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Freeboots

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    Comment #45873000

    I guess it's not intensely gamified, but I have a couple friends at like 80-90% on Merlin. It's their excuse to travel and live abroad

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    Comment #44804291

    The space counts and has to be removed. Rathe is not a word, nor is e, so youve got to find another way.

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    Comment #39189104

    I think I read long ago that it takes almost 7% liquid market cap to trigger a major movement. Current market cap $800b, so if true then no, 2b wouldn't be enough. I might be pulli…

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    Comment #39189076

    Isn't that basically what happened with mtgox? Karpeles ended up on the hook for a dollar amount far less than the (then current) value of the crypto lost.

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    Comment #39040713

    Maybe look into Roblox. I don't actually know much/anything about Roblox, but I'm sure I've read about mods/games/whatever being built in it. Possibly Minecraft too.

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    Comment #36610406

    Won't block Threads? Oh god.

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    Comment #36610321

    When was the name announced/leaked? They would have tried to acquire relevant domains beforehand, like the guy who owned meta.com (.co? .net?) and didn't even know it was Facebook …

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    Comment #36594989

    That's interesting, will have to check that out. People have mentioned online sms, which sounds pretty much like what I need. But yeah re:Google Fi, $240/y to recieve maybe 3 sms i…

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    Comment #36586073

    I'm in a similar boat. Not so much service, but I move around internationally and change sims a lot. I dont even have a sim most of the time, I'm on wifi 99% of the time. Don't wan…

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    Comment #35301085

    - Regex - SQL queries - Bash scripts - Specific code snippets, often for APIs - Explaining code snippets - Google Apps Scripts - Pub Quiz questions (not very successful but some ar…

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    Comment #34486337

    Also in Reamde and later Fall. I forget exactly, but i think in Reamde they flood the internet with shit, and then some years later in Fall everyone has curated echo chambers of co…

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    Comment #34473880

    Is Trill still sitting at the Keep well, refusing to be useful?

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    Comment #32992228

    Now I want to watch the tournament footage to see if he ever chews gum...

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    Comment #32762265

    You'd still be hitting tens of millions of apis to get their stock lists. In varying formats.

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    Comment #32748820

    Wouldnt this require collecting (and maintaining) an enormous database of local retailers and their stock? Including duplicates. That seems... non-trivial.

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    Comment #31516604

    Yup! Ultima is another great game from when they were still 'figuring out' open world games, before they became stale.

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    Comment #31508089

    I have a MUD open right now in another window. I still play it because despite the lack of graphics, the freedoms of player interaction are interesting and far beyond whats availab…

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    Comment #31411704

    Same. I keep the previous episode of a show until i get the next, to remind me what shows im watching and where im up to, but typically dont hang onto anything. These days the cost…

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    Comment #31376167

    I never noticed that! Did they really change it to gold?

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    Comment #31376163

    Oh thats interesting, cheers

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    Comment #31355847

    Sorcerer's Stone is particularly annoying i agree. Not like philosophers' stone is an existing mythos highly relevant to the story or anything. Another that bugged me was Northern …

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    Comment #31254475

    Just a nitpick on your homepage: link is blue on blue, had to highlight to read.

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    Comment #31223283

    I think you've misread the article.

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    Comment #31223256

    Does that mean that there is a link between age and participants who "misunderstood the instructions, or intentionally subverted the experiment"?