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by rcarr 3y ago
> E ink is the perfect technology for wall art Call me old fashioned, but I'd say that good old fashioned canvas or paper is the perfect technology for wall art. Do we really need to mine the Earth of god knows what just so the wall
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by rcarr 3y ago
You find people who see the long term benefit. Maybe they don't exist. Maybe they do. Wikipedia is a giant global website that runs entirely on donations. I'd wager there are alternatives out there to the MBA/VC orthodoxy.
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by rcarr 3y ago
> With 1 billion users, $2/year gives you $2B/year, not $16B/year. I was doing the max theoretical if we had all 8 billion humans signed up. The better approach would be to do something pegged to the minimum wage in the co
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by rcarr 3y ago
Well if we was doing it properly, then it would be pegged to an hour of minimum wage or half an hour in whatever country you was operating in. > That other ad ran company is paying off influencers and 'cool kids' to be solely o
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by rcarr 3y ago
> first the infrastructure to run a billion (real) people is going to cost you an epic fuckton I highly doubt that the actual essential infrastructure required to run it is going to cost more than 8 billion dollars/year. Twitter cos
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by rcarr 3y ago
I really want someone to make BoringBook - it's free until a billion people have signed up and then after that it costs $1 a year. It gives you a page you can post to and customise like myspace, an encrypted messaging client, local gro
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by rcarr 3y ago
> Seems like an obvious way to demoralize single men, make them feel worthless, depressed, unproductive. Which is to say if I were running a psy-op campaign against the West, I’d definitely be using that tactic. I've dated girls tha
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by rcarr 3y ago
I ran this experiment when I was in my early twenties and I’m now in my thirties mate, so don’t try playing the “decades of real life experience” card. If you want to run the experiment yourself and come back to me with your findings then I
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by rcarr 3y ago
I’m well aware that not all women are the same but we’re talking in generalities here and there is a reason why the “don’t swipe right unless you’ve over 6ft” thing is a tinder trope. > There's a good chance the difference you'
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by rcarr 3y ago
It’s absolutely true. If you’re 5ft 10 or under, buy a pair of elevator shoes and go on a night out, and watch the amount of extra attention you get from women. It is so much easier to pull it’s just depressing. It’s hard to believe just ho
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by rcarr 3y ago
> However, even then, most people around you will know, so unless you live in a cave you will get the information on time. Some people are just tuned out regardless. My mother is perpetually outraged/shocked that her mortgage is goi
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by rcarr 3y ago
> This seems to be true, but the curious thing is that I’m never involved. The government commits a crime, the New York Times prints it on the front page, the people on the cable chat shows foam at the mouth about it, the government apol
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by rcarr 3y ago
Not all power lifters are clinically obese. You will quite often see a smaller scrawny powerlifter out lift a bodybuilder, purely because they’ve been following strength specific programs rather than focussing on hypertrophy.
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by rcarr 3y ago
Injecting testosterone suppresses your natural testosterone levels just as much if not more than SARMs. If you inject anything into your body that your body naturally produces it will stop producing it as a result. That’s why melatonin is n
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by rcarr 3y ago
I don’t see why, if they’re so desperate for Chinese money, the studio couldn’t just make two cuts of the movie with different maps, one for China and one for the rest of the world. Are China really going to ban the Chinese version just bec
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by rcarr 3y ago
Because testosterone affects everything, including the heart and other organs, potentially causing serious problems down the line. SARMs only effect skeletal muscle tissue, and so it is likely safer in the long run. Obviously more research
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by rcarr 3y ago
> I cant believe how much seemingly casual use it is getting for people to be a little better at their hobbies. From my general observations, insecurity is rife in bodybuilding but generally nonexistent in powerlifting and strongman. Pow
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by rcarr 3y ago
Lots of people I respect use Bitwarden, and it always seems to score really highly in these kinds of things. At the same time, the thought of having all my passwords protected by an open source program absolutely terrifies me. I know on som
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by rcarr 3y ago
> Now, not only were VFX houses responsible for conjuring vast fictional cities, bustling crowds of tens of thousands, and cascading waterfalls, but they would also spend months fixing mistakes: digitally erasing visible wig lines in per
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by rcarr 3y ago
And what would happen if the government passed a law saying that housing benefit could no longer be paid to private landlords? Looking over the instant wide spread homelessness, you would get a sharp spike in landlords either selling their
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by rcarr 3y ago
It's probably a lot to do with the subreddits I'm in but I do hear Xbox Cloud Gaming get mentioned quite a lot, far more than the actual console itself. I actually wouldn't be surprised if the next generation of consoles (PS6
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by rcarr 3y ago
2 sets of AR glasses, hit play at the same time. I'm a little bit obsessed with AR glasses at minute. In all seriousness though if you're on a Mac you can use SoundSource by Rogue Amoeba to route audio. So if you were streaming so
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by rcarr 3y ago
The thing is, I think a lot of millennials are that pissed off now that even if they got homes, I don't think they'd make the switch. We've literally had our fucking lives stolen from us. Most people I've spoken to don&#
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by rcarr 3y ago
> why do you need a 3 bed house if you are single without kids Because the 3 bed house is a signal to potential mates that you are financially capable of starting a family. Don't get me wrong there's a lot that goes into pickin
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by rcarr 3y ago
> Private landlords have been enriched at the expense of the wider society. We are literally subsidising the least productive "profession" in society, to the tune of billions. It's an absolute joke.
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by rcarr 3y ago
It definitely seems to be more of an Anglosphere problem than elsewhere. I've been learning other languages with the long term view of permanently escaping the Anglosphere in the next 5 years, unless I finally manage to land a job that
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by rcarr 3y ago
Ditch the monitor and get some AR glasses like Viture or Xreal
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by rcarr 3y ago
Anyone know what the Linux equivalent of this would be?
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by rcarr 3y ago
> Is it mostly an entertainment thing or do you actually do work with it? Both. I just got a steam deck and my current plan is to sell my MacBook and just use Steam Deck and some AR glasses as my set up for everything. I can use the desk
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by rcarr 3y ago
I’m convinced consumer TVs/monitors are a dying product and we’ll all be using AR glasses by 2040 anyway. I hardly ever want to interact with a computer without using my xreal now.

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