friendlybus

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by friendlybus 6y ago
He's likeable, non-offensive and casual. Watching people try too hard at a game is draining sometimes.
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by friendlybus 6y ago
I'm not selling a golden age of wealth for all. I'm selling the right to direct your own life, commit to the good on your own terms and live a life of privacy. You know, freedom. There's more to life than money, we used to ki
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by friendlybus 6y ago
The future is predetermined and you aren't thinking.
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by friendlybus 6y ago
Ah I thought it was the Steven Pinker pattern. I don't see it as self-pity, or pity at all. The world is a dark place and our children are the bright lights of the future. It's the older generation that enjoyed the bright life and
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by friendlybus 6y ago
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ I can google for others too, I don't think the numbers will sway your opinion though.
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by friendlybus 6y ago
With respect, which planet do you live on where a pandemic that is killing millions and putting millions more out of work, confining people globally to their houses and murdering some large swathes of the economy for an invisible disease is
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by friendlybus 6y ago
I don't know what you mean. Snowden docs showed google moving domestic US data to the UK and back again so the data is considered foreign and thus readable by spy agencies. The ability for google to legally and materially read my email
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by friendlybus 6y ago
How is that different to microsoft logging your keystrokes or google reading your email? Having to deal with old fashioned employee espionage seems quaint.
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by friendlybus 6y ago
Clinical trials take so long that emergencies like covid could be the few diseases wiped in the next decade. The research is bearing fruit, seeing that on the ground is a different matter.
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by friendlybus 6y ago
Agent Smith said it well, once the machines started doing the thinking for humans, it really became their world. Zuckerberg is a glorified newspaper salesman. He depends on soaking up negative narratives to appear powerful. Nobody is more p
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by friendlybus 6y ago
You cant limit the power of billionaire tech heads, its pointless to try. The trick is in making people en masse disengage with the metaphysical powers that drag everyone back to the tech head's heels. Destroy the ontology, identity an
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by friendlybus 6y ago
Back to terminal clients and mainframe in the sky? Apples on the great tree of knowledge.
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by friendlybus 6y ago
Youtube is a metaphysical sun bursting out with multiple different interpretations of any given topic, 90% of them subtlety wrong. Very few have anything original to say. They pad their ten minute timer with history, use youtube's sugg
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by friendlybus 6y ago
I honestly don't think they are aiming to take over Steam. There's a lot of features they could implement with their cash that would match Steam's store. They prefer their churn and burn, buying out games and giving them for
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by friendlybus 6y ago
Do we need to build a hackernews/social aggregator for new shops?
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by friendlybus 6y ago
They recently stopped developers promoting on steam, sale of their game on other platforms. Makes a lot of sense and if the battle with epic games gets worse we might see lock in.. Fortnite changed steam's dominance. Epic games is buyi
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by friendlybus 6y ago
Truth a basic human responsibility. Hot headed aggression will always overcome truth, and find a way to abuse knowledge and win wars. We must tell our truths often and early if we are to progress diplomatically.
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by friendlybus 6y ago
Good luck defining consciousness..
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by friendlybus 6y ago
Seems to work really well! Playing Gasoline by Audioslave, it really misses the high intensity peaks. It interprets the trumpet in Miles Davis - It Never Entered my Mind as dark ripples and is beautiful in it's own way. It's a lon
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by friendlybus 6y ago
Find your highest good. You have the means to pursue it.
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by friendlybus 6y ago
Some foriegn languages like japanese have a romanized version where traditional letters are replaced with latin script. In this case it's a metaphor for westernized.
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by friendlybus 6y ago
Knowledge is being abused en masse to win arguments and drive action. We are beginning to need a source for sacred, clean and trustworthy knowledge again. It has to be edited by paid employees, legally sound and maintained. wikipedia doesnt
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by friendlybus 6y ago
The greats don't need flattery, their time is long passed. They earnt their praise. Earn yours.
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by friendlybus 6y ago
You can't take something out of the context in which it was created and strip it of it's original meaning and have the same thing. The guitar Elvis used has the same spirit imbued into it, that his music possessed and his fans enj
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by friendlybus 6y ago
The guitar Elvis played on is worth millions. The exact same replica is worth thousands.
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by friendlybus 6y ago
Australia was setup for this kind of incident either way with strict quarantine rules for decades on natural goods & animals brought into the country. The local wildlife had suffered from invasive species. It was not a hard act to shut
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by friendlybus 6y ago
Why should a customer be punished for buying products that are not banned by the government and for tripping up on an invisible tripwire within said product? If there were a definition for "set up to fail" it would be that custome
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by friendlybus 6y ago
The Parthenon is a marvel of architectural tweaks to make it look visually straight and perfect in an imperfect setting with ancient tooling. It kind of defeats the point to remake it with modern tools on flat ground.
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by friendlybus 6y ago
I think the lynchpin is not knowing. We don't know what all the data is used for or why it's taken. As long as we don't know we lack the ability to judge. We don't have the power to make a strong rhetorical argument with
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by friendlybus 6y ago
> The other paid employee will be dedicated fulltime to providing information from within the industry to fill gaps in my knowledge and leverage his extensive network. What does this even mean? He keeps his existing job inside the indust

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