Gunax

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by Gunax 6y ago
Rift will also require it in a few years.
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by Gunax 6y ago
You are probably right--but I don't understand why they are pushing this aside from wanting to further their Facebook application. > The reason they are getting people to create accounts, which is obvious to anyone who has actually
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by Gunax 6y ago
It is good, but it's a different market segment. It's much more expensive and requires a gaming PC.
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by Gunax 6y ago
When Facebook bought Oculus, I remember Palmer promising that they would never require you to have a Facebook account. Apparently this statement was vetted by Facebook. He is now offering a bounty for the hacking of the quest 2. [1] http
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by Gunax 6y ago
Well, I suppose I was just a bit harsh. There definitely are opportunities outside of ads. But some industries are more cut-throat than others. The problem is of course not unique to software. Eg. it may be more lucrative for drug companies
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by Gunax 6y ago
Let's be real: they don't care about VR per se. They care about it only insofar as it gets you to use a Facebook account. This is what I see as the biggest overlooked consequence of web advertising--it's become so lucrative,
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by Gunax 6y ago
Since this will inevitably turn to a discussion of opioids, here are some counter-narrative facts that surprised me: 1. The narrative is that some poor guy took pain meds for a legimate reason then ended up addicted. While this does occur,
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by Gunax 6y ago
What about optimizations? Isn't it possible the compiler will re-order or combine statements differently than how they are written in source?
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by Gunax 6y ago
My guess is it was abused. Cannot have good things because too many people will not just take advantage of the return policy, but take advantage of it.
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by Gunax 6y ago
This is my favourite explaination. I have had this bookmarked for over 10 years and keep coming back to it: http://www.felderbooks.com/papers/bell.html
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by Gunax 6y ago
According to the blog post, the interviewers weren't even aware of the matrix solution until one candidate brought it up.
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by Gunax 6y ago
I don't buy it. You're just exchanging one type of complexity for another. Frankly I think this is rooted in a sense of nostalgia rather than practical concern. It's clear me blow enjoys being close to the metal. He wants to
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by Gunax 6y ago
Aside from tiny places like nauru, is there any reason using a proportion is bad?
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by Gunax 6y ago
This is a referendum. It's voted on directly by people.
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by Gunax 6y ago
Maybe shell makes sense to you, but I recently wrote my first real shell script and it was nothing but pain. Brackets don't mean what you think they mean. 'If' does not work sometimes? and I am not sure why. Sometimes I am
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by Gunax 6y ago
Wow! great idea... If the opponent knew about this though, would it be difficult to defeat?
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by Gunax 6y ago
She was an advocate of gender equality long before she became a judge, famously in Moritz_v._Commissioner https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moritz_v._Commissioner
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by Gunax 6y ago
The legitimacy of the court is long-gone--its nothing more than a political body. Don't like the precedent? Just overrule it and claim it was 'poorly argued'. Especially funny, considering that Ginsburg was perhaps the most l
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by Gunax 6y ago
I also don't think this is true... We saw house prices crash 10 years ago, with many owners being convinced that housing, a finite resource, can never go down significantly.
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by Gunax 6y ago
We might be talking about different budget levels, but to normal people (people who don't have the word 'software' in their job title), 200k in retirement is a lot. Actually the median 401k balance at retirement is only aroun
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by Gunax 6y ago
Everyone will argue with their own statistics, but I think your general sentiment is correct. Everyone seems to think the oldies had it easy in the good ol' days and the youngens are a bunch of lazy good-for-nothins. There are probably
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by Gunax 6y ago
On the contrary, I think that's exactly what most people do. Have you personally verified TLS? I have not, but I still use it.
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by Gunax 6y ago
I don't agree with the article at all. I think it's equating two very different anti-trust cases. Apple maintains control of what its users can install on their own devices--Microsoft never did that. Just offering a free software
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by Gunax 6y ago
I don't think that's ironic at all. 'The government will stifle innovation' is entirely independent from whether competitors will stifle innovation.
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by Gunax 6y ago
Clearly Gates sees where this is going: first ask him to agree to the definition, then reveal that the definition doesn't include 'viewing HTML' (or 'editing text files', or 'creating images' etc.). Of cou
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by Gunax 6y ago
But the voter does not need to understand encryption... just the designer of the system.
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by Gunax 6y ago
It's not just the account number. I work in the american bank industry. Just the status that 'bob jones has an account here' is considered personal information. This might seem silly, but there are good reasons for it.
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by Gunax 6y ago
Definitely. Some lab equipment I used was handled by a computer running CPM. If it works, don't touch it.
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by Gunax 6y ago
It's not that I don't acknowledge the addiction problem, it's that I fear in our quest for addicts we will forget the real good these drugs did. There are a lot of people in pain. Here are some alternative facts not often d
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by Gunax 6y ago
Is 80% really unusual though? I thought most health insurances pay out > 90%.

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