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by pipes 3y ago
Well I'm glad telecoms were privatised, we have great competition, I shop around every two years and end up with a great deal. Compare that to the early 80s waiting god knows how long for a phone line. Railways were privatised because
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by pipes 3y ago
"If you don't cannibalize yourself, someone else will" Steve Jobs
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by pipes 3y ago
Is the writer paid by the word ?! "and Google seems aware of the responsibility it shoulders running one of the best entertainment apps out there. " What? Get to the point. Google seems aware that it runs YouTube. Yes I'm sur
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by pipes 3y ago
What context would excuse slavery? Everyone was at it so it was ok? Under certain circumstances it was ok? I'm wary of critising historical figures for being racist etc ( e.g.they recently renamed the Hume building in Edinburgh because
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by pipes 3y ago
Similar experience, I nearly bought a ps1 but they were sold out everywhere. Then I went to a friend's house and played goldeneye. It was on a completely different level to anything I'd ever played before. Bought an n64 instead. W
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by pipes 3y ago
Can someone explain this to me, I'm in the UK. What's going on? I thought you paid for college in the USA, but these students are getting money from the university?
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by pipes 3y ago
Was soul calibur a launch title? I bought power stone with mine on launch day and remember getting soul calibur much later, though this was in the UK
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by pipes 3y ago
Tastes vary, but power stone and soul calibur are great (and still look great today). Though you are right in a way, it didn't really have a recognisable brand game like gran turismo or Tekken. (Or goldeneye)
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by pipes 3y ago
I bought a DC on launch day, and still have one (my original died). I honestly think ridge Racer 5 looked like something the DC couldn't do. Even more so gran turismo 3, which still looks great. That said the DC is contender for my fa
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by pipes 3y ago
GTA 3 was going to come to the Dreamcast first at one point. Or at least I'm sure I read that somewhere.
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by pipes 3y ago
You might be interested in AutoRuns (from sys internals suite of tools). https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/aut...
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by pipes 3y ago
That's really interesting. But given that it makes Windows defender changes etc I'm hesitant to use it. Also, why would removing edge improve performance?
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by pipes 3y ago
My gut feeling is that they get status from these warnings. Or they subconsciously think they will. Like somehow they are as important as the scientists from the Manhatten project.
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by pipes 3y ago
It really isn't the same as someone asking for money in return for nothing.
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by pipes 3y ago
Click bait headline.
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by pipes 3y ago
"gross" are you disgusted by him?
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by pipes 3y ago
I'm using unlock on Firefox on android, it blocks ads on YouTube. Genuine question, what would ad guard do that is better?
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by pipes 3y ago
Unfortunately I think you are probably right. One thing I don't get though, why is either ms or Sony still in the console business. It's extremely risky, why bother when real money is mobile? Edit: is pc gaming really growing? Tha
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by pipes 3y ago
What games have you developed? Genuinely interested!
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by pipes 3y ago
Thats interesting about the visits to Edinburgh castle, probably very accurate. Feels accurate too. Around 2009 or so Edinburgh was pretty "dead" I remember work mates complaining about it, so much one of them moved to Glasgow. No
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by pipes 3y ago
Ordinarily I disagree with this kind of thinking, but I live in Edinburgh, for some reason I hate that the old town now feels like a theme park, though I'm not sure why. Especially given that during lock down I walked around it a lot a
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by pipes 3y ago
That's a very limited view of the price of compute coming down so massively actually means. Just consider one field, medicine for example, and just one example from that: COVID vaccines.
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by pipes 3y ago
Until the very recent inflation increase, food has been cheaper than ever. It's been making up less and less of household budgets for decades. https://seekingalpha.com/article/92689-over-the-past-100-yea...
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by pipes 3y ago
You are really drifting in to largely discredited mechantilism there, the belief that money should not flow out of the nation. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/mercantilism.asp#:~:tex... .
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by pipes 3y ago
I don't get it, does the Wikipedia page answer that question?
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by pipes 3y ago
You've got me wondering if I'm wrong about this, which would be hilarious as for years I've been that dick who only knows one grammatical rule and annoys people with it all the time. I always thought it was discrete Vs contin
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by pipes 3y ago
Thought this was going to be the Dreamcast emulator https://redream.io/
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by pipes 3y ago
I got burnt on a second hand card a few years ago, reckon it had been used for crypto mining, weird checker board pattern would appear every so often. That said I still bought a 3070 for around 300 off FB market place recently. Was in the g
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by pipes 3y ago
Fewer. Sorry, couldn't resist, given the context :)
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by pipes 3y ago
And the link titles on hacker news are following the same trajectory that Reddit did about a decade ago. It's depressing.

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