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by mediumdeviation 11y ago
It's not a bad game, especially for its price, but remember that this is a town, not city building game. That means that there is a hard limit to the size of the town - any bigger, and the agents (citizens) will literally starve to dea
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by mediumdeviation 11y ago
Because even a 'simple' email need to carry significant amounts of information, all with varying levels of importance. A newsletter will multiple items will need headings (for people to scan through if they're short on time),
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by mediumdeviation 11y ago
Well, all Moonies have to do to see the Earth is to travel to the opposite side of it, whereas to do the opposite from Earth requires launching a vehicle out of the planet's atmosphere, across the orbit of the Moon, and back to Earth a
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by mediumdeviation 11y ago
Disagree. The 'market' is far less important when the good you're selling takes up no tangible shelf space - people have been buying games just fine without Steam for decades before Steam, and still are. Steam itself, by dint
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by mediumdeviation 11y ago
I understand his argument about gatekeepers, but Steam is a poor example. Steam itself provides so much more than a simple storefront as he describes it. By selling on Steam you also get Steam API, which gives you - Achievements - Leaderboa
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by mediumdeviation 11y ago
The lawyer's words don't pass the smell test. > “I don’t know with 100% certainty, ma’am, but I would guess that [Urbanovsky and the single seller] probably are [the same person],” her lawyer Steven Lefler told BuzzFeed News. H
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by mediumdeviation 11y ago
Copied from my comment when this was posted to r/Singapore subreddit - The source indicates the site is generated using CKAN ( http://ckan.org/ ). Never heard of it myself, but it is F/OSS, and widely used in other
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by mediumdeviation 11y ago
That's interesting, but how is any commodity able to have it's price pushed down by a single seller dumping from a fixed reserve? If the market notice that the extra supply is coming from a fixed reserve, then they'd rightly
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by mediumdeviation 11y ago
Ideas and concepts are not usually considered intellectual property, and cannot receive protection or be assigned ownership. Barring any agreement otherwise, the code's copyright belongs to the individual developer who wrote it, though
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Soviet Bus Stops(maptia.com)
1 points by mediumdeviation 11y ago|0 comments
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Fonts can only be installed on Windows 10 when Windows Firewall is enabled(superuser.com)
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by mediumdeviation 11y ago
How many other ways are there to title an article explaining, essentially, what is computer code? "The Economist Explains" is a regular column where the newspaper (not magazine, mind you, the Economist is very particular about tha
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by mediumdeviation 11y ago
> Remove "(site) is now fullscreen" nag message and make it faster For a list that want to make the browser more secure, why do they want to remove the only line of defense against sites using fullscreen mode for phishing? >
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by mediumdeviation 11y ago
I think you're reading too much into his words. I don't see it as any different from a trainspotting enthusiasts lamenting the fact that the Harry Potter films used a CGI locomotive instead of a real 19th century steam train. If t
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by mediumdeviation 11y ago
Doesn't the author also add in the average additional years lived without disability (5 years, according to his source, which is adjusted to 2.5 years in terms of lifespan)? Sure, we all live a lot better lived with access to medicine,
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by mediumdeviation 11y ago
The ad runs on reddit - https://imgur.com/Yg75peI.png . I'm not sure where else it runs. I've never seen a charity run an ad that literally gives you money to give back to them. It's such an interesting strate
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Charity Watsi (YC W13) is giving away 1000 $10 gift cards through ad campaigns(watsi.org)
1 points by mediumdeviation 11y ago|1 comments
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by mediumdeviation 11y ago
And neither is reddit's. I'm sure /r/programming, /r/mylittlepony and /r/NeutralPolitics, just to take a few examples, would find it very amusing if they see people accusing them of being 'incuba
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Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2015: The Results(blog.stackoverflow.com)
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by mediumdeviation 13y ago
Why wouldn't it be detectable? Ad blockers do their job by removing elements from the page, blocking requests to URLs that match those used to serve advertisements, or a combination both, and either one of those are easily detectable b
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by mediumdeviation 13y ago
This doesn't seem to be a good idea curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false); https://github.com/Mashape/unirest-php/blob/master/lib/Unire...
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by mediumdeviation 13y ago
The same is true for most sites, even Stack Exchange, because of COPPA as mentioned below. If you mention openly anywhere that you're below 13, moderators are obliged to delete your account (since they can't keep your personal inf
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by mediumdeviation 13y ago
Ha, what a strange place to find my weekend project[1] appearing on. I didn't put it up on that site, though I don't really mind it being there. If you look on the bottom of the page, you'll find the source on GitHub, and yes
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by mediumdeviation 13y ago
It's a HTML5 form element: http://developers.whatwg.org/the-button-element.html#the-pro... . It might be somewhat difficult to style, though.
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Reddit is currently experiencing a malicious DDoS attack(twitter.com)
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by mediumdeviation 13y ago
Normally I don't comment (at all) on posts like this, but this is just bad. The comments overlay cover up the very text that you're suppose to be reading. This disrupts the reading flow, making it hard to find my way back to where I was rea
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by mediumdeviation 13y ago
The bug mentioned still appears to be open, though there's progress: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/accountsservice/+b... The code mentioned in the post is also still in the latest version of the package's code on Launchpad: h
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by mediumdeviation 13y ago
Uh, duplicates always have the question that they are a duplicate of linked - http://i.imgur.com/1lata16.png . In fact, if you don't see this it's probably a bug and you should report it http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/ask?tags=
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by mediumdeviation 13y ago
Only partially. It's a combined measure of your knowledge and participation on the site. > As a registered user, your reputation on the site is a part of your identity on the site. It reflects, to an extent, your familiarity with the si
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by mediumdeviation 14y ago
As far as I can tell it's a non-standard Webkit function. See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=403510 and https://gist.github.com/hsablonniere/2581101

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