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by cynest 13y ago
One reason being he died unexpectedly (assassination). The Nobel Peace Prize also wasn't awarded that year due to no suitable living candidates, which can be considered an acknowledgement of him.
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by cynest 13y ago
I wonder if COD:GHOSTS will beat this. From what I'm seeing, GTAV has a few advantages: Non-yearly (or biyearly) release schedule for an extremely well-known franchise. No outstanding publisher issues of note, especially gaffes related
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by cynest 13y ago
Is # an acceptable character?
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by cynest 13y ago
That wasn't a criticism. It was a short, sarcastic jeer with poor grammar.
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by cynest 13y ago
Which != left liberalism.
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by cynest 13y ago
I'm reading Harry Turtledove's Worldwar series right now, and I'm struck by the comparisons he makes between Soviet and Nazi military doctrines. Essentially, the former is controlled by individuals too paranoid to allow for a
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by cynest 13y ago
At least post the original and not some paranoid screed.
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by cynest 13y ago
Tbh I would expect higher intelligence among engineers vs the general public if only due to selection effects. Smart kids tend to be more pushed towards professions under that label and are better able to meet the challenges associated with
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by cynest 13y ago
However, one could argue that such an agreement would only represent a codified social contract. Ie it's still "You aren't holding up your end of the bargain" rather than "the contract is for 2 hours/day with an optional extension of $100/h
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by cynest 14y ago
> Thomas again used the "en-loco parentis" argument he often makes in decisions involving children Just a note: it's in loco parentis, latin for in the place of the parent.
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by cynest 14y ago
Prohibition was 1920-1933.
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by cynest 14y ago
My experience has been somewhat different. 2012 was a wholly miserable year for me and I honestly feel that it was rather pointless ordeal exacerbated by toxic relationships I lack the means to escape.
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by cynest 14y ago
I've also wondered if the incentives with regards to cheating have changed. It's certainly easier to cheat. And if grades are perceived as having a greater effect on standing, the rewards have increased as well.
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by cynest 14y ago
AOPA is purely general (non-commercial) aviation, so the first point is correct, although iirc the data was from actual incidents. I don't know if anything like that has ever happened in a heavy aircraft. However, commercial pilots have pre
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by cynest 14y ago
A few years ago at AOPA I attended a seminar on this. Turns out the success rate is extremely high provided you are able to get in contact with someone on the ground.
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by cynest 14y ago
But is that truly de-anonymizing? I share my legal name with several famous people, and numerous SEO'd professionals. Barring more specific searching knowing specific details I am relatively hard to identify. Same with just about anyone wh
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by cynest 14y ago
> Suicide is the one crime Suicide is not a crime in the united states.
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by cynest 14y ago
Arguably it makes the system less effective by adding a disincentive to enforcing the law in that specific fashion. There's also the risk that, to paraphrase kurt vonnegut, the moral will be to not go after people with friends.
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by cynest 14y ago
Thq is getting desperate it seems. Really hoping they're able get their next wave of games out before they go under.
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by cynest 14y ago
No. He stated that his uncle, the current leader, was a dictator.
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by cynest 14y ago
In this context, privilege is being used in the sense of, "he was a child of privilege."
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by cynest 14y ago
>- Prescriptions are in units of pills, not nanograms of active substance While that level of precision would be nice, pills are delineated by dosage so you can simply give 100mg of substance to one patient, and 200mg to another.
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by cynest 14y ago
> It's not hard to imagine a near future, if not a present, in which a person's identity is entirely evaluated, shaped, and determined by a monolith such as facebook. I don't think this is entirely correct. I think that facebook is bett
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by cynest 14y ago
And that's even assuming that Avengers should have been categorized as scifi.
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by cynest 14y ago
I feel that there is a still stronger form of the argument out there. Or maybe it's closely related. It incorporates what you just said as well as the fact that intelligence != social status. If I could figure out how to properly word it, I
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by cynest 14y ago
This implies that a specific target is necessary. Anywhere with people is usable.
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by cynest 14y ago
There's another possible point here: preventing people from signing up as teens ups the difficulty for targeting teens.
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by cynest 14y ago
That's disappointing.
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by cynest 14y ago
Even though I had no clue about actual economics at the time, this is what I saw as so screwy in runescape. A lot of the ingame money came from alchemy. A few clever people had figured out that the two of the highest tier bows were easy to
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by cynest 14y ago
> From melting icecaps to near constant nuclear war its a sign of an AI that that too easily bounces from one extreme to another. Strategy games put the player in the role of the fascist dictator. Your goal is to further your own nation

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