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by lordfrito 1y ago
More and more I don't understand what's happening with all of these political articles making it to the front page of HN and stuffed full of charged comments and lots of grey. We may be smart techies but the arguments here about p
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by lordfrito 1y ago
As long as it's not about free money I don't see anyone objecting.
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by lordfrito 1y ago
Yeah I hope this doesn't last long
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by lordfrito 1y ago
While we're at it, we should also tax all foreigners living abroad. All this due process stuff is expensive.
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by lordfrito 1y ago
Apparently the article author hasn't heard about the concept of a "group discount"
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by lordfrito 1y ago
Great stuff! Reminds me of when the web used to be fun...
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by lordfrito 1y ago
I very much appreciate your response... you clearly work in this field, and as I said I'm a total layman. So my musings could be utter nonsense. That said... (bear with me) > As long as whatever falls in also stays in, the approach
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by lordfrito 1y ago
> saying that singularity forming is "after" everything else that ever happens in the universe is a hard sell. This is the only thing that makes sense to me (I'm a total layman here). What's always bothered me is that
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by lordfrito 1y ago
Should mention the little known arcade game called Meteor that was a raster version of Asteroids. Atari sued them of course. [0] [0] https://www.polygon.com/2012/12/17/3776272/meteors-arcade-ca...
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by lordfrito 1y ago
Was hoping for some pretty pictures.... since there are none this article isn't for me I guess.
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by lordfrito 1y ago
The exponent going 1100 to 78 is pretty large error... huge 93% reduction... hopefully they have high confidence in the new value, otherwise humanity might be looking at 1 more big problem this century.
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by lordfrito 1y ago
I meant to say distribution costs not transmission. Looking at last months bill I paid $66.60 to deliver $51.76 of energy (about 56% of my total bill was delivery). The raw distribution charge alone was $49.32 or 42% of the bill. I'm n
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by lordfrito 1y ago
No one wants to acknowledge that the economics will likely never work out for the reasons you mentioned. Too much maintenance -- and very expensive maintenance at that. It's far cheaper cost per watt to build a traditional fission re
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by lordfrito 1y ago
Biden's multiple student loan forgivness attempts come to mind? He might have been handing out money, as opposed to taking it away like Trump. But the underlying issues are the same: he did it unilaterally using executive order, and th
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by lordfrito 1y ago
Rubin's analysis was likely a big reason Atari was late to the laserdisc game craze... They were so late that their first (and only) laserdisc game Firefox shipped at the very moment the laserdisc craze was imploding. The phenomenal
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by lordfrito 1y ago
https://archive.is/tcG5v
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by lordfrito 1y ago
> Those laserdisc players are cantankerous, mechanical beasts and even the industrial grade ones will likely be a constant point of failure across enough 80-hour operating weeks They were notoriously unreliable, so much so it killed the
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by lordfrito 1y ago
> I think most people don't care about optimizing an extra $10 out of their weekly grocery run I remember when this kind of "optimization" was done regularly by a great many shoppers on budgets. Back in the day some stores
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by lordfrito 1y ago
Way back in 2007 someone found one of these, disassembled it(!), transported it(!), rebuilt it(!). Long story but full of great pics. [0] [0] https://www.dragonslairfans.com/smfor/index.php?topic=231.0
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by lordfrito 1y ago
Mainly because they were the only game in town back then. At the time they were the fastest growing company in history... So many $$$, for a time everything they touched turned to gold. Being first in a new industry, they made all the mista
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by lordfrito 1y ago
I'm endlessly fascinated by the stories that come out about the execs dealings during that period. How they were offered and passed on being the American distributor for the NES (all because the exec saw Donkey Kong running on a Coleco
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by lordfrito 1y ago
Atari tried to sue Activision out of existence, only to have the courts affirm Activision's right to make games for the 2600. Prior to this, only OEMs made games for their consoles. That court case opened the floodgates for 3rd party g
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by lordfrito 1y ago
Not trying to oversimplify the appeal, but I personally found their juxtaposition between the absurd and highly intelligent social commentary endlessly entertaining because deep down it felt like they were saying something is really really
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by lordfrito 2y ago
I have immense respect for PKDs writings, he was far far ahead of his time, sad that he was such a mess mentally. His themes about the malleability of reality are just so prescient about the problems of the digital era. Neighbors no longer
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by lordfrito 2y ago
>> Disagreement is alive and well on HN. > I disagree. Head explodes
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by lordfrito 2y ago
I remember listening to a small college radio station back in the day, around the time Flood landed, and the DJ comes on talking about his experience with TMBG. He talked about the time they were in town and stopped by the radio station to
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by lordfrito 2y ago
> Makes you wonder what we’re working so hard for You're working for the life you get to live in the hours inbetween that you're not working. The world judges the guy by being the CEO of Samsung. However he judges his life by w
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by lordfrito 2y ago
I was hoping the article was about a paid service to increase your social status, bypassing proof of work... e.g. buying stars for Sneeches
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by lordfrito 2y ago
> Meanwhile, every advantage China has in engineering prowess, supply chain management, decades planning ahead, and ruthless competition are completely ignored. Don't forget to include their advantage in slave labor in that list. Wa
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by lordfrito 2y ago
> Is any astronaut who stays longer than planned "stranded"? If the reason they're staying longer than planned is they can't use their planned return spacecraft, then yes they are stranded. What am I missing here?

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