beenBoutIT

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by beenBoutIT 3y ago
Nobody in the USA wants anything like that. The bad optics alone would be enough to convince Americans to go back to the War on Drugs. Pharmacies and Liquor Stores need to be the only vendors of legalized drugs in order to keep the optics f
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by beenBoutIT 3y ago
Eventually all drugs will be legalized and regulated just like alcohol and tobacco. The War on Drugs is America's worst mistake and our biggest most expensive failure. The big issue is going to be the "how". Who would manufac
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by beenBoutIT 3y ago
IIRC, RDR2 does exactly this. The issue is that you know exactly what percentage of the game you haven't experienced and exactly how good the game is and it makes it next to impossible to stop playing.
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by beenBoutIT 3y ago
The formula is something like the longer a game is the less linear it needs to be to have a high replay value. 'The Last of Us' is incredibly long and among the best linear non open-world games ever made. That said, it's enti
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by beenBoutIT 3y ago
With black boxes being what they are, prices in a constant state of flux and the deal where amazon has several 'pages' for the exact same item with each page having maybe a dozen different prices - how would it ever be possible to
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by beenBoutIT 3y ago
It seems like Amazon could take a cue from the tactics employed by very small shops and start dynamically adjusting prices per item per customer. Strategically lowering prices for some customers and raising prices for others could quickly
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by beenBoutIT 3y ago
If this can effectively regrow replacement teeth it seems that the dentist will want more than anything to suppress or somehow monopolize the technology in order to maintain their role as "fixers of teeth". Otherwise, it's ju
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by beenBoutIT 3y ago
This is expected in the US, the kicker is that even in the comfortably socialist EU dentists generally aren't included in the state healthcare unless it becomes an emergency room issue. The dentist is in this regard a unique animal.
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by beenBoutIT 3y ago
"People" in general are incapable of making these kinds of logical decisions and can't be blamed for the behavior of corporations.
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by beenBoutIT 3y ago
This guy's a big part of the reason America is so deeply screwed. America's eating habits have been artfully manipulated to the point that dietary common sense in the US is likely among the lowest in the Western world.
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by beenBoutIT 3y ago
Hold onto the phone and just don't use social media.
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by beenBoutIT 4y ago
We know factually exactly what "Apple organized for innovation" looks like - it's Apple with a brilliant innovator dictator running the show. What portion of Apple's budget is being spent searching for the next Jobs?
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by beenBoutIT 4y ago
Intelligent systems look for outliers and evaders as potential threats. This guy going so far out of his way to evade detection most likely got him flagged and monitored to an extra degree. What kind of meaningful data is Disney going to ga
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by beenBoutIT 4y ago
As an academic exercise it's interesting as a solo project or as an adventure with a fellow researcher. With the kids it's effectively spoiling their vacation while teaching them things they shouldn't have to know or understa
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by beenBoutIT 4y ago
The people answering are probably not situated in the USA.
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by beenBoutIT 4y ago
Italians do this kind of thing as well.
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by beenBoutIT 4y ago
It's the biggest PITA I've ever encountered. Just getting an app added to F-droid is a ridiculous hurdle.
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by beenBoutIT 4y ago
F-droid is flawless in terms of security.
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by beenBoutIT 4y ago
Hyphenate surname couples seem to universally not worry about the dilemma that they invariably put their offspring in regarding their options for last name arrangements. What the hell do your kids do, especially considering that high odds t
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by beenBoutIT 4y ago
The US doesn't keep local businesses the way Europe does. Corporations with local branches is about as close as we get. A small rural CVS next to a small rural Texaco next to a small rural Dennys is a rural town economy.
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by beenBoutIT 4y ago
America lost most of those villages that raise children and families with two parents decades ago.
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by beenBoutIT 4y ago
IRL cocaine is about as safe as caffeine and can be consumed in beverages (tea, Coca-cola, etc.) by healthy people without any real negative issues. Right now in 2023 we as adults should have two options for beverage stimulants, caffeine an
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by beenBoutIT 4y ago
No, filters really were the biggest step towards a "safer cigarette", despite the official stance that no such thing can ever exist. Non-filter cigarette smokers are 40% more likely to develop lung cancer and almost twice as likey
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by beenBoutIT 4y ago
Bingo. Offline gameplay that feels live and connected to the world inside the game.
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by beenBoutIT 4y ago
GTA SA has literally the best soundtrack ever made in any game at that point in time. Period. It utilizes a complex system to keep repeat plays from ever becoming repetitive. No other game had anything like that then and very few, if any, n
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by beenBoutIT 4y ago
It'll be interesting to see how Musk handles negative sentiment regarding him and his IP trending. Stories about burning Teslas and Tesla wrecks trending will be a thing of the past. On the flip side, boosting the visibility of pro Mus
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by beenBoutIT 4y ago
And then Rage Against the Machine's sound in the GTA San Andreas soundtrack changed everything again. Combining an open world game and a flight-simulator together with baked-in FM radio stations was literally the best thing to ever hap
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by beenBoutIT 4y ago
You're giving the 9/11 terrorists far too much credit. They were supported/financed by the Saudis[0] and America dropping the ball was the only reason they succeeded. It's not so much a big victory for the terrorists as
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by beenBoutIT 4y ago
Mushrooms aren't like MDMA - terrible experiences aren't out of the question.
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by beenBoutIT 4y ago
A pre-ban Four Loko malt beverage and Tool might be a better pairing. Guessing you're not listening to their angry tracks.

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