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> processors and drives that generate less heat. If a component is designed for low power usage (i.e., low heat dissipation), that just means you can overclock the hell out of it and get a lot more performance assuming you can deal with the heat. Or else you will just pack a shit-ton of them into a box and have the same exhaust heat as before. So you will never actually get to low-heat-generating nirvana.
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Not everything needs to be performance oriented. There are a lot of tasks where things are good enough and everything beyond that is overkill. Hell, my raspberry pi does quite well at emulating SNES games. Sure, I could upgrade it, but I don't have a need to -- it does exactly what I need it to do.
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407,601 |
> do you expect things to stay Free beer free, and freedom free? no, what I meant in my post is that there's an apparent dichotomy between those things. I'd much rather pay for an internet without ads. And I do - even giving a couple bucks to websites you use is giving them much more than they would have made off of you due to ads. buying reddit gold once, for example. I gave $10 to wikipedia (and now jimbo sends me an annoying email every few months...). It's not realy a big deal.
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Not everyone CAN pay for the internet though. The reason why the internet is such a great place is because, for the small penalty of ads, people can enjoy quality content and communication for no fee. Imagine the sort of barrier it would place on the internet if people had to pay to access it. If you'd rather bar people from internet access rather than allow a small, unobtrusive (Going by Adblock standards here), advertisement to play in the corner that's just selfish.
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407,602 |
I believe Atwood wrote the handmaiden's tale, didn't read the book but watched the show, best thing I have watched in a while!
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If you enjoyed Handmaid's Tale, you might be interested in [Oryx and Crake] It's a 3 part series from the same author.
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407,603 |
The exact number isnt important, it's nonzero, which is enough for my original point. We.are also the only species we know of that can create a mass extinction event by itself.
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Your original point was not "nonzero", but. "one that had made life *extinct or unilaterally worse* for the *overwhelming majority* of other life forms on the planet" Those are pretty different points
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407,604 |
> The original SAW is brilliant. Apart from when he didn't use the saw to reach the phone and drag it toward him.
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that's kind of the point of SAW though. that selfish people see the world only 1 way and in that way they make the wrong decision. there were multiple opportunities for them to escape if they just weren't selfish or just a little bit smarter.
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407,605 |
Straw Dogs and Catfish. The trailer for both movies heavily suggested that they would be horror flicks. Catfish still had a pleasantly surprising value of watch-ability, but Straw Dogs was definitely disappointing. I pictured that the citizens of the town would be akin to the ones in Red State, but this wasn't the case. I've never seen more people leave a theater in the middle of a movie before or since. I know a movie can't advertise it contains depictions of rape in its trailers, but even still, it wasn't handled maturely or thoughtfully. Instead of asking the audience to confront a difficult subject, you just force them to watch suffering with no artistic intent.
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Wait, did you watch the Straw Dogs with James Marsden?
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407,606 |
In "So Long and Thanks for all the Fish" when they meet Wonko the Sane in the Outside the Asylum. Wonko deems the world insane when he see instructions on a toothpick container. "Hold stick near centre of its length. Moisten pointed end in mouth. Insert in tooth space, blunt end next to gum. Use gentle in-out motion."
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i considered the world insane when i saw "do not insert into ear" on a packet of Q-tips.
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407,607 |
Sounds like fusion jazz to me. Good someone wrote it was metal.
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No matter how heavy a song is originally, as soon as you remove the crushing guitar tones, it is no longer Metal anymore.
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407,608 |
This is one of my all time favourite books, and I think the only one that gave me nightmares!! I enjoyed the TV movie, but they left out so much that makes the story truly terrifying, and yes it is a lot darker. I can read it every couple of years and still enjoy it just as much.
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Yeah! Once I read about what really happened to Georgie I was hooked lol
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407,609 |
How did Little Nicky make it into the shit section and Zohan didn't?! Get little nicky out. That films great.
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Little Nicky = Shit. Zohan = Awesomeness. (well, that's my opinion, anyway)
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407,610 |
If a machine can diagnose and treat me more reliability than a human I'm all for it.
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My only concern would be treatment of pain and similar issues. How does a robot treat individuals with individual pain levels?
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407,611 |
> Oughties. This is a hideous term, and I hope it does not catch on.
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Just out of curiosity what is that decade called? The 2000's? And what are we in currently?
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407,612 |
Uh...Ant Man, anyone? I guess that one would be more thievery than spying, but isn't it still pretty much what spy movies do? I am quite excited for Spectre.
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I thought about that too. I think it might be more thievery.
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407,613 |
I used to fall asleep to the CD recording of him reading it. Actually, I still do sometimes. I love that book.
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Me too, I read it to my son all the time. I plan on getting a tattoo from the book.
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407,614 |
yea I agree. What I meant to say is that this doesn't mean 'Adele > MJ' or whatever. MJ's total work still makes him far more iconic.
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He said Michael Jackson > Adele, which means they think Michael Jackson is better than Adele, which would make your comment pointless.
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407,615 |
I wouldn't. Frozen was an excellent film and has been hugely successful. I wouldn't say The Wind Rises is even in Miyazaki's top five films and while is does deserve recognition, I think Frozen was a worthy winner.
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Oh, i'ts in his top 5. 1. Princess Mononoke (His Magnum Opus) 2. Spirited Away. 3. The Wind Rises. 4. My Neighbor Totoro. 5. Howl's Moving Castle
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407,616 |
How funny I just listened to that episode. The one with hurwitz right?
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YES! Fucking *love* Hurwitz. I was wary about him joining the show, but man does he make it even better. He's the fucking **man**.
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407,617 |
Rented a tent, a tent a tent, rented a tent, a tent a tent.
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I'm a drummer, and the way he made me so clearly hear a ratamacue a cue a cue a cue is awesome. I actually forgot the actual words because after the first time I read it, I just heard it.
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407,618 |
Personally I would rather read a book with fewer characters but who are well defined than with following a huge bunch of names all throughout the book and having trouble distinguishing between them.
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See that's the main weakness of the book imho, but when all of my characters have to come from/break out of X location - I need to show them at least slightly interacting even if it's in the background noticing some ranodm dude with green hair, who will be introduced properly later. It was mostly introducing everyone in background of crowd scenes which was hard.
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407,619 |
I read that book 12 years ago. I loved it. I've never really done drugs, other than alcohol, but that book made me want to try some. At least... until I read Fear and Loathing later that year. Enjoy your book club!
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Thanks! Feel free to join us for discussion if you want. DrugsBooks is a lot more about *reading* about drugs than actually taking them. :-) However, there is probably a strong correlation between drug users and people interesting in reading about drugs.
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407,620 |
Oh hot lord, yes. I doubt I could if I tried. As for what it's like... I mean, English is the most bizarre language that I'm aware of and correcting people for what amount to stylistic flourish and variations often seems quite silly to me. But "rules" are rules nonetheless and I seem to get paid for knowing the difference between one bullshit rule and another, so... make of that what you will.
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Do you ever make it through a day of reddit without being the grammar or spelling police? :)
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407,621 |
Like the ten-minute period in Skyfall where the plot goes all Michael Bay. "Gee, maybe I shouldn't have run that program with administrator privileges from the most infamous computer hacker in history. Now it's hacking our building! His evil plan to get captured so that he could escape, steal a police officer's uniform and then kick in a totally unrelated door and fire at some people has come to fruition!"
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Yeah, that pissed me off. There was literally no reason he had to get himself captured. Everything he did afterwards he could have done much more easily if he just plain, you know, DID IT.
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407,622 |
What an incredibly stupid example. You can't honestly think you're making a logical argument.
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Is "separating the artist from his art" a principle or not? I think you're the one being stupid here. I mean, you said nothing other than "durr, that's stupid...durr."
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407,623 |
I find it fascinating that you view the song in this way. I've always heard it as the definitive musical expression of the agony caused by unrequited love or lust, or a horribly flawed love. I've always pictured a swirling purple-black abyss that I walk down for what feels like a cruel eternity, until all I'm left with is a harsh, cold wind. This is what Purgatory sounds like.
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That's the great thing about music. Both of us are right about how that song makes us feel.
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407,624 |
You make a valid point but it also shouldn't be much of a surprise that an American newspaper would pick American books.
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I'm not surprised at all since it happens almost all the time when american newspapers/magazines make those 'Best-of'-Lists. I simply like to point out that those lists are biased and US-centered. It would be fine to name them 'best US books 2015' instead of 'best books 2015'. European media does a way better job here. But i have to admit that even european media seems to forget about asian literature sometimes...
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407,625 |
oh fuck yea. everybody around here in the bay knows who nickatina is. hardly hear any1 mention him anymore, but every now n then i listen to one of his classic tracks. the thing that makes Nickatina different from most local rap cats is he has a very unique sound and style. always gotta have love for dre dog!
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For sure! Now come and [subscribe] and tell your friends :D
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407,626 |
The cello solo at ~3:00 was so awesome, it absolutely destroyed my eardrums. Thanks for sharing this.
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If you like that, here's my favorite track from that album.
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407,627 |
I think it might just be a joke, like the sexy witches
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I remember hearing about him as "a sweet looking guy who seemed like he might work at best buy-- until he dismembers people", back when the movie first came out. Found it, it's a bullet point towards the bottom of the article.
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407,628 |
Also Gerard Depardieu and Vincent Cassel in the beginning. What is the fucking context for that video ? On a sidenote, if the rich and the powerful of this world were to construct secret hideouts for when shit hit the fans and the world is nothing but ruins populated by zombies, like some conspiracy theorists imagine, I want to believe that's how they're gonna spend their evenings,getting drunk, learning the piano and awkwardly singing to one another.
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That is an odd collection of people, although Kurt looks like he's genuinely having fun. I mean, he's seen a head with giant spider legs walk across an autopsy room floor, toppled the King of New York, and taken on a band of savage Troglodytes, but you ain't seen shit until you've seen Vladimir Putin sing *Blueberry Hill*.
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407,629 |
Why are they doing a reboot of the F4 when the other movies came out like only, 8 years ago?
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Fox only has the rights to the Mutants (X-Men) and Fantastic Four content from Marvel. The want to get in on the shared universe action that Marvel is raking it in with, however the existing the Fantastic Four movies don't believable exist in the same world as the X-men movies. They would also need to recast most of the roles.
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407,630 |
it is a 100% blatant rip off, and anyone should be able to see that. their indigogo got $300k, and no further financial plans have been disclosed except "oh we might make a reality show of it". are you fucking kidding me? you expect me to believe they are going to launch rockets to mars on a reality show budget? also they have gone straight for the publicity of picking people. why would the pick candidates now, more than a decade away from launch? Its all complete BS, and i dont see how anyone thinks its anything more than a scam/marketing campaign. They will probably end up scraping the mission and become a media company once the hype train has reached what they think is max.
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$300k? The Focus Fusion scientists didn't even hit their $200k goal. What a world we live in.
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407,631 |
I read The Trial and all I remember is not the story, but a very vivid feeling of physically suffocating in a dusty room.
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This. I think I finished The Trial and then locked myself away for a while... In truth, The Castle was even worse. It's one of those books that's so true it's funny and painful and should never have been written.
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407,632 |
Awesome, thanks! how do I learn to play a keyboard?
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> how do I learn to play a keyboard? sidebar of /r/piano: provides a solid introduction to playing the piano.
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407,633 |
Here's person number two. Salem's Lot is my absolute favorite King novel.
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Person number three checking in ‘Salem’s Lot is my favorite with The Stand as a CLOSE second.
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407,634 |
Me too!! I've taken a lot of crap for saying this.
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What?!? Why? It's one of the most thoughtful and original songs at the time and still sticks with you. The Beatles did a ton to advance music in Sgt Peppers and A Day in the Life was so great. It was sad, it was happy, it was thought provoking, it was silly, it was a day in the life! Anyone who says it's not a good song is just lying to themselves just because they might not like it doesn't mean it's not amazing.
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407,635 |
Actually, there are two other books of Amis's non-fiction, both of which are worth owning (I assume you are thinking of *The War Against Cliché*): *The Moronic Inferno* and *Visiting Mrs. Nabokov*. There is also a sampling of his essays, including my personal favorite, "A Rough Trade," in *Vintage Amis*. I do agree, though, that he should start writing reviewing for, say, the *Times* again. Or perhaps he, being a Brooklynite and all these days, could start contributing to the *Wall Street Journal*'s books pages.
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I mostly just like "As I Please"-type essays, but I'm kind of weird that way. I have gone back and read hundreds of H.L. Mencken essays. Amis probably thinks of novels as the serious work, but I take essays pretty seriously. I did read "Koba the Dread" which is history, or ruminations on history, but it kind of blended in with a bunch of other books I read on Stalin.
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407,636 |
Oh, I don't mind she's a woman, I would've just liked it if the elves remained those mysterious distant douchebags they are in the book, with a cameo of Legolas. I liked the way they're portrayed there, the bad side of the elves the cinema audience hasn't seen in the previous films. Kinda like it's seen through the Dwarves worldview.
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Coming soon: The Hobbit The Musical with all those douchebag elf songs in it. You just wait.
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407,637 |
It isn't peer-reviewed though and they can cite dubious shitty studies.
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What do you mean by "it"? Some stuff is peer reviewed, and we know what that is, and we can trust it. Some stuff doesn't have the resources or the gravitas to solicit peer review, and we know that when we read it. What's the issue here?
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407,638 |
I don't understand the question... sorry. I think the phrase requires the article "la", as in: "¡Viva la revolution!", and I was just being a grammarian.
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yes that this the phrase, but that means "for the revolution" viva if I remember my latin coming from vitus or life so it could mean in a sense "live the revolution", but to sound better in english it could be "long live the revolution" now back to this la business la means the right? so in saying "la revolution" means the revolution, which is kind of talking about a specific one. now I was referring to revolution in general, or better yet the act of it, not a certain one. so kindly take your goose stepping ways elsewhere. also [watch this]
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407,639 |
Well, his life is already ruined, he might as well finish what he started.
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Yeah, a book bashing capitalism. Thats sure to rustle some feathers.
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407,640 |
> Weta Workshop created armor, weapons and props for the live-action human performers. Wait...what? I thought the movie was 100% CGI. Like the WoW cinematic trailers? Live-action performances? Does that mean there will be actors portraying real human beings, spliced into the completely CGI'd world? I'm confused as to what this movie is exactly... If the movie is 100% CGI like the cinematic trailers, then I understand the use of humans for the animation process. For example, people wearing bubble suits, like Gollum in LOTR. But they wouldn't need "armor and weapons" like you described.
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The movie is *not* 100% CGI. Think Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. It features fully live-action humans (props and costumes by Weta Workshop), and fully digital creatures (orcs, etc) by ILM that were performed by real actors (alla Gollum (LOTR) or Ceaser (Apes)) using some of the most advanced performance capture technologies to date. It is not a traditional green-screen movie, however, as it was shot primarily on practical sets that were extended digitally, with a few fully CG environments (for reasons that will be obvious). It was shot largely on sound-stages in Vancouver, BC (due to the film-production tax subsidies that have been luring cash-hungry productions out of Cali).
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407,641 |
Something about pugs! Because I love pugs. Maybe about a pug puppy and a kitten who are adopted by their owners only a few months apart, and how they get along in a really cute manner (like the cat helps the dog learn how to navigate the stairs) and how they get into shenanigans together like the cat knocking cheese bread off the counter so they both can eat it. It's like Milo and Otis in the suburbs. ... Ok, I'll admit it, that was based on my pets, and yes, those two examples actually happened.
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I also would like to see: "Navigating the Post-Apocalyptic Wasteland for Toddlers." That would be great. You could make a series! "Navigating the Wasteland during Puberty!" "Navigating the Wasteland: Ages 7-9."
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407,642 |
Try it in audio book. That's how I made it through.
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How do they handle all the footnotes in the audio book? So much of the appeal of the book is the foreshadowing and wry period commentary in the footnotes.
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407,643 |
Overdrive I love how easy it is to use kindle to read using your app. Is there an easier way to get rid of expired titles in kindle, on your end at least? Amazon makes it a bit of a trek
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Hi! If you're using our new app Libby the titles will remove themselves from the bookshelf automatically. Unfortunately we can't make the amazon side less cumbersome :)
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407,644 |
Still living off the high of Cap 2? It's only been out like 4 days in America.. I don't See batman vs superman grossing more than 150m in it's first weekend, which will need to beat Captain America 3.
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It doesn't matter how much it grosses the first weekend. Whatever it grosses will beat cap 3 and in the end will be a billion dollar movie.
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407,645 |
Cowboy Beebop and Howl's Moving Castle were both amazing.
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As is Trigun, if you don't mind the slapstick that shows up during the more lighthearted episodes.
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407,646 |
I'd rather have someone doing what Bill Gates is doing. Far more useful than an electric car and space flight both of which only benefit the middle classes and higher.
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the earth is in danger, if life is no longer viable on earth then we all die, it doesn't matter what class you are. space exploration is the first step to ensure our long term existence.
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407,647 |
Your devil's advocate skills need more work. You just keep repeating the same thing over and over again.
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Well it's true. Posting this thread does nothing about the current mod situation, and as long as Wax keeps being active at least once a month, he's good.
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407,648 |
I'll look into all of these, and I guess I shall be posting this to /r/physics. I mean what's the worst that could happen.
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Six Easy Pieces are some of the earliest chapters in the Feynman Lectures on Physics. It's a reasonable introduction to some basic stuff like mechanics, gravitation, and some of the basic ideas behind QM. I second QED, it's a good little book - you'll probably need to re-read the last two chapters a few times. If you actually want to get into some more serious stuff, I'd recommend looking at the Feynman Lectures on Physics. These are actual textbooks of transcribed lectures he gave for 1st/2nd year students, and there are 3 fairly substantial volumes. It all depends what you are looking for, I suppose.
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407,649 |
You don't understand. She always wanted Neville to be Voltron and Harry to have a rainbow forehead tattoo.
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Turns out there's a measure for how strong you are at magic.
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407,650 |
This subreddit has never been /r/technologyCensorFree, it has always been a highly moderated subreddit for true technology content. But a lot of people came here trying to hijack it and make it into something it's not.
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I agree with it being removed, very little Tech substance. Was just commenting on an observation I made.
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407,651 |
I'm looking for a broad strokes overview of the French Revolution
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You might find some of the books recommend by the [AskHistorians booklist] suitable.
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407,652 |
Tip was TI's grandma's nickname for him, and he shortened it to T.I. because he's on the same record label as Q-Tip and didn't want any confusion between the two. Q-Tip = Question, just the Tip?
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I didn't know that last bit about the meaning of Q-Tip's name. Is that actually true? If so, me = MindBLOWN!!! I'm a huge ATCQ fan and never knew that. :)
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407,653 |
If you haven't played a bass, pick one up. I don't care if you're the craziest adhd person alive it'll smooth you out (-metal... I'm a metal head but those fuckers are crazy)
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Actually I am diagnosed with ADHD and I’m borrowing a bass from a friend. You’re right though! I think it’s something with the fact that you feel the bass vibrating with you, sort of like an auditory massage?
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407,654 |
The prince of thorns series is similar and also very good- it’s a little darker, but one of my favorite fantasy series ever.
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Not sure if you are aware but the Broken Empire is the prince of thorns series.
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407,655 |
Can't wait for the inevitable comment chain of people hating on Kanye who have never actually listened to one of his albums.
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Literally every comment in here is Kanye fanboying. Can't wait for people to comment about the comments without reading the comments.
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407,656 |
Maybe try Last Days of Night by Moore (historical fiction) or even The Force by Winslow (Dirty NY Cop). I just finished listening to The Force while at work and it's a damn good story and Dion Graham does an awesome job of narrating.
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I haven't heard of either of these! I'll have to check them out!
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407,657 |
You never really think about how depended companies are to the appstore. Uber would be finished
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Ever heard about web apps? It would actually expand their reach. Too bad web apps on iOS are years behind :(
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407,658 |
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. Had to read it for AP History. Didn't really want to cause it was like 400-500 pages. By the end, I was blown away with the writing style and the struggle that was the turn of the century.
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This book changed the way I think about our world on so many levels. Forever. Every American should read it.
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407,659 |
Despite what the article leads with it's not a virus. It's a trojan/malware. Sucks Transmission has to take this bite. It's a good program in general.
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In modern days virus and malware are really considered synonymous
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407,660 |
There's something strangely disgusting about the drumsticks. I find it repulsive to look at but I can't put my finger on why.
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I know exactly what you mean. I think it's a sort of "uncanny valley" type thing, but for drumsticks. If they had made them look 100% cartoony, they'd be fine. If they had gone for 100% realism, they'd be fine, but it looks like they did 50% of each and it ends up looking like a half-fake blob of fucked up chicken
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407,661 |
House of dead leaves, starts off normal ish and is like descending into schizophrenia/madness. Its about a haunted house where the dimensions inside warp and its just nuts.
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Wow! I don't know if this was a mistake or if you were going meta, but you sent me into a panic spiral thinking that *House of Dead Leaves* was the **real** book, and reading it makes you think you read a completely different book called *House of Leaves*
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407,662 |
For me, that'd be contingent on two things: The rape threats existing and the rape threats coming from people that aren't internet trolls. I stated in another comment that I've gotten plenty of rape threats for stating controversial opinions. Never really took it seriously. Edit: downvotes don't make me wrong, feminists of Reddit.
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>the rape threats coming from people that aren't internet trolls. I don't consider this a very meaningful distinction. I think the threats alone are inherently bad.
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407,663 |
Yeah, i had "planned" to get a new card this year but i now plan to get it next year... or so... 760 fuck me! I have Steep installed and can run it at 17 FPS using scaled down resolution! Doom can sometimes reach 30! I really want to play Nioh or all the new raging games of last year. Also final fantasy 15 and the new far cry. Guess i'll wait for gtx 1160... or 1260... There is a slight chance mining never stops as creating new currency attracts crazy people who believe they can "make it" and miners dreams of fortunes... So is this really going to stop ? Maybe i should just get a nintendo thing.
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Sheesh, look a little on the second hand market and you can get a 970, it's pretty lively and you can get some good deals on one generation old mid range gpu's like 960's
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407,664 |
I was waiting to see this one. If I know someone that doesn't like Radiohead, I recommend In Rainbows. It's pretty much my favorite album ever, and I haven't heard anyone say they don't like the song "15 Step", although I'm sure reddit can prove me wrong on that one.
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I don't really like 15 Step. The tone-shift partway through the song just sounds so... overwrought and sudden, and then the song gets kind of sloppy after that. I'm sure I sound like a dick right now, but I just wanted to get that out there.
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407,665 |
If you do not understand what does "entering legally" means, I'm afraid you are much worse than an idiot.
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Even if it was just that, Then you conflate it with nationalism and white supremacy. Disgusting
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407,666 |
Then you have no issue with white_water's comment. It showed no hate for Benedict. Or what do you mean?
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He said that that was WHY people hated him. Unless I'm crazy, I'm half asleep.
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407,667 |
You hit the nail on the head good sir/madame. Have you seen the Jools Holland version with Queens and PJ Harvey? It's incredible. Pretty sure they played it before they reworked it for EV.
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It was originally from The Desert Sessions, with Mark Lanegan singing. My favorite version of the song is from [Over the Years live album.] More uptempo and so, so good.
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407,668 |
[Surprise, My Love!] >Summary: Albus wants to see his long term lover Severus round with his child and plans to deliberately impregnate him. [Surprise Again, My Love!] >Summary: Albus and Severus are now the proud parents of nine month old Albion, but what happens when Albus comes back and finds Severus breast feeding?
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Ok what the fuck oh god. Edit: Ok, I just finished reading it... what the fuck oh god why would anyone write this?
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407,669 |
Collateral is over a decade old. I saw it with my dad and he's hated me for years, so it can't have been recent.
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Good thing I said 'most recent', because I can't think of a 3rd role more recently that grabbed me.
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407,670 |
> Will Be Sold For Companies Only. So it's still dead.
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For consumers, yes. But many people in production environments are looking for a glass like device to replace mobile devices and extend the limited capabilities of wearables.
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407,671 |
[Spoiler] (#s "Honestly, if they bring Harry back, they'd better have a damn good way of explaining it. Bringing him back at all sort of ruins his death scene, as he'd just committed an atrocity that went against his moral code. But I could overlook that if they don't "Dark Knight Rises" his survival.")
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I don't think he'd be particularly psychologically traumatized by said "atrocity"- he's been a spy for probably at least 20-25 years, his kill count in Kentucky wouldn't even faze him. So he killed a bunch of intolerant bigots who were under mind control and attempting to kill him- how about how many minions Eggsy murdered getting in and out of Valentine's compound (or the number of people whose heads he and Merlin arranged to have blown up into fireworks), and neither of them seemed bothered by any of that at all.
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407,672 |
I do too! Although I don't love the stickers. Is bookoutlet the same kind of thing? I'll have to check them out.
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bookoutlet is new books, the kind you find in bins in various stores that have a small red or black dot or line on the page edges, so basically unsold stock the publisher won't take back or something. very cheap if they have something you want, and of course don't mind the tiny mark on your otherwise new condition books
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407,673 |
Well he *could* say "i think that kid is a better fit than ben affleck"
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I'm waiting to see the movie before creating my opinion on Ben Affleck as Batman
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407,674 |
She studied neuroscience and philosophy. Only reason she didn’t complete college was that she started making music and slowly became popular, first in the underground and then bleeding into the mainstream. So it makes sense for her to date Elon. They probably stimulate each other adequately.
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Interesting ..this provides some much-needed context - definitely seems less random now
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407,675 |
It was recent, popular, and done by an acclaimed director. Of course it was going to skew the final tally.
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This was a list done last year. But your reasons just helped explain the fanboy bias and circlejerking around the movie
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> Every major company I know of that's implemented SSL/TLS has discovered that it's a nearly irrelevant performance hit. Encryption's fast. Every major company I know of terminates SSL on the load balancer, not on the web server.
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With the caveat that that is for web servers - it's less common for things like email servers to decrypt on a separate machine, and they tend to use the MX mechanism rather than load balancers.
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> There is no such thing as bad publicity. So, here's a company that I never heard of, who used their users (ahem) to spam news sites on social media, at least one of which took the bait and wrote about them, creating more publicity for them. Hook, line, and sinker. I still wouldn't use their service though.
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> I still wouldn't use their service though. Exactly this. This is the point!
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Hey fictional characters only win 66% of the time. That's not, you know, overwhelmingly most of the time.
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Not in recent years, according to OP's graph. Ever since 2004, 22 of the nominees were for real-life portrayals, while 31 were for fictional portrayals. And eight out of the eleven winners since that year have been for real-life portrayals. I wouldn't call it favoritism, but it is certainly disappointing. One of the best things about film is seeing outstanding characters in original stories all from the minds of brilliant writers, but seeing statistics like these makes it really unsurprising that the studios have been frothing at the mouth trying to get their Steve Jobs and Edward Snowden biopics made.
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Execution. It's going to be "We got suits. Come get your suits. You're gonna be Octopus man, you're gonna be the flying guy..."
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Yeah, that's how it seems, since Oscorp apparently has all this shit prebuilt. I imagine they think they're being clever by having Oscorp be the spawn of all of Spider-Man's villains in this film universe, but, it comes off as really lazy to me. Plus the logical problems like; how does a corporation stand to make money from any of this? How come they aren't getting sued by their workers? How come they aren't getting shut down by the government for making giant lizard people?
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I would love to see them make a movie about "The Real Story".
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I think with the right set up the whole thing could really be great, the ending to "This Day All Gods Die" on the big screen could be so, amazing.
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A kindle or phone app might be easier to carry but it just isn't the same as having the book in your hands, or seeing the collection on your shelf. Plus there's nothing like that new book smell...
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> Plus there's nothing like that new book smell... Used book smell > new book smell.
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It's a lot better than the mid-2000's trend of gradients and glass effects on everything.
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I quite like the glass effects of windows Vista and 7. Why is it so universally disliked?
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407,683 |
At the show in Feb, Justin mention a new album. Any clue when it's being released?
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The mentioned it would be soon when I saw them recently, even played a song off of it
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book·worm/ˈbo͝okˌwərm/ Noun: * A person devoted to reading. * The larva of a wood-boring beetle that feeds on the paper and glue in books. Which would you say is the definition they should imply?
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Well, I didn't buy my book collection to read it, that's for sure. Mmm... glue and paper...
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Biggest question, what phone and tablets will be able to upgrade to it. Hoping my s6 is compatible.
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Samsung seems to be about 6 months to a year behind. Probably only nexus devices will see this for the first 6 months or so after release.
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If he says a word and it's not in a crowd or an exclamation it counts as a speaking role. (I think. Correct me if I'm wrong.)
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TRue...............anytime you appear and speak one word in film or TV it is considered a film credit and a speaking role.
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don't forget predictable. We watched what, a 10 minute scene of a car slowly driving up. Ooohhh tension, I can't guess what's gonna happen next? Maybe it'll blow up? hmm....
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Definitely. Couldn't have been more obvious the car was going to blow up. Gee, I wonder why he was so hesitant to ride up to those guys who wanted to inspect the vehicle?
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The TPP is weirdly political -- not because of parties; they actually seem a bit split -- but between classes of people, wealthy and poor. Almost every leak seems to be pushing for more property rights, specifically intellectual property.
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It is, first and foremost a corporatist treaty. Very much the dark side of free market capitalism where we see corporations conspire remove barriers to them making profits, and enact barriers to stop potential competitors. It doesn't really even make sense to think of it in terms of "wealthy vs poor" anymore. This is about those that own the capital, vs those that create the capital. Like Chris Rock said "Shaq is rich. The white man that signs his check is wealthy", it's more like the wealthy vs everyone else.
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Me, too! And I'm a professional editor. For me, it was Focault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco. Maybe because it was translated from Italian, I don't know. From Wikipedia: "Foucault's Pendulum is divided into ten segments represented by the ten Sefiroth. The novel is full of esoteric references to Kabbalah, alchemy and conspiracy theory—so many, that critic and novelist Anthony Burgess suggested that it needed an index." I quit after a few pages.
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That's the one! I slogged through two or three chapters before giving up. What made it worse for me is that I was taking interpretation theory for sign language. The prof brought up Umberto Eco as a great example of how to be translated, because he gives his writing notes to the translator so they have the whole picture and not just the primary text. He asked if anyone had read Umberto Eco. I foolishly raised my hand and found myself having to explain why I didn't finish it. >_<
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Please, check out the wiki's [what to read] section. Please, keep all requests for suggestions to the [Books Suggestions Thread]
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My apologies. Not only a book noob, still a Reddit noob too.
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Why would you feel sorry for someone who doesn't know how to turn off their phone in 2012? It's fucking 2012 already! Has this man never owned a cell phone? Even if he doesn't know how to silence it, he could at least turn it off. Even if he doesn't know how to do *that*, he could have asked someone near him, or an usher, to help him turn it off. There is no excuse for this. And there is an announcement before the show to turn off your phones. Come on.
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If you read [the original NYT] article he said said that, in fact, he didn't know his phone even came with an alarm. Not to mention the alarm would sound even if the phone was silent or off even, unless you specifically turn alarm sounds off. It's a reasonably complex phone for someone who is 60 to 70 years old ans not sure how they work evidentially. Edit: added link to the NYT article.
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i actually bought that book to say i read it. 30 pages into it, sitting on my nightstand, some dickwad at a party spilled beer all over it and didn't tell me. woke up the next day to find that the thing had become a sticky brick. i took it as a sign to not bother.
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also a quintessential college thing. yours is "the Do-not-bothers Karamazov"
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With Ant Man targeting the same demographic, Id say even beating Avengers seems difficult.
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It's currently [$38 million ahead of The Avengers at the same point.] It's going to pass the Avengers within 10-14 days.
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Okay. Any long-term e-mail providers that aren't corporate pieces of shit? I'm looking to move away from G-Mail. Edit: Shitlord comment here, it also helps if it's free. I'm not paying for something I should be able to do with my internet-connection I paid for already. Edit 2: Since some of you don't seem to understand this: Email is a few bits of information that can be send from with extremely little costs, such that the provider can easily afford free email with alternative means of monetizing. Shit comments about setting up your own service or how the Internet isn't free, not what I was looking for, not helping at all. Thanks for your understanding.
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I'm not sure what you mean by "long term" but here are two good providers that I am aware of. [Startmail](HTTPS://startmail.com) - have strong privacy policy, run by long respected privacy conscious company behind the IxQuick & Startpage search providers. $60/year. [Tutanota](HTTPS://tutanota.de) - new provider, open source, fully encrypted (between Tutanota users). Free.
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Saw it recently, I thought the concept and visuals were great but it went on for an hour to long. It could have been much better if it ended with the story up till his death.
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I thought the whole thing worked great as a complete piece about loss.
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Thrawn is great, but I want Darth Bane canonized. Still my favorite series because of the depth it gave the Sith history!
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Technically he is, as an illusion of him appeared to Yoda in TCW and stated he destroyed the old Sith and created the Rule of Two. Everything else about his story is still up in the air at this point though.
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Part of the problem with this is that there is a buttload of insecure hardware and software between you and this app. Your information and messages are compromised before you even get far enough to send it.
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It's a step in the right direction. You can run open source all the way down to the power supply if you want to.
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It was not assembled using a smartphone sized device, just sequenced. Computations still require cloud services.
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At this scale you don't really need cloud services. E. coli is small enough that a laptop can do it in a couple of hours.
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After a certain age, cribbed Blake and Huxley just don't seem as deep as during adolescence.
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I think you're right. The actual music is okay, but all the pseudo-philosophical psychedelic nonsense starts to get in the way.
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