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by derstander 3y ago
> Through a flurry of leaked documents involved in the court case between the FTC and Microsoft, it has been revealed that the software giant has been looking to acquire Nintendo since the year 2020. The leaked document link doesn’t reso
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CDPR seems to be switching to Unreal. https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/03/the-witcher-will-retu...
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by derstander 3y ago
> What makes a game unique in spirit is its engine. This isn’t true about websites and frameworks or sculptures and chisels. There’s no reason why it should be true of games and their engines. It is a poetic statement though. My opinion
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I’ve heard this charge that empathy is incompatible with Stoicism (or Buddhism) somewhat often but I don’t see it myself. Passion, on the other hand, I understand.
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Beware the law of unintended consequences. For example, see the “Four Pests Campaign”. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Pests_campaign
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by derstander 3y ago
> I love how HN blames MBAs for everything. > This was greedy "tech people", nothing more nothing less. It's hard to talk about WeWork without talking about Adam Neumann. And looking him up, it seems that he does have
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by derstander 3y ago
I guess I still don’t understand your original point in the context of your reply. Say the banks are creating new money through these loans. And then enough of the original depositors plus some of the people that have been lent money want t
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by derstander 3y ago
> Banks don't generally lend out deposits. Do you mean in China or generally? I’m not a finance person but my understanding is that fractional reserve banking is fairly common. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr
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> You're probably at a lower risk of being murdered with a bad cop than with your own family members. Sure, and I’m much more statistically likely to be hurt by a dog than mauled by a lion. But I’m not going to give up my dogs and s
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> Maybe it depends on your perspective, or maybe it is simply personal preference, but I find rust pleasant and quick to prototype in. Or, perhaps more importantly, on use case. It’s hard for me to imagine (though certainly possible, I s
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by derstander 3y ago
I don’t like this figure, nor the article it was copied directly from in the WSJ (which I believe was recently discussed here, archive link = https://archive.li/nzdtv ). Why don’t I like it? “Source: International Monetary F
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by derstander 3y ago
> the Federal reserve is to blame for it! Between 1923 - 1927, just 10 years after the Fed was formed, it grew money supply 60%. I’m not an economist so I’m speaking from a position of ignorance here. But I thought the US was on gold sta
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by derstander 3y ago
> I think the initialism JDF may already be taken Acronyms are lossy compression. I’d bet there’s a JDF that even predates the one you reference in one of your descendant comments. I’d be interested in knowing (though admittedly not eno
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by derstander 3y ago
> Again, "owning" does not mean that something cannot be unilaterally taken from you. Eminent domain is a very obvious example of that. Eminent domain is the state taking from you. I already mentioned this in my comment. In fac
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by derstander 3y ago
> "Owning" something doesn't mean you have unlimited rights to do what you want with it. Do you not "own" physical books because you can't (legally) photocopy them? Do you not own a gun because you can'
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by derstander 3y ago
> For some reason, I am very fascinated by the architecture of PS3. You’re not alone. I also am enchanted by non-standard architectures: the PS3’s Cell, its predecessor the PS2’s Emotion Engine, the Transmeta Crusoe, etc. There’s a sibli
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by derstander 3y ago
> Radar clearly misses 90% of the shadows cast because it does not include vegetation. Radar only reflects off the ground, making objects such as trees and buildings invisible. This doesn’t sound right to me. Certainly radar can, at cert
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by derstander 3y ago
The original author said: > My philosophy is that you should do what you want to do today, instead of doing something you don’t want to do because of a hypothetical future repercussion. Even interpreting this absolutely literally, the hy
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by derstander 3y ago
> I don't think your observation applies here. Apologies for the miscommunication. I don’t particularly think it applies here (at least, maybe not yet?). That’s why I prefaced my ramblings with both “[t]his may be a bit of a tangent
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by derstander 3y ago
This may be a bit of a tangent. I don’t think it’s the case with Terraria’s fans, but I have noticed an odd sense of entitlement in comments and reviews on other steam game pages or on Reddit. There’s a sizable contingent (maybe just a voca
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by derstander 3y ago
> I’ll give you a very specific example. When turning on the flashlight, I have to hold the flashlight icon for a specific period of time. If I hold too long, I get the dimmer option. If I don’t hold long enough, it doesn’t turn on. The
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by derstander 3y ago
> And that use case is gaming on Windows, which supposedly is the best supported case. I’m being a little tongue-in-cheek here, but the best supported case for AMD is gaming via console: AMD provides CPU/GPU for the current generati
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by derstander 3y ago
> Why would you need a list at all? > If it's worth remembering, you'll remember you've read it, and if you want to refresh your memory what better than to reread? If it’s not worth remembering, you won’t remember if yo
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by derstander 3y ago
> Probably because they were traumatized by how much extra work that was (and for a sub-par desktop experience overall), last time they went down that rabbit hole. I’m in that camp. I ran Slackware on a Compaq laptop in the early 2000’s
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> I live in apartments in Austin. The only reason people get dogs is because everyone else has one. I don’t know if I’m parsing this correctly. Are you saying that the only reason people get dogs in your particular apartment building in
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by derstander 3y ago
This is a nice sentiment but it just doesn’t hold up in the real world. I’m making this statement generally as opposed to about Matt Taibbi: I don’t really follow him so I’m not evaluating him personally, just your statement in general. I h
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by derstander 3y ago
I think we're talking past each other here: I said "but this wording makes it sound like there is a non-fringe group calling for the assassination of Putin. Do you have a source for this?" What I'm seeing from your link
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> US policymakers have repeatedly stated their aim is to remove Putin, and they have plans to break up the country. I have certainly seen assertions by US policymakers that Russia (and the world) would be better off without Putin, but th
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> The secret lies in being able to pepper the material with nanopores less than 100 nanometers in diameter. This sounds promising, but holy heck how do you prevent these from getting stuffed full of dirt and dust in short order?
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> If something being fun is enough to tempt you to compromise your moral beliefs then you have a problem. My take might be naive, but isn’t pleasure in general — fun in this specific case — the chief reason that people compromise their m

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