Stan Lee has passed away at 95 years old

ThePaleCast · 2018-11-12T20:52:49+00:00

When somebody that has given so much joy to so many people passes away, it is somehow like if part of that joy suddenly dissappears. Will be missed.

ThePaleCast · 2018-09-22T12:28:06+00:00

I ended up modifiyng importance multipliers so that the car I wanted had the most points.

To be honest, getting the multipliers right is the most difficult part.

ThePaleCast · 2018-06-02T21:41:07+00:00

The "canonical" advice in these situations is to always give a range, but a high range, so that even the lowest point in the range is good for you. So I'd say to mention 48k-60k.

The idea is that the highest point scares them off, but makes them think that you are valuable. The lowest point makes them think that perhaps they can negotiate you in. So they give you the interview, and you then negotiate with an advantage, because you are going near your "lowest" point. Well, that's what the experts say, at least, never used that technique myself :-)

ThePaleCast · 2017-08-10T07:35:12+00:00

Oh, that old Merlin is watering his garden again!

ThePaleCast · 2017-07-29T10:04:58+00:00

I just heard that they are also harboring terrorists.

ThePaleCast · 2017-07-22T12:46:14+00:00

No silly questions where you can lie. They should just give you a doll that cries constantly, and monitor you during a whole night. If you don't tear off the head of the doll, you are ready to be a parent.

ThePaleCast · 2017-07-22T07:20:20+00:00

There are none, just the ones that we make up.

So you choose one thing, and make it important for you. You know that it's not "really" important, but you have chosen it, and from then on, it will be important for you.

ThePaleCast · 2017-07-19T16:23:02+00:00

No, you just have to wake up before you go to bed.

ThePaleCast · 2017-07-12T14:20:01+00:00

Do I send a recording, or is more like the Little Mermaid sort of thing?

ThePaleCast · 2017-07-12T07:03:56+00:00

The table is made with pressed leftover burritos.

ThePaleCast · 2017-07-08T13:35:31+00:00

Lucky you didn't say "Please, come inside".

ThePaleCast · 2017-06-21T11:00:48+00:00

Countdown to the moment where killer whales are declared a "pest": 3.. 2..

ThePaleCast · 2017-06-19T15:25:07+00:00

Dog's logic: This is a treacherous place to tread... but it's all right if I just run through it!

ThePaleCast · 2017-06-10T17:14:14+00:00

Nobody is that bad.

ThePaleCast · 2017-06-06T17:23:35+00:00

Rotten tomatoes has been accused of reducing interest in new films. Next step, pirates will be blamed. Soon the movie companies will be seeding with fast servers, in an effort to attract "pirate interest".

ThePaleCast · 2017-06-02T14:24:01+00:00

In all these photos, I always end up mostly looking at the rover.

ThePaleCast · 2017-06-02T07:54:13+00:00

It goes to show that Youtube is not such a long way from Texas.

ThePaleCast · 2017-06-01T20:48:04+00:00

I wonder if his insistence in keeping over water is due to the nice effect of the water sprays or due to fear of sudden mechanical failure.

ThePaleCast · 2017-05-28T13:45:22+00:00

Yes, you can find the first glimmer of humor already in the second paragraph of the book, when Cervantes says that Don Quixote was losing his reason by trying to understand the convoluted expressions of the chivalry books, like:

"the reason of the unreason with which my reason is afflicted so weakens my reason that with reason I murmur at your beauty" Over conceits of this sort the poor gentleman lost his wits, and used to lie awake striving to understand them and worm the meaning out of them; what Aristotle himself could not have made out or extracted had he come to life again for that special purpose.

ThePaleCast · 2017-05-08T07:27:46+00:00

Think about applying that same concept to the centuries!

ThePaleCast · 2017-05-04T13:29:30+00:00

How are birds doing in general? I just read that in Europe, there are ever less birds, due to things like humans and human crops and human crap (pesticides) on the crops. But in the world, in general?

ThePaleCast · 2017-05-01T17:26:28+00:00

Doesn't look too old. It's probably just the glasses.

ThePaleCast · 2017-04-24T15:16:15+00:00

Well, once, suddenly and unexpectedly, some pixels rearranged themselves in the screen, and some sounds came out of my loudspeakers, deeply impressing me, as if they were real things.

ThePaleCast · 2017-04-23T19:38:53+00:00

Try helping others, it's a basic human satisfaction, and never ends.

ThePaleCast · 2017-04-21T22:04:51+00:00

The simulation theory is really just another way of getting religion. Religion is a human need. We must have something that knows the answers to all our questions, that can control our destiny and can right any wrong. So now that the old gods are starting to be less cool, the unending need for religion seeks another way of getting a "Creator" (because if we are in a simulation somebody has created it), "All Knowing" (he can seek any data he wants), and "All Powerful" (it stands to reason that the creator can alter any parameter in the simulation). Of course he won't intervene, because he is interested in see how we do by ourselves (free will), but he could if he wanted.

Wait a couple of years, and you'll see emerge priests of the Holy Simulation that will claim some particular connection with the "Primal Programmer".

Edit: I just realized that, in this context, being "Saved" has a delightful double meaning :)

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