brightlancer

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by brightlancer 2y ago
Some games weren't intuitive, or had various power-ups and items that weren't obvious. Most of the manuals for the Sega Master System and Genesis games were just a few pages, so it only took a minute to read them. (And then there
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by brightlancer 2y ago
People want to listen to folks who are confident. And that sentence right there is an example of what I mean. I could write 10 words, 100 words or 1,000 words adding caveats to "People want to listen to folks who are confident," b
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by brightlancer 3y ago
> I think the person I was responding to had them backwards; nobody is hiding in the basement for a tornado _warning_. The PP was arguing exactly that:: > > > You can't go to the basement every time there's a tornado w
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by brightlancer 3y ago
I think you have "warning" and "watch" reversed: A "tornado watch" means the potential for a tornado. A "tornado warning" means there IS a tornado on the ground. For a _warning_, everyone should take
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by brightlancer 3y ago
> There is, though, quite some lack of curiosity from young American males to anything outside their own little lives That's false, bigoted, and has no place in this conversation.
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by brightlancer 3y ago
> pushing back on someone's opinion is acceptable, They didn't push back on the _opinion_, they pushed back on _expressing an opinion_: ¨Respectfully, "I firmly believe" followed by an assertion from a non expert pass
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by brightlancer 3y ago
> The ability to not be beholden to the preferences of whoever runs a fedi server is, in fact, the #1 selling point of federated network in the first place. But you're ignoring that this is dependent upon not being blacklisted from
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by brightlancer 3y ago
> They see right-wing fascists all the time on the television and think it is normal. Other than as a generic pejorative, what "fascists" are regularly on television? What tenets of Fascism are they preaching?
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by brightlancer 3y ago
> GPL, on the other hand, can make it possible for a corp to buy the project and effectively prevent further development, like it happened with MySQL. That's not correct. All of the MySQL GPL code was and is free for continued devel
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by brightlancer 3y ago
A universal basic income, that is an income which is _universal_ and _fixed_ in its amount, will only create inflation: everyone gets equal additional money, everyone gets additional purchasing power, everyone creates more demand, prices go
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by brightlancer 3y ago
I heard them once in a Maryland suburb of DC: there were so many that it was just a constant whine in the background, unlike what I've heard elsewhere. Thankfully I was just passing through or it would've given me a headache.
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by brightlancer 3y ago
Does the "opt-out" still involve a groping by a minimum wage fake LEO whose abuse is protected both by a union and federal law? I'm not concerned for myself, I'm concerned for _my kids_. As long as TSA agents are allowed
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by brightlancer 3y ago
> The problem for people outside of the strategy room, is that we don't know whether there is a broader objective or not, and even when a broader objective is realized it's almost impossible to prove that the end result was the
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by brightlancer 3y ago
> Second, we have a national ID already called a passport. That’s valid ID in the US and issued by the Federal government. I have one and so far the Feds haven’t come for me while I’ve slept or thrown me into whatever lies at the bottom
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by brightlancer 3y ago
> Plenty of ethnostates waging war on each other as well as stable multiethnic states. How many multi-ethnic states were created by an outside power, from two or more warring ethnic groups? That was the argument put forth: > > They
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by brightlancer 3y ago
If I have a million dollars to donate to a charity, is not a donation nor an act of charity because most people don't have a million dollars to donate? It's near certain that every person on HN is in the top 20% of intelligence in
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by brightlancer 3y ago
I agree with everything except the wagons of money: special effects are the biggest driver of costs now, so a regular drama or comedy can be made for very little money -- indie films are usually under $1M, and plenty are made for under $100
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by brightlancer 3y ago
> You can make abstract arguments about how in a post-scarcity utopia, no person should ever have to work. But we're not there now and I would argue that either A) developed nations _are_ post-scarcity or B) it's impossible for
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by brightlancer 3y ago
Per the article, the companies' rules are to only hire persons 18+, but folks under 18 can easily lie and get hired. They may not be underage to work in construction, but they are technically "underage" for the company requir
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by brightlancer 3y ago
> and everyone gets cross and a few months later there's a similar debate like nobody learned anything. This sums up online discussions for 30+ years. While some folks never learn, there's also a steady stream of new folks who
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by brightlancer 3y ago
> The rawness of the deal only becomes apparent when we start to inspect why material conditions are such that this deal — trading an hour of labor for $2 to a company serving a multi-billion-dollar market — is enticing to children. No,
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by brightlancer 3y ago
What you wrote is mostly true if you're talking about long running money losers, particularly tech companies. It's almost entirely false if you're talking about a business that's turning a profit, especially over years o
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by brightlancer 3y ago
Is Elizabeth Holmes an idiot or a smart crook? Was she a smart crook before she got caught? If Neumann catches some years for defrauding investors, will he still be a smart crook?
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by brightlancer 3y ago
> I was addicted to connectivity and over reliant on tech to live my life. Giving up my phone means not having constant bombardments of information and notifications and distraction making it difficult to be present in and enjoy the real
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by brightlancer 3y ago
She says she tried to give him the phone at 11 and he's 14 now. She also seems preoccupied with her phone, so I can see him deciding before that point that he wants nothing to do with it. (He may also have been influenced by the behavi
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by brightlancer 3y ago
> Given that Mozilla has become more and more politicised it is not unlikely that Baker will insist on doing "more than deplatforming" to those accounts which do not fit her ideology. Mozilla has been quite clear that they are
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by brightlancer 3y ago
> Turn on by default the tools to amplify factual voices over disinformation. Ah, yes, reinforce the status quo by diminishing or silencing the dissidents. That's never gone poorly.
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by brightlancer 3y ago
> > > People have plenty control over what content they see (via follows, blocks, hides, downvotes etc), then > I don't really see how control or choice would help? It's possible that someone has some X but could still
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by brightlancer 3y ago
> So this whole argument presupposes there were any “rules” that were broken. You're conflating legal laws with social and moral rules. Nobody's claiming they broke legal laws; they're claiming they broke social and moral
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by brightlancer 3y ago
> I think scam generally implies that someone was swindled, told they'd get A and get Q (or nothing at all). Sold a bill of goods (but not the goods). It's much more broad than that. A common sales tactic is to pretend there ar

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