A_Parr

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by A_Parr 7y ago
The irony is that it used to be an ocean before climate change covered everything in glaciers.
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by A_Parr 7y ago
The fun part about those numbers is that Mars and Earth have roughly the same amount of CO2 in their atmospheres.
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by A_Parr 7y ago
In 10 years, you won't be able to make that joke.
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by A_Parr 7y ago
Few enough people can be bothered to leave reviews for free, charging for them is going to drive that number even lower. So people paying for fake reviews need to buy fewer to get results.
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by A_Parr 7y ago
The salesman exploits quantum physics by keeping what their company does in superposition until you collapse the waveform by revealing what you're willing to pay for. Instantly a developer at that company gets a bad feeling about somet
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by A_Parr 7y ago
The Silver Stallion -- by James Branch Cabell "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. So I elect for neither label."
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by A_Parr 7y ago
>What would be a great idea? We really liked the news about "drones planting 1 billion trees" or "drones doing surveillance of sharks in the bays". Combine the two. "Drones planting 1 billion sharks in the bays&q
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by A_Parr 7y ago
A little background on why this was necessary is that the law already existed for decades to stop GM/Ford/Chrysler from doing the same thing, which was a very real threat to their industry. The bill simply changes a word to keep T
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by A_Parr 7y ago
GITS is largely post-cyberpunk, but dips into cyberpunk for ideas. Mostly for it's antagonists. The cyberpunk driver of the post-cyberpunk tank being an interesting take on things, at least. Clarification for those who don't know.
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by A_Parr 7y ago
I doubt you'll see mixed human/AI racing. Even if you could trust the robot cars to run along side human driven cars, you can't trust the human drivers around the AI opponents.
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by A_Parr 7y ago
You can say that about punching people in the face, too.
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by A_Parr 7y ago
[not a doctor, but...] Saying that they sum everything is there to catch people trying to game the system by maxing everything out. The first part gets you to describe your symptoms, the last 6 questions get you to rate your pain, and compa
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by A_Parr 7y ago
Neuter a duck and it's a robot, got it. Human level AI just got a lot easier to create.
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by A_Parr 7y ago
ClamAV on Linux is mostly for checking for Windows malware in files that might end up on Windows.
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by A_Parr 7y ago
Ironically posted on Reddit unironically.
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by A_Parr 7y ago
A New Hope was genuine. Empire, was an allegory for George Lucas turning to the dark side. Return of the Jedi was full sell-out. I-III seem to be designed to maximize spite against his rabid fanbase, while pandering to the children which ma
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by A_Parr 7y ago
That's why they keep it over there .
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by A_Parr 7y ago
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8419368.stm "A Japanese man has exchanged vows with a woman he met in the virtual world - a character from a popular dating simulation game called 'Love Plus&
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by A_Parr 7y ago
Either the Wikipedia article has a citation for the reference you should use instead, or it needs one and you shouldn't be referencing it.
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by A_Parr 7y ago
You were thinking out loud.
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by A_Parr 7y ago
If you meant red-eared sliders as "Florida turtles", they're ironically banned for sale in Florida because they became an invasive species there.
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by A_Parr 7y ago
I've lost my voice from all the other features they've dropped over the last decade plus. It's all fallen on deaf ears, anyway. They don't care about Firefox users, because they're not Chrome users.
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by A_Parr 7y ago
The first part is proven by the voters re-electing the same people who made that decision. The second part should be changed to that they're voting in the United State's best interests, which doesn't necessarily have to be so
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by A_Parr 7y ago
10 years ago, when you saw an those as an investment opportunity, and thought, "Who would be stupid enough to use this thing?" You and most other people (myself included) had a high enough opinion of humanity that we thought that
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by A_Parr 7y ago
'Partiality' seems fitting.
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by A_Parr 7y ago
If by kind of fits , you mean the entire problem? Yeah. Of course, the epoch is so arbitrary that a decade means nothing anyway, whether or not it's a year off. If people like numbers flipping back to zero, we should just tell time in
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by A_Parr 7y ago
Wow. That basically kills the whole thing. Who knows what else was messed with without anyone noticing?
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by A_Parr 7y ago
Not for switching to the GPLv3 license, but for removing the text of the previous MIT-style one when doing so. It's literally the one thing you can't do with the license.
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by A_Parr 7y ago
That's what they get for not picking up their toys.
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by A_Parr 7y ago
The ISS is about the same distance from Earth that New York City is from Washington DC. It's technically still in the Earths' atmosphere.

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