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by gota 5y ago
That's more Wall-e than Idiocracy, I think. Was there any talk of AI in Idiocracy?
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by gota 5y ago
Part of this is due to the truly awful image the current president of Brazil cultivates internationally. Incindentally, agricultural business is the last remaining well functioning sector of the Brazilian economy of relevant scale. Any de
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by gota 5y ago
Well, ok, I can understand not recognizing the current incarnation as the same game (assuming that is the meaning of your post) What if D&D was _just_ the amateur-ish first edition and AD&D had a (proper)name change? Say, "Fant
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by gota 5y ago
You can buy assets that pay dividends and move to a much, much lower cost-of-living place. I'm talking some city in a country where the currency exchange rate values your dollars immensely wrt. groceries, etc. You can even buy property
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by gota 5y ago
https://archive.ph/jXrzI Seems the article is from a couple of weeks ago.
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by gota 5y ago
https://archive.ph/YNlnY
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by gota 5y ago
If you are not convinced of the benefits to yourself of using a seatbelt at this point I don't think you can claim your positions to be rational It's ok to have emotional, irrational, positions. But you are better off knowing th
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by gota 5y ago
On topic - I suggest the following blog post series: https://acoup.blog/2020/09/18/collections-iron-how-did-they-... I learned a lot about the production and manufacturing of metal (iron) items. If I recall c
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by gota 5y ago
Zoom allows annotation and drawing on top of a shared screen - actual shared screen, not a separate "whiteboard" This means I can circle a word or append a box to a diagram on a pdf my colleague is screensharing with me. I can h
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by gota 5y ago
Well, the general reasoning you applied is in fact the basis of several 'plot-based' approaches; a sequence of 'events' that change the narrative world in a certain way is chosen based on (any number of) criteria I worke
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by gota 5y ago
A bit unrelated to the article - An (initial) portion of my academic experience was researching Interactive Storytelling systems[1]. I was particularly interested in the methods for ensuring certain qualities of the plots, and modeled some
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by gota 5y ago
The negative incentive could make finding people to work as law enforcement difficult, though I think an in-built insurance system that all workees contribute to mandatorily works better. If less in damages is awarded than was collected, th
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by gota 5y ago
> Why on Earth did the police feel it was necessary to do all this just to catch one guy? The following is an opinion and may be an unjust one: They had toys and a rare chance to play with them. I don't think much else is required o
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by gota 5y ago
https://archive.ph/SJlAS
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by gota 5y ago
I've had to for some academic work. Some interesting and promising work that did not catch much attention and was last implemented by some post grad student for proof-of-concept in the Win3.1 era, using some contemporary and very speci
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by gota 5y ago
Interestingly - this man was 1.5m (5 ft) tall only and buried with warrior regalia
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by gota 5y ago
Wait, if that's true its not impossible to perform targeted search to find out who is under psychiatric treatment... that's not ideal, to say the least
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by gota 5y ago
Not to mention involving older people in active duties is great for their mental health.
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by gota 5y ago
Can you explain in more detail, please? Sorry if it should be obvious. I'm used to being 100% stupid at least 10% of the time
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by gota 5y ago
See this comment - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29250582&p=2#29251838 Brazil has a pretty successful system in place. The only reason I still use credit cards anymore are aggressive cashback policies. For everyt
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by gota 5y ago
I can see that. You can spend more on services without buying more. Examples I could use - A dog walker for an extra round of exercise to my dog; a personal trainer, physical therapist of some kind or nutricionist, just to keep tabs on my h
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by gota 5y ago
https://archive.ph/q8eK8
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by gota 5y ago
Side comment - the visualization linked from flowingdata is absolutely cool (and to me much more interesting than the linked article) https://flowingdata.com/2015/09/23/years-you-have-left-to-li... I wish the
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by gota 5y ago
I was somehow unfamiliar with Snow Crash. Thanks for the pointer! Also - yes, precisely! The internet abounds with posts about how Apple's market cap is larger than most countries GDP already. If the trend of tech-giants growth keeps p
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by gota 5y ago
> What I don’t like about this coverage is that it ignores the much more salient fact that the prosecution has utterly collapsed in the last two days. Well, this post (or rather the HN thread) is about a mention to the technology and it
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by gota 5y ago
> Hell, History degrees at Oxford now have the option of learning how to use databases to store and query information with SQL. We should for real start teaching basics of query languages in high school. Just enough to demystify the subj
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by gota 5y ago
Reading this post it occurred to me that if huge levels of remote work become the norm, there may be consequences for what 'rights' remote workers may obtain at the 'host' richer countries. I mean, somewhat like large co
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by gota 5y ago
Just a heads up - adding your email allows the admins to see it, but not other users. You'll have to add it to the description so I can see it!
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by gota 5y ago
Does this replace Teams, integrates with it, or ignores that it exists? Disclaimer - I'm unfamiliar with Notion, which it seems this is cloning
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by gota 5y ago
Please add an email to your profile so I can reach out directly - I shouldn't doxx myself that obviously and if I post the name of the org I will

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