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by 26fingies 3y ago
It seems weird to extrapolate where Godot will live in the game development ecosystem from its current performance characteristics for certain operations. It's like trying out Windows 95 and saying "Microsoft isn't going to d
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by 26fingies 3y ago
> But the government dragged its feet in paying, and the project got underway only in 2010... Just four months later, in 2011, Libyans marched against Colonel el-Qaddafi’s 42-year grip on power... In the tumult, work on the dam ceased...
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by 26fingies 3y ago
I really hate when these sorts of topics come up on HN because even though we fancy ourselves a group of evidence-driven, logical people we have a real blind spot for history. We in the west have spent the better part of the last 500 years
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by 26fingies 3y ago
We're the hegemon so it kinda is.
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by 26fingies 3y ago
Weird that when we destroy a government and replace it with nothing infrastructure goes unmaintained.
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by 26fingies 3y ago
I paid for sublime 3. I should pay for 4, but I havent yet.
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by 26fingies 3y ago
Landlords are the people that own the property and take profit for it. Sometimes they manage the property, in a lot of cases they don’t. Sometimes they are corporations, sometimes they aren’t. In any case they are collecting rents and takin
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by 26fingies 3y ago
That is certainly a take.
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by 26fingies 3y ago
Housing co-ops are a thing that exist. Governments can also conceivably own rental properties. It’s property management that does most of the work anyway and they get paid like anyone else to do a job. Landlords are a drain on the economy a
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by 26fingies 3y ago
Landlords dont build housing.
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by 26fingies 3y ago
> Not sure you will ever be able to ban investors from owning properties that are rented out long-term Why not? We are making up the rules as we go. The government has the guns, it can do what it wants. > - a fair amount of the popula
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by 26fingies 3y ago
Canada's housing market is F'd and this is the reason. There's a lot of noise made about "foreign investors" (which is really just an epithet for Chinese people) but the investors screwing everything up are Canadian
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by 26fingies 3y ago
Yes, exactly.
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by 26fingies 3y ago
It can be worth deprioritizing encode complexity since the majority of audio and video streaming is non-live content. Youtube, Netflix, TikTok, Instagram, and so on can all benefit even if encode is slower than realtime. Obviously there are
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by 26fingies 3y ago
The British brought in hundreds of thousands of Indian indentured servants when they couldn’t take African slaves anymore. Trinidad for example has a significant population of people of Indian descent today. So I don’t find it all that surp
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by 26fingies 3y ago
There's no contortion. A unit of labor in India is as valuable as a unit of labor in the United States, but the capitalist pays less for it.
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by 26fingies 3y ago
China's middle class has become reasonably wealthy. There are poorer countries yet to be exploited so this seems like a natural next step.
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by 26fingies 3y ago
Yea please let me pay $30 in fees for a $10 purchase instead of $0.27. Afterward I can sit in the waiting area for 45 minutes while they wait for my transaction to be finalized.
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by 26fingies 3y ago
Their fees are a percentage though…
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by 26fingies 3y ago
What a cool situation we’re in where two companies own most of our payments and apparently raise fees at the same time.
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by 26fingies 3y ago
A lot of screens these days are OLED and as I understand it they use more energy when displaying light images than dark images. The screen is also a major power hog. So I wonder what the energy tradeoff would be by using a dark background i
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by 26fingies 3y ago
they may want to consider not calling themselves that
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by 26fingies 3y ago
The premise of idiocracy is funny but shouldn’t be taken seriously. An uncharitable read would be that it advocates eugenics. More charitably it’s just plain classist.
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by 26fingies 3y ago
We already have these things and it hasn't done any good. Housing is still treated as an investment (these new growing markets sound like an opportunity) and it gets passed down to the renters. Really though this is true of basically e
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by 26fingies 3y ago
In Canada, at least, there are many people who have bought 2nd and 3rd+ homes and rented them out. There's more overlap between "landlord" and "homeowner" than you might think.
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by 26fingies 3y ago
> Housing cannot simultaneously be affordable if it is also supposed to increase in value endlessly. Someone has to lose. If there's a God and they are just then the renters would win.
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by 26fingies 3y ago
Probably was $20 last time he actually took an Uber. He's likely had a driver for a long time.
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by 26fingies 3y ago
Off topic but reading articles on mobile is a goddamn nightmare these days. Reader mode is the only thing saving it.
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by 26fingies 3y ago
honestly the LLM stuff is pretty neat but im way more excited about how good ML has gotten for things like signal processing and superresolution.
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by 26fingies 3y ago
They did have a couple data points for volume. A historical average of ~1 liter of beer or wine per day is mentioned at the beginning of the post. Further down it seems English sailors had a daily ration of 4.5 liters(!!) of strong beer. So

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