Drakim

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by Drakim 7y ago
That's progressively been true over and over again at most points of history (with various temporary local dips) but that doesn't justify the the status quo, or vindicate our current system as being acceptable. Serfs probably had
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by Drakim 7y ago
At least until computers master the task of creating intelligence that can do any one task better than humans.
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by Drakim 7y ago
I have the feeling that if you drive down the cost of bandwidth, the businesses that rely on it will say "Thank you" and change nothing, merely pocketing the bigger margin themselves. The number of ads isn't proportional to b
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by Drakim 7y ago
Fair enough, but I personally use my credit card to pay several content creators monthly on Patreon, I don't see this as being that different.
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by Drakim 7y ago
These are common criticisms against cryptocurrency in general, and the answer is pretty much this: Normally, to accept digital donations, I'd need to have something like a Paypal account, and follow their terms of service (or that of a
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by Drakim 7y ago
BAT is a cryptocurrency like Bitcoin, so yeah, you spend dollars to buy BAT, and put it your brave browser wallet, and decide your monthly donation budget. This is so that you can choose to support web and content creators online without th
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by Drakim 7y ago
You aren't really meant to have a "system" of earning and spending BAT that balances each month. The budget of BAT you set each month comes from your wallet, and is essentially your personal donation to the various websites y
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by Drakim 7y ago
If you are born as a serf in a feudal system then being willing to work twice or thrice as hard doesn't guarantee success or even safety from near-starvation. Hard work alone can only guarantee success in a perfectly fair and even syst
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by Drakim 7y ago
The ones that die from medical conditions because they can't afford treatment you don't "notice" at all, since they are dead and gone.
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by Drakim 7y ago
I disagree, if the content of the loot box contains something which people are willing to pay money for, then the prize has value. Just because it's non-transferable and non-redeemable doesn't mean it's value is nil.
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by Drakim 7y ago
This is also why human-shaped robots will be a lot more useful than centaur-shaped robot. Your human-shaped robot can carry a package and use a normal sized elevator to deliver it to the top floor. It can drive your old school gas car. It c
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by Drakim 7y ago
That's silly. Why bother shipping your first game? it's never gonna be be 10x better than the games that already exists of that genre.
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by Drakim 7y ago
While I do think that the human species is the one with the most empathy, we are definitely not the only species to take care of another species.
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by Drakim 7y ago
Sure, but I think you'll find a lot of people are more than happy to drop the idea that only boys can play with toycars and only girls can play with dolls, and that if a girl like toycars she isn't "behaving like she should&q
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by Drakim 7y ago
Having grounding in nature doesn't mean that it ought to be kept around though. Lots of harmful stuff is grounded in nature, and lots of amazing and good things have no grounding in nature. We have to examine everything and decide if i
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by Drakim 7y ago
The 4th book in the series is the one that either makes you hate Dune or love it. Up until that point it could pass for some interesting sci-fi fantasy, but after that point, either you'll put down the book in boredom or find yourself
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by Drakim 7y ago
Meat can be full of antibiotics so I disagree with your assertion that plants have all these extras that meat somehow avoids.
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by Drakim 7y ago
I'm gonna make a bold prediction and say that exactly 0.0% of users were aware that they had this liability and acted on it. If I make a product for millions of users and every single one breaks the law in the exact same way using my p
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by Drakim 7y ago
A civilian population armed with guns to the teeth will still not be able to stand up even a little to a real well organized military with gear. Maybe it would be more costly, but the escalation would also provide the justification to strik
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by Drakim 7y ago
Indeed, however, there are certain "no brain" borders we can cross right away. For instance, it should not be illegal to repair your device. But ouch, we have already made ourselves an enemy of huge parts of several big industries
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by Drakim 7y ago
"Hard to work with" is a pretty big minus on somebody's skillset, you don't need to hide it under "culture fit".
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by Drakim 7y ago
There actually are: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_chromosome_anomalies
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by Drakim 7y ago
On the flipside, if a new update breaks something, the user can't hold of upgrading their software. You could come to work one day and learn that the obscure sorting option you use doesn't work today. Obviously a new patch won&#x2
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by Drakim 8y ago
For example, while an individual might benefit from stealing, but hurts overall more than it helps, so we try to block that individual choice despite the fact that we might be hurting somebody who is really good at stealing.
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by Drakim 8y ago
The issue is that the reach of IP is so incredibly wide. It makes sense that if you make a comic book about a superhero named Jumpman, printing presses shouldn't be able to just 1:1 copy your product and sell it. They also shoudln&#x27
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by Drakim 8y ago
Maybe the real boon will be the way it can be used like drug dogs, to give "probable cause" on command to the police.
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by Drakim 8y ago
I think it's not good enough to merely prevent it from happening with sandboxing or permissions, that's a very technically-oriented way of solving the problem (and obviously what most of us here on HN would go to first). But merel
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by Drakim 8y ago
I'm actually not sure I agree. I have the nagging feeling that China spying on me is most likely to have zero consequences for my daily life, while the US spying on me can get me on a no-fly list or something.
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by Drakim 8y ago
Worst part is, I've seen devs wrap their entire for-loop in an anonymous function JUST so they could use a return; to break out of the loop, instead of using break;
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by Drakim 8y ago
Indeed, the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) can also address 16 bits of memory and is one of the most famous "8 bit systems" around.

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