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by PostOnce 7y ago
" Some college guys move coated wire with magnets " doesn't drum up admissions and donations and buff the reputation, but " MIT Engineers develop magnetic soft-continuum thread-like robot with lubricating hydrogel skin &
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by PostOnce 7y ago
Company buys IP/branding which has non-zero value, no surprise there. The people "reviving" it are unaffiliated. They previously worked on mobile cash grab licensed games like Duck Dynasty. "some of the old telltale empl
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by PostOnce 7y ago
Operating a manual car is as much as a life skill as operating a manual loom. It'll be relegated to specialist hobby eventually. Some things are destined to be replaced by fully automatic systems, for the gain of productivity and conve
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by PostOnce 7y ago
The list of FBI controversies is so long, the wikipedia article on the FBI refers you to a separate page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_FBI_controversies
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by PostOnce 7y ago
If people stopped having kids every time there was a famine, there'd be nobody here. History is littered with war, disease, and famine, and yet people have been born throughout it. Maybe it wouldn't have seemed a good idea to have
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by PostOnce 7y ago
Bug report? First, though, let me say this is one of my absolute favorite sites on the internet that I can remember. Amazing work. Bug? The audio is in the right time, its playing now what would be playing at 6am eastern, july 16th 1969, be
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by PostOnce 7y ago
sans patent issues: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AV1#AV1_Image_File_Format_(AVI... still waiting on the software support.
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by PostOnce 7y ago
I don't have any questions, but I do want to express my interest and joy in reading all about it. I'm not sure how big the audience is, but those of us in the audience love it, so keep it up. I'll keep reading. The other day,
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by PostOnce 7y ago
Cost of living is cheaper, so you'll just accept less money and let the company keep it? You shouldn't determine how much you charge by how much you need to survive, but charge instead by how much the company can afford to pay, or
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by PostOnce 7y ago
Why would a 40+ year old person listen to a 20-something? Perhaps because that's what they're being paid to do? CEOs do more than just issue edicts from on high, they take feedback from the people running the various operations, o
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by PostOnce 7y ago
You got a chance, people should get a chance, but it's not true that everyone does get a chance. Some people are just dealt a bad hand and get no lucky breaks, and have no path to leave mediocrity despite their effort. I think people
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by PostOnce 7y ago
I would think it's more likely they legislate against us, i.e. making it a crime to circumvent advertising (see: circumventing DRM).
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by PostOnce 7y ago
Preface: of course these things can do a world of good, fearless super-strong firefighters, medics immune to toxins, etc. So, people here are saying we already have xyz dangerous machine, but xyz isn't as scary. So let's imagine w
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by PostOnce 7y ago
What I don't get about Yang's pitch is that $1,000/mo is sold as a basic income. In what part of America can $1,000 pay for rent/food/power? Why bother calling it a basic income and not just a universal tax credit o
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by PostOnce 7y ago
I take it we're hating on the man and not the content of any particular podcast? I've listened to the podcast repeatedly (Dan Carlin was a guest, that's how I found it), there's nothing alt-right about it, just right&#x2
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by PostOnce 7y ago
I predict almost no sales. Imagine trying to make a dent in $500M selling a browser you can also largely download for free, with arguably better (to the average consumer) competing browsers, which are also free. Mozilla keeps building stuff
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by PostOnce 7y ago
"no business model" e.g. one off payment and yet Microsoft (worlds most valuable company btw) built an empire selling software.
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by PostOnce 7y ago
It's sad how few games let you host your own now. Pay for XBL/PSN/whatever, or the PC game co runs all the servers, or Google wants to sell you Stadia. Fortunately, "moddable" is a genre and people want it, so it ca
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by PostOnce 7y ago
They've been used and will be again ... there's a reason we have so much media exploring that fear in fiction, a reason so many fallout shelters were built, a reason we derailed Iran's nuclear program. It's a big risk, a
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by PostOnce 7y ago
This is like tying up a zombie and hoping it doesn't get loose. Well, as long as the handcuffs are secure "we'll be fine!". It always bites you in the end. Power corrupts, remember? Best to limit it.
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by PostOnce 7y ago
So your policy is in effect "Let us oppress the many to protect the few." Alright, then.
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by PostOnce 7y ago
Well the point was that an utter absence of privacy, a world where privacy was illegal, even, would theoretically catch A LOT of bad people, but the losses far, FAR outweigh the gains -- think of what living in a fearful society would be li
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by PostOnce 7y ago
What if we move the TSA into the streets and have mandatory inspections of every home every day? We could mandate reporting on neighbors. We, too, could become a shining example of what happens when the state is primarily concerned with the
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by PostOnce 7y ago
"I give it another 2 or 3 years until we have a robot hand with a camera that acts as dexterous and capable as a human hand." -some guy, circa 1975
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Sadly I think no one will ever pay money for games for an unadvertised, not-sold-at-retail, open source game platform, which means people aren't going to make quality games that cost money to develop, which means adoption will be all t
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by PostOnce 7y ago
Mobile games: 1] are infested with IAP/psycho crack time gates 2] cant cost more than a dollar or so, no one will buy them 3] have no buttons, and the number of games that work well without buttons is few. 4] have a horrible reputation
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by PostOnce 7y ago
Also interesting, http://aarddict.org/ I use it on my phone for offline wikipedia since it was the best thing I could find on android at the time, also reads other "dictionaries" not just wikipedia. edit: also, yo
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by PostOnce 7y ago
Not stressing my 5 year old laptop out too much.
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by PostOnce 7y ago
What do you mean "Could we sense when someone was trying to do it", are we talking mandatory computer inspections, government-enforced walled gardens, and the death of the general purpose computer? lol, if you thought gun control
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by PostOnce 7y ago
modern moko are almost all done with plain old needles, i think, and lack the pronounced scarring of the old methods. Super clear photo of the old result: https://scontent-yyz1-1.cdninstagram.com/vp/b80fdf49074ae5b4...

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