Mirioron

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by Mirioron 6y ago
This sounds like it's in line with the theory of risk homeostasis or at least the Peltzmann effect.[0] The theory states that as people feel safer they will take riskier actions. In this case the roads are emptier so people feel that t
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by Mirioron 6y ago
Have you ever noticed whether it's easier to be productive late in the evening?
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by Mirioron 6y ago
If you think about it, it's a bit odd that there are so few mercenaries in this day and age. When you look back on history then from what I can tell, mercenaries were much more common.
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by Mirioron 6y ago
> but they represent trillions in services that likely can't just be replaced with technology. Why not? We probably have a lot of time before they become seriously unavailable. The Earth is huge. Imagine if all oxygen production
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by Mirioron 6y ago
What does "carrying capacity" in this case mean? I've seen various numbers quoted on this and they all seem somewhat suspect to me. Humans improve the world for ourselves through work. As time progresses we get better at it a
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by Mirioron 6y ago
To add an interesting part about history: after the US became an independent nation US merchant vessels were not under the protection of the Royal Navy. This made US ships a good target for pirates from the Barbary States who would not only
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by Mirioron 6y ago
I'm not a lawyer either. As I understand it, the design document itself is protected by copyright, but the physical device itself is not. I think the reason for this is that copyright and patent law exists to promote the advancement of
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by Mirioron 6y ago
Do I understand you correctly that you're talking about whether discretionary content filtering by a platform makes them into a publisher? This would mean that protections that apply to platforms wouldn't apply to them anymore for
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by Mirioron 6y ago
A housing shortage doesn't necessarily mean that new housing would be more profitable than something commercial. I do agree that this would encourage landowners to improve their buildings more in theory. I'm from a country that ha
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by Mirioron 6y ago
> No, LVT adds no cost to providing housing. I'm not talking about long-term, but the initial effect of LVT coming into effect. If the landlord has to pay more then that's an increase in cost. Landlord income was likely at equ
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by Mirioron 6y ago
So if I want my tax bill to be cheap I should be against everything that the government does that would improve life around my home? Won't this take NIMBYism to a whole new level?
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by Mirioron 6y ago
> When the supply of housing remains constant and the demand of housing remains constant then prices remain constant. LVT changes none of these variables directly. Doesn't LVT increase the cost of providing the already existing hou
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by Mirioron 6y ago
I read about that a while ago. This raised the question in the back of my mind: did the investors (Rockefeller) actually want Standard Oil to be broken up? As I understand it, it ended up being incredibly profitable for them.
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by Mirioron 6y ago
I think most drugs should be legalized, but I would still be against my little sister doing meth. That's how I see this situation too. People obviously should be allowed to do sex work, but I think that there are hidden costs that are
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by Mirioron 6y ago
That's the big question, isn't it? Obviously every mobile game is going to benefit from it, because it will save battery life. The greatest question related to this for me is how many games that couldn't be easily made before
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by Mirioron 6y ago
To be fair, Epic wanted to have real-time global illumination for UE4. They even had a lot of the work done, but it just never quite made it. The performance impact was too great. I imagine several years later they've been able to deal
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by Mirioron 6y ago
I think it remains to be seen. Unity's big upcoming feature seems to what they call the Data Oriented Technology Stack. Essentially, this supposedly allows you to put far more non-static objects onto the screen than is usually availabl
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by Mirioron 6y ago
From what I've seen the look of water is usually not provided by the engine itself. Water is really hard to make look good and a lot of it depends on the specific needs of a game.
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by Mirioron 6y ago
> As an employer hiring a new grad, you know, at a minimum "This person showed up to class for four years. They are capable of following instructions, of learning new material, and doing so above a baseline level of competency.&quot
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by Mirioron 6y ago
The tech marketing part makes some sense though. The requirements for gaming are often higher in many ways that people would require for casual use from their devices. I think these extreme gaming communities are set up with gate keeping in
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by Mirioron 6y ago
> The human cost of building those factories, and maintaining them, is 1% of what the hand labor used to be. Yes, if we still built the old stuff, but we don't. We're building better factories for more sophisticated technology
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by Mirioron 6y ago
> The bankrupt notion that somehow 'were funding those people' is meaningless. The factories pour out the goods. Nobody's slaving away to 'fund' that. Somebody has to create, build, and maintain those factories.
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by Mirioron 6y ago
What I want is irrelevant. I have as much say about what happens in the EU as I have say in US politics despite being from the EU. The politicians will do something stupid regardless and then years later not understand why things are going
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by Mirioron 6y ago
Because the EU is a dumpster fire when it comes to tech companies (probably not a coincidence). This means that few websites are actually based in the EU. If the EU doesn't like them then they can block the sites.
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by Mirioron 6y ago
Users have a choice to use the website. Do you complain that a bar is violating your basic human rights if it has a camera in it? Should all bars with that be shut down? Same for shopping centers and everywhere else. If you don't lik
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by Mirioron 6y ago
> If you don't like how the law works, well, don't live in the EU ? You can find a lot of countries where this is isn't a consideration, and that may suit you better. Otherwise, well, you've been pwned by democracy. T
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by Mirioron 6y ago
Internet Explorer 6 gave you control over your cookies. It was even recommended that you would set the slider to block all or most cookies. I'm unsure about previous versions.
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by Mirioron 6y ago
This should've been what was done from the get go. Browsers have given us control over cookies for a very long time now. But hey, it's the EU, there's a reason the EU has a lack of tech companies. I'm sure that when they
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by Mirioron 6y ago
Well, would you rather the site just not exist then? Because I'm pretty sure that most of these sites already aren't making much money. If you make it much much much harder for them to get money then they won't survive.
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by Mirioron 6y ago
Sure, but large portions of the internet do it this way. They'd just stop serving EU users if it comes down to it.

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