saint_fiasco

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811.
by saint_fiasco 11y ago
I like the debit card from my credit union, but nobody outside my country would accept it because it's not affiliated to any payment network like Visa or Master Card. Other popular payment methods are mobile payment networks provided b
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by saint_fiasco 11y ago
I live in the third world. The greatest obstacle to paying for apps I like was never the money (compared with the smartphone, good apps are cheap), but the payment method. Banks hate poor people and we hate them back, so not many people hav
813.
by saint_fiasco 11y ago
A common problem in those countries is that you can buy a phone in a store, but you can't just throw your money to the developer through a phone screen. You need an internationally valid credit card to purchase apps.
814.
by saint_fiasco 11y ago
You can go vote and write in 'Lady Gaga' or something. The important part is that you getup and go "vote", to signal that you care. Otherwise, politicians won't be able to tell whether you are dissatisfied or just u
815.
by saint_fiasco 11y ago
There is also less regulation. And there are also lots lots of people. And their economies grow much faster than the first world's. And they haven't yet maxed all their credit cards. The ammount of money that can be made in the th
816.
by saint_fiasco 11y ago
The Chun Li comparison reminds me a lot of the messy transition between 2D and 3D of games like Final Fantasy and Mortal Kombat. In Mortal Kombat, the typical shaolin monk character has a typical "shoot fireball" special move. In
817.
by saint_fiasco 11y ago
They have an advantage in the admittedly small niche of poor gamers with laptops. I could play relatively modern games in my old laptop with AMD integrated GPU (I think it was an A6-something) much better than with my newer low-end laptop (
818.
by saint_fiasco 12y ago
Colleges aren't looking for successful authors. They look for people who communicate well in writing. I think the top writers didn't need attention from their English teachers, but the fairly good ones probably did.
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by saint_fiasco 12y ago
The laws are complex and varied, but there are always some things you can't consent to. For example, you can donate your organs but not sell them, you can work for someone else but only so many hours, and some jobs are forbidden, etc.
820.
by saint_fiasco 12y ago
One of the reasons their games sell so well is because of the mod support. People are willing to pay lots of money for Bethesda games because they know they can have fun with them for years, on account of all the mods. Bethesda was already
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by saint_fiasco 12y ago
Finally read the thing. It's pretty interesting. To be honest, I only read it because one of the authors is Nassim Taleb and I liked his books. Anyway, the gist of it is that there are different kinds of risk. Some risks can be calcula
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by saint_fiasco 12y ago
To be fair, factory farming is pretty awful.
823.
by saint_fiasco 12y ago
I agree there is a superficial similarity, but it seems strange to focus on that little detail. What prevented people in the USSR from visiting their family wasn't the requirement of ID per se. It was the fact that the government could
824.
by saint_fiasco 12y ago
If you have a warrant for your arrest, they will detain you. Or if you are under house arrest or something. They can't stop you on mere suspicion, though. I don't mean to say "if you did nothing wrong you have nothing to fear
825.
by saint_fiasco 12y ago
In my country it's exactly the same way. You need an ID, but not an authorization. The location data is also treated the same way, for the second reason you stated. The way people feel about needing valid ID is very different, though.
826.
by saint_fiasco 12y ago
In my country everyone has a right to an ID card and not even the police can confiscate them. I agree that withholding an essential ID document is evil.
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by saint_fiasco 12y ago
The author of the article implies that he used to be proud of not having to do so because it differentiates his country from the Soviet Union. How will having to carry ID turn a country into an authoritarian dystopia? Is it just an American
828.
by saint_fiasco 12y ago
Replace money with attention and their point stands.
829.
by saint_fiasco 12y ago
The worst part I think is that, even though they don't have family in the city, work is hard to find, and the rent is very expensive, they still won't leave Tokio. Does that mean the other cities are worse?
830.
by saint_fiasco 13y ago
why do you assume you have the right to be served entertainment through the channel of your choice? You wouldn't call up your local pizzeria and demand they deliver a Big Mac and fries, would you? Because the marginal cost of a Big M