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by Fricken 5mo ago
Your reply is completely ancillary to the point of my comment and the one above it.
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by Fricken 5mo ago
Yeah, but does having twice the polygons make the game twice as fun? It does not. The Switch is only behind on metrics that don't matter.
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by Fricken 5mo ago
I'm with you, but The Switch2 has so far mostly been dropping remakes of classic games, and games already released years ago on other platforms.
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by Fricken 6mo ago
All glory is fleeting. Death is the great equalizer.
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by Fricken 6mo ago
It was only 2018 when Apple first attained a $1T Market cap. I remember in 2014 when Silicon Valley had over 100 startups valued at $1B or more. We called them "unicorns". Uber was the first decacorn. I guess that would make Anthr
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by Fricken 6mo ago
The history of civilization is warlords showing up and saying "Give me 2 bags of wheat from each crop and I won't kill you. Not only that, once I own you, I will fight to make sure the other ensure the other guy can't steal y
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by Fricken 6mo ago
The government sits above you because it makes you do things under the threat of violence. Why do you stop at the stop sign? because the government reserves the right to hurt you if you don't. The government's legitimacy comes fro
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by Fricken 6mo ago
>A government is just a corporation with a bit more power than the others, not some sacred entity that sits above us. Well yes, a government doesn't need to be sacred to sit above you, it need only have more power. It's legitim
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by Fricken 6mo ago
All states, by definition, are authorities that demand compliance. You're not saying anything that distinguishes Jack Ma's condition from anyone else's just about anywhere.
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by Fricken 6mo ago
Jack Ma is fine. If that's what you mean by ruthless then it's not really a big deal.
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by Fricken 6mo ago
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing -William Shakespeare
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by Fricken 6mo ago
I think I can speak for most people with niche subjects of interest when I say that the commonly held beliefs on said niche subject tend to be pretty bad.
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by Fricken 6mo ago
Tulsa once had what was known as Black Wall Street. There were too many successful black men, so 1921 in the whites massacred everybody. They even brought in planes and dropped bombs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa
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by Fricken 6mo ago
We live in a society where nobody is starving to death, but also one where nobody lives forever. In between those polarities anything that one might deem a "positive contribution" is just about the feels. All of this so-called pro
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by Fricken 6mo ago
Its legal and highly addictive, so of course.
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by Fricken 6mo ago
Francis Fukuyama is now arguing that the US in now a substantiantively lower trust society than it was in 1995 when he published his second book "Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity." >In it I argued that t
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by Fricken 6mo ago
It was the late 90s when I first had my cinema-going experience cheapened by commercials. Television commercials on the silver screen. Like a steakhouse with plastic cutlery. That was my first conscious encounter with enshittification. The
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by Fricken 6mo ago
Children are entertained by open sandbox games like Minecraft and Robolox, where the narrative and gameplay loop are whatever they want it to be. Adults have largely forgotten how to use their imagination, or how to set their own objectives
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by Fricken 6mo ago
I can't survive without the system, so I'm already a slave to it. Critical thinking skills only serve to make me feel depressed about the situation.
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by Fricken 6mo ago
Automobilies, grocery stores, watches, central heating: these amenities also have major deskilling effects. The whole point is so you don't need the old-fashioned abilities anymore. Personally I believe the hunter gatherer lifestyle i
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by Fricken 6mo ago
All the king's horses and all the king's men couldn't come up with a killer app.
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by Fricken 6mo ago
About 38 million have died as a result of US wars in the middle east this millenium.
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by Fricken 6mo ago
Olympic Athletes are the fruits of our labour. They are what things like money and cars are for.
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by Fricken 6mo ago
Of course violence is legal. Laws themselves carry no weight if they aren't backed by a credible threat of violence.
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by Fricken 6mo ago
I would say moviegoing was at it's zenith in the US around Great Depression, and has been on a downhill slide ever since. Here is a video showing the Palatial Landmark Theatre in Syracuse NY opened in 1928 (they don't make them li
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by Fricken 6mo ago
And Bertrand Russel's "In Praise of Idleness" (1932) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40257677
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by Fricken 6mo ago
It's legally mandated in my city so I guess the polite thing to do is ring a bell, you know, just stick to the protocol, for everyone's sake. A bell however seems at least as likely to startle someone into behaving erratically as
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by Fricken 6mo ago
I told ya the Ayatollah would end up keeping the gate. Tolling all the tankers that want to pass through the straight. The US cannot game this cockamamie new Khameini. So unless you're a tankie you won't be thanking him later. Th
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by Fricken 6mo ago
Sure, the written word helped us to think and write more alike. The the Gutenberg press, radio and moving pictures, and then the internet. Modernity is an ognoing acti of cultural genocide that swallows everybody up and blends all human cul
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by Fricken 6mo ago
Bringing up Meta's complicity in the Rohingya Genocide on HN is like bringing up the Nanking Massacre in Japan, it's not a responsibility anyone is going to face, I get it. I brought it up in a thread about the careless things Met

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