Comevius

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by Comevius 4y ago
This is funny because blind optimism and having a fatalistic attitude are the same behavior. In essence I'm overconfident about a dismal future. You have to be generally unhappy with the way things are going to feel this way, and many
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The problem with climate change is that it creates a reality distortion field. Anyone who would honestly try to think about it would give up on life, so instead we have this fake optimism accompanied by fake solutions, basically a fantasy n
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The allure for VCs is that if Helium makes it and becomes the next big thing then it's worth a trillion dollars, and if not it's still a cryptocurrency that can be pumped or dumped. Meanwhile there is an IoT craze, so there is a s
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A legitimate business might have a bad product, or a market that doesn't exist, or even unrealistic promises, but it wouldn't try to make an economy out of those promises, an economy no less that's only viable as long as ther
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Another a16z investment that's a textbook case of a Ponzi scheme, with no chance of actually making money beyond the redistribution of funds from recent investors to earlier ones. Meanwhile the company behind Helium gets rich from noth
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This article is part of the recent transparent shift in propaganda from denial to bargaining, now that the effects of climate change are felt, and have a measurable impact on the economy. This is coming from people who aren't climate s
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The default ImGui rasterizer (imstb_truetype) is rubbish. The new rasterizer (imgui_freetype) should be used instead. https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/tree/master/misc/freetype
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He is between a rock and a hard place. He has to cozy up to anti-regulation conservatives to be able to get away with manipulation, abuse and undermining of worker's rights, but it's the liberals who buy his cars. The established
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Practical ZK is coming from cryptography, like this decentralized gun registry by the Brown University. https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/107.pdf People in the crypto space are coming from a different angle, they are franct
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What's important is doing whatever the expectations are in the given market. But customer development is just as important as product development, and there is more to even product development than just coding. Nobody is going to just
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The digital identity infrastructure space is already crowded, with players like Apple, Google and Microsoft working with governments and institutions, because they own the devices we use, and the entire point is that people will be able to
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To be fair 5 officers died not long after the attack. Brian Sidnick was pepper sprayed twice and died a day later suffering two strokes. Howard Liebengood and Jeffrey Smith died by suicide a few days after the attack, and Kyle DeFreytag and
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This is just fetishization of a disorder's side effect, a sort of blindness not unlike sociopathic tendencies, known to drive people to the top. There is a price to be paid for this, and it's the inability to see the bigger pictur
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As a European I take not getting many times as expensive, like our fuel, energy and food prices. I wonder how the European cloud will fare this winter, and how many European customers we will lose.
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There are two big lies here. Lie #1: Web3 platforms don't have to take a chunk of your revenue Lie #2: Web3 platforms are not responsible for the content they are hosting Lie #1 suggests that crypto can effectively cut out the middlema
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The average American watches 5 hours of TV each day, 2/3 of the shows are about physical violence. The entertainment industry is a propaganda for the gun industry because people feel that violence is everywhere, and that guns are neede
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Fallout 76 and Metal Gear: Survive are only bad because our standards these days are exceptionally high and they did not manage to earn their price. Fallout 76 since came closer. Both are above 70% on Steam.
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It's for the best after the stunt their cosmonauts pulled the last time displaying anti-Ukraine propaganda. You would think that people up there would have a more enlightened perspective. This could also the beginning of the end of Rus
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The same people used to completely deny it, they only pivoted lately to bargaining and it's really transparent. The IPCC scenarios don't really rely on feedback loops, because we don't know enough about them. They are rarely
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Climate change deniers rarely argue about the details, or even know about them. The way science works is that there is a big picture, and the details are slowly filled in. Like Newton's law, which is an approximation to general relativ
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The biosphere is not undestroyable by any measure. Prior extinction events haven't manage to permanently damage it, but we shouldn't set the bar that low and rely on life's magical ability to spring forth and prosper under an
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The what if game works the other way around too. The Third Reich spent a lot of rethorical attention on environmentalism that soon became a less pressing concern. Under different circumstances however one might imagine that they would have
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No offense, but in my experience semi-articulate wins the day. I bet you a beer nobody knows what "media omertà" means. Even Google can't define it, but it references a book called A Climate Vocabulary of the Future that defi
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I clearly do. Hitler killed millions of people, not unlike the Black Death or Genghis Khan, but what can you do, life goes on. Climate change is different. Life will absolutely not go on if we don't start handling it. It's an exti
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I have strong sense of justice, but this is how countries are built to last. Rest assured that I wouldn't let some libertarian think tank and their corporate sponsors get away with such manipulation of public opinion for personal gain.
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Just because a perspective is different it doesn't mean that it's the truth, or should be treated equally importantly for the sake of some kind of balance. Climate change denial is a good example, because it's not the truth,
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It's crimes against humanity, it's what it is. Sabotaging the human race for personal gain is the ultimate crime, it makes Hitler look like a saint. Any sentient species in the Universe wishing to prevail must, absolutely must be
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Trading customer goodwill for chump change is rarely the winning strategy, but it's sure a losing strategy in the middle of the streaming wars when other companies are trying their best to cater to their customers.
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You can get away with it when everyone is doing it. Most of the food and beverage industry compromises quality or quantity in one way or another. McDonald's is actually one of the better ones, they compromise the quantity, but otherwis
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This is an interesting difference because I'm a man and at bare minimum I need to see that the people doing it are really into it. I need enthusiasm, but prefer to see or read the development of how it got to such a boiling point. I al

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