mnowicki

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by mnowicki 7y ago
If consciousness, or any phenomenon that effects our physical world in a way we can perceive, originated from some mechanism that takes place on a sub-plank scale, then I think that it would be conceivable for some super advanced machinery
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by mnowicki 7y ago
I have my own little saying that I always say in response to that saying: Lack of money can definitely cause unhappiness though You don't need to look further than Maslow's hierarchy of needs to see why, when you don't have e
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by mnowicki 7y ago
I don't think he means it's a valid justification, just a rationalization that is sometimes used, whether valid or not
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by mnowicki 7y ago
I feel like there's an important message somewhere in this post
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by mnowicki 7y ago
I think it's more about the validation received from other peoples giving the cheat-maker an ego boost, which is real to them regardless of whether the people using their cheats are truly giving them any meaningful credit. That aside,
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by mnowicki 7y ago
How hard would it be to just copy and modify the packets being sent to the anti-cheat servers? Are they sent directly to the anti-cheat server or do they go back to the game server first and then get forwarded from there?
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by mnowicki 7y ago
I think that's only one subset of cheaters, many people use cheats in non-pvp games or use cheats in a specific server where everyone has the same cheats. It's often just a way to get more replayability out of a game someone reall
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by mnowicki 7y ago
I think the baseline becomes irrelevant at around 50k, maybe up to 100k-150k in some areas, but in those areas it's not hard to make 150k as a software engineer. I make 75k and save almost half my income while having all the material i
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by mnowicki 7y ago
What, you don't even know how to 'compactify the spatial dimension'?
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by mnowicki 7y ago
I agree with your point, just want to add; I think the point of existential deliberation at it's root is to overcome existential despair. I think for 'typical' people doing what feels right is an effective means to overcome t
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by mnowicki 7y ago
The author probably wasn't using the word 'socialism' in the technically correct way that you've explained, If you just take it for what he meant though then I think his point still stands
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by mnowicki 7y ago
> What exactly would the quantitative "score" be to measure between the qualitative systems of Capitalism and Socialism? Between Buddhism and Christianity? Between Keynesianism and Modern Monetary Theory? The depends on the que
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by mnowicki 7y ago
Why is this so true. I usually assume that when a large percentage of people do something that seems dumb, it's usually because there is some reason I don't understand and not because they all coincidentally decided to be idiots i
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by mnowicki 7y ago
Please stick with me here, probably going to be a super long post but I'm sharing my thoughts on the whole topic end-to-end with the goal of addressing the root problem here, I agree that such a metric exists which is the same as the d
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by mnowicki 7y ago
There's not objectively defined tiers for what level each programming language is on, when people describe a language as low-level they are speaking relatively; They're saying 'picture a typical programming language, I'm