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by bdw5204 3y ago
One of those shogi chips was actually a 32 bit ARM processor: https://snescentral.com/chips.php?chiptype=ST018
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by bdw5204 3y ago
I wish we had pricing transparency laws requiring companies to honor the advertised price without being able to tack on all kinds of hidden fees. Since we don't, there are many times where I've abandoned an online cart because a h
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by bdw5204 3y ago
My brother somehow got a Gmail invite early on and then we ended up with effectively infinite invites by inviting ourselves whenever we needed more of them. They were useful for contests on his small forum because everybody wanted effective
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by bdw5204 3y ago
This view of capitalism is relatively recent in origin. Prior to the adoption of the "shareholder value is the only purpose of a company" nonsense by Wall Street in the 1980s, it was understood that companies have obligations to t
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by bdw5204 3y ago
The current market will not last forever and once it turns around we're probably looking at a Great Resignation on steroids given the pent up demand for changing jobs.
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by bdw5204 3y ago
I suspect that large tech companies are going to be increasingly relying on AI moderation to identify "unusual" behavior and ban accounts for it. Failing to proactively ban a tiny obscure account posting illegal or extremely unpop
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by bdw5204 3y ago
I imagine the overwhelming majority of them barely even know how to use a computer and just use Google Docs because it's convenient and they can access it on their iPad or their laptop. Most people, even most tech-savvy types, value co
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by bdw5204 3y ago
A "stock market boom" built on killing jobs is not a booming economy. That's why any politician who brags about or defends this morally indefensible "boom" is going to be in trouble politically.
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by bdw5204 3y ago
I imagine that's where Joseph Heller got the idea for a character named Major Major Major Major: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_Major_Major_Major
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by bdw5204 3y ago
The Bill of Rights applies to state and local governments. The Supreme Court has been pretty clear about that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incorporation_of_the_Bill_of_R...
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by bdw5204 3y ago
I've found that my body can tolerate one day in a row of waking up via an alarm clock instead of at my natural wakeup time. The second day, I'm completely exhausted and can't think straight. The way to sleep effectively and b
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by bdw5204 3y ago
From the individual level, obviously the US and its allies are the freest countries in the world. US adversaries are basically all obvious tyrannies of one form or another. But US allies are not "free" in the sense that they can&#
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by bdw5204 3y ago
Polanski is very different from Assange. Assange exposed US government secrets which directly threatens the US government's power. From the perspective of a government, that's far more serious a crime than (allegedly) raping a chi
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by bdw5204 3y ago
So you grew up without AOL Instant Messenger, Yahoo accounts, web forums and MySpace? Or for the generation before that, Geocities and Usenet? The current form of interactive online platforms may be flawed but banning teens from using them
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by bdw5204 3y ago
Arguably, the rest of the "free world" can be seen as provinces of an American Empire with their independence. From that perspective, the Assange extradition makes perfect sense. This isn't as crazy as it sounds because the R
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by bdw5204 3y ago
The original Panzer Dragoon games were remade for modern consoles a few years ago. Saga still hasn't been ported though.
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by bdw5204 3y ago
That's a glaring red flag that they're overly conventional thinkers. Independent-minded people were generally either proponents of the lab leak theory all along or were not going to ridicule it as "obviously ridiculous".
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by bdw5204 3y ago
Using production metrics as a whole is very stupid and a good way to get devs to optimize for the metrics rather than quality work. A contemporary example would be a company that promotes for "impact" (i.e. launching new products)
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by bdw5204 3y ago
Monero seems to be well on its way to being banned by governments: https://www.binance.com/en/feed/post/3817825785186
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by bdw5204 3y ago
If you're looking for privacy from your current and possibly future employers, you can obtain that by using a pseudonym online and taking basic measures to make yourself hard to dox. If you want privacy from the US government, that&#x2
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by bdw5204 3y ago
Any truly reliable privacy and anonymity tool that isn't created by the government will probably be made illegal by the government. Failing that, using it will make you a target of the government's security apparatus. If you creat
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by bdw5204 3y ago
The complexity of the web comes from people taking a system that was designed for linked documents, basically a distributed wiki, and turning it into a platform for full-fledged applications.
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by bdw5204 3y ago
I love how the parrot has no patience whatsoever for ads and cable news. If more humans were like that parrot, Youtube would be a much better platform.
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by bdw5204 3y ago
George H.W. Bush (the father not the son) actually expressed a thought like that about supermarket scanners at a grocers convention[0] while he was running for re-election. The New York Times used this to falsely portray Bush as unfamiliar
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by bdw5204 3y ago
A reasonable solution would be to recognize abandonware as a legal category under copyright law. If a company decides to tax write-off a work or let it go out of print (including print on demand for an obscene price) then revoke the copyrig
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by bdw5204 3y ago
What exactly does this have to do with a ruling on whether or not public officials can block trolls and spam bots on social media?
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by bdw5204 3y ago
At the moment, x86 is mainly hanging on in legacy spaces because of backward compatibility. Everything new is RISC including Apple's newer Macs. Windows computers still run on x86 because people buy Windows to run legacy code. Playstat
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by bdw5204 3y ago
It may not be enforceable but it probably isn't worth the legal risk especially if any of your employees might ever want to travel to that state. Same reason why you wouldn't want to be running a web site that's openly defyin
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by bdw5204 3y ago
There's probably an order of magnitude of people who don't edit Wikipedia because they're unhappy with Wikipedia's policies or its culture. I think the right Wikipedia alternative is probably viable and could maybe even
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by bdw5204 3y ago
From the text of the bill[0]: (B) EXCLUSION.—The term “covered company” does not include an entity that operates a website, desktop application, mobile application, or augmented or immersive technology application whose primary purpose

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