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Comment · 10 years ago
Twitter's rules say they can remove your verified status at any time for violating their ToS. It's pretty obvious that Milo has violated their ToS many, many times, so he's not verified anymore. Don't know what the big deal about that is.
Comment · 11 years ago
I'm not quite sure what you're confused about. The gender inequality that still exists. It's pretty straightforward.
Comment · 11 years ago
That's why I said "popularized by," not "invented by." The Nazis co-opted a lot of things that weren't theirs, but they're now known for being used by the Nazis. The swastika is a good example: definitely not invented by the Nazis, but popularized and pretty much taken over by the Nazis.
Comment · 11 years ago
When you're advocating the creation of superhumans using terminology popularized by the Nazis, you sound pretty Hitlery.
Comment · 11 years ago
The important part isn't the alloy. I mean, yeah, it gives them a leg up - but there's nobody willing to put in the time and money to figure out what's in their cymbals, because it's just more worth it to make your own.

The Zildjian name is more valuable than any of their cymbals. If you don't buy Zildjian cymbals, it's because they're too expensive, or it's because you don't like the sound. It's a better idea for a company to go and make a cymbal that fills one of the other niches in the market than to try to replace Zildjian.

It's sort of like Coca-Cola's secret recipe. If you wanted to put the time and effort into it, you could figure out what's in it. But why bother? Coca-Cola's success is due to the brand, not to the taste.

Comment · 11 years ago
Lots of services limit usernames to a certain range of characters, but some don't. However, there's tons of invisible unicode characters that you can use instead, so even without this one, the problem would still exist.
Comment · 11 years ago
Unit can already export to HTML5. Since this uses Emscripten and Unity uses some sort of custom IL->JS, the performance probably isn't much better.
Comment · 11 years ago
Part of HTTPS is making sure that the person you're talking to is the person you think you're talking to.
Comment · 11 years ago
"You?" I'm a man too.
Comment · 11 years ago
It's not, though. He ordered the drugs, meaning that all the needed was confirmation that it was really him that ordered the drugs - signing for the package is enough evidence. That's enough for an arrest anyways, and probably enough for probable cause.

Can we stop jerking about how the cops are the REAL criminals here? DPR was in no way a good person.

Comment · 11 years ago
> I got kidnapped by the swedish government and locked up for my work with another project – The Pirate Bay.

That's called "being arrested for breaking the law."

Comment · 11 years ago
MongoDB is a fun toy database right now, nothing more. Unless you have the resources to fix every problem that comes up, you should use a mature database like Postgres or MySQL (MySQL is not as terrible as some might think).
Comment · 11 years ago
It uses html2canvas which is its own rendering engine to an extent.
Comment · 11 years ago
Using fallacies while not understanding them makes you look like an idiot. Just FYI.

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