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by p_j_w 5y ago
>I don't understand how someone can consider the death penalty monstrous, but forgetting someone for decades in a brutal, hopeless prison environment is perfectly fine Neither do I.
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by p_j_w 5y ago
>super-power (if Russia could've been called that) Russia hasn't been a super power in 30 years IMO.
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by p_j_w 5y ago
I genuinely don't understand how someone can read an article like this one, support the death penalty, and still sleep well at night. We've executed so many innocent people it's impossible to not consider the practice monstro
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by p_j_w 5y ago
One person suffering is not a good reason to go cause some other person who isn't at fault to suffer.
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by p_j_w 5y ago
>Not supporting linux as a gaming platform is a down to earth decision. Why should I care? It was supported before Epic bought them and Epic decided to axe it. My experience with Psyonix post-Epic is far worse than pre-Epic, which is exa
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by p_j_w 5y ago
>epic doesnt have a reputation of blowing their aquisitions. They ditched the Linux version of Rocket League. That counts as a blown acquisition to me.
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by p_j_w 5y ago
>They have the money to get things right, they just somehow don't. I just don't get it. They have enough money that they don't need to get it right. What are you gonna do, go running to the competition? They can just buy t
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by p_j_w 5y ago
>I think digital delivery platforms benefit from competition, and we should not be locked down into a single monopolistic, stagnating platform. I agree with this in principle but I think it's only necessarily true when production an
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by p_j_w 5y ago
>Well, this does look like a straight Wordle copy. Did you not read the article? It's in Swedish, so not actually a straight copy. That right there should be more than enough to allow it, as presumably there are plenty of Swedes who
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by p_j_w 5y ago
>And when the Fed went to course correct in 2018, they immediately bailed after markets started to decline to historically normal levels. I suspect Jerome Powell will be looked back on as a disaster. That Biden renominated him out of def
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by p_j_w 5y ago
>America used to be the 'white city on the hill' where we stood up for what's right and did what we had to do for our friends. This has never been true. >Rule-lawyering our way out of helping others seems petty and mean
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by p_j_w 5y ago
You haven't said how it can be falsified here, though. How sound a scientific footing is any of that really on then if we can't actually experiment?
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by p_j_w 5y ago
>Consciousness is an emergent phenomenon entirely dependent on and contained within the brain. How would one falsify this?
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by p_j_w 5y ago
We upheld every promise we made to Ukraine. This may not be a polite thing to say, but Ukraine is not valuable enough to risk any sort of war with a country like Russia, nuclear OR conventional.
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by p_j_w 5y ago
>promise the US would defend them. That's not what the Budapest Memorandum said, this was the actual promise: >Seek immediate Security Council action to provide assistance to Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine if they "should b
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by p_j_w 5y ago
I'm not falling for this one, I know no one misses me!
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by p_j_w 5y ago
>The people I know [...] The people I know Are you incapable of escaping from your little corner of the world? >I suggest you try places that smell good from the street and not outsource your thinking to an app. Guess what? I can, and
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by p_j_w 5y ago
>I don't understand why there aren't more feature phones with full hardware keyboards. If I had to hazard a guess, it'd be that not enough people want them for it to be a financially viable product.
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by p_j_w 5y ago
>False. I bet the vast majority of content available online is now (think of pics and short videos) created on smartphones. Even if this isn't true, it's not a great point. Most people didn't use their home PCs to create c
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by p_j_w 5y ago
>You go out to a bar before dinner? Does it matter? Maybe they wanna look for a bar after dinner then? In which case, you know, the phone is still useful. >I've always thought of dinner as starting an evening out, or at the very
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by p_j_w 5y ago
>You want to know what happens whenever the US pulls back? Ukraine gets invaded. America hasn't even pulled back and we still can't stop Ukraine from getting invaded. Besides, preventing Ukraine from getting invaded isn't
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by p_j_w 5y ago
Browser based apps are almost always inferior to a native program.
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by p_j_w 5y ago
>This is an article style I really don’t like, the interesting information is buried towards the end after thousands of mostly irrelevant bits of narrative which aren’t worth remembering. This sort of journalism is something I find extre
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by p_j_w 5y ago
The word "app" has changed in common usage. Most any program you ran on your computer was called an Application way back when, but now it's come to mean... whatever it's supposed to mean now. Whoever wrote the Github sit
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by p_j_w 5y ago
That was my first thought as well. If someone asked me that during an interview, I might assume the type annotation for the return type was something meant to throw me off.
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by p_j_w 5y ago
It's a Department of Energy project, and DoE is primarily focused on nuclear weapons. It is undoubtedly used for nuclear weapons research. Discussion of the technology for use in any kind of power plant is just PR.
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by p_j_w 5y ago
"They didn't entirely succeed in their aims" seems like really terrible reasoning to me, and also has really bad long term consequences. If I'm a massive market leader like Intel then, I now have all the incentives in th
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by p_j_w 5y ago
>e.g. you aren't meant to inspect your own functioning I'd be curious how this view is justified. >I did a mindfulness practice for a while that I thought was harmful because it encouraged me to accept unacceptable situation
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by p_j_w 5y ago
Buying Blizzivision is not the same as competing, it's them swinging their money dick around to take stuff away from the competition.
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by p_j_w 5y ago
>This sounds a bit like "ms should just make better games". Games are hard. Extremely hard. The answer to this conundrum for them should be, "Tough titties, learn to compete or die, but we will not allow you to bully your

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