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Coincoin

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    Comment #24157604

    They even made 0.18 mods to be 1.0.0 compatible this way the game releases with all mods already up to date.

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    Comment #19590792

    >The only problem I have with it is it is still really Windows only, hopefully that will improve with .Net Core 3. I've been writing games in C# that run on Windows, Linux, OSX, iO…

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    Comment #18387897

    “The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.”

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    Comment #18314213

    Funny thing is some games are designed to be boring but still addictive, so that you will pay to skip playing the boring game. It totally blows my mind that people will pay to not …

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    Comment #18308828

    There is a lot of snow where I live and the ABS triggers all the time and yes some people just slam the brakes expecting their ABS to optimally slow down on ice.

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    Comment #18306031

    ABS not working as intended could be a surprise to the driver and cause a crash, especially if you become dependent on it. It's just like that AF 447 crash, they stalled from 38,00…

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    Comment #18157702

    It's just simple straight humblebrag.

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    Comment #17812759

    On the other hand, they also believe in homeopathy, so you would only need 1 litre of moon water to produce billions. edit: excalibur beat me to it.

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    Comment #17812223

    The lineman (and my guess is the pilot too) wear a conducting and fire retardant suit made of metal threads. This essentially acts as a Faraday cage.

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    Comment #17805962

    Then they are going to make the plastic package part of a cheap accessory for whatever they are selling. They are already doing that to boast the feature list of their products: "P…

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    Comment #17786420

    Assuming all actors are rational, which they often are not.

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    Comment #17491973

    It's a lie by omission. The title should have been something like: "Nissan Admits Internal Test Data Was Falsified" Boring, I know.

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    Comment #17403142

    My father used to tell me: "Don't skimp on your bed, your chair and your car tires."

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    Comment #17272699

    They paid someone a lot of money to design their UI, so they better do something different from the rest of the world, else they would have wasted money.

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    Comment #17234791

    I never understood the obsession of all car makers to always design EV and hybrid cars with ugly shapes and black plastic all over the body. Can I just have a regular car that work…

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    Comment #17219311

    This. I wanted to do games since I was a kid, so I assumed I would be the best at it just because I loved them so much, until I got the job. Then I realized I sucked at it. I left …

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    Comment #17215937

    What I find the most impressive about Syndicate is the action phase was only 16 colors.

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    Comment #17016986

    There must be a name for that, when someone casually says something is simple when it is in fact a very complicated subject. EDIT: After some googling, TIL humblebragging.

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    Comment #16943750

    I know right? Those rich people are not assholes! They must be criminals. EDIT: /s It ended up he was right, but maybe he had no reason to actually know they were cons. We don't ha…

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    Comment #16943629

    Or maybe present Earth is a single cell in Their giant cellular automaton machine.

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    Comment #16911988

    What I hate the most about StackOveflow is people continuously questioning the poster's motive instead of answering the question. That often means that if the answer doesn't involv…

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    Comment #16886427

    For instance, there is no point in refactoring a piece of code that never needs maintenance. In that case it is good debt and it already paid off.

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    Comment #16862132

    It's pretty obvious what will happen; it will transform into CO2 into the atmosphere. But at least it will have given us a few hundred years to figure out instead of piling over th…

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    Comment #16857781

    > At the moment, a litre of a solution of even the improved enzyme would break down just a few milligrams of plastic per day. Its plastic-digesting ability must therefore be improv…

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    Comment #16802460

    For a while, the best and cheapest ISP in Montreal was a beauty products company. They had a shit ton of modems in a back store and a very good admin I guess.