Someguywhatever

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by Someguywhatever 8y ago
>My own preferred hypothesis is that this is the result of despair I agree with you, I would also throw in nihilism and purposelessness, the general lack of vision for the future from government and elites.
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by Someguywhatever 8y ago
I don't think it's a silly objection, but I feel it's too abstract, ignoring certain practical realities that aren't really attempting to do what you say "pull the public sphere under one's own roof". This
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by Someguywhatever 8y ago
>AFAICT the only reason that people want a mechanical watch is to show how much money they have to waste. You can get a seiko automatic for < $100 USD, they look cool and have a little window where you can see all the gears turning. T
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by Someguywhatever 8y ago
"magical rocks" I love it. Too bad you can't find the article. I am now googling "magical rocks" to see what I can get...
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by Someguywhatever 8y ago
>There's pretty clearly something deeper here. IDK why there has to be something deeper. >public park's pristine full-courts I mean there's only so many courts maybe you don't want to play with other people you jus
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by Someguywhatever 8y ago
If you want to share tools with your neighbor you have to know them and be on and maintain a good relationship with them. There are numerous downsides to borrowing and sharing, so much so that people would rather not do it. Nobody wants to
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by Someguywhatever 8y ago
Dumb was really a poor choice of words, I basically wanted to say that the rules were incredibly simple and even so you get this complex behavior that comes out of it. I remember the first time I played HALO and the guys talked to each othe
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by Someguywhatever 8y ago
I think so, I haven't read through it but it looks like the one, thanks for finding it!
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by Someguywhatever 8y ago
I thought HALO had good AI, and there was a writeup somewhere (IDK where) by Bungie devs about how they implemented complex seeming behaviour with some relatively simple/dumb rules.
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by Someguywhatever 8y ago
Who gets to decide what are lies? Makes me think of this saying: "In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king."
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by Someguywhatever 8y ago
I agree especially with stuff like DVDs, and music media etc. It does make a lot of sense, until you get to bigger more important things.
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by Someguywhatever 8y ago
Theres also the burden on Microsoft that nothing can break. Meaning: anything that used to work before (in an earlier incarnation of Windows) must continue to work in later versions. I don't think Linux has this burden. They are more f
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by Someguywhatever 8y ago
>We used to buy DVDs or video cassettes; now viewers stream movies or TV shows with Netflix This I don't care about really. Although I remember Richard Stallman wrote a satirical article about there being no libraries and having to
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by Someguywhatever 8y ago
I think that everybody does this in almost every industry, huge players get different rules than everybody else. You might not like this but I can almost guarantee that if you were running a successful app store the amount of money involved
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by Someguywhatever 8y ago
>People of the US won't trust a damn thing the government does, probably for pretty good reason, and the whole country suffers for it. Lobbying by companies like Turbotax (Intuit) and others is largely behind this. I think many Amer
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by Someguywhatever 8y ago
>Inuit and Quicken subsequently lobbied to end those programs and even bar the IRS from running similar programs... They did the same thing in Canada too btw.
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by Someguywhatever 8y ago
I thought the exact same thing. Except that I know if it pronounces certain names or words wrong over and over it would make me crazy and I would have to stop.
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by Someguywhatever 8y ago
What Google really should have done was allowed FortNite onto the play store at a reduced cut, as a one-off discount that only applies to this title and nobody else. Some percentage of 50M is better than 0%.
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by Someguywhatever 8y ago
Too lazy to actually look it up but I think that MS are getting ahead of the lawsuit from Europe. Europe will fine you X dollars for every second / minute / hour or something that a bad post is left online. So even if GAB does not
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by Someguywhatever 8y ago
It's ToS violations all the way down
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by Someguywhatever 8y ago
I agree (with you). I think also it's not crystal clear what exactly 'benefits society', so what to research then? Let people research what they want to, at least they'll be passionate about it and maybe 'reach the
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by Someguywhatever 8y ago
Why can't people just improve their credit rating by doing credit worthy things?
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by Someguywhatever 8y ago
I don't think that the effects of the bomb were as well understood as we imagine, I think that unleashing the bomb on Japan was also a test. It was targeted at civilians and they just HAD to see what it would do, they knew that what it
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by Someguywhatever 8y ago
I feel like the Market Segment is so small, and your costs will be so high, and it requires so much expertise and oversight/monitoring that it won't be worth it.