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by bspammer 5y ago
The configuration will be server-side only. It would be madness to generate the lootbox result client-side.
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by bspammer 5y ago
F: I went to a careers fair and had a chat with the CEO and an early employee. 2 years later, we’re a 100+ person company :D
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by bspammer 5y ago
I've always thought it strange how much of a "jump" there seems to be in mental capacity between humans and the next smartest species. It feels like there should have been other species along the evolutionary road with cultur
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by bspammer 5y ago
I'm somewhere in the middle - I think the human lifespan is miserably short and really wish it could be extended. The fact that I and everyone I love will likely die in the next 40 years sucks. I could probably easily fill 500 years wi
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by bspammer 5y ago
This is a hilarious mental image to me. Like people aren’t going to notice your full pint glass after 10 minutes of fake sipping. Why would you not just tell them you don’t drink? Also, alcohol is definitely really bad for you, but an occas
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by bspammer 5y ago
They’re not suggesting pass to the general population, but I’d expect the average HNer to find it useful. Syncing is also very easy for developers - just use git.
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by bspammer 5y ago
I’m sorry, I know this comes across as arrogant, but I don’t believe you. It’s too easy to say that when the technology doesn’t exist. Aging is not going gracefully into the night. It’s pain in every movement. It’s forgetting what your kids
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by bspammer 5y ago
I don’t see why it’s hubris. I enjoy being alive, it’s as simple as that. I guess you think cancer treatment is hubris too? If proven technology existed to significantly extend your lifespan (and you remained healthy), would you nobly refus
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by bspammer 5y ago
The whole concept of retirement is based off of peoples’ bodies breaking down to the point where they can’t work anymore. If we had genuine rejuvenation, a 100 year old would be just as capable of working as a 20 year old.
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by bspammer 5y ago
Why would only the people who are full of themselves get the benefits? No reason you couldn’t bring your family with you.
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by bspammer 5y ago
I think if you’re making use of the network, it’s entirely fair to ask you to contribute to it.
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by bspammer 5y ago
The median salary in the US is a quarter of that. It’s not luxury yacht money, but calling it “peanuts” is ridiculous.
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by bspammer 5y ago
They certainly will be, but not necessarily for the worse. Imagine oil billionaires having to live through the consequences of their actions. Imagine the societal benefits of people being able to use their decades of valuable experience for
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by bspammer 5y ago
I love this video from the always fantastic matthewmatosis, where he argues that Tetris is the most perfect game ever created. https://youtu.be/Tnztj1UlkQs
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by bspammer 5y ago
That's the scary thing about life, not war in particular. Everything you just said applies to everyone alive right now. What difference does a few decades make?
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by bspammer 5y ago
If you live in a major city (i.e. close to a datacenter) the latency is perfectly playable. Especially when you consider that the market for Stadia is not counterstrike pros who care about every millisecond. I really believe that the reason
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by bspammer 5y ago
The squares are 9m^2, surface area of the earth is 510 trillion m^2, so there’s about 50 trillion squares. You’re not fitting that in an app
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by bspammer 6y ago
This is brilliant, just being able to spectate high ELO scrabble games is unreasonably entertaining. The kind of words these people come up with is crazy. I know lichess invests a lot of energy into catching cheaters, is that something you&
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by bspammer 6y ago
I appreciate that you’re trying to help, but I’ve been searching for a long time and it only makes me feel worse.
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by bspammer 6y ago
Is your point that there is no such thing as "me"? Because I've tried meditating on that thought and it hasn't really helped. I think, therefore I am after all.
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by bspammer 6y ago
> Anxiety comes from a lack of competence, confidence, or self-awareness. This is oversimplified, anxiety isn’t just about social situations. My anxiety is none of these but comes from an overwhelming awareness of my own mortality. I don
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by bspammer 6y ago
Voice controls via Alexa or any other home assistant actually work pretty well for smart lights. No fumbling with a device, just tell the lamp you want it off. You can also group them together usually to turn off multiple with a single comm
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by bspammer 6y ago
I don't understand your core point: why is it inherently wrong to attempt to augment the brain? It seems like a purely instinctual response. Is it God's will for paralyzed people to remain unable to interact with the world, and li
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by bspammer 6y ago
There’s nothing like writing it yourself for understanding something. This tutorial goes through reimplementing the basics of git in a few lines of Python, it’s surprisingly simple and doable in an afternoon: https://wyag.thb.lt&
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by bspammer 6y ago
There are active efforts [0][1], they're just relatively small (though, like you predicted, receive some funding from billionaires). If it was massively scaled up, who knows what could be accomplished even within the next 50 years. Per
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by bspammer 6y ago
It's funny, because I would argue that popular culture is the exact opposite. Any research into slowing down or reversing the effect of aging is seen as folly and vain. Ask someone if they'd like to live to 100 and the majority of
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by bspammer 6y ago
My grandma is 84 and enjoying life still. Granted she can't walk as far as she used to, and gets tired more easily, but she's perfectly cogent and fun to have a conversation with. She's in a retirement village where she has f
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by bspammer 6y ago
Write Every Time fits. I like this.
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by bspammer 6y ago
It’s faster because there’s 20 open machines and I don’t have to wait in a queue. It’s lower effort because talking is a bigger cognitive burden for me than scanning a few items. Over time with experience, you get as fast as an employee wou
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by bspammer 6y ago
I agree, but it doesn’t change the personal risk calculation

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