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Comment · 10 years ago
I've listened to some LibriVox recordings of public domain works, notably A Princess of Mars. The price was right at the time, though the quality was, as you say, remarkably subpar. If I could have had a neural net read me the book instead of having to change with narrators changing every chapter, that would have been preferable.

That said, I have money now, so give me Todd McLaren narrating Altered Carbon for the cost of an Audible Credit every time.

Comment · 10 years ago
Agreed. That's the kind of image that will be greatly enhanced by the faked software bokeh coming in a software update soon.
Comment · 10 years ago
If you clone it on your local machine you also won't receive any automatic updates.
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Comment · 10 years ago
From what little I understand, a Dyson Sphere would require so much material in terms of heavy elements that you'd have a great deal of trouble building a significant number of them even if you were raiding the entire universe for these materials. But like I said, I understand very little (and would love clarification).
Comment · 10 years ago
Too much so, for me, but it came with a nice soundtrack/playlist.
Comment · 10 years ago
Huh. I actually used Bitcoin to buy Crashlands through the dev's Humble link since they said they get a larger cut there than through Steam, and I decided to cash out my Stellar (or whatever those morphed into recently) which worked out nicely for me. I guess they don't accept Bitcoin for some of their bundles which could then be resold on shady websites.
Comment · 10 years ago
Not surprising given the incredible overwhelming number of people trying to play the game. I knew it would be huge, I never imagined it would be the phenomenon it is. (Go to a park at lunch or after work if you don't know what I'm talking about. Any park in the country.)
Comment · 10 years ago
If you create a Pokestop, they will come. One thing Niantic did was turn certain businesses into portals - Pokemon Go could make many times more money with a similar deal.
Comment · 10 years ago
"Two things have always been true about human beings. One, the world is always getting better. Two, the people living at that time think it`s getting worse."

- Penn Jillette

Of course, the full context of the statement transforms this from a head nodder into a well reasoned argument:

"It's because you get older, your responsibilities are different. Now I'm taking care of children instead of being a child. It makes the world look scarier. That happens to everyone."

Comment · 10 years ago
That image of the square cut deep dish is so very NSWH. Heck, I'm fully sated at the moment and I want that in my mouth right now. I may have to plan a trip to Chicago.
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Comment · 10 years ago
The retrial had very little to do with Serial, and everything to do with the fact that the prosecution withheld a cover page from one of their star witnesses which would have caused him not to give the testimony he gave had he seen it. That's it. A key piece of "evidence" was the Leakin Park call, and the cover sheet that was withheld states that the location data from the Leakin Park call (an incoming call) is not reliable information.

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