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The core essence of a video game is the game feel (which not everyone likes, because it's ill-defined). How does a player interact with a game? Via game mechanics. No amount of pol…

It's about the potential for deadly interactions with police as a consequence of creating new laws for police to enforce. I think the title is slightly obtuse, but it is attention …

Well, people are often convicted based on circumstantial evidence. That's why there is a jury, to weigh the available evidence. Personally, I wouldn't give this guy any help based …

>Try changing the identity you are to Google, Delete cache and cookies, block all analytics through a combination of hosts file, adblocker, ghostery, and noscript, and google in pr…

Or perhaps many children are raised to conform to particular gender roles that affects their social development, and possibly, just possibly, this might also affect their job oppor…

>Well for adult bikes you are pretty much fixed at 700C. If making a bike pedaled contraption not so much. For racing/road bikes, maybe. You're leaving out the 26" wheel adult bike…

While there may be some power-mad librarians out there in terms of 'there will be silence in the library!', they curate the library's collection for many reasons: to meet the requi…

No worries. If you like classical minimalism/ambient music, check out Erik Satie's work, specifically, his three Gymnopédies compositions for piano. If you've played Minecraft, you…

It's... nice? to have the option of purchasing a Steambox with SteamOS pre-installed, if you're unable (or unwilling) to build your own PC and install SteamOS or other Linux flavor…

>> Certainly, a sentient being can learn new things, but that's a matter of rule-base and memory. No actual intelligence required, IMO. Sentience, to me, goes toward a concept of s…

>>My point is that "Engineer" (software or otherwise) is a legally protected term in many countries (Canada, Switzerland,...) Actually, you're looking for the term "Professional En…

I get where the gp is coming from, to me texture is a big issue with foods that I can eat. I'm mostly vegetarian now, (less than half a kilogram of bison a week) but that last step…

>>A friend of mine from India once told me "if a mob would burn down your restaurant if you got caught mixing meat and vegetarian, you'd take it seriously too". I still don't if sh…

I earned a B.S. in an ABET accredited Computer Science program taught by the College of Science and Mathematics at a state University. Before that, I designed electrical control sy…

> The idea of using special client to connect a server is somewhat alien to the generation that equates the Internet with the Web. I think the problem wouldn't so much be needing a…

Open plan offices are the bane of work requiring uninterrupted thought. I'd say buy a set of good on- or over-the-ear closed headphones and listen to music or soundscape to drown o…

>Who writes a linked list in Javascript? Or Python? Or even C++? I haven't had to code a linked list since the 1990s. Neither have I, but I didn't write that bloody circular queue …

I think the takeaway from his statements are that it is virtually impossible to source the necessary raw materials that go into producing modern electronics from any one country.

It isn't just the cost that's an issue, it's the fact that American workers are not as... flexible... on what constitutes an acceptable work/life balance. Would you do what these w…

It's just not always possible to do that. I know it can be frustrating to not have ready access to academic journals, but you can usually find the article one way or another. Many …

Jaguar owners don't care about maintenance costs, anecdotally speaking, of course. Executive VP at an old job had a Jaguar (XJ-12 I think) that would occasionally catch fire and 'n…

On the one hand, you can't see the piles of human feces[1]. On the other hand, you can't see the piles of human feces. Decisions, decisions... [1] http://sfist.com/2015/01/15/lets_…

> The article makes the point that debt is taken on expectations of future growth, and that it is in fact what enables the creation of engines (personal or commercial) to realize t…

It isn't clear from the article whether 'browser history' is being sought or only IP addresses (not that I think that's okay). The only link in the article working for me was to th…

In an article from The Atlantic[1], you can clearly see that total direct federal and state subsidies to higher education in 2014 are about $140 billion with another $20 billion in…