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Comment · 11 years ago
Even that view is Biocentric. Furthermore, the language of "the world is falling apart" is quite Geocentric, I mean c'mon, what year is it 2015 or 1515?
Comment · 11 years ago
That can't be true, right?
Comment · 11 years ago
perhaps the pilot doesn't have to divert much from their regular route to check in. Do they usually fly daily?
Comment · 11 years ago
phrasing!
Comment · 11 years ago
Very cool. I did something similar (but much less advanced) in math class where I generated something like a height map by "randomly" (I'd really just pick numbers that seemed good) assigning values to a grid and then subdividing the grid and linearly interpolating between points plus another "random" offset with a range that gets divided with each subdivision. It was a good way to pass time for someone who would rather have been playing dwarf fortress but only slightly understood the math behind perlin noise.
Comment · 11 years ago
If your form of government, or I guess in anarchocommunisms case form of non-government, can't protect and perpetuate itself then it isn't a very good system at all. It seems like that you are saying that anarchocommunisms failures aren't legitimate because they were stopped with violence and treachery. To a lot of people it seems like the entire point of a government is to organize ourselves into some form of hierarchy to protect ourselves against violence and treachery so anarchocommunism having not being able to do this is its ultimate failure.
Comment · 11 years ago
You "imagine" the effect is intensified but you don't actually have any evidence to support it. I've also worked at a restaurant as a waiter. Despite it being a very low end buffet where the food was cheap and wages low I identify completely with the article (except nobody had a stroke while I was working). The only real difference was that the author and his co-workers were much better at their jobs than me and my own co-workers.

Wealth is a big red herring in this story, but I guess its a story no one would be interested in without.

Comment · 11 years ago
Unfortunately it is hard to scientifically test the rule of cool
Comment · 11 years ago
I'm imagining alien life nearing earth and then deciding to head to the next inhabited planet once they notice the wifi has a password on it much like you or I might drive a little further down the road for free wifi.
Comment · 11 years ago
I'm not trying to make a value judgement, but isn't this sort of counter to how English is typically spoken? Adjectives usually come before the subject, for instance, one would say "look at that red car" and not... well I don't even really know how to organically word it any other way... "look at that car which is red" I guess. The latter sentence sounds very awkward to me.
Comment · 11 years ago
Manslaughter?

To me it looked like from the point in time that the assailant brandished the hammer to when he was shot the female police officer was within inches of having her head bashed in.

If I were in any danger I would not like you to be the one keeping me safe.

Comment · 11 years ago
On top of that in vanilla WoW people actually went through all the content in the game. People would complete most of the quests, go through the dungeons in your areas multiple times to get armor sets, and do PvP (open world and battlegrounds). It might take an hour or two to get together a group to do some of the less popular dungeons and Battlegrounds queue times could easily take upwards of 40 minutes. Open world PvP and ganking would almost always take a couple of hours as you had to sometimes infiltrate enemy territory to claim your victims.

Nowadays WoW feels more like a virtual lobby system for the dungeon finder/PvP queue rather than an actual MMORPG. No one really bothers to play the game as you would expect a traditional RPG to be played.

Comment · 11 years ago
It does have one. But the situation has to be very bad for enough people to be willing invoke it.
Comment · 11 years ago
Why would one want IPv4 address space so badly?

Is it so you can communicate with servers or clients that don't facilitate any form of IPv6?

Comment · 11 years ago
Do you know of any resources that go in depth into how different layouts affect parallelism?

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