VelesDude

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by VelesDude 2y ago
I suspect that if it going to happen, it will happen a lot closer to the actual election. By having it close to the day, it gives less time for it to be proven false.
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by VelesDude 2y ago
Not OP but I would assume that because they where still somewhat isolated groups in terms of directly lived culture, this would have influenced their works differently. Like how the Blues didn't come out of a comfortable lifestyle.
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by VelesDude 2y ago
Embrace, extend, extinguish. Companies love open standards, at first. They love them to get traction but once they have the majority locked down, use it to force others out. Same with "free" markets.
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by VelesDude 2y ago
Currently we question if it is AI, eventually we will question if it is a person. The problem I see if that many will try to use shock value alone to try and stand out from the AI materials and that will be a whole different issue.
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by VelesDude 2y ago
That is a good question but I suspect we wouldn't know. Just educated guesses and I cannot find those at the moment. I think the other big issue is that back then we didn't have industrial civilization and high level agriculture d
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by VelesDude 2y ago
Short term that is the biggest issue that I fear. I am in Australia and I have said it for many years, if it goes badly, we will welcome refugees with open arms. Those arms being machine guns and explosives. That we will move into the realm
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by VelesDude 2y ago
There is no history of this happening before, at least not on the time frames we are talking about here. This is thousands of years of change in decades. It isn't so much just the change but the pace that is the issue. Like how jumping
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by VelesDude 2y ago
There is a decent book on this called 'Apocalypse Not' by John Michael Greer that covers the history of all these end times predictions. Good thing for putting these kinds of claims in perspective. Yes, we have big issues facing u
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by VelesDude 2y ago
It isn't so much that the overall temperatures will change too much when averaged out, that would relate more to the slow down/stopping of the AMOC. First order effect, this would mean that you get less predictable weather events.
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by VelesDude 2y ago
Oilprice.com is always like that. Everything always sounds urgent regardless of the actual content. The 2025 date while possible, is much less likely than a middle of the range date. That said, with the rate that dates relating to climate i
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by VelesDude 2y ago
Yet another example of "it is so stupid it just had to be done.". I love it!
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by VelesDude 2y ago
Yep, like most things it is no one single thing driving it. They arise mutually.
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by VelesDude 2y ago
Absolutely, it is kind of the badge of an operating system that if it can run the GNU tool chain - it is a complete operating system. I am still 100% on board with the libre/freedom stuff but you are right, a lot of the GNU stuff is be
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by VelesDude 2y ago
Always glad to see Jeff Minters work featured. As an aside, check out his youtube channel. It is entirely just him and his life/work partner feeding sheep, donkeys and llamas on this property. Very cool! Many discs are inserted into th
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by VelesDude 2y ago
This is why I think Richard Stallman had some success. His living requirement where so low that for most of the 1980's/early 90's, he only had to work 6 weeks to make all the money he needed for that year. It opened him up to
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by VelesDude 2y ago
A slight tangent but it is kind of mind melting that smartphones now do need a minimum of 1GB just to send an SMS. I mean look at any Nokia phone form the 90's and none of them probably had more than 1MB of RAM, many way below that. Ye
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by VelesDude 2y ago
I'm not saying "because they are lazy!" but, I think it is a combination of a large portion of people wanting a large piece of land and planners just using cars to fill in the gaps on convenience. I do think that a lot of fol
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by VelesDude 2y ago
Spoken like a real Gronk! Nah, your cool. I suspect it is just something we picked up from our British heritage, the whole slang thing. Apple and Pairs, Up the Stairs - all that. I do find it funny when some folks have been here for a few y
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by VelesDude 2y ago
Yep, until folks see it they cannot understand the scale of these things. It isn't just Crown in Melbourne, which for most folks is more like the traditional Vegas casino. All my local RSL's/Pubs are all about 50% pokie machi
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by VelesDude 2y ago
I wouldnt say it is bad but be careful of what you wish for. On the flip side if someone is merely after fame that is not such a bad thing by comparison. It is not like those that seek wealth and power, it is at least going a more ethereal
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by VelesDude 2y ago
There is the idea that I kind of subscribe too but not entirely, that if you want to improve yourself - you would just do it rather than force it. In that trying to force it is like Sisyphus. In giving up the battle, you are freed up to act
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by VelesDude 2y ago
I would have considered the use of the Ad populum falacy more for use in terms of testable facts rather than opinions. Is quality of language and taste opinion or fact? I could see the debate being vigorous on that one.
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by VelesDude 2y ago
I do see where you are coming from but alas, language is an ever moving democracy. As much as many would like to define it in certain terms - it is largely beyond control. This is why the English of Shakespeare doesn't hold up today be
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by VelesDude 2y ago
It is a strong theme of taoism that in giving up on clinging to a set goal, it allows you more flexibility to do great things when needed.
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by VelesDude 2y ago
For there to be famous people, there has to be non famous people. In the same way that up needs down, black needs white. A figure I saw once was based on "do they have a Wikipedia page" as counting as famous. And the ratio was som
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by VelesDude 2y ago
That is a key lesson of many religions like Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism etc that the state of contentment comes from within. They have been telling everyone this for decades with mixed results. Suffering is what happens when expectations do
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by VelesDude 3y ago
Thanks for that. I will go through the whole video later but that at least covered the basic premise. Essentially, due to the technique used for collision detection, tiny gaps in the geometry causes collision system to treat parts of the sc
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by VelesDude 3y ago
Well I... umm... hmmmm...
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by VelesDude 3y ago
All the other comments here make a good point but this is a core problem that I really worry about. Assumption of technology usage. And that eventually you are forced into usage of something you might not want. The amount of businesses and
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by VelesDude 3y ago
This is something I highlight with the trend toward dumb phones. The input system on them sucks, it makes smart phone input look eloquent even though it is clumsy. The idea that a lot of the time the opposite of one bad idea is another bad

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