Vraxx

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by Vraxx 8y ago
>We're still losing the distinction between privatizing more things and privatizing everything. I'm not aware of any federal-level US politicians who want to privatize, say, the military. That's because we've already
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by Vraxx 8y ago
It seems a ridiculous opinion to say privatize everything , but I've seen more and more politicians in the US who support that, or at least that's what I hear when they talk about privatizing education, healthcare, and even the F
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by Vraxx 8y ago
That's just not true though when you consider that these platforms have algorithms that will determine which posts get more visibility than others (trending is the most obvious of these). I don't think this would be even half as
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by Vraxx 8y ago
I think you're making some pretty good points overall about the benefits of state and city governments, but one thing I still have questions with is what we do as a country when one part of our country adopts some set of practices but
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by Vraxx 8y ago
Ahhhh this makes more sense with your previous objections and I wasn't understanding it as well before. I always took little tidbits of the scenario that pointed to "lazy-eval" to be indicative of it being more likely to be
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by Vraxx 8y ago
Sorry if I was unclear, I didn't mean to imply a link between "real time" in the game/simulation and the real world, because you are completely correct in noting that there is no specific relation between game time (tick
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by Vraxx 8y ago
I do not believe it is accurate to say that what I am positing would only simulate a mind and not the world. It is simply saying that detail below a certain level is insignificant to the simulation of the world as a whole. The entire purp
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by Vraxx 8y ago
You might do this if you didn't have the computational power to simulate the thing you wanted in real time. Games are hard locked to require the computation to be performed within the frame time of the gameplay, but much more detailed
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by Vraxx 8y ago
Hmm, I mentioned in another comment that I'm not even sure how much I "believe" this premise, but for the sake of discussion let's assume I do as I find it fun to think about from time to time. Your post sounds very cond
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by Vraxx 8y ago
That's an interesting thought for sure, I hadn't made the direct connection that essentially the simulation creator would be "God". I think at least for me personally, I think the reason for "less trouble having fai
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by Vraxx 8y ago
why not both? Why can't we be a Boltzmann brain that happens to spontaneously configure in such a way that we make measurements confirming our existence to be the result of a simulation? Is that really any different/less likely t
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by Vraxx 8y ago
I'm not sure if that's entirely true. My analogy here would be how we observe classical mechanics or even just regular objects. We can predict the path a ball will take through the air in painstaking and incredibly accurate deta
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by Vraxx 8y ago
good point, I think GP's counter is a counter only if you accept as a premise that you must find fulfillment in your work. Otherwise this point undercuts it by attacking that implicit premise.
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by Vraxx 8y ago
It's tough because I think the group mentality is part of what can really make a company able to produce the value it can (more than just the sum of its parts and all that), so I feel that mentality can come from a genuine place, but
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by Vraxx 8y ago
Isn't there public available data sources for geographic information as it pertains to socioeconomic classes available through the census? Why use a proxy if the actual variable is available?
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by Vraxx 8y ago
I'd venture a guess based on B) that GP believes that inequality happens in part due to tax laws that support the idea that wealth trickles down, while GP believes (as do I), that it absolutely does not. A proposed fix would be to sto
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by Vraxx 8y ago
While amusing, I'd like to point out that the accuracy stated for this law doesn't meet the precision that the parent poster stated (0.1°C).
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by Vraxx 8y ago
They might not be expanding, but I wouldn't call it shut down. I have an active account and they're providing my internet service in KC. This was set up this past February.
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by Vraxx 9y ago
Counter-Counterpoint: My group of friends has a slack channel that we use essentially as an IRC chatroom where we organize long term events, plan evening activities, and chat about an assortment of topics. Nothing about Slack makes it less
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by Vraxx 9y ago
Hmmm.. I think your first link is to the wrong hack. If everything were as you claim, the hack would need to precede the bank freeze in order for it to be in any way causal. I was originally writing this reply to refute your claim on that
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by Vraxx 10y ago
It seems our means of communication have grown beyond our ability to organize through those means. This seems to be a trend with the Internet in general where arguments like gamer gate etc. are fractured into two sides, but even on each si
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by Vraxx 10y ago
I agree with you if the content is actually stretched out (like filler episodes), but I find a lot of TV made for streaming is lacking filler content and is just telling a longer story. It's to the point now where when I watch a 90-12
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by Vraxx 10y ago
Carrier is a fine example of promised government grants for not moving jobs. The grants were just in the form of tax breaks [0] (spending the tax revenue before it ever gets to congress). [0]: https://fivethirtyeight.com/fe
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by Vraxx 10y ago
I really dislike Curse for gaming, the UI is the most unintuitive thing I've used in ages, showing me the same information on 5 different looking screens, but not having a single screen that shows me a list of all of my friends. I don
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by Vraxx 10y ago
That has been my worry, but I figured I'd just buy new foam pads from HTC at worst. It does say not to get them wet in the manual. To alleviate this, I just purchased replacement pads that were machine washable from a 3rd party suppl
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by Vraxx 10y ago
Ohhh, I actually bought one of the replacement foams. Here were the two I was considering, I bought the first of the two I linked and will be getting it tomorrow. https://vrcover.com/product/htc-vive-memory-foam-paddin
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by Vraxx 10y ago
I recall reading in most places that you are not supposed to get the HTC default foam pads wet and that it causes them to degrade quicker. Anecdotally, my wide face cushion has way less definition and is squishier than my narrow face cushi
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by Vraxx 10y ago
Which VRCover did you buy specifically for sweat? I bought the memory foam soft cotton one (it's supposed to come in tomorrow" because I wanted to to be washable, but also comfortable in other scenarios, though I very much have t
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by Vraxx 10y ago
I don't think that displacement alone is a reason to avoid an action necessarily. I say this because while it may not be increasing their income, even if they were displaced they would get more money for being displaced (when selling
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by Vraxx 10y ago
I don't think that's how the typical gentrification process goes though. I think it usually starts with developers increasing surrounding property values which attracts more affluent residents, who demand improvements from the mu

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