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300 | Which tasks are these? Quantum computers are useful for *very* specific things like integer factorization and solving Pell's equation. They're not so good for things like "model climate change" which this might be used for. | I'm guessing he doesn't understand how quantum computing works and just goes off from some article he once read on IFLS. |
301 | This! I remember going from hating Jaime because of his actions in the first book (don't want to spoil it in case people still haven't read/seen it), to not really thinking much of him when you don't see him for a while and then to loving him when he got his own chapters. Sansa's chapters are also why I will defend her to the bitter end against anyone who suggests she's a rubbish character. | I like Sansa but I recall that in ACOK her chapters tended to be very similar: "I hate Joff, but I'll tell the Queen Regent I love him even though she knows I don't." "Ser Dontos is so kind but he stinks and keeps trying to kiss me." "The Hound is so mean to me and also he is scary." Not to sound bitter, but this is most of what I remember. Though I still enjoyed them as they were usually sandwiched between Jon and Arya chapters (cold) so it was a nice change of scene. |
302 | Aw man. I haven't read that story in a few years, but I still think about it time to time. What an emotional ending for such a "throw away" character. | Tell me about it. No story has ever made me care about characters like that before. |
303 | SOCA = Serious Organized Crime Agency. Did a 13-year-old come up with that one? Sheesh. Reminds me of the "Legitimate Businessman's Club" | I didn't see any "Anti-" Organized Crime in the name either. From their name, they seem quite *pro* Serious Organized Crime. |
304 | What happened to them? Their last album was toted as the next big thing, and then everyone forgot about them. | That's because they're last album was absolutely terrible. Thankfully Karen O released Crush Songs last year and made up for it a little. |
305 | That just names a few. There are tons of other actors in that movie who you see and say, "Hey, it's that guy!" | absolutely, I was channel flicking the other day and came across something with Conchata Ferrell in it and immediately recognised her voice from the "DICK RITCHIE!!!" audition scene |
306 | I love tarantino just as much as the next guy, but how is kill Bill unique? It's literally the same basic revenge story, there have been countless stories with that premise, the first one was the outlaw Josie wales | I thought Kill Bill had a certain style. Like the scene where they used comic strips was really well done, the music if I remember correctly was very good, and a lot of the cinematography was great also. Yes it is a basic revenge story but I think Tarantino really made Kill Bill into something a bit more. |
307 | Fuck I hate Danny Brown in this song. I don't know if it's going after eXquire but he just ruins it. I still love him though. | As much as I love Danny, I gotta agree. The change-up kind of ruins the energy of the song. He still has some awesome moments during his features though, I particularly love his verses on [Das Racist - Power] and [Himanshu - You Have to Ride the Wave] |
308 | I worked at a large Bluegrass festival recently where a small band decided to do a Bluegrass cover of Crazy Train. It did not go over well. | I'm guessing it wasn't Iron Horse. They do a cover of Crazy Train too, but it's actually awesome |
309 | can no longer hear this song without thinking of [this] | Good ol' Regular Show: teaching children the wonders of hallucinageons and classic rock with style. |
310 | I love telling people that I'm going to make them cry, and they don't believe me. I tell them no, you will cry. Pop in my DVD of Grave of the Fireflies (which i bought by accident thinking it was a different movie) BAM; they hate me forever for showing them that depressing fucking movie and wont be my friend anymore[.] | Somehow the Japanese make the best depressing movies. I mean, there's some Scandinavian cancer family drama shit that can drown your soul in darkness, but the Japanese find a way of doing it with so much dignity and a sense of... hope? Grandeur? I like how they do it. |
311 | What good is a fast processor if it has to run everything in emulation negating any performance benefits. Any applications that would warrant having a PC instead of a tablet are going to be x86 so on an ARM laptop they would have to be run through an emulator, which would run like shit. | And all PC applications are made for windows so don’t even work on mac anyway, right? /s. Obviously applications designed to run on a future-mac would be compiled to run on a future-mac. I don’t need an emulator to run any of my mac apps on an intel mac because they’re not compiled for powerpc anymore. |
312 | In Rainbows had critical acclaim and is regarded generally as a return to form after the actually inaccessible King of Limbs. But the last one, A Moon Shaped Pool, was instantly regarded as the masterpiece it is. Obviously it's subjective and won't apply to everyone. But in terms of how it was received, a vast majority of fans and critics loved it. | Why haven't I heard any of the music if it was so good? |
313 | Considering apartment communities are very high density, I was wondering if it was possible to deploy broadband solutions more easily in that setting (outside of regulatory control). I do not have a background in this technology, so I apologize if this is a ridiculous question. | The main issue in large apartment complexes is the in-building wiring. Let's say Google Fiber or Verizon FiOS, etc want to bring a fiber optic connection to the apartments. How do they get the wired connection from the basement of the building (or wherever the connection comes in) up to each apartment unit? It is super expensive (and ugly) to retrofit buildings with new wiring. |
314 | Any burger's going to lose a lot of its value after a few years. They start depreciating the moment they're off the grill. | Yeah, I mean, I think it's pretty impressive that anyone is willing to pay $12 for an old burger no matter it's provenance. |
315 | I'm forever pimping Calvary here to anyone who will listen, it really is pretty fantastic and quickly became one of my favourites. Bloody Sunday is an interesting one to have in your top 10, Derry man? | Nah. My admiration grew for Bloody Sunday after I went to Derry a couple years ago. I was always familiar with Bloody Sunday, but being there made me really appreciate what Paul Greengrass did. Such a well-made film. |
316 | I loved The first 3 books by Roy Dotrice*. The 4th is so bad I stoped listening. He changed his accent on many of the main characters and that killed it for me. Arya sounds like an old woman and he changed the name of Petyr to Peter. | Sorry, was on my phone and couldn't remember how to spell his name. He did change how he said people's names, which irks me. I haven't paid much attention to his voices, because he is still really good at the readings, and it might have been a long time between recordings. |
317 | Have you read any Vonnegut? His tone is very jokey, laughing at the beauty and folly of mankind. This quote is funny in the context of the book. But as for profundity: the first half is saying every animal has its essential nature. Hunting, flying, pondering shit. The second half is the comedown from that action if you will. After hunt, tiger has to sleep. After flight, bird lands. After pondering, man has to 'tell himself he understand.' Not 'understand,' but rather 'tell himself he understand.' He's saying mans essential nature is to sit and ponder everything (religion in this context) yet he does not have the capacity to understand it. | I have. I read cats cradle and that other one, though I didn't finish the other one I was bored by it to be honest. |
318 | here is a mystery for you to solve: what was the original title and what other titles has it been published under? go! | I just looked it up and I'm cracking up in disbelief. That original name is so bad! I encourage anyone who doesn't know to look it up, cuz as a geeky white dude I ain't going there 😂 |
319 | Elimination of government in a post-scarcity society, run by AI, where people's' whims (within reason) are catered to completely either in reality, or in simulation. This should eliminate the negatives associated with human control. | I think you underestimate how much "control" is desired by humans. If your passion is running other people's lives, there will still be something needed to keep the obsessive micromanagers in check. Wikipedia is a good current example of this, where people would far rather have control over a page than have the page be accurate or allow others to have a voice. |
320 | There are so many more female-led psych thrillers now, and Gone Girl was good but not the best. Actually Gillian Flynn's other book, Sharp Objects was REALLY good. Our Little Secret, by Roz Nay is a fantastic book in that genre. | Have read Dark Places by Flynn and I loved it. Have been meaning to read Sharp Objects due to the praise I am consistently hearing about it. I shall add Our Little Secret to my 'to read' pile. So many books, so little time. What are you currently reading? |
321 | Maybe, but by 1937's Of Mice and Men you have Curley keeping his hand in a glove filled with Vaseline for digital stimulation. I'm starting to look at gloves differently. | Let's not forget grapes of wrath ending with a woman getting her nipple sucked. |
322 | Josh Freeze's drumming: * [Katy Perry - "Hummingbird Heartbeat"] <Pop> * [The Vandals - "43210-1"] <Punk> * [Devo - "Fresh"] <Electronic/New Wave> | Love Josh Freese. Didn't know he did the drums for Teenage Dream til now |
323 | > People don’t pirate music anymore. There's being out of touch with reality, and then there's this. | He generalized/exaggerated, but the point is right. For the average Joe, Spotify is simply more convenient than pirating music. 15 years ago it was arguably easier - you'd just fire up a p2p program, search for a song and download. Nowadays those programs are much less common, and downloading single songs via torrent is a pain in the ass. In Spotify you subscribe, and then have the most convenient experience possible. To say that people don't pirate music anymore is untrue/naive, but I'd hazard a guess that music piracy has dropped by more than 50% since 15 years ago (when adjusted for the increase in internet users). It's definitely nowhere near as common as movie/tv shows pirating these days. |
324 | this subreddit loves the circle jerk for paper books instead of e-books. I'll eat your down votes for saying this, but there's nothing like finishing a good book at 11:59pm and then having the next one ready to go by 12:01 after tapping two buttons. | I can finish my paper book at 11:59 pm and grab the next one off my bed-side table and be ready to go at 12:00 am. |
325 | Well, to be fair, [Spoiler](/s "the whole sci-fi setting is kind of hinted at being a delusion") | What do you mean, "kind of?" He doesn't come right out and say it, no, but it's about as blunt and obtuse a suggestion as there can possibly be. |
326 | Possibly wait until the day of a new cell phone release so that your odds are pretty high for a good turnover. | If Amazon keeps track of the IMEI/IMET/whatever, it could be red-listed on cellular networks. Put in your sim card, the police come knocking on your door a few minutes later. Simple. |
327 | > Rowling is incredible at writing plot and building worlds. There was nothing lucky about her success. There is always a small element of luck in anyone's success, even if it doesn't seem that way. In her nascent days, what if she submitted her work, and then all the publishers rejected her, and then it went away, tucked into a drawer for ever? If you know her story there was a very close chance that was going to happen. | But that's true of all unknown writers, so it's held constant and there's no point in mentioning it. Of course there's an element of luck. More accurately I should have said there was no luck in people falling in love with her works once they read them, because she's so good at building worlds and writing plot. |
328 | I love Dylan but are they putting his name in there as a joke? | He beat Nat King Cole. But so did a lot of non-descript vocalists on this list. |
329 | Does this seem like a bad idea to anyone else? At this point in the game, I think that the money would be better used to license whatever self driving technology they can find. | As the article says, they're already licensing what they can find. But relying on that forever is a terrible idea, what if Uber or Tesla are the first to develop a fully functional autonomous system? They aren't going to license it to Lyft. And if some independent third party gets there first, Uber has preposterous amounts of money to bid for exclusive rights. In the long run, Lyft can't afford not to do this. |
330 | Which patent? Jesus, the article doesn't even attempt to convey what the issue is. | Related to instruction pipelining in low power environments (power management on a per-pipeline-stage basis or something) IIRC. |
331 | Yes but that film was 20 years ago. | Right, but she wasn't nearly as old as her character. |
332 | I already responded to your comment you made a half hour ago about the same topic. You see a lot of authors outside of libraries picketing? How is it different? | Because you can distribute an infinite number of copies of digital media. You can not with a paper book. One person gives a copy away, then another copy away, then another. Before it is done there is half a dozen copies floating around. All of which hose the author. If it were performed like a paper book where it just floats from person to person that would be one thing, but it isn't. What happens is the book is given to 5 people and those 5 give it to 2 or 3 people and so on. Why is it different? Because generally the populace isn't very ethical. |
333 | Except we know Arthur almost gets the question when pulling scrabble tiles out of the rabbit skin bag.... | Or do we? After all, how many roads must a man walk down? |
334 | Personally I think it is this....the "tech" of e-readers and all that was " cool" in the start because it was new and fresh and all that good jazz...BUT your true readers those that really LOVE to read like book upon book upon book love that tangible feel and look of real words on paper. I am not even really a "reader" so to say but personally it takes me a year to finish a single book if I do it that quickly but I could never do it on an E-reader...you lose a connection. | Speak for yourself, bub. I've been reading paper ever since my Kindle broke and it's crazy how inconvenient a hard copy can be. |
335 | That's not how it works! The U.S. creature has to beat the Japanese creature...in the U.S. version anyway. | King Kong is from an Indonesian island, while Godzilla was born from the greatest of all U.S. weapons! Who's the real American here? |
336 | Before QC we can start stacking transistors in 3d which will keep Moore's law alive for another few years | No, because Moore's law is specifically about doubling the number of transistors per unit of material. In 3D chips the amount of material also increases per layer. Moore's law is about 2D wafers. It's about how the cost of computing goes down over time. 3D doesn't offer a cost-efficiency, only an increased density by stacking chips together. |
337 | There was a discussion on TV few weeks ago about this sort of stuff. Alot of people were offloading their b.s. about robots taking their jobs and what not, and a fine lady gave some statistics which pointed out that, Yes, indeed some people lost their jobs over robotics and automatisation, but around double that amount of people GOT jobs into developing them. dunno if it makes alot of sense for you guys, but ... | Just because the economy did grow. If the production doesn't grow, robots would really cuts jobs. |
338 | To me, it's less the quality/attention ratio, but the substance/attention ratio. *The Dark Knight* is probably the superhero film most deserving of some kind of in-depth analysis, but it came out five years ago. Just because there's a lot to say about it doesn't mean it hasn't all been said already. | It's arguable that TDK is more of a crime thriller than Superhero movie. |
339 | What makes you think the free market fairy was going to wave its magic wand and fix these problems? Title II is the only way to keep ISPs honest. | He doesn't realize that we have no free market in usa |
340 | More in depth discussion of music is always a good thing. You have my support. | I'd love to host a project like this at [r/PirateRadio] either way, you have my support as well OP |
341 | 1990 was also the year that 2 Live Crew released "Face Down, Ass Up". I'm a big NWA fan, but I wouldn't call them a "positive influence" either. [Native Tongues] mainly Tribe, De La Soul, and the Jungle Brothers, made a conscious effort to be positive in their music. 1988-1992 was an excellent time for hip hop, but there were many different artists with different outlooks. | Gang Starr, Pete Rock & CL Smooth, Public Enemy, Eric B. & Rakim, and by '93 Digable Planets were all generally positive influences. Oh, and BDP, can't forget KRS-ONE. That era will never be matched. |
342 | I don't get the logic of pretending to have seen a movie. Either you have or you haven't. For the sake of discussion, I had to do an essay on a modern remake of Macbeth, but the first 35 minutes were really dull. So I just looked up the adapted differences and wrote it. | Sometimes it's easier to just go with it so people don't have to completely deviate from their story/point/observation to explain the movie or scene in a nutshell to you. It's not worth it for either person. |
343 | Isn't the kernel at least GPL? I know parts of the kernel are Linux. So that should at least be GPL. | Yes, the kernel is still Linux. But look at an average Linux desktop, and at an Android phone and you will see how little kernel means in the grand scheme of things. I used to think that Stallman's insistence to call it GNU/Linux was some silly attention whoring, and it took Android to prove me that he was right all along. They are different operating systems, which happen to share the kernel. EDIT: on the other hand there exists [Debian GNU/kFreeBSD] that's closer than Android to what I used to think Linux was, even though it doesn't use Linux. |
344 | For a guy surrounded with beautiful and fit women he doesn't seem too happy, maybe it's because of all those Oscars he never got and his mind tends to wander to that sad idea... | It's because he's homosexual and he wants to be back home with his boyfriend Lukas Haas instead of doing yet another cheap publicity stunt with some hired models |
345 | just going to save you from downvotes and clarify that she's good for what she does, and that is make catchy pop songs. | /implying that Lady Gaga doesn't go beyond catchy pop songs |
346 | Who would have thought that a website full of people who remember the 80s and like sci fi and Netflix would love a Netflix sci fi show set in the 80s? | Exactly. Call me when Taylor Swift's new album starts getting massive up-votes and positive comments on /r/music. That's when the conspiracy-meter needs to start rising. |
347 | > "oh the other billionaires don't like me because I'm a black rapper and shit." [Oh he must mean like how Warren Buffet and Steve Forbes hate him?] | This is actually really fascinating. Brb, learning how to be a billionaire. |
348 | You're right. Instead we should all just put ourselves in a bubble and deny the existence of intellectual opposition. | I like that you think you can put Heritage and "intellectual" in the same sentence. There used to *be* conservative intellectuals, they all got pushed out by the Tea Party types. Having one ideological driven answer to every question before it's even asked is not "intellectual." |
349 | That's a tough one. Assuming you're referring to "Here," it does have those things, but in the context of the message of the song, which is very opposed to those things | I agree. It's a teenage girl speaking to those things, speaking against them but not ignoring that they're part of society and other people's lives. |
350 | Movies can be about characters and not be a slog to go through. Heck, there are movies without action that are set in one room, like Exam or 12 angry men or whatever and they have much better pacing than Watchmen. | Phonebooth and Oscar are also both set in a very limited setting, but both are extremely entertaining. |
351 | Haha I'm still on the grind. It's getting better. I have intermittently picked up other shorter books. I have a need to finish books and get to new stories, so war and peace really inhibits that. | I can't stand a lack of punctuation. Especially quotation marks. I have tried Faulkner and McCarthy, but I'm too annoyed to enjoyed them. |
352 | Most people think I'm a metal head, but I consider most metal to be a bit shit. Some good bands with different styles: * Gojira. * Meshuggah. * Tool. | Yeah there doesn't seem to be much out there that inspires me either. It's rare to find anything that I can listen to over and over. |
353 | A Song of Fire and Ice. I am a firm believer that the book is ALWAYS better but in this case I don't agree. I found the books series started off promising but killed off everyone that I found remotely interesting. The remaining characters seemed dull and uncompelling as well as a bit flat. I had heard so many good things about the series and was quite disappointed. | You should try A Song of Ice and Fire though. It's much better. |
354 | Why not? Pynchon is fairly accessible. Unless, of course, you're the type who derives some kind of pleasure from inflating, in recollection, the challenges that were the bucklers to your "conquests". | If you want to believe that, go right on ahead. But it isn't true and the large majority of people would agree that Pynchon is probably in the top 20% of challenging reads. And that's a very generous estimate---if I was talking to someone who I thought would listen, I would say 10% or even 5%. And building a straw man about my intentions doesn't make your opinion any stronger. |
355 | Technically yes, but because Fox owns the rights to the majority of the mutants, and Sony owns the rights to Spiderman, we will never see Spidey and Wolverine/ProfX/Magneto tag up with Iron Man/Hulk/Cap. Plus, because Ultron's hell-bent on "destroying all humans", I'm pretty sure Magneto would have no issues. | I don't think ultron sees humans and mutants as different |
356 | Whens the last time you watched the first films??? Because I simply don't/can't believe you. I easily believe this reboot isn't good, but I find it impossible to believe that it's actually *worse* than what came out in 2005...especially if one of the biggest criticisms about the reboot is the treatment/portrayal of Doom... | The 2005 movie has basic things like actual action sequences that make spatial sense and a proper plot structure. This is like a withered husk by comparison. |
357 | > They politely told me to fuck off. I guess the issue is how are they to know that it's not just a bunch of dudes passing around the same physical copy to get free digital copies? Do the individual books have individual print numbers or unique identifiers? | I wrote in the email that I was willing to write my name on the first page, with an ink pen, so that the book was identifiably mine only, and that I was even willing to mail my book to them, with pre-paid postage for them to send it back to me. I **really** wanted a pdf copy of the books I owned, and due to their answer I ended up purchasing a scanner. |
358 | If you ever want to sell prints of these, let me know! | I have some prints on my deviant art page which can be found [here] Unfortunately Deviant art does the entire printing process so I can't guarantee quality, I'm sure they do a decent job though. |
359 | You know what, I've had [Flashback by Imagination] as my alarm for about a year now. Never looked back. | I could see this being very chill to wake up to |
360 | I honestly really enjoyed this movie. Is it the best movie I've ever seen? No. But it is funny! The trailers didn't show any of that and it made it a very light-hearted, sexy, fun time. It also looks absolutely stunning. From the first shot, you can see that. Worth the price of admission. Really good movie for February, and Will Smith is back to doing good Will Smith things. Plus Margot Robbie is a goddess. 7/10. | Hm, getting downvoted for an honest review. Sounds like Reddit. |
361 | Wow I don't know there were others. I love dystopian fiction and thought Anthem was passably decent, in the way that someone who loves a certain genre can see past the glaring flaws of a work in that genre. Everything else she is done is atrocious. | I'll jump on the Anthem train. I haven't read any other work of hers (because I don't like her and her writing style is boring) but Anthem was an alright book. |
362 | I lived in Ennis, a little South of Waxahachie and remember how sad it was when they shut it down. Being young and into science I remember crying because I didn't understand why they wouldn't want to finish it. | That was a sad day for everyone, and the saddest part is that most people don't even know about it. |
363 | Wasn't in the credits? Also Google search the espisode/season for a wiki sometimes fans post these things. | I'll check the credits for the song. Thank you for the reply |
364 | Oh shit, I didn't realize you were the guy writing these. Thanks for doing them. I checked out the Lifeforce one and it was great. Going to go back and check out the others. HDTGM is one of my favorite podcasts and this is fun bonus material. | Awesome! I put them all together in one place if that's easier: blakejharris.com/hdtgm/ |
365 | This is what I was wondering, Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, while a very entertaining read in itself doesn't feel to be top 1. However as it is a popularity list, I think it is normal to expect that more people have read it than say Vonnegut I suppose. | It's not like Vonnegut is an unknown on here, he's one of the most popular authors on Reddit. He makes the list thrice. |
366 | So in all fairness, they should record just *one* representative song. In the case of GYBE, this will cut the recording time down from two hours to one hour. | I never film for more than 30 seconds, and that's only if I'm toward the back, or above the stage where I won't bother people. |
367 | So Comcast has enough bandwidth to deliver a separate wifi connection through everyone's modem, but they don't have enough to deliver Netflix? | Sort of like how they have enough for me to get HBO Go on my Xbox, iPhone, and iPad, but not enough to let me use HBO go on my Roku. (For those who don't know, the HBO Go app for Roku is "not supported" by Comcast in many markets, so you can't authenticate.) |
368 | A Snow Crash movie would be so much fun. They'd have to cut out lots of scenes with Hiro talking to the Librarian and condense those infodumps down, but almost everything else would be fantastic on a screen. We'd probably lose the bit with YT's mom at work, too. I'm probably the only person on the planet who would miss it, though. | Umm, there are some other YT scenes that would probably be cut first...or they make the YT character a few years older |
369 | doesn't matter what he says, his lifestyle indicates he doesn't care about "issues", and he just writes that shit to sound "cool" DAE think Kanye really is Yezzus even though it's soundrape?? | You could easily have said the same thing about Bob Dylan. |
370 | Holy crap, an entire thread where two completely opposite opinions are both respectful and do not downvote out of differing opinions! That's new. | Sure, the thing is, baxgma's "criticism" is just destructive. We don't need this, yara, yara, yara. What does baxgma offer? There are creators and critics... It's quite easy to be the latter. |
371 | Stealing while not technically correct gets the idea across with stuff like this. While if you use a picture without permission or pirate a film it isn't technically stealing it's an okay description to convey that you're taking a copy of something that you shouldn't. Of course some people love to be overly pedantic or make what they're doing seem less bad than it is. | It's not worth it to explain this stuff. Most redditors can't or won't allow themselves to see the negative moral impact of piracy. |
372 | You don't need a second 'set'. You can just access Reddit without an account and check if the user-page returns a 404 or their comments are viewable. Even a fairly simple non-malicious bot I saw on GitHub a while back had functionality to track if it'd been shadowbanned site-wide or on individual subreddits. | Right, but when dealing with bots and the like do you want to indivudally check the massive number of posts, all the time, multiple times a day to see if said accounts and posts are still visible? Thats where the hopeful headache to those accounts comes from. |
373 | No that's not what I said at all. Drake is a better artist than Kendrick because he makes better hip hop music, it's as simple as that. | Better lyrics - Kendrick. Better flows - Kendrick. Sound and production - Kendrick. Cohesion - Kendrick. Thematic power - Kendrick. Critical acclaim - Kendrick |
374 | Any smoke alarm that's connected to the electrical system still has a 9V battery as a backup. Otherwise what would your smoke alarm do when you lose power because of the fire that started in your electrical box? | Assumptions are great, it's reality that brings it all down. |
375 | I hate the feel of it. The keys feel spongy and unresponsive and they're barely raised above the base of the laptop making it hard for me to find the right keys. Not to mention, the keys themselves are bigger than I'm used to causing me to mistype all the time. It's just awful. | Yeah, it took me a bit of time to get used to it and I am still not a fan, but I swear mine is not quite as clicky as it was originally. I wonder how much money this design saved them on production costs. Lucky for me mine is a secondary computer for work and not even my primary at that. I think I will recommend we scrap the MBP for a System 76 or possibly high end Razers or something along the lines. |
376 | Yea, just 3 weeks ago. Bitcoin is now at a little over 4 grand a coin vs the $2700 it was at and Bitcoin Cash is now at about $700. So, if you held Bitcoin at the time of the split you just ended up with a lot more assets. If you hold the BCH for a bit, who knows, maybe it goes up to $1000 or more a coin. | It strikes me as odd that you can fork the coin, create copies with their own value, while the original network coins also retain their value. This happened to Ethereum also. Sounds a lot like printing money if you ask me. Isn't this the creating a bubble? And what is going to stop others from doing this again in a few years, effectively doubling the available money again? |
377 | It's not the most elegant looking implementation, but I'm glad to have it back. | Looks like the Visual Studio guys are winning the UI war at MS. |
378 | I'm missing something here. How can you connect to an offline server? A server that is offline cannot be connected to, that is the definition of offline. | Offline servers refer to servers that don't authenticate usernames through Mojang. |
379 | What is the connection between gays and musicals? It's a thing and I'm curious as to why. | Singing, dancing, pageantry, etc etc. Edit: not that gay guys are predisposed to like these things, but that these things have been accepted and have become a part of gay culture. |
380 | I did some of the PR and media work for that campaign. Should probably do an AMA or something sometime. Meh. Probably too late now. | is it true simon cowell still profited from it being #1 somehow? |
381 | I like how Ursula and the Queen of Hearts also had to become thin to become pretty. Remember little girls, being overweight makes you ugly. | LOLOL THIN PRIVILEGE IS NOT HAVING YOUR BODY TYPE CHANGED IN CHARACTER ARTWORK. Did I do it right? |
382 | Very nice. This may be slightly more relaxed than I'm looking for, but I will definitely be adding this to my collection. Thanks for the direction. | It's been a recent obsession of mine. So although it's not too close to Silversun Pickups, I wanted to pass it along to someone looking for downtempo music. Perfect music for sexy times too. |
383 | Something tells me this Trump nonsense has the ability to raise the good Dr from his slumber so he can rectify the situation. When you read HST's obit of Nixon, it's just unfair he is not here to rip apart Trump with same decent vitriol. I believe he will rise and save us. | If he was here, he would probably shoot himself seeing Trump and his supporters. Same result. |
384 | I know, I'm a hypocritical asshole who's okay with hating The Beatles but goes on wondering why someone doesn't like Radiohead. So... why don't you like Radiohead? Not that I should care what you like. I only ask because you say "hate". I don't *hate* The Beatles. Sorry for being a typical annoyingly curious and confrotational Radiohead fan. | I don't hate them (the only rock bands who's music I actually hate are grunge and post-grunge bands) but they just bore me. They simply don't make music that I find interesting. Their sound doesn't give me anything. |
385 | Yeah we all decided we're okay with him on behalf of the people he's racist towards. | It's funny because it's the people that he was racist towards to begin with that run Hollywood. All I can say about this whole ordeal is: the Jews at the top of Hollywood are forgiving. And that is a good thing, I guess. |
386 | Isn't "I Am Moana" really just a short medley of reprises? It starts with "where you are" and turns into "How Far I'll Go". I find it hard to choose a best song when some songs are based on other songs. I think "How Far I'll Go" is one of the best songs that Disney has come out with but I don't think it's "complete" until she finishes the most important part of her character arc in "I Am Moana". I don't know if I'd say "I Am Moana" is better than the first "How Far I'll Go" track since it depends on being set up by two other songs. | "I Am Moana" may be a short medley of reprises, but that doesn't undermine how emotionally resonant the song is on its own. The lyrics, tone and musicality all make it unique, and the choir accompanying Auli'i Cravalho adds such beautiful depth to the piece. It's easily my favorite song on the album, though I've listened to "Shiny" the most. |
387 | I hate this show so much, not funny in the least. This movie is destined to flop. | The show is funny because it's only short skits. This movie looks like it'll be cliche after painful predictable cliche. I half expected to see a rubber chicken or hand buzzer joke. |
388 | made of magnesium, so yes. > The new metal (more accurately called a metal nanocomposite) is about 14 percent silicon carbide nanoparticles and 86 percent magnesium. The researchers noted that magnesium is an abundant resource and that scaling up its use would not cause environmental damage. | We already use magnesium as a minor addition in several steel and aluminum alloys *right now*. End result: Fancy bike frames are all right at being welding torches, but don't spontaneously combust otherwise. Magnesium doesn't burn super fast like lithium does. It's generally used as an igniter for other materials with high ignition temperatures (like thermite), or as a flash lamp material. So, yes, it's flammable, *but* it's not as catastrophically flammable as some metals. |
389 | The only cast members I even want to see is Arnold, Jason Clarke, and Matt Smith. | I feel like Jason Clarke as Future Connor was cast too old while Dragonkid reads as waaay too young. |
390 | Book-burning is a *serious* problem? In the 21st century? Book burning was used historically to restrict access to information. How does burning books have any effect on their distribution in 2015? | You have no idea how often books are burned worldwide. Right now, ISIS is actively burning _entire libraries_ in the Levant, intentionally trying to destroy information on the history of Iraq and Syria. (They're also destroying museums of historical artifacts.) "The Hindus, an Alternative History" is _right now_ being actively destroyed in India. Two examples off the top of my head. It might not be an issue where you live, but it's still an issue worldwide. |
391 | How fucking hard is it to link to a youtube vid with your fav song??? /rage. Edit: infected mushroom - project 100. | You don't appear to have managed a link OR a song name. It seems to me you're doing worse than most of the people here - at least they're *trying* to fulfill the request. Next time, why don't you contribute rather than just complaining? |
392 | Country music is blues and folk music's child. Take the music from blues and sing about folk topics sprinkle in a bit of soul/religious occasionally, and BAM. Country. If you're thinking anything post-tay tay, thats pretty much 'country' pop junk that isn't really country. Catchy bass line, repeatable lyrics, probably written by pop God Max Martin? That's pop. This is a new era of country, much like Modern rock isn't classic (60s/70s) rock, or rap being similar to 80s/90s rap. They're the same genre/theme in name and roots only, but wholly separate entities. Taylor Swift ended country as we think of it and ushered in a new era of Pop Country that has all but taken over completely. | >~~Taylor Swift~~ Shania Twain ended country as we think of it and ushered in a new era of Pop Country that has all but taken over completely. Ftfy. |
393 | City of evil is still one of the best albums I've ever heard. Edit: despite the fans | Yo I had an avenged sevenfold shirt man I ain't hatin , I'm just painting a picture. Definitely owned city of evil, used to bump it on the Walkman daily |
394 | You are getting the story from a limited perspective. How and why things are how they are can only be speculated from what we are given. However, in the epilogue, more information is given that explains it from historical perspective. Did you read the last part? | I didnt actually read it. I thought it was notes on Atwoods research and what she used for inspiration. Im not a big fan of those pieces.. i didnt realise it was notes from the perspective of the person who found her story. Ill read that this evening. Interesting that we are reading a limited perspective, and have to work with what she was willing to share or actually knew. |
395 | ya the way i read this any ads in safari could be blocked, but for news it sounds like apple is creating its own news aggregator that runs in its own application, possibly a stripped down set of safari libs with no plugin options. who knows.. | You don't have to use Apple ads to advertise in the News app. You can sell and display your own advertising in the News app. |
396 | As an introvert I can easily identify myself with the narrator so far. I see the book as a collection of memories - very in-depth memories - that try to communicate something. The only thing that slows me down a bit is the fact that I can't find a moment of rest, as it's almost one single book-long paragraph, and everytime I pick up the book I have to read the whole page again to be in the same mood. | Precisely, Proust is relentless, I often ten found myself physically shutting the novels for respite so I could recollect before forging ahead. |
397 | Very few books are worth re-reading. For me, there are only seven, and every time I reread Harry Potter I get something new from it. Especially as I've read them as I grew up. | The best thing about harry potter is that it reads so easily, you can FLY through the books, even though they have a few hundred pages each. Not as easy as reading through, say, Wheel of Time multiple times. |
398 | Reading about the behind the scenes of The Room and then just about Tommy Wiseau is really interesting. I'm not saying the guy is an alien, but at the same time I'm not saying he isn't haha. | I've called him an alien more times than I can count. Think about it, there's no official reference or confirmation about where he's really from, he's awfully pale, his body is surprisingly ripped yet it's veiny in an elderly rather than 'gym-rat' way, he has an extremely cramped ass, like as if when he sat on the couch, the butt print was on him. Plus his accent is a mix between French, Spanish and Russian. Obligatory quote: "*Denny, don't plan too much, it might not come out right.* |
399 | The books and the movies have so little in common that they shouldn't even be considered the same story, and I found the books much more enjoyable. | I want to upvote your comment a million times! I really can't watch the movies because they are so far removed from the books and I absolutely loved the books! |
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