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by naringas 6y ago
the author is not talking about (nor reflecting on) the industry which makes the games, if he's refelcting on any industry it's the chair-makers. the article is really about the gamers and their culture, and even so, it's not
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by naringas 6y ago
but how does it work? I imagine it requires sophisticated software on the receiving side? (and thus they can give away the 3D designs and still profit by selling the software?)
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by naringas 6y ago
No doubt it is well written, simple code, but that's not even the main reason it's so widespread. The point is that the moment it was written is even more important than how well it was written. Though I suppose that if it had bee
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by naringas 6y ago
"Why was Arab science so good during their golden age? because they copied the greeks"
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by naringas 6y ago
> illicit money there's something conceptually wrong about this. currency is supposed to be fungible. 'good money' and 'bad money' are incompatible with fungible currency.
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by naringas 6y ago
Mozilla as an organization has lost its principles. Just one example is the fact that it is not possible to run a fully self-hosted sync service. You must use Firefox accounts or something like that. Sure, you can run your own actual data h
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by naringas 6y ago
learn to read and follow instructions. after all programming is all about writing them
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by naringas 6y ago
a store (even a multi-location physical retailer) is not the same thing as a digital platform the crucial difference is due to the digial aspect. digital "material" does not have physical contraints. this simple fact changes every
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by naringas 6y ago
the lesson from this? advocating vegetarianism is one of the various HN taboos.
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by naringas 6y ago
as far as I know the recent terrible fires swept through parts that hadn't burned in decades
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by naringas 6y ago
I do not understand sophisticaded derivatives either. I blame this fact on my lack of exposure to such financial instruments.
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by naringas 6y ago
might it be a mathematical (and unphysical) theory??
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by naringas 6y ago
> Note: farm subsidies may well be corrupt and wasteful but they exist for national security reasons. A country that can't feed itself is completely vulnerable in times of conflict. It's not that different: "news subsidies
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by naringas 6y ago
does anybody know if google employs many librarians? because as far as I can tell, google's old public goal of organizing the world's information overlaps a lot with a librarian's basic goal of organizing their library? (but
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by naringas 6y ago
maybe because they distributed the output of their limited technology better than we do? there's just too much busy-work in modernity
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by naringas 6y ago
> I can imagine an intelligent species that has a structured set of logical rules that looks very different from our math but still be able to make useful models. but can you imagine such a set of rules?
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by naringas 6y ago
yes, however saying "learn (a secret)" is more precise
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by naringas 6y ago
Science is functioning as a religion. it aids the mainstream state system in maintaining social stability. It informs people's beliefs about what is feasible and possible to do and what isn't. It even answers the question "ho
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by naringas 6y ago
> Come to think of it... maybe this happens in politics and medicine too? ;) indeed, the USA has made a business-marketplace out of anything, including things which should never be driven by profit driven competition (e.g. jails)
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by naringas 6y ago
they are quite a lot like Microsoft of the late 90s and early 00s
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by naringas 6y ago
i'd go as far as saying that most (even all?) rationalization is post-fact. If you can reason a plan and then follow it is because of past experience, you've done similar things before.
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by naringas 6y ago
this breaks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
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by naringas 6y ago
but rich people who break the law get house arrest and things like that
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by naringas 6y ago
As a thought expreiment, what if Apple and Google quite simply did not comply? Could they really ignore an executive order? Could they sue the government and get some sort of injuction? How could the government compel them? With fines? Wi
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by naringas 6y ago
what about forcing them to be developed in the open? (everybody get's to read and audit all their code and processess)
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by naringas 6y ago
if only the "right" people would run for office...
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by naringas 6y ago
computer technology (and related) news?
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by naringas 6y ago
> East Coast VCs are much more conservative, which is ultimately bad because it results in less moonshots succeeding. "East Coast VCs are much more conservative, which is actually better in a longer term because it results in more
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by naringas 6y ago
still beats the engangement of a TV advertisment and that's what instagram is all about
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Facts Do Not Persuade(ribbonfarm.com)
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