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    List of chess variants (en.wikipedia.org)

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    Wikipedia users on 0.999... (i.imgur.com) [Image Post]

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    You thought it's hot? (i.imgur.com) [Removed: No proof it is from social media]

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    Michio Kaku - Long term impact of space travel on the human body (youtube.com)

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    North America’s largest tidal turbine (i.imgur.com)

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    North America’s largest tidal turbine (i.imgur.com)

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    The World (archipelago) (en.wikipedia.org)

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    Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository (en.wikipedia.org)

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    Anyone who would be kind enough to fix this page? There's a large blank block of whitespace at the end not sure why. (en.wikipedia.org)

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linuxjava

What is the exact model of your integrated graphics processor? I ask because Dirt 3 works pretty well on an Intel HD Graphics 4000

http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/graphics-drivers/graphics-for-3rd-generation-intel-processors/000005659.html

linuxjava

There are some games that use easter eggs, sure, but those are the vast minority of cheats.

This seems highly improbable to me. So many games had cheat codes like in the PS1 and PS2 era for example. I think many of them had them because they were considered a fun aspect of the gameplay. Where you could just put infinite ammo or infinite health and have fun with the game.

linuxjava

I'm talking about Christopher Wolfram. You are talking about Stephen Wolfram.

linuxjava

I'm talking about the current Mathematica. Not Mathematica 1.0. Honestly it is many times better than the alternatives that you listed above that was my point.

linuxjava

Honest question have you ever personally used Mathematica?? Because none of these even come close to the capabilities that Mathematica provides.

linuxjava

Mathematica is pretty elegant and quite concise. Many times requiring just a few lines to do what may take many lines to accomplish in other languages.

http://blog.wolfram.com/2012/11/14/code-length-measured-in-14-languages/

linuxjava

Smart kid. I've watched some of his Mathematica talks on YouTube and he understands the language pretty well. Has also written some of the code of Mathematica I think and also has done some tech articles like this. Also was home schooled I believe.

linuxjava

They talk about it a bit in Chapter 2. It's their distributed cluster operating system similar to Apache Mesos.

linuxjava

The idea that Google has a search monopoly is silly when it takes no effort at all to switch to Bing, and Microsoft will even pay you to do that. The only reason Google is still the most popular search engine is because they worked really hard at continuing to be the best search engine.

Technically, even if you have a superior product does not mean that you can't be a monopoly

linuxjava

Thanks so much /wu/Just plain Bill. Looks like the issue was that template. Cheers.

linuxjava

but starting with LOL! will undermine your argument

FOR YOU!!

linuxjava

This seems like guess work. Don't believe everything you read, please.

linuxjava

Now we ridicule

Not everyone

linuxjava

in the 80s, music videos and TV stations would not have women in bikinis

LOL. Are you sure?

linuxjava

Yes I think you're right. Increase kids in the West and decrease in the rest. But your other argument of tax benefits would only apply to countries like Japan and not others. Also this kind of benefit has been there for long and yet the issue of aging in Japan still persisted.

linuxjava

nice