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by bluescrn 11mo ago
If only they'd encourage working people to have kids (via tax breaks etc) rather than out-of-work people to have more.
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by bluescrn 11mo ago
Because world population has exploded, old people are living longer and expecting increasingly complex/costly modern healthcare, and we've used up all the easily accessible fossil fuels and other natural resources. Endless growth
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by bluescrn 11mo ago
> Billionaires are a very small group. There is far more wealth held by people with assets of, say, over £100m, or even £10m? Which is precisely why we can't 'eliminate billionaires'. Because before long it's a push f
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by bluescrn 11mo ago
The UK government spends £1.3 trillion per year. The total wealth owned by UK billionaires is estimated at a small fraction of that (£300b?). Even seizing all of it isn't going to solve anything long-term (but will create new long-term
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by bluescrn 11mo ago
Young people can't pay for their own retirements, as they're effectively funding their parents retirements.
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by bluescrn 11mo ago
> What if reducing birth rates at this point in time is rational? If rational people stop reproducing, all we'll have left is irrational people.
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by bluescrn 11mo ago
Government competence seems lower than ever. There's just no ability to get anything done. Whether it's big projects (HS2) or the basics (emptying bins, fixing potholes), nothing seems to work any more. And it feels like most of o
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by bluescrn 11mo ago
> What is the point of having a civilization if we can't afford kids? It's not 'can't afford kids', it's 'don't prioritise having kids'. And IMHO, they've been taught to think this way. T
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by bluescrn 11mo ago
People generally really don't like drones, but have come to accept helicopters
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by bluescrn 11mo ago
People fantasize about revolution, but the reality would mostly be huge amounts of suffering and death. And there's near-zero chance that the outcome would be the 'high-tech fully-automated luxury communism' that people dream
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by bluescrn 11mo ago
That ended in around 2010, IMHO. Now technology mostly divides and manipulates us, enshittifies things, and works to turn billionaires into trillionaires.
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by bluescrn 11mo ago
Yet Apple can find decent developers to work with their Apple-specific tools+tech. Yeah, there's been complaints about some Apple's old polish and consistency being lost, but it's usually very nitpicky stuff, nothing compared
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by bluescrn 1y ago
Yet Valve have still managed to maintain a dominant 'App Store' without having to rely on locked-down platforms.
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by bluescrn 1y ago
VR does need a lot of resolution when trying to display text. Can get away with less for games where text is minimized (or very large)
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by bluescrn 1y ago
> There is something that feels very cursed to me about a team of size 2~10 for game dev. Very small teams can be great - so long as you are able to focus on building a game, not building a company. You need to treat it more like a game
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by bluescrn 1y ago
> Namco had a patent on the idea of "a minigame playable during a loading screen" Patent issued in 1998, yet there was prior art dating back to the C64 era - I remember 'invade-a-load', where you could play a Space In
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by bluescrn 1y ago
Yet something like the Raspberry Pi will still have more 'power' to actually get useful things done, as it's not chained to an App Store, allows you to compile code, etc
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by bluescrn 1y ago
Seems such a waste, such a powerful device held back by an OS chained to an App Store and still so touch-centric. iPadOS has certainly got a lot better over recent updates, but there's no sign of 'apps' catching up with serio
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by bluescrn 1y ago
And probably still starting with the same 8GB RAM and 256GB storage...
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by bluescrn 1y ago
The Napster era was the period when I bought the most CDs, by a large margin. It was new+exciting, I was discovering lots of new music. But at that point, casual piracy over slow connections (low-bitrate often-poorly-encoded MP3s) wasn&#x27
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by bluescrn 1y ago
If there's a demand, someone will sell them ready to use, with preloaded microSD card, case, and cables.
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by bluescrn 1y ago
When drinking small quantities, it's more to relax/unwind at the end of the day than to 'have fun'. Sometimes it's self-medication for stress/depression. But it can easily escalate into a rather unhealthy habit
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by bluescrn 1y ago
As a beer enthusiast drinking unhealthy amounts rather too frequently, my drinking went way down when on Mounjaro. (Maybe it wouldn't have made the same difference if I was into whisky instead of beer - with beer, I suspect it's
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by bluescrn 1y ago
The Mac requirement was a pain for game developers using Unity/UE primarily on Windows, and wanting to target iOS. (Back when mobile games seemed like they could be an exciting new thing, before predatory F2P enshittification killed th
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by bluescrn 1y ago
Blood Money is way too hard now. Even when playing on an emulator and cheating a bit with savestates! Was super-impressed by the visuals of the Amiga version at the time, those jellyfish animations and huge claws on the 2nd stage. (Never pl
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by bluescrn 1y ago
The problem with these games was that you tended to lose all your upgrades if you die, and later levels were essentially unplayable if you lost all those upgrades. So you really only had one life. And you'd quickly figure out a fairly
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by bluescrn 1y ago
The C64 was being actively developed for for a decade or more, and Blood Money came in 1990, towards the end of that period. The Amiga was reaching its peak popularity by then. By that point, more powerful development machines and tools wil
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by bluescrn 1y ago
They've moved on from the 'can maintain/repair it with basic tools' era. Soon they'll be dependent on the cloud and subscription services... (Kind of amazed that wireless derailleurs became a thing. Replacing a simp
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by bluescrn 1y ago
> I really only notice when someone says the word or an article on it pops up. Oh, exactly this. Haven't thought about mine in months, but as soon as I actively think about the subject, suddenly the high-pitch whine in my left ear i
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by bluescrn 1y ago
There's also a whole lot of people without the option of charging at home, especially here in the UK (relying on on-street parking or living in flats) Green tech is great if you're upper-middle class with a nice big detached home,

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