kbelder

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901.
by kbelder 3y ago
>What needs to go into space every 2.5 days? Humans. It's an absolute requirement.
902.
by kbelder 3y ago
And the ability to focus on just aspects that are relevant. That simplifies the problem immensely. I look at the current situation of UIs in Rust, every one of which is unappealing, and think I could build my own. The basic structure and
903.
by kbelder 3y ago
How would you characterize the split for/against in this chat? I'd roughly say 75% or so of the comments are hostile to Thiel. Is that too low?
904.
by kbelder 3y ago
Right. Employment should be viewed as an arrangement between peers. Mutual. And either can end that arrangement.
905.
by kbelder 3y ago
And that is most but not necessarily all you've earned, and the Gov has no way of knowing the total unless you fill out a form.
906.
by kbelder 3y ago
It doesn't matter what they usually do. It just matters what they occasionally do. For hauling, or range, or number of passengers... people don't buy a vehicle that satisfies their average daily requirements. They buy one that
907.
by kbelder 3y ago
I'm assuming he's referring to sitting up an environment where citizens are incentivized to report other citizens for crimes, leading to reduced trust among everyone. He could also have referenced 'Papers Please', or any
908.
by kbelder 3y ago
You're misunderstanding. The union likes having the teachers buying supplies. It makes them sympathetic victims.
909.
by kbelder 3y ago
A completely fictional narrative that for some reason is uncritically accepted by so many.
910.
by kbelder 3y ago
NBER has declared that the definition of a recession is when NBER has declared a recession. NBER has declared that disagreements with that definition are clearly invalid, since NBER is the source of the official NBER definition of recessio
911.
by kbelder 3y ago
There's lots of people with little income. Many would find a tiny apartment preferable to not having a place to live.
912.
by kbelder 3y ago
>I do not understand the mindset that leads someone to be envious of checkmarks I completely agree with you. >Nobody thought that a checkmark made you notable. I completely disagree with you.
913.
by kbelder 3y ago
Why? I've long thought that, as a general principle, willfully false accusations of a crime should carry the same penalty as the crime itself.
914.
by kbelder 3y ago
It's not just ideologies. The transition to Microsoft accounts was incredibly buggy. It often wouldn't work and would force you to re-buy a copy of the game.
915.
by kbelder 3y ago
It's interesting when somebody lists A, B, and then comes to the exact opposite conclusion C that you would. What a different life you and I must have lead.
916.
by kbelder 3y ago
I watch those occasionally. I couple weeks ago I happened across some South Korean movie that was their own version of a Tom Clancy war thriller. It was horrible but fascinating(1), and I would never have sought it out on my own. I like
917.
by kbelder 3y ago
This reminds me of something I did as a child. I was sitting alone in my parent's car, and a bee stung me. I started to get upset, then I just mentally recalibrated. The pain was a feeling, a bit of information being transmitted up m
918.
by kbelder 3y ago
I'd say Japan also lost much of their culture during a process of westernization, before and after WWII, but the resulting amalgamation was much more potent (especially memetically) than the mess that China ended up with after Mao.
919.
by kbelder 3y ago
It's not great, but it's not 'save the world in VR'. It's 'save one abuse victim in VR'.
920.
by kbelder 3y ago
No, the equivalent would be America loading fines and tax penalties onto a large EU tech company, like... Um...
921.
by kbelder 3y ago
2/3 of adults do not have Amazon Prime.
922.
by kbelder 3y ago
While adding to the foundation they built.
923.
by kbelder 3y ago
Qualia is the safety hatch some philosophers use to escape from losing arguments.
924.
by kbelder 3y ago
Google also allows you to target ads to specific ages and sexes. Pretty much any ad platform does. Prior to the online age, list rental agencies would let you filter by those attributes. I remember an old manager adding Republicans in aff
925.
by kbelder 3y ago
You're probably joking, I don't know, but I am now thinking about doing this.
926.
by kbelder 3y ago
Me too. I would write out a basic program on lined paper at school, and then when I visited my brother I would type it in to his Ohio Scientific Challenger 2p: https://www.vintagecomputer.net/browse_thread.cfm?id=372 I rem
927.
by kbelder 3y ago
I don't mind making the android 3d-ish, but I sure hope that those animated versions never show up anywhere.
928.
by kbelder 3y ago
It's not a matter of understanding; people just disagree.
929.
by kbelder 3y ago
>is like hoping people listening for free music radio will actually buy the record. That's a weird example, because it supported a huge industry for decades.
930.
by kbelder 3y ago
That sentence really stuck out. It's hard to trust any part of a summary when it contains something that is glaringly wrong.

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