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- Wed Nov 09, 2016 4:35 am UTC
- Forum: News & Articles
- Topic: British EU referendum in June [update: Leave wins 52% - 48%, politics ensue]
- Replies: 1296
- Views: 206559
Re: British EU referendum in June [update: Leave wins 52% - 48%, politics ensue]
Or maybe just reproduce at another country?
- Wed Nov 09, 2016 4:04 am UTC
- Forum: News & Articles
- Topic: 2016 US Presidential Election
- Replies: 8482
- Views: 1072896
Re: 2016 US Presidential Election
Hey now, we once had a guy with 39.9% of the vote, and even if every single vote he didn't get went to one other person, he still would've won. And he turned out to be the greatest president we ever had! Of course, the result of that election was a war in which more Americans died than in all other...
- Wed Nov 09, 2016 3:46 am UTC
- Forum: News & Articles
- Topic: 2016 US Presidential Election
- Replies: 8482
- Views: 1072896
Re: 2016 US Presidential Election
I will never not find this electoral votes system weird as hell. It made sense for a dirt poor country in the days before telegraphs. Just send a simple "yay" or "nay", and your vote's worth is based on a combination of your population and simply being a state that was agreed up...
- Wed Nov 09, 2016 3:34 am UTC
- Forum: News & Articles
- Topic: 2016 US Presidential Election
- Replies: 8482
- Views: 1072896
Re: 2016 US Presidential Election
I will never not find this electoral votes system weird as hell.
- Thu Mar 10, 2016 9:13 pm UTC
- Forum: News & Articles
- Topic: The Thread To Remind Me We're Living In The Future
- Replies: 1880
- Views: 346825
Re: The Thread To Remind Me We're Living In The Future
From what I've read, it was the O10 move that made everyone double or triple-check. And the guy who was commentating is really really high level (9P). And he was kind of hesitant to place the O10 stone on their analysis board when it happened.
- Thu Mar 10, 2016 7:18 pm UTC
- Forum: News & Articles
- Topic: The Thread To Remind Me We're Living In The Future
- Replies: 1880
- Views: 346825
Re: The Thread To Remind Me We're Living In The Future
I don't understand jack shit of Go strategies, but from the comments I'm seeing, AlphaGo made a kind of outrageous play, which no one expected and left everyone stunned.
I love when neural networks come up with crazy solutions
I love when neural networks come up with crazy solutions
- Fri Dec 18, 2015 12:54 am UTC
- Forum: Movies and TV Shows
- Topic: Star Wars: Episode 7: Electric Boogaleven
- Replies: 479
- Views: 112035
Re: Star Wars: Episode 7: Electric Boogaleven
Minor criticisms that won't really ruin the film, but might give you an idea of what to expect. I thought the fan service might have been jacked up one notch too high. I mean, yeah, it's cool with all the Ep. IV-VI #hollabacks, but there gets a point where conveyor-belt pop-culture references c...
- Tue Nov 17, 2015 5:53 pm UTC
- Forum: News & Articles
- Topic: Nuclear split off thread
- Replies: 79
- Views: 15643
Re: In other news... (humorous news items, etc)
Absolutely nothing, unless of course you want to build nuclear reactors. Every bad accident like the one in Japan reinforces the idea that it isn't safe. It doesn't matter if it kills anybody or poisons anything. Telling them that accidents are rare and then having at least three bad ones, ...
- Mon Nov 16, 2015 12:43 pm UTC
- Forum: News & Articles
- Topic: Over 100 dead in shooting, bombing in Paris
- Replies: 136
- Views: 26700
Re: Over 100 dead in shooting, bombing in Paris
Maybe french intelligence was already keeping an eye on some of them, but didn't have enough to arrest them? And now they got confirmation? I don't know, I also find it kinda weird to arrest so many so quickly, but that's a possibility.
- Mon Nov 09, 2015 8:04 pm UTC
- Forum: Movies and TV Shows
- Topic: jedi blood transfusions
- Replies: 20
- Views: 5234
Re: jedi blood transfusions
Depends how midichlorians reproduce - is there a target level in a given individual's system that they home in on, or do you get your entire allocation early in life, and then any losses are permanent? Does a transfusion permanently give you Force powers, or is it only while those midichlorians las...
- Mon Nov 09, 2015 8:03 pm UTC
- Forum: Movies and TV Shows
- Topic: Warcraft
- Replies: 23
- Views: 6845
Re: Warcraft
I hope this movies gets a ton of money and Blizzard keeps doing more of then. A movie about Arthas? Yes please.
- Mon Nov 09, 2015 7:46 pm UTC
- Forum: News & Articles
- Topic: Police misbehavior thread
- Replies: 6524
- Views: 1027454
Re: Police misbehavior thread
Student: "Good thing we got all this on video"
Cop: "I don't give a fuck"
- Wed Nov 04, 2015 2:16 pm UTC
- Forum: Gaming
- Topic: Dungeons and Dragons (and other tabletop RPGs)
- Replies: 2100
- Views: 404020
Re: Dungeons and Dragons (and other tabletop RPGs)
Another thing to consider is: does any of your players really care about it? Most of the time the suspension of disbelief on a RPG game is quite high, as long as things remain somewhat consistent. It's like theater. Maybe the players see the ropes holding the fake world up, maybe they don't. If the ...
- Thu Oct 29, 2015 4:21 pm UTC
- Forum: Gaming
- Topic: Dungeons and Dragons (and other tabletop RPGs)
- Replies: 2100
- Views: 404020
Re: Dungeons and Dragons (and other tabletop RPGs)
Terribly late for the "how much one should prep" party, but this technique works fine with me (and here is the followup article , for one more example). The gist of it is: you create factions and their relationships, and sort of go with the PCs flow. Do they attack or befriend Faction A? W...
- Tue Oct 20, 2015 11:39 pm UTC
- Forum: Movies and TV Shows
- Topic: Star Wars: Episode 7: Electric Boogaleven
- Replies: 479
- Views: 112035
Re: Star Wars: Episode 7: Electric Boogaleven
CHOO CHOOO!! ALL ABOARD THE HYPE TRAIN! I love and hate this trailer. I love it because it's awesome, doesn't give anything from the plot away, it's awesome and John Willians is doing magic. I hate it for the same reasons, because I'm hyped as fuck and levels of expectation are off the charts. I'm a...
- Fri Oct 16, 2015 5:45 pm UTC
- Forum: News & Articles
- Topic: Astronomers find possible alien megastructures
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4979
Re: Astronomers find possible alien megastructures
And some thought they saw canals on Mars. If drawing in comets is improbable, is it any more improbable than a planetary civilization bringing together enough mass from a solar system together in a form useful for building a huge set of Solar Panels? Well, we have no idea how probable the mega-stru...
- Tue Sep 29, 2015 12:44 pm UTC
- Forum: News & Articles
- Topic: NASA finds liquid water on Mars
- Replies: 30
- Views: 8316
Re: NASA finds liquid water on Mars
We have no way of completely sterilizing the equipment we send (to the best of my knowledge). No matter what we did, there might still be a spec of life in some nook of the equipment. There's a species of bacteria that has been detected only twice so far: inside the clean rooms of NASA and ESA. So,...
- Mon Sep 28, 2015 5:58 pm UTC
- Forum: News & Articles
- Topic: NASA finds liquid water on Mars
- Replies: 30
- Views: 8316
Re: NASA finds liquid water on Mars
It would mean that there's less pressure on humanity to succeed in life, not being the only ones around. We can fail at Earth but somewhere, something else would survive. It's a comfort. We don't need life on Mars for that. There's just a shit-ton of other life forms right here on Earth for that. L...
- Fri Sep 25, 2015 9:30 pm UTC
- Forum: General
- Topic: Cat Care (II?)
- Replies: 27
- Views: 7969
Re: Cat Care (II?)
Play: play play play! They want to chase and capture things! Let them! ALL THE TOYS! and trees are good to. Cats are not bush dwellers they like to be up high . Look at your room layouts and see how they could get around not being on the ground and throw a cat tree in where needed. See if you can w...
- Fri Sep 11, 2015 12:19 pm UTC
- Forum: News & Articles
- Topic: Pluto flyby
- Replies: 49
- Views: 13521
Re: Pluto flyby
More pics! Spoilered because huge Charon http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/Multimedia/Science-Photos/pics/charon-9-10-15.jpg Pluto dark areas http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/Multimedia/Science-Photos/pics/Dark-Areas-9-10-15.jpg Pluto mosaic http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/Multimedia/Science-Photos/pics/Spherical-Mosaic-9-10-...
- Wed Sep 09, 2015 2:07 pm UTC
- Forum: General
- Topic: Thoughts for ships
- Replies: 90089
- Views: 8485268
Re: Inspirations
Also relevant I kind of love this. Thanks for the answers, I kind of get it now. The link is awesome (and it was linked by Link just before my post and I totally failed to see it), but I will admit to not being able to completely follow the more complex examples :| I think it is this weird "to...
- Wed Sep 09, 2015 1:47 pm UTC
- Forum: News & Articles
- Topic: Refugees travelling to Europe
- Replies: 139
- Views: 22591
Re: Refugees travelling to Europe
[snipped] 1) Too cowardly to defend their homes? Not really selling themselves as the perfect immigrant. 2) If they aren't the appropriate age/health/etc for a military, they aren't going to be of much benefit as an immigrant. As for combat, IIRC you are ex-military yourself, you of all people shou...
- Tue Sep 08, 2015 8:27 pm UTC
- Forum: General
- Topic: Thoughts for ships
- Replies: 90089
- Views: 8485268
Re: Inspirations
Thanks for that explanation! I feel I understand English a bit better now. let me fix that with this grammatically correct sentence. Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo While I can understand the "had had had had" madness, I have no idea what is going on with t...
- Fri Aug 28, 2015 1:13 pm UTC
- Forum: News & Articles
- Topic: Virginia shooting
- Replies: 64
- Views: 15859
Re: Virginia shooting
he felt discriminated against at the workplace. (Which is obviously bullshit. They fired him 2 years ago for anger management issues, and as far as I can tell they have been proven correct in firing him) While he obviously had anger management issues (see: shooting at people), we cannot say he wasn...
- Wed Aug 26, 2015 1:52 pm UTC
- Forum: General
- Topic: Lucky Ten Thousand (TIL)
- Replies: 13412
- Views: 1607342
Re: Today I Learned
Maybe the USA should just embrace that its states are mostly a grid, and start calling them (3,2) or something like that. I was recently talking about Brazil's states with my GF. An article said "in the west"... 'but Brazil doesn't have a West! It has a Centre-West!'. Oh yeah, we have: So...
- Mon Aug 24, 2015 5:33 pm UTC
- Forum: General
- Topic: Thoughts for ships
- Replies: 90089
- Views: 8485268
Re: Inspirations
Holy shit, I dropped my 0.5 mm drill bit; it took about half an hour to find it again. I swear that damn thing becomes wavelike when you're not looking at it! This reminded me of the time we dropped a bunch of tiny SMT resistors on the lab's floor. Fun times. Were you running low or something? Thos...
- Fri Aug 21, 2015 12:16 pm UTC
- Forum: Individual XKCD Comic Threads
- Topic: 1567: "Kitchen Tips"
- Replies: 175
- Views: 26934
Re: 1567: "Kitchen Tips"
And on boxes of frozen pizza, they actually print "Take the pizza out of the box & plastic before heating". It amazes me to imagine people who actually benefit from such advice. I believe it's more of a defence for the the company, otherwise someone somewhere will come up with: "...
- Fri Aug 21, 2015 12:13 pm UTC
- Forum: General
- Topic: The "I can't find a particular XKCD comic" thread
- Replies: 162
- Views: 118688
Re: The "I can't find a particular XKCD comic" thread
Deva, you're a wizard.
Also, thanks! Woot! 4 digits!
Also, thanks! Woot! 4 digits!

- Thu Aug 20, 2015 8:36 pm UTC
- Forum: General
- Topic: The "I can't find a particular XKCD comic" thread
- Replies: 162
- Views: 118688
- Thu Aug 20, 2015 7:24 pm UTC
- Forum: News & Articles
- Topic: Greek Crisis continues
- Replies: 209
- Views: 33478
Re: Greek Crisis continues
PM Alexis Tsipras quits and calls early polls Greece's Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has announced he is resigning and has called an early election. Mr Tsipras, who was only elected in January, said he had a moral duty to go to the polls now a third bailout had been secured with European creditors....
- Thu Aug 20, 2015 5:28 am UTC
- Forum: Books
- Topic: Best and Worst Discworld
- Replies: 318
- Views: 198624
Re: Best and Worst Discworld
Just finished Monstrous Regiment, and I believe it is one of the best I read so far
- Tue Aug 18, 2015 4:04 pm UTC
- Forum: General
- Topic: Thoughts for ships
- Replies: 90089
- Views: 8485268
Re: Inspirations
Link wrote:Holy shit, I dropped my 0.5 mm drill bit; it took about half an hour to find it again. I swear that damn thing becomes wavelike when you're not looking at it!
This reminded me of the time we dropped a bunch of tiny SMT resistors on the lab's floor. Fun times.
- Mon Aug 17, 2015 7:38 pm UTC
- Forum: General
- Topic: Thoughts for ships
- Replies: 90089
- Views: 8485268
Re: Inspirations
Quercus wrote:I need to re-read the Silmarillion, it's been over a decade now.
I have no idea how long it's been since the last time I read it. I'm also not sure how many times I did read it.
- Wed Aug 12, 2015 2:02 pm UTC
- Forum: General
- Topic: Thoughts for ships
- Replies: 90089
- Views: 8485268
Re: Inspirations
Shamelessly advertising all over the place my girlfriend's work High fantasy and medieval themes illustrations. Her devian art profile is at my signature Here is the concept for Yavanna, the first of her Valar Project: http://pre02.deviantart.net/ea94/th/pre/i/2015/224/9/d/yavanna___character_design...
- Wed Aug 12, 2015 1:52 pm UTC
- Forum: Your art and links
- Topic: Personal Art links: DeviantArt, flickr, etc.
- Replies: 253
- Views: 155566
Re: Personal Art links: DeviantArt, flickr, etc.
My girlfriend's DevianArt: http://magarciaart.deviantart.com/
Her illustrations are fantasy and medieval themes, and she just began a Valar Project with Yavanna
Her illustrations are fantasy and medieval themes, and she just began a Valar Project with Yavanna

- Wed Aug 12, 2015 1:21 pm UTC
- Forum: News & Articles
- Topic: In other news... (humorous news items)
- Replies: 15072
- Views: 2483781
Re: In other news... (humorous news items, etc)
As I understand, they've already retracted and apologised for that one. Rightly. What I don't understand is how anyone thought even for a moment that this was ok? I understand that many huge companies just give some intern almost total control of social media (because that's smart cheap), but even ...
- Wed Aug 12, 2015 12:48 pm UTC
- Forum: News & Articles
- Topic: In other news... (humorous news items)
- Replies: 15072
- Views: 2483781
Re: In other news... (humorous news items, etc)
Really, Bic? Really?
Edit: spoilered because big image.
Spoiler:
Edit: spoilered because big image.
- Wed Aug 05, 2015 7:30 pm UTC
- Forum: Coding
- Topic: Esoteric programming languages for an esoteric mind?
- Replies: 77
- Views: 16540
Re: Esoteric programming languages for an esoteric mind?
When designing the flowchart, you don't have to worry about the code, just the logic. And that logic would be roughly the same either way. Unfortunately, I have to make sure the code can handle the logic. The fact that the code's logic is different from my own means that I'll have to change my own ...
- Tue Aug 04, 2015 1:45 pm UTC
- Forum: General
- Topic: Lucky Ten Thousand (TIL)
- Replies: 13412
- Views: 1607342
Re: Today I Learned
Maybe the USA should just embrace that its states are mostly a grid, and start calling them (3,2) or something like that.
- Fri Jul 31, 2015 10:24 pm UTC
- Forum: General
- Topic: Thoughts for ships
- Replies: 90089
- Views: 8485268
Re: Inspirations
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