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by PostOnce 4y ago
Is it off topic? It's a direct commentary on the precise changes being made? What constitutes off topic in this case? I mean... it's weird that they (the publishers, or possibly the estate) think it's okay to retroactively ed
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by PostOnce 4y ago
How much do you think it costs to build a system that affects the finances of 300 million people? If highly-paid professional accountants, lawyers, and programmers meet to discuss if and how this system could be built, it's going to co
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by PostOnce 4y ago
proctored in-person exams, no electronics allowed exams now count for 100% of your grade these aren't insurmountably difficult problems for universities to solve
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by PostOnce 4y ago
They left in wonky nose, crooked mouth, and stick out teeth, but took out the reference to fat? That's wild. The fat is arguably the only fixable thing, or at least the cheapest. You can't "just stop eating so much" and
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by PostOnce 4y ago
Some of these computers rely on parts that are hilariously simple individually, it's in aggregate that it becomes a computer. For example, even a child could manufacture this with $10 worth of tools and parts: https://en.wik
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by PostOnce 4y ago
What? Webrings? Don't tell me you forgot Yahoo, Excite, Altavista, Lycos, and all those other search engines existed! Lycos also had hotbot and tripod.com, back when homepages were your internet presence instead of social media. Maybe
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by PostOnce 4y ago
On the other hand, it might mean that someone who doesn't have access to Hollywood money and social circles can produce a high-quality film (eventually, as tech matures). Nobody complains that CAD put all those poor draftsmen and draft
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by PostOnce 4y ago
You could take your $20 and buy garlic and a cross with it instead, and then you might be able to keep those fuckin' vampires at Microsoft out of your office. When you signed up for Github, did you imagine Microsoft would be selling al
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by PostOnce 4y ago
WotC does not own the concept of elves, dwarves, or dragons. Nor the concept of dice. D&D is a strong franchise, but the merchandise and rulesets are hardly necessary to play the game. To play RPGs, even practically-D&D-in-all-but-n
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by PostOnce 4y ago
The AI is also _deceptively_ "right". For example, it will cite precedent that has since been superseded. A non-lawyer representing themselves in a criminal case would overlook that, make a bad/wrong/misinformed argument
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by PostOnce 4y ago
Yes but if this were legal, it would set a precedent, and soon these companies would be trying to use it in divorce cases and eventually criminal law. Money only stops when forced to by regulators.
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And yet they're arguing with themselves. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/further "Farther and further have been used more or less interchangeably throughout most of their history," "&quot
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by PostOnce 4y ago
You can't just start practicing law without a license, you'll ruin somebody's life; they'll assume you, or the computer, knows what is going on, when in fact you just want Free Dollars. I don't want Dr. iPad Joe who
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by PostOnce 4y ago
That's not fixed at all, that's an opinion; the dictionary (several) says either is fine. There is no final, undisputed arbiter of what is right and proper in English, no Academy of English, no written law. Maybe there is consensu
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by PostOnce 4y ago
Warhammer (warcraft) and Warhammer 40K (starcraft) the Terran Marines even wear the same big-shoulder armor as the Space Marines from 40K
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by PostOnce 4y ago
Yes. There's a whole article about the given name, which says it is unisex: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_(given_name)#Japanese And this is on top of calling someone else out for presuming something... and
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by PostOnce 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Uemura This man has won the People's Honour Award for climbing the highest mountains on 5 continents and being the first man to reach the north pole solo. So Naomi is not necess
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by PostOnce 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Uemura
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by PostOnce 4y ago
from their site: "Neeva was founded by Sridhar Ramaswamy (ex-SVP of Ads at Google) and Vivek Raghunathan (ex-VP of Monetization at YouTube)." Sounds ominous. Ads & Monetization, all they need now is a director of abusive, addi
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by PostOnce 4y ago
If no-one missed amber monitors, this repo wouldn't have 18,000 stars: https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term QED :)
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by PostOnce 4y ago
No-one wants to forsake the world we live in to go and get imprisoned on a corporate dystopia infested with ads and questionable "work" at the cost of our peripheral senses and our peace of mind. If, like you say, we will attach c
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by PostOnce 4y ago
Just think -- you can teleport into an Excel spreadsheet and walk across the columns, just like in real life! You could open your email from realistically ray-traced paper envelopes. You can check the weather by standing out in a virtual fi
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by PostOnce 4y ago
American military might is arguably the sole reason we live in a stable, peaceful world. Yes, terrible things happen, but the alternative might be even more terrible. I think of this often. Vietnam was a terrible war, maybe a senseless on
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I bet this works wonders for retention. It might be a great way to study many subjects.
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Taxes pave roads, build hospitals and schools, keep shipping lanes free of pirates, and provide weather-monitoring radar and satellite systems. Taxes keep famine, war, and pestilence at bay. Also, not paying your taxes is an easy way to rui
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"Yes, it might even make the world a worse place. But you will be employed." I think the author should spend some time considering the implications of these two lines. In fact, I think we all should.
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The site is already being hosted, I was only talking about a domain name, so at ~$10/year or whatever it is now, that's only $100 a decade over whatever he is paying now for hosting using a free domain. That's 10 years of ben
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by PostOnce 4y ago
It very well might be, if you value publicity for your hobby, the greater reach might be worth it to you. If you can get 10,000 readers instead of 90 readers because your links are shareable... If we think about potential dollars, though: T
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by PostOnce 4y ago
It's worth your while to buy another domain. You could keep the .tk running. Some sites shadowban .tk, Reddit probably still does. Search engines probably downrank it. That's because it's free and has been used for a lot of s
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by PostOnce 4y ago
All of the above. It's free (along with everything in the "app store"), it's stable, it isn't infested with ads, and the browser and word processor work exactly the same for all normal users. The OS shouldn't m

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