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200 | Am I the only one asking why say prism? Its been routinely shown that tactics like this are the same in any government when given too much power...the soviets certainly weren't flaunting their capitalism with their monitoring policies. It just seems really out of place here. | because it's the in-fashion thing to say right now. It's a buzzword at this point. |
201 | >But the Model S can now handle a majority of common driving interactions on its own and is fully capable in a highway setting for you to take your hands off the wheel and foot off the pedal. Disingenuous, considering it can't handle a stop light or a stop sign unless there's a car in front of you that has stopped. Autopilot can handle the *easiest* driving interactions that pretty much only occur on highways. Tesla's autopilot is some nice tech (that also exists on other cars and has for some time) but it's not even close to they kind of autonomous driving that Google and others are working on. | What's interesting is that it's actually available now. [Car and Driver] rated Tesla's semi-autonomous driving as the best available at this time. |
202 | ARM has very little presence in the server market currently, once it does its all downhill for Intel. Intel to my knowledge isn't selling any 100-core machines. | I don't think ARM will. Sure high levels of parallelism is nice but its hard as hell to program for and at a point gives you no performance gains. Intel still dominates instruction level parallelism and will stay that way until ARM designs change in a big way, which is to mean become more x86 like and then what's the difference? AMD just released their ARM based server chips and aren't releasing benchmark data and comparing it to Atoms from 2013.....if that's the best that ARM can do then Intel has nothing to worry about. |
203 | This song alone is beautiful, but when you take into consideration the context of his mother not being able to see his daughter being born it transcends it into something way more touching. | Someone over on /r/hiphopheads called this song "Hey Mama for his daughter," such a good description. |
204 | Exactly this. For those who's into Bose, please take a listen to the MX w.e number it's at model for Sony. It seriously blows Bose away, in many departments. Only thing I can give Bose credit for, maybe, is just the NC. And that's a stretch because I'd trade it in a heartbeat for Sony's. | I own several different Bose sets that I got for free through work over the years and while they’re comfy and the noise canceling is good, they sound incredibly shitty for the price. Word is the new sonys sound good and have noise canceling just as good or better than Bose. I still love the Bose headsets for what they are, but people give them too much love. Now that somebody else is competing seriously in the noise canceling space they’re going to have to step it up. |
205 | This song is awesome. I remember hearing this during the World Cup and it brought chills down my neck. | It was insane, on constant repeat back in the summer of 2010! |
206 | suspiria. i was 14/15 and snuck in to see it (it was rated R). couldn't go near a window at night for years after. | I love that movie! Italian horror can be pretty fucked up, but that film has a better balance between gore and narrative than most of them. |
207 | To be honest, I preferred Stephen King's IT, and thought it was much more frightening than The Shining. Don't get me wrong, The Shining is an amazingly creepy horror novel (and without a doubt worth reading), but when compared to IT, The Shining just didn't seem as scary to me. | I've read The Shining, but not IT. It looks like I found my next horror novel! |
208 | Ugh I wish I could say that one scene at the end made up for the other two hours of shit I had to wade through. I'd say it's still better than the shit DC is putting out. It kind of reeks of studio interference and design by committee. | I want some detail on why you think the first two hours were boring, because this movie did so many things so well. The CGI faces, the whole planet of Jetiah story arc (can't spell). Expanded the universe. |
209 | You forgot fucking Wolf of Wall Street. Don't be so high and pretentious that you have to mention names of movies that some people have never heard of to make it seem like your cool. | Just because you don't have the attention span to remember highly acclaimed, fairly well known films from less than 20 years ago, doesn't mean he's being pretentious. |
210 | This is a good list, but I do find Greek philosophy to be to my liking. So to expand on the Greek Philosophy: Plato - Apology, Republic, Timaeus, and Symposium. Aristotles - Ethics, Categories, Poetics. Xenophon - The Memorable Thoughts of Socrates. Unfortunately my list is a bit predictable; there were only very few ancient Greek texts to survive and among the philosophies, only Plato and Aristotle are ever usually touched upon. I've yet to read the works of any of the other more obscure ancient Greek philosophers. Also Xenophon is technically not a philosopher; he is a historian. He *was* a student of Socrates however, so I guess its not too far off. | Good call expanding on the philosophical side! I'd also include: * Apollonius - Argonautica (short and easy) * Ovid - Metamorphoses. * Herodotus - Histories (long but consumable in bite-sizes) * Plutarch - Lives (ditto) * Hesiod - Theogony (short and easy) |
211 | In the interest of generating discussion and because you've piqued my curiosity, what bands do you regard as being "real punk" and why? | At that time I would have said SNFU, Dayglo Abortions, DOA, Defiance, NomeansNo were "real punk" to me, actually having something to do with the underground. No huge record labels, touring and playing independently. No MTV bullshit. I was 20 when this came out and I was sickened by it. It was a Clash rip-off played by fools draped in phony "punx 77" garb. The music seemed to have no power and also seemed to only appeal to fans of mainstream music. It seemed like a step backward for former Operation Ivy members. Now I'm old and don't care; but seeing this album worshipped and held up as a classic stirred something in me. A revulsion that lay dormant. |
212 | Maybe we can make an Hybrid system? Core game mechanics are computed on client device while high graphic computation is done on the server device | This still leaves the system that computes what you see on the other side of the continent... |
213 | Star Wars has earned it's place and right to be film royalty and hyped, despite your personal opinion of it. | Certainly does, not trying to denigrate it, simply saying that before the first one came out, it didn't have that. Hell, if the first movie was coming out this year, the internet would be tearing it apart, just as it would the Godfather, the Shawshank Redemption or any of the other triple A rated movies ever. |
214 | Also to anybody curious, the film is meant to be awful. Critics have seen it and some are under NDAs not to talk about it, but Ive heard one none too subtlety say its really really bad. Slightly amusing considering her tone, though the book could potentially be better(haven't read it) | >haven't read it. I disagree with the person above - don't feel obligated to read it. The premise is good and the setup is solid, but it goes off the deep end *very* quickly (and the sequels are supposed to be even worse). |
215 | Really sorry, I'm a mobile user, and we are fully rubbish at checking that, at least I am. Whoops. | No worries. Thanks for being decent about it. (It's an automated message from us.) Best of luck. |
216 | We have made a public request before, and this problem is a very public issue. Several other large subreddits have /u/IlluminatedWax at the top of their mod list, and I've spoken with some of them about it in public comments. | Does his lack of activity have any noticeable affect on the subreddit? Can you do anything without his approval? |
217 | Every South African I've spoken to about this hates that Die Antwoord is the most well known cultural export from their country since Miriam Makeba. It only makes them more upset that you think it's cool. | Every South-African I've met is just thankful to be out of JO-HO. |
218 | *When I was little... My father was famous... He was the greatest samurai in the empire... And he was the Shogun's decapitator*. A fine album! | Anyone ever see Shogun Assassin (the movie most of the liquid swords quotes are from)? It wouldn't be worth watching...except that the narration by the kid makes it epic. |
219 | Hey, I'm just really curious. Why did my other post on this subreddit fly through perfectly fine but suddenly when I link that exact post my links get removed? I'm not sure what has changed. Edit: Not saying that you need to remove the linked post. It's a bit late for that now since it's been there as long as it has. But I would love an answer considering that post was as popular as it was so it's not like it flew under your radar. | Thanks for checking in. We sometimes relax the self-promotion rule in line with Rediquette, but that's usually a once off. Our wiki page on [promotion] has more info. Good luck with the book, and congratulations! Ninja edit: No plans to remove the original link :) |
220 | Probably because you can't make 2 clicks on youtube without a popup for youtube tv showing up. | I've literally never seen an ad for youtube tv, but maybe that's because I don't live in the US and I have adblock installed |
221 | Because they don't let it go any faster than that. | Because of an agreement with the city of Mountain View. :) It's an artificial limitation. |
222 | The store I work at sells them, all the customers have to sign a paper that says we aren't liable for injury. | Honestly asking as IANAL, will that protect the company from defects causing chemical burns, or just if "my son went too fast into a wall, broke his nose, and now looks like a pug, it's your fault" ? |
223 | Ah, ok. I guess I did miss that then! I'm just used to my friends complaining about their laptop or phone having no storage memory, so I was with him on that for a second. Thanks! | But even then, what he said still doesn't make the context crystal clear. I have had environments where 4gbs of space is huge, and low memory can completely halt the live environment with crazy swapping (especially with weird RAM disk mounts). If he's going to play the CS card, so am I. Unix philosophy, which is guide lines for much of the basic software running everything, would say to use the word RAM instead of memory, as ram is shorter and more concise. |
224 | Publishers wouldn't go for this at all. Great idea, though. | Which is unfortunate. Comics have already been doing this for a long time. Is it wrong to pirate an epub of a book that you've already purchased? Because it's what I do. |
225 | Regardless of how shitty it may be (apparently it's a movie for toddlers), I have this theory that some titles damage a movie's box office for being too complicated, too common or too long: The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure; Van Wilder 2- The Rise of Taj; John Carter; Ballistic- Acks vs Sever; Doogal; Delgo; and so on. | The Assasination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford? |
226 | That’s not true at all. Who’s hating on the OG rappers from the 80’s and 90’s? Who’s hating and Tupac and Biggie? YouTube gave mumble rappers a platform. Shit hasn’t always been this way. | I'm nearing 40 so don't be offended by this but those feeling of confusion is what aging feels like. I grew up in the golden era of hip hop. I can't see it ever getting that good again. |
227 | The price! I'd buy it for the price because I would use a phone for calling and texting. If I want to get on the net or watch videos, I'll use a computer. | But from the consumer's perspective, you could buy a cheaper Microsoft phone with better specs, practically given away for free, if you want a different ecosystem. What will be the pull to the more untested Ubuntu? |
228 | I've never heard a "canary in the goldmine" to be a harbinger of anything good before. | Yeah his post is the tip of the iceberg when it comes to using idioms in new ways. |
229 | Try Problem Sleuth. It's shorter, and has a similar sense of humor. Also try the Let's Read Homestuck series on YouTube; they make the first Acts much more interesting. If you make it to the end of Act 2 and still don't like it, stop. | Let's Reads are a thing now? Oh man I haven't been internetting hard enough I guess. |
230 | If you don't think Wayne influenced rap, then you don't understand rap. | This should be the top reply to everyone giving wayne shit on this thread, foreal. |
231 | George R.R. Martin never got coked up and decided to make Maximum Overdrive. | No when GRRM gets coked up we get a wedding. |
232 | "Get out" was completely overrated. I'm not saying it was terrible.....but it's been completely overrated on peoples 'top 110' lists or whatever. | Yeah. I really liked it, but it didn't stand out too much. |
233 | They might cover this in the movie. But this bugs the shit out of me. Okay, you got this idea, you got this spaceship. Vroom vroom and all that. You need an engineer (isn't that what he is?). You have an entire planet worth of people to chose from. Wouldn't it be nominal to chose someone WITHOUT family? I mean, I know it fucks the movie. But it just seems the logical thing. He can't possibly be the only engineer left. | > He can't possibly be the only engineer left. but he's THE best engineer! and the best looking one too. gotsta have him on board. |
234 | But with porn. Haha but seriously it actually does have some similar themes with regard to wrong expectations in a relationship. | Maybe like a rom-com aimed at men and women instead of just women? That was my impression just from watching the trailer. |
235 | Prince may be an asshole, but like many other assholes, he's one of the greatest musical artists of all time. Robert Christgau described his Sign O the Times album as "Merely the most gifted pop musician of his generation proving what a motherfucker he is for two discs start to finish", then he gave the album an A+. Douchebags make great music. | Obviously ego grows as your fanbase do, but most musical geniuses aren't douches. Hendrix? He was a small time wife beater and jealous as fuck, but was he a douche in general? Not that I have heard of. Bob Dylan? Naah can't be. Michael Jackson? He was eccentric and weird, but douche? Kurt Cobain? Douche? When. Tupac? Amped up and thugging, but douche? Can't say I've heard that. Eminem ? Seems to be the nicest guy imaginable outside of the studio. |
236 | They're all pretty awful. *Saw* is the only one that attempts to function as a story and falls on its face based on its inability to organize its flashback narrative, and arbitrary triple nonsense twist that doesn't do anything to make us think about what we just watched, and career worst performances by all the leads (I mean, Elwes never gave a good performance outside of *Princess Bride* and *Psych*, but this takes the cake). | > I mean, Elwes never gave a good performance outside of Princess Bride and Psych. Did you just care to forget Elwes' "The Claw" performance in Liar Liar? |
237 | I believe alliseeisme was referring to the [British Invasion] where there was a massive market for English bands in the US, rather than the development of rock music in general. | "We might all be listening to the modern equivilent of Pat Boone or Perry Como" Where-in I said rock and roll would've been completely fine thanks to other bands like The Who, The 'Stones and Cream, history's first rock-supergroup and band to play huge stadiums. But thanks to Reddit know-it-alls who are quick to jump all over people and try correcting them on a point they missed anyway. |
238 | Yeah as an English speaker I don't understand the meaning of the words which is what I usually listen for in songs but I really like the tune. | Yeah. Kinda the same for me. How did you found that Song? :D |
239 | It's written in an alarming tone but I don't see anything scary in here. Looks like huge progress is being made in lifting people out of poverty. | How do you expect people to be lifted out of poverty when they cant earn money because their job is being done by a robot that works for free...? |
240 | The fact that this is your criticism of Neutral Milk Hotel belies a poor understanding of music theory. | I didn't criticize them. I like NMH. I can play guitar reasonably well (well enough to play any NMH song) and I took a couple music theory classes in college for fun so I suppose I don't have a particularly deep understanding of music theory. Not sure how identifying the mostly simple structure of NMH songs belies my understanding of music theory though. Please elaborate. |
241 | Kobo has been making waterproof tablets for a couple of years now (specifically the Kobo H2O and Kobo Aura One). I take it into the bath with me all the time. It's really just Amazon that hasn't made a waterproof ereader. | Waterproof is tempting, but the last thing I need is to split my loyalties across another ebook platform :-/ Wish I could find a clearer baggie, annoying to read through the lines. |
242 | This could be an amazing development for people in third world countries and countries restricted by censorship, assuming the platform offers uncensored access to the internet. Especially if it allows subscription fees to be paid by an uncensorable payment platform like Bitcoin. Latency may be awful, but the internet is far more useful than online video games and streaming video. | You should have no problem with streaming media so long as the bandwidth is there, latency doesn't really matter. |
243 | They're not really. They were kind of the original Nickelback. Their first album was insanely popular, then everything they did afterwards sounded the same. Their popularity turned against them and it became cool to rag on them. Along the lines of an "Everyone hates them *because* everyone hates them" phenomenon. | Yeah I mean they're not my favorite band but I do love most of their music, even they're newer stuff |
244 | There certainly is a cost though. Every time an ISP needs to replace their routers and cabling to handle higher throughput, they have to spend money to do that. And it isn't cheap, carrier grade routers that ISPs might use by the dozen can cost $250,000 each or even $1m each. The technology isn't static, you constantly have to upgrade. And then there is the cost of the links to other ISPs, and then the other ISPs might need upgrades. Settlement-free transit is fairly rare, most ISP-ISP links have a cost (charged by how much data is transferred). | This is bunk.. If you give a guy a connection to the Internet at 100mbps, you never have to upgrade until you upgrade the speed past 100mbps. Once the connection is made, there's very little maintenance. Also, taxpayer dollars are spent on a lot of these upgrades. There's no real technical reason why we can't have gigabit into every home with unlimited data. |
245 | A little boy being beaten to death even with very little blood will likely result in an R rating. | Pounding a boy's testicles during a shower brawl, tearing another's ear during a scuffle in the battle room. I think it should be R. |
246 | >...desperately trying to connect with people... That aint the book I read. The Holden I knew was desperately trying not to connect with people. | There's a couple reoccuring things in the novel that demonstrate that Holden is trying to connect with people. One, he begins a *lot* of his sentences with the phrase, "Hey, Listen." But no one ever quite listens to him, they either need to borrow one of his jackets, or are too concerned with something else, or just don't give a shit. Not to mention, that he *hires a prostitute*, just to talk to her. If that's not indicitative of someone that's starved for a connection of *any* sort, I don't know what is. |
247 | All my childhood heroes killed themselves... Dave Mirra. Robin Williams. Chris Cornell. Chester Bennington. Chris Benoit. Aaron Swartz. Hunter S Thompson. David Foster Wallace. It's been a grim decade of heroes tapping out after decades long battles with mental health. It certainly makes my own struggles feel less manageable in the long term. | They are. Don’t fall victim to the same mentality. There are millions of us fighting alongside you, myself included. |
248 | I wish I hadn't seen any trailers. Knowing the big Morgan Freeman reveal freed me up to think too much, I think. The clone twist still blew my mind though. | Yep, the trailers gave too much away; I think I would have enjoyed the movie more if I went into it "blind." |
249 | How is: > Success is a combination of luck, at-birth aptitude, and hard work. any different from saying luck is: > Preparation meeting hard work. | What? One is a recipe for luck, and is stupid, since you can't control luck by definition. The other is a recipe for success, containing only one thing you can control. The only similarity is that they're declarative sentences |
250 | It has everything to do with that, most of these people have never read a book and yet we accept that. We have enough retarded people here. | And, even if I accept your interpretation of that (which I don't), the reasons we should be concerned with that have very little to do with books. So, like I said, don't expect a sympathetic ear on this subject here. |
251 | As for a legitimate answer, I just found the book on [abebooks] Really, they have pretty much everything you can possibly ask for. The only caveat is that the shipping to my country is much more expensive than many books... | Thanks, I have the exact same problem, and this book is rather small, so I would pay like 10 times the book itself. |
252 | Why would you ever consider using a VPN made by Facebook? | Why would would anyone ever consider using a free VPN? If your not paying for the product, you are the product. |
253 | There'd have to be some slack in the cable so it wouldn't break when the Earth and Mars were farther apart in their respective orbits. It's not unreasonable that some solar-orbiting device could keep the cable slack in such a way that it doesn't go into the Sun. I wonder how long it would have to be to accommodate this. | We could launch a satellite to hold the cable at the half way point. The satellite would have to orbit the sun perpendicular to our orbit, so that the cable would go above, and then below the sun. Basically Earth and Mars playing jump rope with the Sun. |
254 | If I had the power I would make it illegal to drive outside recreational areas. Fully embrace Google self-drive and the like. Do away with stop signs and lights while reducing deaths from car accidents to nearly nill. Edit: Google Drive is indeed cloud storage. | But how will I ride my horse down highways! Unfair! I should be able to ride my horse anywhere a car can drive. |
255 | You should probably do a little more research into it. The version alluded to was the 2011 release, as we discussed below. | Our Prayer, Do You Like Worms, Old Master Painter, Wonderful, Child is Father of the Man, Cabin Essence, Look, Good Vibrations, I Wanna Be Around, Wind Chimes, Mrs. O'Leary's Cow, You're Welcome, Surf's Up, and the entire 'cantina version' of Heroes & Villains were **all** completed or nearly completed, or begun before Strawberry Fields came out and months before Sgt. Pepper. *Sgt. Pepper* did not inspire the Beach Boys to record *SMiLE.* |
256 | My paperwhite 3 is getting here today in a few hours, super stoked. Posting links would be ideal. I recommend "With The Old Breed" if you are at all interested in world war 2. It has been an eye opener and a great read so far. | Looks like a good read, purchased and put in on my to read list. I am finishing The Martian and next up is The Heart of Everything That Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, An American Legend. Id post a link but this will have to work |
257 | Agreed. Nobody looks at a Leaf or Prius and thinks, 'That's a great looking car'. There is no reason to make them look ridiculous. It's getting better though. The VW e-Golf is an example of what they should be doing. Take a proven, popular car and electrify it. | > There is no reason to make them look ridiculous. Besides, you know, efficiency. Their entire point in the first place. |
258 | I'm just wondering your opinions because it seems a lot theses days that companies would rather have an under qualified female than a qualified male, for sake of political correctness. (my opinion is that companies should always choose the most qualified person, regardless of gender) | Same chance. Preferring one sex over the other is ALWAYS sexism. Even if for good intentions such as wanting more women in tech. To achieve this, don't select based on sex and be sexist, instead, motivate women (but leave the choice to THEM) to study for and work in the tech industry more. Political correctness is a cancer to this world - and it's not even correct. I find it really hard to think of an example of political correctness that actually isn't incorrect to begin with. |
259 | They should. ISPs are imbalancing their peers on purpose and then wondering why their customers are internet moochers and don't provide any data for others. Anyone peering with ISPs via these ISP heavy peering points should ask for money. It is amazing that they peer for free, and ISPs respond by trying to claim peers should pay them for ISP's customer's consumption. ISPs fucked up and the peers should demand fair payment. | If ISP's didn't have the monopoly they do in so many areas... netflix could do that. Hell it would be a great leverage in the throttling that is going on. Imagine if netflix could just go. "I'm sorry but our service does not function at high quality over comcast networks, please consider X to have access to HD video". Netflix is in a market where anyone with access to their service, can sign up for hulu+, Amazon Prime and the endless supply of free (youtube) and illegal competitors. Net neutrality wouldn't be necessary if most areas had 4-5 high speed options, as then pages could leverage their positions... unfortunately they can't and won't be able to do so. |
260 | I do have high hopes for the Japanese ones, though. It seems like only the american robots go on a rampage to eliminate humanity by shooting everyone with their unlimited-ammo Gatling guns. | The Japanese ones will eventually turn, but the victims will be the penises of sexually oppressed business types. |
261 | So, I backed the Ubuntu Edge because a] promise of "real" linux on a phone (I also bought a N900 back in the day), b] awesome storage specs that would have finally been in line with where it should be for a high end phone, c] desktop mode. Shame how far they had to scale back when the funding failed to meet its goal. | A shame indeed. Even though I really liked my phone at the time, I had put $20 into that Kickstarter campaign because I so strongly believed in the campaign to put Ubuntu on mobile as an alternative ecosystem. It makes me wonder if they ever actually intended to deliver on features like desktop mode in a timely manner... |
262 | No music service to my knowledge have licensing for a lot of J-pop which basically makes sailing the high seas music best option to listen to music. | Only if you listen primarily to JPop, which is definitely the extreme minority of their target market. |
263 | Good call. I like the early "troubador" stuff (The Heart of Saturday Night in particular is a very cool album), but he really came into his own once he started working in all that crazy experimental/blues/Captain Beefheart stuff. | I don't hate the early stuff, and there's not a single Tom Waits album without a great song or two on it. Before he met Kathleen, seems like he indulged his sentimental side more. I'll listen to Small Change occasionally, but I have to be in a particular mood. |
264 | >Precisely. And it's felt like 1-3 and 4-6 are basically in different dimensions for me. In 4-6 there's NEVER any mention of the word "Sith". Ever. And in 1-3 it's in every other sentence spoken by a Jedi. Totally. Especially since Han Solo, how must have been alive during Episode 3 and there were video and given how prolific the Jedi were in the prequels, didn't believe Jedi ever existed. The Prequels feel like a fan fiction. | Lucas was so hell bent on shoehorning characters like Boba Fett or Chewbacca or C3PO into the story that it made the universe feel a lot smaller. Couldn't Boba Fett just be a badass side character rather than the cousin of every stormtrooper in the galaxy? |
265 | Everybody hates on Die Another Day, but I didn't think it was THAT horrible. It was just a silly James Bond movie. God knows, Roger Moore made a shitload of those... | Since you brought up Moore; yes, Die Another Day *was* THAT horrible: it was the only movie that could unseat Moonraker as worst Bond movie. That's no easy feat. |
266 | "Nah, taken... that one too... and that one... you already know what it is..." | Then he turns around to just face ja rule with that petty shit eating grin lmao |
267 | Bots can shoot, aim, and react better than humans. Given the bots strongest setup (2v2), one bot follows the other to the flag and back and they're unbeatable. With very limited cover on that map it's probably bot mistakes that account for them *only* winning 74% of matches that way. With a little programming help those bots would probably hit 99% win rates. It's only impressive the bots learned game objectives and how to know what to shoot at. Given that, of course they'll dominate. | this, show me a bot dominating a non-fps, or better yet a bot that's not inside the program but playing as an external party like a human plays! |
268 | If I'm reading something long and dry, I'll sometimes put it down for something short and fun, then pick it back up later. I also tend to keep small books of poetry in my purse, for when I only have five minutes to read. | I'd like to bring back an old friend: that's what she said. |
269 | If they were saying widescale adoption will happen in 6 months or 1 year, I would say, yes, way too optimistic. But they are not. Look where we are now, compared to 10 years ago. Many companies, organizations and individuals are creating their own videos, using social media, using SMS, email... much of it on smartphones. This would have been unthinkable 10-15 years ago. What I think they are saying is there is a new technology that seems poised to do X and Y at some point in the future. It's long term stuff. And if there is anything we have learned from what has happened to date, if there is a strong enough economic incentive, unbelievable things can happen. | What I think is more likely to happen, is that there will be two or three companies claiming to use blockchain to solve each of the problems, and they will provide a user-friendly web UI so that the actual players involved never see or use an actual blockchain, and the companies will take a huge cut of the action. |
270 | Geoff Barrow has shat all over Portishead's first two albums, saying he feels "embarrassed" when listening to them now. It's a bit similar to what metal musicians do once they learn how to play their instruments with better proficiency and they start writing more complex styles. Barrow wanted to move Portishead away completely from the 90's trip-hop sound, and I think he accomplished that quite handily with "Third." | I like Third and the 90s stuff. I'm glad they can't rewrite history and I know first hand the mindset he's in, because I hate all my earlier work to a certain degree more, after a certain amount of time. It's hard to try to expand on what you know without seeing the error of your ways, but it's usually with far too critical of an eye. I don't even want to imagine a world without those albums. |
271 | I mean... it's not like the other men who like/dont mind sex with women can't cover the gay dudes' quota. | Actually they can't. That's the thing. The population IS shrinking due to the demons killing people every so often when the magical protections fail. They already have men with 5+ kids, who (and their wives too) are considered great folks for having so many kids. |
272 | I've seen what happens when you punch a hole in a cell phone battery, what would happen if someone punched a hole in a battery that size? | It is not really one big battery it is more like a fuckton of small batteries wired together. |
273 | Oh God. That's like putting shit on ice cream. Way to ruin Led Zeppelin. | It wouldn't be Led Zeppelin, it would be a new band/project. I'm just saying they both have the same old school blues roots, and it would be cool to hear them jam together. |
274 | What? How/why do you have so many? Where I live you can only get a library card if you have a proof of residence in that area. I'm sure things are just set up differently around the world, I'm just curious how it works for you. | Maybe they have ten libraries in their city? There are 9 in mine! |
275 | They tried giving us free tickets to another movie and we were like fuck you, refund asshole. We left angry. | I would have called their district manager or some shit. No fuck that, I would have went in there and started shit with the people that got your seats. |
276 | Gah, I wrote this in Python last week. Should have released it, could have been internet famous. I lost interest though because [Jasper] is way more fun. | It has been almost two years, that I have heard of jasper again. I tried it when it was in the early days, and I was very interested. What use case are you realizing with jasper? |
277 | IIRC the "middle eastern version" is actually just the prediction of the prince of some middle eastern country saying how his family is just riding on the country's oil industry that will eventually run out. (And for the oil bit, it's actually a few grandkids down the line. Not running out of that in our lifetime) | Your IIRC is correct, I think it was a Prince from UAE who said it. But for the oil bit.. wouldn't take much to tank an oil economy without completely running out of oil. If the developed world diversifies to renewables quickly enough, that prediction could easily be within our lifetime. |
278 | Paul Giamatti. Never liked him in anything and most of the time he plays a chubby arrogant asshole. I am sure he is a nice guy in real life, but I cant stand him. | Then you, internet guy, are missing out hardcore because Paul giamatti rocks in John Adams |
279 | Seems almost silly by design: The more light you let through, the less you're converting. | Definitely. There's pros and cons to this type of tech, but you're still getting energy. Different solar cells can be designed to absorb different wavelengths of light, so a cell could theoretically be designed to absorb only UV light, IR light, or specific colors producing a different spectrum coming through the window. A large portion of he energy comes in the form of UV light. From a cost benefit analysis POV, the price of a solar panel + the price of a window bundled into just the window + window tinting might be in a price range that makes it worth it to use in a situation where there's not much real estate for the panels. |
280 | True fact: Google has subscription services that don't display ads. | The ads will be on google maps anyway. And Google now. Where they already are. |
281 | in their eyes it wouldn't matter. Priors are priors regardless of level of severity. It's so sad that they have to act like this instead of being able to use reasonable judgement, but that's a victim of our PC culture. If they don't respond with massive force and something actually happens then the headlines will be "Cops laughed at person dying" or some other clickbait kinda shit. | > If they don't respond with massive force and something actually happens then the headlines will be "Cops laughed at person dying" or some other clickbait kinda shit. The whole person dying part is also a pretty big bummer. |
282 | Same, I had to read both of those books very early on and it still dictates the style of book I enjoy most. Also, re-read them both now, I did and reading those books close to 12 years later gives a very different insight to the meaning of the book. | I found that rereading some of my favorite Newberry and Caldecott award winners as an adult left me even more satisfied and happy with my memories of my favorite childhood books. Now I'm itching to go reread The Giver. |
283 | Really? Granted, I'm probably in a different city than you, but I managed to get ok tickets without any problems | 2117 tickets on stubhub now (just looked) also noticed that TM is actually enforcing a delayed mailer on this show, my tickets arent available to even download and print til sometime in october |
284 | Two things: 1) Why the hell are you reading posts in a subreddit about Kindles if you have no interest in reading on one? 2) Have you ever actually tried to read on a Kindle? The screen and print look just like a book... it's has about as much in common with watching a movie as reading an actual book does. **EDIT**: I totally missed that this was [/r/books](/r/books) and not /r/kindle, so forgive the tone of my post. I forgot where I was, apparently. | This is /r/books. I have tried it , my brother owns one , but the smell of an actual book i prefer. I've nothing agasint i kindle , id just rather have an actual book , that was my point. |
285 | Can we ask him why he is such a hack? Why did Angel end the way it did and why, at the end of Buffy did the main character have to lez out for ratings. And reavers... Why are there space zombies? How could they actually have a command structure that would be complex enough to command a starship but not smart enough not to rage. | You are welcome to ask him all those things. You can ask him anything. Literally anything. |
286 | I agree with that quite a bit. It does hurt though - my newborn cried immediately after being stuck and he had no social cues to react to. Personally? I like shots. And going to the dentist. It doesn't hurt that bad and I feel like a champ when I can show my son that it's not scary. | > my newborn cried immediately after being stuck and he had no social cues to react to. None at all? Were you (or your spouse) not present in the room at the time? Just like dogs, it's quite amazing how the tiniest of things kids will pick up on, especially before they can talk. If someone flinches, or grimaces, even without intending to, they'll notice it. Not to mention the obvious mild pain involved with every needle even if there are little to no social cues pain is still going to garner a reaction in some. |
287 | I don’t think the argument is that without books like The Diary of Anne Frank, kids wouldn’t be able to read *as well* as without, but rather that they will be less equipped to deal with that kind of subject matter, or they will have an imperfect view of history based on their lack of education. To be blunt, it’s less a concern of “my kid won’t know how to read if they don’t teach Anne Frank” and more of a concern that little Johnny comes from a family of holocaust deniers, and won’t have any exposure to things holocaust related if not for public education. | Honestly I’m not sure when they would teach the holocaust in Texas k-12. I just know it’s not first grade. I’m not from here. If they do not teach it by middle school, I’ll drag her ass up to DC, tour the holocaust museum with her and teach her myself. Some things are non negotiable |
288 | One book I like that felt real was The Magicians, sorry I don't have anything to contribute to your discussion apart from a recommendation, but have you read it? | That book I've passed by the bookstore so many times... (The protagonist's name is QUENTIN, *whisphers* for a MAN.) I guess I'll try that now since "reddit said." |
289 | I totally understand. Sci-fi and fantasy are probably my favorite genres, but my main problem with them is that I never find something that satisfies or lives up to what I'm looking for. I like to sink into the world, but because it's so difficult to believably create such a thing, I find the realism rather fragile. one book i've recenly read that I liked a lot was Anathem by neal stephenson | :( I'm sorry! It can suck to find so many lackluster books - especially when reading time is so valuable. If you're into world-building, I hope you've read the Wheel of Time books by Robert Jordan (and Brandon Sanderson)? They create an incredibly rich and varied world. It has enough parallels to ours to feel real and believable. Other than that, I tend toward fantasy epics and books written as series or trilogies/quartets/etc. I find they allow me to become more invested in characters and worlds than one-off novels. |
290 | Why do we eat if we get hungry again? As for self help or non-fiction books, you don't forget all of it. And if you forgot most of it, just read it again :) | > A meal was no more than a fragile defense against the inevitability of the next meal. Food itself could never answer the question of food; it only delayed the moment when the question would have to be asked in earnest. —New York Trilogy, Paul Auster |
291 | Was looking to see if they had prints available. Apparently not yet but www.zazzle.com has the other maps from the same artist. So hopefully this will be available soon. | There is a fold out copy of the map in his book, Vargic's Miscellany of Curious Maps, coming out in December. |
292 | really? I've never had a credit card transaction that didn't use the 3 digits at the back | Right. And Im guessing your card info can still be lifted from an ATM? |
293 | Yndi halda's "Enjoy Eternal Bliss". We Flood Empty Lakes is such a beautiful song. Edit: Deafheavan's Sunbather is a fantastic album as well. Check out the track "Dream House". | Yndi Halda's album is amazing. I can (and do) consistently go back to it year after year since I was 17.... FYI: for fans of GY!BE, and the like. |
294 | When Frank Welker dies cartoons will no longer have animals in them | Not really, there's also Dee Bradley Baker. He's pretty damn good in his own right as playing animals. |
295 | Even if it is a lifestyle improvement product, it's simply the natural extension of having a wired printer. It's nothing like other IoT devices that are versions of everyday devices that have not had internet functionality since their invention in the 1950's. | That's what it's moving to nowadays. Coffee makers, home washers, dryers, dish washers. It's just that we're able to differentiate the more practical from the more ridiculous or unnecessary. People like to watch the Jetsons, but few would actually want that level of automation and interconnection. |
296 | This is ridiculous. I can’t imagine anyone would be willing to spend over a grand on a Chromebook when the XPS 13 and Macbook Pro are comparably priced and do way more. | 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. |
297 | More like lose your phone and lose nothing but a physical device because your data is locked behind a passcode. | Id argue you lose a lot more than a physical device. If you don't use the cloud you could lose literally everything on said device. Also there's plenty of apps with your login info that automatically keep you logged in and able to make purchases, google Play store, amazon prime, etc. In the article no specific security features are mentioned. Tell us more if you have insider knowledge of this |
298 | I know, almost impossible to lift them up to wink. | If you're going to wink wearing sunglasses, you must lower them. [Like this..] |
299 | I wonder if there were any scenes that were left out? The first time you saw her it seemed like foreshadowing. | **Its Quentins style. Which I like. He highlights extremely unimportant things in scenes. In a way, it keeps the audience on the edge, because it makes it hard to predict what happens next.** |
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