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by darkpuma 7y ago
Yeah, if somebody came to my front door to "sell me electricity" I'd be on high alert, regardless of his race. Where I come from it's a known scheme where one guy gets you distracted at the front door with some semi-pl
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by darkpuma 7y ago
What demographic does twitter like to hire? Probably people who use github a lot, huh?
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by darkpuma 7y ago
> "Most methods of flying things through Earth's lower atmosphere should apply well to Venus at 50 km: balloons, planes, helicopters, etc." The kind of flying logistics needed to operate a station like the one proposed i
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by darkpuma 7y ago
I use weechat on a mac. Works just fine with iterm2. I press cmd-~ and it pops up on screen.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
The emotional reasons are particularly huge, considering the known connections between stress and general well-being: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_stress#Physiolog... The connection between information a
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Either. It does seem unlikely, but the truth is we just don't know.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Very complete. I've not noticed any deficiencies at all. They added a lot of features too: https://github.com/OpenRCT2/OpenRCT2/wiki/Changes-to-origina... If you're a fan of the original games, I
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by darkpuma 7y ago
The risk that Venus is or was once host to some form of life, and humans deliberately contaminating Venus with life would obscure any evidence of it. That is a very serious worse-case scenario because non-earth life would be truly invaluab
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Every time I read one of these theories it sounds pretty convincing. This one too. Yet they can't all be right.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
I don't propose introducing the virus. I propose standing back and letting the virus run it's course, should it make it to the Americas.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Clever how you frame humans not intervening by stopping the spread of this virus as humans intervening.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Could this virus help eradicate wild populations of feral hogs? Protecting the pork industry is all well and good, I love ham as much as anybody else, but sacrificing a few years of pork production seems like it could be a good deal if it m
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by darkpuma 7y ago
By the 80s to 90s, a lot of popular kids shows were glorified ads for toy lines. For instance, 'Transformers' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformers .
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by darkpuma 7y ago
That's hardly a moral distinction at all.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Huh, the overwhelming majority that I've personally witnessed is Anglo/British shitting on Polish immigrants.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
You're right that some industries have become less hospitable to shy people. But frankly I've always seen tech as a high-effort/high-payoff sort of industry. Where, even if that meritocratic ideal is far from realized in pr
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by darkpuma 7y ago
> "Most people want to be relatively well off and not struggle to make ends meet," 'Relatively well off' is subjective, and for many people it means "not struggle to make ends meet" , e.g. 'adequat
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Isn't the most popular Lisp editor, emacs, AST aware? I'm a filthy vim using pleb but I'm under the impression that emacs is aware of s-expression encoded ASTs and has all sorts of 'chords' for manipulating the AS
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by darkpuma 7y ago
I know this is alien to you, but many people do not care one wit about being the richest in the neighborhood. It is within the capacity of a human being to break themselves free from the "keeping up with the Joneses" race, but
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by darkpuma 7y ago
It is how it works. Not everybody is frantically trying to be the next ultra-billionaire. An alien thought for many on HN, I know.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Whether or not a social/economic handicap are necessarily "very bad things" depends entirely on the social and economic goals of the individual in question. Some people are satisfied with having enough, and have no interest
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by darkpuma 7y ago
First off, Portal 2 was eight years ago. That's a long time and mainstream consumer expectations for what a video game should offer have changed a lot over those eight years. Secondly, I know plenty fans of HL/HL2 who found the t
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by darkpuma 7y ago
As for size and complexity, there were original Doom levels that surpass the 2016 levels in every quantifiable measure. Larger maps, huge mazes, etc. All thanks to the WAD system that allowed Doom to have such long legs thanks to commun
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Doom 2016 was a nice tribute I suppose, but compare it to the massive success of Doom 1&2. It's not the same sort of cultural phenomenon. What I will give it though is it nailed the attitude. Doom 1&2 had a certain raw met
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Because HL3 would suck. First person shooters today are very different than what first person shooters were when HL2 was released. It's Quake vs Overwatch. So Valve is between a rock and a hard place; do they make HL3 in the moder
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by darkpuma 7y ago
When he was released, the North Koreans also sent over MRI scan data they'd taken of his brain. By all accounts he was missing substantial brain tissue, which is consistent with loss of blood to the brain. It's not known what ca
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by darkpuma 7y ago
> "Readers need to read more than headlines," They should, but they don't. They know that and you know that. Knowing that, it's irresponsible to publish headlines that are misleading when taken in isolation.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
> "North Korea Executed Envoy Over Trump-Kim Summit, Chosun Reports" That Bloomberg headline is itself egregious. Who is Chosun? That Chosun Ilbo is a right wing propaganda tabloid with a reputation for making shit up sho
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by darkpuma 7y ago
The submitted article is about how western corporate media handled a story about North Korea, not about the North Korean story itself. That NYTimes article is about the North Korean story, not western media's treatment of that story.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
ReCAPTCHAv2 is basically already there. It's easily the greatest pain point for disabled javascript, third party isolation, etc. It never actually gives you harder problems to solve, it just starts rejecting a greater number of corre

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