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409,800	I'm still looking for Enoch in Snow Crash and Anathem, I'm sure he's snuck in there somewhere (fairly sure he has a cameo in Diamond Age).	I'm fairly sure that YT is the head mistress of the girls school.
409,801	What about the fact that I pay maybe 4-10 times the rent people in Italy do, just because I happen to live here? Is that fair?	Yes. Housing cost is a byproduct of a thousand different circumstances and is therefore incomparable when the degree of separation is so great from one sector to another. This is a case of one single service available to anyone yet at differing cost, but unlike in housing, the cost is not subject to all those circumstances and is determined by one single entity. Another thing is, according to the last.fm people, we're not just paying for ourselves, but for those in the US, UK, and Germany as well. Blatant favoritism, and very, very unfair.
409,802	It's always a "small number of our customers" when you do a major fuck up.	It probably was small but not tiny. I didn't even know you could use other brands of smart bulbs with hue, and I doubt most people did either.
409,803	Ok I was definitely against this at first (because 1. I'd rather a Oceans 14, 2. I don't like how Hollywood is deciding to make all-female versions of classic movies, like why not just write a new story) ...but after seeing the cast "Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Helena Bonham Carter, Mindy Kaling, Elizabeth Banks, and maybe Jennifer Lawrence" I can see this being terrific	> Mindy Kaling. Well, lemme guess the plot: it's a heist about stealing Mindy Kaling's cake and ice cream.
409,804	How much of your income have you donated to Chinese workers? Even $1?	I'm poor, I my self don't have money to spare as I live paycheck to paycheck. But Tim cook is a millionaire. Have you donated anything?
409,805	I know. But the hydrogen is made from electricity from solar panels. The efficiency of doing this would be at best the same as just putting the electricity in an electric car. No matter what the transmission method, the amount of energy is determined by the number of panels, amount of sun, etc.	Just check the OP's post history, Honda guerilla marketing employee?
409,806	Please no. As far as I know there is NO safe way to have elections through software. At the end of the day voters show up and press some buttons and have no way of verifying that their vote was actually counted. If only experts can verify the integrity of an election, then experts can rig that election.	Purely software, no, but over here we have a hybrid system with paper ballots counted electronically. Basically in the voting booth you can print a ballot with your choices written in full and as a qr code, which you then scan and drop in a special ballot box. The votes are counted electronically, but you have a paper fallback for technical problems and control afterwards.
409,807	What about Civil War? Or even Infinity War? Probable Infinity War characters: Captain America, Iron Man, Hulk, Black Widow, Hawkeye, Thor, Vision, Scarlet Witch, Falcon, Ant-Man, Black Panther, Gamora, Drax, Star-Lord, Groot, Rocket, Spider-Man, War Machine, Winter Soldier, Doctor Strange, Captain Marvel, and that's not even counting the heroes from other media that might make a cameo, the villain(s) or the human characters.	And it's probably gonna turn into a mess. I really like Phase 1. Phase 2 was good but is leading into a Phase 3 that I don't hold out too much faith for. Maybe it will be great, I don't know, but it looks like it might... not.
409,808	you know what's cool at this point....a billion dollars. the new album sucks dick.	He already has all those billions for the headphones though! If he takes all the money for himself, what are WE gonna use!!
409,809	In no particular order and completely at random: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ...and many of the authors of these books have other equally compelling works.	Of your favorites, I most love The Great Gatsby, As I Lay Dying, and Catcher in the Rye.
409,810	This is similar to...if you outlaw drugs criminals will still have drugs and if you outlaw guns criminals will be the only ones with guns. Edit: I am referring to the act of prohibition. What happened when we outlawed alcohol?	Comparing it to an attempt at outlawing all foreign language would be more apt.
409,811	Godzilla 2014 was a niche film? Lol no. It was a big-budget summer blockbuster, c'mon now.	Tonally, it absolutely was a niche film. If they wanted your average brain-numbing blockbuster audience they would have made something along the lines of Pacific Rim, instead of something nearly identical to the classic films, which have a narrow audience themselves.
409,812	This is not a problem with technology, this is a problem with capitalism. Capitalism is deeply flawed in the face of extreme technological proficiency. But until we build a machine better at designing and fixing machines than we are, that can also fix itself, there will be a need for programmers and engineers and maintenance workers. And we very well may have jobs for people to move into for a long time still. Programmers didn't exist in the industrial revolution. What job is there in 20 or 200 years that doesn't exist now? We don't know. Regardless, being prepared economically for the end of human labor is worthwhile. Stopping technological development is out of the question.	Selfish human nature gave rise to Capitalism and every other form of government...
409,813	The big carriers could stop robocalls 100% very easily, all they have to do is verify CID info. They choose not to, because they get to charge for every call that terminates on their lines, be that VOIP or landline origination. They all make money. Take away the money, and you would kill robocalls overnight.	\^ this one right here. even if you fined them to counteract the money it would have to be massive and we wont do it...
409,814	Don't forget Pretty Lights! You may also like Big Gigantic.	Pretty Lights - at least his more recent stuff - is pretty dubsteppy, though. I've seen Derek a number of times, and while he puts on a great show (especially outdoors at a festival at 2am), PL is much closer to the kind of overdriven club music that OP doesn't appear to enjoy. Big Gigantic is a good recc, though. I'm a huge STS9 fan and got to see Dominic sitting in with them a few times, including their Axe the Cables acoustic show in Chicago - totally amazing experience.
409,815	for anyone that hasn't used a surface tablets, the keyboards not there yet. no swipe keys, no function keys, no media keys, no windows key ffs... edit: also turns out there are swipe keys, but guess what? [swipe keys don't work in apps like chrome fucking browser](/r/Surface/comments/77a4yj/touch_keyboard_swipe_not_working_in_chrome/dokck5z/?utm_content=permalink&utm_medium=front&utm_source=reddit&utm_name=Surface) seriously, you shills that physically cannot be using swipe to respond to this comment about swipe keys can go fuck yourselves.	Which doesn't make much sense because the Windows Phone keyboard was the best I've ever used and they own SwiftKey.
409,816	If you're going to do a comparison, you should use the two things you're comparing. Otherwise it is total BS	Yeah that's fair. I still don't like saying it's total BS because that's their goal, it's sound, and they're still not there yet. It's an example of what they're hoping to achieve. If they didn't use their own camera, they should have made it clear.
409,817	The best part is that he's all by himself.	I'm pretty sure that's his wife holding the microphone.
409,818	I don't care if it's a circlejerk. This movie was really great. Cruise was hilarious, the action was very tense, and it was paced surprisingly well for a movie with the premise of reliving a day. I've probably seen it at least five times.	Yep, totally agreed. It has a lot of flairs but it's highly entrateining and Emily Blunt is amazing (her first entrance is super cool)
409,819	I'd say you're not really "reading" them then though -- they're just reference material. If you are actually trying to go through them cover-to-cover, more than "a few" at a time is likely counterproductive.	I don't think that's fair. I can read individual chapters of a math textbook and not read it cover to cover.
409,820	Rachel Dawes was created specifically for the film . . . I don't think that's a fair comparison.	No, it's an entirely fair and accurate comparison. The Amazing Spider Man the film is NOT the same as the comics. It's NOT a direct adaptation, any more than Batman is.
409,821	Peter Parker's a nerdy teenager who stumbled into into superpowers, most of which revolve around him being agile and nimble. Wonder Woman is the princess of a race of warriors. Amazons are literally defined as being large and muscular, and their leader should represent that.	He's actually much, much stronger than you'd think based on the comics/TV show, he always pulls his punches. However I agree with you, it'd be much nicer and more interesting if they actually cast a noticeably tall/muscular woman to play WW and her friends.
409,822	The only worthwhile way to experience Harry Potter is to have Stephen Fry read it to you	Haha oh shit yeah that does sound pretty great tbh.
409,823	Just curious, where are you getting that number from?	His Ass. A couple million people died from the terrors/purges and somewhere between 3 and 6 million from the the Holdomor. 60 million is like 50% of the population of the Soviet Union, add to that the 20-30 million that the Nazis are responsible for and it becomes apparent that this number is completely absurd.
409,824	That page brought my browser to a screeching halt. I think it was all the embeds.	Yeah the new blogger interface is weird sometimes. Thanks for attempting though haha!
409,825	Not even Microsoft could sell wonky phones based on name recognition alone. > There will be no retail availability of the Aquaris. It will be on sale via sporadic flash sales over the coming weeks, recruiting early adopters and trying to build up into a viable mobile platform. Doomed.	> Doomed. You're late to the party. They've been saying that about Linux for what, almost 25 years now?
409,826	They're easily compared, and they were both great. But they were very different characters.	Exactly my point, it just bugs me when people say such and such can't be compared when they obviously can.
409,827	Please don't look at him as the average Joe for Indiana. Most of us aren't like this.	I hope not and I'm glad to hear it. Good luck with all of this nonsense!
409,828	Steven King wrote ""The Running Man"" under a pseudonym of Richard Bachman to test waters if he still got skills to write entertaining story. It not only proved that he was awesome, we also got an awesome movie. Upvote.	The Long Walk was written under the Bachman pseudonym too.
409,829	They gave you a /64 or your default gateway is in a /64? That is [18,446,744,073,709,551,616 IP addresses] for your block. Did you give an IP to every blade of grass along with everyone else in a six state radius?	I believe they do give out /64 address blocks to normal customers. Why wouldn't they? It's sort of wasteful, yes, but there's so many addresses to go around it doesn't really matter. Here's a post about it (although it's 4 years old)
409,830	Did it also break your ability to tell the difference between week and weak? :)	It's always autocorrect now. Your nazi practices are a scar of history!
409,831	That's good news to me. I enjoyed the last two movies, but moving forward I was really hoping to see more adventure and exploration versus straight action.	Yes! This is awesome! I was a little disappointed in the last one when they didn't take the turn the 3rd one seems to be heading.
409,832	The conservative pages that were banned should just find a different platform to use and let the free market decide.	They also took out Anti-Media and Free Thought Project (both left leaning and with millions of followers), and Twitter hit them at the same time. This was a coordinated attack on ideas, not ideologies.
409,833	King is at his best when he's writing fantasy -- the early Dark Tower books, The Stand (definite elements of fantasy), Talisman (with Peter Straub), Eyes of the Dragon (naturally) -- even Black House (felt a bit rushed and half-assed, but still good) and Salem's Lot (the fantasy elements are mostly buried in the plot structure). He's at his worst when he strays from that. He missed his calling. He should have been identified as a dark fantasy author, first and foremost, rather than a horror writer. edit: fixed a typo (Bleak House -> Black House)	what the hell is bleak house? I have all of his books and never heard of that one. Do you mean Black House?
409,834	That's almost no information to go on. Can you tell us something about the song? What style of music was it? About what decade do you think it was from? What other kinds of things does it say besides that one sentence? Do you remember any part of the melody?	I get it. I think it's a more recent song. At least I recall hearing it on the radio a few times somewhere in the time period of late 2012 to early 2013 (I know that helps). It was an English or Scottish dude pretty much talking/telling a story over background music. I remember no part of the melody. He's talking about how interesting space is.
409,835	"This app is incompatible with your device." Nexus7.	Weird, it works perfectly well on my Moto G LTE
409,836	oh please.. such overrated new age horseshit; read Schopenhauer instead, start with the penguin classics essays selection if you can't read german.	Lol. I'm sure RAW has been called lots of things but New Age is a first.
409,837	Honestly I'd be fine with Firefox gobbling up the amount of RAM it does if the browser didn't hard-lock at about 2.5 GB.	Firefox user here: 380 MB of RAM used by Firefox and approx. 50 tabs opened constantly. It is true however that I went [through some settings] to improve the browsing experience.
409,838	Expanse series rocks. I know the authors have said in some interview that they're contracted for another trilogy, and I believe (possible spoiler) [the main protagonist will continue to be Holden](/spoiler). also it's being turned into a TV series! I hope they don't screw that up. I don't think a network has picked it up yet, though. [source]	It would work so damn well as a tv series. I'm just not sure how they would do the belters. They're gonna have to find a lot of tall ass women. CAn't wait for the next book, though. Cibola Burns comes out June 5th!
409,839	>Well I can tell by the people at my school. >that the NSA and CIA. >have no problem hiring the people. >the FBI are turning away. It's a stretch but your comment can be read to the tune of the BeeGees' Stayin' Alive.	This is the best thing I've read all day. I love how that's immediately what you got from the initial post. Such a creative mind, maybe you should work for one of these agencies.
409,840	What if you scanned the foot then printed the ideal shoe shape, overlaid it with leather, then placed an insole on top? Don't think you could get much more comfortable than that.	This is the new way that some orthotics are made, but the machine can be temperamental. (The other way is the foam in a shoe box method). Either way, it's made from a very strong plastic, and then cushioning is added for comfort. The tricky part about insoles or orthotics is how much room there is in the shoe to allow for the insole/orthotic and the foot. This is why I can add my orthotics/insoles to sneakers, once I take out the stock insole, but not to anything remotely suitable for the office, such as dressy flats pumps, or boots.
409,841	To me it felt like a modern Clockwork Orange. The cinematography and acting on Tom Hardy's part are phenomenal.	Didn't his clownish behavior turn you off? I felt like it was so un characteristic of a psycho path
409,842	I get that. But I personally really like the three act structure that (good) trilogies follow.	Yup, there's also a huge difference in quality when trilogies are planned from the beginning.
409,843	We are all very similar, but all a bit different. Having differences does not mean you are superior though.	It was a quote from Fight Club but I guess I'm just getting too old for Reddit.
409,844	Man, I actually thought Google+ was a superior product to Facebook. It lacked the userbase though.	I think the circles privacy setup is great. I only use G+ with my family now, but that's actually awesome because I don't have to censor my Facebook as much (not that I have a particularly vulgar Facebook identity).
409,845	But why when you can just reboot. None of the software aboard the plane resembles anything that could work with any of those technologies anyway	It's all built off of commercial software (likely Windows, possibly Linux) and a lot of it probably IS virtualized.
409,846	Same. Spotify has exponentially expanded my music library. The Discover Weekly playlist is phenomenal. If I had to make a list of my top 10 artists, (as impossible as that would be) 7 of them would probably be artists I discovered on Spotify.	I spend most of my time at work discovering new music through Discover Weekly and just hitting Song Radio on a song I like. It's so easy to save the song, and even go to the artist and listen to their library.
409,847	Wizard of Earthsea is one of the first books my dad ever read to me as a kid, and I love it precisely because of how progressive and thought-provoking its themes are (most of Le Guin's work is, she's the most consequential Fantasy and Science Fiction writer of the 20th Century after Tolkein, IMO). Fantasy as a genre could use more stories like hers. I recommend picking up The Left Hand of Darkness if you haven't. It's a challenging book in the same way.	Thanks for the recommendation. I've been reminding myself to check out her other work, even non-fantasy. I also think her portrayal of dragons may be my favorite in all literature or any media thus far, even over Tolkien's, as if I had to choose.
409,848	Mike I might be a day late but HAPPY BIRTHDAY FUCKER! What was the writing process for the album like? Did you have any photos or images that helped you write? Thanks for being the soundtrack to my life and the anti rock star we need.	Looks like you still got the stereotypical rock star attitude from him.
409,849	AW SHIT YEAH ESKMO!!! Hey man, Mod of /r/electronicmusic here, we love you over there! A couple questions: * You've already released records with some of the biggest names in independent electronic music. Is there some one you'd like you release with that you haven't yet? * Who are some of your inspirations in music and art? * Best place to eat in LA? Thanks for the AMA!! [Spotify Link to new album Sol.]	Hey thanks, 1) In terms of labels, not really. I'm totally happy with what has happened so far. There are so many amazing labels indie and non indie alike out there, it just depends on timing and the sound I'm working w at the moment. 2) Design, relationships, environments, Semiotics, Cymatics, space, time, tension, release... I love looking at social structures and natural systems. 3) It depends of course. I would say, this week, Pine and Crane in Silverlake. Amazing 3 cup chicken and a side of cold mushrooms.
409,850	Does a publishing house name guarantee a higher caliber of book or just a nicer cover and higher price? I actually get what you're trying to say but, as a self-published author of two books, I put every possible effort into turning out a quality product and had to ask.	I understand your point, but you also didn't answer his question of "what caliber books"? Like are we going to get Ghetto Romance novels like Gangsta Divas?
409,851	I'm old, so I got to see 2001 in several reissues in the 70s and 80s (so not that old) but also once in Cinerama - completely amazing experience. Saw Apocalypse Now in Paramus NJ on opening night, standing in line with a bunch of guys who were older and in the war. Tough guys, hard and cold stories as we waited in line to get let in. My girlfriend wasn't sure about this whole "bullshit macho-trip we were in". All of us sat together and watched it, we all freaked, we all teared, we all walked away transformed. She got it, they broke down, and I thanked god I was 14 when Nixon called it all off.	I've heard stories that in some theaters, when Apocalypse Now opened, they had to give people little playbooks that had the credits in the movie, since the film technically didn't have a credit sequence, but for legal reasons it had to acknowledge the actors and crew. I would love to have one of those.
409,852	You should be running better qos on your router. You can prevent any computers from using bandwidth during the day, and increase their bandwidth in off hours. This will prevent update from bogging your network regardless of how often Windows wants to update. The rest of the bandwidth can either be split into pools for certain devices, or certain programs. You can also set up a cache on the router so commonly accessed pages are stored on the router and not re downloaded every time you access the page. Band aid fixes, sure...but it'll prevent your network from ever becoming unusable	I didn't go in to every detail of what I do, but yes, there are also settings at the firewall level to prevent unwanted / unscheduled updates, etc... Guys, I'm not new, I promise. I'm simply sharing my story of how low bandwidth affects a business like ours. A lot of hoops I might not otherwise have to jump through and whatnot. ;)
409,853	Why does a sane person want any of that on their phone? Why does he want to type at a fucking command line?	Yeah I agree, I'm as nerdy as any other engineer, but I don't want to type in a terminal on my phone.
409,854	He was born and lived up here in Alaska in the same neck of the woods as I was.	Oh right. I had no idea Jason was from/lives in Alaska.
409,855	A C+ isn't abysmal (although the 37% it's sitting at on RT certainly is). I'm still seeing the movie this weekend, just with lowered expectations.	Yeah, still going to see it and form my own opinion, but usually RT is a good indicator (though they seem like they really don't like Zack Snyder)
409,856	Usually when a company has to choose between BSD and Linux kernels is really comes down more to the licence and less to the technology. You could be correct, maybe they found the BSD licence to their liking and went that route. Maybe they found a clause in the licence to restrictive and decided against it favor of Linux. Maybe it runs a heavily modified version of Windows (doubtful, but not out of the question given MS's recent attitude change). We'll know eventually.	Anything they do with the Linux kernel will need to be shared. Anything they do with BSD can be kept a secret. Businesses pretty universally go for the BSD license to start with if they have an option.
409,857	Maemo/Meego, WebOS, Ubuntu Touch, those are examples of actual different UX's. Reskinning Android and moving a few buttons around is not a different UX.	Id say Windows Phone has the only different UX, the rest of those are really the same as android and iOS....
409,858	The scene in Toni Morrison's Beloved where, rather than have her kids brought back to slavery, the mother kills them...	Slamming babies against wooden supports is always the right way to go.
409,859	Music should serve as a force to unite people not divide them. I hate elitist attitudes especially about culture. Music, dance... art of every type should be used as tool to bring people together, when folks start saying things like " if you don't belong to it, stay the fuck away from it" it's clear they've never really thought about what art is for and think it was made just for them and their own little world alone. It's not, art is meant for the world... the whole world...everyone...not just you!	clearly you have never lost the culture you love so stupid fuck college kids and come wreck the party you have been going to for a decade
409,860	Just so you know. This is a very stupid way to get attention. When you grow with this unchecked attitude, you will almost definitely become 'that guy'. You will have no friends because you never learned how to get positive attention. You will then retreat even further and become more of an asshole. Personally, I blame your parents.	Because posts on reddit = my behavior in the real world. You're incredibly naive, I hope you aren't as old as you try to make yourself sound. Otherwise I'd probably feel worse for the son your parents unfortunately have had to deal with.
409,861	Who says the main character is supposed to be a 'rolemodel'?	Nobody has to be a rolemodel, but positive female characters who have their own goals and interests are rare and I think it's important to celebrate that when it happens?
409,862	Yeah, festivals are the way to go. I saw My Morning Jacket earlier this month at the same place and it was a similar formulaic approach to a concert. The concert is a product they sell and it seems to go stale for the band when they are doing it over and over. but at a festival both of these bands go wild and play awesome covers, extended solos, etc.	I generally don't like festival shows of bands I really like. A lot of times, the bands play much shorter sets, and only stick to their most familiar hits. The performance is more generic and dull and the crowds are less enthusiastic.
409,863	Jarvis was preventing him from accessing the nuclear codes, not deleting entire medical databases, wiping out communication networks or bringing down air traffic control. What about detonating nuclear power plants. Ultron was shit because he never used any of his actual advantages or killed anyone. He shot the korean woman and only injured her despite it being a direct hit.	If Jarvis prevented him from accessing nuclear codes then it stands to reason that he could prevent Ultron from deleting mdeical databases, wiping out communication networks etc....
409,864	I think what they did was fine. From the comments, I was expecting them to have just got on stage and burst into political rants. after reading the article, it looks like they tied their opinions into segues into their songs. they went there to play their music... and they did that. looks like they still did their job. it's their set; they can design the transitions/narratives how they want. it's not much different than Sara Bareilles telling funny stories about her family members in between each song. Third Eye Blind just chose to talk about politics. their prerogative.	When hired to provide a good or service most people generally avoid insulting the customer. Being insulting isn't exactly edgy in this particular format.
409,865	How much are you influenced by your favorite authors (aside from the ones Mycroft mentions)? I can see Bester, Stephenson, and Gene Wolfe in Terra Ignota, but am I wrong to notice Victor Hugo or Balzac there too?	Bester, Gene Wolfe, Delany, Hugo, Doyle's Holmes (especially in how I describe buildings and settings), Fagles' Iliad, Robert Graves, Zamyatin's essays, Osamu Tezuka. Lots! (Sorry this is brief but there are so many questions I'm racing to keep up!!)
409,866	This is my problem. People are constantly talking about them on a forum presumably populated by adults who rave about the series. People call them all time great books and, “one of the great literary journeys.” Essentially, people defend the books as having just as much literary merit as any literary adult book. But when the criticism invariably comes, the only defense you see is, “well, they are only children’s books.” Enjoy them for what they are, or argue that they have just as much literary merit as anything else; but if you chose the latter, they will be subjected to criticism that can’t be dismissed as par for the course.	I mean, in an English teacher kind of way, I see how books for adults are more linguistically refined. But what makes those books inherently better than well written young adult books that reach more people? I don’t know, I’m just saying.
409,867	The movie was animated, which means it's not the same as Jungle Book. Since it's sort of liveaction	I think some of the environments in The Good Dinosaur look 100% real (excluding the dinosaurs) like in The Jungle Book.
409,868	I just tried reading Fifty Shades of Grey but I had to put it down after only 40 pages. It was so banal and unrealistic that I could just not get into it. For reference, I enjoyed the entire Twilight series.	Yeah I managed to read the first book, but while I read very quickly and everyone has said they read it in one night it took me forever to finish. So bad it actually made me quite angry and I too have read the Twilight books and aside from the anti-feminism did not mind them!
409,869	I forget which comedian said it, but the gist of it was, "Reading at a bar makes as much sense as getting drunk at a Barnes & Noble."	I really, really, wish B&N served liquor. I would spend an irresponsible amount of money on books.
409,870	I'm not sure but look it up on the internet	Yeah I wouldn't have posted here if I hadn't already spent an hour doing that
409,871	I think it almost pisses me off more thst backers were bitching about the price.	It doesn't piss me off at all. It's very good for consumers. The only person losing out is the one not getting rich of this one idea he had. It's very possible that he might not have gotten rich out of it anyway, because he might fail to actually deliver. And, they probably copy a lot of failing products as well, thus taking that risk for consumers' gain.
409,872	My only problem with this is that these teenagers probably can't appreciate a lot of those movies at their age.	maybe not, but they will appreciate than any other their age, and they can look back on the films as they get older and have a deeper meaning
409,873	I hereby exercise my free will by abstaining from this discussion.	Yes but your comment that describes why you are abstaining is _itself_ a contribution to this discussion. Your desire to use free will to abstain led you to unintentionally contribute. Free Will: 0
409,874	Wow, I did not know that. Thanks for the info.	Welcome to publishing!!!! Where a lot of things don't make sense sometimes.
409,875	Since I wasn't familiar with that poster, I looked it up [for anyone else interested]	I'd like it more without the "The legend comes to life" stuff.
409,876	Scotland and England are nations. They just happen to be nations in the super-nation that is the United Kingdom.	Right, just like Nebraska and Texas are nations, just nations in the super-nation that is the United States.
409,877	This actually feels like a fresh concept. Racism is touched on so casually in horror cinema, often as a joke or a basic motivation. This movie looks to go much deeper than any other example I can think of.	Well given that most allegations of racism today are fabricated fiction, you can see why this fantasy about white people going and making new black slaves, might be that right mix of racism horror. But really, it's just a race flip of Stepford Wives with hypnotism versus robots. It's not a bad concept per se. It just feels really forced, yawn, and playing to fools who think whites are always out to hurt black people when in reality most white people don't think about blacks on day-to-day basis.
409,878	This trailer gave away WAYYYY to much plot. My guess is Samuel Jackson is the one who planted it.	this movie is going to be better than the original. HAHAHHAHA. fuck no it's not. jesus, what a big waste of money. any one who actually thinks this looks promising is a fucking idiot.
409,879	Mike Patton. From classical Italian Opera to grind core to hip hop. Faith No More, Mondo Cane, Tomahawk, Fantomas, Mr. Bungle, Lovage, General Patton, Peeping Tom, dozens more.	He also did voiceover work for quite a few videogames including Portal and L4D.
409,880	To be fair, Zimmer's hasn't fully scored a superhero film alone since The Dark Knight Rises. Junkie XL seemed to have a large role in creating the Man of Steel score, and an even bigger role in creating the BvS one (as mentioned in the video).	He also scored the soundtrack for The Amazing Spider-Man 2 with Pharrell Williams, Junkie XL and other artists in a 'supergroup called The Magnificent Six.'
409,881	Why is it that I enjoy being trolled by the Foo's so much?	Who doesn't love it when crazy Uncle Dave strolls into town with his buddies and trolls us while telling us not to tell our mothers?
409,882	Here is the BBC NOT AMERICA link to the trailer. apparently the Netherlands are not good enough for the Americans.	Well, that looks much more intense than reading the book felt. Of course if we condensed the book into 1 page...
409,883	I wasn't aware that this film was about a gang of roaming bicycle thieves...	Well... it's much more than that. You gotta see it to believe it!!! :-)
409,884	If we make an effort to advertise in r/technology and submit new content here, I don't see why we couldn't easily boost subscriptions. Try to make meaningful comments on topics you're interested in and xpost to other subreddits using "/r/tech" in the submission title (don't just do this to r/technology, but futurology, linux, etc) too. Be weary of new moderators here for a while too.	/r/technology. *** [^report ^a ^problem**] ^\| [^delete ^comment] ^\| [^source ^code] ^\| [^contact ^developer]
409,885	How could you NOT be able to score 2049? All he had to do was listen to Vangelis and he could have done it. Literally what zimmer did.	That's why he was so good, he was better than that.
409,886	You should read the rules next time you post on here, or any sub reddit.	The rule I assume you feel OP is breaking/ignoring is that you feel this point isn't discussion-focused nor informative. But I feel you're being a little nit-picky. In which subreddit would you say OP should've posted?
409,887	So the new Pixels have bespoke machine learning hardware? What does that even mean? I though machine learning would be more software driven, and could run on any sufficiently capable CPU.	Run? Absolutely. Run well? No. By bespoke hardware, I mean hardware that is specifically designed to do one thing. The logic can be done in software, sure, but it'd be orders of magnitude slower than running it through a chip that is tuned for that particular task. The most common example of this is of course the GPU. You can definitely run the exact same rendering algorithm on your CPU, but it can take seconds or even minutes per frame.
409,888	My M.O. is to just let the other person control the topic, then I provide my answer (which is typically, "I'm just sitting at home for Memorial Day," or, "Actually, I really love thunderstorms."), and then deep dive into their response with questions. I prefer listening to people anyway.	I think a lot of it takes some light hearted jabs that takes you into new conversations altogether. It'd definitely a talent that you only cultivate by doing.
409,889	It's worth seeing cause there are such mixed reviews on it. Overall, it's a good summer movie! But if you're a stickler for a strong plotline or plausibility, you probably won't be impressed.	Nah, I'm not a huge movie snob or anything. I just like my movies not super terrible. As long as it's entertaining and not unbearably cheesy, I'm usually good.
409,890	That's not how theft works. If they intentionally took her personal property without her consent, then they committed theft. How are you gonna prove they intended to return it?	By addressing their policy, how are you going to prove they didn't intend to return it to her after the event?
409,891	There's arguably many movies that are more perfect than Interstellar. It's often movies that are smaller in scope that get more things right. To me something like Fantastic Mr. Fox or Coherence is perfect. Always try look at movies in context of what they are.	And what are they? I look at them as movies...
409,892	I fully expected to hate this movie but gotta say I ended up enjoying it and look forward to the sequel.	So you mean I'm not the only one? It wasn't a perfect first movie, but there's a whole lot of potential there. Still a fun ride, though.
409,893	Tough to say without knowing more of your musical tastes ... how 'bout some Gnarls Barkley?	That's really a non issue. Name almost any genre and i can give you something i like from it.
409,894	Meh. I don't see why it's a big deal. I know i'm going to get the best couple of songs at the end, the band gets to take a break, why bother bitching about it? As long as the band doesn't take a 15 minute break i'm totally fine with this. Also, I've definitely had bands no play their big hits at all during a set only to STILL not play them in the encore.	Agreed. Everyone's going to have to pee at some point.
409,895	That’s such a bizarre clarification to make. People are victims of sexual abuse. People are victims of domestic abuse. People are victims of gun violence. Everyone knows that Lennon was killed by a person. Yes, we have to deal with the root of the issue, mental health. But we would be insane to ignore the facilitation of the kill at a more shallow level. The motherfucker shot him with a gun. Yeah it’s be great if we were educated enough about mental health so that everyone was happy and nobody was secretly a murderer but we don’t live in a perfect world. Guns make it so much easier to murder people.	Also fun: when they're busy saying it's not guns, they say "we need to focus on mental health" and everyone gets bogged down in the guns vs mental health debate. But they never say what should be done about mental health.
409,896	Absolutely love these guys, I've seen them live like 6 times, my friends always write me off though. Some people can't recognize good music.	I have friend who love them, friends who hate them, and friends who only know A Favor House Atlantic. We all like what we like. I'm glad to find so many who do though.
409,897	Typically when a movie has a trailer coming up, they'll pick out a handful of "vfx money shots" to fast-track through the vfx vendors, while everything else is in various stages of production.	I gotcha. I only saw it once, about to rewatch but compared to other Marvel initial trailers this looked like a step up. But that could be a testament to the cinematography as well.
409,898	Yeah... lots of gorgeous girls that aren’t a POS in the world	And much like the cicada, those girls are single approximately once every 17 years.
409,899	Absolutely, I rewatched A New Hope today and have to agree with this. And to be fair, even before the opening shot the title crawl flat out says "evil Empire" and "Rebel Alliance hide plans in a droid to ensure peace and freedom".	Good point. I guess the opening scroll is the definition of obvious exposition but we forgive it because it's paying homage to old adventure films.

409,800

I'm still looking for Enoch in Snow Crash and Anathem, I'm sure he's snuck in there somewhere (fairly sure he has a cameo in Diamond Age).

I'm fairly sure that YT is the head mistress of the girls school.

409,801

What about the fact that I pay maybe 4-10 times the rent people in Italy do, just because I happen to live here? Is that fair?

Yes. Housing cost is a byproduct of a thousand different circumstances and is therefore incomparable when the degree of separation is so great from one sector to another. This is a case of one single service available to anyone yet at differing cost, but unlike in housing, the cost is not subject to all those circumstances and is determined by one single entity. Another thing is, according to the last.fm people, we're not just paying for ourselves, but for those in the US, UK, and Germany as well. Blatant favoritism, and very, very unfair.

409,802

It's always a "small number of our customers" when you do a major fuck up.

It probably was small but not tiny. I didn't even know you could use other brands of smart bulbs with hue, and I doubt most people did either.

409,803

Ok I was definitely against this at first (because 1. I'd rather a Oceans 14, 2. I don't like how Hollywood is deciding to make all-female versions of classic movies, like why not just write a new story) ...but after seeing the cast "Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Helena Bonham Carter, Mindy Kaling, Elizabeth Banks, and maybe Jennifer Lawrence" I can see this being terrific

> Mindy Kaling. Well, lemme guess the plot: it's a heist about stealing Mindy Kaling's cake and ice cream.

409,804

How much of your income have you donated to Chinese workers? Even $1?

I'm poor, I my self don't have money to spare as I live paycheck to paycheck. But Tim cook is a millionaire. Have you donated anything?

409,805

I know. But the hydrogen is made from electricity from solar panels. The efficiency of doing this would be at best the same as just putting the electricity in an electric car. No matter what the transmission method, the amount of energy is determined by the number of panels, amount of sun, etc.

Just check the OP's post history, Honda guerilla marketing employee?

409,806

Please no. As far as I know there is NO safe way to have elections through software. At the end of the day voters show up and press some buttons and have no way of verifying that their vote was actually counted. If only experts can verify the integrity of an election, then experts can rig that election.

Purely software, no, but over here we have a hybrid system with paper ballots counted electronically. Basically in the voting booth you can print a ballot with your choices written in full and as a qr code, which you then scan and drop in a special ballot box. The votes are counted electronically, but you have a paper fallback for technical problems and control afterwards.

409,807

What about Civil War? Or even Infinity War? Probable Infinity War characters: Captain America, Iron Man, Hulk, Black Widow, Hawkeye, Thor, Vision, Scarlet Witch, Falcon, Ant-Man, Black Panther, Gamora, Drax, Star-Lord, Groot, Rocket, Spider-Man, War Machine, Winter Soldier, Doctor Strange, Captain Marvel, and that's not even counting the heroes from other media that might make a cameo, the villain(s) or the human characters.

And it's probably gonna turn into a mess. I really like Phase 1. Phase 2 was good but is leading into a Phase 3 that I don't hold out too much faith for. Maybe it will be great, I don't know, but it looks like it might... not.

409,808

you know what's cool at this point....a billion dollars. the new album sucks dick.

He already has all those billions for the headphones though! If he takes all the money for himself, what are WE gonna use!!

409,809

In no particular order and completely at random: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ...and many of the authors of these books have other equally compelling works.

Of your favorites, I most love *The Great Gatsby, As I Lay Dying,* and *Catcher in the Rye*.

409,810

This is similar to...if you outlaw drugs criminals will still have drugs and if you outlaw guns criminals will be the only ones with guns. Edit: I am referring to the act of prohibition. What happened when we outlawed alcohol?

Comparing it to an attempt at outlawing all foreign language would be more apt.

409,811

Godzilla 2014 was a niche film? Lol no. It was a big-budget summer blockbuster, c'mon now.

Tonally, it absolutely was a niche film. If they wanted your average brain-numbing blockbuster audience they would have made something along the lines of Pacific Rim, instead of something nearly identical to the classic films, which have a narrow audience themselves.

409,812

This is not a problem with technology, this is a problem with capitalism. Capitalism is deeply flawed in the face of extreme technological proficiency. But until we build a machine better at designing and fixing machines than we are, that can also fix itself, there will be a need for programmers and engineers and maintenance workers. And we very well may have jobs for people to move into for a long time still. Programmers didn't exist in the industrial revolution. What job is there in 20 or 200 years that doesn't exist now? We don't know. Regardless, being prepared economically for the end of human labor is worthwhile. Stopping technological development is out of the question.

Selfish human nature gave rise to Capitalism and every other form of government...

409,813

The big carriers could stop robocalls 100% very easily, all they have to do is verify CID info. They choose not to, because they get to charge for every call that terminates on their lines, be that VOIP or landline origination. They all make money. Take away the money, and you would kill robocalls overnight.

\^ this one right here. even if you fined them to counteract the money it would have to be massive and we wont do it...

409,814

Don't forget Pretty Lights! You may also like Big Gigantic.

Pretty Lights - at least his more recent stuff - is pretty dubsteppy, though. I've seen Derek a number of times, and while he puts on a great show (especially outdoors at a festival at 2am), PL is much closer to the kind of overdriven club music that OP doesn't appear to enjoy. Big Gigantic is a good recc, though. I'm a huge STS9 fan and got to see Dominic sitting in with them a few times, including their Axe the Cables acoustic show in Chicago - totally amazing experience.

409,815

for anyone that hasn't used a surface tablets, the keyboards not there yet. no swipe keys, no function keys, no media keys, no windows key ffs... edit: also turns out there are swipe keys, but guess what? [swipe keys don't work in apps like **chrome fucking browser**](/r/Surface/comments/77a4yj/touch_keyboard_swipe_not_working_in_chrome/dokck5z/?utm_content=permalink&utm_medium=front&utm_source=reddit&utm_name=Surface) seriously, you shills that physically cannot be using swipe to respond to this comment about swipe keys can go fuck yourselves.

Which doesn't make much sense because the Windows Phone keyboard was the best I've ever used and they own SwiftKey.

409,816

If you're going to do a comparison, you should use the two things you're comparing. Otherwise it is total BS

Yeah that's fair. I still don't like saying it's *total* BS because that's their goal, it's sound, and they're still not there yet. It's an example of what they're hoping to achieve. If they didn't use their own camera, they should have made it clear.

409,817

The best part is that he's all by himself.

I'm pretty sure that's his wife holding the microphone.

409,818

I don't care if it's a circlejerk. This movie was really great. Cruise was hilarious, the action was very tense, and it was paced surprisingly well for a movie with the premise of reliving a day. I've probably seen it at least five times.

Yep, totally agreed. It has a lot of flairs but it's highly entrateining and Emily Blunt is amazing (her first entrance is super cool)

409,819

I'd say you're not really "reading" them then though -- they're just reference material. If you are actually trying to go through them cover-to-cover, more than "a few" at a time is likely counterproductive.

I don't think that's fair. I can read individual chapters of a math textbook and not read it cover to cover.

409,820

Rachel Dawes was created specifically for the film . . . I don't think that's a fair comparison.

No, it's an entirely fair and accurate comparison. The Amazing Spider Man the film is NOT the same as the comics. It's NOT a direct adaptation, any more than Batman is.

409,821

Peter Parker's a nerdy teenager who stumbled into into superpowers, most of which revolve around him being agile and nimble. Wonder Woman is the princess of a race of warriors. Amazons are literally defined as being large and muscular, and their leader should represent that.

He's actually much, much stronger than you'd think based on the comics/TV show, he always pulls his punches. However I agree with you, it'd be much nicer and more interesting if they actually cast a noticeably tall/muscular woman to play WW and her friends.

409,822

The only worthwhile way to experience Harry Potter is to have Stephen Fry read it to you

Haha oh shit yeah that does sound pretty great tbh.

409,823

Just curious, where are you getting that number from?

His Ass. A couple million people died from the terrors/purges and somewhere between 3 and 6 million from the the Holdomor. 60 million is like 50% of the population of the Soviet Union, add to that the 20-30 million that the Nazis are responsible for and it becomes apparent that this number is completely absurd.

409,824

That page brought my browser to a screeching halt. I think it was all the embeds.

Yeah the new blogger interface is weird sometimes. Thanks for attempting though haha!

409,825

Not even Microsoft could sell wonky phones based on name recognition alone. > There will be no retail availability of the Aquaris. It will be on sale via sporadic flash sales over the coming weeks, recruiting early adopters and trying to build up into a viable mobile platform. Doomed.

> Doomed. You're late to the party. They've been saying that about Linux for what, almost 25 years now?

409,826

They're easily compared, and they were both great. But they were very different characters.

Exactly my point, it just bugs me when people say such and such can't be compared when they obviously can.

409,827

Please don't look at him as the average Joe for Indiana. Most of us aren't like this.

I hope not and I'm glad to hear it. Good luck with all of this nonsense!

409,828

Steven King wrote ""The Running Man"" under a pseudonym of Richard Bachman to test waters if he still got skills to write entertaining story. It not only proved that he was awesome, we also got an awesome movie. Upvote.

The Long Walk was written under the Bachman pseudonym too.

409,829

They gave you a /64 or your default gateway is in a /64? That is [18,446,744,073,709,551,616 IP addresses] for your block. Did you give an IP to every blade of grass along with everyone else in a six state radius?

I believe they do give out /64 address blocks to normal customers. Why wouldn't they? It's sort of wasteful, yes, but there's so many addresses to go around it doesn't really matter. Here's a post about it (although it's 4 years old)

409,830

Did it also break your ability to tell the difference between week and weak? :)

It's always autocorrect now. Your nazi practices are a scar of history!

409,831

That's good news to me. I enjoyed the last two movies, but moving forward I was really hoping to see more adventure and exploration versus straight action.

Yes! This is awesome! I was a little disappointed in the last one when they didn't take the turn the 3rd one seems to be heading.

409,832

The conservative pages that were banned should just find a different platform to use and let the free market decide.

They also took out Anti-Media and Free Thought Project (both left leaning and with millions of followers), and Twitter hit them at the same time. This was a coordinated attack on ideas, not ideologies.

409,833

King is at his best when he's writing fantasy -- the early *Dark Tower* books, *The Stand* (definite elements of fantasy), *Talisman* (with Peter Straub), *Eyes of the Dragon* (naturally) -- even *Black House* (felt a bit rushed and half-assed, but still good) and *Salem's Lot* (the fantasy elements are mostly buried in the plot structure). He's at his worst when he strays from that. He missed his calling. He should have been identified as a dark fantasy author, first and foremost, rather than a horror writer. edit: fixed a typo (Bleak House -> Black House)

what the hell is bleak house? I have all of his books and never heard of that one. Do you mean Black House?

409,834

That's almost no information to go on. Can you tell us something about the song? What style of music was it? About what decade do you think it was from? What other kinds of things does it say besides that one sentence? Do you remember any part of the melody?

I get it. I think it's a more recent song. At least I recall hearing it on the radio a few times somewhere in the time period of late 2012 to early 2013 (I know that helps). It was an English or Scottish dude pretty much talking/telling a story over background music. I remember no part of the melody. He's talking about how interesting space is.

409,835

"This app is incompatible with your device." Nexus7.

Weird, it works perfectly well on my Moto G LTE

409,836

oh please.. such overrated new age horseshit; read Schopenhauer instead, start with the penguin classics essays selection if you can't read german.

Lol. I'm sure RAW has been called lots of things but New Age is a first.

409,837

Honestly I'd be fine with Firefox gobbling up the amount of RAM it does if the browser didn't hard-lock at about 2.5 GB.

Firefox user here: 380 MB of RAM used by Firefox and approx. 50 tabs opened constantly. It is true however that I went [through some settings] to improve the browsing experience.

409,838

Expanse series rocks. I know the authors have said in some interview that they're contracted for another trilogy, and I believe (possible spoiler) [the main protagonist will continue to be Holden](/spoiler). also it's being turned into a TV series! I hope they don't screw that up. I don't think a network has picked it up yet, though. [source]

It would work so damn well as a tv series. I'm just not sure how they would do the belters. They're gonna have to find a lot of tall ass women. CAn't wait for the next book, though. Cibola Burns comes out June 5th!

409,839

>Well I can tell by the people at my school. >that the NSA and CIA. >have no problem hiring the people. >the FBI are turning away. It's a stretch but your comment can be read to the tune of the BeeGees' Stayin' Alive.

This is the best thing I've read all day. I love how that's immediately what you got from the initial post. Such a creative mind, maybe you should work for one of these agencies.

409,840

What if you scanned the foot then printed the ideal shoe shape, overlaid it with leather, then placed an insole on top? Don't think you could get much more comfortable than that.

This is the new way that some orthotics are made, but the machine can be temperamental. (The other way is the foam in a shoe box method). Either way, it's made from a very strong plastic, and then cushioning is added for comfort. The tricky part about insoles or orthotics is how much room there is in the shoe to allow for the insole/orthotic and the foot. This is why I can add my orthotics/insoles to sneakers, once I take out the stock insole, but not to anything remotely suitable for the office, such as dressy flats pumps, or boots.

409,841

To me it felt like a modern Clockwork Orange. The cinematography and acting on Tom Hardy's part are phenomenal.

Didn't his clownish behavior turn you off? I felt like it was so un characteristic of a psycho path

409,842

I get that. But I personally really like the three act structure that (good) trilogies follow.

Yup, there's also a huge difference in quality when trilogies are planned from the beginning.

409,843

We are all very similar, but all a bit different. Having differences does not mean you are superior though.

It was a quote from Fight Club but I guess I'm just getting too old for Reddit.

409,844

Man, I actually thought Google+ was a superior product to Facebook. It lacked the userbase though.

I think the circles privacy setup is great. I only use G+ with my family now, but that's actually awesome because I don't have to censor my Facebook as much (not that I have a particularly vulgar Facebook identity).

409,845

But why when you can just reboot. None of the software aboard the plane resembles anything that could work with any of those technologies anyway

It's all built off of commercial software (likely Windows, possibly Linux) and a lot of it probably IS virtualized.

409,846

Same. Spotify has exponentially expanded my music library. The Discover Weekly playlist is phenomenal. If I had to make a list of my top 10 artists, (as impossible as that would be) 7 of them would probably be artists I discovered on Spotify.

I spend most of my time at work discovering new music through Discover Weekly and just hitting Song Radio on a song I like. It's so easy to save the song, and even go to the artist and listen to their library.

409,847

Wizard of Earthsea is one of the first books my dad ever read to me as a kid, and I love it precisely because of how progressive and thought-provoking its themes are (most of Le Guin's work is, she's the most consequential Fantasy and Science Fiction writer of the 20th Century after Tolkein, IMO). Fantasy as a genre could use more stories like hers. I recommend picking up The Left Hand of Darkness if you haven't. It's a challenging book in the same way.

Thanks for the recommendation. I've been reminding myself to check out her other work, even non-fantasy. I also think her portrayal of dragons may be my favorite in all literature or any media thus far, even over Tolkien's, as if I had to choose.

409,848

Mike I might be a day late but HAPPY BIRTHDAY FUCKER! What was the writing process for the album like? Did you have any photos or images that helped you write? Thanks for being the soundtrack to my life and the anti rock star we need.

Looks like you still got the stereotypical rock star attitude from him.

409,849

AW SHIT YEAH ESKMO!!! Hey man, Mod of /r/electronicmusic here, we love you over there! A couple questions: * You've already released records with some of the biggest names in independent electronic music. Is there some one you'd like you release with that you haven't yet? * Who are some of your inspirations in music and art? * Best place to eat in LA? Thanks for the AMA!! [Spotify Link to new album *Sol*.]

Hey thanks, 1) In terms of labels, not really. I'm totally happy with what has happened so far. There are so many amazing labels indie and non indie alike out there, it just depends on timing and the sound I'm working w at the moment. 2) Design, relationships, environments, Semiotics, Cymatics, space, time, tension, release... I love looking at social structures and natural systems. 3) It depends of course. I would say, this week, Pine and Crane in Silverlake. Amazing 3 cup chicken and a side of cold mushrooms.

409,850

Does a publishing house name guarantee a higher caliber of book or just a nicer cover and higher price? I actually get what you're trying to say but, as a self-published author of two books, I put every possible effort into turning out a quality product and had to ask.

I understand your point, but you also didn't answer his question of "what caliber books"? Like are we going to get Ghetto Romance novels like *Gangsta Divas*?

409,851

I'm old, so I got to see 2001 in several reissues in the 70s and 80s (so not that old) but also once in Cinerama - completely amazing experience. Saw Apocalypse Now in Paramus NJ on opening night, standing in line with a bunch of guys who were older and in the war. Tough guys, hard and cold stories as we waited in line to get let in. My girlfriend wasn't sure about this whole "bullshit macho-trip we were in". All of us sat together and watched it, we all freaked, we all teared, we all walked away transformed. She got it, they broke down, and I thanked god I was 14 when Nixon called it all off.

I've heard stories that in some theaters, when Apocalypse Now opened, they had to give people little playbooks that had the credits in the movie, since the film technically didn't have a credit sequence, but for legal reasons it had to acknowledge the actors and crew. I would love to have one of those.

409,852

You should be running better qos on your router. You can prevent any computers from using bandwidth during the day, and increase their bandwidth in off hours. This will prevent update from bogging your network regardless of how often Windows wants to update. The rest of the bandwidth can either be split into pools for certain devices, or certain programs. You can also set up a cache on the router so commonly accessed pages are stored on the router and not re downloaded every time you access the page. Band aid fixes, sure...but it'll prevent your network from ever becoming unusable

I didn't go in to every detail of what I do, but yes, there are also settings at the firewall level to prevent unwanted / unscheduled updates, etc... Guys, I'm not new, I promise. I'm simply sharing my story of how low bandwidth affects a business like ours. A lot of hoops I might not otherwise have to jump through and whatnot. ;)

409,853

Why does a sane person want any of that on their phone? Why does he want to type at a fucking command line?

Yeah I agree, I'm as nerdy as any other engineer, but I don't want to type in a terminal on my phone.

409,854

He was born and lived up here in Alaska in the same neck of the woods as I was.

Oh right. I had no idea Jason was from/lives in Alaska.

409,855

A C+ isn't abysmal (although the 37% it's sitting at on RT certainly is). I'm still seeing the movie this weekend, just with lowered expectations.

Yeah, still going to see it and form my own opinion, but usually RT is a good indicator (though they seem like they really don't like Zack Snyder)

409,856

Usually when a company has to choose between BSD and Linux kernels is really comes down more to the licence and less to the technology. You could be correct, maybe they found the BSD licence to their liking and went that route. Maybe they found a clause in the licence to restrictive and decided against it favor of Linux. Maybe it runs a heavily modified version of Windows (doubtful, but not out of the question given MS's recent attitude change). We'll know eventually.

Anything they do with the Linux kernel will need to be shared. Anything they do with BSD can be kept a secret. Businesses pretty universally go for the BSD license to start with if they have an option.

409,857

Maemo/Meego, WebOS, Ubuntu Touch, those are examples of actual different UX's. Reskinning Android and moving a few buttons around is not a different UX.

Id say Windows Phone has the only different UX, the rest of those are really the same as android and iOS....

409,858

The scene in Toni Morrison's Beloved where, rather than have her kids brought back to slavery, the mother kills them...

Slamming babies against wooden supports is always the right way to go.

409,859

Music should serve as a force to unite people not divide them. I hate elitist attitudes especially about culture. Music, dance... art of every type should be used as tool to bring people together, when folks start saying things like " if you don't belong to it, stay the fuck away from it" it's clear they've never really thought about what art is for and think it was made just for them and their own little world alone. It's not, art is meant for the world... the whole world...everyone...not just you!

clearly you have never lost the culture you love so stupid fuck college kids and come wreck the party you have been going to for a decade

409,860

Just so you know. This is a very stupid way to get attention. When you grow with this unchecked attitude, you will almost definitely become 'that guy'. You will have no friends because you never learned how to get positive attention. You will then retreat even further and become more of an asshole. Personally, I blame your parents.

Because posts on reddit = my behavior in the real world. You're incredibly naive, I hope you aren't as old as you try to make yourself sound. Otherwise I'd probably feel worse for the son your parents unfortunately have had to deal with.

409,861

Who says the main character is supposed to be a 'rolemodel'?

Nobody has to be a rolemodel, but positive female characters who have their own goals and interests are rare and I think it's important to celebrate that when it happens?

409,862

Yeah, festivals are the way to go. I saw My Morning Jacket earlier this month at the same place and it was a similar formulaic approach to a concert. The concert is a product they sell and it seems to go stale for the band when they are doing it over and over. but at a festival both of these bands go wild and play awesome covers, extended solos, etc.

I generally don't like festival shows of bands I really like. A lot of times, the bands play much shorter sets, and only stick to their most familiar hits. The performance is more generic and dull and the crowds are less enthusiastic.

409,863

Jarvis was preventing him from accessing the nuclear codes, not deleting entire medical databases, wiping out communication networks or bringing down air traffic control. What about detonating nuclear power plants. Ultron was shit because he never used any of his actual advantages or killed anyone. He shot the korean woman and only injured her despite it being a direct hit.

If Jarvis prevented him from accessing nuclear codes then it stands to reason that he could prevent Ultron from deleting mdeical databases, wiping out communication networks etc....

409,864

I think what they did was fine. From the comments, I was expecting them to have just got on stage and burst into political rants. after reading the article, it looks like they tied their opinions into segues into their songs. they went there to play their music... and they did that. looks like they still did their job. it's their set; they can design the transitions/narratives how they want. it's not much different than Sara Bareilles telling funny stories about her family members in between each song. Third Eye Blind just chose to talk about politics. their prerogative.

When hired to provide a good or service most people generally avoid insulting the customer. Being insulting isn't exactly edgy in this particular format.

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How much are you influenced by your favorite authors (aside from the ones Mycroft mentions)? I can see Bester, Stephenson, and Gene Wolfe in Terra Ignota, but am I wrong to notice Victor Hugo or Balzac there too?

Bester, Gene Wolfe, Delany, Hugo, Doyle's Holmes (especially in how I describe buildings and settings), Fagles' Iliad, Robert Graves, Zamyatin's essays, Osamu Tezuka. Lots! (Sorry this is brief but there are so many questions I'm racing to keep up!!)

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This is my problem. People are constantly talking about them on a forum presumably populated by adults who rave about the series. People call them all time great books and, “one of the great literary journeys.” Essentially, people defend the books as having just as much literary merit as any literary adult book. But when the criticism invariably comes, the only defense you see is, “well, they are only children’s books.” Enjoy them for what they are, or argue that they have just as much literary merit as anything else; but if you chose the latter, they will be subjected to criticism that can’t be dismissed as par for the course.

I mean, in an English teacher kind of way, I see how books for adults are more linguistically refined. But what makes those books inherently better than well written young adult books that reach more people? I don’t know, I’m just saying.

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The movie was animated, which means it's not the same as Jungle Book. Since it's sort of liveaction

I think some of the environments in The Good Dinosaur look 100% real (excluding the dinosaurs) like in The Jungle Book.

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I just tried reading Fifty Shades of Grey but I had to put it down after only 40 pages. It was so banal and unrealistic that I could just not get into it. For reference, I enjoyed the entire Twilight series.

Yeah I managed to read the first book, but while I read very quickly and everyone has said they read it in one night it took me forever to finish. So bad it actually made me quite angry and I too have read the Twilight books and aside from the anti-feminism did not mind them!

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I forget which comedian said it, but the gist of it was, "Reading at a bar makes as much sense as getting drunk at a Barnes & Noble."

I really, really, wish B&N served liquor. I would spend an irresponsible amount of money on books.

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I'm not sure but look it up on the internet

Yeah I wouldn't have posted here if I hadn't already spent an hour doing that

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I think it almost pisses me off more thst backers were bitching about the price.

It doesn't piss me off at all. It's very good for consumers. The only person losing out is the one not getting rich of this one idea he had. It's very possible that he might not have gotten rich out of it anyway, because he might fail to actually deliver. And, they probably copy a lot of failing products as well, thus taking that risk for consumers' gain.

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My only problem with this is that these teenagers probably can't appreciate a lot of those movies at their age.

maybe not, but they will appreciate than any other their age, and they can look back on the films as they get older and have a deeper meaning

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I hereby exercise my free will by abstaining from this discussion.

Yes but your comment that describes why you are abstaining is _itself_ a contribution to this discussion. Your desire to use free will to abstain led you to unintentionally contribute. Free Will: 0

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Wow, I did not know that. Thanks for the info.

Welcome to publishing!!!! Where a lot of things don't make sense sometimes.

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Since I wasn't familiar with that poster, I looked it up [for anyone else interested]

I'd like it more without the "The legend comes to life" stuff.

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Scotland and England are nations. They just happen to be nations in the super-nation that is the United Kingdom.

Right, just like Nebraska and Texas are nations, just nations in the super-nation that is the United States.

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This actually feels like a fresh concept. Racism is touched on so casually in horror cinema, often as a joke or a basic motivation. This movie looks to go much deeper than any other example I can think of.

Well given that most allegations of racism today are fabricated fiction, you can see why this fantasy about white people going and making new black slaves, might be that right mix of racism horror. But really, it's just a race flip of Stepford Wives with hypnotism versus robots. It's not a bad concept per se. It just feels really forced, yawn, and playing to fools who think whites are always out to hurt black people when in reality most white people don't think about blacks on day-to-day basis.

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This trailer gave away WAYYYY to much plot. My guess is Samuel Jackson is the one who planted it.

this movie is going to be better than the original. HAHAHHAHA. fuck no it's not. jesus, what a big waste of money. any one who actually thinks this looks promising is a fucking idiot.

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Mike Patton. From classical Italian Opera to grind core to hip hop. Faith No More, Mondo Cane, Tomahawk, Fantomas, Mr. Bungle, Lovage, General Patton, Peeping Tom, dozens more.

He also did voiceover work for quite a few videogames including Portal and L4D.

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To be fair, Zimmer's hasn't fully scored a superhero film alone since *The Dark Knight Rises*. Junkie XL seemed to have a large role in creating the Man of Steel score, and an even bigger role in creating the BvS one (as mentioned in the video).

He also scored the soundtrack for The Amazing Spider-Man 2 with Pharrell Williams, Junkie XL and other artists in a 'supergroup called The Magnificent Six.'

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Why is it that I enjoy being trolled by the Foo's so much?

Who doesn't love it when crazy Uncle Dave strolls into town with his buddies and trolls us while telling us not to tell our mothers?

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Here is the BBC NOT AMERICA link to the trailer. apparently the Netherlands are not good enough for the Americans.

Well, that looks much more intense than reading the book felt. Of course if we condensed the book into 1 page...

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I wasn't aware that this film was about a gang of roaming bicycle thieves...

Well... it's much more than that. You gotta see it to believe it!!! :-)

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If we make an effort to advertise in r/technology and submit new content here, I don't see why we couldn't easily boost subscriptions. Try to make meaningful comments on topics you're interested in and xpost to other subreddits using "/r/tech" in the submission title (don't just do this to r/technology, but futurology, linux, etc) too. Be weary of new moderators here for a while too.

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How could you NOT be able to score 2049? All he had to do was listen to Vangelis and he could have done it. Literally what zimmer did.

That's why he was so good, he was better than that.

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You should read the rules next time you post on here, or any sub reddit.

The rule I assume you feel OP is breaking/ignoring is that you feel this point isn't discussion-focused nor informative. But I feel you're being a little nit-picky. In which subreddit would you say OP should've posted?

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So the new Pixels have bespoke machine learning hardware? What does that even mean? I though machine learning would be more software driven, and could run on any sufficiently capable CPU.

Run? Absolutely. Run well? No. By bespoke hardware, I mean hardware that is specifically designed to do one thing. The logic can be done in software, sure, but it'd be orders of magnitude slower than running it through a chip that is tuned for that particular task. The most common example of this is of course the GPU. You can definitely run the exact same rendering algorithm on your CPU, but it can take seconds or even minutes per frame.

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My M.O. is to just let the other person control the topic, then I provide my answer (which is typically, "I'm just sitting at home for Memorial Day," or, "Actually, I really love thunderstorms."), and then deep dive into their response with questions. I prefer listening to people anyway.

I think a lot of it takes some light hearted jabs that takes you into new conversations altogether. It'd definitely a talent that you only cultivate by doing.

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It's worth seeing cause there are such mixed reviews on it. Overall, it's a good summer movie! But if you're a stickler for a strong plotline or plausibility, you probably won't be impressed.

Nah, I'm not a huge movie snob or anything. I just like my movies not super terrible. As long as it's entertaining and not unbearably cheesy, I'm usually good.

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That's not how theft works. If they intentionally took her personal property without her consent, then they committed theft. How are you gonna prove they intended to return it?

By addressing their policy, how are you going to prove they didn't intend to return it to her after the event?

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There's arguably many movies that are more perfect than Interstellar. It's often movies that are smaller in scope that get more things right. To me something like Fantastic Mr. Fox or Coherence is perfect. Always try look at movies in context of what they are.

And what are they? I look at them as movies...

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I fully expected to hate this movie but gotta say I ended up enjoying it and look forward to the sequel.

So you mean I'm not the only one? It wasn't a perfect first movie, but there's a whole lot of potential there. Still a fun ride, though.

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Tough to say without knowing more of your musical tastes ... how 'bout some Gnarls Barkley?

That's really a non issue. Name **almost** any genre and i can give you something i like from it.

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Meh. I don't see why it's a big deal. I know i'm going to get the best couple of songs at the end, the band gets to take a break, why bother bitching about it? As long as the band doesn't take a 15 minute break i'm totally fine with this. Also, I've definitely had bands no play their big hits at all during a set only to STILL not play them in the encore.

Agreed. Everyone's going to have to pee at some point.

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That’s such a bizarre clarification to make. People are victims of sexual abuse. People are victims of domestic abuse. People are victims of gun violence. Everyone knows that Lennon was killed by a person. Yes, we have to deal with the root of the issue, mental health. But we would be insane to ignore the facilitation of the kill at a more shallow level. The motherfucker shot him with a gun. Yeah it’s be great if we were educated enough about mental health so that everyone was happy and nobody was secretly a murderer but we don’t live in a perfect world. Guns make it so much easier to murder people.

Also fun: when they're busy saying it's not guns, they say "we need to focus on mental health" and everyone gets bogged down in the guns vs mental health debate. But they never say what should be done about mental health.

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Absolutely love these guys, I've seen them live like 6 times, my friends always write me off though. Some people can't recognize good music.

I have friend who love them, friends who hate them, and friends who only know A Favor House Atlantic. We all like what we like. I'm glad to find so many who do though.

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Typically when a movie has a trailer coming up, they'll pick out a handful of "vfx money shots" to fast-track through the vfx vendors, while everything else is in various stages of production.

I gotcha. I only saw it once, about to rewatch but compared to other Marvel initial trailers this looked like a step up. But that could be a testament to the cinematography as well.

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Yeah... lots of gorgeous girls that aren’t a POS in the world

And much like the cicada, those girls are single approximately once every 17 years.

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Absolutely, I rewatched A New Hope today and have to agree with this. And to be fair, even before the opening shot the title crawl flat out says "evil Empire" and "Rebel Alliance hide plans in a droid to ensure peace and freedom".

Good point. I guess the opening scroll is the definition of obvious exposition but we forgive it because it's paying homage to old adventure films.