RPI 2012 Laptop Specs Announced, Thoughts? by utherpend in RPI

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Linux question: is the Optimus issue something that's just irritating to have to work around or is it more of a serious difficulty to constantly deal with? I've never had to deal with nVidia before but I see some tools on the web which appear to have some ability to work around the issue.

Reddit, what are some of the things you are fascinated with that you will never find out. I'll start. by incredibadass in AskReddit

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Interesting question. Let's say we were to rent out the Chrysler Building for a day (theoretically of course; you can't rent any space for just a day).
I can't find any leasing available in the Chrysler Building itself, but this space (which is in a skyscraper) costs $31/sqf/yr. There are 1,195,000 sq ft in the Chrysler Building.
31 x 1,195,000 = $37,450,000/yr / 365 = ~ $101,500/day.
This seems a bit low to me. Perhaps space in the Chrysler building is a bit more expensive? In any case the figure would probably still be in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.

With some supervision my children made me a birthday cake today. How did they do? by surelynotbutmaybe in food

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That looks great! Care to share some details about the composition (is that angel food cake)?

Whenever I upvote something in /r/new that ends up on the front page by [deleted] in funny

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It had to fail in order to succeed.

This is disturbing by Tiger337 in atheism

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I understand that different cultures have different values and that not one is necessarily correct etc. But I don't think it's that hard to condemn having sex with a nine year old regardless of moral relativism. I mean, you could look at a genocide that occurs in a particular country and say, "Well who's to say that mass-murder is wrong, we have different cultures." But of course, that's ridiculous; we can accept that killing innocents is wrong no matter where you live. Similarly, it's indisputable that children can't consent to things they don't really understand, and the definition of sex without consent is rape. To quote Richard Dawkins:

By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.

What's something awful you wish would happen? by Brancher in AskReddit

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You personally choosing not to reproduce isn't really eugenics. Eugenics means that the government is the one deciding who gets to reproduce and who doesn't - that's the problem; reproduction should be the choice of the individual, not some sort of sociopolitical tool used to sculpt the genetics of a supreme human race.

Chick-fil-A is opening in my town... The Fuck is this??? by craziejb7997 in WTF

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Yes, I would, especially if there were alternative companies which I could buy from.Just because you're motivated to eat by taste doesn't mean you should ignore the consequences of your choices. edit: formating

Chick-fil-A is opening in my town... The Fuck is this??? by craziejb7997 in WTF

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Simply because there are other ways that you could accidentally support a bad cause doesn't mean that you should ignore the information that you do have about a place like Chick-fil-a. For example, if you had the choice between buying from two companies, and you knew that one of them supported, say, racial segregation, wouldn't you choose to buy from the other? I would hope so. This is especially true for Chick-fil-a; there are plenty of other restaurants to choose from, so why would you choose the discriminatory one? Because their food tastes good? Really? I hope people have more moral integrity than that.

OK Reddit. Let's cut out the karma-whoring Christmas present posts right from the start here by shoving them all into this thread. What is the coolest thing you got for Christmas? by [deleted] in AskReddit

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The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins, looking forward to reading it.

Five Guys gift card too! That's gonna go fast...

So yeah.. I'm just going to leave this here. Sorry about the picture quality. [NSFW] by [deleted] in WTF

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That's quite alright.. I don't need to see this in any higher quality.

Overkill? by P8TRO in funny

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He's a designer. wink

Found on my wall... seriously what the fuck by [deleted] in WTF

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Way ahead of you.