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by hertzrat 6y ago
People sometimes turn to Linux to avoid tracking. This is slightly awkward PR for the community in that sense. It took years for people to lower their guards after the Amazon search uploads controversy years ago
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by hertzrat 6y ago
Apparently, a lot of indie developers do well on switch for some reason. Breaking even is so hard for most indies that it sort of made me sympathize with the console model at least a little bit more
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by hertzrat 6y ago
Science (besides political science) is not about politics or policy making. Science is about earnestly seeking reliable knowledge. By placing scientists in political roles where they may need to “play the game” to get results, it makes the
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by hertzrat 6y ago
Often a simple bill of sale is sufficient
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by hertzrat 6y ago
What about when there is a huge length of time between the plan and the final execution? Do you just not let yourself think about it after the 7th breath? In the context of the hagakure, I suppose it would apply to battle strategy?
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by hertzrat 6y ago
I’m working on a video game right now and I’m having this problem with the story and dialogue. In the past my game design was in the realm of tabletop rpgs, so you come up with the idea, add some details, and then you run it right away. You
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by hertzrat 6y ago
New phenomenon? You should read some history books! It’s never not been like this, it’s almost always been worse: thousands of years of those at the bottom losing everything while those at the top, if not getting assassinated in power strug
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by hertzrat 6y ago
It took decades of lawsuits and to get those warning labels, which would vanish overnight if the government didn’t force it. Those decades included a lot of misinformation campaigns to the point of fraud. Most smokers simply cannot quit -
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by hertzrat 6y ago
I used to search around for various forums to post in or find answers in. Over the years, the little forums vanished and all that’s left is Reddit and a few holdouts. The only real advantage of the Reddit model is that you don’t have to rea
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by hertzrat 6y ago
I think we’re in a post consumer lawsuit era. Almost every terms of service on earth requires arbitration, or else absolves the vendor of any liability whatsoever
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by hertzrat 6y ago
The obvious connection that we’ll see in the news soon is how companies will combine this with all the digital tracking and profiling being done. Every message somebody sends to a teammate in an online game or discord conversation will be a
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by hertzrat 6y ago
The encyclopedia of “modern” bodybuilding by Arnold (it’s old now) was written with the help of somebody who writes (elsewhere) about female bodybuilders frequently. It’s exceptional writing, with long chapters about aesthetics and the mean
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by hertzrat 6y ago
Is $90 a month even worth the electricity and nuisance cost?
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by hertzrat 6y ago
According to steam hardware surveys, the 1060 has been king for years
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by hertzrat 6y ago
My wife uses a 1060 and runs just about everything at high/60fps. It’s still a great card
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by hertzrat 6y ago
Interesting how negative the sentiment is in the older threads, but how positive in today’s. The older threads talk about serfdom and today’s talks about better tax systems and efficiency
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by hertzrat 6y ago
In 50 years, lots of people would be born there who had not been able to make that choice themselves
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by hertzrat 6y ago
Whole nations declare bankruptcy sometimes
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by hertzrat 6y ago
All the doctors websites around here, including for specialists, use google fonts and google maps etc. I assume there is some metadata involved there too
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by hertzrat 6y ago
Do people with gambling addictions really deserve a public record of all their behaviour to exist for people (including coworkers, family, and future employers) to read for all time, including your descendants?
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by hertzrat 6y ago
Imagine how impossible it becomes fix a wrongful conviction. You could never fully clear that persons name because the “crime” would forever be on the books publicly
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by hertzrat 6y ago
A public immutable and distributed log saying somebody sees various psychology specialists, or disease specialists over the course of a few years... this metadata is almost as personal as the raw data in many cases.
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by hertzrat 6y ago
It’s only immutable if you get the whole world burning energy 24/7 to avoid a 51% attack. That solution is a little bit unreasonable, isn’t it? Apparently there has already been 51% attacks: https://btcmanager.com/priva
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by hertzrat 6y ago
Maybe what you mean is “everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face” ? All good architecture starts with that idea in mind, so you optimize for making things as decoupled and changeable as possible.
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by hertzrat 6y ago
Wait until Firefox gets taken down for the same reason and chrome starts blocking things
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by hertzrat 6y ago
How does the process work?
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by hertzrat 6y ago
It’s pretty amazing that after all these years there is so little malware on Linux and in foss. The community really has somehow remained almost completely trustworthy. I don’t know of many other examples of that. Nobody trusts free as in b
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by hertzrat 6y ago
The hard part is talking to hiring managers or potential clients about this without sounding like an idiot who doesn’t know how to put his or her shoes on the right feet. What do other people do in those situations to communicate this?
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by hertzrat 6y ago
Social media accounts are not credentials, and that requirement is bogus for 99% of jobs unless your job is social media publicity
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by hertzrat 6y ago
To be clear, you found your insomnia disappeared after having more no-input time?

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