Rury

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by Rury 3y ago
Look, I think communism sounds great, but the problem is that it simply doesn't work in practice. In other words, it has been tried, it just doesn't work. To see why, you can categorize the forms of government as so: - Monar
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by Rury 3y ago
Mostly because of vertical integration, and Apple being more vertically integrated in comparison to other PC manufacturers. Simply put, when you design and build every single thing that goes into a complex product, you then have complete co
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by Rury 3y ago
It's just how language works. Language is inherently ambiguous in the strictest sense. It's why at times you need to use more and more words to convey a clear message to someone, but in some sense, it's a never ending rabbit
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by Rury 3y ago
>What you are saying is that there is some implicit transfer of money from the rich to the poor No, I'm saying that who you think is rich and poor isn't so black and white. Think about it for a moment. If you could borrow somet
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by Rury 3y ago
You'd think so, but it's the opposite. Just look at making friendships, nothing makes you a friend better than proximity, convenience, and timing (childhood friends hello?). Facebook friends? Yeah, not so much...
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by Rury 3y ago
Not many people have a high balance, and those who are, are getting the short end of the stick. Contrary to what common wisdom would lead you to believe, rich people don't usually hold a high balance. In fact, rich people are often hig
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by Rury 3y ago
Never said it was a panacea. Just that without product focused people having say in decisions, the product will inevitably turn to shit. That is not the same as saying: having them make decisions guarantees you a good product.
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by Rury 3y ago
True, but this is just nitpicking over something that's not really the point being made. The argument behind the OP still stands... the decisions being made by the company aren't ultimately being made by gamers or gamedevs (the wo
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by Rury 3y ago
I think that's because surprisingly, it's still a marketable/profitable game. If only it weren't, then maybe it would eventually be open sourced. Only flaw I find is that due to it's age, it wasn't really desig
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by Rury 3y ago
In any case, this is admitting that the system is more about circumstances, connections, and luck, not so much about abilities or merits of your work. But this is really why meritocracy doesn't exist - the measure of merit is ultimatel
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by Rury 3y ago
Person A gave people B money (which Person A got from work they did) who helped people C (and A). People B did the initial legwork. People C paid for the growth (which came from work they did elsewhere). In the end, person A disproportionat
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by Rury 3y ago
I'd wager that depression is merely a symptom of learned helplessness, a natural response to being repeatedly powerless in circumstances one is vested in the outcome of. A result of being repeatedly and extremely frustrated, and/o
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by Rury 3y ago
It's ultimately because of the sun and the rotation of the Earth, which causes wind, which causes movement in oceans surface temperatures...
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by Rury 3y ago
Yeah, it's hard to word it exactly, but that's how it felt for me too. OOT felt like the characters and world were more personally touching and meaningful, and BOTW felt more cold/meaningless in comparison. I think they'
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by Rury 3y ago
The government's budget process is not unique in any fundamental way. It's only different because it's political and has many different people's interests in the matter. Otherwise it obeys the same principles as a person
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by Rury 3y ago
It is kind of wrong. What matters is the force impacted upon the person (their acceleration), not momentum. Basically, change in velocity over time is what really matters, but because momentum is conserved, it influences what the total chan
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by Rury 3y ago
No mentions of Excel? I still haven't found better spreadsheet software...
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by Rury 3y ago
This is standard business affairs for pretty much every big company. Apple, Google, Amazon, and many other fortune 500 companies, have all bought up dozens of businesses and their products and rebranded them as their own. Not sure why we&#x
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by Rury 3y ago
I never mentioned about saving up $250k to buy a house entirely in cash. I said working 30 years to acquire a $250k house. It's about protecting value of your hard work - your equity. And regardless, it was hyperbole to show why prices
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by Rury 3y ago
It does. Think for example, if you had worked hard 30 years to acquire a $250,000 house, and the government just gave everyone $500k overnight. Would you think it's fair they could pay $250k for your house for not having worked for 30
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by Rury 3y ago
You're right in that (some) people don't have "extra" money. Most people can't print themselves money. However, some people do have "extra" money, particularly people who have access to the money printer,
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by Rury 3y ago
The answer to that question, is the very same reason you gave for why banks exist.
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by Rury 3y ago
Yes, it correlates, but deflation is not really the cause behind the rise of the Nazi party. Did you ever wonder why Hitler hated jews so much? Why antisemitism became very popular? Let me give you a hint, it had to do with banks, who ran t
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by Rury 3y ago
Well, given enough time, our current understanding of physics implies that we are screwed no matter what we do (and there is no possible solution). As for more relevant practical matters, no not necessarily. Mostly a matter of carbon going
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by Rury 3y ago
You have no idea what you're talking about, if you think streaming is more like programming than being a soccer proffesional. As of February, there are over 7 million active twitch streamers. 25 percent of the top 10,000 (ie the top 0
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by Rury 3y ago
I'd wager that intelligence is nothing but a reified concept. Something which doesn't innately exist other than as an abstract concept which we have defined, to help us explain complex nature, without the need of fully understandi
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by Rury 4y ago
Well there's evidence that goes against your conclusion. Turritopsis dohrnii is a living example of a species which can reverse its age (and as far as we know, can do so indefinitely). It is quite a successful species.
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by Rury 4y ago
Capital cost of capacity mainly.
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by Rury 4y ago
Well on one hand, shorter people tend to live longer, and tend to have better health in old age. Additionally, people who eat less also tend to live longer and healthier lives. There might be a tradeoff when it comes to our height and healt
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by Rury 4y ago
Don't forget that houses get torn down and rebuilt. It doesn't happen often but it happens. In the US, modern houses tend to be larger, have better insulation (from what I've experienced), but can be cheap in some aspects (e.

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