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TremendousJudge
2,779karma·1,265submissions·April 19, 2016
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Yeah, pretty much. Speedrunning takes all the obsessive practicing of classical piano concert performance and applies it to video games. It's insane
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I know, I was being facetious. However, the bit on education I still believe it to be true
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Or maybe children should vote, since they have all the future ahead of them. If there's a reason why education is ignored so much by governments it's because children don't vote
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Nigerian prince scams and the like are much older than the internet though.[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance-fee_scam …
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Yes, there's no doubt that he was very skillful. The point the other commenters are making is that that isn't everything
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>The idea of somebody critiquing Latex for being a difficult format to write in while writing almost exclusively plaintext is pretty baffling to me Creative writers for instance don't really c…
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This is a follow up to another tweet though
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what?
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That implies that GP had one legit copy to begin with.
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somewhat? it's _completely_ speculative!
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I'm pretty sure that the issue with DA is that they fell behind the times, the social features are pretty bad and so on.
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Where I live (in South America), carriers give WhatsApp traffic for free to their clients. I guess this is probably the case in other countries as well.
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You realize that automated credit scores are a thing in the US right? China is taking the concept a step further, but it's not unique to them
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Yes, you can, because it's just dividing by 10. If a piece of land is 30000 hectares then it is 300 square kilometers.
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I just meant "being able to fly around without any maintenance being performed on it"
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Compared to other unmanned electrical flying craft, would this type be more durable in non-stop flight conditions?
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This, maybe? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clock_of_the_Long_Now
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depends, if you want your glorious mausoleum to last _forever_ then it lasting 4000 years would imply "correct" engineering to me
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And Einstein didn't write his breakthrough papers while employed at a university either
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did the early employees at facebook believe in anything more than making money?
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/11/russia-reverts... Granted, it's Russian and not American, but I'd be surprised if other intelligence agenci…
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that's kinda the approach that intelligence agencies take nowadays, they are back to paper for the important stuff
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I want to add that their attention towards developers is also amazing. I developed an integration for the product of the company I work for, and they were just great; the review process was painless a…
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Violence is truly the solution to all of our problems
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yeah it really helped when a private company leaked the personal data of _literally everybody_ and suffered _exactly no consequences_
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>vegetable oil but what if it's just regular sunflower oil or something of the sort?
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I think it didn't just deleted his personal files; it corrupted the installation itself. It might be another bug. I'm not sure though. Searching around for some sort of source, I found this …
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I'm not sure that was the only way for it to happen. I don't have sources, only the anecdote of a friend that got his install ruined and had to reformat. I don't know what he did, but I…