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zirgs

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    Comment #47599810

    Yeah, someone would have started to cross the oceans eventually. Europeans happened to do that first.

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    Comment #44423670

    Yes, but, unfortunately - devices like that exist.

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    Comment #44375361

    And now it slaps "xbox" on everything.

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    Comment #44374966

    Yeah - it's a mess. Some devices only charge with a charger that supports PD. Some other devices need a charger WITHOUT PD support.

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    Comment #44275449

    We are pumping oil that's located under the seabed. It would have seemed completely insane in the 19th century when all oil was easily accessible. Asteroid mining might be feasible…

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    Comment #44262293

    Honey, I shrunk the Grandkids.

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    Comment #44251750

    If I had a disease like that - I would not want to drive at all.

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    Comment #43894500

    A tariff is a tax - so additional tax on BDs, DVDs, cinema tickets, etc. It's stupid, but it's possible to implement it.

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    Comment #43894215

    The guy who took that photo of Barbra Streisand's house had no idea how significant that photo would become later.

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    Comment #43894111

    We are no longer in the film era. You won't run out of storage. So I take pictures of both.

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    Comment #43857586

    Disc rot is a thing unfortunately. And they are no longer making new PS3s.

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    Comment #40717010

    Germany committed the Holocaust in my country. They murdered more than 100k of our citizens. And even more died in the WW2 that they started. But now we are in the same political, …

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    Comment #40716975

    NSDAP hasn't been in power in Germany for like 80 years now. Meanwhile Mao's CCP is still in power and they haven't disowned him.

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    Comment #40451773

    Imagine if switchboard operator careers were protected. We still would not have the Internet today.

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    Comment #40389043

    If that was true then we would still be living like in the 18th century. They would have pumped out all the easily accessible oil. It's not possible to access current oil fields wi…

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    Comment #39429218

    I'd like to know if what I'm attempting to do is legal BEFORE I do it not after.

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    Comment #39429153

    But you won't need to spend 50M in the future. Hardware improves all the time. Remember all those "can it run crysis?" memes? Those GPUs are now slower than mobile phones.

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    Comment #39429074

    Attempts to prevent piracy are laughable and ineffective. Even North Korea can't fully prevent imports of Western cultural products. This is why the music industry gave up and now …

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    Comment #39429050

    That's because the musicians flooded the market. Good music isn't rare and it is not hard to find it. Spotify has 100M tracks - even if 99% of them were crap - that would still mea…

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    Comment #39071407

    Does it survive AI upscaling or img2img? If not - then it's useless. Nobody trains AI models without any preprocessing. This is basically a tool for 2022.

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    Comment #39049007

    Isn't Michael Schumacher also in a similar condition for more than a decade now?

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    Comment #38984941

    > But introducing new major system would require re-certifying pilots so the hid the fact, downplayed importance of it. Is it typical to hide critical systems from pilots in the av…

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    Comment #38918132

    Legroom is much more important than headroom.

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    Comment #38885436

    > Just built a separate international network, with its own separate system and tracks. This is what Rail Baltica is going to be. The Baltics are using the Russian gauge, but RB wi…

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    Comment #38827609

    Good for you, but, for example, Israeli passports are not recognised by many countries as legitimate.