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  • New York sues Valve for enabling "illegal gambling" with loot boxes

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  • It isn't always that simple. It could lead to age verification requirements

    You seem to be under the impression that gambling is illegal only for children in New York, but that's not what's happening here, gambling is illegal in New York for all ages.

  • The snow drifts in my yard from yesterdays storm

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  • Here's a great world for everyone's vocabulary - yonic

  • ADHD is not cute. [vent]

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  • Fucking preach brother.

  • Would it be possible to hack a smoke detector to make it play a little jingle?

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  • Depending on how briefly they can be triggered i wonder if it could be fired in a controlled enough temporal pattern to create recognizable notes. Human hearing goes down to 40 cycles per second, so if it can fire in burst of less than a 40th of a second then that could work

  • Shadowfax! So cool!

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  • "We've created a real life version of the torment nexus from the famous book Never Create The Torment Nexus"

  • The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents

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  • The word "notebooks" in your comment makes your point really unclear in this context. I think you might be referring to portable computers but the way it reads sounds like your referring to actual paper books

  • AI blamed again as hard drives are sold out for this year

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  • We do know about it. Most of the big name ai services are all public about working for government enforcement agencies. Palantir, Flock, Boston Dynamics, Tesla xAI, etc

  • Apes share human ability to imagine

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  • European Laptop Brands Running on Linux

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  • Are these available in the US?

  • Female students on the ice in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire, ~1910?

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  • To me it's obviously screaming colorized.

    The colors are way too uniform. All the blue scarves are exactly the same blue, all the skin tones are exactly the same, all the individual buildings have a color that's exactly uniform from corner to corner, etc.

    And things like the ice are completely missing any color at all (except for maybe an overall blueish tint they added to the dark areas) but in real life everything has color. Objects that you might think are just monochrome black-gray-white actually have a lot of different colors in them. So when a section of a picture looks like a black n white photo instead of a color photo it immediately pops out to me.

    Plus, the colors of all the different objects disagree on the type of light hitting them. Like for the black ice to have a significant blueish tint means the lighting of that day wouldn't create a pinkish skin tone.

    And there's no atmospheric effects in the distance of colors. Like the column closest to the camera is the same color as the most distant column, but in reality colors fade as they go further into the distance even at the scale in this photo.

    This concludes my procrastination ted talk.

  • ‘Viking' was a job description, not a matter of heredity, massive ancient DNA study shows

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  • I don't see a distinction between what you said vs a job. Like "I was a sailor with the Navy."

  • Female students on the ice in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire, ~1910?

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  • Colorized, presumably.

  • I'm Not Into Politics

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  • Is there a reference I'm missing?

  • I assure you, it's not good.

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  • Gay guys and asexuals disagree

  • The Horses of Chernobyl Are Thriving in a Post-Human Neighborhood

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  • Aww, they like to spend a lot of time in barns. How do they know it was built with them in mind?

  • What's your most unbelievable (but true) personal story?

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  • I had a lot of potential.

  • The fashion show prank actually is in favor of the industry

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  • Bruno movie proves the opposite iirc

  • Amazon, Google Unwittingly Reveal the Severity of the U.S. Surveillance State

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  • "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety"

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  • Thanks for the info but I purposely only ever use effect. The difference conveys no additional information, and it's already close to an archaic usage