kipchak

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by kipchak 1y ago
>Populism creates problems or do not solve them in order to exist. Why is this unique to Populism? Most forms of power or organizations in general rely on there being a problem to solve.
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by kipchak 1y ago
I've seen the same, but I'm not sure what the logical conclusion would be if you extrapolate out to current times.
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by kipchak 1y ago
I'm one of those people-For clarity I'm referring to influence in the active 'How to Win Friends and Influence People' sense. To me "influence" and "manipulation" seem like forms of persuasion but wit
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by kipchak 1y ago
I'm not sure if it's so much that most people don't care, but that hand crafted items are more expensive. As evidence of popular interest, "craftwashing"[1] mass produced goods with terms like "artisanal",
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by kipchak 1y ago
I agree that kleptocracy and incompetence are a important factor, but I'm not sure it's the only one. There's a correlation between corruption indices and low GDP but I'm not sure it's causal. For example the US sco
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by kipchak 1y ago
The foreign individual is likely better off in game theory terms, but their country is collectively likely worse off due to a reduction in their central bank's independence and ability to perform seigniorage/print money. Difficult
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by kipchak 1y ago
>Value is found by everyone voting with their currency units on what the value of any given thing is. To me what you're describing sounds like market price discovery versus value, which can also be functional usefulness or social wo
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by kipchak 1y ago
The way feel and then vote is a result of the information they are given, which is selected in order to produce the intended result, or “the engineering of consent” as it's put by Bernays.
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by kipchak 1y ago
I agree with Harry in the linked comments. Especially considering who ran the survey. If the results somehow didn't support the intended conclusion, to support what's mentioned in the last three paragraphs, you would never hear ab
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by kipchak 1y ago
Is there a monopoly on coercion? An employer can for example coerce you into coming into the office with the threat of termination, or loss of access, but only the state can (legally) threaten you with violence to coerce you to do so. Both
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by kipchak 1y ago
Arguably the cause of the cultural shift is economic. Wages began stagnating in the early 1970s, which caused increased demand for diplomas as a way to increase wages. This is most striking in the number of students seeking law degrees, whi
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by kipchak 2y ago
In early footage of BoTW when it was a Wii U exclusive there was more usage of the Tablet for things like maps and inventory management, which was later cut for presumably parity with the Switch version.
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by kipchak 2y ago
Arguably the "gimmick" for the N64 -> GameCube was 3D games and "stock" analog stick, with the c-buttons on the N64 turning into the C-Stick on the GameCube. At launch both the PS1 and Saturn controllers were d-pad on
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by kipchak 2y ago
Likewise for the PS Vita's features such as the rear touchpad.
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by kipchak 2y ago
Gartner puts Generative AI at just about it's peak in terms of Hype back in August of 2023[1], with a 2-5 year time frame to go through the "trough of disillusionment" and then back to the "plateau of productivity",
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by kipchak 2y ago
Shout out to All Day Dying. 76 reviews. Also both of Colorgrave's games. One way to look for interesting stuff is SteamDB > 50 reviews and over 80%. For example Wild Dogs, Downpurr and Vetrix look cool.
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by kipchak 2y ago
If I remember right the original policy was to delete the YouTube videos and after pushback the YouTube exception was added.
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by kipchak 2y ago
This would fall under the deterrence category no? Assuming free will does not exist the only types of punishment that seem by and large unjustifiable without the capacity to be at fault or culpability are retributive and restitutive punishm
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by kipchak 2y ago
If I understand correctly you're saying that people having a lack of free will cuts out the legs from the rationale for punishing people if they have not chosen to do something wrong. The five purposes for punishment as I understand it
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by kipchak 2y ago
Would removing the punitive aspect of punishment be enough to keep things making sense? For example with temporary insanity someone isn't considered deserving of retribution without real fault, but incapacitation and rehabilitation mig
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by kipchak 2y ago
Hardware is not always a loss leader, with Nintendo hardware (generally, Wii U was an exception) being the largest example. Estimates were about $250[1] for production for a $300 unit at launch if I remember right, so maybe $10 profit. Sell
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by kipchak 2y ago
I'm not sure how much the high end of households whose assets have appreciated with inflation are feeling the suck. I think there are a fair number of households at the top that are feeling better off as reflected in their spending inc
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by kipchak 2y ago
That sounds like per hour. If you're curious about how the whole thing works parts of it are fairly above ground - community support subreddits and advertising websites with rates for example.
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by kipchak 2y ago
Halo 2 was basically synonymous with Xbox Live and everything that came with it when it launched (for better or worse). For example popularizing voice chat (including proximity!), rapid matchmaking, persistent parties between matches and ga
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by kipchak 3y ago
I have trouble seeing the definite utility of consciousness in terms of evolutionary fitness. Assuming consciousness isn't somehow necessary for intelligence or associative learning and that it plays a somewhat subserviently role to un
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by kipchak 3y ago
You could use a similar method to play burned PS2 disks using a Datel (of Action Replay fame) "Swap Magic" disc and a card to pull the tray out. the Swap disk appeared as a genuine PS2 disk with bad sectors, which would cause the
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by kipchak 3y ago
I'm reminded a bit of the Sony HMZ-T1 and Glasstron. I think the trouble is Meta is interested in use cases that drive data generation and "social" experiences, and apple is looking for the next iPhone/app store versus w
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by kipchak 3y ago
I think t he difference may be how good the "bones" of the product are to build out on. The original iPhone for example didn't have 3rd party apps (outside Safari pages) or GPS/Navigation, Push Email or 3G that are now c
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by kipchak 3y ago
Nokia kept making smartphones after the N95 in the "nseries", such as for example the N900 in 2009. I just mean to say there was appetite for 1 day devices with lots of apps and features before the iPhone came around - keep in min
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by kipchak 3y ago
I agree the user interface was a huge difference, but Nokia did have high spec-ed and priced battery burners like the N95. They even sold quite well, for example over their lifetimes there were 10 million N95s sold and 6 million iPhone 1s.

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