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Article about how important Network Effects is, without explaining what Network Effects is.
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Short version is: If you were using facebook, and you were the only person using it, it would suck, huh? But for every friend of yours using it, it's a little better, isn't it? Network effects are features where the more people use something, the better it is, by virtue of the number of people using it. This is why early user adoption is so important to a lot of tech sites.
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If a teacher told me my kid wasn't to read at home, I'd file a complaint with the school district and demand my kid be placed with a different teacher or we'd switch schools.
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My parents probably would have changed my school, if there had been another school available, but unfortunately it was the only school in my catchment area.
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But isn't that in itself enough to say that people in North Korea aren't living with the same basic comforts that citizens of most other countries are afforded by just being citizens? If the act of "defecting" can literally danger not only your life, but also the lives of all the immediate members of your family, that alone should be enough to show that the regime they live under is a pretty damn tough one. Whether the North Koreans see it that way or not though is a completely different matter.
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You're missing the point. Most defectors have debts, criminal charges, connected enemies, or they are much, much worse off than the average North Korean and compelled by abject poverty that does not represent the norm.
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This article is just horrible. It explains nothing. Tell me why I want a battery in my home...it may be obvious to some people but not everyone. I can control what from my cell phone? How about a few details...it sounds likw this could be great but explain.
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In Phoenix for example, power companies have plans that greatly reduce the cost per kW/h at night and morning, and then charge huge amounts (33+ cents per kW/h) during late afternoon peak usage. Charging with cheap power early in the day and then using almost nothing during the expensive times would save lots of money.
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410,204 |
Indie horror is and has been going strong for a while now, producing very good horror movies. If you don't think there has been a good horror movie since scream you haven't been looking hard enough. I will admit that most big budget, mass theatrical release horror films in recent past have been god awful though.
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Any recommendations for a horror movie fan who isn't sure where to look?
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There is a Dragonlance movie. Don't watch it. It was laughably bad. Q. With material that sweeping in scope, anything less then LOTR treatment would be a failure. And it would take a lot of installments to properly tell that story. You would need Peter Jackson on retainer for around a decade to get it done. Maybe there could be a home for it in a more HBO type setting? 10-15 one hour episodes per season, each season covering a new book?
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An HBO series would totally work. Yeah, I've never seen the Drangonlance movie, and never will. I was really excited when I heard it was being made, then a friend watched it and told me it was the most horrible thing ever created by humans, including the Spanish Inquisition and Channing Tatum.
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410,206 |
I once had a friend turn to me and exclaim after reading a similar list, "You're telling me The Great Gatsby is better than every book that has ever been produced by the rest of the world outside of the US and UK?" It's funny how lists that are all inclusive will explicitly state they are counting world literature while lists that are just the generic "best novels of all time" usually only include English classics.
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To be fair, major critics outside of the English language have claimed that the English Novel tradition is super duper duper up there. I'm pretty sure *Bakhtin* was one of them.
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410,207 |
It is a very good album, glad to see him back with Mike Mogis as Bright Eyes, and (being an Iowan) back to Saddle Creek (Go Mid-West!!). I, personally, wouldn't say it is his best. I will forever love "I'm Wide Awake It's Morning", but I am just figuring this album out so who knows!
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Couldn't agree more with what you've said. Down to "It's wide awake"
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410,208 |
I did that for a refresher before 13, but ended up reading all the commentary/comments too because there were so many things I hadn't realized (or didn't remember) in my original read through that contributed to my understanding. It probably still took me less time than the actual book though.
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The first time I found the reread my mind was blown at just how much I had missed in the series. I think I was unaware of half of what was going on. Good times.
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410,209 |
[White Panda--The Midnight Life (Kanye/M83)] I'm not a huge fan of Kanye, but this remix is great.
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Totally agree! It turns Midnight City into what I hoped it would be the first time I heard it.
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410,210 |
Why would you would come to a thread about someone who could possibly die just express your distaste for him/her? All I see is shallow people trying to get internet points from likeminded individuals.
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usually it's because they find that particular someone reprehensible and unworthy of anything other than distaste. whether one agrees with this view depends on how one feels about the individual on the verge of death. personally, in reference to this particular person's current situation, I'll have a Coke.
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410,211 |
Unfortunately it looks like the deal has expired, I've struck it out.
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ugh! This was the only one I was going to buy! haha :(
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410,212 |
1. Yeah I feel like I would enjoy this more if I kept reading.. too many loose ends. 2. Seen the movies should i still. 3. It was aight.. book didnt really get spicy for me until 3/4ths into it. 5. Nah i wanted to read the books first
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You've seen the movies sure, but Books are so much better. Also, the Hobbit book doesn't suck like the movies. Books are just generally better than movies. Also, if you want, read the books first, but GoT is such an amazing tv show
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410,213 |
If they would just give a subtle nod to Zoolander by ending the film with a "Blue Steel" look into the camera, and fade to black.
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Imagining Daniel Day Lewis actually doing this at the end of There Will Be Blood is cracking me the fuck up. Absurd.
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Did anyone else read that whole thing in his voice?
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I don't know what he sounds like so I read it in a sort of old man Gordon Ramsey voice, like higher than Ramsey's voice, but British still. Maybe like a Beatles member.
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410,215 |
I can't wait to hear their new stuff. I still listen to superunknown pretty much daily
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It's by far my most-played album on iTunes.....literally not one weak moment on the whole thing.
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410,216 |
I'm not terribly convinced by the utility of short run fiber. Electricity in copper actually travels faster than light in fiber. Additionally, you need to go electricity -> light -> electricity which involves two conversions. The end result is that the latency for fiber is worse than it is for copper in most cases. Now, if you're running into bandwidth issues, sure, use fiber. In a lot of these cases, however, I believe latency is more important than throughput.
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Except there is promising work being done on optical logic so the conversions might not be needed.
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410,217 |
Everything looked great but I don't get the laptop. Your tagline for the Surface is "the tablet that can replace your laptop", then you design a laptop? Which is basically a slightly bigger surface, with no ports, and a beefed up keyboard? I don't get it. Edit: Downvotes? Really? Stay classy guys....
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It's much more powerful when docked because the dock has the extra hardware like the high performance dedicated Nvidia graphics card that wouldn't go in a tablet, that's the most important thing i guess, and it has all the extra battery and ports, and the keyboard. If you need a more powerful device for work or gaming then a tablet might not suit you but the Surface Book would. It's just another choice and i think there's definitely a place for it. A Surface Pro can replace a laptop for most people, but the Surface Book is for the people where a tablet can't do that just yet.
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Now I really want to see the results of a race where about half the drivers are professional racecar drivers and the other half are self-driving.
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I wonder what the rules say about autonomous driving in regular racing events. Even if they rule out direct computer control I could imagine having a steering wheel that displays the angle in degrees, something similar for the accelerator/brakes and a computer that talks to the driver via an ear piece just telling them what to do. Actually I would love to see a race where all the cars are computer controlled.
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Also, you know, one computer can't "cut off" another. There is no malice here. No lack of information. No mistakes. Just two independent systems interacting. But because they are computers: 1. The reaction was rational and limited. 2. No road rage resulted. 3. No accident occurred. Personifying self driving cars can do nothing but hurt the arguments for them.
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Blogger must be from New York or somewhere where passing = "cutting off."
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410,220 |
"You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice. If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice."
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Listened to that song on repeat the other day. So good.
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People made a stink when Marvel tried to play hardball on the salaries for Avengers 2. It just struck me as odd how the people on this sub pick and choose who deserves just compensation. /r/movies reactions: Jonah Hill gets paid $60,000 for a movie with a $100 million budget (.06%) for which he received an Oscar nomination: lucky Scorsese even acknowledges his existence. The Avengers cast get paid $2-4 million (0.9%-1.8% and more for the sequel) to strike over-dramatic poses in sexed-up outfits in front of a green screen: what kind of modern-day slave ring is Marvel running?
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Don't bother hunting for logic, Redditors love dealings in relativity when it suits their purpose.
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That is probably somewhat of an accurate prediction, but in practice, there are a ton of things that slow that trend down enough that cars will continue to dominate for at least 20 years. Weather, old cities that are already set up for cars, and the desire for space in suburbs will still be there.
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Honestly, i think we need an all of the above strategy. Every transportation mode needs to be fully maximized, and density needs to go up.
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410,223 |
Why does he look like a burn victim? Is Godzilla a burn victim?
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Godzillas original design was actually based off of radiation burn victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This one takes the original inspiration for the design and cranks it up to 11
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Care to give examples? Cause there are some of us who have read all the books multiple times who would disagree I'm sure.
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The depiction of Chaos and warren hopping in the first book is very different from the magic in the later books.
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OKAY! SO! Bittorrent uses multiple ~~TCP~~ UDP connections (faster than one connection usually due to the way TCP works). Your chrome downloader is using one HTTP (on TCP) connection. If you used a multit-connection http down-loader (I believe S3 supports multipart file downloading)..you will get comparable speeds (assuming you don't max the pipe S3 gives you).
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You got any references for you claim that two TCP connections are faster then one? Also this was simply throttled at the source, most sites do this even if the link is not being over utilized. Edit: BTW most BitTorrent clients use UDP.
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For the big, summer releases, always go see the midnight shows on opening night Thursday. The opening night fans are hardcore, and are there because they *truly* love that movie. I've been to over 30 midnight opening night shows and no one has talked during the movie. I don't know if it's etiquette, or fear of geek mob violence. Hardcore, passionate geeks have no problem telling obnoxious people to shut the hell up.
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This was feasible before they started playing "midnight" movies at 10PM and now some even have an 8PM showtime. Midnight movies were always the best.
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Weirdly for some reason I was thinking the other day about music companies returning to analogue. If I wanted to slow down piracy this is what I would do. Sure piracy would still exist but it wouldn't be quite as easy to rip and there would be major variations in quality. Of course this is just Em taking it back old school.
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Huh? Analog is, like, the EASIEST thing to pirate haha! Plus there are a ton of different cassette to USB adapters and shit out there. Nah, sorry, don't mean to burst your bubble but your thought process here is just all wrong.
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410,228 |
How is it that computers can be noticeably slow but still use far less than 100% CPU time and only 50% or so of memory?
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There are a ton of things that can stall a CPU: waiting for IO access, cache misses, mispredicted branches, pipeline flushes, rewinding invalidated OOO operations, etc. Also a CPU can have a lot of bottlenecks and design choices that assume a certain workload, so if your program is doing something outside that expected load, it will have a lot of idle execution units. Also sometimes software just makes bad decisions.
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410,229 |
And Dumb and Dumber? Two of the best goofball comedies of all time? FUCK.
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Dumb and Dumber has a 64% from critics, but in my opinion that's still too low for such a classic comedy.
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410,230 |
I don't agree that learning something by ear is a 'basic skill.' It is in fact quite a difficult skill to learn. I have played guitar for about eight years now and it is still not a skill I have readily picked up, despite working at it. I think that adding chords to songs is an awesome idea.
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Well, just to put things in perspective, there's really only 7 chords. When you're trying to figure out the chords, go through all 7, and you'll get an approximate progression, and you might have to tweak some to a minor or a seventh, etc. But it does get a lot easier once you know what each chord *sounds* like. edit: I meant 12
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410,231 |
Why the fuck is alimony a thing? My wife makes far more than I do, I ain't takin shit if we ever get divorced. That's just a dick move.
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It's to protect a spouse that gives up their career or never has one to be a mother or just not be expected to work. It's a dumb thing as pre nups are sortve taboo but the only saving grace. Really prenups should be mandatory before a wedding and both sides decide on what the future would be if a divorce happens.
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I'd argue that while chances of them ending up in Avengers is slim, there's potential for them to cross paths with Spider-Man now that Sony's playing nice with Marvel - Spidey operates in the same stomping grounds as Daredevil, and the two even share some villains (most notably, Kingpin). Frankly, I'd be far more interested in seeing Daredevil and Spidey involved in a plot that has them taking on Kingpin than the current rumored plan to pit Spidey against The Vulture. Ugh. You know you're scraping the bottom of the barrel of Spidey villains if you're making the main villain of a film The Vulture.
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I know kingpin was a major Spidey villain in the 90's show but was he in the comics? There was good a plot where Kingpin hired the chameleon to frame Spidey then Murdock was the lawyer that would represented him. I think that would make a more interesting movie than the usual all actions spider-man movies. Unfortunately a lot of the best Spidey villain are on shaky grounds. Goblin - now been done 3 times. Doc Oc - villain in the best Spidey movie. Venom - not a great starter villain. Lizard - used in the first Reboot. My favourite villain was always Morbius.
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2 untalented people in the studio... What could go wrong?
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Yeah cause GKMC isn't a contender for best album of the decade or anything. Seriously, have you listened to any Kendrick? And TSwift ain't no slouch either
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Because the real world isn't a radically biased circle jerk like Reddit is. Guess what? Other people have differing opinions than you and they are just as "wrong" as you. EDIT: I woke up this morning, and LOL. Thank you everyone for proving my point.
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I'm sorry that your personal identity is tied to the political party you vote for. [This video] may help you understand part of why.
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Any one with any brains could see that it's a borderline problematic conflict of interest to review a movie directed by someone you know personally (dare I go as far to say close personal friend...?), but of course RLM fans eat this shit up without acknowledging how problematic it is. They are the Donald Trump supporters of the Internet, and RLM is their Donald Trump.
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Both Jay AND Mike reviewed the film poorly and constantly made jabs and jokes about it. Mike just made more of an effort to, once he had already said it was a bad film, to dig deeper than just saying "it sucks. move on" and tried to talk about what Max was *trying* to do and who the intended audience was since its clearly not 30 year old white male film nerds.
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410,236 |
Well, I'm an industrial/systems engineer, I and I DO believe that the IOT has amazing potential in agriculture, research, infrastructure and industrial applications. Your examples indeed make no sense; who the fuck wants to control a toaster located 5 miles outside of your house??? Nor will the IOT make a lot of sense for many other consumer products except for in some niche product areas. But being able to collect sensor data from a large area without having to deploy a supporting system for that (sort of like a remote/wireless DAC) is invaluable. Consumer products aren't the only products in where tech gets used y'know...
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I certainly wouldn't mind if my washer manufacturer send me something like: "Your washer is broken and needs servicing. Click here get it serviced in 30 minutes, 2 hours, 2 days", or something along those lines. What IoT enables is manufacturing companies turn into service companies. It's not easy and occasionally people are upset that they do not 'own' items anymore. But so many times the item experience is degraded because it is not serviced and also opens counts of new experiences as well. Also, the real reason IoT is finally happening is low energy, long distance networking that is becoming available. See LORA or SigFox.
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when you say you disagree with something that you admit is factual, you deserve downvotes.
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You do know that you can have fact mixed in with opinion and different ideas. Or is that a new concept for you?
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nope no derogatory sense, all that is your own interpretation. I never said distraction from their shitty lives. i never said they look down on others to feel better. You're just distorting the comment to fit with your argument mate.
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>never said distraction from their shitty lives. "People love to shit on other people. Allows them to be distracted about their own lives" you then go on to describe their lives as substandard and consisting of a lounge chair, a six pack, fast food and the TV. IE shitty. >i never said they look down on others to feel better. "while simultaneously reaffirm their egocentric attitudes by seeing people who have had success in one form or other fail"
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Never Be Like You isn't necessarily EDM, Flume is in a class of his own. He has such a unique style with the best beat switchups and some really interesting instruments that somehow just seem to fall so chaotically into place. I'm not sure what kind of electronic music you'll like, but I recommend starting off with Flume for now. Check out these songs and let me know which ones you like best. - - ** Higher (remix by flume) Hyper Paradise (remix by flume) Tennis Courts (remix by flume) Sintra (original flume) Some Minds (original - make sure you listen to the whole thing, the drop is amazing)
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So if you had to give it a genre what would you choose? Similar to "up all night" slander remix
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Well, rather the fans worked it out, and Lucas went "yes... that's what I meant... ¬_¬ "
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"Oh wow, a throwaway line that has absolutely jackshit to do with anything in the plot of the movie isn't 100% accurate! What a shitty movie! I hope someone got fired for that blunder!" - the spectrum residing denizens of r/movies
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Is that what he said? Jesus, I have a problem not taking time to comprehend his lyrics sometimes...
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Yeah same here just because there's so much meaning in every line but it's sung in such a crazy way that you just think "wow what a crazy dude". Just the other day I was listening to their newest album and I hear the line "I'm swatting at mosquitoes as their orbiting me and I'm orbiting the sun and this goes on and on you see" (or something like that). I heard it sung so many times but I stopped for a second to think about it and was just like "wtf, stop being so awesome bro". And it's like that with almost every line...
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An infrared camera would just tell you the temperature of the outside of your food. I'm not sure how useful that would be.
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The technology is that the oven combines the data from the infrared camera, your input about what you put in, the shape of the thing cooking and other sensors it has. It is supposed to use all this, and it's training data to extrapolate the internal temperature of what is being cooked.
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410,243 |
I still get kind of mad (less so these days) at people who claim to be able to read at a pace that I find mind boggling. I don't think it counts as reading at a certain point. But I have problems with perfectionism and refuse to read many books because I find them boring, some of which will put me to sleep while holding the book in my hands.
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Some people can just read and process information faster. I listen to audiobooks at 1.8-2x speed, most people when they hear the white noise coming out of my phone are confused, but if you inch yourself into it 0.1 at a time, you'll get to 1.8-2.5 after awhile. Each narrator is different of course.
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She didn't infiltrate Stark. She is working for Stark now to escape SHIELD scrutiny by the US Government.
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it was kinda a joke, but for all we know she could have ulterior motives / orders from Fury to "join" stark.
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410,245 |
Another sad movie is "Grave for Fireflies." I have only seen the animated one, but it's really good, though on sadness level more on the level of "Up" than "Dear Zachary."
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I saw grave for fireflies last night, it was very sad, I think the only reason I didn't cry was because it was a cartoon, I need to see good acting/rawr human facial expression to really hit me deep
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No. It means power plants are getting paid to *not* produce. It actually makes consumers bills highr. This is not a good thing. Ideally We'd like to simply be able to drop thermal power plants to equalize, but we still need them at night so this has to happen instead.
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If we could store the excess we could use it at night and then we could drop the thermal plants. Unfortunately electricity storage isn't developed well yet (on price at least). Hopefully home solar incentives will be altered to encourage home storage going forward.
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410,247 |
I'd walk down the aisle with Andy McKee. I'm a guy.
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I Andy Mckee down the walk, I am an aisle.
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410,248 |
Tyler, The Creator - Wolf or Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
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Wolf definitely took some time to grow on me but once I understood it, damn, that album is great.
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410,249 |
How the fuck can one write six books in a year and not hand total crap to the publisher?
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Well each Goosebumps book is around 110-130 pages, so it's not like everything he turns in is The Stand.
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410,250 |
...Like Clockwork for me, or maybe Songs for the Deaf. Both brilliant albums.
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Lullabies to Paralyze anyone? Little Sister, Burn the Witch, Someone's in the Wolf, You Got a Killer There Man, Everyone Knows You're Insane. Super good!
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410,251 |
I used "Roman" for Herod because at the time Judea was a Roman province, so Herod was Roman, but only in the broadest sense. Perhaps "Judean" would do him more justice. I agree that it would benefit from rephrasing. Also: pinning down nationality is a tricky thing when it comes to people from two millennia ago. I'm trying to be accurate, but sometimes there are multiple options. Using "Jewish" wouldn't make any sense though, as that doesn't refer to any country of origin.
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Why not refer to him as the King of the Jews, as that's what people called him then? Judah was the name of the kingdom that he ruled, although he did so with Rome's permission.
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410,252 |
Typically emotionally charged moments don't really do much for me, honestly, so the final exchange between Private Ryan and Captain Miller or Schindler's "one more" half-monologue don't really move me. What always gets me is simple acts of humanity in inhuman circumstances so the rooftop beer scene and the opera scene in Shawshank make me weep like a bitch. Shit like that just kills me.
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That scene before the Germans arrive at the bridge also gets me. The song lyrics translation and Pvt. Ryan saying he doesn't remember his brothers' faces anymore.
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Thats closer to how the book ends than the movie is really. In the book Voldemort is trying to torture Neville with the cruciatus curse. Voldemort's spells are unable to stick on Neville because of the protection Harry gave them when he sacrificed himself. Frustrated, he sends in Nagini to kill him. As she slithers in, he sees the gryffindor sword in the sorting hat next to him. In one motion he grabs the sword out of the sorting hat and slices her head off. Nothing like the drawn out fight scene in the movie. He makes Voldemort mortal by killing his final Horcrux.
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Oh yeah, I loved that scene with Neville more, also because the hat was also stuck on his head AND ON FREAKING FIRE while he starts just calling Voldy out with only the balls of steel hanging heavy below him
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are "the classics" enjoyable to read today? I' guessing things like Moby Dick, The Illiad, idk what else. I definitely have always stuck to sci fi / fantasy
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Oh, yes, they're very much enjoyable. I was just saying that science fiction rarely has an intertextual element that would require me to recommend you work through books in a specific order.
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Sheesh, look a little on the second hand market and you can get a 970, it's pretty lively and you can get some good deals on one generation old mid range gpu's like 960's
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If i look at Kijiji second hand people are absolutely deluded about the price of their old cards. Where do you look for decent second hand prices ? edit : I mean Look at this mother fucker ! [700$ for a rx580 4gb..]
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It could be argued that Police Story 3: Supercop, was better than Police Story 1 or 2. Definitely 2. I think 1 is the best, but an argument could be made for 3 due to Michelle Yeoh's performance and the helicopter stunt.
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That's a tight call. 1 and 3 are pretty close in quality but they're both definitely better than 2, and then it just went all downhill from there. I consider the original trilogy some of the best action movies ever made.
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For me personally, Star Wars has always been about the characters...not the plot. A New Hope didn't have that original of a plot...but it had interesting, exciting characters. And that's what The Force Awakens gave us. New interesting characters, that I care about.
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I would splooge if they made the next film character driven with depth. I wouldn't even need an "adventure" per se, just a bridge to the concluding installment.
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I don't know what a NAS can do to compete with what Google Drive/iCloud do. Maybe you can tell me? :D. I like the integrations of cloud services. Eg: I can share a file to or from my GDrive account using my phone, tablet, PC, multiple applications, some of the services I use have an option for importing a Google Sheets doc, and my ereader app can import directly from Dropbox- I'm hoping for more options soon.
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> I like the integrations of cloud services. Eg: I can share a file to or from my GDrive account using my phone, tablet, PC, multiple applications, some of the services I use have an option for importing a Google Sheets doc, and my ereader app can import directly from Dropbox- I'm hoping for more options soon. Maybe you should put those features that you want on the image. Like platforms (desktop, web, mobile (android, iOs)).
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If you'd also like a podcast, I recommend Philosophize This! It's a history of philosophy, and very approachable. Some also say that all of philosophy is actually a footnote to Plato.
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> Some also say that all of philosophy is actually a footnote to Plato. That's inaccurate. > The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato. (Whitehead, Alfred North, *Process and Reality*, 1979, 39).
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Is the sarcasm/satire really so hard to detect? The amount of woosh in this thread amazes me.
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The presentation is far too bland and a poor choice of words for good sarcasm. If those movies were Star Wars or LotR big then the joke would be blatantly obvious. The OP might just think they deserved even more praise and sales than they got. I don't think they're underrated but I still know quite a few people who didn't even see them until they hit Netflix or DVD.
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We are actually quite lucky and quite strict when it comes to advertising laws in the UK. I am very glad of that.
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Yet some Swedish TV channels broadcast from the UK to be able to show ads targeted towards children.
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410,262 |
Saw him at Bonnaroo two years ago. Absolutely amazing
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I was at this show. I was mildly interested in them before, and that show was amazing. Such a good band.
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Here's a great cover that I've always loved by a band that I haven't heard of since. (I'm on mobile, sorry)
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I prefer [this cover] They change the song up just enough to give it their own feel.
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why do people downvote this. the entire premise of the thread is to expose controversial thoughts. let this person have their opinion, debate and then move along. honestly reddit is too much sometimes...
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What I've done is upvote all the comments as long as they are actually contributing to the conversation
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The Moto Z and Z Force cellphones don't have 3.5mm jacks, and they came out a few weeks ago. I would know, I have the Z Force. I've had no issues with it, battery life is amazing even connected to my Jaybird Bluebuds all day long, I experience no lag on music or phone calls. I don't know why everyone is saying Apple is innovating here, Moto did it first.
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Well I was just saying that they will become more expansive now that Apple has embraced it, since it usually takes Apple or Samsung to create a difference in the market. I know Apple isn't innovating, but them embracing it will eventually create a more mainstream market approach.
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Have you ever compared the two? The image quality of Netflix 4K barely matches standard blu-ray despite technically having 4 times the pixels. Details in movement as well as low light scenes are severely degraded.
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I have not done a side by side test, no. but I watched all of Ozark in Dolby Vision and it looked flawless to me, dark scenes and everything. Not that there arent compression artefacts in the image but there were none that I noticed.
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Lol. "Well, if you scour the Internet you'll find nasty comments." No shit. The comment tree you are responding to was directly about the OP comment talking about the misogynistic comments in this thread. Or course there are nasty people on the Internet.
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They asked if ANYONE called her a lying whore and then asked if it was in this thread. I answered. Don't be a pedant.
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thats a common spot for a quick early change to the 4 in a 12 bar blues. I'm up in the air on that one, the guitar groove stays on 1, but the bass seems to follow the vocal up to the 4.
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yeah i know it is. but its definitely a mistake! From what i know, this recording was very early days for them as three piece and Redding had basically never played bass before.
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If you read all my comments in this thread you'll see that I make no judgment on the quality. I'm simply questioning whether it is strictly literature or not. It doesn't appear in the Canon but that does not fully speak to its quality. Maybe you should think before writing and not jump down someone's throat.
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I'm simply pointing out that it is bad form to call into question a book without reading it. On what basis can you question whether or not it is literature without experiencing it yourself?
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It’s interesting that Delphi is choosing to rely heavily upon LIDAR whereas Tesla’s AutoPilot 2.0 has a bunch more cameras and no LIDAR. It seems that Delphi's system will be more costly than the hardware being used by Tesla, as LIDAR is quite expensive, and Delphi is using four of them. I really wonder what the difference in performance of the two systems will be, especially at night and in poor weather conditions.
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LIDAR has superior imaging capabilities for collision avoidance, but stuff like paper or foliage are invisible to it, so you will always need cameras and machine vision
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410,271 |
I read the following article in the news: ["Indonesian tsunami girl 'turns up after seven years presumed dead'"] I would like to read a story on what could have happened to her the last 7 years to her.
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And finally finished, your story went way longer than I expected it to. It was challenging and I got pretty into it. The prose is a change from the first and quite experimental but I think the end result is quite good save for the edits it still requires, that will all be remedied before the ebook publication however. Enjoy! [The Seven Year Tsunami]
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410,272 |
Rage, I think it was called. From the Bachman Books
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I love all of the Bachman books, but out of them all I wish that one had been longer! I really enjoyed the main character.
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Interesting. So i guess it comes down to preference then eh? I tend not to rewatch a movie until it has been years after Ive seen it to make it feel fresh again. But I can appreciate the appeal of what you suggested. And that is quite the study.
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it probably comes down to gen audiences not caring much and seeing movies just as a distraction. I definitely agree with your points. I've started to actively not watch anything about movies I know I will want to see. Not that hard to find them w/o trailers if you care to look.
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What kind of stuff do you carry around with you? Honestly curious - I haven't owned a car in six years so it never crossed my mind.
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I like to keep things like boots and a pair of gloves, and a blanket handy just in case I need them in an emergency. This is largely due to my more rural location and the fact that if I end up off the side of the road there could be nothing for 20 miles in any direction. In a city it's unlikely that you would need these things, even if you do they would be available to you nearby.
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410,275 |
There's a generation of kids that doesn't recognize that the lyrics to Black are the lyrics to Black and not some random poem? Jesus Christ, I'm old.
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I saw Pearl Jam perform this live in 1992. I agree.
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410,276 |
I mostly chuck on some Brian Eno ambient albums when I'm reading. Mainly it's Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirror.
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Thanks for the recommendation, I've never listened to any Brian Eno, now is probably the time.
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Hate speech is still protected by free speech, though also seeing as he isnt from the states it depends on if you feel rights are natural or handed down by our lord and savior government. Even shitbirds can publish
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> Hate speech is still protected by free speech. who says otherwise?
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"Starbucks is believed to employ over 190,000 people worldwide [...] [who will] be permitted to programme music in their stores using tools provided by Spotify." It's very good that Starbucks uses its human resources effectively!!
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If my joke was too subtle: baristas, art degrees?
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410,279 |
Sounds like the concierge phone-service in [Eden of the East]
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If they gave us a Ten billion yen ($8397360.00) credit to blow then it would be exactly the same.. Oh god it's the beta!
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I didn't realize the general public didn't like it. I'm a comic fan though so it wasn't much of a stretch, I think of most things I watch or read as existing in a multi-verse. I do kind of wish it wasn't such a major plot point in the first movie, it kind of felt like the whole movie revolved around telling people they weren't going to be remaking star trek but doing their own thing. Have you seen the second movie? If so, does Nimoy show up in it?
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I don't think the crossover bugs people I think it's how worthless the cameo was. It didn't serve a purpose. I'm talking about the second movie not the first one.
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410,281 |
I think he was referring to the old logo used in movies in the 90's or so. It's visible in the center of this movie's kill screen. [Old Logo]
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oh cool, I just thought it was inverted or something.
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410,282 |
I also think Jon Hamm wouldn't be a good Superman and Tina Fey wouldn't be a good Lois Lane.
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Jon Hamm would have been the perfect Captain America. He doesn't work as well as Superman.
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Why do women automatically get the benefit of the doubt in your mind when this man doesn't? Shouldn't all people have the right to be considered innocent until proven guilty? Do you not see the flaw in your thinking, or are you just a blatant sexist or something?
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I tend to believe accusers, and they tend to be women. The whole concept of false accusations is a lot more unusual than certain men on reddit want people to think. I’m not saying I don’t believe in due process, and plenty of you automatically don’t believe women but I do notice patterns.
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410,284 |
Frequency with which you have to change batteries is almost irrelevant when it comes to PC gaming, especially if you're into any form of competitive online gaming. I come from the MMO world... I can't imagine having the mouse die when the boss is at 1%, and your inaction causes a wipe.
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The mouse and keyboard warn you ***well*** ahead of time. When my keyboard and mouse give me the warning, I have at least a week or two of use before they actually die.
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You've got lots of potential mate, Keep working at it and do everything you can for exposure, Wouln't be surprised to see you blow up during the summer! Out of interest, What did you use to make the voices? (Not sure if they would be classed as vocals but they are the same style as otto knows - million voices) in "Outset" and "Glacier Coast"
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The voices are cut up vocal samples. It's just a woman singing a really simple line, I cut a bunch of 8th notes and 16th notes of it and loaded them into Logic's sampler. Then I played them on a keyboard in the rhythm I wanted the melody to have, then I used auto tune to tune each note to the melody I wanted. Not as hard as it might sound, and a really cool effect! Thanks a lot for listening!
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410,286 |
Technically, they did not include the canary this year. This is different from deletion because one is an act and the other is a non-action and Reddit cannot be prosecuted for a non-action in the language. (AFAIK)
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I think that's the entire point of it. They can't tell us if they've been forced to give information to the Feds because of a gag order, but by removing the thing saying that they haven't, it's a flag to us that they have.
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410,287 |
As someone suffering from severe creative block it's a nice outlet. I was given the Outlander one, and it's extremely detailed. Just being able to get in the flow of coloring in, shading, and all has been such an outlet. Even if I did spend two hours on just one building last night.
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It's nice to get lost in something that seems so simple yet is rather intricate.
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410,288 |
In my humble opinion, nobody captures the full gamut of post-apocalyptic horror quite like King. In one of his recent collections of short stories, there's one near the end that's set in a very recent nuclear post apocalypse setting that I feel will haunt me the rest of my days.
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Mccammon has a great post apocalypse book called Swan Song.
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410,289 |
Wait, how is burial not huge? He is well internationally known, even though its within his field of deep dubstep.
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As far as i know hes barely known in britain nevermind in america and across europe.
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410,290 |
I just finished Winter, too! I'm reading Stars Above. I had low expectations, but that series exceeded them so delightfully.
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I haven't decided whether to read Stars Above. Fairest was pretty "meh" so I don't know if there's much to expect from the short stories.
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410,291 |
I've been watching the state of Breeder, and Thorium reactors constantly the past few years. From what I know, albeit a layman understanding, they seem the most feasible solutions to the problems presented by nuclear power. That being inherent redundant safety, and storage. Thorium reactors have the benefit of also operating at normal atmospheric pressures meaning events like what happened at Chernobyl are impossible.
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Yes, but they are still far from something we can use now. The problem with the massive amount of highly dangerous nuclear material will not go away for a long time. There is no rational reason not to build safe long-term storage sites right now.
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410,292 |
I started reading Illium some time ago, right after I've finished Hyperion Cantos for maybe fourth or fifth time. Never really managed to get a grip on it. I guess I was expecting something else. BTW, for me, the Hyperion Cantos is the best science-fiction series I have ever read, and my favorite books of all time. :)
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Hyperion was such a good book, I can't wait to get started on the rest of the series.
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What does indie mean? Also, you don't know what production is if you think this is over produced.
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It used to mean independent releases, but now it just basically means anything trying to be hip (like these idiots). Apparently they are 'indie-folk' even though they are under Universal.
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410,294 |
They claim in this article 10 houses in 24 hours on this article for 3d printing.
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The downside is that those homes are concrete. Which is a less attractive building material (visually). Also, their printer is non-mobile, so they have to build the home somewhere else and then ship it to the site. The bricklayer bot can build the home on-site. But yes, I expect that the cost of low-quality pre-assembled homes will be drastically lower quite soon. Which will be great for me (as I'd buy one, rather than rent).
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410,295 |
Yeah, this is really good. I've never heard of these guys before, so thanks a lot!
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No worries. You would probably also dig The Dreadnoughts. The do punk covers of old sea shanties. Very Dropkick or Flogging Molly
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410,296 |
Thanks for writing up a considerate defense. Seeing people downplay his acting because it wasn't quite the "best performance of all time" is somewhat heartbreaking.
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I'm glad at least someone agrees with me. It was a very good performance. Far better than any of that crap you'll find in Twilight that's for sure.
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Eh it's no different than last time the Republicans were in power. I remember clearly the "lists" stations got that were artists that were declared Un American or unpatriotic by station groups like Clear Channel (aka Iheatradio for you young ones) Same shit Same party. Surprise.. Republicans love trouncing over dissent and constitutional freedoms. Nothing new here.
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> Same shit Same party. Suprise. LOL. Because Liberals never boycott. Am I right?
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410,298 |
I don't know, the OS still doesn't convince me. Maybe someone can help clarify because the only people that I have asked about Win10 are either Microsoft fanboys that praise the new OS or conspiracy lunatics that claim this is Satan's botnet and will enslave everyone. I would like a more reasonable review, because this one seems to barely touch the data collection and sending and focus on the unified experience across all platforms. What am I missing if I'm still in Windows 7?
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install linux, then install windows-whatever in a VM. there's no reason you should trust your data to microsofts closed source bullshit. just cage it up VM in case you need to run something like MS office.
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410,299 |
yeah, "war". Hachette is just the first publisher that got smacked with that price-fixing suit last year who's just now renegotiating their contract with Amazon. 6 months from now, it'll be a different publisher who's in the exact same "war" with Amazon. A war in the media, trying to get public opinion to swing their way by ever-so-slightly misrepresenting the situation, so that Amazon looks like the bad guy.
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Colbert is angry therefore I cannot take this issue seriously. Sorry Colbert you sacrificed serious issues when you decided to not actually be serious about them. Also Amazon fucking rule for cheap easy to deliver books
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