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by dbspin 1y ago
This is a ridiculous attitude, exactly equivalent to 'if you've nothing to fear you've nothing to hide'. In practice different geographic localities (e.g.: EU, California) have far different (and improving) limits on the
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by dbspin 1y ago
Hard disagree. I lived through the last recession (here in Dublin Ireland), and life was better for most people across most dimensions. Whether it would have been sustainably so is a broader argument. But cheap buildings led to a massive cu
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by dbspin 1y ago
I don't know... I agree that they're no longer innovative in terms of UI and original categories of devices. But the M1 chips have been enormously innovative in terms of performance per watt. One reason essentially every 'cre
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by dbspin 1y ago
Absolutely. Which is why it's economically and socially essentially - while being politically impossible, to crash the price of housing.
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by dbspin 1y ago
It certainly is, here's the news article where I sourced the figure https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2025/02/05/republic-need... The issue is as much a legacy of lack of investment as growth, as
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by dbspin 1y ago
And also virtually every film editor, colourist and videographer. Oh and also every illustrator and graphic designer. And a host of other professions where having a clean UI, colour accuracy, on a reliable machine that rarely if ever crashe
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by dbspin 1y ago
> Housing benefits must be spent on housing. It is almost impossible to receive housing benefit in Ireland. Legally all landlords must accept it, practically few to none in major cities do. > The pricing of housing is defined by suppl
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by dbspin 1y ago
I agree. It's bad in either case. No issue with a game or game engine should ever result in threats of violence or harassment. It's vile to publicly shame, cancel, still less attack individuals for the mistakes of their companies.
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by dbspin 1y ago
I'd cite that as an example of the tyranny of diminished expectations. To be clear - I was criticising not providing named recognition. Of course providing some recognition is better than none. Perhaps you're right, perhaps the en
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by dbspin 1y ago
Unfortunately people cannot 'get' their government to do much - and certainly not something as specific as this. Given that electoral leverage is a blunt and broad tool indeed. Also this is an EU level issue, not one pertaining to
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by dbspin 1y ago
Thanks, really appreciate the concrete examples. They're not quite what I was referring to (developer praised by company / media - then attacked for issues with the company beyond their purview), but they do point to a (largely in
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by dbspin 1y ago
I take your point about being inadvertently made a point of contact for customer support / complaints about technical issues with the game. Disagree however about the value credit - personal credit has concrete value (career wise, stat
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by dbspin 1y ago
This is an interesting perspective... I'd be at a loss to think of an example of an engineer who's been publicly pilloried (having been highly regarded for great work) for the failings of their company. Perhaps you could cite and
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by dbspin 1y ago
I've never understood this argument... The real world is an unbounded training set that its cheap to observe with readily available sensors that have existed for almost a century.
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by dbspin 1y ago
I get 120GB a month 'fair use' on my 20 euro a month plan here in Ireland. If I exceed that, my speed is slowed down, but internet continues to work. In other words, its not something I need to think about. These kinds of plans se
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by dbspin 1y ago
Love the scare quotes around the very things that make life worth living. America at least has the National Park system for metrics like "nature". Oh wait... https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive&
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by dbspin 1y ago
What would prevent an embodied AI - i.e.: some kind of deep learning system operating a robot full of sensors from representing such a 'complex dynamic system'? And if the answer is nothing - what would prevent such an dynamic sys
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by dbspin 1y ago
>psychologists, psychiatrists, counsellors and social worker Psychotherapy (especially actual depth work rather than CBT) is not something that is commonly available, affordable or ubiquitous. You've said so yourself. As someone who
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by dbspin 1y ago
Except that it doesn't actually take a photo - it (slowly) launches the camera app, which you can then use to take a photo. You can long press to begin filming a video, but at least by default it won't actually take a photo to pre
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by dbspin 1y ago
There's vast social honour and commensurate status attached to activities like bing a sports / movie star. Status that can easily be lost, and cannot be purchased for almost any amount of money. Arguably that status is a greater m
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by dbspin 1y ago
Actually this is wrong. There's a connection between bodily sensation and emotion so profound that quadriplegics can develop flat affect which in turn leads to decision paralysis and cognitive deficit. Emotions are regulated somaticall
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by dbspin 1y ago
One of the things I really couldn't stand about living in Germany. The Ruhezeit (quiet hours) are one thing, but literally every building I lived in in Berlin had whacko neighbours that would immediately complain and threaten to call t
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by dbspin 1y ago
Modern advertising was invented by Edward Bernays in his book 'Propaganda'. It is literally and specifically designed to manipulate beliefs and behaviour. Broadcast TV was created as content to package advertising, not the other w
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by dbspin 1y ago
The vast majority, hard to quantify, but I'd guess well over 99% of professional musicians (certainly outside the US) never play a ticketmaster venue. They're not operating at that scale. When they tour it's at smaller venues
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by dbspin 1y ago
It's hilarious to read this discussion on HN, because the mentalities of artists and corporate business folks are so different. Artists aren't making a rational decision to reduce reputational damage by keeping ticket prices low.
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by dbspin 1y ago
Not just can't afford, but can't access. Most of these new AI tools aren't available outside the US.
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by dbspin 1y ago
> What good is introducing a book that is not relatable in the slightest? To expand the window of relatability, another word for this is imagination.
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by dbspin 1y ago
'Europe' is a big place. Lots of local variation. Here in Ireland, only taxi's are allowed on Uber. So the same people are driving on uber, freenow, and being hailed at taxi ranks (although costs vary depending on the app).
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by dbspin 1y ago
The line is prosecution policy. There are thousands of laws on the books that are never enforced, particularly in the United States. Given the inhuman and grossly illegal deportation without due process of thousands of people by the Trump a
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by dbspin 1y ago
One can virtue signal on either political spectrum, obviously. Phatic, performative language and gestures to indicate allegiance and supplication are possible for any given philosophy. Bumper stickers are literally virtue signalling.

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