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by bigbubba 6y ago
I wouldn't go so far as to call Minecraft educational, but it certainly can teach things. It's probably taught the utility of logic gates to at least a few kids. The comparison to Lego seems apt. Most will probably just build
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Carbon monoxide is presented as an example of a "Unique danger[s] associated with electric battery fires." Why should he get a pass for being a lawyer? That makes his ignorance more concerning, not less.
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Sun Tzu said something to this effect. Always allow your enemies to at least believe they can escape.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Perhaps the CIA's hope was to brainwash American pilots, not deprogram them. From what I understand, cult deprogramming is often a weird mirror of cult programming, using many of the same methods, with deprogramming organizations some
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Such people can be found if you go looking for them, but that doesn't mean they are common. Even a few dozen of them in an industry of hundreds of thousands is enough to create a web forum with the appearance of popularity. That they&
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Sounds like he confused coca-cola for the other sort of coke...
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Let them yell. If they gave you such bad service that it comes to that, it's not like you'll be coming back to that restaurant anyway. I have refused to tip a handful of times and not once have I had any desire to return to thos
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by bigbubba 6y ago
The credit card processor almost certainly being used by the customer adds another middle man.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
They may be profitable for a time, by parasitically sucking the life out of restaurants. But when the host dies, parasites are in trouble.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Working in tech companies? I'm sure it happens sometimes, but it must be extremely rare.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
It could be mistaken for a racist expression by somebody who knows 'spade' as a racial slur for black people.
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It basically means it won't spread through the population like the flu, which makes outbreaks easy to contain. Corpses need to be properly disposed of and you should avoid contact with the scabs or whatnot from people with anthrax les
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Anthrax is found in the soil around the world and generally effects grazing animals like livestock, deer, etc. It is not contagious and isn't something you should lose sleep worrying about. It captures the public's attention bec
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by bigbubba 6y ago
I'm intrigued by the premise that humans are aliens who've forgotten our own origin, but unfortunately the fossil record debunks this. We're definitely from earth, at least since our very distant microbial ancestors.
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Frivolous overconsumption is harmful to society and the environment, not just to your wallet.
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> That is the real problem A real problem. Both are real problems. The importance of road maintenance isn't diminished by the importance of environmental considerations. Roads are vital to the economy. Governments need to mul
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by bigbubba 6y ago
The 'mass' in 'mass surveillance' is a matter of degree. Most roads are not presently toll roads. Most are not presently tracking all cars that drive on them. I don't find 'some surveillance happens already,
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by bigbubba 6y ago
That seems like an implementation of the 'mass surveillance' solution to distribution. That probably appeals to many politicians, but to me that is intolerable. It would also require different governments to cooperate; New York w
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by bigbubba 6y ago
This seems like a pretty good solution; the infrastructure is already in place for weighing trucks at borders. Raising taxes for trucks to replace gas taxes for cars would also incentivize the use of trains, which would be nice.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Yes, I think this is the best way to do it. It may also make sense to tax residential power to fund roads, since many electric car owners will primarily be charging at home. Perhaps this electricity tax could be limited to people who are
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by bigbubba 6y ago
How do you distribute the money to places where people drive but don't live? Gas tax handles this to an extent, but milage tax wouldn't; not without border checkpoints or mass surveillance.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Taxing milage directly seems to have worse distribution properties than taxing gas. Here is what I mean: Suppose I am driving from New York to Alaska; I fill up my car with gas then drive into Ontario. I have now paid New York a gas tax b
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Bad annoying design may have been imposed on the devs by idiotic management, but that doesn't excuse their failure to even implement a shitty design well. There is no reason for it to perform like dog shit, no matter how ugly manageme
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by bigbubba 6y ago
I think the problem is the term 'game.' If you made 'The Schindler's List VR Experience' that would be reasonable, but if the same software was called 'The Schindler's List Video Game' , that wou
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Germanic paganism won. Don't believe me? Let me ask you, what day of the week is it?
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by bigbubba 6y ago
By the logic of showing you the warped perspective of a 9th century Viking, slavery should be presented in a positive light, not minimized. But of course that's not going to fly.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
I wish the games that aren't meant to be fun would state this plainly in their promotional material. "Buy our new awkward conversation asset flip; it's NOT FUN!!"
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How much money would it really have cost? Worse case they conscript a dozen guys with plastic snow shovels to dump it onto the water. That would be very far from ideal, but a hell of a lot better than half the city blowing up. If they pai
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Something like that doesn't necessarily need to be a deal breaker. Part of Doom 3 was patent encumbered, but Id released the rest of the engine with that bit removed. Releasing part of the software in a nonfunctional state is much be
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by bigbubba 6y ago
So, there is a lot to say about this, I started to write out an essay but realized there is too much to cover so I'll stick to a few key points. To cut right to the chase, John Hammond is a manipulative liar in the book. This is expl

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