messiah_complex

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by messiah_complex 3y ago
To the creators: I've already read three very interesting blog posts that I never would have read otherwise. Well done.
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by messiah_complex 3y ago
Not just about the raw number of people. When your hear "the population is aging," it means the median age is increasing over time. It puts a lot of strain on an economy when the ratio of retirees to working age people gets too hi
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by messiah_complex 3y ago
Demographics. The Baby Boomers have started to retire. Population is aging, birth rates are low, labor pool is shrinking.
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by messiah_complex 3y ago
There's no reason to think there will ever be a sustained demand for VR entertainment. The experience is novel (for a time), but it's not qualitatively better than other delivery systems. And then, of course, the transient novelty
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by messiah_complex 3y ago
You're not thinking about the consequences of your position. What I said stands.
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by messiah_complex 3y ago
>When a talented person tries to ban the tools that make an average person able to do the same stuff the talented person can do, this is intentionally disabling people to preserve a class privilege. And now we're back to denigrating
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by messiah_complex 3y ago
A solution in search of a problem.
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by messiah_complex 3y ago
You're using a different definition of plagiarism than Harvard uses. I also think Harvard's definition is overly broad, but that's not the point. The point is that a student would be punished for engaging in the same conduct
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by messiah_complex 3y ago
The analogy is inapt. It's not illegal to fail at parallel parking. Even if it was, it's not the type of offense that would get you arrested. You say the standards are different, and they are, but then you conflate the two context
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by messiah_complex 3y ago
I still laugh myself stupid when I watch it. But I don't know anyone under 40 that would find it funny. I can't quite wrap my brain around that.