JakeAl

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by JakeAl 3y ago
Video slot machine are HUGE in senior centers. I'm still shocked at how many people actually play digital slot machines as the odds of winning posted on the machine are literally the odds of winning.
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by JakeAl 3y ago
Stanley Parable was pretty awesome in it's simplicity. Right there with you when it comes to high tech fancy graphics and animations and over the top storytelling instead of adding the equivalent manhours to gameplay.
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by JakeAl 3y ago
I think you mean Elitists, not Elite.
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by JakeAl 3y ago
AND they knew the dossier contained bad info by their own admission but published it anyway.
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by JakeAl 3y ago
I miss offline readers. Push a button, download a payload of data updates, read it all offline.
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by JakeAl 3y ago
Active Desktop and MS DHTML was awesome. Insecure as hell for "consumers", but awesome. VBscript/Wscript on/in the desktop as an application was really useful.
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by JakeAl 4y ago
I wish they would spend just as much time and energy on gameplay, and less on trying to emulate movies or create interactive stories where you watch and click at the right time for elaborate scripted sequences that make it appear as though
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by JakeAl 4y ago
US debt to GDP ratio has been over 120% since 2020. By IMF definition that's an economic death spiral. By 2028 all of our loan payments for all this printed money will only be going to the interest, and the death spiral will be irrever
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by JakeAl 4y ago
*assuming the government can honor them. The government is underwater and out of credit.
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by JakeAl 4y ago
It's all a loan, whatever name you attach to it they have to borrow to print money. Reality check: US debt to GDP ratio is over 120% and the US doesn't have the credit to borrow anymore. We're looking at hyperinflation and a
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by JakeAl 4y ago
The US debt to GDP ratio has been over 120% since 2020. By IMF definition the US is in an economic death spiral. Unless drastic measures are taken (balanced budget amendment, massive cuts in spending for starters) by 2028 the death spiral w
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by JakeAl 4y ago
This has been a challenge in online communities for quite sometime. Some approaches I wanted to mention are what Metafilter does, which is require people pay to sign up and comment, and when they sign up they have to wait 30 days to comment
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by JakeAl 4y ago
They believe them, the markets just move up in advance of the future collapse so they don't fall through the floor. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8lgk2m_xfA
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by JakeAl 4y ago
As the saying goes, they may have enough runway but do they have enough to take off?
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by JakeAl 4y ago
There is no normal, but there is healthy. The question to ask yourself, is my behavior healthy?
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by JakeAl 4y ago
Class action lawsuit time.
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by JakeAl 4y ago
This is silly. If a business is sustainable there's no reason for layoffs. Simple math. If they rely on investment or loans and only have money to get down the runway but not takeoff without coming back to investors or banks, they aren
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by JakeAl 4y ago
Some don't. Since the rise of gamification design has in many cases been to promote clicks for ad revenue.
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by JakeAl 4y ago
I disagree. People use social media for different purposes. One is to post about yourself, my least favorite, another is to post links to information and knowledge of interest to those with similar interests. People posting about themselves
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by JakeAl 4y ago
I wouldn't take that bet until solid state batteries get better. This is a disaster in the making.
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by JakeAl 4y ago
Keep it away from AAA. AAA means bloatware. Keep it lean and clean and modular. Focus on ease of use, not making millions off the engine.
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by JakeAl 4y ago
The pirates will always be free, and control freaks who can't control their own feelings will always impose their will on the rest of the world in the name of decorum, or civility or whatever word they want to attach to their elitism s
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by JakeAl 4y ago
Not entirely. There's some of that yes, but the reality is regardless of the source of the spike protein when it gets into tissues it causes damage and that damage can be long term. It's all about what the protein is binding to or
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by JakeAl 4y ago
Agile just means making it up as you go when you have people who don't have the knowledge or experience to define first exactly what is required. If more programmers became managers and could work with the stakeholders, most specifical
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by JakeAl 4y ago
US debt to GDP ratio has been over 120% since 2020. By IMF definition the US is in an economic death spiral that will become irreversible by 2028, meaning all of our loan payments will go to only the interest and not the principal, putting
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by JakeAl 4y ago
> it hasn’t hit Amazon pocketbook now, has it? Are they in danger of running out of money? What happened to “people are our most important resource”? Amazon just had to take out an $8B unsecured loan to be paid back in a year to cover o
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by JakeAl 4y ago
I would say yes. Maximize your income/take as much as possible while you are young as opportunities will evaporate one day. I've been unemployed for 8 years and can't even get blue collar jobs because I've always been a
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by JakeAl 4y ago
The only stat you need to know: debt to GDP ratio. When the debt > GDP, it means you are underwater and not taking in enough money to pay your bills as a nation. The US debt to GDP ratio has been over 120% since 2020. By IMF definition &
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by JakeAl 4y ago
The best RSS reader I used was back in 2006 I think it was and it was an Outlook plugin. It retrieved RSS feeds and displayed them as emails so ALL of the Outlook functionality (filters, read/unread, search) could be used. It was aweso
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by JakeAl 4y ago
I don't think that's accurate. It's mechanism is well known and to my knowledge the only ones saying that it was a cure were those trying to prevent it's use by misrepresenting it and those promoting it by saying THEY sa

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