drabiega

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Sobering overview of the future of autonomous weaponry(boingboing.net)
2 points by drabiega 10y ago|0 comments
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by drabiega 10y ago
"Don't shoot the messenger for pointing out that robots are capable of opening doors."
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by drabiega 10y ago
I don't think Terraria and Starbound are a great comparison. They're very combat focused, while combat in No Man's Sky is something of an afterthought.
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by drabiega 10y ago
I've been taken aback by the amount of vitriol spewing forth from the internet in regards to No Man's Sky these past few days. I get that it's not for everyone, but it's been a little overwhelming to have so many people
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by drabiega 10y ago
It depends on the person. It's been well worth more than the price of admission to me but I understand that it might not be to other people. It's a game for a somewhat niche audience that is hugely under-served. For people stuck i
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by drabiega 10y ago
It's pretty much single player, so other people have very little effect on new players. I think the mixed reviews are largely down to the fact that it's a pretty niche indie game which for some reason got AAA marketing from Sony.
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by drabiega 10y ago
I find No Man's Sky to be much more engaging than Starbound, but I attribute a lot of that to it's newness. I really liked the concept of Starbound and the games it descended from, but it didn't really feel like it added anyt
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by drabiega 10y ago
The jobs lost to those trade deals are generally pretty crappy jobs. We'd be better off if we captured some of the value those treaties create and redistribute it to those negatively impacted... with something like UBI.
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by drabiega 10y ago
I've heard this argument quite a bit but never quite understood what the problem was supposed to be. Could you articulate why you think the comparison is troublesome?
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by drabiega 10y ago
Maybe in the Trump case, since he had fewer than half of the people that bothered to vote, but Clinton won the majority of those who bothered to vote in the primary, so even if you think the choice of her as unrepresentative of those who co
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by drabiega 10y ago
The liberals are who take safe zones too far are the same type of people as the conservatives who view any disagreement with them as censorship.
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by drabiega 10y ago
Not sure if it's what he was referring to, but when I was able to commute on public transit my commute was longer but I was free to do other things during that time, primarily reading. Now that I live somewhere without public transit m
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by drabiega 10y ago
A given COBOL module is statically typed, but a typical (in my experience) COBOL application is made up of many modules and there is no type checking between them.
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by drabiega 10y ago
I was excited at first when I read your comment because it seemed like exactly what I was looking for, having read the above article. ... Then I followed the link and discovered that the text of the website was too faint for me to easily re
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by drabiega 10y ago
Nah, It's been meaningless for a while now.
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by drabiega 10y ago
This should be: What can the wealthiest afford to do that keeps them wealthy?
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by drabiega 10y ago
It is much harder to modify old software than it is to modify an old building. I've seen projects to modify some small aspect of our system that took 10+ developers six months to implement, but could have been done in an afternoon by a
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by drabiega 10y ago
Talent is only half of the problem. Where I work they did relatively little hiring for a long time. Many of the people I work with have been working here for 30+ years. Now we have a massive, antiquated code base that is poorly documented a
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by drabiega 10y ago
There's already an emulator called Hercules, but you need a license from IBM to run the operating system all of this runs on top of.
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by drabiega 10y ago
Some people might find it entertaining, but I'd prefer at least a little clarity. A TLDR would have improved it considerably.
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by drabiega 10y ago
I don't want to leap to conclusions, but this argument always seems like a dog whistle to me. What is it about cultural heterogeneity that you think would make this sort of a model unsustainable?
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by drabiega 10y ago
That's not the point of the Gini index. You could use this logic on anything, because you're just saying that it doesn't measure something that it doesn't measure.
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by drabiega 10y ago
I've seen plenty of this mindset in America already and honestly they're not wrong.
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by drabiega 10y ago
Because the lack of downward mobility suggests the same problem as the upward mobility: your success in life is based on your parents income not your own merits. If you want a meritocracy you have to accept that untalented/unmotivated
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by drabiega 10y ago
> If this view is correct, increasing the amount of education that the average citizen receives is just wasting their time (as most people do not enjoy their time in class), at great expense to them and the average taxpayer.[1] Even acce
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by drabiega 10y ago
False. > An estimated 14.0 percent of American households were food insecure at least some time during the year in 2014, meaning they lacked access to enough food for an active, healthy life for all household members. The change from 14.
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by drabiega 10y ago
In addition to other points listed here, keep in mind that horizontal genetic transfer happens in nature through viral vectors, so pretty much anything we can do genetic modification wise is also possible in nature.
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by drabiega 10y ago
Every thread about UBI is full of people doing this same math. Anyone who thought that you could have UBI without taxes to zero it out for most of the population has long since been convinced. Who are you writing this for?
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by drabiega 10y ago
I'm not a particularly big fan of Hilary, but as far as I'm aware, this used to be pretty common among members of congress and senators, so you might have to broaden your criteria a bit.
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by drabiega 10y ago
> Why do you think so many people choose to drive their own car, when given the choice? It's just anecdotal, but in my experience most of the people I know who live in places where having a car is an actually choice don't own t

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