Falcon9

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by Falcon9 10y ago
I've listened to some LibriVox recordings of public domain works, notably A Princess of Mars. The price was right at the time, though the quality was, as you say, remarkably subpar. If I could have had a neural net read me the book ins
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by Falcon9 10y ago
Agreed. That's the kind of image that will be greatly enhanced by the faked software bokeh coming in a software update soon.
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by Falcon9 10y ago
If you clone it on your local machine you also won't receive any automatic updates.
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by Falcon9 10y ago
It's simpler than that. Dense population dropoff lines up with dropoff in average rainfall: http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/pcpn/us_precip.gif
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by Falcon9 10y ago
From what little I understand, a Dyson Sphere would require so much material in terms of heavy elements that you'd have a great deal of trouble building a significant number of them even if you were raiding the entire universe for thes
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by Falcon9 10y ago
Too much so, for me, but it came with a nice soundtrack/playlist.
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by Falcon9 10y ago
Huh. I actually used Bitcoin to buy Crashlands through the dev's Humble link since they said they get a larger cut there than through Steam, and I decided to cash out my Stellar (or whatever those morphed into recently) which worked ou
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by Falcon9 10y ago
Not surprising given the incredible overwhelming number of people trying to play the game. I knew it would be huge, I never imagined it would be the phenomenon it is. (Go to a park at lunch or after work if you don't know what I'm
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by Falcon9 10y ago
If you create a Pokestop, they will come. One thing Niantic did was turn certain businesses into portals - Pokemon Go could make many times more money with a similar deal.
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by Falcon9 10y ago
"Two things have always been true about human beings. One, the world is always getting better. Two, the people living at that time think it`s getting worse." - Penn Jillette Of course, the full context of the statement transforms
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by Falcon9 10y ago
That image of the square cut deep dish is so very NSWH. Heck, I'm fully sated at the moment and I want that in my mouth right now. I may have to plan a trip to Chicago.
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by Falcon9 10y ago
Daniel Negreanu is always fun to watch, and he has some great streams on Twitch when he's out of the country: https://www.twitch.tv/dnegspoker (He often plays Hearthstone when he's home in Vegas, and that's f
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Libertarian Dispute Resolution(morelibertynow.com)
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by Falcon9 10y ago
Such laws vary by state: http://www.innocenceproject.org/compensating-wrongly-convict...
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by Falcon9 10y ago
The retrial had very little to do with Serial, and everything to do with the fact that the prosecution withheld a cover page from one of their star witnesses which would have caused him not to give the testimony he gave had he seen it. That
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by Falcon9 10y ago
If you listen to the Truth and Justice podcast, there are people doing exactly as you suggest. Often with semi-reckless abandon and very little to support their case, but they're trying to use what evidence they have to figure out what
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by Falcon9 10y ago
It's a very different experience, and clearly incredibly biased, but I agree that it's a good listen if you got into the case and are curious to learn more about the facts and players. Some of the wild theories they come up with t
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by Falcon9 10y ago
He showed an interest in not proving he is Satoshi as well, and didn't prove it. This isn't a negative you can prove (certainly not in the way you're saying.)
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by Falcon9 10y ago
I say this every time I read an article approaching my areas of domain knowledge. (And yet I keep reading the articles.) Thankfully we have forums such as this one where more context and clarification and correction can come out.
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by Falcon9 10y ago
This reads like a comment from someone who didn't read the article. To call this piece fawning? And the author provides plenty of reasons for why Wright might not want to sign a message even if he could, and they're interesting an
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by Falcon9 10y ago
There have been plenty of terse short form blog entries about the saga, if you don't like the style of this piece you're free to close it and walk away without shitting on it. I spent the afternoon reading this piece and thoroughl
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by Falcon9 10y ago
Egan's Quarantine had me checking out dozens of books about Quantum Mechanics while I was in High School. Love Egan's work, even if I had quite a bit of trouble with Diaspora (I probably just need to give the audiobook a second li
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by Falcon9 10y ago
The logic only looks terrible until you follow the course of actions, read the arguments, understand the situation, and realize that actually it's a pretty fair and balanced process.
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by Falcon9 10y ago
As noted in the footnotes, at a cost of $160MM to them based on this verdict! Oops indeed.
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by Falcon9 10y ago
Velocity Raptor's end game screen was worth the insanity and craziness of dealing with time dilation at c=3mph. If the speed of light ever slows like that IRL though, I'm refusing to get out of bed. I'm also working on a game
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by Falcon9 10y ago
Air travel is per-person, vehicular travel becomes more attractive (price-wise) for families or larger groups.
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by Falcon9 10y ago
Crashlands! An action adventure game with a crafting component that's fun even for people who don't like crafting games - you have an infinite auto-managed inventory that just gets out of your way - with a funny, quirky storyline
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by Falcon9 10y ago
I think the stigma with pirating a premium PC game is higher than "just" pirating an Android game. I know a lot of people who see mobile apps as disposable and so have no problem downloading them for free. A PC game like Doom carr
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by Falcon9 10y ago
I struggled so hard with that game before eventually "winning" my internal battle and deleting it. As you say, the core gameplay is actually really fun and skill based but the psychological pressures at play with all the chests an
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by Falcon9 10y ago
I can't speak to Assasin's Creed, but in the case of Crashlands we can see that it was a very good idea: they've made enough money that for the first time they're paying themselves salary and even expanding their studio

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