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by filoleg 3y ago
> all they had to pay was $5k. They still risk being disbarred (not just hypothetically, it might actually happen) + taking a massive hit to the reputation (their own + the firm). The latter one alone is a strong punishment, given how wi
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by filoleg 3y ago
Knowing the "wrong people" (or not knowing the "right people") doesn't make one a loser. But discounting other people's skills just because they associated with the "right people" (in addition to havi
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by filoleg 3y ago
Agreed, yeah. I don't want to start a flamewar with this controversial hot-button topic, but imo it is kind of similar to the whole incel culture. The kind of takes where they believe that women aren't interested in them because t
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by filoleg 3y ago
> But what makes it worth the effort to learn a new SDK, or even buy a MacOs device to develop for it, for just a few thousands of devices? It is the same type of a bet when deciding to start a tire company or a car mechanic shop shortly
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by filoleg 3y ago
> Do you take your shoes off at work? No, because I consider the office to be a shared public space, and none of the people working in the office actually live there. Office is not my personal space, it is a transient area.
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by filoleg 3y ago
Depends on where. When I lived in GA suburbs, it was about 50/50. After that, I moved to a few large cities on both coasts(and been to plenty others), and I don't remember visiting more than one or two households where wearing sho
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by filoleg 3y ago
> Violence wise, I'd rather live here than in places like London or most of the places in America with high thug-culture populations. If you have a preference for living in higher violence areas, that's your choice, but I don&#
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by filoleg 3y ago
A good chunk of the people I know that I had in mind when talking about it definitely had essentially unlimited (for all intents and purposes) trust funds from their parents. That didn't change the fact that the art jobs they were doin
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by filoleg 3y ago
This reads like it was written by someone who doesn't have the slightest idea about the reality of working in other "more virtuous, noble, artful things". I have plenty friends who do art or art-adjacent things (such as desig
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by filoleg 3y ago
Fair point, that definitely would hold for some states. Especially those where it got legalized fairly recently, and the whole process hasn't been smoothed out yet. Illinois looks like one of those states. For example, pricing in CO&#x
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by filoleg 3y ago
> Let's say I'm avoiding having more children due to the risk of climate change making the world a bad place to live. If I put money into fixing climate change, why would that make me more likely to have children? They did not
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by filoleg 3y ago
> black market marijuana can be very much cheaper compared to legal How much cheaper are we talking? Becase seeing the recreational pricing in Seattle area (which is in another legal state), I struggle to see how one can make it signific
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by filoleg 3y ago
They do, you just gotta be a bit more creative, which will also save you money. Pro-tip for desks: don't buy them in the office section, buy desk legs from there, but the desk top itself from the kitchen section. Solid wood, no frills,
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by filoleg 3y ago
Unless you happen to have some evidence presenting unethical and/or immoral actions on the part of SFB and Caroline during their tenures at JS, it only shows that JS don't try be an oracle predicting future morality or ethics or j
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by filoleg 3y ago
I started using GoodLinks last year, and it has been great. Very simple and minimal UX, sync across platforms, has nice features like tagging (that "just works" in the simplest way possible, without any unnecessary cruft). Overall
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by filoleg 3y ago
> Why put any effort in making sure player locality influences the surrounding quest level, if player can go anywhere, let's put level appropriate enemy everywhere. That's not how it works in Diablo 4, enemy scaling only comes
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by filoleg 3y ago
> it's a status marker Not as much as you probably believe it is (at least in the US), given it has the majority smartphone owneship share here.
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by filoleg 3y ago
> especially that 1/4 are teslas. people don’t feel lack of individuality buying the same car that everyone else has? I felt it, and I intentionally did test drives for alternatives before even considering a Tesla, but it just didn&
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by filoleg 3y ago
No, because those products are controlled by Google aka their employer, so it is on the employer to make sure no confidential data leaks to the outside from its own products. And that is both well within their control and responsibility, an
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by filoleg 3y ago
> The last time I was in Kiev I witnessed a drunk man urinating in public - at noon - on a center street. Everyone treated this like it was a perfectly normal occurrence. If this shocks you, you might want to avoid visiting San Francisco
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by filoleg 3y ago
> Is there anything particularly special about this one? This one happened in Mission District, which is an iconic and one of the somewhat central areas in SF, often frequented by lots of HN userbase living and working in SF. The differe
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by filoleg 3y ago
I think the reason for this being the age of most Shonen main characters is a bit more pragmatic than that - it is simply around the age of the target audience. P.S. No, I am not insinuating that shonen is strictly for middle schoolers, and
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by filoleg 3y ago
They didn't say they were driving, they said the drive was long. My personal assumption was that they either got a taxi/rideshare or got someone they know pick them up.
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by filoleg 3y ago
Yeah, i am confused too. Are airports known for high death rates or something? I don't even remember the last time I heard about someone dying at an airport outside of a warzone.
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by filoleg 3y ago
> Perhaps if companies stopped releasing useless crap set to become obsolete within months we wouldn't see such articles over and over again, no? Is that what happened all previous times Apple released a new product category in the
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by filoleg 3y ago
Yeah, I just wanted to avoid spoiling anything more than was strictly necessary, for those who are curious and might consider playing it. Inbefore someone says "it is an old game", I beat MGS 1+2 just a couple years ago for the fi
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by filoleg 3y ago
I have desks at home, work, at parents' house, etc. So i have a physical desk in all places to place a keyboard on. The issue is that all those desks are different, and I am not carrying the same setup everywhere. I am not going to bri
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by filoleg 3y ago
The beautiful part is that the headset makes any desk (at my apartment, when visiting parents, in the office, etc.) my desk, which is exactly the same every time no matter where I am. Without bajillion cables and with instantaneous setup ti
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by filoleg 3y ago
> But they all should look like Big Boss then? Not quite, because they were not all direct clones the way we think of cloning in real life, because in the Metal Gear universe, they could do "selective cloning". I forgot the det
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by filoleg 3y ago
The way I see it, AI cannot claim legal ownership of the output produced, it belongs to the human that generated it (e.g., an example of someone using generative AI to produce a painting that can be copyrighted by them). Which makes me thin

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