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by montagg 2y ago
I think the argument for using the line is, there is no reason in the moment not to try everything you can, no matter where you are, and you adjust based on the situation. If you’re in a place that doesn’t respect the rule of law ALL THE TI
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by montagg 2y ago
The number is, whatever number it is when USD stops being the world’s reserve currency, for reasons unrelated to national debt.
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by montagg 2y ago
It was stolen though. https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/real-life-rogu... > In the ‘70s and ‘80s, Russian KGB spies systematically stole NASA shuttle designs and smuggled them back to their motherland, a
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by montagg 2y ago
I think the EU’s regulations are boneheaded, but I appreciate that there are multiple ways we’re seeing societies deal with the ambiguities of technology, and we can see how it plays out. Different strokes.
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by montagg 2y ago
Not a bad tradeoff imo. But it is a tradeoff.
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by montagg 2y ago
This is an important point. There was a US isolationist strain as strong as it is today. The Man in the High Castle alt history, or The Plot Against America, both involve FDR not being involved for WW2, and that's where the US stan
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by montagg 2y ago
I think the other comment is more accurate: this isn’t about polarization, it’s a potential threat to your safety.
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by montagg 3y ago
As a person who works on a large online game, I appreciate what they are trying to do and I’m sympathetic to the pain of losing a game you love, in addition to the game preservation issues. However, games just aren’t the same as they were i
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by montagg 3y ago
It varies. I’m totally fine with it if it’s clear the person can hear and interact with me, and the people I interact with a lot do it to varying degrees, and no one’s offended.
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by montagg 3y ago
One of the worst gaming user experiences on Windows is how every publisher wants their own store. And depending on where you get a game, it may or may not have certain features. And if you get into modding, sometimes one version of the game
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by montagg 3y ago
I don't understand. How do you see disabling a feature that few people use leading to riling people up so the EU reverse itself?
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by montagg 3y ago
It's legally settled, so, from a US law perspective, it's clearly not ant-competitive, and the US will need new legislation if that's not good enough. I figure you probably see this very clearly, but the problem is that a l
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by montagg 3y ago
You’re describing priorities, not impossibilities.
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by montagg 3y ago
Vultures picking what away at parts of a corpse they can. You see so many examples of this, just straight parasitical behavior, in at least American society. I don’t think the U.S. is economically where the Soviet Union was when it fell, bu
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by montagg 3y ago
When we see Uncle Enzo’s chain launch, we know we’ll finally get the Metaverse we deserve.
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by montagg 3y ago
You’ve described all of late stage capitalism + democracy, for things you agree with and things you don’t. This is as good as it gets when money has any influence on policy.
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by montagg 3y ago
It’s worse than that. It forces the user to decide what’s most important from an interface design perspective at each moment while also doing the task. The fluidity is cool, and it helps maintain an understanding of hierarchy and context, b
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by montagg 3y ago
But those executives need to pay for their yachts today, so the extraction strategy makes sense. It won’t be as valuable tomorrow as it is today, so they’re shorting it. The earth as well as the value of their own companies.
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by montagg 3y ago
Lots don’t even have a villain, really. They are really great for children, to help them see that not every story needs a villain to be compelling. My daughter is 21 months old and has seemingly memorized Totoro—if she hears the soundtrack,
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by montagg 3y ago
I don’t have references for this, but my understanding is that you have more to worry about space debris that is higher/faster than lower/slower. The atmospheric drag is such that any out of control craft at [some threshold] or un
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by montagg 3y ago
If they aren’t bringing evidence, it’s a waste of people’s time. Taking a big risk that is most likely a very bad decision shouldn’t provide any credibility at all. Do that when you can show evidence, and then you have credibility.
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by montagg 3y ago
Trump would have done so. It would have been impossible for him to keep a secret. His need to stroke his own ego wouldn’t allow it. When Trump ended his term without once mentioning aliens, that’s when I was certain all of this was hogwash.
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by montagg 3y ago
Well, maybe in another 65 million years, whatever's around will just use us and the rest of this era's biomass as crude oil in the next cycle.
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by montagg 3y ago
Projecting mine, just replace “engineers” with “designers” and “designers” with “product managers.”
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by montagg 3y ago
It just works likes theater instead of like a movie. Or video games.
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by montagg 3y ago
Originating of course with Brolaf from League of Legends.
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by montagg 3y ago
It'll go both ways. All ways. The US is going to have its own version of [The Troubles][1] by 2033. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Troubles
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by montagg 3y ago
It's not the free or lack of free press that's the problem. Fox's audience wants to be lied to, and there are countless people in the US and elsewhere that are honestly just done thinking about the complexity of the world.
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by montagg 4y ago
A GPT-powered chat-based role playing game. I'll be very interested to see how people use this tool in ways Duolingo didn't expect at all. Cue: "My best friend is Duolingo Max. They're the only person I can really talk t
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by montagg 4y ago
Good for situations where you aren’t expecting or care about realism in this detail. AI hallucinations will be amazing for entertainment, especially games.

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