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1,300 | Oh neat! Is this the ~~$30,000~~ ~~$35,000~~ ~~$40,000~~ $45,000 model that was supposed to be the next project and come out in 2015? Oh..... no..... just another $75,000+ car for the wealthy that is being subsidized by taxpayers. | You realise the entire US car manufacturing industry is subsidised by the tax payer? How quickly people forget 2008 |
1,301 | Doesn't matter, they should still patch it. If manufacturers won't patch their phones to the at least Google won't be at fault. | They did push an update and a changelog online a while back. It's called KitKat. It fixed security issues, redesigned some of the launcher and bam. Update. |
1,302 | Taking Back Sunday gave us *Tell All Your Friends* check and mate, Brand New | Tell All Your Friends is the worst TBS album. Fight me. (happiness is being my favorite) |
1,303 | It was beautiful man. What a fucking film. I thought I had seen it before but there is no way I'd have forgotten that. I really really loved it. Had a great cast, wasn't any idle time on the screen where the plot isn't developing, and that conversation Calrences father had with the mob in the trailer was one of the most interesting scenes I've seen in a long time. I'm Sicilian and know the history so it was funny to see that thrown around in there. Thank you guys for the recommendation. | I had seen that movie many, many times before I noticed that he calls Duvall a cantaloupe right at the end. Awesome dialog. |
1,304 | I have a few first editions I keep hidden away. I gave away all the others and now I just use my Kindle app on my iPad or do audio books. I miss sharing or passing a book along, but I just don't have the room for them. | If I had first editions, I'd definitely hang on to them and keep them in good shape. To me, that's a point outside of mass book ownership and more like asset management. |
1,305 | To be fair apparently the character was based off one of her old teachers. It's entirely possible Snape is just a somewhat exaggerated version of that teacher. | This is the first time I ever considered making that connection. Then again, I wasn't as aware of stereotypes and their associations as a kid, I just figured Snape had some bad shampoo and nose size was random. All of the Harry Potter characters are exaggerated one way or another, and it's implied that this is partially a symptom of being a witch or wizard. |
1,306 | Alexander conquered Persia, Greece, Egypt, and Syria by the time he was our age. I've racked up some student loans and masturbated twice today. | To be fair, he was born absurdly wealthy with an existing army. |
1,307 | They shot some of this in the brewery one random day, so I listened to them sing it a few times. Was a pretty cool day at work and yup, I love this song too. | You work at a brewery and everyday isn't a cool day? |
1,308 | > Google is the new Microsoft. > Not to say this is necessarily a bad thing. How could it not be? Microsoft did some pretty horrible crap during the 15 years that they were the gorilla in the industry. | >How could it not be? [a bad thing] Because the logic "A shares a trait with B, therefore A has all traits of B" is crappy logic? |
1,309 | Pretty sure it's called One of Four, a bonus track at the end of the song Maintenance. One of his best songs in my opinion. Atmosphere's *Little Man* is similarly raw. Worth checking out if you haven't already heard it. | The verses in little man are great. One to his son, one to his father, one to himself. Damn. |
1,310 | Who would you prefer? I don't actually have a solid person in mind, but I do think Nathan Fillion could pull him off. | I've never really thought about it too much to be honest, I don't consider myself knowledgeable enough to make astute casting choices for him. What confuses me though it what will his films be called when he becomes Giant-Man, and his other aliases? |
1,311 | This is a neat little French band. The album that this song is from is pretty amazing | The video really made the musics story pop for me honestly a really good band. |
1,312 | ...also cost issues. And I don't just mean the cost of purchasing it when new. When your gaming desktop gets a bit long in the tooth you can swap out the GFX card to give it a new lease of life for a few years (and keep swapping out parts every few years indefinitely). When your gaming laptop starts showing its age you have to either accept it and not play newer games or bin the whole thing and buy a brand new one. They're like games consoles in that respect except when you replace a console you don't also have to replace the perfectly good screen you're using. | I disagree. When your gaming laptop starts showing its age it just becomes a regular laptop. Who really cares if its a little thicker? My Samsung with a 600 series GPU can play most things on medium or high settings...It will eventually be retired to be a media laptop connected to my tv or a coffee table laptop. |
1,313 | I’m saying it’s a fools errand and could potentially do more damage than good by providing a false sense of security. Instead of fortifying the system against attacks, you’re just trying to close random doors in a castle in an attempt to keep threats out. | You seem dead-set on the assumption that an adblocker is the Only thing anyone is implementing in an enterprise level network... Just stop already. |
1,314 | It's not that iOS is very safe, it's just that the competition is so awful. IMO. | An encrypted iPhone is more secure than an encrypted android phone? |
1,315 | And I'm saying that using those same locations would make it all the more obvious. Basically saying that the WHOIS result doesn't really offer any kind of even mildly conclusive evidence, for one side or the other. Feel free to draw your own conclusion, but that's mine. | I'm saying your conclusion makes 0 fucking sense when they have explicitly *wanted* that level of attachment since so many fans make shit like what's linked here so they do that as a way to prove that it's actually them. |
1,316 | At the time I seen it, [the office building staircase scene in The Grudge] Something about that movie just scares the hell out of me, I still watch it every once in a while. Two movies that got to me after a while, like laying in bed then have to turn on the light to fall asleep... Mothman Prophecies, when that woman turns away really quick. And in Lake Mungo, the picture the girl has on her phone. Creepy as holy hell. | That whole movie scared the shit out of me. Still does, to the extent I wont watch it again. I'm 33 years old and I'm scared of a fucking movie. The part that gets me the most is that the creepy stuff happens *during the daytime too*. In a house that on the outside looks perfectly normal. Like ghosts can get you without any kind of environmental prerequisite. ^Im ^looking ^over ^my ^shoulder ^now.. |
1,317 | No, in the script the characters are Australian workers for the LeQuint Dickey company. Source: [Screenplay] | Awww! They cut so much out! I know that the movie was much longer, but had to be cut. Does QT do directors cuts? |
1,318 | Some people don't have cable, you know. The only way to know what will be on is the internet or the TV guide in the newspaper. | Sky is a UK channel, all of the Uk is on satellite called Freeview. Every Tv must have a guide as there is no alternative. |
1,319 | I thought the first episode of Mr. Mercedes was good though, and I've heard very good things about castle rock. so you know, as far as King adaptations go you're not hurting to bad. | Yes, Castle Rock has been superrr good so far. I'm scared to give Mr. Mercedes a try tho... that's my favorite King work |
1,320 | Haven't read that one yet, but I know is a part of a huge connected universe. | Not that you would be able to answer then but would it make more sense when I've read other ones. It just seems disconnected to me, on its own. |
1,321 | The limb by limb disassembling of Hangouts continues. Adios, Hangouts. It's been fun but Allo and Android Messages are better apps. | Maybe if allo and messages got all the features *of* hangouts |
1,322 | Define "his own music." Was this from your personal library, or soundrecordings you own the copyright in? If it wasn't the latter, Grooveshark still would have needed a license from the copyright owner to stream it. | My own music. That I made. Work that I creatively constructed and put out under the creative commons license. |
1,323 | The fact that people can say it is a reboot of several different movies only shows that this is a prevalent story arc and theme in our culture. Stop hating things just because they were popular. | Which goes to show that there are no original ideas in Hollywood and everything including Avatar is an adaptation, sequel, or reboot. |
1,324 | Agreed, it did have some stupidity here and there, but stellar action scenes and a short running time redeem it considerably. | There was one stellar action scene, and it wasn't actually stellar. |
1,325 | She's playing the sprint while Sinead is suggesting an alternate path for a marathon. Kids generally prefer the sprint because it's more exciting and they simply lack the experience and foresight to plan for a marathon and it's the older ones who have already gone through the process who recognize the failings of a sprint. And then the younger generation, fueled by extreme self-confidence and narcissism and angst, will completely disregard the sage and relevant advice of their stodgy elders. And so the cycle continues. | She could sprint finish and invest her cash into a different, more stable industry. Or several. She can probably afford a good financial advisor. |
1,326 | There are better subs for tech support. That said, you need to initialize that disk. Right click on the disk name and select initialize. Then you will have to right click in the unallocated area and create a partition, the default options should be fine. | Do not provide support in this subreddit. Direct questions to /r/techsupport or /r/24hoursupport |
1,327 | Please read our self promotion rules carefully. We do not allow market research in /r/books. | Ah, it wasn't in the rules in the sidebar, my bad. One note: I glanced at the extended rules (after your message) and I almost missed the part you were talking about since a non-specific question about e-books is not a *3.1: Promotional posts, comments and/or flairs of any type.* It might be good to break the "market research" ban into its own section for easier recognition since that really doesn't fall under the heading. |
1,328 | What's bullshit to you may not be bullshit to me. The song has a lot of emotion in it. I have a hard time connecting with their other stuff. | I'd try "The Tourist," "Black Star," "Lucky" and, for their newer stuff, "Give Up the Ghost" if you're going for emotional Radiohead! |
1,329 | explain how your comment contributes positively to the discussion and I'll upvote you. | Is doesn't. I just like being a goof. I've read the comments and yes. Pitch perfect already has a built in audience. A rated R movie has almost no chance these days to make a big buck. But 40 mill is not bad. They'll make it back eventually. So there. Down vote. Up vote . I don't care. |
1,330 | let me preface this by saying Nabokov is my favorite author ever. my top five books of all time are Pale Fire, The Blind Assassin, Infinite Jest, Lolita and To kill a Mockingbird, in that order. Windup Bird would be a close sixth. oh god do I despise Russian classics: Doestoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, etc. I cannot do it. every novel feels like a short story that could have been twenty pages but was drawn out to five hundred plus pages. page upon page describing a meal *shudders* ugh. I know it is just my opinion (and likely unpopular since people love Anna Karenina - which is Tolstoy) but I can't stand Doestoevsky's work, not because they are about Russians, but I do very much dislike them. | Well, Chekhov is specifically known for his short stories - if you're interested in giving him a real shot. |
1,331 | Hey guys hope you enjoy. Been making these videos for a little while. Any feedback is welcome! | The apple operating system is known as OSX rather than 'Mac OS'. Apart from that good video, helpful to educate n00bs. Do you work in tech support? |
1,332 | It's an amazing film... Better check out Leone's other films if you haven't already. | I've seen the standard Clint ones, of course, but somehow never got around to watching this one. Netflix FTW. |
1,333 | You seem to have missed the point. It's illegal to enter the country fraudulently. Period. Full stop. | Ok we get it, you're an arbiter of truth and justice. Well done and all that jazz. Still doesn't change my opinion that this is absurd. |
1,334 | Dilemma? Son, you ain't seen nothin' yet: Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo. I feel like Beetlejuice should appear now or something. | Not Beetlejuice, but a buffalo will come trample you when you least expect it. |
1,335 | they had a scene in Season 4 of Arrested Development - also twin related humor in that. | I don't think I remember that. Will check it out now. edit. I can't find which one. [IMDb] has not got it listed. |
1,336 | I'm curious as to why you hate it? I found it delightful. | I liked it, but I totally admit that it was weirdly Forrest-Gump-like. |
1,337 | Are you high? Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, The Shining, Carrie etc etc | You do understand the number of box-office bombs and tv series King greatly outnumbered his successful ones. |
1,338 | Yeah I don't really have any opinion of all this. I just wanted to point out how much of a slap fight this all is. It seems like people spend a little too much time on reddit sometimes and they forget how ridiculous it is to snap at someone on the internet. | Ah yes, the mighty moral high ground of someone who is on Reddit so much that they feel the need to try to police behavior. Listen, if you have an opinion on topic, and want to share it, go for it. Otherwise you can blow your judgmental reviews right out of your ass :) Also, for what it's worth, I just said Speilberg sucked, it was girafa that started name calling, so why don't you post this in response to one of HIS posts. But I'm sure he'll enjoy it as much as I did. |
1,339 | Anything by Grisham. Also, Brave New World. The number of times the word "indefatigable" is used by Huxley is basis alone for me to never read it again. | Why would you hate anything by Grisham? Don't you think your bias is against the author and not with his works? I'd understand you if all of Grisham's works were legal thrillers but he's delved into non-fiction, sports fiction, and laid back country drama. I'm not the dude's biggest fan but his writing is better than his contemporaries like James Patterson, Child, and even Crichton. He's actually one of the few really mainstream novelists whose prose I can stand and that's saying much cause I don't really like those kinds of novelists and I stick to classics and contemporary classics. |
1,340 | >The Reddit hip hop community was in uproar, claiming Aesop would absolutely be #1. Is it any surprise that the Reddit community was excited to prove that a white rapper had the largest vocabulary? | More proof that there is nothing white people can't steal and improve upon./S |
1,341 | Many Rush fans know about the movie featuring an unknown teenage Alex, but here's the link if you don't. | Such a great, rare look at Alex in those days... |
1,342 | After having moved to Atlanta from Los Angeles a couple years ago I can tell you that you people have it easy! Everyone here complains about traffic but LA is soooo much worse. The lack of traffic is one of my favorite things about Atlanta. | Atlantas bad traffic has always felt as bad to me, its just that its not literally all day long like in LA. |
1,343 | Their ad to me said the first three are free. | Medium allows their users to post articles behind a paywall, but they don't have to if they don't want to. |
1,344 | she was passed around to the pedos as a kid. ? | ...Kinda well known she was abused, along with a whole lot of young actors/actresses.[ Casting in hollywood] is known to be incredibly predatory. |
1,345 | I think it could work. Even the nolan trilogy was far from realistic, It was grittier and less ridicolous than the comics, but had no ties to scientific accuracy. Some supernatural stuff is hinted at. If Bruce's Batman is the first superhero, and all the other superheros are less powerful than their comic counterparts (the direction superman seems to be taking) I could see John's Batman interacting with Superman. | What makes you think Man of Steel will portray a less powerful Superman? |
1,346 | where did those average numbers come from? Or is OP talking about discounts that Amazon gives? | OP is looking at a 50% discount price. You can see that right on the website if you look it up on your own. The hardcover original price is $28. Open any hardcover book and see the real price on the inside flap - nearly always over $20, usually around $25-$30. Trade paperbacks are usually about $15-$20. And mass market are usually around $8-$10. Those are the prices you'd pay in a physical bookstore without any special discount. I worked in a bookstore for many years, and those prices are not much higher than they were 20 years ago, except for the mass market paperbacks which have slowly crept up over the years. |
1,347 | You’re telling me that you would invest tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars into a machine and then put it in the hands of a computer? I think not. Not currently. | Uh, you mean like SpaceX’s self-landing reusable rockets that rendezvous with a self-driving barge in the middle of the ocean? You think a human is piloting either of those machines? Uhhh, no. No human is capable of reacting at the time scale needed to make those adjustments and no two humans could coordinate those two vehicles properly to balance the forces upon landing. Multiple computers are sharing data with each other and working together. Humans can design the feedback control systems. Humans cannot control the systems. |
1,348 | First half of the trailer I thought it was some kind of YA take on James Bond, looked lame, only after I noticed Matthew Vaughn's name did I start to actually pay attention. | Trailer starts: "Oh, cool, YA spy movie, might be okay..." Rated R & directed by Matthew Vaugn: "Oh fuck yes, I'm going to this." |
1,349 | >pop2. >päp/ >noun. >noun: pop music. >1. >commercial popular music, in particular accessible, tuneful music of a kind popular since the 1950s and sometimes contrasted with rock, soul, or other forms of popular music. I see what you're trying to say, but not everything that's popular is "pop." Popular rock like Elvis and Queen are rock. "Pop music" is an entirely different genre. | You are looking at it in a limited way, in terms of music. That's ok. I am looking at 'pop' in a broad way - where anything can be pop. The universe is pop. Elvis is definitely pop, as is Queen. Yes, they have rock influences, but it is so very pop at the same time. It can be both. |
1,350 | I like some of it a lot, and some of it less. Although, that may be because I love Planet of Ice so much it doesn't make sense. | Planet Of Ice is absolutely their best work. Anyone who says otherwise is just wrong. |
1,351 | Which country were these cars built in? Here in Europe people swear by them. Can those issues be attributed to regional build difference? | I am german and I can savely say that VW has problems with their electronics. Every VW we had had electrical problems. Be it that the windows were going up and down because they liked to or that it didnt start because the alternator was shot the 3rd time in a year |
1,352 | stop trying to make a revival of WoW happen. its not going to happen | This isn't a WoW story. It's a Warcraft I story. |
1,353 | That's not how it works. Apple would have to admit that they stole contents from customers phones. They won't do that. | It's a criminal offence and should be investigated by the police. Apple have no say. |
1,354 | Yeah, I remember hearing when he signed on to direct Creed and being even more excited for it. He's an incredibly confident filmmaker, much more so than a lot of young directors. He'll have an exciting career for sure. I've been following Jordan's career for a while now too, since The Wire. Dude is incredibly talented guy and super humble and down to earth in real life as well. | Haven't seen the movie but I'm sure it was kinda sad to watch Sylvester play a father-ish figure role after losing his real son, almost fits too perfectly with Apollo's death and the kind of dying spirit of Rocky. |
1,355 | I can't believe how asinine you sound. You are the problem. | I can't believe how asinine you sound using the word asinine. |
1,356 | you said way 3 times in the space of 10 words. | 2 times in 38 words, which isn’t 30% of words but 5%. You’re off by a factor of 6. Also, my usage of “way of ...” is called parallel structure. It’s a good trick for effective persuasive use of language. |
1,357 | Dad was Adam Yauch's best friend. His passing really shook my dad, he even pulled me out of school early because of it. I haven't talked to Adam's daughter in years but I hope she's doing ok. | I'm totally curious what it was like growing up with one of the Beastie Boys as a family friend. Any great stories to share? |
1,358 | I actually like Blaine quite a bit. Its Suzannah and Eddie Dean I can't stand | Blaine was a really cool character for sure. Gonna have to disagree with you about Eddie though. One of my favorite characters of the series |
1,359 | Prison sentences are meant to be punishment, not an all expense paid vacation with loads of fun activities and amenities. Solitary confinement is the most inhumane thing in our prison system and I'm 110% against it, but I'm also equally against showing them too much humanity as well. | > but I'm also equally against showing them too much humanity as well. you're a p awful person, then. if human rights can be taken away, they stop being rights |
1,360 | If you're ever considering reading something longer, my suggestion would be The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky. | Oh yes my friend! I’m actually planing to read all of his works starting with notes from the underground |
1,361 | Kid A should get a nod as well. That album changed my music listening habits for the better. | I bought kid A on the same day as one of those electrical plasma light things, and my first ever bag of weed. Now that was a great, if unproductive, evening. |
1,362 | The scrip was fine. It wasn't amazing, but Del Toro has always preferred straightforward plots. He's more about mood than plot. | That is no excuse. After CP I've come to the conclusion he's the new Burton. Very, very pretty but with nothing on the inside. |
1,363 | Even the mother in Fantastic Beasts was in Minority Report (she was Agatha) | Holy fucking shit my brain just blew up. I knew she looked familiar |
1,364 | You can use Alt-Tab to switch between all applications, desktop and modern. | Thanks but not what I'm looking for. Doesn't help app switching on a touch screen. |
1,365 | Yeah no, Apple Care is much more expensive than that. For my MBP it was over $400 after taxes. | Honestly, that is extortion now that you can't do 3rd party repairs. It's basically a huge fuck you when the device dies. |
1,366 | Exactly. Anything Vader said during production was going to be redubbed in post by James Earl Jones anyway. Lucas could have had the original actor say anything as long as he got those crazy forceful hand expressions. "This is how I grab a ballsack." | Yeah. Mark Hamill was taken aside before that scene was filmed and told what the real lines were going to be by Lucas--the script saying something different was on purpose. |
1,367 | with how much reading I have done on the subject, I have a hard time trusting really charming charismatic people, psychology can be fascinating, but it can make you a bit paranoid. Jon Ronson is a neat guy, I will be checking out this book. | I didn't read the book yet, but it seems he talks a lot about confirmation bias in it. The SGU did an [interview] with him lately. |
1,368 | I don't get the impression the singularity was closed. I thought Coop was going to fly through it again at the end? Otherwise the trip would have taken like a million years. Still, no idea why Brandt wasn't rescued but I'm guessing it had something to do with time dilation and the fact the Ark maybe just arrived around Saturn? | I believe the events at the end of the film are occurring simultaneously, as evidenced by Brand saying Cooper is 120 years old to be confirmed later. |
1,369 | But what about the time traveling? Did that happen or was that like in purgatory? | Because in the end of season 5 they create a parallel universe where the island gets destroyed. This universe only impact some people, and that's why they need to reunite in order to finally close this universe and give their souls a "proper" death. I mean, if the concept of a soul was real, how would you die with parallel universes ? That's how I interpret it. |
1,370 | There's also the matter that we're used to Moore's law for our computers. Wait two years and the speed has doubled. But batteries can't keep up with that rate, so we think they're not advancing. EDIT: I'm curious as to what part of this post is inciting downvotes. | Computers are also getting more effective, so moore law would work for battery life if we didn't make our computers even more powerful for the same energy consumed and instead we made them use less and less energy. ESIT: I mase a midtake |
1,371 | I presume they're talking about the drug DMT (~~dextromethorphan~~ dimethyltryptamine). ~~You probably recognize it from cough syrup, but~~ psychonauts revere it because it can be a pretty powerful tool for altering consciousness. DMT tripping is less "wow look at those colors" and more "I just had a three-hour conversation with the Universe itself". There's also some (meager and overhyped) evidence that the pineal gland produces DMT naturally, leading some people to believe it's the root of all spiritual experiences. Some say the pineal gland gives you a shot of DMT at the moment of death, so when you die you basically get set off into an eternal trip. | Nah that’s DXM, DMT is something entirely stranger and more exotic. |
1,372 | > Most of the world is unsatisfied or unhappy to one degree or another. I'm talking about really harsh lifestyles that involve starvation, constant warfare, etc. I'm not talking about people "snapping" because they got pushed to stress, I'm talking about long-term and systemic suffering caused either by inaction or direct influence that cause people to get together and decide that the best way to combat it is by threatening the perceived cause of the injustice. Combine that with the tools to inflict real damage and you've got a pretty solid recipe for terrorism. | But many of these terrorists were in fact born and raised in the West. They have not experienced "starvation, constant warfare, etc." I don't disagree that war and starvation is a solid recipe for terrorism, but it's clearly not the only recipe. Apparently a victim complex + Islam is a great alternative if you lack other ingredients. |
1,373 | I just remember this song always being on in the middle of smoking some good weed. | Agreed, their music is insanely nostalgic. Every time I hear them I go back to the places I've traveled while binging on their music. |
1,374 | Thanks for pointing him out. For all of Freddie's greatness, Roger Taylor was also a very important part of that "Queen vocal sound". He's all over ["Bohemian Rhapsody"] (along with Brian May - John Deacon didn't like to sing) and, of course, even sang some great Queen songs solo (["I'm In Love With My Car"] for example). A very under-rated vocalist in addition to being a top notch drummer. | Absolutely. Queen had three really great singers and Roger has never gotten his due. There have been times when people think it was Freddie when it was really him. |
1,375 | 10 years is a laughable amount of time for total penetration. Currently what do we have functioning with autonomy? Tesla auto pilot mostly works, Uber's tests are promising but in no way reliable. Especially not with the rumored driver take over averaging at 1 per mile. We sell brand new cars right now with roll down windows, with manual locks, with no remote start, cruise control, no A/C. We sell cars today missing these pieces of tech that were abundant in luxury cars more then 20 years ago. Will we see true self driving cars in 10 years? Absolutely, but all cars? Ludicrous. | >We sell brand new cars right now with roll down windows, with manual locks, with no remote start, cruise control, no A/C. I might opt to shell out for the AC for the handful of times a year that I might use it, but other than that, this sounds like my dream car. And that's part of the issue. Different people want different things. Some might want everything including a chromed butthole warmer, others may want a stripped-down KISS-mobile. I don't see that swinging 100% in one direction in only ten years, short of something like a ban on the production of new manually-driven cars. |
1,376 | The "back-up" bits are side stories that tell you more about the overall story, sometimes they reveal the nature of the greater gods at play. I would suggest muscling through these sections even if they seem drab or un-related because the story works as a wonderful collective of all the minor bits. | If the backups support the overall story, then I wouldn't mind breezing through them. Thanks! |
1,377 | is this back in the ancient times of ~2012? life was much simpler then. | I remember being in high school when it happened, so more like 2007 |
1,378 | Prediction software will be the game changer in the world I think. When you can predict things, you can rule the world. An understanding/mastery of complex systems like geo-politics, stock markets, elections, consumer-markets, etc already puts people in positions of wealth/power. If you can wield an intelligence that predict outcomes and give it enough data (i wonder who has the most right now?), the world is yours to conquer. | This isn't all rosy, even for the creator of such software, mind... AI advanced enough to predict such things reliably and accurately *may* qualify as a superintelligence with a decisive strategic advantage, which then has the potential to lead into a technological singularity, which has the *potential* to get really ugly for the human race, really fast. Non-fiction book that touches on that specific topic, among many other related possibilities, if you're curious: |
1,379 | Can you explain? They all sound like Surfin' Safari to me. That sound... ugh. The harmony thing they do with their voices... none of it sounds different all the songs are the same. | All the songs are in different keys with different progressions... It probably sounds the same just like how all conversations in a foreign language sounds the same. In other words, you aren't "getting it." |
1,380 | It's a very easy way to convey how annoying I found the character to be. | Thank you, i've been saying this and half my friends think he's the best character (the thought that he does mushrooms for fun gave them a hard on). My main complaints was all of the 50+foot falls which no body seemed remotely fazed by. I loved the troll king up until his final words which took me right out of the moment. |
1,381 | You're going to need a 50 gallon drum of coffee to get through the snoozefest that is *100 Years of Solitude.* More like, *100 Years of Absolutely Fucking Nothing Happening.* Source: managed to read it. Barely. | Not sure what you mean. Tons of stuff happens in 100 Years of Solitude. That book has some beautiful things to say about the universal themes of family, politics, war, etc. despite being quite specifically an allegory about Colombian politics. |
1,382 | Ironically, 20 years on, you feel nostalgia for the era that a song came out about feeling nostalgia for 20 years prior. In round numbers, of course. | He titled it that way because in 1996, 17 year olds were born in 1979. |
1,383 | Ah, that dumb analogy. A bathroom is divided by sex for reason. Water fountains were not divided up for any logical reason. | Bathroom is divided by expressed gender because it makes people feel more comfortable. (Guess what else got divided because it made people feel more comfortable?) Separate but equal baby! |
1,384 | I'm not an expert or even knowledgeable in movie making or CGI but from what i can tell CGI shines the most as an added layer on top of a practical effect skeleton. I also think the point about the quality of the acting and story telling having a huge impact on the overall quality of the film to be a good one, I mean LOTR to me is a shinning example of amazingness yet the hobbit might as well had a 3 million dollar budget by how crappy the CGI in that seems to me yet im not entirely sure that's an objective stamp on the visual quality of the movie but rather my own biases at being bored to death by it. | I would point out there are a lot of sequences these days that are 100% CGI and the % of people who realize this goes down as time goes on. |
1,385 | I love the song, but I can't help but feel that her voice is fairly nasally..at least for the verses | Alas, she has a lovely voice but it isn't perfect. Doesn't make me love it any less, though |
1,386 | Not all algorithms are AI, only ones involving learning are AI. | Not true, go read be Wikipedia pages on AI. AI is a very broad term used to describe computers solving tasks that would be classified as intelligent. |
1,387 | I'm currently listening to the French version. I can't stand the narrator. He speaks so low I can barely understand. He also portrays Hagrid as a really dumb oaf. And I mean really dumb. | He's just mad because Hagrid makes the Beauxbatons headmistress cry |
1,388 | Is a acquired taste, at first it's weird because it's not what you expect from them but then it just keeps growing on you. It's kinda like an STD. | Growing On Me by The Darkness was a great song, too. |
1,389 | Saw Living Colour at CBGB? Damn lucky bastard you are. | also Korn. Not sure if you've been, but as legendary as it was, it was rather disgusting. I mean, really nasty, dirty, smelly ... like, piss smelly. |
1,390 | Loving how ~half the comments on here were clearly trolls, Russian or otherwise. Way to bring the point home. | Yeah, sorting by controversial is quite the wild ride. I wonder what their daily briefings are like. "we have a post that mentions Russian trolls, hop on reddit and make it sound like that is silly talk" |
1,391 | I find this as a potential disaster, The entire premise of adblocking is 60% of people don't know how to use it, so their viewing of ads pays to keep webpages alive. What on earth pays for webpages when people have to opt out of adblocking. | The article only says that it has adblocking *capabilities*, not that they're actually shipping with filter lists enabled by default. My guess is that it works somewhat like iOS Safari where you still need extensions which provide filter lists to the browser. People who will figure out how to do that probably already have anblocker anyway. |
1,392 | Album is certainly not underrated. Pinkerton is highly rated as their best work. Which it is, to be fair. | Poorly phrased, I meant underrated in the context of all the answers that have more upvotes now, and that this song and album are currently getting me through high school. |
1,393 | I haven't checked the link yet, but the final stage of the Egyptian language, Coptic, uses a modified Greek alphabet, and occasional Greek loan-words, but is definitely Egyptian. While Greek was used as a liturgical language, I'm going to guess the book is written in Coptic. Edit: Coptic confirmed. Modified Greek alphabet plus a few special characters. And resonance lines. Fun stuff. | You seem to be right , i rest my case. |
1,394 | I hope the other Jaegers get more screen time. Crimson Typhoon was my favorite and it had the coolest design but they went down pretty quickly. | I liked the Russian one, but it want down in an instant as well. |
1,395 | Here's someone's list of the [100 Best Australian Albums] you might find a few more bands (and singers) there. | All I see is. - Midnight Oil. - AC/DC. - Crowded House. - some other bands. - INXS. - some more other bands. - Silverchair. - some more other bands. - Men at Work. All kidding aside, thanks for the list! I do see some more bands I recognize, but most I don't. And they make one mistake: the Bee Gees were British transplants. So they don't really count. |
1,396 | Joaquin Pheonix falling in love with a 'Siri' style thing, correct? | Yup, but far more advanced. I'd have to guess Spike Jones was thinking it could happen in the distant future, but you forget about that when watching. |
1,397 | I like my computer having 0 issues. That's why I gave up on Linux. | Don't know what distro you use, but on my current Arch install (and my old Debain install for that matter) I haven't had a single issue. The last time I've had a major issue on Linux was in Ubuntu 10.04 - and that's old. |
1,398 | I'm sorry but it never happened. This whole article is filled with bullshits. | Yes it did, *SPOILER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!* when el diablo does his stuff |
1,399 | Data from what? What else can you offer? This is very ambiguous. | He said to recover it from a phone. To me it sounded like he was trying to get access to a phone of someone who passed away. The whole exchange was strange and my coworker said he’s pretty sure the guy was on drugs lol |
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