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a daisy-cutter. they're 30k a pop.

The Tropico series also do this pretty neatly (especially 3 and 4) - you can follow your 'tropicans' from their family home to the job, to the market for food, doctor, church etc. …

>The title only suggests something unique about Go to those who didn't read the article. The thing is, many people use the title to determine whether the article is worth reading .…

>It feels odd to me that people can be so sure that games have no influence yet images of thin women in magazines has such a strong influence. There is clearly an invitation to mim…

To be fair, In any sufficiently-long comment thread, the probability of someone making $STATEMENT, approaches 1.

>> With the grasshopper technology the cost of a flight to orbit basically is the cost of rocket fuel... >Even my car costs significantly more than just the fuel. yes, but the cost…

The thing is, having a comment in a tricky bit of code, and knowing that the comment may be confusing because some jackass (maybe myself six months ago ?) changed the code but miss…

>Comments are for the weak, Care to elaborate on this ? Commenting code is bad ? Or did I miss the irony ?

>Or do they have to channel the power into heaters each evening? AFAIK, No. The battery generates 2kw of heat in addition to the electricity, so I dont think the rover even has any…

What time of the day do you usually have each activity? Morning Afternoon Night Disperse throughout the day [...] Lunch [...] Um... is that a trick question, or is there a part of …

> Something like a 2 year protection would give companies significant advantage, yet still allow smaller players to use the stuff in time. Don't they take something like 2-3 years …

> In other words, they did the exact opposite of what the SOPA experience told them they should do. No, from a strategic point of view, they did exactly what the SOPA experience to…

> Why wOuld I feel the need to inspect a book before buying it? To make sure the pages will not start falling out before you're done reading it ? I had that happen to me several ti…

To be fair I dont think this one needs a tldr...

>being as unreliable as human memory, That's actually considered to be a feature. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperthymesia

I was under the impression that this used a similar principle to the one that keeps hard drive heads in place. So some reasonable amount of vibration should not be an issue. On the…

>This is just a way to create a slightly more complex password, if it's stored as a fast hash (like md5) then it's still going to be very easy to crack. It's not about storage, it …

They may consider torturing you first. "Oh come on, my grandma/dog/goldfish would write better code!!!" This would be a totally acceptable jab among guys, yet saying this to a fema…

> What does a student learn from this? They're learning the tool, not the process of solving the problem. They will learn the process if the tool is only used behind the scenes to …