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Comment · 4 years ago
The ticket prices start high and are gradually reduced at a set rate until they reach a pre-defined minimum. The idea being that scaplers can't profit off of purchasing early since the official clearinghouse is lowering the price all the time.

People have to make a judgement call on the value of the tickets and purchase at an appropriate time.

Comment · 4 years ago
The assignment to match returns undefined. The value of match is null.
Comment · 4 years ago
The pennies were in payment of his final paycheck. The suit is in regard to unrelated wage theft from unpaid overtime and discrimination/retaliation (presumably for reporting the wage theft), as well as failure to maintain required records.
Comment · 5 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
To your point, I think that you could generate the duplicate geometry pretty easily but the issue would be making sure no overlapping sectors were visible at the same time, as that would cause glitches in the Build engine.

You might be able to subdivide the build engine's sectors into visleaves (borrowing terminology from Source) and clip all sectors in the mirror-verse according to the aperture + view-frustrum. To work correctly you'd need to do this every frame, probably an unthinkably huge task for the hardware at the time.

Comment · 5 years ago
Unfortunately, they are being purchased by DISH network.
Comment · 5 years ago
This way the driver can put mail in suburban mailboxes without leaving the seat (while driving on the right side of the road).
Comment · 5 years ago
Yes, this is very much a "dad's in charge, mom said so" moment.
Comment · 5 years ago
> they often backup everything in a central location like Whatsapp/Telegram/Signal which put everything in your Google account without any additional crypto layers

I don't know about the others but I don't think Signal does this. Signal offers the user the ability to backup their messages, and lets them password protect them, but the way you've written this implies Signal is uploading messages to Google of its own volition, unencrypted, which afaik is not the case.

Comment · 5 years ago
Who decides that they are "different matters"?
Comment · 5 years ago
Doesn't the magnetic data on the disks fade over that time scale?
Comment · 5 years ago
Are you sure? I was under the impression that, for instance, diamond's value is mostly manufactured, but gold is actually useful for various electronic and chemical properties.
Comment · 5 years ago
I agree it could take years to get right, which is why app developers should not pigeonhole themselves into immature stores.
Comment · 5 years ago
Same with Architect. It's use in software is completely unregulated compared to Registered Architect (the equivalent to P.Eng).
Comment · 5 years ago
I thought it got delisted because CDPR said they'd refund people and Sony said we-dont-do-that-here and went nuclear?

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