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Or maybe just reproduce at another country?

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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...

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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...

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I will never not find this electoral votes system weird as hell.

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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.

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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

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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...

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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, ...

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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.

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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...

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I hope this movies gets a ton of money and Blizzard keeps doing more of then. A movie about Arthas? Yes please.

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Lazar wrote:A non-violent student in Alabama is beaten and tazed for the crime of disrespecting a cop.

Student: "Good thing we got all this on video"
Cop: "I don't give a fuck"

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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 ...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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,...

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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...

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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...

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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-...

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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...

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[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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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: "...

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Deva, you're a wizard.

Also, thanks! Woot! 4 digits!

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Not exactly what you're describing, but maybe this one or this one?

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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....

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Just finished Monstrous Regiment, and I believe it is one of the best I read so far

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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.

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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.

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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...

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My girlfriend's DevianArt: http://magarciaart.deviantart.com/

Her illustrations are fantasy and medieval themes, and she just began a Valar Project with Yavanna

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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 ...

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Really, Bic? Really?

Spoiler:

Edit: spoilered because big image.

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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 ...

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Maybe the USA should just embrace that its states are mostly a grid, and start calling them (3,2) or something like that.

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