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Trump perceived as abnormally sadistic and narcissistic by both conservatives and liberals, study finds
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The real impact of an open redirect vulnerability
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Swedish city of Lund to manure the parks on an earlier date to deter Walpurgi celebrations
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TV Tuesdays Free Talk
Have you watched any TV shows recently you want to discuss? Any shows you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here. Please just try to provide fair warning of...
Have you watched any TV shows recently you want to discuss? Any shows you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here.
Please just try to provide fair warning of spoilers if you can.
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Haiku activity report - April 2020
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As virus cases surge, Brazil starts to worry its neighbors
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Explorer, navigator, coloniser: Revisit Captain Cook’s legacy with the click of a mouse
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Russia’s coronavirus outbreak is getting bad
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Daily coronavirus-related chat, questions, and minor updates - April 29
This thread is posted daily, and is intended as a place for more-casual discussion of the coronavirus and questions/updates that may not warrant their own dedicated topics. Tell us about what the...
This thread is posted daily, and is intended as a place for more-casual discussion of the coronavirus and questions/updates that may not warrant their own dedicated topics. Tell us about what the situation is like where you live!
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Motorhome lockdown: An Post deliver for a YouTube couple stuck in a Cork lay-by
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Amazon city resorts to mass graves as Brazil COVID-19 deaths soar
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There has not been a single instance of a child under ten transmitting the coronavirus, even in contact tracing carried out by World Health Organization
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Australian intelligence officials have no evidence of Wuhan lab link to coronavirus
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Sleep mask recommendations
My sleep mask is falling apart. I'm in the market for a new one. I could just get any 15 euro mask but it seems like it's a category of products that is riddled with cheap crap and overpriced...
My sleep mask is falling apart. I'm in the market for a new one. I could just get any 15 euro mask but it seems like it's a category of products that is riddled with cheap crap and overpriced gadgetry.
I don't mind a high budget mask if it's legitimately good quality and will last a long time. I'm also open to try the "smart masks" that can play music or white noise or whatever but again, it has to be good quality.
Caveat: I'm in europe, and a lot of US brands aren't available here. But if it's really good I can import it.
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Elon Musk says shelter-in-place orders during COVID-19 are ‘fascist’—‘Give people back their goddamn freedom.’
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Why Mitch Mcconnell wants US states to go bankrupt
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Tesla 2020 Q1 financial update
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Remdesivir in adults with severe COVID-19: A randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, multicentre trial
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Anthony Fauci calls US data from Gilead virus-drug trial ‘good news’
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The West’s incompetent response to the pandemic will hasten the power-shift to the east
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The anti-Amazon alliance
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Boeing, expecting a long slump, will cut 16,000 jobs
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I sing the airplane electric—Until now, an airplane was never a cheap date
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Investors bet giant companies will dominate after crisis
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MLB is considering a three-division, ten team plan in which teams play only within their division
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Digital Foundry Retro: Final Fantasy 7 - A JRPG epic analysed across the generations
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Apple COVID-19 mobility trends reports
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This is a web page
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Organizing and running a developer room at FOSDEM
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Apple and Google’s COVID-19 exposure notification API: Questions and answers
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Google Meet premium video meetings—free for everyone
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Bill Gates: Here are the innovations we need to reopen the economy
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Hyperdome - the safest place to reach out
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Final Fantasy VII Remake (dunkview)
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LabVIEW: Community Edition
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Michael Reeves builds a surgery robot
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Give me advice to check my completionist tendencies
I find with a lot of video-games, particularly RPGs, I have trouble just doing a casual playthrough. I just can't really stop myself from chasing down every quest marker, so if anyone has advice...
I find with a lot of video-games, particularly RPGs, I have trouble just doing a casual playthrough. I just can't really stop myself from chasing down every quest marker, so if anyone has advice about how I can keep my playstyle focused on stuff I actually enjoy, I'd love to hear it.
I've found what ends up happening is I will play a game long after the point where the core gameplay loops are fun or challenging for me. This negatively impacts my impressions of games I play. It's like, chewing a stick of gum for way WAY too long. My jaw is sore, it tastes like cardboard. But I. Just. Keep. Going. I don't go into dumb collect-a-thons as much, so I'm not the worst at this, but I end up chasing every side-quest, every "do thing to befriend party member," and so on. Basically everything that counts as "content."
To be clear, I definitely blame the game designers for this. They stretch 30 hour games to 60 with a bunch of filler. And with open-world systems, it's just really hard to tell what's important and what isn't which just triggers my FoMO about missing something cool or plot critical.I just want some strategies on how to work around the bullshit and not have to bother with padding content.
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Will you install the contact-tracing app on your phone?
Looks like governments around the world are going to start releasing tracing apps into the wild very soon. Now it's everybody's personal decision to install it or not. So my question to you,...
Looks like governments around the world are going to start releasing tracing apps into the wild very soon. Now it's everybody's personal decision to install it or not.
So my question to you, tilderinos: Are you going to install it? Why or why not? What would change your mind?
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It's not every day that the face of a chief epidemiologist is inked as a tattoo – a very Swedish tribute
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What did you do this weekend?
As part of a weekly series, these topics are a place for users to casually discuss the things they did — or didn't do — during their weekend. Did you make any plans? Take a trip? Do nothing at...
As part of a weekly series, these topics are a place for users to casually discuss the things they did — or didn't do — during their weekend. Did you make any plans? Take a trip? Do nothing at all? Tell us about it!
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Goalkeepers from Denmark catch the football differently thanks to a technique known as 'The Danish Catch'
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Ubisoft is live with a teaser for the next Assassin's Creed game
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How Does Lossless Compression in Fuji RAF Files work?
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CULT for GOOD is bringing COVID-19 relief to homeless across America
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Why the An-225 Mriya is such a badass plane
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Today (29th April 2020) is the 250th anniversary of Captain Cook's landing at Botany Bay (Kamay)
250 years ago, Captain James Cook and his ship the HMS Endeavour landed at Kamay (Botany Bay) on the eastern coast of Australia. He was in the middle of a months-long exploration of the eastern...
250 years ago, Captain James Cook and his ship the HMS Endeavour landed at Kamay (Botany Bay) on the eastern coast of Australia. He was in the middle of a months-long exploration of the eastern coast. His crew first spotted the Australian mainland on 11th April 1770, and they left Australian waters after taking possession of the continent in the name of King George III on 22nd August.
This was not the first visitation of Australia by Europeans. That honour goes to Dutch sailor Willem Janszoon in his ship the Duyfken in 1606. Dutch & Portuguese sailors & traders continued to visit the north and west coasts for the next couple of centuries. They called the continent "New Holland".
But Cook represented the first European power to assume possession of the continent. 18 years later, the English sent their First Fleet of convict ships to the land of New South Wales.
250 years since Captain Cook arrived in Australia, his legacy remains fraught
What Australians often get wrong about our most (in)famous explorer, Captain Cook
For Indigenous people, Cook's voyage of 'discovery' was a ghostly visitation
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Sweden could soon be within easy reach of London by overnight sleeper train under proposals drawn up by the country's rail planners
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Daily coronavirus-related chat, questions, and minor updates - April 28
This thread is posted daily, and is intended as a place for more-casual discussion of the coronavirus and questions/updates that may not warrant their own dedicated topics. Tell us about what the...
This thread is posted daily, and is intended as a place for more-casual discussion of the coronavirus and questions/updates that may not warrant their own dedicated topics. Tell us about what the situation is like where you live!
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SpaceX to test Starlink “sun visor” to reduce brightness
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