rpgmaker

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by rpgmaker 10y ago
Sometimes I think that, sure, the universe it's huge and it's very possible (in my mind, almost certain) that there are other planets with advanced life forms like we can find here on Earth. If we accept this then it's safe t
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by rpgmaker 10y ago
> 50 million years is a very long time. In not much more time than that, Hawaii will be part of Japan. And in another 50 million Japan will be part of China! Isn't it easy to make stuff up?
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by rpgmaker 10y ago
> but it is nonetheless true that modern science has found the Élan vital (vital impetus) that naturalistic writers often claim doesn't exist. Source?
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by rpgmaker 10y ago
> But that might just be because I "grew up", digitally speaking, in the era of self-hosted websites and blogs, of FTP and local development pushed remotely. That's because you're technically proficient, hardly the ca
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by rpgmaker 10y ago
>* Hard to believe this is something more than 'wannabe business PR' plus movie PR.* By the way what is that movie's actual name? I haven't been able to find it on imdb, rotten tomatoes, etc.
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by rpgmaker 10y ago
There's no reason why you can't do both: worry that another country could influence the electoral process via hacking and see the value in having this information exposed. The media and the Democrats only want people to focus
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by rpgmaker 10y ago
Are we supposed to ignore that the media is 100% unified in stopping Trump from becoming president? I'm against Trump (who I believe to be a fascist and psychologically unstable) but I'm not going to pretend that it is honest to s
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by rpgmaker 10y ago
Not to mention that the US has a particularly awful history of subverting other countries' elections.
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by rpgmaker 10y ago
> I think we're starting to see it via cases like this. Not really. This is just one case where you happen to agree with a judge's decision, it hardly means that software companies are going to start including one-page EULA&#
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by rpgmaker 10y ago
Photoshop is as easy to pirate as it has ever been. The "SaaS" licensing scheme hasn't changed this one bit.
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by rpgmaker 10y ago
> Is it possible the unfathomably complex economic machine will simply adapt to the subsidy? Not only possible: it happens all the time. There are very few industries in the US that aren't subsidized by the govt one way or another
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by rpgmaker 10y ago
Honestly, I know things can't stay the same forever, particularly in the design department, but to me Aqua still looks way better than current OSX (granted, I only use OSX very sporadically for educational purposes). I have to admit th
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by rpgmaker 10y ago
It is also bullshit. Existing technology doesn't "blow" either.
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by rpgmaker 10y ago
There will always be apps (and particularly games) to hit it big. Stop this End of History crap.
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by rpgmaker 10y ago
Do you just have a vanilla OSX VM installation or do you optimize it in some way? For me OSX is very slow on vbox on a very decently spec'ed VM. Far from my experience with Windows guests.
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by rpgmaker 10y ago
I think Fabric does "help" their revenue ID'ing all those phones where Fabric-enabled apps are installed.
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by rpgmaker 10y ago
> The reason why Twitter has took a turn over the years is because of their treatment of developers and their murdering of top apps instead of letting them flourish. Oh how I wish this was true but sadly this is usually never the case. I
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by rpgmaker 10y ago
> But must the standard for safety be higher than existing human drivers? Yes it must. I can readily accept responsibility if there was something on the road to which I wasn't able to respond properly and resulted in an accident but
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by rpgmaker 10y ago
It's a minor quibble but is it accurate to put the project under the US "government" umbrella (@usgov)? I don't think the USG existed in any meaningful sense before confederation.
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by rpgmaker 10y ago
Many of your critiques apply to many countries considered democracies. Excessive gerrymandering is an issue in many democracies including the US. Not to mention that in the US minorities are specifically targeted for exclusion. A lot of cou
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by rpgmaker 10y ago
> the past-time heavyweights would be serving a far higher calling today Higher calling? It's a business dude, plain and simple.
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by rpgmaker 10y ago
> And isn't it ironic that this name was used to re-enforce Hugo Chavez's "Bolivar Revolution" aka dictatorship. Actually, Hugo Chavez was very popular and won all his elections by a wide margin. You could say a lot o
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by rpgmaker 10y ago
> Using weakly biased arguments that government or business is responsible for "protecting" the customer is ridiculous, especially in light of recent revelations of corruption in our government and business sectors. I don'
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by rpgmaker 10y ago
That's what anyone would guess but I was hoping for some kind of researched answer.
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by rpgmaker 10y ago
> I installed the Prime music app and found the catalog to be so limited (albeit "free" with my prime membership) I wonder, how does the Prime endgame looks like for Amazon? Assuming almost every Amazon member upgrades, will Pr
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by rpgmaker 10y ago
It's not even Vermont, he just wanted to trash it.
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by rpgmaker 10y ago
There is a lot of stuff you can't do to your own house/apartment without violating some rule or law. This is old. Airbnb can be disruptive in many negative ways and not every community feels that the trade-offs of letting them do
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by rpgmaker 10y ago
He also kind of shittalked his cofounder. Implicit in the setup of the piece is the fact that his cofounder was essentially clueless about everything. "I asked my close friend of 20 years how he was doing. Dmitry answered, “Awesome! I
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by rpgmaker 10y ago
I agree. I mean, Dishero was very young. I doubt that in a market as conservative as the one they were in they'd find the magic bullet in less than two years.
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by rpgmaker 10y ago
Interesting premise, if not exactly novel, but some could argue that, excepting some needed advances in medicine, we do have everything we need and we're still not satisfied. It comes down to this, will humanity ever design/inve

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