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What do they call it when a market increases demand for a resource in response to increased efficiency of exploitation?
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Re:How a new emulator generates 3D scenes from 2D NES games on Wednesday March 09, 2016 @02:59PM (#11255373)
>I wish someone would come up with better filters for emulating CRT glow

I'm a fan of Blargg's NTSC filter[a], included in snes9x-gtk.

[a]http://slack.net/~ant/libs/ntsc.html

Re:Why GNU Emacs? on Sunday February 14, 2016 @05:54PM (#11100395)
> Also the lacking a decent text-editor joke is just that, a joke

well, noone's saying that viper-mode couldn't be improved

Re:Microsoft Solitaire was developed by a summer intern on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @01:36PM (#10845039)
the classic freecell game had the useful feature where you could play the entire game from the numpad, the new one sucks
what's the deal with multicast?
Re:What is Color Banding? And what is it not? on Thursday December 03, 2015 @05:45PM (#10673299)
simply hack pixman and then most things that request gradients in linux (including cairo therefore inkscape) will generate flawlessly smooth color curves
Re:Playstation Auto Grind on Thursday December 03, 2015 @02:48PM (#10672049)
maybe for you
Re:AMD’s new Crimson drivers accused of burning up video cards on Wednesday December 02, 2015 @04:42PM (#10666050)
comedy
Re:Refactoring a 300-line if on Tuesday December 01, 2015 @06:19PM (#10659662)
"should have just used perl"
Re:A Cabinet of Infocom Curiosities on Tuesday November 24, 2015 @03:41PM (#10623519)
guess it's a good thing then that society is crumbling
Re:Made in Japan Ain't What It Was on Monday November 09, 2015 @01:29AM (#10531660)
they all have access to way better information than we can easily get
Re:Scientists develop 'unbreakable' glass almost as tough as steel on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @01:47AM (#10504970)
aluminum is a known neurotoxin
if a line of blocks are all close to the same color, should erase the divisions (draw 1*X blocks)

like this it just seems like a simple imagemagick script

Re:Let's Learn GraphQL on Wednesday October 14, 2015 @04:56AM (#10385617)
that people would defend having to log into a social media account to read a tutorial on a database language made me physically ill

I had to swallow it (just bile)

> zir

did you have a stroke?

Re:The Drug-Violence Myth on Thursday September 24, 2015 @04:42PM (#10274560)
the only ones saying otherwise are strawmen
Re:The Drug-Violence Myth on Thursday September 24, 2015 @04:40PM (#10274548)
> because things were so awesome back in the day...not

are you trying to credit technological advance to democratic government?

what are you talking about?

Re:The Drug-Violence Myth on Thursday September 24, 2015 @03:59PM (#10274244)
why would they smash cabbages they already bought?
Re:The Drug-Violence Myth on Thursday September 24, 2015 @03:57PM (#10274228)
from the perspective of drug trade, gangs exist to protect the distribution- that part could be much more decentralized if it were legal
Re:Visions of Future Physics on Thursday September 24, 2015 @03:52PM (#10274192)
> fluid dynamics is hard, let's smash particles!
Re:The Drug-Violence Myth on Thursday September 24, 2015 @02:59PM (#10273789)
> There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, "I don’t see the use of this; let us clear it away." To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: "If you don’t see the use of it, I certainly won’t let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it."

-G. K. Chesterton

Re:The Drug-Violence Myth on Thursday September 24, 2015 @02:37PM (#10273633)
perhaps one could alternatively say the violence is black market related
Re:The Drug-Violence Myth on Thursday September 24, 2015 @02:34PM (#10273600)
"Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good." -Thomas Sowell
and nothing about lowering, 'cept for like moses or that five chinese brother
Re:It’s Easy to Get Scammed on Venmo on Thursday September 17, 2015 @02:46AM (#10231918)
just $600 per, here
Re:Google Is 2B Lines of Code, All in One Place on Thursday September 17, 2015 @02:37AM (#10231891)
I'd bet he has a lot of colleagues more qualified to question what he cares to reveal about their collective private intellectual property than you
Re:It’s Easy to Get Scammed on Venmo on Thursday September 17, 2015 @02:18AM (#10231840)
'apps'
Re:Germany's Wi-Fi Shortage Set to Ease as Merkel Backs New Bill on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @06:22PM (#10230360)
> I live in the US since 8 years and still misunderstood it.

in particular it's hard to tell whether you mean 'since I were eight years old' vs 'for a span of eight years'

also, a native speaker would probably use tense such as "I have lived", so casually, "I've lived in the US for 8 years and still misunderstood it."

and noone ever uses whom, but you probably used it correctly

ps you typoed 'possibly be' and 'it'

Re:Germany's Wi-Fi Shortage Set to Ease as Merkel Backs New Bill on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @05:55PM (#10230162)
> Sad to know that Merkel has made Germany into a mushroom tied to a string.

> Sad to know that Merkel has made Germany into a silly joke.

any child could figure that out, especially considering the tone of the comment already set with 'benjamin' why are you posting

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