NickC25

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by NickC25 3y ago
I live in a very transient city with very little tech industry, which also happens to be a city where half the population leaves every April/May through October/November. Community has been hard, especially meeting new folks. The
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by NickC25 3y ago
That shit is terrifying. I've done LSD a handful of times, it's wonderful when done in the right set & setting. Being dosed with LSD some 50-60 years ago without warning and without any knowledge of what LSD is or what it does
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by NickC25 3y ago
Exactly. The whole quote can be boiled down to "the ends justify whatever means I want them to". Yet the key takeaway relative to today's world is this - society needs to know what measures are being taken on their dime to en
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by NickC25 3y ago
Can't upvote this enough. If the CIA was accountable to the public, even in the loosest and most vague sense, that list would have been released on day 1. "Hey citizens, here's a list of the people who have been recorded sle
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by NickC25 3y ago
> I'm far more interested in the OS and Apps, that's the thing that's going to make this a success or a flop. Hardware (Apple will almost certainly get this right) is important, but the actual user experience and use cases
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by NickC25 3y ago
Wonderful. Hope it sticks, and hope the G7 actually takes enough of a stand that it shows China that it too can play the long-term waiting game. Otherwise, Xi will just outlast them.
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by NickC25 3y ago
Weird dude with money met with creepy dude with money. Not surprising in the least.
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by NickC25 3y ago
Probably because people aren't acting on it, or sticking with it long enough to actually see results. Especially in today's world when they can just take a pill and loose 10-15 pounds, nobody wants to do something they probably do
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by NickC25 3y ago
Ok, now that's insane. Kojima would not be there unless he's got something seriously cool up his sleeve. He wouldn't be there just for kicks. Didn't Bloomberg come out just yesterday with an article poo-pooing the head
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by NickC25 3y ago
I understand why certain tech companies such as Google/MSFT or chemical research companies like Pfizer or defense companies like Lockheed have quantum computers. Why are these being sold for personal use? Running Shor's algorithm
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by NickC25 3y ago
Which is why I suggested multiplayer being a reason to bring the game back. A 4-on-4 or 5-on-5 Starfox multiplayer would be absolutely incredible on modern consoles. The other reason Starfox is hard to do is because the game itself is quit
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by NickC25 3y ago
Oh yeah, it's not for the Mario Kart crowd - it's a lot more hardcore than that. But for those of us who liked fast, technical racing games, F-Zero was a dream. Would love it if Nintendo released an F-Zero with an easy mode, and
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by NickC25 3y ago
They know exactly what it means, and they are betting on the electorate having zero long term memory, which, unfortunately, rings quite true in election years. There is no brinkmanship, people need to realize that. A crashed economy with
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by NickC25 3y ago
Seriously. Nintendo has put quality games out like clockwork for decades now to the point where the biggest IP is almost instantly given top rating from everyone any time it's released, no matter how many glaring technical flaws exi
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by NickC25 3y ago
I once worked in a company that when I joined, was bringing in new recruits from seemingly everywhere - LA, Minneapolis, Chicago, Philly, Boston, and Phoenix, to name a few. There was usually some window where said new recruit was given a
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by NickC25 3y ago
The "west" had Meng dead-to-rights and under house arrest in Canada, yet an example was not made of her. All charges dropped. I wonder why? Also, where I live (Florida) new condos are going up all the time that have Huawei route
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by NickC25 3y ago
This got flagged earlier. Hope this post stays up. Anyone and everyone in Epstein's orbit needs to come clean. I don't care about wealth, political affiliation, anything. If they were involved in any way, shape or form, and had
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by NickC25 3y ago
What about their statement is not based in fact? Back up your claims.
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by NickC25 3y ago
>I'd rather not give them any more visibility than I have to into my personal finances. They already kinda have all the visibility they want. Remember the whole joke about the IRS - "we know exactly how much you owe, but we&#
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by NickC25 3y ago
The fact that the wealthiest guy on the planet (in a time of unprecedented wealth disparity worldwide) who has 8 kids with 3+ women and is a notorious troll that makes dumb jokes on twitter gets any credibility when commenting about moralit
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by NickC25 3y ago
That's neat! Wish there was more gaming themed bars around where I live (South Florida) but for wider amounts of games, not just pinball (which is awesome). I remember going to arcades growing up in the 90s and early 2000s and would j
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by NickC25 3y ago
Of course they should. There are countless fantastic musicians, for example, who have albums that have both great tracks and filler tracks on them. Just because someone has demonstrated greatness (even consistently) doesn't mean that
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by NickC25 3y ago
I doubt it's priced in at all - as long as Tim ~tows~ toes (thanks HN!) The Party's line with great enthusiasm, it won't happen unless Apple publicly makes the first move. Tim sits on Tsinghua's B-School board, after al
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by NickC25 3y ago
If you're willing to put that aside, it's great. Hopefully this is the death knell for TVs that cost over a grand yet come with bloated adware and other bullshit that you can't uninstall. If I want ads on my TV, you'd b
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by NickC25 3y ago
Hmm. I thought the first season was cool, and very well acted, well scored, etc...but had very little in common with the book series. Should be interesting to see what direction the show goes in. Now I can't get the emporer's th
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by NickC25 3y ago
What's sad to me is that most of the newcomers don't really engage with people who have been here for a while. Happy to hear Refresh has started doing events again. I miss the intimate events that were under 100 people where you c
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by NickC25 3y ago
Right - so of that supposed $100 billion, they claim they spent 0.04% of that per year on humanitarian giving. I get 0.06% in interest from my bank each year. Accounts in the billions, let alone tens or hundreds of billions probably get ra
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by NickC25 3y ago
The problem is, the Church, on a macro scale, has largely abandoned the notion that they will look after you in hard times. We've had some relatively hard times in this country in my lifetime, and not once have I seen the Mormon Churc
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by NickC25 3y ago
Clandestine? It's been out in the open for years. I was in SLC over a decade ago and there was this big shiny new mall that was completely owned by the Mormon Church. I don't doubt that the Church gives some of its income towar
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by NickC25 3y ago
Sad. Ignorance-based tribalism promoted by equally dumb far-right politicians and amplified by the lobbying dollars of Oil&Gas companies. Musk should nip this stuff in the bud as it actually affects his ability to sell Teslas, but the

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