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by kbenson 4y ago
I wonder if one of the reasons we've seen a big push towards systems like this is because it does make the website faster, but in a way that's one step removed than we often consider it, or by a slightly different metric. What i
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by kbenson 4y ago
To be fair (pedantic? devil's advocate?) Samsung ships all their phones with the Samsung store as well. I suspect there's a few other bit names that do similar. A great many Android users have alternative stores, some some proba
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by kbenson 4y ago
A case could be made to consider libraries systems programming, as the "system" is often more than just the kernel. If you have libraries doing the heavy lifting of all that, then the language on top that calls into those librari
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by kbenson 4y ago
Unless you cap the allowed funding from large business to be some fraction of the combined funding from small business, all you're doing as a group purporting to support small business is signing up to either become a talking head for
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by kbenson 4y ago
Not quite. Almost all NES emulators just emulate the inputs and outputs of the chips involved, they don't actually model the chip layout exactly. That's a limitation of emulating hardware in software for the most part. Without
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by kbenson 4y ago
> That's your strawman. If it's a strawman than your original statement was a non-sequitur, as I cover below. > Of course. But they are also seeing far more benefit than not investing. I believe your statement was that peopl
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by kbenson 4y ago
> Nobody saves money in Scrooge McDuck cash vaults. Why do I feel like you're reading half my comments and responding to that? > The majority of people do invest in the stock market. You're right. A slight majority, at less
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by kbenson 4y ago
Yes, that's why I was specifically comparing it to all forms of government and not just democracy. I was trying to head off this misinterpretation of my point before it happened. :/
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by kbenson 4y ago
Yes, my comparison was to government as a concept, and the various forms of it we've seen, not specifically to our government or any modern one in existence in particular. And like most governments, whether those people it considers un
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by kbenson 4y ago
> though the counterargument is that organized crime always preys on its own community as much as it does on 'outer society'. Not much of a counterargument, since from a clinical perspective government preys on its citizens as
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by kbenson 4y ago
On the one hand, the ability to usefully interact with the stock market is very limited for the majority of people, as they do not have the extra income to invest. It's very much a system in which the lower class do not get to meaning
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by kbenson 4y ago
Battery production capacity is becoming more decentralized, as countries with large production capabilities stay somewhat stagnant but other countries build factories. China's percentage of world battery production is expected to drop
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by kbenson 4y ago
A decade ago this story would have been about PayPal. In fact, I remember stories that are almost identical from that time period. I wonder what new payment system that's "not a bank" this story will be about in a decade fro
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by kbenson 4y ago
I'm pretty sure the point of this thread is that it wasn't a 'military grade' design over a weekend, and as GP notes took over four years. It's sort of like saying Microsoft Excel was designed over a weekend. The p
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by kbenson 4y ago
Instead of using estimated based on what you think the equipment should take up, perhaps you should take a look at the google maps link your sibling posted, and zoom into some oil wells (the cleared land lots) and use the measurement tool (
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by kbenson 4y ago
Obviously, this is how the age of gods ended for humanity as well. Henry Ford, Godslayer. Err, Goddistracter, at least.
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by kbenson 4y ago
Some people are lucky enough that the things they focused on early in life are things they were good at. Unfortunately, I think some subset of those people also develop an aversion to things that they don't appear to reach competence i
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by kbenson 4y ago
There's really only Firefox and WebKit derivatives (everything else you listed), for the most part. I'm increasingly of the opinion that duopolies don't result in good progress, so I fully support new entrants in this space,
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by kbenson 4y ago
It's a matter of perception, not reality. They no longer will see them all day like they are used to, and instead just at specific times. To someone such as myself that didn't share a lot of classes with my good friends that doesn
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by kbenson 4y ago
In this scenario switching is not just getting a different teacher, but an entirely new set of classmates as well, meaning the child is willingly walking away from all their friends and acquaintances they've made possibly over years. I
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by kbenson 4y ago
LOL, this was so confusing for a second. My son is named Landon, which is probably why my phone was so quick to auto correct to that. :)
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by kbenson 4y ago
It makes no sense to assume how companies will act in the far out future, as companies are not people and their motivations shift with management, investors, and markets. You can at best look at the motivation as an explanation of the shor
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by kbenson 4y ago
Because the constraints are time, getting Landon, getting permits, etc. Each additional house is more overhead from regulations you have to meet and permits, as well as area improvements such as roads that need to be made or improved, and
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by kbenson 4y ago
> Why not take a cynical approach? Because things such as local maxima and minima exist, and "local" could be on timescales of decades or centuries. Also, what metrics are we measuring by? GDP? Happiness? Scientific progress
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by kbenson 4y ago
It depends on what the customer base is paying for and expecting. If they expect a bubble and complain about it not being there, they'll likely get a bubble. If they complain about the bubble being there, steps will likely be taken t
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by kbenson 4y ago
Perhaps I remember the mustang as larger than it was because my next car was significantly smaller, a 240z, but it is at the large end of the compact cars, which have been getting larger themselves as of late, as tends to happen. Actually,
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by kbenson 4y ago
> reasonably sized as in the 50s and 60s. Fire all your designers, go back to whatever your models were in 1965 What alternate dimension are you from? My older brother had a 60's Ford Fairlane when I was growing up. My first car wa
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by kbenson 4y ago
I find it unlikely that the license agreement and AUP of steam, and in addition of the game you purchased, which might have its own stipulations, is that simple and open. Feel free to supply evidence to the contrary though. I would be happy
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by kbenson 4y ago
You didn't buy them though, you bought a license to play them under specific circumstances. If you bought them, then you would have the right to play the same game on a different OS or game system. Can you buy a game on PC and play th
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by kbenson 4y ago
Don't forget that your input (mouse, keyboard) must travel to the other end before you can start receiving the output that's changed from it. The time from you performing an action to the point where you see that change represent

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