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4 votes
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Apple’s plans for its new TV service: Sell other people’s TV services
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EIA projects U.S. energy-related CO2 emissions will remain near current level through 2050
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When does Person of Interest start to get good?
I have watched the first season, and started the second season. I have been told a few times, it gets better once they get more into the AI aspect behind "the machine". So far the episodes are...
I have watched the first season, and started the second season. I have been told a few times, it gets better once they get more into the AI aspect behind "the machine". So far the episodes are pretty formulaic, so I am wondering if there is a specific episode or season where these little plot bits about this machine everyone is trying to find come to fruition and the series pivots to more of a sci-fi sub-plot.
Also, how come nobody calls him out for talking to himself all the time?
I do like the dog, good addition to the second season.EDIT: I am now on season 2 episode 10, and yeah its starting to get a lot better. It seems to be a slow transition but they are getting my attention with all this hacker history talk.
11 votes -
'It looked like an ocean': Severe Midwest flooding could last all spring
5 votes -
Nintendo Switch - Nindies Showcase Spring 2019
16 votes -
Today’s Firefox release aims to reduce your online annoyances
38 votes -
How designers engineer luck into video games
9 votes -
Britain will have water shortages in twenty-five years thanks to climate change, environment chief says
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New Zealand & Australia ISPs and telcos block access to sites hosting Christchurch shooting video
New Zealand ISPs are blocking sites that do not remove Christchurch shooting video New Zealand Mobile Carriers Block 8chan, 4chan, and LiveLeak And, in Australia: Telco giants block websites...
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New Zealand ISPs are blocking sites that do not remove Christchurch shooting video
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New Zealand Mobile Carriers Block 8chan, 4chan, and LiveLeak
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And, in Australia: Telco giants block websites sharing footage of Christchurch attacks
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The block on some sites seems to have been lifted in Australia: Telcos block access to 4chan, other sites
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Computer made of cloth
7 votes -
What's your opinion on Accelerationism?
Accelerationism: most of us have heard of it, few of us have read into it, and a fair amount of us have shared memes around it (gotta go fast), but have any of us formed substantial opinions on it...
Accelerationism: most of us have heard of it, few of us have read into it, and a fair amount of us have shared memes around it (gotta go fast), but have any of us formed substantial opinions on it yet?
With a variety of authors of various views each weighing in on it, like Mark Fisher and the notorious Nick Land (alongside his genderswapped, trans, slightly less-racist partner-in-crime, Nyx Land); it really does seem to be (slowly but surely) gaining considerable mindspace. Have any of you ever read any works in the genre you adored? If so, feel free to share!
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Apex Legends - Season 1 starts tomorrow at 10 AM PDT, Battle Pass details released
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Winners of the 21st annual Independent Games Festival Awards announced - Return of the Obra Dinn takes grand prize
10 votes -
Supernatural: The Four Horsemen introductions
Supernatural is one of those TV shows that had some fantastic early seasons. I really miss them. As a show I feel it kinda turned way too much into fan service in its later seasons. It stayed...
Supernatural is one of those TV shows that had some fantastic early seasons. I really miss them.
As a show I feel it kinda turned way too much into fan service in its later seasons. It stayed decent (good, even), but lost a lot of its quality.
Every season there's a bigger, badder fish and things get more and more absurd. One of the things that kind of annoyed me the most about it is that characters dying has zero impact, as they come back into the show whenever convenient using whatever silly way the writers deem worthy. (That series is the polar opposite of Game of Thrones in that regard…)Season 5 introduced the Four Horsemen. I remember Death's intro as being possibly the most memorable moment of the entire show. Re-watching them now, the introductions of all four were seriously chilling. Thought I'd share them here.
- War: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1I4nFgMuciU
- Famine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQSnVPzV4_k
- Pestilence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7E2aQKYEsUw&t=33s
- And best of all, Death: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EcsBgxXDqc
I'll recommend Supernatural if you like a good mix of horror-comedy without too much comedy. You may like it if you liked: Psych, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel.
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LHCb sees a new flavour of matter–antimatter asymmetry
11 votes -
Microsoft says the FCC 'overstates' broadband availability in the US
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The language Wikipedias in German, Czech, Danish, and Slovak are "blacked out" for twenty-four hours to protest the EU Copyright Directive
14 votes -
Are you a purist or evolutionist? What your language 'pet peeve' reveals about you
6 votes -
New Zealand bans military style semi-automatics and assault rifles
15 votes -
Her time: Debra Koosed was diagnosed with dementia at sixty-five. That’s when she decided she no longer wanted to live.
5 votes -
Google Stadia hands-on
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Google announces "Stadia", a new game-streaming platform with deep YouTube integration
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What would be a good security setup for me?
So: I keep all my passwords in my password manager (Bitwarden) All my 2FA codes are generated by AndOTP on my phone. My 2FA backup codes are also in Bitwarden, which I think is a bad idea, because...
So:
- I keep all my passwords in my password manager (Bitwarden)
- All my 2FA codes are generated by AndOTP on my phone.
- My 2FA backup codes are also in Bitwarden, which I think is a bad idea, because that defeats the purpose of 2FA. So where should I put those?
- I have my Bitwarden 2FA backup code in my wallet and in a safe at my house. Is that a good idea for the other backup codes?
- Is there anything I'm forgetting here?
8 votes -
Hundreds of US cities are killing or scaling back their recycling programs
23 votes -
Melt - Inside (2017)
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Instagram adds in-app checkout as part of its big push into shopping
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Oculus Rift S announced
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Heavy Rain, Beyond: Two Souls, and Detroit: Become Human are coming to PC, leading next wave of Epic Games Store exclusives
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Is fanart fluff? Could something be done to make it not fluff if so?
What's the opinion on posting non-oc fanart? Is it considered fluff (which seems to currently have a negative stigma attached to it based off of my reading of previous threads)? Would more effort...
What's the opinion on posting non-oc fanart? Is it considered fluff (which seems to currently have a negative stigma attached to it based off of my reading of previous threads)? Would more effort need to be put on the behalf of the poster before it's accepted (theme / several works from the same artist / some sort of comment showing analysis, reflection, or appreciation)?
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Rabbis express concern about excesses of Purim celebrations
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Have you ever experienced sleep paralysis?
Sleep Paralysis might be one of the most horrifying experiences one could go through. Personally i had it only once, now about a year ago i think; i really don't know what it was caused by, but i...
Sleep Paralysis might be one of the most horrifying experiences one could go through.
Personally i had it only once, now about a year ago i think; i really don't know what it was caused by, but i sure as hell am glad it has never occurred since. During my specific episode i was just unable to move - no hallucinations ensued - but it was still one of the worst things i've had the displeasure of feeling.
Now you might be wondering 'if this has happened to you long ago and never had it since, what prompted you to ask about it?'
Well, yesterday i ended up watching this video; now i'm morbidly fascinated by this horrifying yet somewhat captivating condition.
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Cyclone Idai 'might be southern hemisphere's worst such disaster'
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The great Star Wars heist - The theft of an ultra-rare Boba Fett figure rocks the insular world of Star Wars toy collectors
4 votes -
San Francisco to pay $13.1 million to man framed by police for murder
6 votes -
AAC signs TV deal worth one billion dollars
4 votes -
Your guide to the 2019 NCAA Men’s Tournament
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Google fined $1.7 billion by EU for unfair advertising rules
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What was a strong opinion you once had, but has changed since by listening to others?
I think we need to be more open in changing our opinions now a days more then ever, or at the very least, open to listen to others. so what was a strong opinion you once had, but has changed since...
I think we need to be more open in changing our opinions now a days more then ever, or at the very least, open to listen to others. so what was a strong opinion you once had, but has changed since by listening to others?
44 votes -
Rising flood levels threaten Mozambique disaster relief effort
5 votes -
Brexit: EU says short delay is possible if MPs back deal
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Fifty years of the internet -- What we learned, and where will we go next?
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Both sides of the abortion debate want to defend and protect
I have stood on both sides of the abortion debate. I was raised conservative. Most of my family is conservative. But I became more liberal as an adult. In listening to both conservatives and...
I have stood on both sides of the abortion debate. I was raised conservative. Most of my family is conservative. But I became more liberal as an adult. In listening to both conservatives and liberals argue their side of the debate they have something fundamental in common: both are motivated by a desire to care and protect. Liberals want to protect the rights, autonomy and health of women. Conservatives want to protect the life of the unborn.
Both sides see the other as monsters out to attack. They think that because the other side works to thwart their efforts to protect, that the other side intends harm. But that's not true. Neither side wants to inflict harm. They may be willing to inflict harm to protect another, but that is not the same as wanting to inflict harm. Those who are pro-choice don't want to kill babies; they want to protect women and sometimes killing the unborn is the unfortunate cost. Similarly those who are pro-life aren't necessarily motivated by a desire to control women*; they want to protect the unborn and limiting some rights of women is the cost.
* This of course comes with some sticky caveats. There is plenty of sexism among many who are pro-life, and plenty of hardliners who think women should be subservient. And those people's sexism does color there views of women's reproductive autonomy. But there are also moderate pro-lifers who otherwise value the rights of women. You don't have to be sexist to be pro-life. Anecdotally the pro-lifers I know personally are in the latter group.
22 votes -
Daily marijuana use and highly potent weed linked to psychosis
14 votes -
Op amp on the Moon: Reverse-engineering a hybrid op amp module
5 votes -
A Russian 'troll slayer' went undercover at a troll factory and found that hundreds of Russians were working as paid trolls in rotating shifts
20 votes -
C S Lewis’s story has already been told: why we don’t need a new Narnia book.
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Openly editable posts. Crazy idea?
I've been somewhat of a lurker here, actively reading posts, but today I came across a topic which had a small typo in it. No big deal, but if this was wikipedia, I could easily go in and fix...
I've been somewhat of a lurker here, actively reading posts, but today I came across a topic which had a small typo in it. No big deal, but if this was wikipedia, I could easily go in and fix it... Then it hit me, what would a site like tilde be like if anyone could propose an edit to a post, and have that edit go into effect if the original poster approved it? Of course revision history would need to be available too, for accountability. Good idea? Bad? I'm just curious how that might play out.
19 votes -
Robert Mueller’s “collusion” case so far, explained
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Studying social sciences
I have business degree and planning to get masters in political science or sociology. I only had electives related to these fields and I enjoyed it greatly. I know people don't like these programs...
I have business degree and planning to get masters in political science or sociology. I only had electives related to these fields and I enjoyed it greatly. I know people don't like these programs because of low employment opportunities. So is it good idea to purse them despite low prospects of employment? I know enjoy learning about these subjects a lot. What was your experience like? How are your employment situation? What was your favorite part?
6 votes