delucain

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by delucain 8y ago
The game mentions that and says something like, "Deal with it. This is a game."
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by delucain 12y ago
Taking a subset of statistical average income is not the proper way to define the "Middle Class." It's better defined by what you can achieve with a specific income. Can you afford higher education both for you and your offsp
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by delucain 12y ago
They're on my list for sure.
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by delucain 12y ago
Black's opened a second location in Austin on Guadalupe near the University of Texas. I haven't tried it yet, but I'm curious.
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by delucain 12y ago
I'm not an expert, but I've had both (and dozens of others), I smoke my own brisket, and I feel like I have a decent understanding of it. Salt Lick mops their brisket with a mustard based sauce. They smoke their meats indoors over
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by delucain 12y ago
I bet you're looking forward to the last episode of HPMOR on Saturday.
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by delucain 12y ago
From what the article says, the city fears losing control over its local government because Google employees would outnumber the rest of the voting citizenship. They seem to want to handle this addition of houses and infrastructure slowly,
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by delucain 12y ago
My understanding is that the densely populated cities are the most sustainable form of living we do. It reduces carbon emissions because we need don't have to drive so far to get to the shops or work, and we can use public transportati
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by delucain 12y ago
In Austin AT&T and Grande (Local ISP) both started offering Gigabit shortly after the time Google announced Austin as a fiber city. It's working.
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by delucain 12y ago
Does this mean that one neuron can carry a signal that is more dense in data than a 0/1 binary spiking signal? Like a single neuron can transmit a complex feeling instead of just if it's touching something or not?
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by delucain 12y ago
But, have we (the US)? We're a good solid decade or two into the age of free-flowing information, and we are trending the other direction in a frighteningly fast pace. The middle class is gone. More wealth is getting concentrated to th
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by delucain 12y ago
I think you've hit it right on this. I'd also add that the cost variations probably do play a big factor into what piracy does exist. I'm a lot more likely to take a shot in the dark on a $7 indie game or even a $30 indie &qu
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by delucain 12y ago
Sure, it's a VERY extreme example of "First World Problems" or whatever the meme is, but do you want a job when the offer is a con from the start? What kind of relationship with your employer does that create?
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by delucain 12y ago
Journalistic flair?
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by delucain 12y ago
From around the same time period: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilton_Palacio_del_Rio
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by delucain 12y ago
They still only came under budget by half a MB. That stress they put into reducing it was very likely still entirely justified. It's like setting your alarm clock 10 minutes fast to hurry you out the door in the morning. Taking credit
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by delucain 12y ago
Ever since I heard about Betteridge's Law of Headlines, I can't stop applying it. It basically says the answer to any headline that is a question will be "no," because otherwise a demonstrative statement would sell bette
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by delucain 12y ago
Currently, they certainly are not. Our education systems (non-higher education) are largely designed to produce good workers for a manufacturing/labor economy that we're (relatively) quickly automating out of existence. And our hi
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by delucain 12y ago
That was a really great read.
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by delucain 12y ago
I too often find myself wondering this same thing. Anyone have any insight?
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by delucain 12y ago
Chrome's incognito mode is a good solution for this too.
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by delucain 12y ago
They seemed to come to this decision only when it was realized that they had no way of winning the fight. Hardly worth congratulating for.
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by delucain 12y ago
I would hardly say it's dead. It's just dead domestically for Germany. Germany imports a large quantity of power from France (which relies almost entirely a nuclear for production).
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by delucain 12y ago
Also, consider your local hackerspaces, co-op workshops, and community centers. Often a reasonable membership will get you access to some equipment that you'd never be able to afford (or at least justify buying) on your own. I've
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by delucain 12y ago
I don't understand it. Who are the police so afraid of that they need armored vehicles, assault rifles, and snipers? I can see a SWAT response for a hostage situation or a large scale gang arrest. In what rational world is it necessary
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by delucain 12y ago
Yeah, I don't think they replace drives in pods until they fail. Even if they're old 1TB models. The drive costs just outstrip their infrastructure costs by so much that 4 racks of 1TB drives is still cheaper than retrofitting eve
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by delucain 12y ago
I agree. What they're currently doing with the data doesn't even approach the totalitarian system from 1984, but the amount of data they are collecting on us (and the amount of data there is to collect) is magnitudes greater than
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by delucain 12y ago
But this isn't watching them going in and out of a crack house. This is watching all their movements after going in and out of a crack house. Still debatable, but I think your analogy didn't show how broad the scope of this would
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by delucain 12y ago
The end of the article says: "[Roscosmos] will have to wait until the satellite falls to Earth to know [what caused the communications interruption]." That sounds like they intend to de-orbit and recover the satellite to me. The r
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by delucain 12y ago
This is anecdotal and not the hard figures you're asking for, but I know in Austin both Grande and AT&T (two of the three ISPs in town) started offering gigabit packages. In almost all neighborhoods AT&T beat Google in getting

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