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r/tipofmytongue•

The text was something like "Who would have thought after all our fears, that this was actually the greatest threat to humanity". I think it appeared around the 2008 world-wide economic crash, so was especially apt for the times. It was a comic, probably a web-comic, maybe all one rectangular panel.

Can anyone help find that image and/or its source? Thanks!

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r/askscience•

Thane Maynard, the director of the Cincinnati zoo, said the gorilla was "able to crush a coconut in his hands with little effort."

I've seen a gorilla whack a coconut on the rocks to open it up. I've seen a hydraulic press crack one open with ease. And I've seen a human fail to smash many coconuts.

But I'm a bit skeptical that a gorilla could hold a coconut in one hand, squeeze and crush it. A gorilla against me is an unstoppable force, but a coconut against me is an unbreakable object.

Maybe young, fresh coconuts would be easier - but I'm wonderin

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r/roguelikes•

So when you land on the Fleece, jump out to the desktop without accepting it so that the dialog stays on the screen. Close/forcequit Hoplite via your favourite method and when you return, the dialog is still there but it comes up three times. This apparently means you're carrying three fleeces. So every completed level from 16 onwards heals up to three hearts.*

With Superior Energy, Surge, Leap Strike and three fleeces I'm pretty untouchable.

Use this knowledge responsibly, for goofing around only. I love this game & I've hit every achievement fairly (except for Hoplite Master) - Speed Run was by far the hardest. Advice available if you want :)

[Hoplite for Android](https://pl

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That quote is from the Oatmeal explanation of net neutrality.

The ACA clearly falls short of this goal ('All patients, regardless of X, must be treated equally"), but this is obviously an ideal of the left. Meanwhile the right wing (congressional politicians to be clear*) hate the idea of poor people getting the same quality of care or access that they can pay for.

A splintered, free-market internet would be a crappy, limping, ad-infested mess for the poors, while the wealthy folks at the top have access to the best of anything and everything that exists. That's what they offer in healthcare alternatives, so why should the internet be any diffe

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r/compsci•

If you prefer a simpler, less open version of the question: Could a grandmaster have trained with Deep Blue to regularly beat Deep Blue playing on its own?

The sci-fi version of the question is: Would cyborgs ever enjoy playing chess, or would it simply be a matter of whoever tosses the most hardware at the game?

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r/agitation•

As I was adding one more neo-nazi to my RES red-tag list, I wondered if there's a way to share tags with each other. I'm not talking about redditors with biased tendencies or anything else that afflicts most people, but it's nice to see bright red flags pop up next to the asshats who are a part of the pro-bigotry subreddits and like to inflict their hate on the general population.

So first, is this technically possible?: A shared/synced RES tag list to add to our own tags (as opposed to replacing our own lists which probably contain many n

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r/cooperatives•

I know a significant number of people who are learning or want to learn French. My concept at this point is to put the course creation in the hands of the co-op by online discussion and voting, and have a self-directed course guided by a native French speaker who is paid a reasonable rate for their time spent guiding the weekly lesson. $20 and hour for example would make a 1.5 hour class of 10 a $3 class.

Kill the profit motive and the need for the teacher (or institution) to build a curriculum and you've got something that delivers a structured classroom experience, with a knowledgeable guide and motivated, self-directed learners for much less than the $300+ courses that seem to be the s

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r/chrome•

I use the space bar to scroll down, but sometimes the search bar is active and Chrome ends up highlighting a ton of spaces and jumps me up to the top of the page. Surely it would make sense to do some kind of check of length(trim(searchText)) before scrolling and highlighting.

Also, Firefox and who knows which other browsers do this. For any freaks out there who do want to search for whitespace on web pages, they can turn that 'feature' back on with some obscure setting in about:flags.


*Edit: For those not quite grasping the quirk, and how simple it would be to solve programmatically:

Hit Ctrl+f and search the page for 'you', for example. Ctrl+tab off the page, and then Ctrl+tab bac

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