Nifty3929

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by Nifty3929 6mo ago
Hmm - it occurs to me that it would be cool to have modules inside a regular city-simulator like SimCity or CitySkylines such that you can build additional games on top of that engine. A bit like Unity (?) or Roblox (?) Then you could take
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by Nifty3929 6mo ago
Can we add the word "to" to the title? Or how about "program to incent people to move to Detroit"
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by Nifty3929 6mo ago
This is it. These subscriptions have been heavily subsidized, which was fine when usage was much lower overall. But with so many folks trying to use the tools and soaking up all the chips something has to give. Now we’re going to find out w
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by Nifty3929 6mo ago
Author - I don't think you learned the correct lessons here. The most important thing is that you weren't "ripped off" - you were taken advantage of. Ripped off is when you buy a TV that's supposed to work and it do
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by Nifty3929 6mo ago
Because recognizing the author as conflicted and an unreliable narrator changes how you should weight and consider the information they are providing. It doesn't necessarily mean anything is untrue - but it does add extra, valuable inf
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by Nifty3929 7mo ago
The graph should be on a log scale. Inflation earlier from a higher value is magnified relative to inflation later from a lower value.
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by Nifty3929 7mo ago
One.... more... time! So close!
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by Nifty3929 7mo ago
The supreme court, often though not always. Think about all the laws that aren't even attempted because they would be struck down. Or all the laws floated, but which don't pass because they'd be struck down. Or the laws modif
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by Nifty3929 7mo ago
Indeed! Kinda reminds me of this: https://m.xkcd.com/932/ I'm not a web UI guy either, and I am so, so happy to let an AI create a nice looking one for me. I did so just today, and man it was fast and good. I&#x27
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by Nifty3929 7mo ago
It's not really that people wouldn't come back - it's that they were losing money on each customer. Those 100 videos probably cost $100+ for them to create. Did you pay them $100+? (not a critisism, just a re-framing)
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by Nifty3929 7mo ago
I do not feel that the EU is less likely to surveille me than anywhere else. The laws seem mostly geared toward protecting me from corporations - but those aren't the ones I mostly worry about. The EU seems to be mandating surveillance
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by Nifty3929 7mo ago
Me too! I daily-drive Windows as my personal, Mac for work stuff, and Linux for all server-like activity. And I have been for 20 years.
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by Nifty3929 7mo ago
Pretty soon ads will have to target agents.
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by Nifty3929 7mo ago
Is that like the Write Once Read Never (WORN) drive?
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by Nifty3929 7mo ago
"spend our money in our own economy" - a common fallacy about economies. Spending money is how you take/consume resources from an economy. If you spend money in Canada, then you are taking stuff from Canadians. If you spend y
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by Nifty3929 8mo ago
Maybe, but often there's more to the story. I recall when "Israel attacked a hospital in Gaza" became "Hamas launched a rocket at their own hospital" a few days later, when more facts were known.
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by Nifty3929 8mo ago
Are you glad to have people spending their lives on jobs that don't contribute to society, just because the business is already profitable? Wouldn't it be better to have those people move into whatever job would contribute more to
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by Nifty3929 8mo ago
There is not always a lot more to do. If your business is making typewriters then what? Or you mine coal that nobody wants to use anymore? These companies could spin up entirely new lines of business, but why? It's much better for some
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by Nifty3929 8mo ago
If you're on a "zero-hours contract" with one company, are you allowed to be employed by or on contracts with other companies as well? What are the consequences of not being available to work when called in on short notice? I
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by Nifty3929 8mo ago
Heavy means more fuel to ship it. Maybe still a net-win, I don't know.
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by Nifty3929 8mo ago
How much trouble is it? I found with gardening that it was fun for a while, but not fun enough for me to sustain itself as a hobby for it's own sake. And the time investment was not worth the crop. I'd love to grow mushrooms if, o
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by Nifty3929 8mo ago
It's not a matter of "can't be bothered." Engineers are constantly fixing things and rolling out new features. "Error budgets" are an acknowledgement of the tradeoff between these two things, and making a consc
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by Nifty3929 8mo ago
Hidden / disappearing controls are so irritating! Where's the button? Where's the button? I know it must be here somewhere... (accidentally hovering mouse over something) OH THERE IT IS!!
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by Nifty3929 8mo ago
It's not "accepting" - it's actual wanting. Many people want surveillance. Many people want age verification.
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by Nifty3929 9mo ago
"... and they're paying for it..." - that might be the exact issue. Google has no way to ensure that these small shops and startups will pay their bill, so quotas are used to prevent the company from running up a large bill t
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by Nifty3929 9mo ago
Without arguing the broader topic, I do think there's an important distinction between plagiarism in fiction and non-fiction or academic work: The theft of ideas In fiction, taking ideas (hero's journey, middle earth, etc)[1] an
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by Nifty3929 9mo ago
If you just want to see the painting without all the ads: https://cdn8.openculture.com/2026/01/14225354/1920px-Michela...
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by Nifty3929 9mo ago
For the floor area or length/width it is, but if you want the height then that's in Empire State Buildings.
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by Nifty3929 9mo ago
Why Flip a Coin is a really great book about game theory. Easy to read, very little assumed knowledge, and lots of very interesting and counterintuitive examples and situations. Also, despite the introductory nature - still gets into the ma
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by Nifty3929 9mo ago
Not civil war, but a revolution. The 2nd amendment isn't worth much except as a very last resort, when the vast majority of people are willing to die to overthrow a government, as we're seeing in Iran. The people claiming that hav

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