Loocid

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by Loocid 3y ago
Do you consider bike centric cities like Copenhagen and Amsterdam not free? The concept of "cars == freedom" is completely absurd to me. The mode of transport that has a unique identifier printed on it, that you need a licence to
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by Loocid 3y ago
Can you give some examples?
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by Loocid 3y ago
Its just an expression, dont overthink it.
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by Loocid 3y ago
What were your issues with Princess Mononoke?
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by Loocid 3y ago
>you're transmitting at most tens of bits per second before error correction. You can get in the kb/s range over a couple of kilometres. You don't have to drop to tens of bits per second until you're trying to transmi
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by Loocid 3y ago
There is more than just their first sentence.
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by Loocid 3y ago
A local restaurant near me in Australia said they had a Google employee ring asking to confirm their opening times.
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by Loocid 3y ago
Being free is a big one.
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by Loocid 3y ago
Is it really that different to being forced to understand scoping with curly braces in other languages?
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by Loocid 3y ago
Interesting that you framed it this way and not the other way around.
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by Loocid 3y ago
This feels like moving goal posts. Why does platform exclusivity exclude them from being considered in this discussion? They are still all very successful AAA games that have no microtransactions.
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by Loocid 3y ago
The Nomad can quit at any time, the Hobo can't.
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by Loocid 3y ago
>then Firefox in its current form is a useless vassal of Google anyway. Other than Google being the default search engine how are they a vassal of Google?
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by Loocid 3y ago
Can you expand on this? I'm not following what you mean by your example. I tried googling the iron lung image but couldn't find much.
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by Loocid 3y ago
Why do you assume you'll suffer from 70-80?
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by Loocid 3y ago
That's the stereotypical midlife crisis "what" for sure. I was more talking about the "who". My point was I don't think it's limited to the secular modern person.
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by Loocid 3y ago
Isn't the stereotypical midlife crisis the Dad whose kids have all moved out? I don't think that has anything to do with modernity or secularity, it's more to do with a large change that triggers a revaluation of your life. T
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by Loocid 3y ago
>I know it’s arguably the best beverage to consume Not arguably, it factually is. I've also never understood the concept of being "bored" with water. Not everything in life has to be a sensual experience. Why not drink it
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by Loocid 3y ago
>Because, just like when I walk in a city, I run into interesting and surprising and occasionally things that test my sensibilities. Using your simile: cities aren't lawless wastelands just because some people like living in chaos,
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by Loocid 3y ago
But it's only that way because Reddit placed limits which goes against the "let the internet be grimy" hot-take. Back in the day there were subreddits that would rival the depravity of /b/.
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by Loocid 3y ago
>the point is, currently NO ROAD is the Autobahn. thats not a balance, thats censorship. If you think this is true, you're not looking very hard.
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by Loocid 3y ago
>Optimizing for test scores is an American phenomenon. Completely false. Look at the culture around standardised testing in places like Japan and South Korea. I'm Australian and optimizing for test scores is absolutely a thing here
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by Loocid 3y ago
>Reddit is/was so good because of the possibility that you might find something disturbing while using it. Why do you consider that good? There are plenty of places on the internet where you can find disturbing content, why does it
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by Loocid 3y ago
>Do you use magnetic stripe CC. All my cards have an IC, however they were Australian cards. Perhaps it's an additional step for foreign credit/debit cards?
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by Loocid 3y ago
Of course, I just find the the stereotype vs reality of Japan being a high tech wonderland interesting.
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by Loocid 3y ago
My personal experience has only been from the tourism side with one concrete example being digital payments outside of PayPay. It's much better post COVID but even on my most recent trip from a couple of months ago if you want pay by c
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by Loocid 3y ago
It has been shown that image models can produce originals, or at least extremely close to the originals. If the outcome is the same, what is the difference between compression/decompression vs training/generation regarding copyrig
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by Loocid 3y ago
Which I find bizarre given how backwards Japan is in the adoption of other technologies. Eg their continued reliance on paper records and fax machines.
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by Loocid 3y ago
Why not share you gripes with the system so they get more exposure? I'm curious to know the pitfalls.
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by Loocid 3y ago
What is an example of a request that is causing these issues?

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