Qwertystop

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by Qwertystop 7y ago
I saw that in Pratchett's _Snuff_; I thought it was a joke, an exaggeration!
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by Qwertystop 7y ago
I have difficulty seeing Unicorn (the scooter company) here as anything other than an intentional joke on current VC. They call it Unicorn, they put nothing into actually making a product, and they close up shop immediately after spending a
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by Qwertystop 7y ago
GPS-enabled devices are the first such improvement to have a novel downside: you can now be tracked, whether you want to be or not.
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by Qwertystop 7y ago
You've skipped a rather large period of time in which people would travel, and would bring a map with them or buy one when they got there. You think road trips only got to be a thing after Mapquest?
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by Qwertystop 7y ago
Are food trucks not "the familiar"? In my experience, if there's a food truck, I can find it in the same place at the same time, either daily or weekly, all year round (unless it's seasonal, i.e. catering to college stud
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by Qwertystop 7y ago
I'm not sure the "independent thought" bit is justified; if you can't distinguish between illegal and legal things, or can't manage to not do illegal things that are fairly easy not to do, it seems reasonable to que
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by Qwertystop 7y ago
I prefer the Lyttle Lytton[1], personally. These get kind of long. [1] http://adamcadre.ac/lyttle.html
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by Qwertystop 7y ago
IPA seems to describe areas as far as I can tell; each consonant is how-do-you-make-the-sound and where-is-the-sound-made, not specific frequencies, charted on a grid. The vowel chart is "where is your tongue in your mouth".
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by Qwertystop 7y ago
I'd guess you could get zapped if you accidentally touch the metal part of the bulb (or the socket) while unscrewing the old one or screwing in the new one.
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by Qwertystop 7y ago
Presumably, because it's (technically) breaking federal law, and someone who breaks federal law probably shouldn't have a federally-granted security clearance.
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by Qwertystop 7y ago
Specifically on Pokemon (so Game Freak), not everything Nintendo's done. Grandparent specifically said "the Pokemon team"
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by Qwertystop 7y ago
And the later ones (and all the 3DS ones) have the option to do that perpetually in the background, which would probably be why this issue comes up here instead of on other local multisystem Switch games that only do it at specific times.
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by Qwertystop 7y ago
They've always been pretty conservative as far as game design goes; somehow I doubt they'd be pushing any boundaries on the backend.
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by Qwertystop 7y ago
So, is the Switch (in certain circumstances caused primarily/only by this game) breaking 1, or is the Roku breaking 2? Neither seem to have broken either until this particular interaction.
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by Qwertystop 7y ago
The Switch is capable of communicating both over an existing network through a wired or wireless router, and through wireless peer-to-peer communications with other nearby Switches. Previous Pokemon games (and other games on the Nintendo 3D
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by Qwertystop 7y ago
If the victim is yourself, either you were coerced (and the coercion should be the crime) or you consented (and it shouldn't be a crime). If I kick myself in the shin, is that battery, now?
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by Qwertystop 7y ago
Not anymore, is it? Last I heard they were in pretty significant legal trouble due to not actually having the 1:1 real-doller backing they claimed to, or other assets of equivalent value, among other issues.
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by Qwertystop 7y ago
> There are other cryptocurrencies (eg Tether) that follow USD (eg 1 Tether is almost always equal to $1.00 USD), to avoid issues with volatility. One of us is behind the times on Tether; last I heard they were in pretty significant lega
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by Qwertystop 7y ago
At a guess, people are less likely to make a fuss about fraud when they're embarrassed to admit they were trying to buy such things.
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by Qwertystop 7y ago
> I thought essentially no one uses mini-A or micro-A, so I don't know why you would want that. I thought USB 3 was just about faster data. If a cable always blocks data, then I don't see any use for USB 3. Presumably, if fernl
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by Qwertystop 7y ago
I am paying for one-quarter of the 4-bedroom apartment (that is, one bedroom plus shared spaces), which comes in at $950/mo. I am well aware that this is absurdly cheap for the area. Probably part of the discount is from the lack of in
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by Qwertystop 7y ago
I'm in Cambridge (Massachusetts) and my apartment is a 4-bedroom. Building used to be owner-occupied, now converted to two addresses with two apartments in each plus a shared basement with a single-room fifth apartment, price is astoun
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by Qwertystop 7y ago
Storage and production costs for something available in UHD are the same regardless of whether someone streams a downscaled version. Storing multiple resolutions (assuming they do that rather than downscaling live from the stored highest-re
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by Qwertystop 7y ago
Eh. US Pop culture was a lot more unified before Netflix (and especially before VCRs, and before the number of channels got so big). I'm told there was a time when everyone watched whichever current sitcom, or the Simpsons, to a much
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by Qwertystop 7y ago
On the one hand, of course launch day of a big service is going to have problems; they always do. On the other hand, Disney owns Hulu. Why is this a launch day of anything other than the cosmetic parts of the frontend and a new empty copy o
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by Qwertystop 7y ago
Mostly sounds true, but one thing Netflix offered that none of the per-studio streaming services can: it was one subscription with everything. All the others will have their own catalog, but they won't have each others'. Is everyt
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by Qwertystop 7y ago
Assuming that Bezos lives in a fairly large house (and/or has several houses), evicting him could help quite a lot of people previously living in small shacks. I grew up in a NY suburb and you could probably fit two families (three in
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by Qwertystop 7y ago
"modern city", maybe not, but there's a world of difference between, say, a shack in the woods and an apartment with aircon/heating/insulation (as appropriate) and easy access to groceries. I don't know where t
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by Qwertystop 7y ago
Yes, but the line of credit is the credit card, not the purchase. You wouldn't have to go to a bank every time you wanted to buy something on a credit card, but you would have to go there to get a card.
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by Qwertystop 7y ago
Utility bills are forgeable paper, yes. So is any other proof short of the strong cryptographic kind, which is going to be a lot more trouble to get set up infrastructurally. Also, forging them, or theft of mail, is a notable threshold beyo

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