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Historically, subreddits were run by community volunteers because people were tired of being censored on official forums. Now subreddits are the official channel more often than no…

Could give us the run-around with circular receipts, or millions of back-and-forth receipts.

Lego is a mole hill compared to the mountain of plastic that is _intended_ to be thrown away - consumer and industrial.

Improbable claims that their SpatialOS service can scale beyond what Planetside 2 achieves.

The downside of folders is trying to figure out where things belong in the hierarchy, or trying to update that hierarchy to a new standard. The downside of tagging is you still nee…

brainfuck isn't an obfuscator, but a language with a very small and simple instruction set. Technically it falls somewhere between c and assembly, since it doesn't have a 1:1 relat…

> when GFI held an invite-only video call on the future of cultivated meat ... San Martin kept pressing. In his view, the science is essentially settled: Cultivated meat won’t be e…

While overly wordy and negative, most of the premises of dissent seem to be well founded. The article's own summary: > *For cultured meat to move the needle on climate, a sequence …

It would behoove you to read more than just the summary

Ultima Ratio Regum, which makes this list, is a game that is easy to overlook because it looks like "just a Dwarf Fortress clone." But Fortress-like is merely the foundation upon w…

Anti-cheat software bundled with games is prevalent, it is in the company's interest to overreach with its data collection and fingerprinting, and users give them sufficient permis…

I concur. Tell me something about your service on the landing page. Why would I create an account for a mysterious service I know nothing about?

The interesting thing here is the second edition of this book was released yesterday, and includes two new chapters.

It should indeed sound distant and muffled with the composition and temperature of Mar's atmosphere. Saw a neat pseudo-documentary on this not too long ago: https://youtu.be/OeYnV9…

Build a straw man to "represent" a group, then refute its argument to deter the target group from ever joining the discussion.

Down in US. Also Imgur, which is closely related

The article explains this.

Gravity does not travel at the speed of light. Some speculate that instant (ie: faster than light) communication could be possible by manipulating gravity.

history > recently closed > open n tabs This does not appear to be available in your full history, though

> It works by asking the browser to show a confirmation dialog in a popup window. Then the JavaScript code can detect if a popup has just been opened and detect the presence of an …

Sadly that's not going to fly, since the damage a bad actor can do with your account will generally hurt the service's bottom line. Consider a game, as an example. A stolen account…

That's not surprising to me. Discord offers free hosting for a feature-rich IRC and group voice service. Nobody else did that. A gaming clan no longer needs to maintain their own T…

The large reddish regions in this stitch do not seem to correlate with the concentrations of hematite that researchers detected. > The maps show the hematite occurrences at latitud…