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409,500	>compatible with living tissues. So what would be the hardest metallic substance overall and why isn't it compatible?	Well the hardest tools are made from tungsten carbide and diamond. Diamond is #1 on the list there with 10 hardness. Titanium carbide is 9.5. Boron is also 9.5 to 10 hardness and is a 'metalloid' idk if that counts as metal or not.
409,501	Welcome to the Monkey House is what really REALLY got me into reading. I think that book is what planted the seeds for me to become a writer. So many good short stories in there!	Yeah I read it after slaughterhouse 5 and have read it numerous times since
409,502	The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo I persevered through the cardboard characters, shopping lists and other inane details, and the gratuitous, violent sex since so many people raved about the book. I was hoping the end would redeem the book but alas it turned into a Scooby-Doo episode with the villain spilling his secrets before the hero is ridiculously saved.	Everyone loved that book and told me to read it. I finished it but thought it was so boring. Now they tell me the sequels are better. Not falling for that again.
409,503	Some of the higher ups in my company were recently reprimanded for misusing their company phones. The regional manager had everyone write down their cell numbers and sign something about not using unapproved apps and too much personal use of phones. I have not been issued a company phone. Can they still access my phone and its contents? Should I just get a prepaid non-smart phone for use at work?	> Can they still access my phone and its contents? Legally or just asking if it's possible? If you are at all concerned I would just make sure to turn off the wifi while at work ( can even use IFTT or similar to automate this)
409,504	As a person who knows a lot about Warcraft lore, I can assure you that it can be adapted in such a way that it could tap into wide audience - same audience that watched Avatar and Lord of the Rings. I don't know if there is somebody who can pull it off, because it requires taking some big risks, but there is always hope.	Maybe someone already did. Maybe that someone is Duncan Jones.
409,505	It was called Star Wars, they changed the fantasy setting and the dragon, but the rest of the plot is the same.	Fuck me you actually have a point there, as a massive fan of both Eragon and Star Wars I don't know how I've not seen that before
409,506	"Inside and Outside the USA". Because the USA has jurisdiction everywhere. (At least in countries with ~~oil~~civil unrest.	So what is weird about that? Afaik most countries laws don't end at their border. Only the ability and willingness to execute them ends there.
409,507	Wheel of time series, to begin with the names were very hard to get to grips with and the whole setting seemed bland. But after a while once each characters personality really started to show and you began to find out about the world beyond Emonds Field i couldnt put the things down!	I gave up on the 6th book, because I didn't think the plot was going anywhere. Have you finished it? Is it worth continuing?
409,508	So because it's nothing like their old work it doesn't deserve to compete against anything that has come out? Fuck, I love Ghibli as much as the next guy, but that's stupid logic.	The fact that it's not as good as their earlier work is only tangentially related to the fact that it doesn't deserve to win. It doesn't deserve to win because it's not that good. I kind of assumed I wouldn't have to explain that I assess things on their own merits to reasonable people.
409,509	Two years prior was [Michael Jackson] which was a far better performance IMO.	MJ literally stood there for two minutes and the crowd cheered non-stop, even picking the intensity back up when he turned his head. Now that's star power.
409,510	> Taylor Swift. God damn you u/JayEdwards88, as a Hoosier fan I'm in awe of your username and as a music fan I'm simultaneously sickened by your Spotify playlist!	OK you're gonna have to explain the username thing. It's literally my first name shortened and my middle name, and then my birthyear. And taylor swift has some damn catchy songs!
409,511	You know what else has minimalist beauty? An actual watch. You know, with gears and stuff.	True, and an actual watch lasts more than 60 days
409,512	I feel like Google is still innovating with quite a few things, but wtf has Facebook done that isn't just some new way to feed you an ad or propaganda?	They got a lot of heat for buying Oculus and creating an Oculus-exclusive store, but I'm kind of enjoy what they're doing with it. They seem to be doing a better job furthering the tech than HTC/Steam is doing with Vive...
409,513	It's still masterfully done. I love every single twist and turn of that movie.	Yes. The points I brought up were to praise the movie, not to bash it.
409,514	So the company is suing its self your behalf?	The company is using a class action against itself so they can set the perimeters because there can be only one class action in regards to a wrongdoing.
409,515	I liked Dalton's bond. I don't think he was a joke at all.	You are entitled to your opinion. I have read all Fleming's books and just do not connect Dalton with the character.
409,516	When looking on OK Cupid, I veto anyone who says that Bukowski is their favorite. It would be nice to have an app that does this for me!	That kind of preference will have to be explicitly stated. You cant hope to get an algorithm to do it for you :)
409,517	> CHA CHING $$-$$ Hell make it so all my old Nintendo gear is compat with new Nintendo gear that will draw in everyone once and for all.	In all seriousness, they could probably crank out adapter carts for GB / GBA on the cheap. DS might be harder for lack of physical space. Wiimotes and the Wii U pad are already wireless and theoretically compatible.
409,518	Cruel Intentions, Being John Malkovich, 10 Things I Hate About You, Office Space. There's lots of good ones from 99.	Yeah, Fight Club, Magnolia, Three Kings, American Beauty too. edit: managed to forget The Matrix and Election
409,519	Well without discrediting Kanye's musical talent, he seems to be less culturally relevant these days. The relevance he does hold is a product of him pushing his relevance, saying weird shit to get attention, etc. I think there was a time where he was challenging America but after he started complaining about Nike and trying to make shoes "affordable" in order to end bullying (what?), he lost me. Kendrick and Gambino are the real torch bearers of what hip hop should be, a challenge to the status quo and a deep commentary on the state of America.	That was super well put together, that should've been your original comment
409,520	Don’t put too much pressure on yourself. Sometimes we go through reading slumps, mine lasted for 2 years (!) before I finally finished a book again this July. I find taking a break after I’ve read a lot of books to be really refreshing actually. But who knows, maybe you’ll pick up a book in a few days and get sucked back in so to speak.	I think that is what is happening. I actually worked in a book store for two years, and I think that is what caused my reading slump as strange as it sounds! If you are surrounded by books all day, sometimes you just want to be rid of them for a few hours! But back to them I go!
409,521	Am I alone in thinking that any of today's space craft are far to rudimentary to don the badge heart of gold?	It's a lot less of a stretch than last time he used a science fiction name. GCU Just Read the Instructions and GCU Of Course I Still Love You would be either insulted or amused to learn that their names were borrowed and applied to those nonsentient flying scrapheaps.
409,522	I hit 823 and got all three confirmation questions right... and I remember basically nothing about what I just read.	It's pretty variable depending on what the source material is like. I got 637 on Wizard of Oz, but only 226 on Alice in Wonderland. So I am either 155% faster than the national average or 9% slower...
409,523	jesus some of those parts were unbearable just because of the sheer awkwardness of sitting next to my parents during them. I was just so uncomfortable the entire movie.	I was seated directly between mom and pops. Charming evening.
409,524	Incredible band to watch live as well. So much fun	Their live performance of this song was one of the best moments I've had at a concert.
409,525	Aren't most gamers who want immersion just going to buy a vr headset though?	Curved monitors work with games right now with no added effort for the developer, VR doesn't and is a whole separate bucket of fish.
409,526	Isn't Africa pretty damn hot? They're going to be expending a lot of energy just it keep the place cold.	Microsoft is not building data centers in South Africa. They are leasing (colocating) space from existing DC operators. However, in general, yes, cooling is a big challenge and expense for DC operators in Africa in general. It'll translate into operational costs for a customer like Microsoft.
409,527	Ugh, reading those amendments is a huge pain in the ass. Is it asking too much for congress.gov to show the amendment as a diff?	The web-site maintainer doesn't want to do it for the same reason you don't want to do it. It's not his job.
409,528	Lol how dare she make a mistake. Doesn't she know she's a celebrity, not a human?	You can make a mistake and still be a shitbag
409,529	Apparently they have some of the best SSDs on the market, and probably in a different business division of Samsung. I mean it's not like the ssd will start streaming ads	Yeah, I have a Samsung SSD and it doesn't *^^^BUY* *^^^A* *^^^NICE* *^^^REFRESHING* *^^^PEPSI!* do anything like that.
409,530	Well, I upgraded my office neighbor to IE 11 and he got a popup said a site wasn't compatible with anything newer than IE 9. I told him to use Chrome, which worked fine, but now he's complaining about needing "a special program" to go to the internet ...	Just rename the links and put the IE symbol on there, if hes as computer illiterate as he says he will never know.
409,531	Not really a great solution on a smart TV.	That's why smart TVs are silly. I'd rather the TV leave that crap out, save me some money, and I'll use the savings towards a roku/apple tv/chromecast/etc.
409,532	It's different for everyone. During panic attacks, I could either be angry and throw stuff or cry and drool in a fetal position. Good fun!	i suppose that's true. i was speaking more to my experiences. i think if i tried to rip something up i would give up almost instantly.
409,533	But they look thin, sort of stretched, like butter spread over too much bread	You don't think that... nahhh... I mean, it's impossible... right...?
409,534	Is there any word about wether or not this is an OLED display?	Its AH-IPS LCD. Here's the page from the carrier's website.
409,535	Other good bands I found on YouTube: - The Starkins. - Warm Ghost. - Tyler Ward. - "The Chat Guy" (username is "chadneidt", has some good acoustic songs and "20 songs in a minute" mashups of everything from Blink-182 to 90's one hit wonders.) - Blue Foundation. - Friends. - Hoodie Allen (listen to his mixtapes and look at the "You Are Not A Robot" music video) - I found a really good Coldplay/Radiohead mashup of "in my place" and "fake plastic trees", and a really good MGMT/Coldplay mashup of "kids" and "life in technicolor II" (which is my new favorite song)	Love Tyler Ward. Love Boyce Ave, and Tylers cover of "Fix You". Pretty emotional. I must look up these others!
409,536	Fuel cells are not a bad technology. And are a fantastic alternative to oil in areas without a robust electric grid, or areas with power generation issues.	Certainly, their current uses in backup generators and warehouse vehicles proves it. But the market for that is quite minimal In the broader context of vehicle use. And IMO long term batteries have a high enough theoretical capacity that even those uses will be battery powered, since local power generation is a requirement with or without vehicles.
409,537	Well you get the circle jerkers that love it now, so it evens out in fairness in the long run	There's already TFA hate circle jerk going on in multiple threads.
409,538	This is a link to a video I worked on with Charlie Rae. Enjoy!	Very cool! Feel free to post it over in /r/charlierae if you like
409,539	>If I check your most played songs on iTunes, these albums better be heavily represented. this is incredibly dumb. good music does not always requite to be listened to many times. most of my favorite music ive listened to only a few times. but it made an impression on me that doesn't require multiple listens. often times listening to it is a waring experience, and that's a good thing.	I mean you can set any standards you want for a top 10. Those are the ones I choose : /
409,540	Good job guys. Not only do I have to unsubscribe from r/technology but r/worldnews too.	/r/worldnews /r/technology. *** [^report ^a ^problem**] ^\| [^delete ^comment] ^\| [^source ^code] ^\| [^contact ^developer]
409,541	Yammer changed from a functional if bland ui to a Metro disaster in a few months. I fear the same thing will happen to LI.	The only difference being that current LinkedIn UX is anything but functional.
409,542	Columbia University published a paper about how Shogun influenced Americans learning Japanese culture, and it's available online for free! I can't link it for some reason, having trouble on mobile, but search "Learning from Shogun" and Columbia and it will be in the top results	Wow, that's interesting! Didn't know that this book had been so influential. Another merit to add to its collection, I suppose. I'll give it a read, thanks for the suggestion!
409,543	You should get her a copy of Stiff by Mary Roach . . . there's a part about the body farm in TN (?) and it's just interesting in general.	I have that somewhere! I'll have to scrounge it up. Good call.
409,544	as someone born in 87 i have no idea who any of those people are except Patrick Swayze and Cher	You don't know who Nicholas Cage or Jon Voight are?
409,545	Captain America seems to be the most brutal one though. I mean that guy that got blended in the prop, and just people getting shot everywhere...wow	Ya it's just a bunch of faceless hydra henchmen dying though. The way they montage through a ton of battles with the main villain just seemed like the movie was rushed and they needed plot points for avengers.
409,546	I thought it was common knowledge that playboy always had great articles? When people are buying your magazine for the boobs anyway, you don't have to stoop to low quality bait journalism. You also got porn money, so you can afford to take stances and hire high level professionals.	I honestly thought that was a sarcastic joke. In the, "So I was buying a copy of Playboy (FOR THE ARTICLES!) when, suddenly...", sort of way. Playboy was a bit before my time, though.
409,547	The Island. Great first half, really shitty Michael Bay shitfest in the second half.	That movie was fucking all over the place in the second half
409,548	Ad insertion is useful for small developers that want ad revenue but don't have the resources to cut their own advertiser deals. Like on mobile, I could develop an app on my own and simply opt in to Google's and Apple's advertising networks to get revenue. Or on YouTube, I can monetize videos by letting Google serve the advertisements. This lets developers of TV apps do the same thing. Hulu has the resources to provide their own ads, while smaller developers would just use whatever ads Samsung provides.	I'm certainly not denying that ad revenue is an useful source of revenue for certain developers. But when I purchase a device, I'm damn well going to make sure there aren't any ads on it, because that's my choice as customer. When I pay for something, I have zero desire for ads. That's my right as customer and I'm damn well boycotting Samsung and their 'smart' devices that track everything you do and present you with their ads you don't want.
409,549	I've always heard it, obviously very loosely, stemmed from a story about a man who stuck his wife in a wood chipper.	That must have been a doozy of a day for him
409,550	Unfortunately, I would've spent more time taking notes than reading. I tried so damn hard to get into this "book" but it just never grabbed me. I read a lot of weird, experimental stuff that I've had no problems with. This just gave me a headache. Maybe I'll give it another go cause it sits on my bookcase... taunting me.	I tried to hard to read it. I got maybe 100 pages in after a week of really pushing myself, then decided to take a break and read another book. Since putting down House of Leaves maybe 2-3 months ago, I've purchased 32 more books and read maybe a dozen. This break has turned out to be much longer than I anticipated. I really want to finish this dang book :/
409,551	In the US CDMA was (and still is) by far the more popular 2G/3G technology. Both Verizon (#1 carrier) and Sprint (formerly #3) and most of the regional carriers (like US Cellular, C-Spire, Alltel (before Verizon swallowed it up)) use it. Only AT&T (#2) and T-Mobile (formerly #4, now #3) and a few regional carriers (like iWireless in Iowa and GCI in Alaska) use GSM/HSPA for 2G/3G. It was only when Verizon chose the GSM-derived LTE standard for 4G service (instead of Qualcomm's competing CDMA-derived Ultra Mobile Broadband standard) that CDMA became a dead-end technology in the US.	That must be a pain not having phone portability. Also isn't CDMA quite slow?
409,552	There is PLENTY of good hip-hop still being made if you know what you actually like. Johnny Polygon, Duke Daeo, Big KRIT, Earl Sweatshirt, Andre Nickatina (never gets old), Isaiah, Blue Scholars, Brotha Lynch, Dan Le Sac, Dead Pres, Heiroglyphics, Dizzee Rascal, The Streets, E-40, MGK, Rhyme Asylum, The Roots, Roots Manuva, Self Scientific/Chace Infinite, Skulastic, SPEAK!, Theophilus London, Wax and Dumbfounded. Plenty. That's not even the start. All these people have released albums recently. Some you are guaranteed to have heard and written off. Others maybe not. You can always find amateurs on youtube and soundcloud anyway. Besides, the 90s and 80s had it's fair share of garbage rap/hip-hop.	I get it guys. But you still seen to be missing my point. First of all, half the guys you just named are from the 90's. Second of all, none of them are top 40 artists. Or they had one featured spot on one single. I'm saying that top 40 rap was tremendously better then than it is now.
409,553	I had more issues with the pterodactyls than the raptors, but like you said it's not the biggest issue. In 20 years nobody will care. I can watch Jurassic Park and T2 even though their 90s CGI isn't "perfect" and I can watch LOTR even though that CGI is looking dated too. I can watch Ray Harryhausen flicks and it's obviously stop-motion but it doesn't take away from my enjoyment.	Story, direction and memorable characters is most important. That's why those films will always be classics. I think a lot of current cgi creatures lack character, too.
409,554	No. They are unreliable, slower and too expensive for backups. The only reason to use then is their size assuming you need it. For 250$ you can buy a semi-decent nas or 10tb of external drives.	No i meant as offline backups, store data once then shelve them for eternity.
409,555	I don't have all the specifics of the algorithm, since it's my friend's program, but my general idea is that it assigns points to each film along the lines of 100/x where x is the rank. So if a movie is 1st on someone's list and 3rd on someone else's list, then it gets 133 points on the compiled list. Regardless of the method/outcome though, I'm really interested to see everyone's lists!	Very cool! Like that thing that happened in /r/books, but more organized, it sounds like. I’m eager for results.
409,556	The Rescue is pretty good, too. Not their most ambitious project, but it works quite well.	Seeing as almost all of The Rescue is improvisation and was completed start to finish in 2 weeks, I would say it's ambitious enough.
409,557	As a C# developer, I have to say, Thank you! Having a common open framework to develop in across multiple platforms will be huge for me and the industry in general, I think. This is something I've been waiting for/bitching about for a long time.	Mono is pretty solid these days. You have that "common open framework" already. It just might get a little better (+1 implementation).
409,558	Surprisingly good camera work, audio recording on the embedded video.	Think I saw that camera guy, he had a Canon DSLR..
409,559	>Absolutely filthy. And then you had to go and do a silly thing like that	What is silly about that? How the fuck else would you like me to describe something?
409,560	The Verge, whose editors I'm pretty sure would go to town on Steve Jobs's rotting cock even today, rated it significantly lower than the Moto 360. Apple really screwed up here.	> Apple really screwed up here. That quote is gonna haunt you in a year or two, if not sooner.
409,561	Days of future past was basically a hard reset. We are in an alternate timeline now.	That they already fucked up. At the end of DoFP Wolverine is captured by Mystique disguised as Stryker, and in Apocalypse (SPOILER) he's now held by the real Stryker, without any explanation. Plus, the fact that now 55-years-old characters like Xavier look 35 doesn't help with the believability.
409,562	Caleb goes along with Nathan because he realizes he's been caught, but isn't sure how caught he is. He plays dumb until Nathan inadvertently blows his mind with something he didn't consider. That Ava was pretending to go along with the escape plan, but would betray him. He thought he had outsmarted Nathan, with the whole plot already executed, but the plot was done as if she was on board with it. When he realizes that he failed to account for this possibility, he realizes he screwed up. I think Caleb thought he had a winning hand, so why not.	That's a really sound explanation, and I feel a lot better about it now. Thanks!!
409,563	Cheesy movie but at 10 it was cool. Well cool if you were a chubby 10 year old with no girlfriend.	I wasn't chubby, but I was awkward. This movie gave me false hope, but I still love it.
409,564	I almost thought I was 4/4 but when I looked up the Flood Brothers I didn't know them.	Flood Brothers is kind of cheating. It's two guys who play something similar to what the Black Keys started with, maybe with an even more pronounced Delta lean. They're from mid-Missouri, which is where I'm from, but I think they've maybe played Mississippi, Texas, and surrounding Midwest states
409,565	I think the context of the scene before the line should tell you what you need to know. I can't remember it though.	Vennett says some version of "Ratings agencies, SEC and big banks are clueless." Steve Carrell's character Mark Baum responds with, "That's not stupidity that's fraud!" This elicits the quote in question.
409,566	Yo, Weezer I'm really happy for you, but the Blue Album was the best weezer cd ever made!	False. Pinkerton. If it weren't for Surf Wax America, I may agree with you.
409,567	the wachowski brothers will get no more of my money ... matrix 1 covered a LOT of films money and time namely everything theyve made since save for speed racer ive seen and have vowed to no longer support their endeavors. matrix 2/3, V, Ninja Assassin ... NO MORE.	Really? I have to ask why you didn't like V for Vendetta or Ninja Assassin? With a name like that, what kind of movie did you expect? I feel like it has the same thing going as Shoot 'Em Up, if you go see that movie, what do you really expect? I can understand the hatred of Matrix 2/3.
409,568	A joint venture: > a German company owned by Mozilla and Hubert Burda Media. Apparently their main product is an anti-tracking browser.	That doesn't sound so bad. it's not like they're getting bought by Microsoft or Facebook or something
409,569	Wow I hadn't ever thought about how our knowledge of dinosaur's postures has changed. Just did a fun wee googling session and found [this interesting article] Apparently the majority of kids will draw a T-rex standing upright rather than the modern almost horizontal way.	Isn't that great? I think at the museum in Philly they have a picture of the old model.
409,570	Pride and Prejudice. There I was, an 18-year-old male from a working class family in an industrial town. What could I possibly get from a romantic fantasy about rich people? I didn't know what had hit me. I loved it.	for some reason i am always reluctant to start a jane austen or a viriginia woolf novel, but then i'm always pleasantly surprised.
409,571	I don't think he could have made it any more obvious that it was.	Well, he is sort of right though. We have evolved to perceive most unhealthy things as bitter or otherwise bad tasting. Because the people who thought that poison was yummy didn't make the cut...
409,572	As an English major, I usually have about 150-200 pages to read a night with a decently heavy course load. I'm still able to read a little for recreation, but not nearly as much as I'd like.	dam you are a trooper. my girl friend is an english major who does not read for fun during the school year but I guess everyone is different.
409,573	I had no idea there even was a book, sounds great, going to order it now.	Yay! I got someone to want to read the book without spoiling it! I honestly think it's better having seen the movie. Just don't scroll down reading reviews. The less you expect, the better. And you can always read it through a second time to see what you missed.
409,574	Foo Fighters is great and all but they're not even close to as influential as Nirvana.	Completely but its a high benchmark. They have been consistently one of the biggest bands of the last 20 years. Im too young to have seen Nirvana but the only live band that compares to the Foos ive seen are Rage Against the Machine.
409,575	On the contrary, I didn't continue to do English classes beyond the years it was compulsory because at my school we never had any challenging material. I was in the top English class in my year and we never did anything challenging. We never looked at any difficult books. Picking a challenging book is the whole point of English class. There's no point picking a book that doesn't challenge students to think about it critically and help them to expand their minds.	I was thinking about the kids who have only read a handful of books in their lives, some of whom may find their reading ability to be a hindrance. You don't want to scare those kids off. There's a difference between 'technical' and conceptual difficulty though, I think. A book can be easilly accessible but still intelligent, like TCIOTDITN-T.
409,576	The HQ Flagship Half Price Books here in Dallas even keeps valuable kids items behind lock and key. You can look at them but no touching without permission. They also have an insulated room, like a safe, where they keep old magazines and other things that are really valuable (but not everything valuable?). I always get claustrophobic when I go in there because I just imagine the heavy door swinging shut behind me.	I misread that sentence several times as: "... keeps valuable kids behind lock and key. You can look at them but no touching without permission." The way you wrote it is much better than the way I read it.
409,577	Eh, 40s is young, most people still look great at that age. Money doesn't buy youth, celebrities just look young because you always see them dressed up, and in perfect lighting. I don't think they look any younger than the average person off the street that takes care of their health.	I take care of myself (sunscreen, moisturizer, etc) and am mid-twenties but already have wrinkles on my forehead, around my eyes, and mouth. I also have freckles and moles. One could just say genetics as the answer to everything, but I'm pretty sure if I got fabulous dermatologic help I could nix my wrinkles and some of my freckles.
409,578	maybe they could be marketed and sold as themed paper weights.	they are paper and they have weight. meta themed paper weights. my mind is doing something.
409,579	That a subreddit? Sorry, I'm not up on everything. Just talked to vice, buzzfeed and engaget tho	>“We know exactly who we’re talking to” > Doesn’t know about hackernews, but contacts Vice, Buzzfeed, and Engadget.
409,580	My thoughts exactly. The only thing that could make this better would be some Alan Rickman and/or some Jeremy Irons!	I hear you on Alan Rickman, that man has an incredible voice... Also, [here's] Neil Gaiman reading the whole of The Graveyard Book :).
409,581	I was so bummed when Netflix took off Tron: Uprising. I was going to rewatch only to have my dreams shattered.	Mexican Netflix still got it. If you use a vpn or something.
409,582	[OMG FOLKS. HOLY SHITBALLS CLICK HERE. there is this amazing new product i want to tell you about called bookdarts. they are the most accurate bookmark ever and you should totally buy them right now. only $7 shipping inclusive or they're FREE (that's right, you heard me, FREE!) if you buy a book from some bookstore. ] === [fixed for duckhunter]	Really? Seriously? You hide a better, more awesome product behind "[meh.]" For shame. Book Darts are the bee's knees, and if you don't want to use their store locator and go find them in the real world, Anglophile Books [sells packs of 40 for $7 shipping inclusive] (or free if you buy a book). Sheesh, notatoad, I hope you never come up with a clean, cheap power source... Reddit says, "Exxon uses 'clean coal' to power offshore oil drilling platforms." notatoad replies, "[pff.]" (only it would be real)
409,583	I just watched that trailer after I read your comment. Never heard of it until now. Holy crap I know exactly what I'm doing this weekend.	Same. man, at the end...Jake looks so much like Bale in Psycho. His crazy ass face...wow.
409,584	The cowbell has always been a little off beat. It's a callback to a well known SNL sketch.	So why did the band adjust to it if it was off on purpose Will?
409,585	According to [quite a few people] in r/Android, the UI seems to lag and stutter for such a high end device. It might get fixed closer to actual release time, but just something to keep in mind.	/r/Android. *** [^report ^a ^problem**] ^\| [^delete ^comment] ^\| [^source ^code] ^\| [^contact ^developer]
409,586	FB offered an onion address for quite some time now.	I mean, there's really no reason for them not to of they have the ability to.
409,587	I can see it perfectly saddled upon my golden-winged war ostrich.	i had to argue with IT pretty hard to get this screen, they wanted to fob me off with a cheaper one, now i can show them this picture as proof of the quality and that i needed it :P
409,588	$1500 for a digital toaster oven, because that's all it is. I think I'll stick with my $50 Black and Decker, and buy 10 more throughout my lifetime and still save more money.	Seems like that is not all it is though. It's supposed to be able to recognise what you're cooking. And then do everything for you. So all you would do is throw whatever in there, turn the oven on and then that is it. Not that I believe it's going to work that we'll though. But that is the concept at least.
409,589	Well, stealing is better than beating women, no ones saying its right.	The stealing of the music has nothing to do with domestic violence. You guys are just conflating shit.
409,590	The kind of legendary notoriety one can only achieve from biting the heads off bats and shit.	I wouldn't call that 'metal street cred', I'd call it 'being so fucked off your face that you don't realize the fake bat you are holding is actually real'
409,591	If i see him, i think Luke, but if i hear him... that laugh, that... cackle...	[Watching him do the Joker voice is even more confusing]
409,592	Don't connect them to a network. It's hard to find a good, non "smart" TV these days	I've never found any smart TV features worth using anyway. Are people actually willing to go through those clunky interfaces trying to navigate YouTube or Netflix?
409,593	The scotch tape method, or something similar, doesn't scale well and you still have to move it to your desired surface. Perhaps similarly, you can exfoliate graphene flakes from graphite. About a month ago there was press on a article where graphene dispersions were obtained from soap, graphite, and a kitchen blender. CVD methods have the potential to really drive down graphene device costs as understanding grows- industry is already well equipped for CVD processes. Mechanistic studies looking at quality and reproducibility will help, as will an increasingly large toolbox to transfer graphene for specific applications.	Does the graphene coating on the tape conduct electricity still?
409,594	> it looks more like Chrome generally. Problem is, I don't want it to look like Chrome. If I wanted something that looked like Chrome, I'd fire up Chrome	Fun trivia: This design started before Chrome was originally released.
409,595	"AHNG!" Or the fact that it takes 12 earth benders to throw some pebbles at some dudes	These Earth-benders are clearly dangerous! We need to imprison them in a secure facility, the local rock quarry looks good.
409,596	It was definitely difficult to watch because of the subject matter, but the issue that I had with the plot was that there was no background knowledge about why their marriage is crumbling in the first place.	It was because he didn't have a job or any ambition.
409,597	I really think I don't understand The Great Beauty. It was lovely to watch but the film didn't stick with me at all, which is why I don't like it very much. And I love love Mikkelsen, I don't see many faults with the writing as I found it quite realistic as to how people in a small community would respond to something like that and the acting and directing was just perfect.	My problem with the writing is that it feels too scripted. It's not a natural evolution of events, and it doesn't unfold in an organic way, cause there are too many moments that rely too much on things going wrong in just the right way to make his situation worse. The downward spiral is far too tight, so it feels contrived a lot of the time. The fault isn't in the directing, cause Vinterberg establishes the atmosphere of isolation and paranoia very well, it's just that it's all too convenient.
409,598	>You’re one of the few—perhaps the only—filmmaker in Hollywood who could make a $165 million original film. Do you feel there’s a lot of sequelitis going on in Hollywood? There are precious few large-scale, ambitious, original works. Ugh. This interviewer is too ass kissey. This isn't even close to true.	There really aren't very many people who can do an original idea with that big of a budget. Name some of the others... Nolan has a Midas touch in the eyes of the studios.
409,599	Who would have figured that getting people laid could generate money :)	The thing is, people see it as a relationship app, not a hookup app, nowadays. So... not exactly getting people laid.

409,500

>compatible with living tissues. So what would be the hardest metallic substance overall and why isn't it compatible?

Well the hardest tools are made from tungsten carbide and diamond. Diamond is #1 on the list there with 10 hardness. Titanium carbide is 9.5. Boron is also 9.5 to 10 hardness and is a 'metalloid' idk if that counts as metal or not.

409,501

Welcome to the Monkey House is what really REALLY got me into reading. I think that book is what planted the seeds for me to become a writer. So many good short stories in there!

Yeah I read it after slaughterhouse 5 and have read it numerous times since

409,502

*The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo* I persevered through the cardboard characters, shopping lists and other inane details, and the gratuitous, violent sex since so many people raved about the book. I was hoping the end would redeem the book but alas it turned into a Scooby-Doo episode with the villain spilling his secrets before the hero is ridiculously saved.

Everyone loved that book and told me to read it. I finished it but thought it was so boring. Now they tell me the sequels are better. Not falling for that again.

409,503

Some of the higher ups in my company were recently reprimanded for misusing their company phones. The regional manager had everyone write down their cell numbers and sign something about not using unapproved apps and too much personal use of phones. I have not been issued a company phone. Can they still access my phone and its contents? Should I just get a prepaid non-smart phone for use at work?

> Can they still access my phone and its contents? Legally or just asking if it's possible? If you are at all concerned I would just make sure to turn off the wifi while at work ( can even use IFTT or similar to automate this)

409,504

As a person who knows a lot about Warcraft lore, I can assure you that it can be adapted in such a way that it could tap into wide audience - same audience that watched Avatar and Lord of the Rings. I don't know if there is somebody who can pull it off, because it requires taking some big risks, but there is always hope.

Maybe someone already did. Maybe that someone is Duncan Jones.

409,505

It was called Star Wars, they changed the fantasy setting and the dragon, but the rest of the plot is the same.

Fuck me you actually have a point there, as a massive fan of both Eragon and Star Wars I don't know how I've not seen that before

409,506

"Inside and Outside the USA". Because the USA has jurisdiction everywhere. (At least in countries with ~~oil~~civil unrest.

So what is weird about that? Afaik most countries laws don't end at their border. Only the ability and willingness to execute them ends there.

409,507

Wheel of time series, to begin with the names were very hard to get to grips with and the whole setting seemed bland. But after a while once each characters personality really started to show and you began to find out about the world beyond Emonds Field i couldnt put the things down!

I gave up on the 6th book, because I didn't think the plot was going anywhere. Have you finished it? Is it worth continuing?

409,508

So because it's nothing like their *old* work it doesn't deserve to compete against anything that has come out? Fuck, I love Ghibli as much as the next guy, but that's stupid logic.

The fact that it's not as good as their earlier work is only tangentially related to the fact that it doesn't deserve to win. It doesn't deserve to win because it's not that *good.* I kind of assumed I wouldn't have to explain that I assess things on their own merits to reasonable people.

409,509

Two years prior was [Michael Jackson] which was a far better performance IMO.

MJ literally stood there for two minutes and the crowd cheered non-stop, even picking the intensity back up when he *turned his head*. Now that's star power.

409,510

> Taylor Swift. God damn you u/JayEdwards88, as a Hoosier fan I'm in awe of your username and as a music fan I'm simultaneously sickened by your Spotify playlist!

OK you're gonna have to explain the username thing. It's literally my first name shortened and my middle name, and then my birthyear. And taylor swift has some damn catchy songs!

409,511

You know what else has minimalist beauty? An actual watch. You know, with gears and stuff.

True, and an actual watch lasts more than 60 days

409,512

I feel like Google is still innovating with quite a few things, but wtf has Facebook done that isn't just some new way to feed you an ad or propaganda?

They got a lot of heat for buying Oculus and creating an Oculus-exclusive store, but I'm kind of enjoy what they're doing with it. They seem to be doing a better job furthering the tech than HTC/Steam is doing with Vive...

409,513

It's still masterfully done. I love every single twist and turn of that movie.

Yes. The points I brought up were to praise the movie, not to bash it.

409,514

So the company is suing its self your behalf?

The company is using a class action against itself so they can set the perimeters because there can be only one class action in regards to a wrongdoing.

409,515

I liked Dalton's bond. I don't think he was a joke at all.

You are entitled to your opinion. I have read all Fleming's books and just do not connect Dalton with the character.

409,516

When looking on OK Cupid, I veto anyone who says that Bukowski is their favorite. It would be nice to have an app that does this for me!

That kind of preference will have to be explicitly stated. You cant hope to get an algorithm to do it for you :)

409,517

> CHA CHING $$-$$ Hell make it so all my old Nintendo gear is compat with new Nintendo gear that will draw in everyone once and for all.

In all seriousness, they could probably crank out adapter carts for GB / GBA on the cheap. DS might be harder for lack of physical space. Wiimotes and the Wii U pad are already wireless and theoretically compatible.

409,518

Cruel Intentions, Being John Malkovich, 10 Things I Hate About You, Office Space. There's lots of good ones from 99.

Yeah, Fight Club, Magnolia, Three Kings, American Beauty too. edit: managed to forget The Matrix and Election

409,519

Well without discrediting Kanye's musical talent, he seems to be less culturally relevant these days. The relevance he does hold is a product of him pushing his relevance, saying weird shit to get attention, etc. I think there was a time where he was challenging America but after he started complaining about Nike and trying to make shoes "affordable" in order to end bullying (what?), he lost me. Kendrick and Gambino are the real torch bearers of what hip hop should be, a challenge to the status quo and a deep commentary on the state of America.

That was super well put together, that should've been your original comment

409,520

Don’t put too much pressure on yourself. Sometimes we go through reading slumps, mine lasted for 2 years (!) before I finally finished a book again this July. I find taking a break after I’ve read a lot of books to be really refreshing actually. But who knows, maybe you’ll pick up a book in a few days and get sucked back in so to speak.

I think that is what is happening. I actually worked in a book store for two years, and I think that is what caused my reading slump as strange as it sounds! If you are surrounded by books all day, sometimes you just want to be rid of them for a few hours! But back to them I go!

409,521

Am I alone in thinking that any of today's space craft are far to rudimentary to don the badge heart of gold?

It's a lot less of a stretch than last time he used a science fiction name. GCU Just Read the Instructions and GCU Of Course I Still Love You would be either insulted or amused to learn that their names were borrowed and applied to those nonsentient flying scrapheaps.

409,522

I hit 823 and got all three confirmation questions right... and I remember basically *nothing* about what I just read.

It's pretty variable depending on what the source material is like. I got 637 on Wizard of Oz, but only 226 on Alice in Wonderland. So I am either 155% faster than the national average or 9% slower...

409,523

jesus some of those parts were unbearable just because of the sheer awkwardness of sitting next to my parents during them. I was just so uncomfortable the entire movie.

I was seated directly between mom and pops. Charming evening.

409,524

Incredible band to watch live as well. So much fun

Their live performance of this song was one of the best moments I've had at a concert.

409,525

Aren't most gamers who want immersion just going to buy a vr headset though?

Curved monitors work with games right now with no added effort for the developer, VR doesn't and is a whole separate bucket of fish.

409,526

Isn't Africa pretty damn hot? They're going to be expending a lot of energy just it keep the place cold.

Microsoft is not building data centers in South Africa. They are leasing (colocating) space from existing DC operators. However, in general, yes, cooling is a big challenge and expense for DC operators in Africa in general. It'll translate into operational costs for a customer like Microsoft.

409,527

Ugh, reading those amendments is a huge pain in the ass. Is it asking too much for congress.gov to show the amendment as a diff?

The web-site maintainer doesn't want to do it for the same reason you don't want to do it. It's not his job.

409,528

Lol how dare she make a mistake. Doesn't she know she's a celebrity, not a human?

You can make a mistake and still be a shitbag

409,529

Apparently they have some of the best SSDs on the market, and probably in a different business division of Samsung. I mean it's not like the ssd will start streaming ads

Yeah, I have a Samsung SSD and it doesn't ***^^^BUY*** ***^^^A*** ***^^^NICE*** ***^^^REFRESHING*** ***^^^PEPSI!*** do anything like that.

409,530

Well, I upgraded my office neighbor to IE 11 and he got a popup said a site wasn't compatible with anything newer than IE 9. I told him to use Chrome, which worked fine, but now he's complaining about needing "a special program" to go to the internet ...

Just rename the links and put the IE symbol on there, if hes as computer illiterate as he says he will never know.

409,531

Not really a great solution on a smart TV.

That's why smart TVs are silly. I'd rather the TV leave that crap out, save me some money, and I'll use the savings towards a roku/apple tv/chromecast/etc.

409,532

It's different for everyone. During panic attacks, I could either be angry and throw stuff or cry and drool in a fetal position. Good fun!

i suppose that's true. i was speaking more to my experiences. i think if i tried to rip something up i would give up almost instantly.

409,533

But they look thin, sort of *stretched*, like butter spread over too much bread

You don't think that... nahhh... I mean, it's *impossible*... right...?

409,534

Is there any word about wether or not this is an OLED display?

Its AH-IPS LCD. Here's the page from the carrier's website.

409,535

Other good bands I found on YouTube: - The Starkins. - Warm Ghost. - Tyler Ward. - "The Chat Guy" (username is "chadneidt", has some good acoustic songs and "20 songs in a minute" mashups of everything from Blink-182 to 90's one hit wonders.) - Blue Foundation. - Friends. - Hoodie Allen (listen to his mixtapes and look at the "You Are Not A Robot" music video) - I found a really good Coldplay/Radiohead mashup of "in my place" and "fake plastic trees", and a really good MGMT/Coldplay mashup of "kids" and "life in technicolor II" (which is my new favorite song)

Love Tyler Ward. Love Boyce Ave, and Tylers cover of "Fix You". Pretty emotional. I must look up these others!

409,536

Fuel cells are not a bad technology. And are a *fantastic* alternative to oil in areas without a robust electric grid, or areas with power generation issues.

Certainly, their current uses in backup generators and warehouse vehicles proves it. But the market for that is quite minimal In the broader context of vehicle use. And IMO long term batteries have a high enough theoretical capacity that even those uses will be battery powered, since local power generation is a requirement with or without vehicles.

409,537

Well you get the circle jerkers that love it now, so it evens out in fairness in the long run

There's already TFA hate circle jerk going on in multiple threads.

409,538

This is a link to a video I worked on with Charlie Rae. Enjoy!

Very cool! Feel free to post it over in /r/charlierae if you like

409,539

>If I check your most played songs on iTunes, these albums better be heavily represented. this is incredibly dumb. good music does not always requite to be listened to many times. most of my favorite music ive listened to only a few times. but it made an impression on me that doesn't require multiple listens. often times listening to it is a waring experience, and that's a good thing.

I mean you can set any standards you want for a top 10. Those are the ones I choose : /

409,540

Good job guys. Not only do I have to unsubscribe from r/technology but r/worldnews too.

/r/worldnews /r/technology. ***** [^report ^a ^**problem**] ^| [^delete ^comment] ^| [^source ^code] ^| [^contact ^developer]

409,541

Yammer changed from a functional if bland ui to a Metro disaster in a few months. I fear the same thing will happen to LI.

The only difference being that current LinkedIn UX is anything but functional.

409,542

Columbia University published a paper about how Shogun influenced Americans learning Japanese culture, and it's available online for free! I can't link it for some reason, having trouble on mobile, but search "Learning from Shogun" and Columbia and it will be in the top results

Wow, that's interesting! Didn't know that this book had been so influential. Another merit to add to its collection, I suppose. I'll give it a read, thanks for the suggestion!

409,543

You should get her a copy of Stiff by Mary Roach . . . there's a part about the body farm in TN (?) and it's just interesting in general.

I have that somewhere! I'll have to scrounge it up. Good call.

409,544

as someone born in 87 i have no idea who any of those people are except Patrick Swayze and Cher

You don't know who Nicholas Cage or Jon Voight are?

409,545

Captain America seems to be the most brutal one though. I mean that guy that got blended in the prop, and just people getting shot everywhere...wow

Ya it's just a bunch of faceless hydra henchmen dying though. The way they montage through a ton of battles with the main villain just seemed like the movie was rushed and they needed plot points for avengers.

409,546

I thought it was common knowledge that playboy always had great articles? When people are buying your magazine for the boobs anyway, you don't have to stoop to low quality bait journalism. You also got porn money, so you can afford to take stances and hire high level professionals.

I honestly thought that was a sarcastic joke. In the, "So I was buying a copy of Playboy (FOR THE ARTICLES!) when, suddenly...", sort of way. Playboy was a bit before my time, though.

409,547

The Island. Great first half, really shitty Michael Bay shitfest in the second half.

That movie was fucking all over the place in the second half

409,548

Ad insertion is useful for small developers that want ad revenue but don't have the resources to cut their own advertiser deals. Like on mobile, I could develop an app on my own and simply opt in to Google's and Apple's advertising networks to get revenue. Or on YouTube, I can monetize videos by letting Google serve the advertisements. This lets developers of TV apps do the same thing. Hulu has the resources to provide their own ads, while smaller developers would just use whatever ads Samsung provides.

I'm certainly not denying that ad revenue is an useful source of revenue for certain developers. But when I purchase a device, I'm damn well going to make sure there aren't any ads on it, because that's my choice as customer. When I pay for something, I have zero desire for ads. That's my right as customer and I'm damn well boycotting Samsung and their 'smart' devices that track everything you do and present you with their ads you don't want.

409,549

I've always heard it, obviously very loosely, stemmed from a story about a man who stuck his wife in a wood chipper.

That must have been a doozy of a day for him

409,550

Unfortunately, I would've spent more time taking notes than reading. I tried so damn hard to get into this "book" but it just never grabbed me. I read a lot of weird, experimental stuff that I've had no problems with. This just gave me a headache. Maybe I'll give it another go cause it sits on my bookcase... taunting me.

I tried to hard to read it. I got maybe 100 pages in after a week of really pushing myself, then decided to take a break and read another book. Since putting down House of Leaves maybe 2-3 months ago, I've purchased 32 more books and read maybe a dozen. This break has turned out to be much longer than I anticipated. I really want to finish this dang book :/

409,551

In the US CDMA was (and still is) by far the more popular 2G/3G technology. Both Verizon (#1 carrier) and Sprint (formerly #3) and most of the regional carriers (like US Cellular, C-Spire, Alltel (before Verizon swallowed it up)) use it. Only AT&T (#2) and T-Mobile (formerly #4, now #3) and a few regional carriers (like iWireless in Iowa and GCI in Alaska) use GSM/HSPA for 2G/3G. It was only when Verizon chose the GSM-derived LTE standard for 4G service (instead of Qualcomm's competing CDMA-derived Ultra Mobile Broadband standard) that CDMA became a dead-end technology in the US.

That must be a pain not having phone portability. Also isn't CDMA quite slow?

409,552

There is PLENTY of good hip-hop still being made if you know what you actually like. Johnny Polygon, Duke Daeo, Big KRIT, Earl Sweatshirt, Andre Nickatina (never gets old), Isaiah, Blue Scholars, Brotha Lynch, Dan Le Sac, Dead Pres, Heiroglyphics, Dizzee Rascal, The Streets, E-40, MGK, Rhyme Asylum, The Roots, Roots Manuva, Self Scientific/Chace Infinite, Skulastic, SPEAK!, Theophilus London, Wax and Dumbfounded. Plenty. That's not even the start. All these people have released albums recently. Some you are guaranteed to have heard and written off. Others maybe not. You can always find amateurs on youtube and soundcloud anyway. Besides, the 90s and 80s had it's fair share of garbage rap/hip-hop.

I get it guys. But you still seen to be missing my point. First of all, half the guys you just named are from the 90's. Second of all, none of them are top 40 artists. Or they had one featured spot on one single. I'm saying that top 40 rap was tremendously better then than it is now.

409,553

I had more issues with the pterodactyls than the raptors, but like you said it's not the biggest issue. In 20 years nobody will care. I can watch Jurassic Park and T2 even though their 90s CGI isn't "perfect" and I can watch LOTR even though that CGI is looking dated too. I can watch Ray Harryhausen flicks and it's obviously stop-motion but it doesn't take away from my enjoyment.

Story, direction and memorable characters is most important. That's why those films will always be classics. I think a lot of current cgi creatures lack character, too.

409,554

No. They are unreliable, slower and too expensive for backups. The only reason to use then is their size assuming you need it. For 250$ you can buy a semi-decent nas or 10tb of external drives.

No i meant as offline backups, store data once then shelve them for eternity.

409,555

I don't have all the specifics of the algorithm, since it's my friend's program, but my general idea is that it assigns points to each film along the lines of 100/x where x is the rank. So if a movie is 1st on someone's list and 3rd on someone else's list, then it gets 133 points on the compiled list. Regardless of the method/outcome though, I'm really interested to see everyone's lists!

Very cool! Like that thing that happened in /r/books, but more organized, it sounds like. I’m eager for results.

409,556

The Rescue is pretty good, too. Not their most ambitious project, but it works quite well.

Seeing as almost all of The Rescue is improvisation and was completed start to finish in 2 weeks, I would say it's ambitious enough.

409,557

As a C# developer, I have to say, Thank you! Having a common open framework to develop in across multiple platforms will be huge for me and the industry in general, I think. This is something I've been waiting for/bitching about for a long time.

Mono is pretty solid these days. You have that "common open framework" already. It just might get a little better (+1 implementation).

409,558

Surprisingly good camera work, audio recording on the embedded video.

Think I saw that camera guy, he had a Canon DSLR..

409,559

>Absolutely filthy. And then you had to go and do a silly thing like that

What is silly about that? How the fuck else would you like me to describe something?

409,560

The Verge, whose editors I'm pretty sure would go to town on Steve Jobs's rotting cock even today, rated it significantly lower than the Moto 360. Apple really screwed up here.

> Apple really screwed up here. That quote is gonna haunt you in a year or two, if not sooner.

409,561

Days of future past was basically a hard reset. We are in an alternate timeline now.

That they already fucked up. At the end of DoFP Wolverine is captured by Mystique disguised as Stryker, and in Apocalypse (SPOILER) he's now held by the real Stryker, without any explanation. Plus, the fact that now 55-years-old characters like Xavier look 35 doesn't help with the believability.

409,562

Caleb goes along with Nathan because he realizes he's been caught, but isn't sure how caught he is. He plays dumb until Nathan inadvertently blows his mind with something he didn't consider. That Ava was pretending to go along with the escape plan, but would betray him. He thought he had outsmarted Nathan, with the whole plot already executed, but the plot was done as if she was on board with it. When he realizes that he failed to account for this possibility, he realizes he screwed up. I think Caleb thought he had a winning hand, so why not.

That's a really sound explanation, and I feel a lot better about it now. Thanks!!

409,563

Cheesy movie but at 10 it was cool. Well cool if you were a chubby 10 year old with no girlfriend.

I wasn't chubby, but I was awkward. This movie gave me false hope, but I still love it.

409,564

I almost thought I was 4/4 but when I looked up the Flood Brothers I didn't know them.

Flood Brothers is kind of cheating. It's two guys who play something similar to what the Black Keys started with, maybe with an even more pronounced Delta lean. They're from mid-Missouri, which is where I'm from, but I think they've maybe played Mississippi, Texas, and surrounding Midwest states

409,565

I think the context of the scene before the line should tell you what you need to know. I can't remember it though.

Vennett says some version of "Ratings agencies, SEC and big banks are clueless." Steve Carrell's character Mark Baum responds with, "That's not stupidity that's fraud!" This elicits the quote in question.

409,566

Yo, Weezer I'm really happy for you, but the Blue Album was the best weezer cd ever made!

False. Pinkerton. If it weren't for Surf Wax America, I may agree with you.

409,567

the wachowski brothers will get no more of my money ... matrix 1 covered a LOT of films money and time namely everything theyve made since save for speed racer ive seen and have vowed to no longer support their endeavors. matrix 2/3, V, Ninja Assassin ... NO MORE.

Really? I have to ask why you didn't like V for Vendetta or Ninja Assassin? With a name like that, what kind of movie did you expect? I feel like it has the same thing going as Shoot 'Em Up, if you go see that movie, what do you really expect? I can understand the hatred of Matrix 2/3.

409,568

A joint venture: > a German company owned by Mozilla and Hubert Burda Media. Apparently their main product is an anti-tracking browser.

That doesn't sound so bad. it's not like they're getting bought by Microsoft or Facebook or something

409,569

Wow I hadn't ever thought about how our knowledge of dinosaur's postures has changed. Just did a fun wee googling session and found [this interesting article] Apparently the majority of kids will draw a T-rex standing upright rather than the modern almost horizontal way.

Isn't that great? I think at the museum in Philly they have a picture of the old model.

409,570

**Pride and Prejudice**. There I was, an 18-year-old male from a working class family in an industrial town. What could I possibly get from a romantic fantasy about rich people? I didn't know what had hit me. I loved it.

for some reason i am always reluctant to start a jane austen or a viriginia woolf novel, but then i'm always pleasantly surprised.

409,571

I don't think he could have made it any more obvious that it was.

Well, he *is* sort of right though. We have evolved to perceive most unhealthy things as bitter or otherwise bad tasting. Because the people who thought that poison was yummy didn't make the cut...

409,572

As an English major, I usually have about 150-200 pages to read a night with a decently heavy course load. I'm still able to read a little for recreation, but not nearly as much as I'd like.

dam you are a trooper. my girl friend is an english major who does not read for fun during the school year but I guess everyone is different.

409,573

I had no idea there even was a book, sounds great, going to order it now.

Yay! I got someone to want to read the book without spoiling it! I honestly think it's better having seen the movie. Just don't scroll down reading reviews. The less you expect, the better. And you can always read it through a second time to see what you missed.

409,574

Foo Fighters is great and all but they're not even close to as influential as Nirvana.

Completely but its a high benchmark. They have been consistently one of the biggest bands of the last 20 years. Im too young to have seen Nirvana but the only live band that compares to the Foos ive seen are Rage Against the Machine.

409,575

On the contrary, I didn't continue to do English classes beyond the years it was compulsory because at my school we never had any challenging material. I was in the top English class in my year and we never did anything challenging. We never looked at any difficult books. Picking a challenging book is the whole point of English class. There's no point picking a book that doesn't challenge students to think about it critically and help them to expand their minds.

I was thinking about the kids who have only read a handful of books in their lives, some of whom may find their reading ability to be a hindrance. You don't want to scare those kids off. There's a difference between 'technical' and conceptual difficulty though, I think. A book can be easilly accessible but still intelligent, like TCIOTDITN-T.

409,576

The HQ Flagship Half Price Books here in Dallas even keeps valuable kids items behind lock and key. You can look at them but no touching without permission. They also have an insulated room, like a safe, where they keep old magazines and other things that are really valuable (but not everything valuable?). I always get claustrophobic when I go in there because I just imagine the heavy door swinging shut behind me.

I misread that sentence several times as: "... keeps valuable kids behind lock and key. You can look at them but no touching without permission." The way you wrote it is much better than the way I read it.

409,577

Eh, 40s is young, most people still look great at that age. Money doesn't buy youth, celebrities just look young because you always see them dressed up, and in perfect lighting. I don't think they look any younger than the average person off the street that takes care of their health.

I take care of myself (sunscreen, moisturizer, etc) and am mid-twenties but already have wrinkles on my forehead, around my eyes, and mouth. I also have freckles and moles. One could just say genetics as the answer to everything, but I'm pretty sure if I got fabulous dermatologic help I could nix my wrinkles and some of my freckles.

409,578

maybe they could be marketed and sold as themed paper weights.

they are paper and they have weight. meta themed paper weights. my mind is doing something.

409,579

That a subreddit? Sorry, I'm not up on everything. Just talked to vice, buzzfeed and engaget tho

>“We know exactly who we’re talking to” > Doesn’t know about hackernews, but contacts Vice, Buzzfeed, and Engadget.

409,580

My thoughts exactly. The only thing that could make this better would be some Alan Rickman and/or some Jeremy Irons!

I hear you on Alan Rickman, that man has an incredible voice... Also, [here's] Neil Gaiman reading the whole of The Graveyard Book :).

409,581

I was so bummed when Netflix took off Tron: Uprising. I was going to rewatch only to have my dreams shattered.

Mexican Netflix still got it. If you use a vpn or something.

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[OMG FOLKS. HOLY SHITBALLS CLICK HERE. there is this amazing new product i want to tell you about called bookdarts. they are the most accurate bookmark ever and you should totally buy them right now. only $7 shipping inclusive or they're FREE (that's right, you heard me, FREE!) if you buy a book from some bookstore. ] === [fixed for duckhunter]

Really? Seriously? You hide a better, more awesome product behind "[meh.]" For shame. Book Darts are the bee's knees, and if you don't want to use their store locator and go find them in the real world, Anglophile Books [sells packs of 40 for $7 shipping inclusive] (or free if you buy a book). Sheesh, notatoad, I hope you never come up with a clean, cheap power source... Reddit says, "Exxon uses 'clean coal' to power offshore oil drilling platforms." notatoad replies, "[pff.]" (only it would be real)

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I just watched that trailer after I read your comment. Never heard of it until now. Holy crap I know exactly what I'm doing this weekend.

Same. man, at the end...Jake looks so much like Bale in Psycho. His crazy ass face...wow.

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The cowbell has always been a little off beat. It's a callback to a well known SNL sketch.

So why did the band adjust to it if it was off on purpose Will?

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According to [quite a few people] in r/Android, the UI seems to lag and stutter for such a high end device. It might get fixed closer to actual release time, but just something to keep in mind.

/r/Android. ***** [^report ^a ^**problem**] ^| [^delete ^comment] ^| [^source ^code] ^| [^contact ^developer]

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FB offered an onion address for quite some time now.

I mean, there's really no reason for them not to of they have the ability to.

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I can see it perfectly saddled upon my golden-winged war ostrich.

i had to argue with IT pretty hard to get this screen, they wanted to fob me off with a cheaper one, now i can show them this picture as proof of the quality and that i needed it :P

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$1500 for a digital toaster oven, because that's all it is. I think I'll stick with my $50 Black and Decker, and buy 10 more throughout my lifetime and still save more money.

Seems like that is not all it is though. It's supposed to be able to recognise what you're cooking. And then do everything for you. So all you would do is throw whatever in there, turn the oven on and then that is it. Not that I believe it's going to work that we'll though. But that is the concept at least.

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Well, stealing is better than beating women, no ones saying its right.

The stealing of the music has nothing to do with domestic violence. You guys are just conflating shit.

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The kind of legendary notoriety one can only achieve from biting the heads off bats and shit.

I wouldn't call that 'metal street cred', I'd call it 'being so fucked off your face that you don't realize the fake bat you are holding is actually real'

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If i see him, i think Luke, but if i hear him... that laugh, that... cackle...

[Watching him do the Joker voice is even more confusing]

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Don't connect them to a network. It's hard to find a good, non "smart" TV these days

I've never found any smart TV features worth using anyway. Are people actually willing to go through those clunky interfaces trying to navigate YouTube or Netflix?

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The scotch tape method, or something similar, doesn't scale well and you still have to move it to your desired surface. Perhaps similarly, you can exfoliate graphene flakes from graphite. About a month ago there was press on a article where graphene dispersions were obtained from soap, graphite, and a kitchen blender. CVD methods have the potential to really drive down graphene device costs as understanding grows- industry is already well equipped for CVD processes. Mechanistic studies looking at quality and reproducibility will help, as will an increasingly large toolbox to transfer graphene for specific applications.

Does the graphene coating on the tape conduct electricity still?

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> it looks more like Chrome generally. Problem is, I don't want it to look like Chrome. If I wanted something that looked like Chrome, I'd fire up Chrome

Fun trivia: This design started before Chrome was originally released.

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"AHNG!" Or the fact that it takes 12 earth benders to throw some pebbles at some dudes

These Earth-benders are clearly dangerous! We need to imprison them in a secure facility, the local rock quarry looks good.

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It was definitely difficult to watch because of the subject matter, but the issue that I had with the plot was that there was no background knowledge about why their marriage is crumbling in the first place.

It was because he didn't have a job or any ambition.

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I really think I don't understand The Great Beauty. It was lovely to watch but the film didn't stick with me at all, which is why I don't like it very much. And I love love Mikkelsen, I don't see many faults with the writing as I found it quite realistic as to how people in a small community would respond to something like that and the acting and directing was just perfect.

My problem with the writing is that it feels too scripted. It's not a natural evolution of events, and it doesn't unfold in an organic way, cause there are too many moments that rely too much on things going wrong in just the right way to make his situation worse. The downward spiral is far too tight, so it feels contrived a lot of the time. The fault isn't in the directing, cause Vinterberg establishes the atmosphere of isolation and paranoia very well, it's just that it's all too convenient.

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>You’re one of the few—perhaps the only—filmmaker in Hollywood who could make a $165 million original film. Do you feel there’s a lot of sequelitis going on in Hollywood? There are precious few large-scale, ambitious, original works. Ugh. This interviewer is too ass kissey. This isn't even close to true.

There really aren't very many people who can do an original idea with that big of a budget. Name some of the others... Nolan has a Midas touch in the eyes of the studios.

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Who would have figured that getting people laid could generate money :)

The thing is, people see it as a relationship app, not a hookup app, nowadays. So... not exactly getting people laid.