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by msg 13y ago
To the Moon Buy this bundle for To the Moon, for poignant feelings. Surgeon Simulator 2013, for ridiculous laughing.
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by msg 13y ago
At the top of the article is a Netflix genre generator. That is worth the price of admission all by itself. But then there's a fairly entertaining look into what happened to content at Netflix after the million dollar challenge.
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by msg 13y ago
FYI the guy's name is actually Patrick Nielsen Hayden. He's an award-winning editor for Tor. http://nielsenhayden.com/name.html
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by msg 13y ago
Is this just a bottom line of their donations through customer purchases of Humble Bundles? That is, when people buy Humble Bundle X, they can specify the money goes to charity, the developers, or Humble. Watsi has been a featured charity a
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by msg 13y ago
Yes. http://www.livingunderdrones.org/numbers/ There are no 100% solid estimates because of problems with reliable sources, but here are a couple of links to get you started. http://natsec.newamerica.net&#x2
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by msg 13y ago
I think the headline is a fair cop, especially because the first question right out of the gate is, is $61K for a year of Cornell too expensive? Ariely says "It's too cheap," and goes on from there about the value of in-perso
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Dan Ariely: At $61K a Year, College Is a Bargain(pbs.org)
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by msg 13y ago
This notion makes sense to me. The more public or quotidian your thoughts and behavior, the greater chance that people will be able to nail you down. And there are interesting feedback loops when you go public, then people expect you to con
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by msg 13y ago
Right, when preferences are in conflict do you protect the person who cares or the person who doesn't? Also privacy is like a thermodynamic arrow. You can't unspread a secret or make public information private. So you shouldn&#x27
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by msg 13y ago
Just a shot across the bow. If we continue to see blanket obstructionism on legislation, I expect to see the filibuster limited there too (or made more difficult). That is when the cannonballs will start flying.
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by msg 13y ago
Beside the point, but the graphics are a little hard to read because they don't range from strong approve to strong disapprove. The first graph is: Strong approve Approve Strong disapprove Disapprove Neutral It would mak
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by msg 13y ago
I can personally recommend the following from this batch: Don't Starve: a brilliant, brutal wilderness survival game. Great sound and art. Mine/craft cycles combined with a lot of world to explore and secrets to uncover, and perma
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by msg 13y ago
The reason to call it a spectrum is that the affected have often the same underlying mental and behavioral patterns, but spread across a wide range of severity from high functioning to uncommunicative. I don't know how helpful it is to
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by msg 13y ago
For my family it involved speech therapy, occupational therapy, and early classroom and social experiences. Autism is a wide spectrum, but it often involves speech delays, trouble empathizing with others, repetitive behaviors, and a desire
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by msg 13y ago
A lot hinges on the definition of "servers" being used. And how the question was put to Alexander. If there's even one alternate interpretation he can say No. Another non-denial denial. He is talking at lawyer-level now. This
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by msg 13y ago
Unfortunately Season 2 just wrapped up for the year. They won't be going again until Binding of Isaac: Rebirth comes out. Here's the website though. http://boilr.org
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by msg 13y ago
This article has an interesting meta about the conflict between the gourmet and environmental protection approaches to exotic wildlife, that itself is half food article and half human interest story about octopus punching. Worth the read.
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by msg 13y ago
Each time the survey appears you can elect whether or not to participate. If you are a Linux user currently dropped into Windows to whom this issue of OS identity matters, you can opt out.
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by msg 13y ago
Hear my kind tone of voice encouraging you to engage. If you feel that hypocrisy gives you a free pass to avoid engaging with a very deep belief system with a philosophical head start on you of no less than centuries, and your capsule summa
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by msg 13y ago
The "Catholic values" you criticize and approve of are not "catholic". Forgive the pun. Edit: I see a way to read your statement as saying that Duquesne has a twisted view of Catholic values. Which I could agree with. Ho
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by msg 13y ago
It's a bit of a stretch to believe that the Nintendo 64 developers on boxed cartridge software foresaw a day when someone would try to "cheat" using an emulator and specifically coded against it. You can't use save state
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by msg 13y ago
I too love this bundle. Pretty awesome that the three charities are Watsi, Child's Play, and EFF. The games are all very distinct from each other and top notch. My three favorites: Fez: a perspective-altering puzzle platformer. It&#x27
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by msg 13y ago
If your fingerprints go on a fraud list, you can't get new ones. You can't repudiate your fingerprints. Similar, worse problems for iris and DNA. Imagine being on a watch list that you can't get off of. This is not a good roa
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by msg 13y ago
My college really just wanted algorithms and multivariable calculus. It probably varies from program to program. Another important consideration is what emphases the MS program will offer. Mine had tracks in AI, Software, Distributed System
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by msg 13y ago
My story is somewhat similar. I took a BA in Linguistics, worked for a while, then discovered computers. I spent a year on prerequisites and then did an MS in CS. I got good grades and did a thesis and it opened a lot of doors for me. Some
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by msg 13y ago
Going a little deeper, we are talking about a 53 man roster times 32 teams, only some percentage of which drive drunk with or without the program. How much impact does this actual issue have? What is the over/under on how many marginal
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by msg 13y ago
Re: 1, I guess I use myself as an example of a technologist who is aware of the moral implications of his work. I don't deny that there are sellouts and such. A technologist in the next decade is free to choose the work that catches th
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by msg 13y ago
Code Complete was my first book on engineering (the first edition). Even though the coding examples were in Ada and Pascal, I ate it up. It provides a lot of useful mental approaches to programming, and the reasons to code something one way
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by msg 13y ago
The essence of the argument is "tell me that you want the kind of thing that money just can't buy". The hypothesis is that the next generations will feel similar convictions, only more so. The counterargument that the NSA has
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by msg 13y ago
"A" hires "A"; "B" hires "C". And Generation Z's "A" players will not work for the NSA. You don't just need loyalists. You need loyalists who are good enough to operate your system

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