piltdownman

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by piltdownman 5mo ago
Off-ramping to fiat would be criminalised and pursued beyond the wildest dreams of La Liga/Cloudflare. A gambling site you can't withdraw your winnings from is of no interest to anyone.
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by piltdownman 5mo ago
Prop betting on a transparent and equitable Exchange is a perfectly reasonable and egalitarian proposal - it's the Betfair Exchange vs Betfair Sportsbook model expanded outside of the scope of sports. Allowing prediction markets to ove
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by piltdownman 5mo ago
The problem is some PE has read up on the FujiGen Gakki guitars of the 70s and thought they could strike rich with a test case in a soft German court - and they were right.
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by piltdownman 5mo ago
In terms of ergonomics, resonance and so on, there's not many terribly optimal solidbody electronic guitar shapes that deviate from the Les Paul/Strat/Tele trinity. Explorers, Flying Vs and the like are basically genre-odditi
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by piltdownman 5mo ago
Frank Lantz's Universal Paperclips is the absolute pinnacle of taking game mechanics to a logical extreme. Engaging to the point of existentialist crisis - anyone who describes themselves as a gamer owes it to themselves to complete a
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by piltdownman 5mo ago
TBF gacha is best described not as a genre, but rather as a dark mechanic designed to promote a psychologically exploitative stimulus/reward system as a revenue increasing measure. In much the same way as Arcade Games are designed to c
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by piltdownman 5mo ago
Sutherland is seductive, but essentially just a Marketing Executive with after-dinner speaking skills. For something a bit more robust, I'd recommend the consumer culture exposition in Adam Curtis''The Century of the Self&#x2
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by piltdownman 5mo ago
I mean that's just reductio ad absurdum to be haughtily oblique about the whole issue. Social programs =/= socialism. There are plenty of capitalist economies with robust social safety nets - most EU countries provide free healthc
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by piltdownman 6mo ago
Specifically for Windows, the Intel 2001 Guidelines and Microsoft WHQL (Windows Hardware Quality Labs) which prohibit the use of MPU401-style interfaces, as well as direct driver access to either the serial or parallel ports. Doing Direct-T
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by piltdownman 6mo ago
You're presumably referring to the ideologically driven cuts at the NIH and a complete misunderstanding of the efficacy-effectiveness gap in macro-level Research outcomes at the FDA? The ones that have led many prominent Professors of
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by piltdownman 6mo ago
If you want the druggy, high-concept, ersatz-reality version go with Philip K. Dick - namely The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, A Scanner Darkly, VALIS. If you want the intellectual take go with A Canticle for Leibowitz (Miller), Oryx a
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by piltdownman 6mo ago
Games Workshop: Powerscaling like drunken teenagers since September 1987.
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by piltdownman 6mo ago
//I just finished this book and complained about it the whole time Outside of the wonderful introductory set-up and the initial inverted set-piece of 'Your first day', there is little for the book to recommend itself as
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by piltdownman 7mo ago
Classism may have diminished, but the subjugation of the working classes via abhorrences like "the gig economy" are almost Victorian in their draconian bureaucracy and dehumanisation. These are most ably depicted in Ken Loach&#x27
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by piltdownman 7mo ago
//Funny how this lateral move to another function is seen as a promotion. Not at all. IC salaries outside of the absolute top-tier companies are capped, and were traditionally always capped lower than any degree of Senior Manageme
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by piltdownman 7mo ago
// but I'd bet your CTO is looking to shake-up the domain of staff developers more than management with the AI hype train. Well that's a given, isn't it? The contemporary CTO is looking for quantitative proof of pro
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by piltdownman 7mo ago
// Do soldiers respect the West Point grad that hasn’t or doesn’t do soldering? Yes, just like an Office Hierarchy there's an expectation that they respect the Rank - based on the caveat that the Officer/Manager doesn&#x
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by piltdownman 8mo ago
I mean they're the discount bus of the skies, designed for students and people on weekend breaks inter-EU. Avoid flying to Paris (Buvais) or certain other 'city' airports, keep your carry-on luggage within limits, and they&#x
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by piltdownman 8mo ago
Generally speaking you can use the mobile website and add the QR based boarding pass to Google Wallet that way - but if you dig into the TOS you'll almost certainly find an alternative way to get a printed pass. For example Ryanair, wh
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by piltdownman 8mo ago
Counterpoint: Minecraft I could go on, but the argument doesn't really merit it.
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by piltdownman 8mo ago
QC / Cheap Shipping / TEMU or AliX Pricing Pick 2. Not to mention that from July 1, 2026, the EU is abolishing the €150 duty-free threshold for non-EU shipments. This is specifically targeted at the flood of packages from marketpl
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by piltdownman 8mo ago
How do you handle anti-DDOS, zero-trust and WAF duties to a cloudflare-esque equivalency (e.g. a reverse-proxy style setup)? While I definitely concur with your conclusions re VMs and GCP hosting overhead, did you benchmark a container base
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by piltdownman 8mo ago
I mean no one is listening to an audiobook of an Eternal Golden Braid - even if one existed it couldn't lead to an equivalent outcome compared to reading it. Let's not even get started on the impact on literary devices like Wordpl
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by piltdownman 8mo ago
I wouldn't worry in the slightest - any cultural appropriation offense has long since been hammered out at the altar of American Television. The Punch Magazine-esque depiction of bucolic ignorance in ST:TNG {1} is probably the worst re
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by piltdownman 8mo ago
Ah, the Joe Rogan school of geopolitics finally rears its HGH malformed head {1} https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/wales-englan... {2} https://pa.media/blogs/fact-check/f
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by piltdownman 8mo ago
Ah yes, the inevitable green accounts playing down a 56 year celebrity and anti-trans activist harassing a teenage girl in public //"He said ‘go away groomer’, ‘go away you disgusting incel’. He called her a ‘sissy porn-watch
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by piltdownman 8mo ago
Is it not simply maintaining the basic TOS and tenets of the UN Charter of Human Rights, and the Rights of the Child, in the face of egregious civil and human rights violations driven BigTech's divine mandate to break things first (lik
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Graham Linehan to speak at congressional hearing on European big tech regulation(irishtimes.com)
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by piltdownman 8mo ago
Another dog and pony show being organised to produce vox-pops for MAGA cultists who define themselves by not reading past the headline, as part of Republican congressman Jim Jordan's '1st Amendment for me, but not for thee' &
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by piltdownman 9mo ago
Again, not to put too fine a point on it, but Disco Elysium is one of the most emotionally poignant and utterly impactful pieces of media ever created. But why take my word for it? Have a look at some reviews and reactions - and note that e

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