed?" The whole idea is that money is taxed when it passed from one person to another.
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by xsmasher 5y ago
The same critique applies to skateboarding, and that seems as popular as ever.
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by xsmasher 5y ago
Anyone know why BART had cylindrical wheels, if the advantages of tapered wheels were known for a hundred years?
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by xsmasher 5y ago
The argument is the AARP is a powerful lobby that you must not cross.
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by xsmasher 5y ago
It COULD be written to be infinitely scalable in size (up to allowed memory) but that comes with a speed cost. I remember something about NSArray switching its layout (and speed characteristics) after adding certain number of items, but I c
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by xsmasher 5y ago
In terms of bandwidth and latency, bikes can be much closer together (high bandwidth) but have high latency.
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No; phishing / vishing is contacting the customer to get login details. Contacting support and getting them to circumvent security is social engineering.
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by xsmasher 5y ago
> Abrams and the writers were planning from the outset to do that many seasons and wrote a story bible outlining all the lore and mythology referenced throughout the writing. Citation? There's a PDF floating around somewhere of the
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by xsmasher 5y ago
If you copied the .ttf file and sold it, it's a copyright violation just like any software copying. The foundry takes you to court. If you copy by hand (at what size? at what accuracy? do you include the same hinting and ligatures?) th
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by xsmasher 5y ago
Keep reading. > We then present a new analysis of the original dataset, measuring directly the extent to which drivers changed their behaviour in response to helmet wearing. This analysis confirms that drivers did, overall, get closer wh
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by xsmasher 5y ago
Parent did not say that helmets make you less safe. They said that helmets make drivers around the biker behave more dangerously. https://www.bicycling.com/news/a25358099/drivers-give-helmet...
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by xsmasher 5y ago
Your numbers for the Snickers bar seem too small - a 44g candy bar has 11g fat, 20g sugar. If you meant some smaller bar, then you are comparing a very small candy bar against 100g or 165g or fruit; not very fair.
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by xsmasher 5y ago
A decade earlier, this story at Apple https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Negative_2000_Li...
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by xsmasher 5y ago
Hoopla and Pluto.tv have a lot of these cult films too.
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by xsmasher 5y ago
That's what Uncapped Games, Front Giant, Dreamhaven, Lightforge, Bonfire, etc. are.
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Bad headline - omits "certain configurations." Bad article - fails to mention that it's the amount of energy used while idle, NOT the amount of energy used while running, that is restricted.
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They need a consistent framework to understand what is happening - "variables are like little boxes where you can put a number or some letters" and "The equal sign lets you change what is in the box." x+=1 just complicat
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by xsmasher 5y ago
There is already an incentive to provide rides - the payment you get for giving the ride. What does your system improve about the incentives?
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No. The cleanup workers after the Chernobyl accident noted the similarities between their "Exclusion zone" and the zone in the book and movie, and some started calling themselves stalkers. A dangerous zone, controlled by the gover
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The game has an interesting "meta" aspect because it incorporates the Chernobyl disaster into its storyline, twenty years after after the Chernobyl workers incorporated the novel and movie into their mythology. Real "art imit
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You're not wrong. An ominous reading of the last line makes me think of the fetus fields from The Matrix.
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by xsmasher 5y ago
Great poem. You might also like the Donald Fagen song "I.G.Y." - as usual I can't tell if he's being straight or sarcastic, but it's a vision you can hum along with. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U
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by xsmasher 5y ago
Be sure to zoom in on the guy's glasses in the video. Aside from that this looks like real magic.
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The foxfire books are full of this kind of folk wisdom. Much of it practical but with the occasional detour into the magical; there's one bit about how to cure a sure throat if you have never met your father that took my by such surpri
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by xsmasher 5y ago
You could say that comparing social status is innate and natural to some people, but to call Conspicuous Consumption "fundamentally human" is overstatement. Different things make different people happy. Some people enjoy having th
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99PI had an anecdote about exactly that re: "Fordlândia," a rubber plantation in Brazil founded by Henry Ford. The local workers were a source of frustration because they would work one or two days, get paid, and then go home. ht

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