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601.
by moomin 2y ago
I’m somewhat disappointed no-one spotted the Snow Crash reference.
602.
by moomin 2y ago
I’m guessing America no longer has the edge on high-speed pizza delivery.
603.
by moomin 2y ago
You ever get offended that the attacker is so obviously incompetent? At least put in the work like the xz attacker.
604.
by moomin 2y ago
Feel like you need to read the article. Many of the devices affected do not fit any reasonable interpretation of the term “legacy”. It turns out 3G is in many ways superior to 4G and 5G.
605.
by moomin 2y ago
I insist on calling Roblox “rob-l-ox” when talking to my kids. It’s a dumb joke, but it also emphasises to them that spelling is a guide and not always a useful one.
606.
by moomin 2y ago
It’s funny, because movies still have the prestige television and games do not, despite both of them outstripping cinema in many ways. Movies have become increasingly global common denominator, with razor edge finances, and have ceded so mu
607.
by moomin 2y ago
Makes sense. No idea what the derivation of “ENTIER” is, though.
608.
by moomin 2y ago
What does ENTIER do? I can read the code, but I have no idea what that means.
609.
by moomin 2y ago
There is a lot more to a person than genetic code. We are not IKEA chairs and DNA is not the assembly instructions.
610.
by moomin 2y ago
James Madison wrote: There was one difficulty however of a serious nature attending an immediate choice by the people. The right of suffrage was much more diffusive in the Northern than the Southern States; and the latter could have no infl
611.
by moomin 2y ago
Taking the name of the language of the front makes it read like Python is the subject matter.
612.
by moomin 2y ago
Yes! I played that too! Love it, never managed to beat the huge frontal assault mission, though. IIRC Paul Darrow was a voice actor on it. Who I saw many years later playing Sam Vimes in Wimbledon Theatre.
613.
by moomin 2y ago
You sound right on the money here. Occam’s Razor suggests they’re rebooting for a reason we know about rather than an undocumented security feature.
614.
by moomin 2y ago
Sacrifice also had an incredible branching story and builds that directly relied on previous decisions.
615.
by moomin 2y ago
Having the same name was an understandable marketing decision, but I think it probably harmed it in many ways. The game is interesting and different even today (although I’ve mention my reservations about it further up)
616.
by moomin 2y ago
Yes, loved that game! Would have loved it more if it was actually finished.
617.
by moomin 2y ago
Wow, this resonated with me extremely strongly. Only realised the term “latchkey kid” applied to me in my thirties. Like many, didn’t mind it, wouldn't say it harmed me. Didn’t feel neglected: my mum needed to work and I knew she was h
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by moomin 2y ago
My god I love BZ98. For me, the remaster was frustrating. The most annoying thing was that certain things, like the combat AI, had been improved in ways that broke the balance of the single player campaign. I doubt players with the subject’
619.
by moomin 2y ago
An H1B is a good example. The company says they don’t need you, you have to leave the country.
620.
by moomin 2y ago
A nuance of like to add, though: some of the ways of controlling immigration, in particular revocable economic visas, are _designed_ to push down the cost of labour at the expensive of natives. IMHO, if you get permission to work in a count
621.
by moomin 2y ago
Very few of the things you’re listing are caused by immigration. They’re caused by institutional neglect. The person telling you they’re caused by immigration has no intention of addressing the institutional neglect, because that doesn’t ge
622.
by moomin 2y ago
If Biden’s trade policy pushed you to the right, maybe you weren’t that centrist to begin with.
623.
by moomin 2y ago
That really isn't the primary alienating and divisive rhetoric from this election. It's just the bit you didn't like.
624.
by moomin 2y ago
I feel like that's a story HN and a lot of tech likes to tell itself, but the truth is that when push comes to shove they support candidates who are neither, but _are_ deeply right wing. Concrete actions tell the real story.
625.
by moomin 2y ago
Pretty sure Luke was aimed at a gentile audience as well. Matthew is the one who tells the nativity story explicitly as a fulfilment of prophecy.
626.
by moomin 2y ago
Yeah, at some point we’re going to have to solve the opposite problem. Luckily that’s also pretty easy to solve as well: mandatory maternity/paternity leave, free childcare, &c
627.
by moomin 2y ago
First African-American to be nominated for Best Song at the Oscars (not the first winner, that was Isaac Hayes for the obvious.) Guy who made Michael Jackson and Will Smith megastars. And a LOT more. He was one of the most talented people o
628.
by moomin 2y ago
Dylan wouldn’t be the only person to turn graphomania into a viable business. Look at Brandon Sanderson.
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by moomin 2y ago
Women’s education and women’s rights. I don’t personally think we have an overpopulation problem, but the above are proven to reduce birth rates in an entirely non-coercive manner, as well as being a good thing in their own right.
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by moomin 2y ago
A good way of illustrating this is that John doesn’t even attempt a nativity story. He starts “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”

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