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by HideousKojima 1y ago
>Given that Miyazaki is known to hate GenAI I really can't condone... Miyazaki also said (in response to the Charlie Hebdo murders): "For me, I think it's a mistake to make caricatures of what different cultures worship. I
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by HideousKojima 1y ago
There's already several, Gall Peters being the most (in)famous. Other than accurately showing size, such maps are pretty useless. Mercator is actually useful for navigation because it maintains angles, all "size accurate" pro
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by HideousKojima 1y ago
Most of whom made the switch in the 1800s, prior to widespread industrialization
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by HideousKojima 1y ago
For me that has to be High Life . Pitched to me as "Robert Pattinson has to to take care of a baby in space", in reality it was basically a side plot to "serial killers and rapists are stuck on a spaceship together" and
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by HideousKojima 1y ago
>Every single country in the world that is on metric today had to switch from something else at some point in the past. Why overfocus so much on UK when you have literally a hundred successful examples? A huge percentage of those countri
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by HideousKojima 1y ago
>Other countries switched. Except they didn't actually, see my points about the UK (similar points apply to Canada).
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by HideousKojima 1y ago
>Americans are just very obstinate about those things. It's not just obstinance, switching everything to metric in the US would likely cost billions (if not trillions) of dollars. And other countries that have made the switch have o
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by HideousKojima 1y ago
>menaces the ICJ The ICJ started that particular fight by issuing arrest warrants against non-signatories, something explicitly outside of its power and purview.
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by HideousKojima 1y ago
Not worried about AI replacing my job in the foreseeable (10+ years) future, it's just not that impressive. I am worried about executives thinking it's the future and making even dumber hiring decisions based on that.
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by HideousKojima 1y ago
Linux is GPLv2, not 3
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by HideousKojima 1y ago
As bad as the Spaniards were, the Aztec's neighbors despised the Aztecs and their brutality so much that they willingly and gladly allied with the first viable challenger to their rule.
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by HideousKojima 1y ago
Every community that tried to migrate off reddit to a reddit clone has failed. r/drama spun off their own site successfully, and I know of another community that did and is thriving using a fork of r/drama's server software (
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by HideousKojima 1y ago
And the Zizian murder cult sprang out of the bay area rationalist community and trans rights advocacy, what's your point?
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by HideousKojima 1y ago
Confusion between the two boards has been immortalized in this meme: https://i.redd.it/l8shi3nsfd531.png
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by HideousKojima 1y ago
Had a boss was terrible in other ways (he got fired over sexually harassing one of my coworkers) but he would constantly mess up common sayings. The one I remember most is "bumpin the bumper traffic" instead of "bumper to bum
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by HideousKojima 1y ago
And increase bathroom construction costs by 25-100% while reducing capacity by 50%! We don't have big shared troughs in sports stadium restrooms because of preference, it's purely cost and capacity. Urinals serve a similar purpose
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by HideousKojima 2y ago
It appears to be less dangerous than driving drunk, but still quite a bit worse than driving sober: https://instituteofliving.org/health-wellness/news/newsroom-...
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by HideousKojima 2y ago
The percentage of the population smoking weed has also roughly doubled in that time, as another likely contributing factor
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by HideousKojima 2y ago
>If you want to just live in such a place, then ok. Even if you're the sort of person who will light your dorm on fire? Or stuff clothes into the toilet and flood the whole building? Or turn their dorm into a smelly orgy of sex and
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by HideousKojima 2y ago
>maybe that shouldn't prevent us from trying. When you're planning on taking the money for your utopian pipe dream from other people by force, you really ought to have a better justification than "it doesn't hurt to t
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by HideousKojima 2y ago
No idea, but the low numbers still working suggest that for most people UBI would lead to a significant decrease in the amount of people working and the amount of work each person does.
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by HideousKojima 2y ago
>Look at the number of people who continue working well into retirement or the people who volunteer their time. Only 20% of people 65 or older in the US continue to work, and I imagine most of that 20% are doing part time or intermittent
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by HideousKojima 2y ago
>There is also a very widespread perception that refugee camps are about making money for corrupt politicians and contractors Even though that isn't what refugee camps are "about" it's something that happens pretty re
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by HideousKojima 2y ago
Ah yes, Paul "Inflation has slowed down (but not reversed) if you ignore all the things people actually need to live" Krugman. That man is a dishonest, partisan hack and if he said the sky was blue I'd go outside to make sure
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by HideousKojima 2y ago
To be fair, Franco is the only Spanish leader most people (or at least most non-Spaniards) can even name
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by HideousKojima 2y ago
>People are entitled to the fruits of their labour and control of their intellectual property. No they aren't, intellectual property is a legal fiction and ideas belong to all of humanity. Humanity did fine without intellectual prop
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by HideousKojima 2y ago
Many (not all) RTS games use a networking method called lockstep synchronization that requires the gameplay to be deterministic, but has its own downsides. One of those being that if one player lags, everyone lags. I know AOE 1 and 2 use
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by HideousKojima 2y ago
>I don't mean disrespect towards people running Alpine (hi), Arch, or Gentoo, but you wouldn't be running these distros if you aren't ready to handle their quirks. You'd think so, but you'd be surprised how many
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by HideousKojima 2y ago
The most annoying part to me is that Linus et all make not breaking compatibility their #1 goal (only rarely superseded by security and performance concerns) but all of the other libraries on top of the kernel don't seem to care about
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by HideousKojima 2y ago
Way off topic but you just reminded me of all the time I spent playing Warlords 3 (not Warlords Battlecry 3, the original Warlords games were turn-based). One cool feature it had that I'm surprised I haven't really seen other turn

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