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EvilGrin
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Comment #24503284
You can redirect a search in DDG to google maps with !maps OpenStreetMaps with !geouri and Bing Maps with !bm
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Comment #24503240
You can use a bang in DuckDuckGo for this. Just add !g somewhere in the search and it'll redirect the search to Google. They have bangs setup for all sorts of things. https://duckd…
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Comment #22424640
If this was in England it may of been an extended priest hole to hide Catholic Priests after the reformation. If there was an entire chapel hidden away it may of been for said prie…
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Comment #22233624
If you are interested in picking up some of this music from then and now check out the Mod Archive. https://modarchive.org/ You will need a media player that understand mod file fo…
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Comment #22116031
Unsure about other games genres but various bots first appeared with Quake due to its easy modding. Reaper was the first if I recall correctly. https://www.quakewiki.net/quake-1-bo…
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Comment #21720306
The site seems to be down?
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Comment #21249278
Yep, one interesting idea about these Amazon sites is that they add corroborating evidence to Francisco de Orellana (the first Spanish explorer to travel the length of the Amazon) …
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Comment #21248803
It's LIDAR. It's main benefit for finding archaeology earthworks is that it is possible to remove the vegetation from the results. So anything obscured by trees becomes visible for…
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Comment #19940061
The Verge article mentions an in-game currency (rupees) so I expect they are going down the 'in-game shop' route. With the option that you grind for the in-game currency or you can…
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Comment #19757654
However, the censorship requires enforcement. Post austerity the UK police force is overstretched and undermanned by its own admission. For example, the Manchester Police Commissio…
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Comment #19729906
Well, you'll be pleased to know its very easy. My first stab at it was simply following a youtube tutorial on how to make it based on what you can buy at the supermarket (bread yea…
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Comment #19729360
I brew mead. There's no way I could make money from it. However I can make enough to get myself and everyone around me blind drunk. Free mead quickly stops a lot of arguments.
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Comment #19499207
Yes, I recently replaced my car headunit with an android based systema and I now have Waze as my Sat Nav. It is configurable to notify you when you are speeding[1]. More amusingly …
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Comment #19262962
This sounds like something the GMO industry would be working on already.
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Comment #18976979
I lost many hours as a youth playing Lemmings, Populus, Prince of Persia and the numerous Ultima games.
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Comment #18559201
Deep Underground Military Base
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Comment #15986369
> Run on hardware an order of magnitude more powerful than was available to the original WoW server devs Back in 2012 Blizzard sold the original servers off for charity so we actua…
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Comment #15977962
This is just a facet of the good old fashioned project management 'iron' triangle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_management_triangle Crudely put, for project X you have thr…
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Comment #15365390
So when they repo lots of cars due to a downturn the second hand market will crash. Which means the book value for all cars goes down the toilet.
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Comment #15338813
You could just check their Github? :) https://github.com/nationalsecurityagency
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Comment #14899183
27 March 2017. http://www.irishnews.com/news/northernirelandnews/2017/03/27...
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Comment #14898991
Despite countless protests from politicians, the laws of mathematics trump the laws of the land.
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Comment #14643620
Yes that ended in April 2015. The then Government decided to end the contract under the guises of austerity. https://governmenttechnology.blog.gov.uk/2015/05/22/update-o... I don't…
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Comment #12589011
The BBC like to change the page title after the initial posting of the article, especially if the story is still developing.