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408,700	I do hope that google gets into the game but google fiber has made me skeptical about how fast they will move on it. I hope they do it but its at least 5 years away.	The problem is they can't move that fast or comcast/other nefarious competitors will slap them with a monopoly charge.
408,701	Just imagine every gas/petrol station turns into a battery swap. You don't need more stations, just a _lot_ of battery stock. The charge time isn't that critical. If you have enough stock, you're covered until the spent ones people are trading in are charged at the battery swap station. The 'time' from a customer's POV is how long it takes to swap a battery.	Making batteries isn't environmentally friendly though so having loads of surplus batteries could be worse than just having a hydrogen fuel cell option.
408,702	Their solar roof system would replace not only the shingles but a lot of the underlying support and insulation for the roof as well	Usually (at least in the states) its just tar paper and pitch. Something about this still doesn't make sense.
408,703	What about when he started to fall in the hole and then just jumped back out?	As /u/Metagen pointed out, the wall-jump was added into the version of Mario this programmer based his algorithm on. When he put his cursor in the pit, the AI wanted to follow because the cursor has a high value. However, following it 100% would've lead to death, and since not-death is the absolute highest value, the AI got as close to the second highest value (the cursor) it could while still achieving the highest value, not dying. Had wall-jumping not been in this version of the game, I imagine Mario would've just stood at the side of the pit, possibly looking at the screen while muttering "Fuck-a that."
408,704	No it wasnt. Otto was hitting a bong, Marge says, "Throw the god damn bomb!", Homer gives all of Springfield the finger, Bart gets drunk, a man gets crushed by the dome. There was plenty to be PG-13	True, but that was listed by papers at the time as the big controversial thing that caused the movie to end up as PG13. It's harder to get people angry at somebody dying or cursing than it is to get people angry at a cartoon penis.
408,705	I love the soundtrack, but when I used to play minecraft solo it just made me sad. I hope I'm not the only one	It's absolutely beautiful, but after a long enough time playing on your own it does start to make you sad/tired.
408,706	I always thought that it was maybe about how arbitrary bullying is. Through most of the book, we think that Linda is being bullied because she's fat. But then Jill does one little thing and the bullying switches to her instead - even though she's not fat and nothing about her appearance was previously remarkable. As a severely bullied child, I found that strangely comforting. If the target can change for any reason or no reason, then maybe it's not something inherent in myself that makes me deserve it - it's just luck of the draw and could have been anyone.	I didn't think of it that way - good point!
408,707	This. I'm almost certain she uses inserts or something because she's like this all the time. Boggles my mind.	Exactly! How does she do it? Is it just natural, or does she do it on purpose?
408,708	taking donations for making free videos is bad? twitch streamers don't mind	I suspect that the mindset of the average Twitch streamer is quite different from the mindset of the average YouTuber.
408,709	I think the better question that directly affects us is: If we actually do this sort of thing, how will it affect the price of electricity? Will it be next to costless or will it remain roughly the same as dictated by the electric companies?	That's a question for /r/politics! It deals with public utilities, the regulations that govern them and the economy and society that implement them.
408,710	They've spent a lot of their time being partially owned by Ford due to frequent financial issues. Mazda even made cars with Ford badges for a long time. For how hard it was to compete against the manufacturing powerhouse that was (and still is) Toyota, it's a little more clear how only Honda is also in the top 10: they have a stronger manufacturing backbone outside of the auto market than Mazda to help fund production.	Mazda currently makes the Yaris iA for Toyota. It is a Mazda with a Toyota badge.
408,711	I always watch every Wes Anderson movie thinking I will love it. I never do :(	Do you know why? What do you expect that then isn't there? It's interesting to think that his movies are so luring when often the most noted thing about him is that he has a very constant style.
408,712	So the problem is you don't like it when entertainers get involved in politics? Or is it only a problem when they're views don't fall in line with yours?	I'm pointing out the hypocrisy of Chuck. I don't give two shits who celebrities endorse politically or what side they fall on.
408,713	Oh I'd never worry about LSD killing me. But overuse and living in trip land for extended periods of time will definitely fuck with your memory. I've done thumbprints so I'm pretty familiar with what happens at ridiculous doses. Shit you might be reading some of my trip reports lol.	Whats the difference between doing 2-4 hits and a thumbprint?
408,714	> It makes Kanye's mediocre singing more obvious. That's the point. He actually purposefully sings out of keys to achieve this effect. Kanye is such a genius that he amplifies his weaknesses and turns them into strengths.	How does this turn his mediocre singing into a strength if it just sounds crappy? What does it achieve, musically?
408,715	That's good to hear. I actually had low hopes for the movie but after seeing these comments perhaps I'll give it a chance if it's still at the theater I go to.	Haven't seen it, but the script is fire. Sorkin kills it.
408,716	Well, looks like /u/Scottsman333 and /u/hindu_child correctly guessed one of the larger plot twists back in July with [this thread] and [this thread] I remember thinking that was a good guess.	Haven't actually seen the movie (but I will soon) but I couldn't resist the temptation to see if those guesses were correct as soon as I could. Glad to see they were, I actually really liked that guess. Look I'm even in one of those threads! Hey, past me!
408,717	I would like to know (seriously) if it has any redeeming qualities, hence 'any good then'	Nabokov wrote it, that's pretty much the only quality it needs to be qualified as good. If you like prose at all, you'll enjoy whatever he has to offer.
408,718	well. I own a region free blu-ray player right now. just walked into the store and bought it. not expensive. so ok.	Have you tested it with region-locked discs from outside your own region?
408,719	I would actually love to see him in some movie about valentines day where he just can't catch a break until some wacky girl with glasses comes and takes his breath away.	I could see him as the socially awkward guy who just wants someone to cuddle him à la Joachim Phoenix in Her or Ryan Gosling in Lars and the Real Girl.
408,720	It depends on how they implement it. Don't most bank/credit card apps require a login before each use? If so, you've pretty much already lost your savings anyways if you're vulnerable to something like this and they don't require you to login to the app every time before using it.	The commonwealth bank of Australia you need to log into the app and pick an atm along with how much to withdraw. The app gives you a couple of codes that remain valid only for the particular atm and only for a short time before they expire. The app itself has its own password/pin to login, which, for obvious reasons should be different from your phones pin, it also supports TouchID. Edit: You don't need to pick an atm. The app displays one code, and sms's you the other, you then type both into any cba atm within 30min to withdraw the nominated amount. You can give the codes to someone else if you wish so they can withdraw on your behalf.
408,721	Numbers Above Us: a movie about numbers that hover above people's heads that show exactly how much time they have left before they die, but a person can never see his own number.	I'm just going to head out to get something to eat, then I'm going to work on this one. I like it.
408,722	In terms of benefits to consumers, none that I can see. Visa and MasterCard are rolling these out as competition to Apple Pay, Google Wallet and CurrentC, etc. As far as I can tell, everyone one of the above products are getting little to no traction with consumers or merchants. MasterPass and Visa Checkout are no different. I think these are all solutions in search of a problem.	Right? It seems like the slogan should be "Because We Can." I'm still trying to wrap my head around what they are saying they are offering.
408,723	Jeffrey Brown illustrations? Nice job! Looks great. I'm excited to see it.	Love Jeffrey Brown. "Clumsy" is one of my favorite books.
408,724	I don't go around social media websites and call random strangers 'assholes'. However, I can see and hear Miley's old and new material, I can read quotes and make an opinion. When I see her dangle naked on a metaphorical wrecking ball, I can make quick judgements, but mostly I can disaprove of people who promote her songs. In this case, Igor. I don't ask you to agree to every pieces of what I'm saying, and you can keep on listening to Miley's songs or Lady Gaga, Madonna, Spears etc. Good for you, and I hope you hurry up and smarten up. That's all.	I do not see how you can get "whore" from this video. I am certain Miley Cyrus is not having sexual relations with anybody in here for money, or sleeping around at all for that matter, making your judgement moot and certainly mean. From that, I believe I can call you an asshole. Also, I believe Miley is human being, so calling her a monkey certainly doesn't make sense. Learn to get a bit more creative with your insults the next time you decide to spew your distasteful judgments of people we only hear and see about second hand.
408,725	A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - Dave Eggers. Hits all emotions.	His 'What is the What' is great, too. He takes on powerful, important subjects that might not otherwise be sexy and writes about them in a clear and straightforward way. You are not only entertained, but educated.
408,726	In the printing I read of Crime and Punishment for class, the font was about size 6 or 7. I can truthfully say I read the whole thing, despite the Russian names stopping the story dead every time. I'm sure that it is a bit of a more enjoyable read if you read and understand the original Russian version, not the English translation.	I kept a little notebook while reading it where I would write down each person's name and something important about them to help me remember who they were. I did this for many books in high school. It helps a lot, especially very good authors who briefly mention a minor character in chapter 1 and then suddenly bring them back for something hugely important in chapter 23.
408,727	the godfather. my favourite book, and probably favourite film of all time. true masterpiece	This is a great [book of essays] that plays off the Godfather, if you see it in the library pick it up.
408,728	Poor analogy. While vaccines don't have a 100% success rate, they're far higher than 50%. Vaccines also protect those who cannot be vaccinated via herd immunity. I don't know of any kind of herd immunity being provided by AV software to systems without it. Those systems are more like the wounded gazelle and get scooped up by the cheetah. You don't have to outrun the bear, you just need to outrun your friend.	Vaccines have over 50% success rate on future diseases that did not exist when they were created? Who knew! Or is could it be so that vaccines are good at detecting threats that have been identified, in which case they would be an excellent analogy for AV detections.
408,729	Or watch prime video on Android apart from fire products. Ridiculous.	If you download the Amazon app directly from Amazon (i.e. not the version in the Play Store) you can get Amazon Instant Video, which includes Prime and non-Prime video.
408,730	Well that's because it samples music from the original Mission Impossible spy series. The Danube Incident by Lalo Schifrin.	Wow, really dig that piece.. I had no idea the Portishead riff was a sample.
408,731	I think the idea was that, like in real life, not all crimes are solved and criminals are not always caught.	i agree..i like unsolved or movies that dont always have happy ride into the sunset movies...this one just caught me totally off guard.
408,732	So you didn't really care for any of them? I thought about reading them since I'm trying to get into Nonfiction books lately, I usually read history and military. Plus I'm mid-20s and in the Army so feel like it may be a little weird to be reading The Hunger Games...	I enjoyed number 1 and 2, quite in depth for their size. In my opinion, Collins tried to hustle the ending which caused number three to be a bit of a let down. Overall, an okay series. If possible, get a Kobo Glo. About 80 dollars, works with most file formats unlike the kindle (mobi only if I recall), easily portable, back lit, and can read whatever the hell you want because nobody will know. Edit: Hunger Games is fiction/science fiction. There are much better fiction and better science fiction books/series out there.
408,733	I agree that his story has been told, but I like the idea of him appearing as an auxiliary character in the future.	I bought Sharp Ends purely because I heard there was more Glokta in it... So yeah, echoing this! He has a couple of oblique mentions in the other books but I really want more. The newer main characters aren't as interesting as Glokta, Logan and Jezal.
408,734	The Night Watch is one of my favorite Discworld sub-series! Okay, most of them are my favorite, but seriously the Night Watch is great.	Yes, I really dig it so far, though Mort and Pyramids are my favourites of the ones I've read. Well, if you can have discworld favourites that is. It's almost like choosing which one of my two cats I love the most.
408,735	All of the above, depending upon the audience? There is no reason behind it, because absolutely no problems occur in day to day life because of this. At worst, "Oh you misunderstood me because you're from another country, let me clear that up for you." If you come to America and expect people to change how they speak for you get over it. If an American comes to Britain and expects the same, slap them for me. It is all a petty way to feel superior to someone else.	Actually the US not conforming to international standards suggests that the superiority complex falls in their court. Edit: herp
408,736	[Bob Dylan - Masters of War] *The Pearl Jam version is the only one I could find.	There's a remix done for the Crackdown 2 soundtrack of this song that's actually pretty good.
408,737	seriously, from what i've read she falsely accused him of rape, why the fuck are we on Kesha's side? "Kesha continues to make the same false claims of abuse against Dr. Luke she testified never happened under penalty of perjury. As with all pleadings in this case, her affidavit is vague and unsubstantiated, with pivotal details such as dates fudged, and notably fails to address her unequivocal prior sworn testimony to the contrary." [source] edit: when you downvote without replying if i'm wrong, it looks like you are a Kesha fanboy who is unable to be impartial in anything dealing with her	That quote was from a spokesperson for Dr Luke. Their job is to literally say that, regardless of truth or not. How about we wait for actual evidence and trials, not what some yes-man says?
408,738	Most of the positive comments on Reddit seem to be from fans of the book. I have the feeling that remembering a book they loved allowed them to gloss over the faults. It wasn't terrible but it wasn't good. I haven't checked the critics scores but I am guessing/hoping that while most scores are positive few are high scores.	I completely agree, but be careful not being a die hard fan of the movie. I wrote four comments on four posts, that the movie was not good and there was no suspense, and I got 50 downvotes total and five rude remarks.
408,739	Just finished reading The Martian by Andy Weir and I loved the combination of a funny, smart, and witty main character (Mark Watney) in a sci-fi novel. Any recs?	Have you read "The Expanse" books? They are great sci-fi with realistic, funny, smart and witty human characters dealing with crazy situations too big for them. Sometimes its bleak but it's about the human spirit (at least as far as i've read anyway) I think they authors retro-announced that the martian is low-key based in the same universe but like 200 years earlier. It's taken the world by storm recently, in part due to the fantastic TV rendition of already great material.
408,740	I found the movie to be okay. I think that it's a little too ambitious for its own good, but man. I agree. I absolutely loved the score. From the cornfield chase sequence to the Mann/fire scene to the docking scene, I couldn't help but admire what Zimmer gave us.	Yeah the 3rd act took a turn but that soundtrack made the movie memorable imo
408,741	All the phone OSes will cover what most people use it for: texting, calls, web browsing, looking at cats. It is all just personal preference and what interface you want to look at. I ran a Windows Metro launcher on my Android phone for awhile and absolutely loved it. I use a BlackBerry 10 device now and have been extremely happy with it.	Do you remember which launcher you used to run said Metro-esque launcher?
408,742	> they're different tellings of the story. False. There is one story. This isn't a "telling." It's an adaption.	Thanks Dwight, try and be nicer when you correct people and life becomes easier...
408,743	It doesn't need to be very good to guarantee a sale with me. That's amazing. I bet it would be solid competition with my Chromecast.	At 4 times the price I question the utility vs chromecast. Chromecast's main selling point to me is being able to easily send whatever content to your tv. With this you'd have to use something like a phone touch mouse / keyboard software or an actual physical keyboard and mouse. Others pointed out steam streaming, but that is questionable depending on your home network setup. Its not useful as a torrent box, you're better off torrenting with your computer and streaming it to chromecast or this dongle. What other good use cases are there ?
408,744	I got into George R. R. Martin's Song of Ice and Fire series around 6th grade in middle school. I was one of those nerdy/socially inept kids who LOVED fantasy (and LOTR naturally), so I saw this on sale at a local Borders and thought that I'd like it. It was the first book I'd read where the characters having sex was described, and most of the other really gritty parts blew my little 6th grade mind away. I put it away until about freshman year of highschool, then opened it back up and suddenly it was awesome.	that series is on my "to read" list since a while. I really need to pick it up soon!
408,745	Just commenting on a rumour I heard, but apparently the film originally wasn't going to have anything to do with the Alien franchise at all?	I'm pretty sure that it originally was intended to be a prequel to Alien. As production went further along, Ridley Scott started becoming vocal about it not being a prequel to Alien, no doubt after Fox neutered the film. Because if you read the [Alien: Engineers script] it is very clear that it was originally much more of an Alien prequel than Prometheus turned out to be.
408,746	Interstellar was somehow not even nominated for best picture	Interstellar was polarizing. I am one of the ones that didn't like it. Sure it had great visuals but it tried to be more profound than it really was and the story was a mess. Also maybe a nitpick but the movie depicts itself as a hard sci-fi but really has a lot of fantasy elements.
408,747	I don't think True Blood took itself seriously, either; I love (the first 3 or 4 seasons before showrunner Alan Ball left) of that show and people I talk to are always surprised, telling me how shitty it is...when I suggest that it was self-aware, campy, and meant to be somewhat comedic they tell me "Nah, they are being serious and just suck." =\	I agree, which is why I watched the show. I knew what I was getting into watching it, never expecting anything too deep, but it was still enjoyable. I did get kinda bored by the end but still enjoyed watching certain characters like Pam and Eric.
408,748	On a related note, I would be interested to see how SpaceX does in the long run against competitor companies like Orbital Sciences and Sierra Nevada. SpaceX's Dragon and Orbital Science's Cygnus both do supply runs to the ISS. I wonder what will happen when they start flying astronauts up there...	Once they run out of press hype they'll just be another Orbital Science...
408,749	The movie and the book are very different though. They don't seem it for the first half but then things change drastically. I actually preferred the movie by 1000% even though I loved the book. The series though, fuck that shit. The end of the first book leaves you hanging and it's never properly picked back up or explained. I have so much anger about it.	I finally got around to reading Gathering Blue and Messenger recently since I spent about 15 years trying to figure out the ending of The Giver. While I'm at least glad I found out Jonas's fait, I really found teh books to be disappointing. Gathering Blue just seemed uninteresting after the first three chapters and Messenger just seemed to fall flat even though I felt like it had a lot of promise. With that said, I'm probably going to read Son sometime soon just to see if that's any better.
408,750	“Curiously enough, one cannot read a book; one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, and active and creative reader is a rereader.” Quiz- who said it??	Ooh. That's a good quote I haven't come across it before. I had to google who said it, I'll leave it for others to guess. Even more reason to like one of my favourite writers!
408,751	I wrote a paper about doing this in college, suggesting that the U. S. could build massive wind plants in the Dakotas/off shore or solar plants in the southwest then the excess energy could be stored as pressurized hydrogen and shipped to where it was needed. I think the total efficiency of the process was about 30%, which was equivalent to other storage options at the time. It was just more expensive	As someone who works in wind and is based in the Dakotas, all we need to make it really boom is new transmission lines.
408,752	Other good ones from Queen: Bicycle Race, Fat Bottomed Girls, and [the Live Killers version of We Will Rock You.]	And another good Geto Boys track for cruisin': [G Code]
408,753	Ya I read this a month or two ago, thought it was quite good. There were just a few points where I felt the writing was a bit amateurish, so I haven't picked up the sequel yet. Anyone know if the prose of the second one is stronger than the first?	Prose is the same, but the story and means of telling said story in book 2 is much much worse.
408,754	Is this by the guy who wrote 'pounded in the butt by my own butt?' My girlfriend found him on amazon once and it's been a running joke in our house ever since.	Don't forget the latest in the series, Pounded in the Butt by My Book "Pounded in the Butt by My Book 'Pounded in the Butt by My Book "Pounded in the Butt by My Book 'Pounded in the Butt by My Own Butt'"'"
408,755	It really is amazing how bad those actors now are when you compare them with their work in the 70's and 80's and early 90's.	I wouldn't say Deniro is bad now but he is definitely in cruise mode.
408,756	Deep as fuck line. Last words of the album if I recall correctly.	The last lines on The Wall are "Isn't this where..." and the first are "...we came in?"
408,757	I really have read seven of those and attempted an eight.	I've read seven of them as well. Others are on my to-read list, though
408,758	Me too so i tried NASSAs like mirtazapine, and I didn't get those effects with it and it helped me with my insomnia! I really want to try CBD oil though. Think it's quite difficult to get it in the UK if I'm not mistaken .	It's legal dude, so you can just go to a store and buy it. Or order online, physical shops usually charge you a lot more.
408,759	Man, funny that you mention that, I've noticed a huge resurgence of disco and 80s dance in recent stuff. For me though, it's the first time I've taken a liking to it (I come from more of a school of metal, turned edm). What do think the significance of disco revival is?	I just think all musical trends and styles move in cycles. They grow to a peak of popularity then implode on themself only to go away until they resurge again. I've also noticed a huge resurgence in Folk bands as well as pyschedelic rock bands as of late. Not sure what the shelf life is of a certain musical style or the significance except perhaps musicians are simply making music they loved when they were kids plus the culture helps propel certain styles. Im by no means an expert however no musical genre ever truly "dies" like people say.
408,760	And he could also not get shit done. Most of us prefer to get shit done, sometimes you need to properly yell at a codebase before other people also realize it's shit. That's why OpenSSL is both being worked on, and was also forked. Important thing to note, he wasn't insulting any developers, he's insulting the codebase.	Good point, but I've seen him be similar rude to people personally. Too much ego.
408,761	Bring on the downvotes but I enjoyed the immense lack of faked alien squid in The Watchmen film. Not sure I actually liked it more but I've always hated that ending in the novel.	I don't know that I thought the movie was better, but you're right, the ending definitely was.
408,762	The best was in the comments: baRRy boRRis. Unsurprisingly this is the least weird bit of tech KFC have made. [Drumstick USB] [KFC Keyboard and Drumstick Mouse]	There's something strangely disgusting about the drumsticks. I find it repulsive to look at but I can't put my finger on why.
408,763	From these comments on here I thought I was the only one who didn't really care for this movie. I don't really understand what was good about this movie.	Indeed. My reaction to this news was "yeah, like any 'writing' was involved."
408,764	Probably Borne\-\-it continues some of the same concerns in a different context.	Thanks for the response! I'm buying it and starting this evening.
408,765	I love this song. But, this is one you hear on the radio and think damn I bet the lead guy is hot. Then you take a look at the video and are disappointed. Vocals are great though!	Yeah, because we all know that what you look like is what really matters in the creation of music.
408,766	I did, but I also saw him give that exact same performance in 6 other movies.	Then why was he just nominated for that one performance?
408,767	I hope AI wont take the fun out of gaming as the bots evolve faster than us...	Yo I dunno how deep you wanna get, but I’ve already figured that they’ll replace 1/2 the player base on a game with “fake players” who look and act like average players. To prevent older games from becoming desolate. And honestly , gamer tags could easily be faked in this sense . The AI will be people to play with at YOUR skill level (precisely your skill level) to make games fun.
408,768	Maybe I'm not seeing it because I'm on mobile, but is Gambino not on the chart for some reason?	I didn't have enough Gambino lyrics to include him. my database only went to '12.
408,769	Blink 182. It's just not the same anymore. It's dead now. It all just sounds like Angels and Airwaves now.	Did you check out "Dogs Eating Dogs"? I felt the same way about the self titled album and Neighborhoods, but that EP brought me back.
408,770	Where I live im paying for "up to 100mbit" for $75 I have never got more than 16	100mbit is around 12.5 megabytes, so if that's what you meant by 16 then it sounds reasonable (although is still dodgy)
408,771	Tarantino is the exception to the rule. Also, he is good at it. I can't think of an example when he did it that took me out of the movie. It works for him for whatever reason.	> It works for him for whatever reason. It works for him because he's a genius at it.
408,772	Well, Wikipedia and openstreetmap have servers in multiple countries. I was under the impression that most major websites do, and certainly it seems wise for a website focusing on archiving to have a heavy focus on redundancy.	> Well, Wikipedia and openstreetmap have servers in multiple countries. That's not for redundancy, that's to. * Load fast everywhere. * Distribute the load
408,773	I didn't say there wasn't tedious stuff. In fact I said there were times when I said I hate what I'm doing. But if your going back and looking at your work, I think overall it should be stuff you like. Especially if your doing it for yourself and not a hired gun.	Definitely agree. I don't think I'll ever be 100% where I want to be... but I think that's what keeps us progressing. Overall I like my stuff, even if it's not perfect and I can see where I need to improve.
408,774	> thermal efficiency to an almost unheard of 47 percent. They were nowhere near this.	There's no reason to believe this engine got to that level either.
408,775	Series wise there can only be one: A Song of Ice and Fire. It really hurt to read the last book and I have no idea how I will read two more. I just cringe at some of Martin's prose. I really wish someone would edit him more harshly as it seemed Dragons could have been at least 200 pages shorter.	His prose wasn't the problem at all, the story has become an absolute train wreck. He had no idea what to do after ASOS.
408,776	I would watch the shit out of a Luke Cage movie. Just saying.	You're in luck. There's a Luke Cage Netflix series coming out next year.
408,777	totally agree. food and liquor was less 'produced' then The Cool and felt more like him. The Cool, although good too was just a little too much and felt like some of the hooks and production was forced	I fear for his new album "only lasers" ... shivers reminds me of someone... cough cough kanye cough oh... excuse me.
408,778	We could have it in 5 years if we spent as much on it as we do spend doing silly things like building solar panels or bombing poor people . We are seemingly incapable of organizing ourselves in a manner which leads to overall species advancement .	While I totally agree with you on expenditures that are merely destructive I doubt that the problem of fusion is just funding. We still lack theoretical knowledge man.
408,779	That's ridiculous, to assume that one would rather replace than augment.	I believe augmented brains will never be as performant as fully artificial ones. So in that sense brain augmentation as a strategy to mitigate the "usefulness problem" (as Musk puts it) is doomed to fail IMHO.
408,780	Marvel had no part in Deadpool other than the fact he's a Marvel property. 20th Century Fox made Deadpool, and only after they gloriously botched it up the first time.	Of course, Fox's original botching of the Deadpool property can be blamed almost entirely on one Tom Rothman, who has thankfully resigned from his position. That being said, Deadpool was still a huge gamble for Fox which paid off nicely.
408,781	I never understood this theory though. We've been shown many many times that IT has just as much and possibly even more influence of Adults than IT does on children. Because children have the power of belief that is decayed as they reach adulthood	i think IT's influence over adults is more subtle; however, i'm also remembering the jail guard who was afraid of dogs, and now i'm just not sure.
408,782	I never understood why this movie was so widely popular. I hated every second of it. We get it, we are all racist assholes.	>I never understood why this movie was so widely popular. It's not. Most people didn't like it, as evidenced by popular opinion and even by its box office. Add in to the fact that even critics weren't overly in love with it either. It won best picture because of a weak pool of candidates that year and because of the subject matter.
408,783	It's also a bit rich to see "nameless faceless entity" coming from a guy who has decided to self-publish his book, anonymously. We can read all kinds of things into his own history.	ha exactly. plus, aren't nameless faceless people behind every commercial industry?
408,784	See the Beastie Boys wouldn't even be in this if it were up to me, it's all tastes...	Agreed there is another top 100 on top of this one that should go before a single Beastie Boy tune.
408,785	Wasn't big on how the narrator spoiled the ending halfway through.	I liked it. It felt like playing cards against someone, having them show you their hand, then having them beat you anyhow. You know what's coming, and it's still a massive punch in the gut.
408,786	ya but look at this commercial and you might change your opinion. This is an actual TV spot and it's always that first impression that counts. The fact they had an ad like this out most likely hurt them. Especially if this was the ad they used for children's tv when parents might watch and notice and just be like nope, and even kids might think nope.	Yeah. That TV spot f-ed up. If you see the actual trailer it's SO much better:
408,787	Me too! But that's because I love whales so I might be a bit biased. I could actually sit and enjoy reading a whale encyclopedia.	you must have been right at home on the cetology chapter.
408,788	Market cap is intended as an investing tool. Fortune magazine is still the final word on which businesses are largest. Also this is including an awful lot under the "tech" umbrella. Hell, cars are technically a tech business. At least as much as Amazon is.	Amazon is the largest infrastructure as a service provider in the world with AWS (which serves the services like Netflix and Reddit). In addition to being the largest e-commerce marketplace. Its data centers rival Google's. It's a poor comparison for your point
408,789	I like how even on the official Microsoft website in the tech specs it just says "NVIDIA GeForce Graphics Processor" which totally narrows it down to every Nvidia GPU ever.	I read on Anandtech that the GPU uses Maxwell architecture. Beyond that, nothing.
408,790	i am not a firefox daily user but their firefox focus mobile web browser is pretty great.	> firefox focus. True, but their ad blocker or something needs to be better. Not blocking redirection most of the time. Granted, I used it mostly for questionable sites. But I mean, why not use it to visit questionable sites, since it’s a browser with automatic history deletion.
408,791	[Here's a video Travis recreating "Lovely Rita"] with Geoff Emerick (Beatles engineer).	This is great. Geoff is a great guy. In the grand scheme of all things Beatles, he isn't given enough credit.
408,792	Thus are the problems of any Top 10 list. My first thought was, "Sethe? And not Lessa?"	Yes, Sethe would never have entered my mind. I also think that her daughter Denver fits into this category more.
408,793	Dummies shouldn’t go to prison then. People make their choices.	Must be nice up there in your ivory tower. What's it like being perfect and never making a mistake?
408,794	>The chip was tested in Cinebench R15 multi-thread benchmark and the chip scores an astonishing 12,587 points which are beyond anything current-generation processors can achieve. Ayo hold up, the chart shows an Intel X5650 as 2nd highest score - that's an 8 year old CPU, it's not a 12C/24T CPU and it wasn't even the highest end back when it was released.	Those are the results that ship with Cinebench. My results also have that at the 2nd spot at 1279.
408,795	It will only always happen if people continue to not care about it. That's all there is to it. I mean, I've personally never paid money to a scalper but as I said, I don't really go much for live venues unless it's something really important to me in which case I will be on the fucking ball about getting a ticket. So maybe my perception of scalpers is shaped by the bias of someone who has never personally benefited from scalping a ticket to a show. I've only seen how stupidly people will overpay them and know how easy it is to just say "Fuck it, I'll watch it at home".	The people doing this don't think they are over paying for them. They are paying as much or less than what the ticket is worth to them.
408,796	I think they might be getting worried about the new fuel cell cars which Toyota are promising to bring out next year.	It is simply a question of economy, production and vision at this point. Tesla cannot take over the world alone, but Elon kind of want to anyways. Elon talked about how Tesla alone would never be able to "beat the curve" for EV sales alone, which is the end goal with Tesla. A stronger incentive for competitors to start joining in, would deliver a much, much larger scale of EV production. In the near future Tesla want to sell something like a couple of hundred thousands cars a year, where you in fact need more than a 100 million units a year, to fight off gasoline cars in 20-30 years.
408,797	The original trilogy is all about the action flick! And I don't mean it in a bad way, because IV-VI are great nods to classic storytelling devices. This is just some reasons why Abrams might do it justice, because he basically made Super 8 a huge nod towards Spielberg's work.	This actually gives me some hope for the movie. Hopefully Abrams can do that here with Star Wars.
408,798	I use Deluge its lightweight, works for linux too!	This. Deluge is the best client I have ever used.
408,799	I have a S4 work phone and it lasts multiple days well. This is because I'm almost never actually using the phone. No games, no chats, no news, no reddit. Just emails and calls. I'm excited about the new Android Doze mode which will put the phone even deeper to sleep when its not moved for awhile, such as sitting on my desk at work/home. I wouldn't be surprised if it lasts a whole business week with that upgrade, if Samsung gives it to the S4.	I wouldn't be surprised either. I have a 5X and to test it out, I charged it fully before going to bed and left it unplugged. It used up maybe 3-5% battery life.

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I do hope that google gets into the game but google fiber has made me skeptical about how fast they will move on it. I hope they do it but its at least 5 years away.

The problem is they can't move that fast or comcast/other nefarious competitors will slap them with a monopoly charge.

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Just imagine every gas/petrol station turns into a battery swap. You don't need more stations, just a _lot_ of battery stock. The charge time isn't that critical. If you have enough stock, you're covered until the spent ones people are trading in are charged at the battery swap station. The 'time' from a customer's POV is how long it takes to swap a battery.

Making batteries isn't environmentally friendly though so having loads of surplus batteries could be worse than just having a hydrogen fuel cell option.

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Their solar roof system would replace not only the shingles but a lot of the underlying support and insulation for the roof as well

Usually (at least in the states) its just tar paper and pitch. Something about this still doesn't make sense.

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What about when he started to fall in the hole and then just jumped back out?

As /u/Metagen pointed out, the wall-jump was added into the version of Mario this programmer based his algorithm on. When he put his cursor in the pit, the AI wanted to follow because the cursor has a high value. However, following it 100% would've lead to death, and since not-death is the absolute highest value, the AI got as close to the second highest value (the cursor) it could while still achieving the highest value, not dying. Had wall-jumping not been in this version of the game, I imagine Mario would've just stood at the side of the pit, possibly looking at the screen while muttering "Fuck-a that."

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No it wasnt. Otto was hitting a bong, Marge says, "Throw the god damn bomb!", Homer gives all of Springfield the finger, Bart gets drunk, a man gets crushed by the dome. There was *plenty* to be PG-13

True, but that was listed by papers at the time as the big controversial thing that caused the movie to end up as PG13. It's harder to get people angry at somebody dying or cursing than it is to get people angry at a cartoon penis.

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I love the soundtrack, but when I used to play minecraft solo it just made me sad. I hope I'm not the only one

It's absolutely beautiful, but after a long enough time playing on your own it does start to make you sad/tired.

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I always thought that it was maybe about how arbitrary bullying is. Through most of the book, we think that Linda is being bullied because she's fat. But then Jill does one little thing and the bullying switches to her instead - even though she's not fat and nothing about her appearance was previously remarkable. As a severely bullied child, I found that strangely comforting. If the target can change for any reason or no reason, then maybe it's not something inherent in myself that makes me deserve it - it's just luck of the draw and could have been anyone.

I didn't think of it that way - good point!

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This. I'm almost certain she uses inserts or something because she's like this all the time. Boggles my mind.

Exactly! How does she do it? Is it just natural, or does she do it on purpose?

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taking donations for making free videos is bad? twitch streamers don't mind

I suspect that the mindset of the average Twitch streamer is quite different from the mindset of the average YouTuber.

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I think the better question that directly affects us is: If we actually do this sort of thing, how will it affect the price of electricity? Will it be next to costless or will it remain roughly the same as dictated by the electric companies?

That's a question for /r/politics! It deals with public utilities, the regulations that govern them and the economy and society that implement them.

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They've spent a lot of their time being partially owned by Ford due to frequent financial issues. Mazda even made cars with Ford badges for a long time. For how hard it was to compete against the manufacturing powerhouse that was (and still is) Toyota, it's a little more clear how only Honda is also in the top 10: they have a stronger manufacturing backbone outside of the auto market than Mazda to help fund production.

Mazda currently makes the Yaris iA for Toyota. It is a Mazda with a Toyota badge.

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I always watch every Wes Anderson movie thinking I will love it. I never do :(

Do you know why? What do you expect that then isn't there? It's interesting to think that his movies are so luring when often the most noted thing about him is that he has a very constant style.

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So the problem is you don't like it when entertainers get involved in politics? Or is it only a problem when they're views don't fall in line with yours?

I'm pointing out the hypocrisy of Chuck. I don't give two shits who celebrities endorse politically or what side they fall on.

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Oh I'd never worry about LSD killing me. But overuse and living in trip land for extended periods of time will definitely fuck with your memory. I've done thumbprints so I'm pretty familiar with what happens at ridiculous doses. Shit you might be reading some of my trip reports lol.

Whats the difference between doing 2-4 hits and a thumbprint?

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> It makes Kanye's mediocre singing more obvious. That's the point. He actually purposefully sings out of keys to achieve this effect. Kanye is such a genius that he amplifies his weaknesses and turns them into strengths.

How does this turn his mediocre singing into a strength if it just sounds crappy? What does it achieve, musically?

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That's good to hear. I actually had low hopes for the movie but after seeing these comments perhaps I'll give it a chance if it's still at the theater I go to.

Haven't seen it, but the script is fire. Sorkin kills it.

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Well, looks like /u/Scottsman333 and /u/hindu_child correctly guessed one of the larger plot twists back in July with [this thread] and [this thread] I remember thinking that was a good guess.

Haven't actually seen the movie (but I will soon) but I couldn't resist the temptation to see if those guesses were correct as soon as I could. Glad to see they were, I actually really liked that guess. Look I'm even in one of those threads! Hey, past me!

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I would like to know (seriously) if it has any redeeming qualities, hence 'any good then'

Nabokov wrote it, that's pretty much the only quality it needs to be qualified as good. If you like prose at all, you'll enjoy whatever he has to offer.

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well. I own a region free blu-ray player right now. just walked into the store and bought it. not expensive. so ok.

Have you tested it with region-locked discs from outside your own region?

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I would actually love to see him in some movie about valentines day where he just can't catch a break until some wacky girl with glasses comes and takes his breath away.

I could see him as the socially awkward guy who just wants someone to cuddle him à la Joachim Phoenix in *Her* or Ryan Gosling in *Lars and the Real Girl*.

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It depends on how they implement it. Don't most bank/credit card apps require a login before each use? If so, you've pretty much already lost your savings anyways if you're vulnerable to something like this and they don't require you to login to the app every time before using it.

The commonwealth bank of Australia you need to log into the app and pick an atm along with how much to withdraw. The app gives you a couple of codes that remain valid only for the particular atm and only for a short time before they expire. The app itself has its own password/pin to login, which, for obvious reasons should be different from your phones pin, it also supports TouchID. Edit: You don't need to pick an atm. The app displays one code, and sms's you the other, you then type both into any cba atm within 30min to withdraw the nominated amount. You can give the codes to someone else if you wish so they can withdraw on your behalf.

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Numbers Above Us: a movie about numbers that hover above people's heads that show exactly how much time they have left before they die, but a person can never see his own number.

I'm just going to head out to get something to eat, then I'm going to work on this one. I like it.

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In terms of benefits to consumers, none that I can see. Visa and MasterCard are rolling these out as competition to Apple Pay, Google Wallet and CurrentC, etc. As far as I can tell, everyone one of the above products are getting little to no traction with consumers or merchants. MasterPass and Visa Checkout are no different. I think these are all solutions in search of a problem.

Right? It seems like the slogan should be "Because We Can." I'm still trying to wrap my head around what they are saying they are offering.

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Jeffrey Brown illustrations? Nice job! Looks great. I'm excited to see it.

Love Jeffrey Brown. "Clumsy" is one of my favorite books.

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I don't go around social media websites and call random strangers 'assholes'. However, I can see and hear Miley's old and new material, I can read quotes and make an opinion. When I see her dangle naked on a metaphorical wrecking ball, I can make quick judgements, but mostly I can disaprove of people who promote her songs. In this case, Igor. I don't ask you to agree to every pieces of what I'm saying, and you can keep on listening to Miley's songs or Lady Gaga, Madonna, Spears etc. Good for you, and I hope you hurry up and smarten up. That's all.

I do not see how you can get "whore" from this video. I am certain Miley Cyrus is not having sexual relations with anybody in here for money, or sleeping around at all for that matter, making your judgement moot and certainly mean. From that, I believe I can call you an asshole. Also, I believe Miley is human being, so calling her a monkey certainly doesn't make sense. Learn to get a bit more creative with your insults the next time you decide to spew your distasteful judgments of people we only hear and see about second hand.

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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - Dave Eggers. Hits all emotions.

His 'What is the What' is great, too. He takes on powerful, important subjects that might not otherwise be sexy and writes about them in a clear and straightforward way. You are not only entertained, but educated.

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In the printing I read of Crime and Punishment for class, the font was about size 6 or 7. I can truthfully say I read the whole thing, despite the Russian names stopping the story dead every time. I'm sure that it is a bit of a more enjoyable read if you read and understand the original Russian version, not the English translation.

I kept a little notebook while reading it where I would write down each person's name and something important about them to help me remember who they were. I did this for many books in high school. It helps a lot, especially very good authors who briefly mention a minor character in chapter 1 and then suddenly bring them back for something hugely important in chapter 23.

408,727

the godfather. my favourite book, and probably favourite film of all time. true masterpiece

This is a great [book of essays] that plays off the Godfather, if you see it in the library pick it up.

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Poor analogy. While vaccines don't have a 100% success rate, they're far higher than 50%. Vaccines also protect those who cannot be vaccinated via herd immunity. I don't know of any kind of herd immunity being provided by AV software to systems without it. Those systems are more like the wounded gazelle and get scooped up by the cheetah. You don't have to outrun the bear, you just need to outrun your friend.

Vaccines have over 50% success rate on future diseases that did not exist when they were created? Who knew! Or is could it be so that vaccines are good at detecting threats that have been identified, in which case they would be an excellent analogy for AV detections.

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Or watch prime video on Android apart from fire products. Ridiculous.

If you download the Amazon app directly from Amazon (i.e. not the version in the Play Store) you can get Amazon Instant Video, which includes Prime and non-Prime video.

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Well that's because it samples music from the original Mission Impossible spy series. The Danube Incident by Lalo Schifrin.

Wow, really dig that piece.. I had no idea the Portishead riff was a sample.

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I think the idea was that, like in real life, not all crimes are solved and criminals are not always caught.

i agree..i like unsolved or movies that dont always have happy ride into the sunset movies...this one just caught me totally off guard.

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So you didn't really care for any of them? I thought about reading them since I'm trying to get into Nonfiction books lately, I usually read history and military. Plus I'm mid-20s and in the Army so feel like it may be a little weird to be reading The Hunger Games...

I enjoyed number 1 and 2, quite in depth for their size. In my opinion, Collins tried to hustle the ending which caused number three to be a bit of a let down. Overall, an okay series. If possible, get a Kobo Glo. About 80 dollars, works with most file formats unlike the kindle (mobi only if I recall), easily portable, back lit, and can read whatever the hell you want because nobody will know. Edit: Hunger Games is fiction/science fiction. There are much better fiction and better science fiction books/series out there.

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I agree that his story has been told, but I like the idea of him appearing as an auxiliary character in the future.

I bought Sharp Ends purely because I heard there was more Glokta in it... So yeah, echoing this! He has a couple of oblique mentions in the other books but I really want more. The newer main characters aren't as interesting as Glokta, Logan and Jezal.

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The Night Watch is one of my favorite Discworld sub-series! Okay, most of them are my favorite, but seriously the Night Watch is great.

Yes, I really dig it so far, though Mort and Pyramids are my favourites of the ones I've read. Well, if you can have discworld favourites that is. It's almost like choosing which one of my two cats I love the most.

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All of the above, depending upon the audience? There is no reason behind it, because absolutely no problems occur in day to day life because of this. At worst, "Oh you misunderstood me because *you're from another country*, let me clear that up for you." If you come to America and expect people to change how they speak for you get over it. If an American comes to Britain and expects the same, slap them for me. It is all a petty way to feel superior to someone else.

Actually the US not conforming to international standards suggests that the superiority complex falls in their court. Edit: herp

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[Bob Dylan - Masters of War] *The Pearl Jam version is the only one I could find.

There's a remix done for the Crackdown 2 soundtrack of this song that's actually pretty good.

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seriously, from what i've read she falsely accused him of rape, why the fuck are we on Kesha's side? "Kesha continues to make the same false claims of abuse against Dr. Luke she testified never happened under penalty of perjury. As with all pleadings in this case, her affidavit is vague and unsubstantiated, with pivotal details such as dates fudged, and notably fails to address her unequivocal prior sworn testimony to the contrary." [source] edit: when you downvote without replying if i'm wrong, it looks like you are a Kesha fanboy who is unable to be impartial in anything dealing with her

That quote was from a spokesperson for Dr Luke. Their job is to literally say that, regardless of truth or not. How about we wait for actual evidence and trials, not what some yes-man says?

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Most of the positive comments on Reddit seem to be from fans of the book. I have the feeling that remembering a book they loved allowed them to gloss over the faults. It wasn't terrible but it wasn't good. I haven't checked the critics scores but I am guessing/hoping that while most scores are positive few are high scores.

I completely agree, but be careful not being a die hard fan of the movie. I wrote four comments on four posts, that the movie was not good and there was no suspense, and I got 50 downvotes total and five rude remarks.

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Just finished reading The Martian by Andy Weir and I loved the combination of a funny, smart, and witty main character (Mark Watney) in a sci-fi novel. Any recs?

Have you read "The Expanse" books? They are great sci-fi with realistic, funny, smart and witty human characters dealing with crazy situations too big for them. Sometimes its bleak but it's about the human spirit (at least as far as i've read anyway) I think they authors retro-announced that the martian is low-key based in the same universe but like 200 years earlier. It's taken the world by storm recently, in part due to the fantastic TV rendition of already great material.

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I found the movie to be okay. I think that it's a little too ambitious for its own good, but man. I agree. I absolutely loved the score. From the cornfield chase sequence to the Mann/fire scene to the docking scene, I couldn't help but admire what Zimmer gave us.

Yeah the 3rd act took a turn but that soundtrack made the movie memorable imo

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All the phone OSes will cover what most people use it for: texting, calls, web browsing, looking at cats. It is all just personal preference and what interface you want to look at. I ran a Windows Metro launcher on my Android phone for awhile and absolutely loved it. I use a BlackBerry 10 device now and have been extremely happy with it.

Do you remember which launcher you used to run said Metro-esque launcher?

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> they're different tellings of the story. False. There is one story. This isn't a "telling." It's an adaption.

Thanks Dwight, try and be nicer when you correct people and life becomes easier...

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It doesn't need to be very good to guarantee a sale with me. That's amazing. I bet it would be solid competition with my Chromecast.

At 4 times the price I question the utility vs chromecast. Chromecast's main selling point to me is being able to easily send whatever content to your tv. With this you'd have to use something like a phone touch mouse / keyboard software or an actual physical keyboard and mouse. Others pointed out steam streaming, but that is questionable depending on your home network setup. Its not useful as a torrent box, you're better off torrenting with your computer and streaming it to chromecast or this dongle. What other good use cases are there ?

408,744

I got into George R. R. Martin's Song of Ice and Fire series around 6th grade in middle school. I was one of those nerdy/socially inept kids who LOVED fantasy (and LOTR naturally), so I saw this on sale at a local Borders and thought that I'd like it. It was the first book I'd read where the characters having sex was described, and most of the other really gritty parts blew my little 6th grade mind away. I put it away until about freshman year of highschool, then opened it back up and suddenly it was awesome.

that series is on my "to read" list since a while. I really need to pick it up soon!

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Just commenting on a rumour I heard, but apparently the film originally wasn't going to have anything to do with the Alien franchise at all?

I'm pretty sure that it originally was intended to be a prequel to Alien. As production went further along, Ridley Scott started becoming vocal about it not being a prequel to Alien, no doubt after Fox neutered the film. Because if you read the [Alien: Engineers script] it is very clear that it was originally much more of an Alien prequel than Prometheus turned out to be.

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Interstellar was somehow not even nominated for best picture

Interstellar was polarizing. I am one of the ones that didn't like it. Sure it had great visuals but it tried to be more profound than it really was and the story was a mess. Also maybe a nitpick but the movie depicts itself as a hard sci-fi but really has a lot of fantasy elements.

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I don't think *True Blood* took *itself* seriously, either; I love (the first 3 or 4 seasons before showrunner Alan Ball left) of that show and people I talk to are always surprised, telling me how shitty it is...when I suggest that it was self-aware, campy, and meant to be somewhat comedic they tell me "Nah, they are being serious and just suck." =\

I agree, which is why I watched the show. I knew what I was getting into watching it, never expecting anything too deep, but it was still enjoyable. I did get kinda bored by the end but still enjoyed watching certain characters like Pam and Eric.

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On a related note, I would be interested to see how SpaceX does in the long run against competitor companies like Orbital Sciences and Sierra Nevada. SpaceX's Dragon and Orbital Science's Cygnus both do supply runs to the ISS. I wonder what will happen when they start flying astronauts up there...

Once they run out of press hype they'll just be another Orbital Science...

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The movie and the book are very different though. They don't seem it for the first half but then things change drastically. I actually preferred the movie by 1000% even though I loved the book. The series though, fuck that shit. The end of the first book leaves you hanging and it's never properly picked back up or explained. I have so much anger about it.

I finally got around to reading Gathering Blue and Messenger recently since I spent about 15 years trying to figure out the ending of The Giver. While I'm at least glad I found out Jonas's fait, I really found teh books to be disappointing. Gathering Blue just seemed uninteresting after the first three chapters and Messenger just seemed to fall flat even though I felt like it had a lot of promise. With that said, I'm probably going to read Son sometime soon just to see if that's any better.

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“Curiously enough, one cannot read a book; one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, and active and creative reader is a rereader.” Quiz- who said it??

Ooh. That's a good quote I haven't come across it before. I had to google who said it, I'll leave it for others to guess. Even more reason to like one of my favourite writers!

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I wrote a paper about doing this in college, suggesting that the U. S. could build massive wind plants in the Dakotas/off shore or solar plants in the southwest then the excess energy could be stored as pressurized hydrogen and shipped to where it was needed. I think the total efficiency of the process was about 30%, which was equivalent to other storage options at the time. It was just more expensive

As someone who works in wind and is based in the Dakotas, all we need to make it really boom is new transmission lines.

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Other good ones from Queen: Bicycle Race, Fat Bottomed Girls, and [the Live Killers version of We Will Rock You.]

And another good Geto Boys track for cruisin': [G Code]

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Ya I read this a month or two ago, thought it was quite good. There were just a few points where I felt the writing was a bit amateurish, so I haven't picked up the sequel yet. Anyone know if the prose of the second one is stronger than the first?

Prose is the same, but the story and means of telling said story in book 2 is much much worse.

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Is this by the guy who wrote 'pounded in the butt by my own butt?' My girlfriend found him on amazon once and it's been a running joke in our house ever since.

Don't forget the latest in the series, Pounded in the Butt by My Book "Pounded in the Butt by My Book 'Pounded in the Butt by My Book "Pounded in the Butt by My Book 'Pounded in the Butt by My Own Butt'"'"

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It really is amazing how bad those actors now are when you compare them with their work in the 70's and 80's and early 90's.

I wouldn't say Deniro is *bad* now but he is definitely in cruise mode.

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Deep as fuck line. Last words of the album if I recall correctly.

The last lines on *The Wall* are "Isn't this where..." and the first are "...we came in?"

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I really have read seven of those and attempted an eight.

I've read seven of them as well. Others are on my to-read list, though

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Me too so i tried NASSAs like mirtazapine, and I didn't get those effects with it and it helped me with my insomnia! I really want to try CBD oil though. Think it's quite difficult to get it in the UK if I'm not mistaken .

It's legal dude, so you can just go to a store and buy it. Or order online, physical shops usually charge you a lot more.

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Man, funny that you mention that, I've noticed a huge resurgence of disco and 80s dance in recent stuff. For me though, it's the first time I've taken a liking to it (I come from more of a school of metal, turned edm). What do think the significance of disco revival is?

I just think all musical trends and styles move in cycles. They grow to a peak of popularity then implode on themself only to go away until they resurge again. I've also noticed a huge resurgence in Folk bands as well as pyschedelic rock bands as of late. Not sure what the shelf life is of a certain musical style or the significance except perhaps musicians are simply making music they loved when they were kids plus the culture helps propel certain styles. Im by no means an expert however no musical genre ever truly "dies" like people say.

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And he could also not get shit done. Most of us prefer to get shit done, sometimes you need to properly yell at a codebase before other people also realize it's shit. That's why OpenSSL is both being worked on, and was also forked. Important thing to note, he wasn't insulting any developers, he's insulting the codebase.

Good point, but I've seen him be similar rude to people personally. Too much ego.

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Bring on the downvotes but I enjoyed the immense lack of faked alien squid in The Watchmen film. Not sure I actually liked it more but I've always hated that ending in the novel.

I don't know that I thought the movie was better, but you're right, the ending definitely was.

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The best was in the comments: baRRy boRRis. Unsurprisingly this is the least weird bit of tech KFC have made. [Drumstick USB] [KFC Keyboard and Drumstick Mouse]

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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From these comments on here I thought I was the only one who didn't really care for this movie. I don't really understand what was good about this movie.

Indeed. My reaction to this news was "yeah, like any 'writing' was involved."

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Probably Borne\-\-it continues some of the same concerns in a different context.

Thanks for the response! I'm buying it and starting this evening.

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I love this song. But, this is one you hear on the radio and think damn I bet the lead guy is hot. Then you take a look at the video and are disappointed. Vocals are great though!

Yeah, because we all know that what you look like is what really matters in the creation of music.

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I did, but I also saw him give that exact same performance in 6 other movies.

Then why was he just nominated for that one performance?

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I hope AI wont take the fun out of gaming as the bots evolve faster than us...

Yo I dunno how deep you wanna get, but I’ve already figured that they’ll replace 1/2 the player base on a game with “fake players” who look and act like average players. To prevent older games from becoming desolate. And honestly , gamer tags could easily be faked in this sense . The AI will be people to play with at YOUR skill level (precisely your skill level) to make games fun.

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Maybe I'm not seeing it because I'm on mobile, but is Gambino not on the chart for some reason?

I didn't have enough Gambino lyrics to include him. my database only went to '12.

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Blink 182. It's just not the same anymore. It's dead now. It all just sounds like Angels and Airwaves now.

Did you check out "Dogs Eating Dogs"? I felt the same way about the self titled album and Neighborhoods, but that EP brought me back.

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Where I live im paying for "up to 100mbit" for $75 I have never got more than 16

100mbit is around 12.5 mega*bytes*, so if that's what you meant by 16 then it sounds reasonable (although is still dodgy)

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Tarantino is the exception to the rule. Also, he is good at it. I can't think of an example when he did it that took me out of the movie. It works for him for whatever reason.

> It works for him for whatever reason. It works for him because he's a genius at it.

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Well, Wikipedia and openstreetmap have servers in multiple countries. I was under the impression that most major websites do, and certainly it seems wise for a website focusing on archiving to have a heavy focus on redundancy.

> Well, Wikipedia and openstreetmap have servers in multiple countries. That's not for redundancy, that's to. * Load fast everywhere. * Distribute the load

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I didn't say there wasn't tedious stuff. In fact I said there were times when I said I hate what I'm doing. But if your going back and looking at your work, I think overall it should be stuff you like. Especially if your doing it for yourself and not a hired gun.

Definitely agree. I don't think I'll ever be 100% where I want to be... but I think that's what keeps us progressing. Overall I like my stuff, even if it's not perfect and I can see where I need to improve.

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> thermal efficiency to an almost unheard of 47 percent. They were nowhere near this.

There's no reason to believe this engine got to that level either.

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Series wise there can only be one: A Song of Ice and Fire. It really hurt to read the last book and I have no idea how I will read two more. I just cringe at some of Martin's prose. I really wish someone would edit him more harshly as it seemed Dragons could have been at least 200 pages shorter.

His prose wasn't the problem at all, the story has become an absolute train wreck. He had no idea what to do after ASOS.

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I would watch the shit out of a Luke Cage movie. Just saying.

You're in luck. There's a Luke Cage Netflix series coming out next year.

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totally agree. food and liquor was less 'produced' then The Cool and felt more like him. The Cool, although good too was just a little too much and felt like some of the hooks and production was forced

I fear for his new album "only lasers" ... *shivers* reminds me of someone... *cough cough kanye cough* oh... excuse me.

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We could have it in 5 years if we spent as much on it as we do spend doing silly things like building solar panels or bombing poor people . We are seemingly incapable of organizing ourselves in a manner which leads to overall species advancement .

While I totally agree with you on expenditures that are merely destructive I doubt that the problem of fusion is just funding. We still lack theoretical knowledge man.

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That's ridiculous, to assume that one would rather replace than augment.

I believe augmented brains will never be as performant as fully artificial ones. So in that sense brain augmentation as a strategy to mitigate the "usefulness problem" (as Musk puts it) is doomed to fail IMHO.

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Marvel had no part in Deadpool other than the fact he's a Marvel property. 20th Century Fox made Deadpool, and only *after* they gloriously botched it up the first time.

Of course, Fox's original botching of the Deadpool property can be blamed almost entirely on one Tom Rothman, who has thankfully resigned from his position. That being said, Deadpool was still a huge gamble for Fox which paid off nicely.

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I never understood this theory though. We've been shown many many times that IT has just as much and possibly even more influence of Adults than IT does on children. Because children have the power of belief that is decayed as they reach adulthood

i think IT's influence over adults is more subtle; however, i'm also remembering the jail guard who was afraid of dogs, and now i'm just not sure.

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I never understood why this movie was so widely popular. I hated every second of it. We get it, we are all racist assholes.

>I never understood why this movie was so widely popular. It's not. Most people didn't like it, as evidenced by popular opinion and even by its box office. Add in to the fact that even critics weren't overly in love with it either. It won best picture because of a weak pool of candidates that year and because of the subject matter.

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It's also a bit rich to see "nameless faceless entity" coming from a guy who has decided to self-publish his book, anonymously. We can read all kinds of things into his own history.

ha exactly. plus, aren't nameless faceless people behind every commercial industry?

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See the Beastie Boys wouldn't even be in this if it were up to me, it's all tastes...

Agreed there is another top 100 on top of this one that should go before a single Beastie Boy tune.

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Wasn't big on how the narrator spoiled the ending halfway through.

I liked it. It felt like playing cards against someone, having them show you their hand, then having them beat you anyhow. You know what's coming, and it's *still* a massive punch in the gut.

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ya but look at this commercial and you might change your opinion. This is an actual TV spot and it's always that first impression that counts. The fact they had an ad like this out most likely hurt them. Especially if this was the ad they used for children's tv when parents might watch and notice and just be like nope, and even kids might think nope.

Yeah. That TV spot f-ed up. If you see the actual trailer it's SO much better:

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Me too! But that's because I love whales so I might be a bit biased. I could actually sit and enjoy reading a whale encyclopedia.

you must have been right at home on the cetology chapter.

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Market cap is intended as an investing tool. Fortune magazine is still the final word on which businesses are largest. Also this is including an awful lot under the "tech" umbrella. Hell, cars are technically a tech business. At least as much as Amazon is.

Amazon is the largest infrastructure as a service provider in the world with AWS (which serves the services like Netflix and Reddit). In addition to being the largest e-commerce marketplace. Its data centers rival Google's. It's a poor comparison for your point

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I like how even on the official Microsoft website in the tech specs it just says "NVIDIA GeForce Graphics Processor" which totally narrows it down to every Nvidia GPU ever.

I read on Anandtech that the GPU uses Maxwell architecture. Beyond that, nothing.

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i am not a firefox daily user but their firefox focus mobile web browser is pretty great.

> firefox focus. True, but their ad blocker or something needs to be better. Not blocking redirection most of the time. Granted, I used it mostly for questionable sites. But I mean, why not use it to visit questionable sites, since it’s a browser with automatic history deletion.

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[Here's a video Travis recreating "Lovely Rita"] with Geoff Emerick (Beatles engineer).

This is great. Geoff is a great guy. In the grand scheme of all things Beatles, he isn't given enough credit.

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Thus are the problems of any Top 10 list. My first thought was, "Sethe? And not Lessa?"

Yes, Sethe would never have entered my mind. I also think that her daughter Denver fits into this category more.

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Dummies shouldn’t go to prison then. People make their choices.

Must be nice up there in your ivory tower. What's it like being perfect and never making a mistake?

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>The chip was tested in Cinebench R15 multi-thread benchmark and the chip scores an astonishing 12,587 points which are beyond anything current-generation processors can achieve. Ayo hold up, the chart shows an Intel X5650 as 2nd highest score - that's an 8 year old CPU, it's not a 12C/24T CPU and it wasn't even the highest end back when it was released.

Those are the results that ship with Cinebench. My results also have that at the 2nd spot at 1279.

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It will only always happen if people continue to not care about it. That's all there is to it. I mean, I've personally never paid money to a scalper but as I said, I don't really go much for live venues unless it's something really important to me in which case I will be on the fucking ball about getting a ticket. So maybe my perception of scalpers is shaped by the bias of someone who has never personally benefited from scalping a ticket to a show. I've only seen how stupidly people will overpay them and know how easy it is to just say "Fuck it, I'll watch it at home".

The people doing this don't think they are over paying for them. They are paying as much or less than what the ticket is worth to them.

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I think they might be getting worried about the new fuel cell cars which Toyota are promising to bring out next year.

It is simply a question of economy, production and vision at this point. Tesla cannot take over the world alone, but Elon kind of want to anyways. Elon talked about how Tesla alone would never be able to "beat the curve" for EV sales alone, which is the end goal with Tesla. A stronger incentive for competitors to start joining in, would deliver a much, much larger scale of EV production. In the near future Tesla want to sell something like a couple of hundred thousands cars a year, where you in fact need more than a 100 million units a year, to fight off gasoline cars in 20-30 years.

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The original trilogy is all about the action flick! And I don't mean it in a bad way, because IV-VI are great nods to classic storytelling devices. This is just some reasons why Abrams might do it justice, because he basically made Super 8 a huge nod towards Spielberg's work.

This actually gives me some hope for the movie. Hopefully Abrams can do that here with Star Wars.

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I use Deluge its lightweight, works for linux too!

This. Deluge is the best client I have ever used.

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I have a S4 work phone and it lasts multiple days well. This is because I'm almost never actually using the phone. No games, no chats, no news, no reddit. Just emails and calls. I'm excited about the new Android Doze mode which will put the phone even deeper to sleep when its not moved for awhile, such as sitting on my desk at work/home. I wouldn't be surprised if it lasts a whole business week with that upgrade, if Samsung gives it to the S4.

I wouldn't be surprised either. I have a 5X and to test it out, I charged it fully before going to bed and left it unplugged. It used up maybe 3-5% battery life.