BrenBarn

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by BrenBarn 10mo ago
I'll keep my comment briefer than before. :-) Unfortunately I think we are talking past each other. The basic issue is that you are taking the constitution as a given, but my questions are about how government should be, not how it
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by BrenBarn 10mo ago
Well, yeah, they ask to see ID, but they don't scan it. (I'm in the US though.)
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by BrenBarn 10mo ago
Oh yeah!
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by BrenBarn 10mo ago
I used to go into Staples or Circuit City and go to the demo computers. I'd hit the reset button, boot into DOS, open up QBasic, and write a classic program along the lines of 10 PRINT "BRENBARN RULEZ!" 20 GOTO 10. Add a li
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by BrenBarn 10mo ago
ZZT was pretty awesome. I wish I still had the games I wrote for it.
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by BrenBarn 10mo ago
Me too. QBasic and DOS batch files were the gateway drug.
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by BrenBarn 10mo ago
I played computer games as a kid and got interested in computers. I looked at books from the library on how to make games. This was in the 90s and many of the library books were from the 70s or early 80s. Many of them focused on computer
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by BrenBarn 10mo ago
Interesting. I order alcohol online and have never had that happen.
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by BrenBarn 10mo ago
Seems to be the only way anything gets done around here. :-)
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by BrenBarn 10mo ago
I like the way you've stated your position, but I do have some questions. > Lastly, I don't know of the union has a chance of lasting if we can't allow states to enact ridiculous laws we don't like. I can understand t
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by BrenBarn 10mo ago
Those numbers are a pittance relative to his wealth. He could have established a foundation and given it hundreds of millions of dollars specifically to push for a more equitable taxation system. He did not do that.
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by BrenBarn 10mo ago
I was responding to a comment that defended Buffet by saying he "argued for changing complex and unfair taxation". I'm saying if you have billions that could be spent on taking tangible action to change such taxation, simp
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by BrenBarn 10mo ago
Is that charitable trust going to fight for wealth equality and a more progressive tax system?
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by BrenBarn 10mo ago
Yes, that's giving it away (some after death), not specifically using it to address wealth inequality.
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by BrenBarn 10mo ago
With $150 billion dollars he could have done a lot more than "argue for" changing taxation. If he had spent that money actively fighting for a better system, maybe that'd be worth something. To sit back on your billions and
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by BrenBarn 10mo ago
That's cool to hear. I fear it's not the main trend, but it's comforting somewhat.
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by BrenBarn 10mo ago
I didn't say you or me, I said anyone . They need someone to believe them, otherwise no one will care when they complain about lost sales.
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by BrenBarn 10mo ago
> My source is first and second hand reports from management of game companies having worked in the industry for decades. But, they don’t make numbers like that public. As an aside, I find this kind of behavior on the part of companies r
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by BrenBarn 10mo ago
This is my impression as well. From what I've seen, many Gen Z people only loosely even think in terms of things like "files". They are used to integrations where everything just lives on some website or in a Google app and
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by BrenBarn 10mo ago
In retrospect LiveJournal was pretty great as a social network of its time. It's too bad it got turned into some kind of Russian spam site.
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by BrenBarn 10mo ago
That seems to be a third-party library that claims to add Qt Widgets support to QML, but it's hard to see from those examples how exactly it works. It still seems to be using a QML-style layout framework. What I'm saying is I wo
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by BrenBarn 10mo ago
Yes, that's the problem. The fines for his actions should have been at least a hundred times greater, maybe a thousand times greater.
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by BrenBarn 10mo ago
Ha, that was my immediate thought as well!
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by BrenBarn 10mo ago
I've always lamented that QML and QtWidgets are separate rather than integrated. It would be awesome if there was a declarative way to specify much of the same information that you have to specify programmatically with QtWidgets (e.g.
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by BrenBarn 10mo ago
It depends what you mean by "profit". If you mean "the developers/maintainers can pay the bills of a modest lifestyle", then yes, I think that's important. But often "profit" is used to refer to the
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by BrenBarn 10mo ago
Even when I was younger, I was baffled by how people could get their news just from TV, because the amount of information in a TV news report was so tiny compared to what you'd get in a newspaper. When I hear that people view TikTok a
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by BrenBarn 10mo ago
I found this a bit odd as I don't recall ever thinking of social media as about "sending messages", and only loosely would I say they're for "communication". They're mostly for one-way communication, whic
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by BrenBarn 10mo ago
I think a fair number of people who hate Palantir do hate Google too.
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by BrenBarn 10mo ago
How about if all employees of all companies did it together, organized in a way called law, so that you don't need to engage in this rigmarole and the company just never owns anything you do unless they specifically paid you to do it a
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by BrenBarn 10mo ago
Certainly agreed on that. I think part of it is training but also part of it is just vetting. There are pretty clearly too many people who get into policing out of a desire to wield authority rather than a desire to help people. In many

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