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What is the most Successful Lie in History?
Religions. All of them.
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What are some popular sci-fi gadgets that are actually possible to construct in theory?
Few decades ago Marvin the Paranoid Android (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) has already been constructed by my human-like parents and is reporting this utmost depressive fact here.
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Which is your favourite scifi TV show?
Can't recall seeing anything better than The Expanse in the last decade. Love, Death & Robots is great, but that's not a typical TV Show. Altered Carbon S01 was ok.
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The Best Mind-Bending Sci-Fi Movies That Will Mess With Your Head
Cloud Atlas (2012)
Cube (1997)
The Fountain (2006)
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Fairphone 4—the repairable, sustainable smartphone—is coming to the US
Good news. I really like my FP3+ (with /e/OS), my next phone will be either FP4 or FP5 :)
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Reddit CEO defiant as moderator strike shutters thousands of forums: 'We made a business decision that we’re not negotiating on'
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You're right. Another source is here: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/06/13/we/
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Sci-fi you couldn’t get into?
Star Trek, both the old and new ones
Battlestar Galactica
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Poland cuts tax for first-time homebuyers and raises it for those buying multiple properties
While I find the tax completely fair, I'm affraid it boils down to the upcoming elections. This is one of many socialistic and populistic acts announced recently by the Polish government.
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Must watch classic SciFi movies?
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
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Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel
Great movie, indeed. I also recommend you watching "The Darjeeling Limited", 'Moonrise Kingdom" and "The French Dispatch". Also, "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou", which kinda resembles me earlier works of Jean-Pierre Jeunet.
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Which is the first PC game that blew your mind?
Half Life 1. Never before and never again I've got so totally immersed in the plot.
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The Best Mind-Bending Sci-Fi Movies That Will Mess With Your Head
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Primer is one the better mind-fucking sci-fi movies.
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Sweeping new law will force replaceable batteries on smartphones in the EU
Good news. Mine (Fairphone 3+) already has one, as will my next (Fairphone 4).
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What is a technology growing up that when you saw it, it blew your mind?
My first Atari 800XL computer and programming in general. I got it when I was 8 and as for a few first days I had no games for it but a book on Atari Basic, I started my programming journey then.
Then audio CDs and DVDs.
Then mobile phones.
Now the research equipment I work with.
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Top Five Sci-Fi Robots
- Marvin (The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy)
- K9 Mark III (Dr Who)
- 11-45-G (Love, Death & Robots)
- P-5000 Power Loader (Alien) -- not a robot per se
- IG-11 and K2SO (Star Wars) -- couldn't decide which one I prefer :)
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Avatar 2 is on Max now, is it worth watching?
Not worth. Visuals are ok, but nothing that special; story is very poor.
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I have never read a book recreationally and I love fiction.
George Orwell 1984. This would be the book if I have to choose only one book to read in my entire life. Also, not bad as the first one. Can't say it's recreational, though.
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Moving away from RHEL based distros, whats good ?
Debian Testing/Stable with backports/Stable. These I recommend.
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Last weekend bikepacking trip
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I love the bike -- it's massively upgraded Marin Muirwoods. Best adventure bike I have ever had.
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Why Germany's Catholics turn their back on the church
It's high time. Still too few and too late, though.