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by mapt 7mo ago
So it's a camouflaged semaphore?
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by mapt 7mo ago
If you have a broken system whose injustice is checked only by the limitations of the human elements, and you start replacing those human elements and powerscaling them, you have an unlimited downside.
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by mapt 7mo ago
If you're skeptical, watch this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPUBXN2Fd_E
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by mapt 7mo ago
I don't think I would favor executions or anything. But forcible dilution (partial or total seizure) of the corporation? A mandatory insurance coverage? Absolutely. We already have statutory HIPAA violation penalties, and I am extrem
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by mapt 7mo ago
The Jones Act guarantees very few American jobs because the greater economy has chosen to just bypass/forgo nearly all of the things it touches, rather than pay for Jones Act Compliant ships.
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by mapt 7mo ago
These ports could buy the union's vote if it was important to them by giving existing workers some equity in the system that is intended to replace them.
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by mapt 7mo ago
Replacing the Jones Act permanently with aggressive subsidies for US shipyards is one of the most important policy interventions available for multiple coastal economic concerns, and has been for decades. Basically everyone agrees that it
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by mapt 7mo ago
TOS changes: Due to our contract with a Nigerian prince who is seeking to exfiltrate his family wealth, your last month's bill of $14.99 will be refunded in its entirety, and the fee schedule from now on will be as follows: [6 pages of
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by mapt 7mo ago
It costs the same, we just mark it as an opportunity cost of unloading the memory on the spot market. If I buy contracts for 1 gold bar at $500, and the gold price runs to $1200, I can either continue to market my gold-containing product fo
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by mapt 7mo ago
The concepts come with the idea of a persistent game map, which is online 23/7 and never wipes. When UO came out, it had to deal with a large game world that nevertheless would be too small to reasonably hold a number of players that r
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by mapt 7mo ago
Can you even market a fully fledged desktop replacement thin and light in this price hemisphere in 2026? Both RAM and flash SSDs are now worth their weight in gold.
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by mapt 7mo ago
You approach that from a game design perspective to reduce the reward and set bounds on how much fun a player is allowed to destroy maliciously and what kind of counterplay is available, but if you completely eliminate it the world loses a
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by mapt 7mo ago
They're by no means equally compelling. But they are viable ways to generate currency, you progress in them over time as a specialist, they feed back into the player economy performing tasks that other people want performed, and they
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by mapt 7mo ago
One of the key infrastructures for the Inca's large transportation network connecting diverse territories in the Andes was a system of of grass-rope bridges across the ravines that had to be rebuilt annually. I would imagine their fra
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by mapt 7mo ago
If your friend plans on killing a hooker because he likes the idea of snuff porn, and you pitch in to kill her coworker and her boss so there are no witnesses and so your friend doesn't get hurt and because okay maybe you also enjoy sn
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by mapt 7mo ago
If it makes seven figures of revenue, there is a real system in place to litigate copyright disputes between corporations. Two kaijiu summoned by ritual magic to fight for the future of the franchise / giant pile of money. Everything
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by mapt 7mo ago
On the one hand you have strong and persistent claims about quantum factoring of large numbers On the other hand you have https://algassert.com/post/2500
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by mapt 7mo ago
The formula they have generalized their responses to in basic explainer mode is pretty distinctive for a lot of us who are otherwise used to reading long-form written pieces.
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by mapt 7mo ago
If you have a problem with school start times, you could also just change school start times.
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by mapt 7mo ago
The US approach is fascistic. Fascism demands that enemies of the state be simultaneously incompetent dolts who could never compete with Real Americans who would be a drain on our resources, and hypercompetent idealogues who would steal ou
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by mapt 7mo ago
One obvious response is that if 100% enforcement of laws is causing social problems, maybe you just have bad laws and need to change them.
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by mapt 7mo ago
I think a big part of the issue here is the management style that says "Set unreasonable expectations in the hope that you motivate people to achieve reasonable results". That few managers can objectively predict or even evaluate
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by mapt 7mo ago
Error: Timeout. Please submit iris scan less than 60 seconds after fecal sample.
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by mapt 7mo ago
Both of these actions are extraordinarily illegal under US law and FAA regulation for a number of reasons. Among them - Permanently blinding a human pilot can be done at 1000 times the range that it takes to melt aluminum, and laser weapon
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by mapt 7mo ago
Yeah, I don't think so any more. The sort of lofty Cold War rhetoric about leading the world, if it was ever legitimately believed by the people spouting it, is gone. A very different attitude has taken hold, which puts a zero sum et
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by mapt 8mo ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTnYVh7K6xQ There are (to make up a number) ten desirable properties of the modern internet, and so far it's "Pick two", but novel combinations of the things you mentioned offe
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by mapt 8mo ago
In a case like this, it is possible and even substantially likely that a "Cure" represents a treatment you can apply after an early, routine blood test but before clinically significant symptoms arise, to prevent damage from becom
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by mapt 8mo ago
Echolocation based on audio from a cell phone video, with the reports echoing off flat walls in the area, establishes 3D troop movement during the massacre, and the eventual close-range executions. Including of the person whose cell phone
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by mapt 8mo ago
Why was this flagged? Automatically / without review? This is a novel tech story, albeit one without a lot of technical detail. https://www.earshot.ngo/what-we-do/audio-ballistics https://forensic-arc
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by mapt 8mo ago
Suborbital ballistic "travel" beyond continental distances, is almost as expensive as orbital. If you can make it to the antipode, you're basically almost orbital. Suborbital "trips" straight up, beyond the atmosph

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