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by bllguo 5y ago
valve collects statistics, yes. Are they used? Who knows, there's hardly any transparency in the balancing process. I will say that Icefrog has (supposedly) been in charge since WC3, back when there was no conceivable way they could ha
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by bllguo 5y ago
surely funding capex, a reasonably normal thing to do, is a very different thing from outright owning said assets
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by bllguo 5y ago
like the parent said, this is moot. TSMC is not for sale, for reasons of geopolitics and Taiwanese national security. it is Taiwan's biggest bargaining chip
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by bllguo 5y ago
I don't see how this is a productive point. "Democracy is best" is 1) what the US government wants you to think, and 2) an idea that they can manipulate the information environment to promote.
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by bllguo 5y ago
that's true. but none of this is happening in a vacuum. liberal democracies are also the ones trying to change or destroy non-democratic regimes by force. imo you can sum up everything evil China is accused of, and it would not come cl
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by bllguo 5y ago
my experience is obviously anecdotal but interactions with Western-educated Chinese immigrants, many of whom left in the 80s and 90s, suggest that "democracy is the best" is not some universal wisdom that people will naturally con
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by bllguo 5y ago
> When educated Chinese people were better exposed to ideas about liberal democracy, they were very clear that they wanted it This falls flat for me. So the implication is that there are no educated Chinese today with exposure to liberal
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by bllguo 5y ago
if everyone in the world was living in a single family home, American style, we'd be completely doomed. There's no justifying the waste of our lifestyles. Is there any evidence people in Asia or Europe, where single family homes w
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by bllguo 5y ago
of course Americans like single family homes. I'm sure most people throughout the world would love the option. They are appealing by definition. But are single family homes good for society? They use space so much more inefficiently. T
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by bllguo 5y ago
safety of person and property.. from what? because if the answer boils down to racial/socioeconomic unrest, blaming racism seems justified, no?
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by bllguo 5y ago
Well touche, I'm fine with saying I'm wrong and that we've started. But it sure seems like a glacial pace. Whether we have already been reexamining property rights or not is IMO the least important part of my stance
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by bllguo 5y ago
The enshrinement of property rights in America has led to such wonderful things as ridiculous housing prices, rampant income inequality, endemic homelessness, the absurdity of Prop 13, etc. and yet we still trumpet it. When do we start reex
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by bllguo 5y ago
Everyone says this about advertising, it's a tired narrative that has been disproven countless times in the aggregate. Advertising works. Even if you are correct about yourself (many people don't realize the subliminal impact of a
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by bllguo 5y ago
why should there be an option? is there some kind of moral imperative? At the market there is one way to buy, I don't get to ask for alternatives to paying upfront. This (for lack of a better term) entitlement really puzzles me. In the
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by bllguo 5y ago
nobody pays (directly) for Google search but surely most would agree search engines are vital. clearly the advertising business model has enabled certain products in a way that direct purchases could not; to reject the model wholesale seems
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by bllguo 5y ago
that's interesting, so it's related to the device. seems obvious in retrospect. still, I swap between 3 daily (bulky headphones, earphones, and wireless earbuds) and have the same complaint for all of them. just a coincidence?
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by bllguo 5y ago
speaking of volume.. every device I've ever used is obscenely loud. On my phone (with headphones) even just 1 increment on the volume is too much at times; on my windows PC I basically never go above 10/100. How are these things c
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by bllguo 5y ago
well this is the key thing really. why are we so hung up on authorial intent? For example, Bradbury claimed that fahrenheit 451 is not about censorship - should we let that influence how we interpret and utilize his work? I think it is valu
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by bllguo 5y ago
So America's done enough? With our lavish lifestyles, large suburban homes, one or more cars per household, eating out all the time, running the heater or AC half the year, unparalleled rates of consumption? All of that and yet we are
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by bllguo 5y ago
Characterizing the HK situation as a military invasion is so disingenuous it makes me heavily question whether you are approaching this in good faith. Especially when you are juxtaposing with a nation that has documented military incursions
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by bllguo 5y ago
that's unfortunate, I didn't think I was that unintelligible. In any case we do agree that this is the realm of government. That wasn't very clear to me in your original comment since pay and status are typically conferred by
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by bllguo 5y ago
Pay/status/compensation from your employer? If that's what you're suggesting, I strongly disagree. That's hardly the role of any company. And it implicitly ties value judgments to your workplace, which is a very sad
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by bllguo 5y ago
Well color me confused. I had black and white/beige models in mind, like the below link. https://mechanicalkeyboards.com/shop/index.php?l=product_det...
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by bllguo 5y ago
Hah, definitely didn't follow those steps myself, although I can see that being a popular template. I do hope mechanical keyboards become less associated with clicky switches over time. Before I realized the hobby wasn't necessari
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by bllguo 5y ago
Check out Leopold products. Quality build, professional appearance, not too expensive (relatively speaking). Beyond that you're looking at either custom builds or Topre boards
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by bllguo 5y ago
This is my picture: you are presented two options to pay, through ads or through plain cash. you refuse both and yet still feel entitled to the content. what do you object to in this framing? To be clear, in the context of this discussion I
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by bllguo 5y ago
sure. and the principled way to not support them is to not consume their content. I will never understand how people rationalize this to themselves as if they're on the moral high ground here.
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by bllguo 6y ago
it's all relative, right? compared to us, sure. but while the government can exert direct control when necessary, they don't have the capacity and/or desire to do that 24/7. look at the public fracas with the ant ipo for
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by bllguo 6y ago
that's a good point, though i still think there's something to be said for the motivational effects of both parties now being pushed to do or die
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by bllguo 6y ago
china is not a hive mind, it does not exert the kind of iron grip over their private sector that westerners think. external stimuli like these could potentially have the effect of aligning the government's interests and the private sec

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