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by VRay 5y ago
It’s pretty amazing how stupid and shortsighted people are. We’re so good at overlooking the horrible situation we’re in and focusing on other things that are completely irrelevant I used to think that one of the worst things in the USA wa
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by VRay 5y ago
https://covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-of-america/sout... Doesn’t look too bad so far as the USA goes, although if legal gun owners or Mexican cartel members were out there killing 40 people a day, you’d be screa
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by VRay 5y ago
At least in WoW, I think a big part of it is that there are tons of spammers blasting out ads to escort you through dungeons and raids. It’s hard to find actual groups of normal people with all the noise Particularly if you’re just one guy
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by VRay 5y ago
Being online and unnecessarily punishing makes the game feel more real to people You may as well not bother.. people with self control and awareness will play non-toxic games, and people without it will avoid your patch since it’s not the r
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by VRay 5y ago
We’re already a post scarcity society by the way an ancient peasant would measure it We have so much food available that it’s a problem that poor people suffer from eating too much It’s easier and more convenient to throw electronics, cloth
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by VRay 5y ago
At least he has one.. you could jimmy open my front door and walk in without any electronics recording you Full disclosure though, if you do that while my wife and kid are home I will stab you
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by VRay 5y ago
https://covid19.healthdata.org/japan?view=daily-deaths&tab=t... Basically no lockdown other than shutting down bars at 8 PM, plenty of exposure between proximity to China and super-crowded trains The difference between
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by VRay 5y ago
Yeah, any time an executive speaks plainly it blows up in their face
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by VRay 5y ago
those hedge funds don't have access to enough money to move the market that much $2.6 billion is chump change to a medium-sized city with a few hundred thousand residents, much less the US at large We just need to remove zoning restric
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by VRay 5y ago
yeah, Microsoft loves to give an inferior experience to 1% of its users in favor of polishing the experience for the 99% The problem is that everyone is a member of a different 1%. "Oh, only one percent of users have that monitor setu
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by VRay 5y ago
Man, what're you talking about? If you hook a Windows 10 machine up to a pair of monitors with different scaling percentages, then try to drag a Google Chrome window across them, you get sent straight to Resolution Hell. Even the fir
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by VRay 5y ago
Where do you draw the line? You could probably feed a bunch of people in Africa if you worked at a nonprofit, lived a spartan lifestyle, and donated most of your salary to charity. Is it evil that you aren't doing that?
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by VRay 5y ago
Amen I'd say it's fair to call the process by which people justify doing bad things as "evil". I just wanted to correct the notion that Facebook employees think of themselves as villains. Facebook is connecting people w
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by VRay 5y ago
You guys should check out some of Corey Doctorow's books or the Culture series, they describe theoretical post-scarcity futures not driven by capitalism where people still find fulfilling stuff to do
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by VRay 5y ago
Wrong. London (and basically every other large city) has decoupled supply and demand by using zoning restrictions. It's really frustrating that voters can't see that fact, though.
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by VRay 5y ago
haha, easy there killer. I hate Google Cardboard for poisoning the well just as much as everyone in this subthread does Someone was going on and on about how Facebook is showing off a (likely) $50,000 prototype and I was just explaining th
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by VRay 5y ago
Yeah, I was looking for a job pre-COVID, and REALLY wanted something remote since I hate living in a big city. No matter how hard I looked or negotiated, I couldn’t manage to get any remote offers or jobs in small towns in the USA that’d pa
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by VRay 5y ago
Tokyo is way more centralized than London, yet it’s completely affordable to everyone working there thanks to draconian centralized zoning laws making it easy to build denser housing anywhere as the market demands it
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by VRay 5y ago
Haha, dude. I hate Facebook too, but you’re kidding yourself if anyone there thinks they’re evil. The employees just focus on how easy it is for non tech savvy people to share vacation and kid photos across the globe with each other throu
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by VRay 5y ago
I don’t think it’s necessarily the case, but I’m a little worried that a UBI utopia would end up being some sort of Judge Dredd hellscape I’ve taken long stretches off work and done all sorts of amazing, productive stuff during that time.
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by VRay 5y ago
Haha, yeah, doctors are pretty terrible. I had neck and jaw pain, and my Chinese-born dentist said “Well, I know how much you Americans like drugs and surgery, and there are some of those that will help, but really you’ll probably be fine
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by VRay 5y ago
Good news, it’s the year 2021 and computers are so fast that you could probably bit bang a 56k modem connection using a python script on a raspberry pi
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by VRay 5y ago
What’re you talking about? You can make a low end VR headset out of a $100 smartphone and a $5 plastic box today 5-10 years after VR starts to really take off, you’ll be able to get a decent standalone VR headset for $200 or less. They’ll
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by VRay 5y ago
Technically correct, the best kind of correct when talking about inflation curves
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by VRay 5y ago
That’s interesting, I didn’t know number 5 was actually a crime (other than the “hacking tools”). So maybe the US potentially does have an actual case.. I just assumed that we were having a witch hunt since people in power got mad at Assan
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by VRay 5y ago
How much funding are we giving our universities, and how much is Europe giving them? I ask because in-state tuition in California and Washington is so high that you could afford a full time PhD student tutor with it.
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by VRay 5y ago
I'm not a furry, but I definitely appreciate the ability to be anonymous online.
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by VRay 5y ago
You could measure the number of incidents that didn't happen before the TSA was formed, though Even the deadly hijackings it was formed to prevent wouldn't ever happen again, since the passengers would fight back now
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by VRay 5y ago
I’m also old enough to remember when you needed to hire a private investigator to keep tabs on someone’s movements, but now anyone can easily track anyone else using their flashlight app and games on their phone. You can even track the Pre
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by VRay 5y ago
No, any household name megacorp on your resume is a good thing and a golden ticket to any job you want, evil or not

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