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by bsanr2 5y ago
This could be easily remedied by paying everyone who works in a given building similarly.
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by bsanr2 5y ago
IME employee "shrinkage" has less to do with opportunity (remember, employees know the security posture of their workplace; if the public has access, engineering around them is not difficult), and more to do with motive. That is,
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by bsanr2 5y ago
Tl;dr Poor people (and racial and ethnic minorities, and women, and queer folk) are not dumb. They just have to turn their equal cognitive resources towards things other (and more fundamental to survival) than their magnum opus/busines
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by bsanr2 5y ago
To say that a single company's products being used by even a single digit percentage of the world population doesn't meet the requirements to ve considered "widely available" is a stretch. In any case, you said "imp
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by bsanr2 5y ago
IIRC those were displays that used sterescopy, while these simulate a light field instead.
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by bsanr2 5y ago
It's neat and I'm waiting to see what creative things people come up with for it. A Japanese developer put together a Wizardry/Megaten-style dungeon-crawler demo: https://twitter.com/mizzmayo/status/
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by bsanr2 5y ago
Penicillin. But then, he wasn't trying to make money off of it. And basically anything Nintendo pushes as a console gimmick. It's not that the tech immediately goes from research to broadly accessible, but rather that they tend to
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by bsanr2 5y ago
21st century lava lamp. In that, it 100% has the chance to become an iconic consumer product.
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by bsanr2 5y ago
What you're describing is indeed "tit-for-tat"; they hold that there is an equal capability for harm (not "equal firepower", which is a strawman). But there clearly isn't. Those rockets rarely reach ANY target,
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by bsanr2 5y ago
I feel like this is a joke, but can't tell and therefore seek further explanation.
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by bsanr2 5y ago
Generally, armed groups with serious missile capabilities are able to source their own intelligence for strikes. The fact that we've ascertained, somehow, that Hamas et al. use Google Maps to inform their targeting calls into serious
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by bsanr2 5y ago
Some thoughts as they come to me: This completely trackballs my perspective on rock, which has been set for some time now by my understanding of what happened on Disco Demolition Day. The dynamics therein are hard to articulate in their com
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by bsanr2 5y ago
I imagine there are several. American driver education and testing are notoriously lax compared to much of the world; make driver testing more intensive and frequent. Traffic enforcement is geared more towards municipal income generation an
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by bsanr2 5y ago
Probably not.
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by bsanr2 5y ago
The real fun will begin when some new technology comes along that appears similar but operates differently from what it's replacing, leading to complications with the vision systems. We already had a traffic-related version of this hap
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by bsanr2 5y ago
In short: Google still hasn't figured out how to stop black people from showing up in Photos searches for "gorillas" (hence, such searches return no results; go ahead, try it). The irrevocable "poisoning" of compute
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by bsanr2 5y ago
It has always upset me that development of vehicle software hasn't been aporoached with the same care and unyielding professionalism as that of the space shuttle. https://www.fastcompany.com/28121/they-write-right-
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by bsanr2 5y ago
"San Francisco's experience" proves my case. I suspect that if you poofed one or two of the larger tech companies or VC firms and took the delta in housing prices from reduced demand/speculative pressure and put it towar
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by bsanr2 5y ago
More fundamentally: we're conditioned to privilege our ambitions (or maybe just grand ambitions in general) over things like concern for the horrific-yet-ultimately-banal suffering that enables them, or for building and maintaining a s
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by bsanr2 5y ago
I dunno. The confluence of the interests of furries and Metal Gear/Deus Ex/Cyberpunk fans might make for a lucrative market leading into the widespread adoption of Anansization. Jokes aside, I'm surprised at the rather negati
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by bsanr2 5y ago
Hopefully my height. Hello, 6 feet.
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by bsanr2 5y ago
Does this model consider the disparities in costs, rates, and growth potential as dictated by race? I say this not to be divisive but because revelations about such disparities over the past few years are a real and substantial concern, suc
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by bsanr2 5y ago
"Shipping container housing" is the "nuclear energy" of housing solutions.
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by bsanr2 5y ago
Even now it really depends on where your priorities lie. Going from Rhode Island to Maryland or back, I had to arrive at least an hour and a half (more like 2 hours) before takeoff to get through parking and security. That meant leaving the
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by bsanr2 5y ago
Better yet, set aside some of that housing for small business owners who would have their locations in the development. Explicitly zone it for commerce as well as residential, like all of the old small town and city neighborhoods people are
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by bsanr2 6y ago
>No, turning a wilderness into viable farmland is not urbanization. I'm 90% with you, but we need to be clear that this is not true for the way in which much of the West was settled. It was often not wilderness, but instead land wat
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by bsanr2 6y ago
Add "gentrification" to the list of things that are visiting the American mainstream after decades incubating in America's marginalized communities, alongside things like addiction and broken social service processes (hello,
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by bsanr2 6y ago
This will make my contention that The Hunger Games is a sort of twisted, modern reapplication of the same (very American) perspective and values that underpin WoO much easier to defend.
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by bsanr2 6y ago
The manga goes where edgy mainstream sci-fi wishes it had the fortitude to venture. We're talking VanderMeer and Cixin and Dick all mixed in with Peele's brand of politically-aware, existentially-fraught dark humor. People attach
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by bsanr2 6y ago
The story of how the Xeno franchise just... keeps dropping the ball is not a happy one. Boy, did they knock it out of the park with the one battle theme in the entire first game, though.

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