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by defen 6y ago
> The AAA I’m working on has about 75 KB of code Do you really mean 75KB of code or is that exaggeration for effect? That comes out to, I don't know, about 2,000 lines of code? I assume you're not including engine code in here
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by defen 6y ago
Imagine if a company like Eastman Kodak were selected to rebuild the national stockpile of medical supplies that were depleted by COVID. It's kinda like that.
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by defen 6y ago
Someone like Bezos could probably take out a 100 million dollar loan at 2% interest and just pay $2 million/year in interest in perpetuity, right (via realized capital gains)? Then they'd be well under any plausible 100% tax windo
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by defen 6y ago
They would just take out loans against their assets and pay the interest using relatively small asset sales.
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by defen 6y ago
I thought they didn't make Swiss bank accounts like they used to? e.g. FATCA means you can't really use Swiss bank accounts to hide assets any more (at least not if that bank wants to participate in the international banking syste
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by defen 6y ago
It's a nice cozy relationship. Many car dealership franchises are basically state-granted hereditary monopolies that print money, so of course they are going to put some of that money back into the community (and local/state polit
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by defen 6y ago
Blood Meridian is an account of how we got here . If civilization falls apart to the extent that they need this resource, they'll at least presumably know how they got there and won't need a fictionalized account of societal co
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by defen 6y ago
There are a lot of people out there who think that the Russians spending a couple hundred thousand dollars on shitty Facebook ads was an intolerable affront to democracy. So I have to imagine there would be a lot of support for not allowing
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by defen 6y ago
Yep. Most people don't realize it, but each platform is a game. You have large masses of people who engage with the platform earnestly since they don't realize it's a game, but then you have a relatively small number who cons
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by defen 6y ago
A Starbucks Venti is 20oz (hence the name)
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by defen 6y ago
Liquidity risk has entered the chat
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by defen 6y ago
> "favorite food" They don't say the answer, but it has to be pizza, right?
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by defen 6y ago
A lot of stuff that goes into the recycling bin doesn't actually get recycled though, right? [0] So if your reason for recycling is "that's what good people do", and you don't actually know what happens to your stuf
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by defen 6y ago
Postmaster General role in Seinfeld, which parodied his role in Absence of Malice. The Seinfeld role was played for laughs but there was a little bit of a dark edge to it, in a funny way. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=On3c
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by defen 6y ago
You can build a company called Applied Semantics and then sell your tech to Google so they can develop products called "AdSense" and "AdWords" and make trillions of dollars of revenue. However, first you'll need to
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by defen 6y ago
Ah yes, the plant animal; or, as I like to call them, flowers.
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by defen 6y ago
> Like most comedy, there's a question of punching up vs punching down. "Punching up" vs "punching down" is this weird trope that materialized in the past couple years as a way to argue "making fun of MY pre
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by defen 6y ago
It's not meant to be a trick question - more of a prompt that attempts to trigger someone to have one of the following thoughts "maybe I should be more charitable towards people who have unorthodox ideas, and should encourage othe
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by defen 6y ago
So going back to the Robert George quote from the essay - imagine you had been born a white male into a southern slave-holding family in 1750. What basis do you have for believing you would have been against chattel slavery? It seems like y
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by defen 6y ago
That seemed like the whole point of the essay to me and not a side note. His claim is that rule-orientation and assertiveness are present already in childhood (which I think is true), and that those are what determine people's behavior
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by defen 6y ago
> I'm wondering what kind of wack opinion he has that he doesn't want to talk about, and these essays are providing cover for. This is the exact thing the essays are about, though! To use a question from a previous pg essay - I
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by defen 6y ago
(x) I shouldn't need to adjust my wristwatch every few miles
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by defen 6y ago
I agree, it wouldn't be problematic, but it seems like a world-scale prisoner's dilemma, that goes back at least to the time of the dawn of agriculture. All it takes is one culture to defect, and they will "win" - so how
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by defen 6y ago
How can a culture which does not have those values (specifically, the ones around scientific method, work ethic, and future orientation) compete against one which does, in a modern industrial/technological society?
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by defen 6y ago
> a mixture of deception, racism, genocide, breach of trust, and thievery. Were there rules against that? And if so, who would enforce them?
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by defen 6y ago
I've told my parents and in-laws (mid 70s) two things (they're cognitively with-it as far as mid-70s people go, I don't know what advice would work for people who are losing their mental faculties). The things I told them are
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by defen 6y ago
There is basically no penalty (social, legal, financial, professional, etc) for going "too far" in condemning America, especially if you are a middle-to-upper class white person in an urban area. In fact there may be rewards. So j
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by defen 6y ago
Pfriem Pilsner if you're in Oregon, Washington, or maybe San Diego
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by defen 6y ago
They're not liable for following lawful orders, though, even if the results are horrific and they personally disagree with the order. That's why no one gets charged when a drone strike blows up a wedding and kills 23 children.
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by defen 6y ago
Judges could also order that "fugitive" slaves could be returned to their "owners", or that people convicted of treason could be vivisected, if you go far enough back in time. I'm not sure what point is being argued

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