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410,600	> How does DNS Works? I can't take any "news" site seriously when they can't do basic proofreading.	1) It's a company blog, not a news site. 2) One typo in the entire article and it's apparently illegible.
410,601	> Amazon announced the new service, confusingly named Snowmobile, at its Re:Invent conference in Las Vegas this week. For those unaware, it's called "Snowmobile" because it's the next step up from "Snowball," which is the service by which you put data on a drive and mail it to them to upload. "Snowball" is probably coined based partially on "Glacier," which is their storage service designed for large amounts of long-term, infrequently accessed (and cheaper-priced) data. So "Glacier" kind of makes sense since it connotes large size and slow movement. The rest are probably of spin-offs from there.	I didn't know they had that snowball method for uploads, I think that's the cooler idea (more potential people could make use of it).
410,602	The only guy I can think of that would be physically Jack Reacher and also have the name to pull numbers for a blockbuster is Chris Hemsworth. But when the first movie was casting Hemsworth was not yet the big name he is today. And he's pretty young to have ten years in the MPs after college, more so at the time of filming. Lee Child was clearly not thinking ahead to his film rights when he wrote Reacher to be such a manbeast.	Okay now I'm not at all certain about this suggestion, as this actor has kind of painted himself into a corner but, what about ...The Rock..Dwayne Johnson?
410,603	Or alternatively: Bought the shirt at a concert when you saw them live. BUT, if you go see them again you are not allowed to wear the shirt of the band you are seeing to the concert.	This is stupid. So if you go to a sporting event, you shouldn't wear the shirt of the team either
410,604	After seeing multiple companies outsource their computer programming divisions to India, and having all of those fail pretty miserably, I predict a severe drop in quality in how they're made. But we'll see.	Programming requires critical thinking, putting pcbs in the pick and place machine decidedly less so.
410,605	I always thought [This]!) one sounded a lot like their really early stuff. Then again he says "It's not that new" On a random note, your username is awesome XD.	Haha, thanks! And I looked into the song/album it was off of, and apparently it came out after warning did; so I'm really not surprised that it sounds a lot more like their earlier albums.
410,606	I'm currently reading the belgariad for the first time. It's a fun story with interesting characters but I can't help wishing I had read it when I was teenager. I think I would have enjoyed it a lot more.	Yea I just finished it recently and feel the exact same way about it. Didn't bother with Malloreon either as the writing style and characterisation was just something I couldn't put up with anymore
410,607	I'm a federal judge with 26 years experience. I hang out on reddit movies.	Awesome, do you have any insight as to my question?
410,608	It hasn't been shared already and while I can't stand Kanye when he comments on things, his beats are solid.	Awesome, if you're adventurous it's a pretty solid album.
410,609	Burden of dreams is available on Hulu plus. The other two are disc only from netflix. You could always rent from amazon vod too.	Did Lost in La Mancha recently drop off of Netflix streaming? I thought it was still on there.
410,610	Hey there. I'm just letting you know I've removed this post as per the politics rule in the sidebar. Political posts (including those on public policy issues such as net neutrality) should be submitted to other subreddits (/r/politics, /r/politicaltech, /r/technews, etc). Within /r/tech, we're currently confining political/legal discussion to weekly megathreads.	Ah, didn't read the side bar (my mobile app makes it more difficult), and this was already posted elsewhere. I just thought it was important news for the tech community. Sorry to make an inappropriate post on your sub, but keep up the good work!
410,611	I can't believe The Usual Suspects is so far down on the list.	You're getting down voted but I completely agree. That ending blew my mind and I thought it was more of an experience than any other movie on this list.
410,612	Gosh, I don't think I've read a book specifically on indentured servants. They're PRESENT in so many books, but I really haven't read anything specifically about them. Stephen Innes edited a collection of essays called "Work and Labor in Early America." That would be your best bet to start. There's also plenty of reprints of an old tract called "The Infortunate: The Voyage And Adventures Of William Moraley, An Indentured Servant" which will give you the point of view of one fellow in his own words from the 1730s. I know there are books specifically on indentured servants but I've never read them since they're not on academic presses.	Thanks, I will check those out. Is NYU Press an academic press? I imagine it stands for New York University Press. I just found White Cargo: The Forgotten History of Britain's White Slaves in America by Don Jordon and Michael Walsh and it's published by NYU Press. I'm interested in learning more about America's indentured servants because it's a section of history not covered in high school history and I only learned a little bit about them through non-academic, fiction stories.
410,613	Book design is a major art form. My favorite living practitioner is Coralie Bickford-Smith:	My wife has most of her stuff. It's crazy. But pretty.
410,614	Who the hell cares about a guy walking on a rope.	Because the actual tightrope walk is a relatively minor part of the story. The beef of the story is how they pulled off. It's really a heist.
410,615	You don't happen to know how this list was compiled, do you? A few of the sections seem a bit lacking.	I don't and i agree. Overall, i think it could stand some improvement. But i didn't contribute to it. It's a wiki, so we all could, right?
410,616	Whatcha paying Prince to be able to cover his music?	Nada. Cover bands are legal without compensation to the original artist. We just can't record our versions of his songs and sell them for profit or sell merch with his image/logo/etc. But maybe I'm wrong and every cover band in America is operating illegally -- IANAL and all that.
410,617	Didn't see it mention how it detects while your driving. Could get annoying if it activates when you're just a passenger, too.	I've seen this being announced in the Keynote yesterday. I remember it said to be using Bluetooth and the WiFi doppler effect to detect whether your moving. No doubt they'd also use the motion sensors.
410,618	Highly skilled tech worker here. There is a shortage of us; the companies are not lying like the article says. My company is not able to find enough good engineers, and other companies are constantly trying to hire me and others away. The way we are getting screwed is not by immigrants. It's by the companies colluding to fix our wages. They enter in our anonymized compensation data into a big database that they all share. Some of them also have agreements not to poach employees from each other. H1B is not the problem.	Gee, this sounds to me like the type of thing that wouldn't be allowed in capitalistic societies... Cartel-ized.
410,619	Plain white transit van, back brace, hi-vis reflective vest... No questions asked.	All can be conviently purchased on Amazon right this moment!
410,620	Why? Looks incredible and you get Android apps on a laptop. So you can use things not possible on a Mac or Windoes laptop. My wife loves Snap on her laptop, CB plus, with keyboard.	But even if you want that, aren't there a ton of chromebooks priced far lower? Why would you ever need premium hardware to run smartphone apps?
410,621	Post Office, by Charles Bukowski Just finished it now and really enjoyed it! A very easy read and an amusing story full of macabre humour :)	I loved Post Office! Have you read Ham on Rye and Women as well? Out of those 3 books, I have to say that Ham on Rye is my favorite, it's brutal and hilarious, and at times quite sad!
410,622	One of the greatest, off the wall movies I have ever seen. Even more ridiculous than "Shoot em' Up. Nothing beats the ripping out of the intestines and repeling down to another floor through a window.	Yeah, this is for the sequel, which I assume is being shot in downtown Austin as I type.
410,623	Wireless headphones are nice, but having an extra device that needs charged and stops working when its battery runs out is much more of a hassle than dealing with a cord. Wired headphones are reliable, and wireless just aren't.	You put them in the case and they charge. That's much more convenient than untangling wires. You think wired headphones will be around forever or something?
410,624	Raptors are going to build a wall, and InGen IS GONNA PAY FOR IT	Raptors don't want walls, the walls are what keep the raptors from eating everybody.
410,625	The Loch Ness monster is inherently exciting. It just doesn't exist.	Which is why nobody's getting excited about the Loch Ness Monster. Your point?
410,626	Rowling isn't that good of a writer, to be frank. She came across a good idea that hadn't hit mainstream for a few decades, and took that novel idea and made a story that worked with the flaws in her writing style and covered them by being a kids' book, and not needing the touches that an adult audience would have demanded.	Thank you, someone finally agrees with me! I found her writing style so boring and repetitive as a teenage and I LOVED reading (then and now). It probably didn't help that as a young kid/teenager I was an avid fan of roleplaying so 'magical schools' and being part of a 'wizarding world' was not new for me as it was such a common forum to join!
410,627	Depends on your definition of Rape. She was only 13. I think it made sense to change it for the show because it shows her helplessness in the situation. The book has the time to set that up whereas a show doesn't.	I agree. Except in that world, a 13 year old is apparently old enough to get married so I wouldn't consider it automatically rape (in context), regardless of the fact that it would be automatically rape in most (hopefully all) of our society.
410,628	> Weird pick from 'Machine Head', I use to really like this tune but not so much right now. I thought this song might fit best to reddit ;)	Let me elaborate: 'Lazy' is the more psychedelic tune of the record hard to access unless you get a little help from your friends. I'd gone with 'Space Truckin' or 'Highway Star' a little more upbeat, I guess.
410,629	I believe Batman's voice at the end is his voice in the Metal Batsuit; not his actual batman voice. We need to take that into consideration. Also, how about Neil Degrasse Tyson's voiceover in the beginning!	I would be very happy with him sounding like that through the whole movie. A voice modulator makes a lot more sense than Bale's silly growl.
410,630	So it's comical blues; why is this at a Jazz Festival ? (oh he's good, yeah, but the comical ruins it for me)	so it is not your style, and he has a sense of humor, maybe you should get one of your own.
410,631	The Little Prince. It's not really a kids book. Read it as an adult or young adult to get the full effect.	Came looking for this one. I think anyone under the age of 16 would be completely lost by this book, even if they are unaware that they are lost.
410,632	Joe Pass. What a beast of a guitar player. My favorite album of his is [For Django] It's got the beautiful, delicate playing, but also the fiery solos. Best of both worlds.	Oh yea absolutely. One of the greatest guitarist of the 20th century.
410,633	"Hey, I think we ran into some interference and I didn't get that. Can you send that again?" So much for security.	You don't send your data through quantum, you use it as a secure source of shared random private data which you use as a one-time pad, meaning that your real transmission is perfectly encrypted.
410,634	Does anyone know if installing a custom, open-source firmware would overwrite this kind of tampering?	entirely depends on what they are doing to the devices.
410,635	I think reading will better engage my mind, keep me sharp, and be enjoyable. I want all three.	I think an interest in what one does helps keep them sharp and its enjoyable. If reading feels like a chore I cant see it as enjoyable? To learn to like something is something my mother always told me but I promise I never liked black eyed peas even after eatting them when she told me I would eventually like them. The only thing eatting black eyed peas did for me was make my dinners miserable and left me with very unfavorable memories of it. :)
410,636	> I know he's Australian but Mel Gibson really nailed the Scottish accent in Braveheart! Said no Scotsman, ever.	Hearing anyone but Scots trying to sounds scottish is almost always painful.
410,637	No one has heard every song from any genre. You don't need to have listened to every single song of a genre to have an opinion on it.	But to insult an entire genre and give such a basic and childish reason behind not liking it suggests that he might not be the most knowledgeable on the genre.
410,638	I doubt it. You are not accessing their computer. You are accessing your computer.	That's what common sense tells you but there are on-going legal battles over who actually owns the individual pieces of a lot products you "buy". Software, Hardware, vehicles. To name a few.
410,639	You're the second person to mention A Monster Calls I'm guessing it's a must read.	Definitely. It's a very beautiful, albeit very sad book, that I honestly can't recommend enough. And the illustrations by Jim Kay just add to the whole experience of it.
410,640	He also said of Jaws: The Revenge: "I have never seen it, but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built, and it is terrific.”	This one of my favourite quotes from one of my favourite actors.
410,641	I just hate Jennifer Lawrence, she's a terrible actress. I found it so annoying how they completely made mystique the main character in x-men apocalypse. Isn't she supposed to be Magentos right hand man?	It's times like these when the "/s" would really come in handy.
410,642	>Also, braille. I was wondering about this. Is it realistic to expect someone to start learning Braille at 91? I'm not sure how long it takes to pick up or how easy it would be.	I also wonder if touch sensitivity degrades like everything else. A quick google search doesn't tell me much, except that it's not uncommon for seniors to learn braille as their vision goes, and that some conditions and medications can cause tingling in the extremities, what makes braille difficult to read.
410,643	Under The Skin really is amazing though, seriously. She was fantastic in that. Not a ton else, but definitely that.	She slinked around and looked pensive. There were hardly any lines or delivery. Overall, I thought the movie was terrible.
410,644	I don't think it's an act, at least for Zach and Morello. Zach's father was a muralist who was popular in the late 60s and 70s...an era (especially in California) that is generally associated with revolutionary art. Morello went to Harvard, got a degree in social studies. I'm sure they've done well personally, and they may have suffered significant cognitive dissonance seeing a revolutionary message produced for mass media consumption, for which they were paid handsomely. But I'm pretty sure at least Zach and Morello both believe the stuff they write and sing about.	One cannot write bulls on parade and not actually feel the Passion and Anger which is involved. I habe No doubts they are working to pay themselves, yet do good in the meantime.
410,645	This just seems ridiculous. Like, something a 12 year old would think up. "how will you go that fast?" "RAMJETS!" "Ok, but how will you takeoff?" "uhhhh... Jet engines!" "but... They won't be powerful enough." "also a rocket. And... The rocket and the jet engines retract! And it'll fly at 100,000 feet! Yeah, it's gonna be sweet." Obviously it's not a real prototype, just locking down the patent for the general idea. But damn.	I think I actually built a better jet than this when I was 12. It looks so cost impractical. Like something SHIELD would use.
410,646	The part that stood out to me the most was when butter cups baby was stolen from her nd fell from a cliff... That part freaked me out not gonna lie. Or am I not thinking of the right book?	You're thinking of Buttercup's Baby. Only one chapter of that has been edited- the rest is going to be done by Stephen King.
410,647	...the only thing live here is the vocals. It might indeed be a quick remix for the broadcast, but the backing is made entirely from the tracks of the actual Ziggy sessions.	Huh didn't know that, but the thing I like about this version anyway is the way he delivers the lines, it sounds more energetic than the album version.
410,648	Nah, she's way too old to be Opal. Natalie Dormer is pretty decent imo, with her hair cut shorter and dyed black.	Well that could work... didn't think of her looking like that
410,649	To quote you further down this thread, > Sure, but his argument has nothing to do with "pretentious people." I suspect he doesn't really understand what the word means. Let's clear that up, shall we? > pre·ten·tious. > Adjective: > Attempting to impress by affecting greater importance, talent, culture, etc., than is actually possessed. So now that you've learned what it actually means, hopefully my comment makes a bit more sense. If not, ah well, I'm no Brandon Sanderson. (I was going to say I'm no Ernest Hemingway, but I decided to reference an author whose work I actually enjoy and think is worthy of all the praise it gets.)	So you are indeed claiming that anyone who prefers a different kind of book from you must be adopting an affectation? That's wonderfully self-centered. I assumed that what you meant was snobs. I'm glad to be corrected. The twist that you have turned out to be a genre-novel snob is just the icing on the cake.
410,650	It doesn't matter. This is another example of jamming which covers a large variety of techniques. Your own link says so. Read it. Old school jamming was raw, high power, directed RF. Then focused modulated signals. Then came digital jamming which includes handshakes, deauth, etc and basically anything that denies access to a wireless service. For you to argue that this one specific technique and instance is not jamming is just silly.	>It doesn't matter. of course it matters. this exact tech is widely used and is legally sold at this very minute by companies like cisco. the FCC doesnt give a shit about that, they give a shit about this specific application of the tech. >For you to argue that this one specific technique and instance is not jamming is just silly. hello irony.
410,651	It's a bunt instead of a grand slam. Still a homerun but nothing to cheer about.	It's impossible to hit a home run off a bunt
410,652	This is a good place to start: I've read most of these, they're mostly "classics" and can give you recs if you tell me a few books you like!	I'm a fan of the Russians in general (except for Tolstoy). Dostoevsky especially, and I thought Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita was great. Hemingway, McCarthy, and Fitzgerald are all good, too. And Kafka, I've read all of his short stories and thought they were good. Any recommendations would be great.
410,653	Dammit, I wish the two David Mitchells could hold a conference and figure out different names for themselves, or one of them at least throw a middle name in there. I'm always so confused when I start reading an article by "David Mitchell."	Yeah, I was really curious to hear what comedian David Mitchell had to say about Twilight. Disappointed.
410,654	You can have that opinion if you want to, but maybe don't comment it on a post where everyone else likes the Beatles and is excited about these news.	Nah fuck that. I’m going to do what I want. It pisses y’all off, so that’s what I’m going to do. This site is full of emotional people.
410,655	I thought the ending of The Andromeda Strain was an homage to "War of the Worlds."	Nah Crichton just sucked at endings. Endings and his strange obsession with theme parks. Andromeda Strain - virus just sort of goes away. Eaters of the Dead - Bad guys just kinda go away. Sphere - Everyone agrees that it just never happened. Jurassic Park - They just float away from the island. There's never a big climactic ending where things are resolved. His books always just...end.
410,656	I was just quoting cunteli. Evil is a pretty big word to throw around, I agree.	I'm pretty sure a guy who rapes children and kills people is about as evil as you can get...but hey that's just my opinion.
410,657	It's one thing to be tested. It is entirely another to be silently watched and have your usage tested without your knowledge while doing something irrelevant to the form elements.	You don't have to like the test for the test to still be a test.
410,658	Well Bobbi was immediately a better draw and now she's getting her own show(Hunter is part of it too I guess(Though I like him more than most apprently)).	Totally Agree. Bobbi was great. It's nice to see them getting their own show but AoS is poorer for it.
410,659	Each actor had to essentially play 3 characters in one body. Cage had to play Troy, Archer in Troy's body, and Archer in Troy's body pretending to be Troy. The opposite goes for Travolta. He had to play Archer, Troy in Archer's body, and Troy in Archer's body pretending to be Archer. It's like acting inception.	He's the dude playing the dude disguised as another dude.
410,660	Did you know if Freddie Mercury died without being in Queen he wouldn’t have been the frontman for Queen?	Excuse me while I collect the pieces of my shattered mind
410,661	Someone on npr today was saying that this shouldn’t be called an addiction because it doesn’t cause physiological changes or withdrawal symptoms. I liked it.	NPR is such a reasonable level headed news source, such a nice contrast to all the other shit out there.
410,662	I'm always in the minority, but I wish they'd just give Hawkeye a legit costume. People complain that it would be cheesy, but the entire franchise is cheesy. Besides, I'm sick of so many heroes wearing either blue, red, yellow, or worse, all black leather. Throw some goddamn purple in there and give him a fucking mask. Just get rid of the giant H if you're so worried about it being hokey.	He just needs a wicked pair of sunglasses like Hawkeye in The Ultimates. Jeremy Renner without some visual flair just doesn't look right among the others. But a pair of sunglasses? It would make all the difference. Hell, give them high - tech targeting and other enhanced visualization features if there needs to be a reason for them, I don't care.
410,663	You can't like Alaska? Not even that amazing initial guitar riff???	Lemme specify. I love that intro riff, and the beginning of the song in general. Everything goes downhill after the first blast for me. Dont get me wrong, i want to like it, more music to enjoy is always a good thing, but it lacks the magic of the songs i do like.
410,664	I think they're integrating Chocolatey or something into Powershell.	[OneGet] - it'll integrate with Chocolatey at some point.
410,665	i've been at two concerts, one shortly after the "reunion" and one last year. i've been underwhelmed by both performances, but then again i don't expect anybody to play the same songs for twenty years and still be excited about it. as long as i got the albums i'm a happy man though.	That's interesting, when I saw them in 2012 I feel like Billy was pretty enthusiastic. They played XYU and just killed it, although Billy seemed disappointed when he couldn't get the crowd to yell "Kaboom!" at the climax (to be honest I never knew that he said an actual word at that part until after that show, I thought it was just an unintelligible scream). Maybe he was just having a bad night(s) when you saw them. I could see a slightly crazy and moody guy like Billy having a lot of those, which kind of sucks for the fans but what can you do.
410,666	Uhm, structs? Arrays? Pass by references? Even tuples and lists if you have them. What language except Lua has multiple returns? And above all, you would decimate the ability of using native code when adding useless features like this.	>Uhm, structs? Arrays? Pass by references? "Why would I need this for thing when Goto does the same?" > What language except Lua has multiple returns? Swift! And Go. And C++ has the pair object which sorta works for 2 values. And Python, Javascript. Ruby, PHP, D and Perl all let you easily return tuples or arrays in one line, some implicitly and some explicitly. Those are all I checked.
410,667	I mostly just remember being disappointed. Kick-Ass was so awesome in a really fresh way. KA2 just screamed "trying too hard".	I wasn't a fan of either of them, and I can't quite place why. I realize that doesn't make me a very good critic, haha. I'd have to rewatch them and try to compose my thoughts.
410,668	As all the weekly breakthrough technologies on batteries, this sounds very promising. What is the caveat NA-ion batteries?	Since Na ions are bigger than Li ions, the energy density will stay slightly lower than that of Li-ion batteries. Other than that it's pretty much the ideal battery for renewable energy storage…
410,669	Gotta keep their readers believing their heroes are still relevant.	More like keep the older generation subscribed to the magazine since young people don't pay for magazines but people over 40 still do.
410,670	I think there's a curse on movies shot in Toronto.	I don't know man a lot of good movies were shot in Toronto such as... A Christmas Story (1983) Police Academy (1984) Cocktail (1988) Billy Madison (1994) Good Will Hunting (1997) American Psycho (2000) X-Men (2000) Chicago (2002) Cosmopolis (2012) Cinderella Man (2005) Hairspray (2007) Tommy Boy (1995) The Fly (1986) Videodrome (1983) Crash (1996) Scott Pilgrim (2010)
410,671	Actually the original title is "Skrik", which can be directly translated to Scream.	You're absolutely right, event though the 'official' translation of the title has the article [in many languages] <see languages bar. >The original German title given to the work by Munch is, Der Schrei der Natur (The Scream of Nature). The Norwegian word skrik usually is translated as scream, but is cognate with the English shriek. Occasionally, the painting also has been called, The Cry. Funny how this reflects on the nature of a language though...
410,672	From what I understand, it's more or less that they developed the OS but they have it working in a simulation enviroment, kind of like using a virtual machine to run Windows. Correct me if I'm wrong.	In this case the virtual machine is fundamentally much less powerful than the real OS: in some cases solving a problem of size N will require 2^N more time in the simulation. So it's not too far from the analogy of running a computer in clockwork (actually a well designed clockwork has a lower discrepancy to a computer than a computer to a quantum computer -- solving for size N will require at most N^k more time, for some constant k).
410,673	How is this different from RFID? Looks like the range is the same.	I had exactly same question. Maybe this is more like NFC, but then there probably is small NFC chips. Or doesn't RFID require specific frequency and large antenna?
410,674	Sure they have. Do kids play 'Cowboys and Indians' anymore ? That stuff was on it's last legs when I was a kid in the 80s. Edit : Well, do kids play 'Cowboys and Indians' ?! Are they all gonna tune into 'Gunsmoke' after school and imitate it ? No, they play 'Call of Duty' ( or 'Red Dead' ) instead.	I'd say that has more to do with the emergence of video games rather than the decline of westerns.
410,675	I have loads of books in my "virtual" To Be Read pile; many of them on my Kindle and a great deal of them in hard copy on my bookshelves. However, I do actually also have a real pile of books by my bedside, including: * HHhH - Laurent Binet. * Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell. * Bring Up the Bodies - Hilary Mantel. * Tigana - Guy Kavriel Kay (started but never finished) * In the Court of the Red Tsar - Simon Sebag Montefiore. * Rainbows End - Vernor Vinge. * The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 - Anthony Beevor. A bit of an eclectic mix really, now that I look at them and write down their titles.	Hey, fellow Tigana reader! I feel that this should warrant some kind of high-fiving. What do you think of it?
410,676	cloverfield is 100% an alien, its the entire plot point of the movie, and it was shown in the post credits, here ill find a link for it real quick, watch the middle right of the screen at 25 seconds on, this movie was gold because of the secrecy and mystery of shit like this.	As Ive stated before, its been officially confirmed by the director that that what fell into the ocean in that scene was a satellite, which woke the monster up when it collided with it while the monster was sleeping at the bottom of the ocean.
410,677	I would do this really quickly. I would much rather pay $150 a month and not worry about gas and insurance and other car maintenance. It would save a few hundred a month on average, maybe even more. There are a few of these car sharing services in the states but only in very select locations. It would take a miracle for it to spread to every large city in America.	Wait till you get in an accident or the car breaks down.
410,678	Visual: Nostalghia. Drama: Failsafe. Surreal: The Bed Sitting Room.	Thank you. I have now added #1 + #3 because I've seen #2 and it's good. That would make it good shit I suppose.
410,679	I guarantee it will be cheaper to let a tree grow and then bury it rather than burning it, at least in terms of cost per amount of CO2 trapped. Either way it's slapping a bandaid on a gaping wound.	But if this concrete can replace normal concrete without being much more expensive, why not use this instead? It isn't about replacing all the trees with this new concrete, it's about making concrete more useful.
410,680	That's what I can't figure out. Shareholders own the shares. If they don't want to sell their shares, don't sell them.	Kinda doesn't work like that. This was a large scale buy out from board members, not just share holders. So decisions are democratic. And because of the size of the company, it's all federally regulated. Fair business and all. So this decision could mean that the judge forces the buyers to payout the share difference of those who opposed the lower value that was finally voted in.
410,681	Are there any tools out there to determine what the algorithm is that creates a 5 digit number from a 8 digit number if you have a list of numbers. ie. 70008470 makes 54108. or 60008763 makes 26626	Can you give us any reference as to what you're talking about? I know there's shorthand for HTML colors and whatnot but I have no idea where this is coming from.
410,682	I believe McKellen broke down because he was doing something like acting in front of a green screen to a tennis ball stick.	What a sad, sad place to realize that all your life's visions and aspirations have come to this, talking to a fucking tennis ball in a strange green room with a bunch of goofs.
410,683	Does Matthew DiVito know you're using [an image of his] for a cover? As for the music, I'm really digging it, interested to see how it evolves.	Oo no, thank you. I will contact him or change it. I came across that image on here awhile ago and i love it. My intention is definitely not to profit from that image but i'd love to pay him for it or something like that.
410,684	Ok, Joel Kinnaman is a swedish-american. Probably a great actor, but are there no Japanese or even Asian actors who can be cast as a part-Japanese character or is America not ready to get behind a Japanese protagonist because we are all whitewashed racists?	The character never appears in his original body in any of the books. A consequence of being able to swap bodies is that no intelligence/special operations officer is going to remain in their original/birth body more than a few days into their career.
410,685	At this point it's becoming plebeian to like Death Grips. Autism level music made by an actual autist.	It's not plebian to dislike Death Grips but I think people who find it baffling that there's people that like Death Grips probably don't listen to a wide variety of music and aren't that open minded. These are likely the same people that find Death Grips super abrasive and weird, when it's really not in the grand scheme of things especially compared to some of the really out-there stuff out there, like Merzbow and Whitehouse if you wanna go pretty extreme. Nothing wrong with that though and the word "plebian" in it of itself is pretty plebian
410,686	When did Tarantino call to tell you what he was trying to do?	Right between the weekly call to his cocaine wizard and the booty call to Uma.
410,687	You mean the competition between the one (maybe even two in your town!) cable provider which is already in bed with the government? How about the telco companies that provider shitty DSL that are already in bed with your government? Surely none of these people ever sell or willingly give your information away! I just see it as added competition. Government run Internet would be the basic package. The existing duopolies would have to figure out how to compete.	What you just said is not competition. We need real competition. It's impossible for new companies to enter the market. Google said their fiber is so difficult to set up because it's ridiculously difficult to get past all the regulations.
410,688	You can download the source, build it and start using it right now.	Yeah, I could. I just want it plugged into my Photoshop so I can 'save for web' and automagically just get it. Or in my screen capture.
410,689	I have only read American Gods and Neverwhere by Gaiman prior to Ocean. I can tell from reading those books that his stories seem to be somewhat similar. You said you're a big Gaiman fan, so perhaps having read his previous work, Ocean just doesn't feel that fresh to you anymore? It is certainly something I am concerned about as I prepare to get into Gaiman's other works.	I considered that as a possibility. But I had the same foreknowledge of Gaiman's work when I read The Graveyard Book, and still loved it. It makes me sad that I couldn't fall in love with Ocean like the rest of the reading world. I feel...impotent.
410,690	And the point of said infrastructure is the sale of physical goods. Which makes them very different than Google.	No, the point of said infrastructure is content hosting and commerce. Amazon is definitely a tech company at its core.
410,691	The Vision, he's essentially an android embodiment of Jarvis, Stark's AI.	Actually, the first Vision was created by Ultron as a sort of lieutenant. The problem is that Ultron based his intelligence off of the deceased Avenger Wonder-Man, and the Avengers were able to convince Vision to betray Ultron. The second Vision was created after the destruction of the first, and was an amalgamation of remaining pieces and consciousness of Vision and the armor of Iron Lad. Pym (who creates Ultron in the comics, and who for all intents and purposes is Stark in this film), has no hand in the creation of The Vision. More likely, Ultron will create The Vision using Stark's JARVIS system as a skeletal framework, and then the comic story will fold into the film from there.
410,692	Probably Kid A. But I have a list, I can't narrow it to one: Sea Change by Beck. Helplessness Blues by Fleet Foxes. Figure 8 by Elliott Smith. Haha Sound by Broadcast. Microcastle by Deerhunter. Pink by Boris	Kid A and Figure 8 are from the 20th century.
410,693	Apparently being anti consumerist makes you a racist. Same thing is happening to Lorde	HHH can be renamed to /r/whiteguilt. I love rap but holy shit its fanbase online is obnoxious. It's just a bunch of young white people who wish they were black and were fighting the evil government, because like, racism, man.
410,694	They are the production of some company cashing in on the ownership of music like nearly every other band you hear today. If they haven't sold out, you haven't heard of them.	I hope that's not true :( [shameless link to my own band]
410,695	Yeah this thread is all "You don't get it noob" vs "Fuck this trash" Dude it's art. You're not rooting for a sports team here. Like it? Great. Don't? That's cool too.	Honestly, this says something positive about the song for me. The worst type of music is that to which everyone can give a resounding "meh".
410,696	This is interesting. Can you elaborate some? From a layman's understanding it seems like a discrete system would be easier to model and simulate.	For us to observe future tech in a simulation that we've created, the simulation would have to progress at faster than real time. That's not going to happen.
410,697	Almost everyone has left their phone in the fridge, but have you ever left the milk in the cupboard?	too many times to count, you read me like a book
410,698	I said the same in the Star Wars subreddit when the movie first released and got banned for it. Glad to see I'm not the only one that noticed.	A friendly advice: Dont say anything negative about the new movie on /r/starwars. That sub have turned into a religious circlejerk where everyone that's questions the fait in Disney is downvoted or banned. The new movie is treated like the second coming of Christ and everyone that criticise it are a heretic. Everyone with an objective mind are banned from that sub.
410,699	Use is the only thing. We only care about Google’s ownership to the extent we have a relationship with Google. With a third party, we don’t by definition.	Like I said, that's a different thing altogether. I was merely responding to your comment on there being no evidence that Google's keeping data to themselves

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> How does DNS Works? I can't take any "news" site seriously when they can't do basic proofreading.

1) It's a company blog, not a news site. 2) One typo in the entire article and it's apparently illegible.

410,601

> Amazon announced the new service, confusingly named Snowmobile, at its Re:Invent conference in Las Vegas this week. For those unaware, it's called "Snowmobile" because it's the next step up from "Snowball," which is the service by which you put data on a drive and mail it to them to upload. "Snowball" is probably coined based partially on "Glacier," which is their storage service designed for large amounts of long-term, infrequently accessed (and cheaper-priced) data. So "Glacier" kind of makes sense since it connotes large size and slow movement. The rest are probably of spin-offs from there.

I didn't know they had that snowball method for uploads, I think that's the cooler idea (more potential people could make use of it).

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The only guy I can think of that would be physically Jack Reacher and also have the name to pull numbers for a blockbuster is Chris Hemsworth. *But* when the first movie was casting Hemsworth was not yet the big name he is today. And he's pretty young to have ten years in the MPs after college, more so at the time of filming. Lee Child was clearly not thinking ahead to his film rights when he wrote Reacher to be such a manbeast.

Okay now I'm not at all certain about this suggestion, as this actor has kind of painted himself into a corner but, what about ...The Rock..Dwayne Johnson?

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Or alternatively: Bought the shirt at a concert when you saw them live. BUT, if you go see them again you are not allowed to wear the shirt of the band you are seeing to the concert.

This is stupid. So if you go to a sporting event, you shouldn't wear the shirt of the team either

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After seeing multiple companies outsource their computer programming divisions to India, and having all of those fail pretty miserably, I predict a severe drop in quality in how they're made. But we'll see.

Programming requires critical thinking, putting pcbs in the pick and place machine decidedly less so.

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I always thought [This]!) one sounded a lot like their really early stuff. Then again he says "It's not that new" On a random note, your username is awesome XD.

Haha, thanks! And I looked into the song/album it was off of, and apparently it came out after warning did; so I'm really not surprised that it sounds a lot more like their earlier albums.

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I'm currently reading the belgariad for the first time. It's a fun story with interesting characters but I can't help wishing I had read it when I was teenager. I think I would have enjoyed it a lot more.

Yea I just finished it recently and feel the exact same way about it. Didn't bother with Malloreon either as the writing style and characterisation was just something I couldn't put up with anymore

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I'm a federal judge with 26 years experience. I hang out on reddit movies.

Awesome, do you have any insight as to my question?

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It hasn't been shared already and while I can't stand Kanye when he comments on things, his beats are solid.

Awesome, if you're adventurous it's a pretty solid album.

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Burden of dreams is available on Hulu plus. The other two are disc only from netflix. You could always rent from amazon vod too.

Did Lost in La Mancha recently drop off of Netflix streaming? I thought it was still on there.

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Hey there. I'm just letting you know I've removed this post as per the politics rule in the sidebar. Political posts (including those on public policy issues such as net neutrality) should be submitted to other subreddits (/r/politics, /r/politicaltech, /r/technews, etc). Within /r/tech, we're currently confining political/legal discussion to weekly megathreads.

Ah, didn't read the side bar (my mobile app makes it more difficult), and this was already posted elsewhere. I just thought it was important news for the tech community. Sorry to make an inappropriate post on your sub, but keep up the good work!

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I can't believe The Usual Suspects is so far down on the list.

You're getting down voted but I completely agree. That ending blew my mind and I thought it was more of an experience than any other movie on this list.

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Gosh, I don't think I've read a book specifically on indentured servants. They're PRESENT in so many books, but I really haven't read anything specifically about them. Stephen Innes edited a collection of essays called "Work and Labor in Early America." That would be your best bet to start. There's also plenty of reprints of an old tract called "The Infortunate: The Voyage And Adventures Of William Moraley, An Indentured Servant" which will give you the point of view of one fellow in his own words from the 1730s. I know there are books specifically on indentured servants but I've never read them since they're not on academic presses.

Thanks, I will check those out. Is NYU Press an academic press? I imagine it stands for New York University Press. I just found *White Cargo: The Forgotten History of Britain's White Slaves in America* by Don Jordon and Michael Walsh and it's published by NYU Press. I'm interested in learning more about America's indentured servants because it's a section of history not covered in high school history and I only learned a little bit about them through non-academic, fiction stories.

410,613

Book design is a major art form. My favorite living practitioner is Coralie Bickford-Smith:

My wife has most of her stuff. It's crazy. But pretty.

410,614

Who the hell cares about a guy walking on a rope.

Because the actual tightrope walk is a relatively minor part of the story. The beef of the story is how they pulled off. It's really a heist.

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You don't happen to know how this list was compiled, do you? A few of the sections seem a bit lacking.

I don't and i agree. Overall, i think it could stand some improvement. But i didn't contribute to it. It's a wiki, so we all could, right?

410,616

Whatcha paying Prince to be able to cover his music?

Nada. Cover bands are legal without compensation to the original artist. We just can't record our versions of his songs and sell them for profit or sell merch with his image/logo/etc. But maybe I'm wrong and every cover band in America is operating illegally -- IANAL and all that.

410,617

Didn't see it mention how it detects while your driving. Could get annoying if it activates when you're just a passenger, too.

I've seen this being announced in the Keynote yesterday. I remember it said to be using **Bluetooth** and the **WiFi doppler effect** to detect whether your moving. No doubt they'd also use the motion sensors.

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Highly skilled tech worker here. There is a shortage of us; the companies are not lying like the article says. My company is not able to find enough *good* engineers, and other companies are constantly trying to hire me and others away. The way we are getting screwed is not by immigrants. It's by the companies colluding to fix our wages. They enter in our anonymized compensation data into a big database that they all share. Some of them also have agreements not to poach employees from each other. H1B is not the problem.

Gee, this sounds to me like the type of thing that wouldn't be allowed in capitalistic societies... Cartel-ized.

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Plain white transit van, back brace, hi-vis reflective vest... No questions asked.

All can be conviently purchased on Amazon right this moment!

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Why? Looks incredible and you get Android apps on a laptop. So you can use things not possible on a Mac or Windoes laptop. My wife loves Snap on her laptop, CB plus, with keyboard.

But even if you want that, aren't there a ton of chromebooks priced far lower? Why would you ever need premium hardware to run smartphone apps?

410,621

**Post Office, by Charles Bukowski** Just finished it now and really enjoyed it! A very easy read and an amusing story full of macabre humour :)

I loved Post Office! Have you read Ham on Rye and Women as well? Out of those 3 books, I have to say that Ham on Rye is my favorite, it's brutal and hilarious, and at times quite sad!

410,622

One of the greatest, off the wall movies I have ever seen. Even more ridiculous than "Shoot em' Up. Nothing beats the ripping out of the intestines and repeling down to another floor through a window.

Yeah, this is for the sequel, which I assume is being shot in downtown Austin as I type.

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Wireless headphones are nice, but having an extra device that needs charged and stops working when its battery runs out is much more of a hassle than dealing with a cord. Wired headphones are reliable, and wireless just aren't.

You put them in the case and they charge. That's much more convenient than untangling wires. You think wired headphones will be around forever or something?

410,624

Raptors are going to build a wall, and *InGen IS GONNA PAY FOR IT*

Raptors don't want walls, the walls are what keep the raptors from eating everybody.

410,625

The Loch Ness monster is inherently exciting. It just doesn't exist.

Which is why nobody's getting excited about the Loch Ness Monster. Your point?

410,626

Rowling isn't that good of a writer, to be frank. She came across a good idea that hadn't hit mainstream for a few decades, and took that novel idea and made a story that worked with the flaws in her writing style and covered them by being a kids' book, and not needing the touches that an adult audience would have demanded.

Thank you, someone finally agrees with me! I found her writing style so boring and repetitive as a teenage and I LOVED reading (then and now). It probably didn't help that as a young kid/teenager I was an avid fan of roleplaying so 'magical schools' and being part of a 'wizarding world' was not new for me as it was such a common forum to join!

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Depends on your definition of Rape. She was only 13. I think it made sense to change it for the show because it shows her helplessness in the situation. The book has the time to set that up whereas a show doesn't.

I agree. Except in that world, a 13 year old is apparently old enough to get married so I wouldn't consider it automatically rape (in context), regardless of the fact that it would be automatically rape in most (hopefully all) of our society.

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> Weird pick from 'Machine Head', I use to really like this tune but not so much right now. I thought this song might fit best to reddit ;)

Let me elaborate: 'Lazy' is the more psychedelic tune of the record hard to access unless you get a little help from your friends. I'd gone with 'Space Truckin' or 'Highway Star' a little more upbeat, I guess.

410,629

I believe Batman's voice at the end is his voice in the Metal Batsuit; not his actual batman voice. We need to take that into consideration. Also, how about Neil Degrasse Tyson's voiceover in the beginning!

I would be very happy with him sounding like that through the whole movie. A voice modulator makes a lot more sense than Bale's silly growl.

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So it's comical blues; why is this at a Jazz Festival ? (oh he's good, yeah, but the comical ruins it for me)

so it is not your style, and he has a sense of humor, maybe you should get one of your own.

410,631

The Little Prince. It's not really a kids book. Read it as an adult or young adult to get the full effect.

Came looking for this one. I think anyone under the age of 16 would be completely lost by this book, even if they are unaware that they are lost.

410,632

Joe Pass. What a beast of a guitar player. My favorite album of his is [For Django] It's got the beautiful, delicate playing, but also the fiery solos. Best of both worlds.

Oh yea absolutely. One of the greatest guitarist of the 20th century.

410,633

"Hey, I think we ran into some interference and I didn't get that. Can you send that again?" So much for security.

You don't send your data through quantum, you use it as a secure source of shared random private data which you use as a one-time pad, meaning that your real transmission is perfectly encrypted.

410,634

Does anyone know if installing a custom, open-source firmware would overwrite this kind of tampering?

entirely depends on what they are doing to the devices.

410,635

I think reading will better engage my mind, keep me sharp, and be enjoyable. I want all three.

I think an interest in what one does helps keep them sharp and its enjoyable. If reading feels like a chore I cant see it as enjoyable? To learn to like something is something my mother always told me but I promise I never liked black eyed peas even after eatting them when she told me I would eventually like them. The only thing eatting black eyed peas did for me was make my dinners miserable and left me with very unfavorable memories of it. :)

410,636

> I know he's Australian but Mel Gibson really nailed the Scottish accent in Braveheart! Said no Scotsman, ever.

Hearing anyone but Scots trying to sounds scottish is almost always painful.

410,637

No one has heard every song from any genre. You don't need to have listened to every single song of a genre to have an opinion on it.

But to insult an entire genre and give such a basic and childish reason behind not liking it suggests that he might not be the most knowledgeable on the genre.

410,638

I doubt it. You are not accessing *their* computer. You are accessing *your* computer.

That's what common sense tells you but there are on-going legal battles over who actually owns the individual pieces of a lot products you "buy". Software, Hardware, vehicles. To name a few.

410,639

You're the second person to mention A Monster Calls I'm guessing it's a must read.

Definitely. It's a very beautiful, albeit very sad book, that I honestly can't recommend enough. And the illustrations by Jim Kay just add to the whole experience of it.

410,640

He also said of Jaws: The Revenge: "I have never seen it, but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built, and it is terrific.”

This one of my favourite quotes from one of my favourite actors.

410,641

I just hate Jennifer Lawrence, she's a terrible actress. I found it so annoying how they completely made mystique the main character in x-men apocalypse. Isn't she supposed to be Magentos right hand man?

It's times like these when the "/s" would really come in handy.

410,642

>Also, braille. I was wondering about this. Is it realistic to expect someone to start learning Braille at 91? I'm not sure how long it takes to pick up or how easy it would be.

I also wonder if touch sensitivity degrades like everything else. A quick google search doesn't tell me much, except that it's not uncommon for seniors to learn braille as their vision goes, and that some conditions and medications can cause tingling in the extremities, what makes braille difficult to read.

410,643

Under The Skin really is amazing though, seriously. She was fantastic in that. Not a ton else, but definitely that.

She slinked around and looked pensive. There were hardly any lines or delivery. Overall, I thought the movie was terrible.

410,644

I don't think it's an act, at least for Zach and Morello. Zach's father was a muralist who was popular in the late 60s and 70s...an era (especially in California) that is generally associated with revolutionary art. Morello went to Harvard, got a degree in social studies. I'm sure they've done well personally, and they may have suffered significant cognitive dissonance seeing a revolutionary message produced for mass media consumption, for which they were paid handsomely. But I'm pretty sure at least Zach and Morello both believe the stuff they write and sing about.

One cannot write bulls on parade and not actually feel the Passion and Anger which is involved. I habe No doubts they are working to pay themselves, yet do good in the meantime.

410,645

This just seems ridiculous. Like, something a 12 year old would think up. "how will you go that fast?" "RAMJETS!" "Ok, but how will you takeoff?" "uhhhh... Jet engines!" "but... They won't be powerful enough." "also a rocket. And... The rocket and the jet engines retract! And it'll fly at 100,000 feet! Yeah, it's gonna be sweet." Obviously it's not a real prototype, just locking down the patent for the general idea. But damn.

I think I actually built a better jet than this when I was 12. It looks so cost impractical. Like something SHIELD would use.

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The part that stood out to me the most was when butter cups baby was stolen from her nd fell from a cliff... That part freaked me out not gonna lie. Or am I not thinking of the right book?

You're thinking of Buttercup's Baby. Only one chapter of that has been edited- the rest is going to be done by Stephen King.

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...the only thing live here is the vocals. It might indeed be a quick remix for the broadcast, but the backing is made entirely from the tracks of the actual Ziggy sessions.

Huh didn't know that, but the thing I like about this version anyway is the way he delivers the lines, it sounds more energetic than the album version.

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Nah, she's way too old to be Opal. Natalie Dormer is pretty decent imo, with her hair cut shorter and dyed black.

Well that could work... didn't think of her looking like that

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To quote you further down this thread, > Sure, but his argument has nothing to do with "pretentious people." I suspect he doesn't really understand what the word means. Let's clear that up, shall we? > pre·ten·tious. > Adjective: > Attempting to impress by affecting greater importance, talent, culture, etc., than is actually possessed. So now that you've learned what it actually means, hopefully my comment makes a bit more sense. If not, ah well, I'm no Brandon Sanderson. (I was going to say I'm no Ernest Hemingway, but I decided to reference an author whose work I actually enjoy and think is worthy of all the praise it gets.)

So you are indeed claiming that anyone who prefers a different kind of book from you must be adopting an affectation? That's wonderfully self-centered. I assumed that what you meant was *snobs*. I'm glad to be corrected. The twist that you have turned out to be a genre-novel snob is just the icing on the cake.

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It doesn't matter. This is another example of jamming which covers a large variety of techniques. Your own link says so. Read it. Old school jamming was raw, high power, directed RF. Then focused modulated signals. Then came digital jamming which includes handshakes, deauth, etc and basically anything that denies access to a wireless service. For you to argue that this one specific technique and instance is not jamming is just silly.

>It doesn't matter. of course it matters. this exact tech is widely used and is legally sold at this very minute by companies like cisco. the FCC doesnt give a shit about that, they give a shit about this specific application of the tech. >For you to argue that this one specific technique and instance is not jamming is just silly. hello irony.

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It's a bunt instead of a grand slam. Still a homerun but nothing to cheer about.

It's impossible to hit a home run off a bunt

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This is a good place to start: I've read most of these, they're mostly "classics" and can give you recs if you tell me a few books you like!

I'm a fan of the Russians in general (except for Tolstoy). Dostoevsky especially, and I thought Bulgakov's *The Master and Margarita* was great. Hemingway, McCarthy, and Fitzgerald are all good, too. And Kafka, I've read all of his short stories and thought they were good. Any recommendations would be great.

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Dammit, I wish the two David Mitchells could hold a conference and figure out different names for themselves, or one of them at least throw a middle name in there. I'm always so confused when I start reading an article by "David Mitchell."

Yeah, I was really curious to hear what comedian David Mitchell had to say about Twilight. Disappointed.

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You can have that opinion if you want to, but maybe don't comment it on a post where everyone else likes the Beatles and is excited about these news.

Nah fuck that. I’m going to do what I want. It pisses y’all off, so that’s what I’m going to do. This site is full of emotional people.

410,655

I thought the ending of The Andromeda Strain was an homage to "War of the Worlds."

Nah Crichton just sucked at endings. Endings and his strange obsession with theme parks. Andromeda Strain - virus just sort of goes away. Eaters of the Dead - Bad guys just kinda go away. Sphere - Everyone agrees that it just never happened. Jurassic Park - They just float away from the island. There's never a big climactic ending where things are resolved. His books always just...end.

410,656

I was just quoting cunteli. Evil is a pretty big word to throw around, I agree.

I'm pretty sure a guy who rapes children and kills people is about as evil as you can get...but hey that's just my opinion.

410,657

It's one thing to be tested. It is entirely another to be silently watched and have your usage tested without your knowledge while doing something irrelevant to the form elements.

You don't have to like the test for the test to still be a test.

410,658

Well Bobbi was immediately a better draw and now she's getting her own show(Hunter is part of it too I guess(Though I like him more than most apprently)).

Totally Agree. Bobbi was great. It's nice to see them getting their own show but AoS is poorer for it.

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Each actor had to essentially play 3 characters in one body. Cage had to play Troy, Archer in Troy's body, and Archer in Troy's body pretending to be Troy. The opposite goes for Travolta. He had to play Archer, Troy in Archer's body, and Troy in Archer's body pretending to be Archer. It's like acting inception.

He's the dude playing the dude disguised as another dude.

410,660

Did you know if Freddie Mercury died without being in Queen he wouldn’t have been the frontman for Queen?

Excuse me while I collect the pieces of my shattered mind

410,661

Someone on npr today was saying that this shouldn’t be called an addiction because it doesn’t cause physiological changes or withdrawal symptoms. I liked it.

NPR is such a reasonable level headed news source, such a nice contrast to all the other shit out there.

410,662

I'm always in the minority, but I wish they'd just give Hawkeye a legit costume. People complain that it would be cheesy, but the entire franchise is cheesy. Besides, I'm sick of so many heroes wearing either blue, red, yellow, or worse, all black leather. Throw some goddamn purple in there and give him a fucking mask. Just get rid of the giant H if you're so worried about it being hokey.

He just needs a wicked pair of sunglasses like Hawkeye in *The Ultimates*. Jeremy Renner without some visual flair just doesn't look right among the others. But a pair of sunglasses? It would make all the difference. Hell, give them high - tech targeting and other enhanced visualization features if there needs to be a reason for them, I don't care.

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You can't like Alaska? Not even that amazing initial guitar riff???

Lemme specify. I love that intro riff, and the beginning of the song in general. Everything goes downhill after the first blast for me. Dont get me wrong, i want to like it, more music to enjoy is always a good thing, but it lacks the magic of the songs i do like.

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I think they're integrating Chocolatey or something into Powershell.

[OneGet] - it'll integrate with Chocolatey at some point.

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i've been at two concerts, one shortly after the "reunion" and one last year. i've been underwhelmed by both performances, but then again i don't expect anybody to play the same songs for twenty years and still be excited about it. as long as i got the albums i'm a happy man though.

That's interesting, when I saw them in 2012 I feel like Billy was pretty enthusiastic. They played XYU and just killed it, although Billy seemed disappointed when he couldn't get the crowd to yell "Kaboom!" at the climax (to be honest I never knew that he said an actual word at that part until after that show, I thought it was just an unintelligible scream). Maybe he was just having a bad night(s) when you saw them. I could see a slightly crazy and moody guy like Billy having a lot of those, which kind of sucks for the fans but what can you do.

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Uhm, structs? Arrays? Pass by references? Even tuples and lists if you have them. What language except Lua has multiple returns? And above all, you would decimate the ability of using native code when adding useless features like this.

>Uhm, structs? Arrays? Pass by references? "Why would I need this *for* thing when Goto does the same?" > What language except Lua has multiple returns? Swift! And Go. And C++ has the pair object which sorta works for 2 values. And Python, Javascript. Ruby, PHP, D and Perl all let you easily return tuples or arrays in one line, some implicitly and some explicitly. Those are all I checked.

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I mostly just remember being disappointed. Kick-Ass was so awesome in a really fresh way. KA2 just screamed "trying too hard".

I wasn't a fan of either of them, and I can't quite place why. I realize that doesn't make me a very good critic, haha. I'd have to rewatch them and try to compose my thoughts.

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As all the weekly breakthrough technologies on batteries, this sounds very promising. What is the caveat NA-ion batteries?

Since Na ions are bigger than Li ions, the energy density will stay slightly lower than that of Li-ion batteries. Other than that it's pretty much the ideal battery for renewable energy storage…

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Gotta keep their readers believing their heroes are still relevant.

More like keep the older generation subscribed to the magazine since young people don't pay for magazines but people over 40 still do.

410,670

I think there's a curse on movies shot in Toronto.

I don't know man a lot of good movies were shot in Toronto such as... A Christmas Story (1983) Police Academy (1984) Cocktail (1988) Billy Madison (1994) Good Will Hunting (1997) American Psycho (2000) X-Men (2000) Chicago (2002) Cosmopolis (2012) Cinderella Man (2005) Hairspray (2007) Tommy Boy (1995) The Fly (1986) Videodrome (1983) Crash (1996) Scott Pilgrim (2010)

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Actually the original title is "Skrik", which can be directly translated to Scream.

You're absolutely right, event though the 'official' translation of the title has the article [in many languages] <see languages bar. >The original German title given to the work by Munch is, Der Schrei der Natur (The Scream of Nature). The Norwegian word skrik usually is translated as scream, but is cognate with the English shriek. Occasionally, the painting also has been called, The Cry. Funny how this reflects on the nature of a language though...

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From what I understand, it's more or less that they developed the OS but they have it working in a simulation enviroment, kind of like using a virtual machine to run Windows. Correct me if I'm wrong.

In this case the virtual machine is fundamentally much less powerful than the real OS: in some cases solving a problem of size N will require 2^N more time in the simulation. So it's not too far from the analogy of running a computer in clockwork (actually a well designed clockwork has a lower discrepancy to a computer than a computer to a quantum computer -- solving for size N will require at most N^k more time, for some constant k).

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How is this different from RFID? Looks like the range is the same.

I had exactly same question. Maybe this is more like NFC, but then there probably is small NFC chips. Or doesn't RFID require specific frequency and large antenna?

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Sure they have. Do kids play 'Cowboys and Indians' anymore ? That stuff was on it's last legs when I was a kid in the 80s. Edit : Well, *do* kids play 'Cowboys and Indians' ?! Are they all gonna tune into 'Gunsmoke' after school and imitate it ? No, they play 'Call of Duty' ( or 'Red Dead' ) instead.

I'd say that has more to do with the emergence of video games rather than the decline of westerns.

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I have *loads* of books in my "virtual" To Be Read pile; many of them on my Kindle and a great deal of them in hard copy on my bookshelves. However, I do actually also have a real pile of books by my bedside, including: * HHhH - Laurent Binet. * Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell. * Bring Up the Bodies - Hilary Mantel. * Tigana - Guy Kavriel Kay (*started but never finished*) * In the Court of the Red Tsar - Simon Sebag Montefiore. * Rainbows End - Vernor Vinge. * The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 - Anthony Beevor. A bit of an eclectic mix really, now that I look at them and write down their titles.

Hey, fellow *Tigana* reader! I feel that this should warrant some kind of high-fiving. What do you think of it?

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cloverfield is 100% an alien, its the entire plot point of the movie, and it was shown in the post credits, here ill find a link for it real quick, watch the middle right of the screen at 25 seconds on, this movie was gold because of the secrecy and mystery of shit like this.

As Ive stated before, its been officially confirmed by the director that that what fell into the ocean in that scene was a satellite, which woke the monster up when it collided with it while the monster was sleeping at the bottom of the ocean.

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I would do this really quickly. I would much rather pay $150 a month and not worry about gas and insurance and other car maintenance. It would save a few hundred a month on average, maybe even more. There are a few of these car sharing services in the states but only in very select locations. It would take a miracle for it to spread to every large city in America.

Wait till you get in an accident or the car breaks down.

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Visual: Nostalghia. Drama: Failsafe. Surreal: The Bed Sitting Room.

Thank you. I have now added #1 + #3 because I've seen #2 and it's good. That would make it good shit I suppose.

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I guarantee it will be cheaper to let a tree grow and then bury it rather than burning it, at least in terms of cost per amount of CO2 trapped. Either way it's slapping a bandaid on a gaping wound.

But if this concrete can replace normal concrete without being much more expensive, why not use this instead? It isn't about replacing all the trees with this new concrete, it's about making concrete more useful.

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That's what I can't figure out. Shareholders own the shares. If they don't want to sell their shares, don't sell them.

Kinda doesn't work like that. This was a large scale buy out from board members, not just share holders. So decisions are democratic. And because of the size of the company, it's all federally regulated. Fair business and all. So this decision could mean that the judge forces the buyers to payout the share difference of those who opposed the lower value that was finally voted in.

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Are there any tools out there to determine what the algorithm is that creates a 5 digit number from a 8 digit number if you have a list of numbers. ie. 70008470 makes 54108. or 60008763 makes 26626

Can you give us any reference as to what you're talking about? I know there's shorthand for HTML colors and whatnot but I have no idea where this is coming from.

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I believe McKellen broke down because he was doing something like acting in front of a green screen to a tennis ball stick.

What a sad, sad place to realize that all your life's visions and aspirations have come to this, talking to a fucking tennis ball in a strange green room with a bunch of goofs.

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Does Matthew DiVito know you're using [an image of his] for a cover? As for the music, I'm really digging it, interested to see how it evolves.

Oo no, thank you. I will contact him or change it. I came across that image on here awhile ago and i love it. My intention is definitely not to profit from that image but i'd love to pay him for it or something like that.

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Ok, Joel Kinnaman is a swedish-american. Probably a great actor, but are there no Japanese or even Asian actors who can be cast as a part-Japanese character or is America not ready to get behind a Japanese protagonist because we are all whitewashed racists?

The character never appears in his original body in any of the books. A consequence of being able to swap bodies is that no intelligence/special operations officer is going to remain in their original/birth body more than a few days into their career.

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At this point it's becoming plebeian to like Death Grips. Autism level music made by an actual autist.

It's not plebian to dislike Death Grips but I think people who find it baffling that there's people that like Death Grips probably don't listen to a wide variety of music and aren't that open minded. These are likely the same people that find Death Grips super abrasive and weird, when it's really not in the grand scheme of things especially compared to some of the really out-there stuff out there, like Merzbow and Whitehouse if you wanna go pretty extreme. Nothing wrong with that though and the word "plebian" in it of itself is pretty plebian

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When did Tarantino call to tell you what he was trying to do?

Right between the weekly call to his cocaine wizard and the booty call to Uma.

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You mean the competition between the one (maybe even two in your town!) cable provider which is already in bed with the government? How about the telco companies that provider shitty DSL that are already in bed with your government? Surely none of these people ever sell or willingly give your information away! I just see it as added competition. Government run Internet would be the basic package. The existing duopolies would have to figure out how to compete.

What you just said is not competition. We need real competition. It's impossible for new companies to enter the market. Google said their fiber is so difficult to set up because it's ridiculously difficult to get past all the regulations.

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You can download the source, build it and start using it right now.

Yeah, I could. I just want it plugged into my Photoshop so I can 'save for web' and automagically just get it. Or in my screen capture.

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I have only read *American Gods* and *Neverwhere* by Gaiman prior to *Ocean*. I can tell from reading those books that his stories seem to be somewhat similar. You said you're a big Gaiman fan, so perhaps having read his previous work, *Ocean* just doesn't feel that fresh to you anymore? It is certainly something I am concerned about as I prepare to get into Gaiman's other works.

I considered that as a possibility. But I had the same foreknowledge of Gaiman's work when I read *The Graveyard Book,* and still loved it. It makes me sad that I couldn't fall in love with *Ocean* like the rest of the reading world. I feel...impotent.

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And the point of said infrastructure is the sale of physical goods. Which makes them very different than Google.

No, the point of said infrastructure is content hosting and commerce. Amazon is definitely a tech company at its core.

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The Vision, he's essentially an android embodiment of Jarvis, Stark's AI.

Actually, the first Vision was created by Ultron as a sort of lieutenant. The problem is that Ultron based his intelligence off of the deceased Avenger Wonder-Man, and the Avengers were able to convince Vision to betray Ultron. The second Vision was created after the destruction of the first, and was an amalgamation of remaining pieces and consciousness of Vision and the armor of Iron Lad. Pym (who creates Ultron in the comics, and who for all intents and purposes is Stark in this film), has no hand in the creation of The Vision. More likely, Ultron will create The Vision using Stark's JARVIS system as a skeletal framework, and then the comic story will fold into the film from there.

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Probably Kid A. But I have a list, I can't narrow it to one: Sea Change by Beck. Helplessness Blues by Fleet Foxes. Figure 8 by Elliott Smith. Haha Sound by Broadcast. Microcastle by Deerhunter. Pink by Boris

Kid A and Figure 8 are from the 20th century.

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Apparently being anti consumerist makes you a racist. Same thing is happening to Lorde

HHH can be renamed to /r/whiteguilt. I love rap but holy shit its fanbase online is obnoxious. It's just a bunch of young white people who wish they were black and were fighting the evil government, because like, racism, man.

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They are the production of some company cashing in on the ownership of music like nearly every other band you hear today. If they haven't sold out, you haven't heard of them.

I hope that's not true :( [shameless link to my own band]

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Yeah this thread is all "You don't get it noob" vs "Fuck this trash" Dude it's art. You're not rooting for a sports team here. Like it? Great. Don't? That's cool too.

Honestly, this says something positive about the song for me. The worst type of music is that to which everyone can give a resounding "meh".

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This is interesting. Can you elaborate some? From a layman's understanding it seems like a discrete system would be easier to model and simulate.

For us to observe future tech in a simulation that we've created, the simulation would have to progress at faster than real time. That's not going to happen.

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Almost everyone has left their phone in the fridge, but have you ever left the milk in the cupboard?

too many times to count, you read me like a book

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I said the same in the Star Wars subreddit when the movie first released and got banned for it. Glad to see I'm not the only one that noticed.

A friendly advice: Dont say anything negative about the new movie on /r/starwars. That sub have turned into a religious circlejerk where everyone that's questions the fait in Disney is downvoted or banned. The new movie is treated like the second coming of Christ and everyone that criticise it are a heretic. Everyone with an objective mind are banned from that sub.

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Use is the only thing. We only care about Google’s ownership to the extent we have a relationship with Google. With a third party, we don’t by definition.

Like I said, that's a different thing altogether. I was merely responding to your comment on there being no evidence that Google's keeping data to themselves