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by apatters 6y ago
I'm not a doctor but if you've ever had to deal with nerve pain or neurological conditions in general, there's a ton of stuff we don't know. Doctors will readily admit this. Not sure that the question of whether we'
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by apatters 6y ago
This seems like a comment by someone who lacks a basic knowledge of Indian/Chinese relations but has an axe to grind against America. India and China are constantly saber rattling over turf wars and other geopolitical issues, and India
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by apatters 6y ago
Sure, but for almost everyone, there's a dollar figure at which they're willing to stop having fun and start making money. Maybe that dollar figure is $1,000/hr for some open source maintainer out there (I bet it's much
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by apatters 6y ago
Something I never understood is why don't more maintainers just post the rate at which they'd be willing to do the work other people want? I suspect very few open source maintainers are doing so well financially that there's
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by apatters 6y ago
I tried to go CLI only at one point but never quite got there. It did, however, teach me a healthy appreciation for the benefits of pushing parts of my workflow into the terminal whenever possible. The terminal is distraction-free, highly s
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by apatters 6y ago
If you genuinely believe the mainstream US media doesn't lean left, have a look at the Media Bias Chart: https://www.adfontesmedia.com/ The methodology is thorough and non-partisan (that's the point). Note that th
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by apatters 6y ago
Completely disagree. Even $100/mo invested into an index fund using a Roth IRA in your 20s will have a huge positive return on your quality of life later on. Millions of workers can afford this and don't do it because they haven&#
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by apatters 6y ago
My public high school in the 90s had a mandatory personal finance class. This stuff existed. It got cut from the curriculum at some point over the years along with art, music, civics, wood shop, gym, and all the rest. The question is where
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by apatters 6y ago
It's interesting when people advocate for tariffs on China (and sure, other countries, but China is by far the biggest plastic producer) without calling them what they are.
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by apatters 6y ago
That's part of it but I think it's more complicated than that. For instance I have heard b2b sales described as a diagnostic process. If you know exactly what you can deliver and it matches exactly what the customer needs you enco
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by apatters 6y ago
You were hardly alone and you deserve many upvotes for this admission!
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by apatters 6y ago
> in March when we knew much less about who was most vulnerable If this is the falsehood we need to perpetuate in order to let guilty politicians save face and restore a semblance of sanity to our society, then so be it, but let's b
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by apatters 6y ago
Daryl Davis, an African-American man, famously attended KKK rallies, befriended Klansmen, and over the course of his life helped persuade over 200 Klansmen to give up their robes. He did what you claim is impossible and I can't imagine
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by apatters 6y ago
OK. But if you believed that lie, how many other lies do you believe?
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by apatters 6y ago
This statement smelled fishy to me as there are only 40M or so people in Iraq to begin with, so I Googled around a bit. Despite politicians and talking heads claiming for years that either Desert Storm, UN sanctions, or both caused half a m
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by apatters 6y ago
To use cyberpunk as an example because it's one of my favorite genres, I wonder how many of the people who buy Cyberpunk2077 will have ever even heard of Shadowrun Dragonfall by Harebrained Schemes, or Technobabylon by Wadjet Eye Games
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by apatters 6y ago
You're spot on and I wish we knew what to do about it. I think there's a very good parallel between music and games, in both industries it's possible to create great works with innovation, creativity and not much capital. Unf
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by apatters 6y ago
I don't think that consolidation is inevitable at all, Americans are increasingly disillusioned with big business and there is a slowly growing anti-corporate sentiment being expressed (albeit opportunistically) by politicians as varie
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by apatters 6y ago
Absolutely. It's fine for gamers to indulge in some nostalgia, too. It'd be better for the industry if we all recognized that the job of a guy like Bobby Kotick is to eat a steak every so often, and then vomit it up for the next 2
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by apatters 6y ago
Sure, if you ate McDonald's every day you'd probably think that there are no good restaurants anymore. My top 4 games by playtime in the last few years were Rimworld, Oxygen Not Included, Dwarf Fortress and WoW Classic. Honorable
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by apatters 6y ago
You don't necessarily have to go cold turkey. I haven't gone all the way and actually gotten rid of my phone, but I personally operate in three "modes:" - Mode 1 where I'm going to need it for a task like navigation
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by apatters 6y ago
I don't think it's incorrect to call them states. They're nation states. They are regularly referred to as member states. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_state_of_the_European_U...
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by apatters 6y ago
Yeah, it was very different from Uber's fraudulent taxi service and Theranos' fraudulent everything. Where where were the billionaire investors and sycophantic press?
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by apatters 6y ago
Microsoft makes lots of sense. They own Minecraft and Xbox Live. Both highly social products and roughly the same demographic as Tiktok. Both have tens of millions of young teen users. Tiktok is the perfect complement.
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by apatters 6y ago
IANAL, but if the lawsuit was about selling smartphones, then yes I think so. If the lawsuit was about selling some popular class of app in which Apple leveraged its monopoly over app distribution, I think the plaintiff could have a pretty
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by apatters 6y ago
I'm not sure that they are. I did say that something smells rotten (products getting worse and prices going up), but this alone is not justification for punitive measures. The government playbook in this sort of situation is normally t
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by apatters 6y ago
I upvoted your comments based on a good faith belief that you're open to learning more about how antitrust law works. It has little to do with market share, and everything to do with a concept called "market power." Market po
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by apatters 6y ago
When you look at the demographic curve of fatalities it's similar to the flu: it's not deadly to the young and healthy, but it is to the old and sick. When you look at overall mortality it's not similar to the flu. It's
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by apatters 6y ago
When in history have we ever seen a disease where doctors, the public, or the media said "living in fear for your life is a good idea if you contract this disease?" If someone contracts a dangerous disease aren't we supposed
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by apatters 6y ago
Just flag the article and be done with it. My tolerance for clickbait headlines has gone to zero during this pandemic.

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