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by zzalpha 10y ago
I've only heard about it in the last few years. It seems like a very cheap, but very effective hack. You've just described rasterized rendering. ;)
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by zzalpha 10y ago
Apparently. Citations, please, and not just from the odd right-wing politician trying to drum up votes. I've never seen a serious news article making a claim like that in the last ten years. Fun fact: googling for "video games m
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by zzalpha 10y ago
You can argue the gaming subculture shouldn't care what people outside of it think, but it's too often been picked on and used as a scapegoat for societal ills. I don't think gaming has been a specific target of moral panic
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by zzalpha 10y ago
Sure, so make that decision. But do it based on what you want and what you value, and let others do the same. Wasting time being concerned if someone else thinks what you're doing or reading or playing is important or valuable is a
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by zzalpha 10y ago
Yeah, okay, so the plot sucked you in, but are you happy afterwards that you did that? Uh, yes. Why wouldn't I be? Should art not be compelling? Enjoyable? Must it necessarily be "challenging" (whatever that means) to be
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by zzalpha 10y ago
Ah! A fellow member of the Oregon Trail Generation! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_Trail_Generation
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by zzalpha 10y ago
Put more succinctly: tell them what and why, let them figure out how. Aka, the golden rule of the Product Owner/Manager.
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by zzalpha 10y ago
This "anomaly", as they're calling it, is why. Better to have the rocket explode on the pad in a controlled test than in the air over a populated area.
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by zzalpha 10y ago
And the best part is, no one knows why.
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by zzalpha 10y ago
Poe's Law strikes again...
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by zzalpha 10y ago
Yeah. Statistics like that are designed to alarm rather than educate. The reality is that world hunger has been on a steep decline over the last two decades: http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/288229&
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by zzalpha 10y ago
Tolerance and half-life are related but not the same. A person may have low tolerance/high sensitivity (due to fewer adenosine receptors) but metabolize quickly. I actually find I have high sensitivity and metabolize slowly, which is w
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by zzalpha 10y ago
Err and now for your real question. Honestly, I don't think you get anything. Lower blood pressure is probably the biggest benefit. But it may be offset by other benefits (coffee may reduce risk of some cancers, diabetes, Alzheimer&#
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by zzalpha 10y ago
It tastes nice on the day I bought it, it tastes like crap already the next day. Get a decent grinder. Buy and store whole beans and grind as needed. They'll last a lot longer. Also store in an air tight container in a cool dark pl
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by zzalpha 10y ago
(Speaking as a person with well-managed asthma) I assume you're on a maintenance corticosteroid or long acting bronchodilator? I'd hope you don't regularly have trouble sleeping due to uncontrolled asthma...
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by zzalpha 10y ago
I often wonder what level of exposure you need to become addicted, and how much is controlled by individual variability. Speaking for myself, I'm a 2-3 cups a day on the weekdays kind of person (up until about 2-3pm at which point I cu
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by zzalpha 10y ago
That was a one-off event. Folks who don't regularly remote work will think of that as a "treat". In their minds they're probably viewing it as an unofficial day off. Assuming that's comparable to a true remote wor
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by zzalpha 10y ago
I'm gonna assume you meant 70+, not 170+, unless you're a time traveller... Or you really did mean it was impossible, in which case... math checks out.
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by zzalpha 10y ago
Precisely. Amazon is a sweatshop. The expectation is salaried employees put in ungodly hours. All this is doing is giving people more freedom to burn themselves out at home, while further blurring the lines between work and life and throwi
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by zzalpha 10y ago
But that's not what trigger warnings are for... it's not just about mild discomfort. They're to prevent panic attacks. I'm sure no true Scotsman would have a problem with that definition...
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by zzalpha 10y ago
If you have good intentions and are useful to others, they will be attracted to you. Am I the only one that finds this statement darkly utilitarian?
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by zzalpha 10y ago
I don't even like the habit of using "git pull". When training folks I start by introducing them to "git fetch" and manually merging or rebasing on the remote tracking branch so they're fully in control of the
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by zzalpha 10y ago
Also: if this was possible and sustainable, everyone would be doing it.
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by zzalpha 10y ago
I hate headlines like this, that use absolute numbers to draw clicks. After all, 2.7B seems like so much! And then you realize that's a mere 4.7% decline. And it'll be offset by gains in broadband subscription revenues. The headli
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by zzalpha 10y ago
I wouldn't get too hung up on it. I've found, on HN, downvote abuse usually gets reversed over time.
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by zzalpha 10y ago
A lot of what Wikileaks is reporting now is that the media is coordinating with the same people that these leaks are about in the first place. In other words, the media isn't trustworthy. It doesn't work like that. In the past W
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by zzalpha 10y ago
Sounds great! Please post your complete medical and financial history here. Thanks!
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by zzalpha 10y ago
will start again I believe the word you're looking for is "continue".
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by zzalpha 10y ago
By actually listening to her, he found that she doesn't have an intractable philosophical opposition to abortion. Actually, we don't know that either way. We understand where her philosophical position takes root. That's i
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by zzalpha 10y ago
You talk about compassion, but only so you can dismiss it offhand on your way to a multi-paragraph denunciation of the way she and people like her are just so unreasonable. I denounced nothing. I said her beliefs are her beliefs and that

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