Gods I miss the days when I got so excited for a Windows release. Now it's nothing but a constant stream of "fuck you-s" from Microsoft. I'd give anything to see a Windows install screen and smile again.
Xbox Live Gold. I'd call, give them my account details, and the rep would tell me it was canceled. Three months later, another bill. Called my bank and had my card replaced, three months later somehow again another bill on my new card. After that I figured out what was going on and managed to cancel the account. I was a teenager at the time.
I spent half a year being charged monthly by Microsoft because Google considers my email address the same whether or not it has a period in it but Microsoft had somehow split my account into two based on that difference.
This is a good point. There are several other metrics by which larger-massed animals are more efficient than smaller ones, such as oxygen usage per kg of body mass. Perhaps a similar effect is applicable to brains?
Oh I'm not saying we will. I'm just saying that even taking the claimed effect at face value, it only has significance if it can hurt our genetic intelligence faster than engineering can improve it.
Like most looming disasters, whether or not this is a real problem depends on quantifying the problem. Is this likely to significantly affect the population intelligence before we learn to engineer our children, say within the next 200 years?
I just don't understand how everyone but me seems to just be okay with not knowing where left click stops and right click starts. They're just fine with having the pointer jiggle around whenever they click because their thumb doesn't stay perfectly centered while pressing down.
I'm not sure I understand what you mean. I was trying to make the point it's not as surprising as it first seems that these edge cases become well known. Cases regarding the right not to divulge your passwords involving someone accused of having child pornography, cases about whether the government can force companies to backdoor smartphones involving a terrorist, etc.
I'm curious what the mechanism is for it being more dangerous for a 25 year old than a 35 year old. What about the ostensibly healthier person's body is different?
Controversy naturally adheres to these edge cases. If Rittenhouse wasn't a law breaking idiot, there'd be no story. Similarly, if his actions weren't in self defense, there would also be much less story. Because you have someone who made demonstrably bad decisions and broke the law in several ways but to all evidence did not break the law in the most important way, you have a situation primed for engagement of the public and use as a political tool. Whatever your stance is, complexities like these give you the ability to project your argument onto them and thus become more about what you think the current state of society is than the actual case itself.
Personally I find it remarkable how well legal commentators who viewed the footage shortly after it happened predicted how the trial would go. The trial itself and the reactions of various interest groups have been completely unsurprising.
Fascinating. I've never heard of someone moving abroad because they were conservative. HN frowns on political discussion but have you written anything on the subject?
Absolutely. Getting ratio'd is one of the few ways users have to express displeasure. They took away video replies, comments are often disabled, but they can't pretend everyone likes their video. At least they couldn't until now. That Verge PC build that would destroy your parts if you followed it? That horrible soulless YouTube Rewind? Logan Paul's "sorry I exploited suicide victims for views" video? Dislikes are a force for good. I can count the videos I've seen unfairly disliked on one hand.
Always been fascinating to me that we only bolt a heat sink onto one side of the board. Nobody's come up with a circuit board material that's electrically insulating but thermally conductive so we could sink an appreciable amount of heat out of the back side?
In the Raptor's case, the ambient air contained 2.821 ppm of total hydrocarbons, and the amount of total hydrocarbons coming out the Raptor's tailpipe measured 2.639 ppm.
What's the point of comparing small outdoor engines to things that don't emit hydrocarbons?
More likely it's just because cycles existed before the safety regulations and there would be too much backlash to banning them. Plenty of other things that only harm yourself, like drugs or unpasteurized milk are also illegal.
It's rather astonishing that all the safety regulations for cars manage to exist in the same legal system that allows motorcycles on public roads at all. Last I read the death risk ratio was about 24x.
I found it fascinating he appears to be a farmer yet he's wearing a vest and tie. Is he dressed up for the interview or is that normal? I can't imagine the nightmare of sweaty chafing I would be if I tried to do a physical job dressed like that.
That's wild. Is there any other case where someone gets to keep stolen property as long as they didn't know it was stolen? I have to say if I was in the victim's position, my reaction would probably land me in prison for longer than the fraudster.
As long as the writers are making enough money to produce their best output, the ideal situation is as long a tail as possible. The greater the variety of author, the greater the variety of books.
Exactly. Sure, Last of Us has the story of a generic zombie movie. But in a way, that was my twelve year old daughter I watched die. I don't think it's fair to criticize games for not having as good a story as a novel when you'd never imagine criticizing a music album for not having as good a story as a novel.