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by seabird 5y ago
The idea that alcohol helps you speak unreservedly when you otherwise wouldn't is one of ideas that bothers me the most. If you wouldn't say it unless you were drinking, it's either better left unsaid or something you should
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by seabird 5y ago
Alcohol is a personality replacement for a large number of people in the US. I don't feel like I have the moral high ground for not drinking, but I really wish people would stop convincing themselves that drinking is in and of itself a
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by seabird 5y ago
A lot of sibling comments here questioning the parent comment's definition of detrimental. Psychedelic drugs can absolutely have a permanent detrimental effect on people. There is a difference between a positive emotional experience an
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by seabird 5y ago
Everything you said is definitely true as of right now, but if Microsoft somehow finds a way to extract a cut from every transaction on Windows (fears of this around the release of Windows 8 is what initially spurred Valve's Linux inve
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by seabird 5y ago
It's true that this can still not go the way Valve wants, but it's like counting on me to do a standing double frontflip because it's not strictly impossible. The only thing in the way of near-100% compatibility is anticheat,
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by seabird 5y ago
That is a laughable characterization of the business decision Valve has made, and learning from history isn't worth much when the landscape has changed so much in the last five years. Have you actually tried to run games on Steam on Li
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by seabird 5y ago
Whether or not Steam Machines sold well or not is irrelevant. They were an intermediary step to them not being beholden to an OS vendor. In the last couple of years, they have arrived at their destination -- games run on Linux unless they h
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by seabird 5y ago
No, not any worse than they would wherever you're at, yes, and no. There is no "gotcha" to life in the Midwest, the cost of everything in coastal cities is just ridiculous. You don't have to be surrounded by luddites and
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by seabird 5y ago
What you're hearing is camera attenuation. They are still very loud, they just won't outright blow your ears out. It might not sound like a gun if you don't know what a suppressor sounds like, but you will still be able to he
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by seabird 5y ago
You can make any firearm with a pistol grip that has the charging handle fixed to the bolt carrier full-auto by tying a string to a charging handle, wrapping it around the grip and then the trigger. You could very easily figure this out by
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by seabird 5y ago
The West Coast is not the entire US. Most states don't have a $15 minimum wage. That pricing is mostly at 1000 round quantities. 50 round boxes are usually between $20 to $25 a box. The assertion is correct in the sense that somebody l
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by seabird 5y ago
You can order parts to make your gun fully automatic straight to your door without filling out a Form 4 if you want to commit a federal crime that the ATF likely will follow up on. You can order suppressors straight to your door without fil
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by seabird 5y ago
Attempting to defend yourself with something like this is going to get you killed. People are strong beyond most people's ability to understand -- some people can still be a threat with severe bullet wounds for incredibly long periods
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by seabird 5y ago
He IS a very top player (solo Challenger, top 200 in 4/5 roles in the game). There's not a chance in hell he's able to go on autopilot at that point, even in slightly lower rank games during his grinds where he has to try and
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by seabird 5y ago
It can be done and it isn't hard for the company . I'm going to float a guess that you haven't experienced a mass layoff where they pop your coworkers one by one over the course of the workday. It's very painful and tak
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by seabird 5y ago
But you would . People here preach that every single day. If you had highly sensitive info of a non-sexual nature on Google Drive that was going to have a massive negative impact on your life if it got leaked, half of this site would still
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by seabird 5y ago
I seriously think we're at a point where we just need to say "yes, we're blaming the victim", not because we actually are, or think it's the victims fault, but because engaging this line of questioning is a complete
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by seabird 5y ago
It's not forgotten, it just doesn't matter in any meaningful way. We're talking about two years of legal issues that took place during one of the fastest moving eras in computer technology. In Linus' own words at the tim
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by seabird 5y ago
Commenting on BSDs losing out to Linux seems like a weird dig in this context, considering that a large contributing factor to that was legal threats from AT&T.
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by seabird 5y ago
Not wanting to sleep in the same room with somebody who has zero respect for you doesn't mean that you shower once a week and don't have any actual friends. I know a lot of people whose roommates resulted in constant headache, los
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by seabird 5y ago
Real estate is extremely pricey and the number one priority for a university in the US is making money. We have a lot of universities here with 50k, 60k, even 70k students enrolled, so you're either packing people in close and forgoing
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by seabird 5y ago
Yep, you're describing the offices and schools I've worked and studied in for the last 5 or 6 years. 8-16 hours a day in rooms without sunlight. It rarely crosses my mind. I can say that I would in a heartbeat, no questions asked,
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by seabird 5y ago
As much as it would be incredibly funny for Munger to be wrong after talking so much shit, I really don't think that he is. There's a lot of whining about "muh windows" and "you live in a cell". That's coo
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by seabird 5y ago
"Low power" and "something that runs an OS as heavy as Linux" are two conflicting features.
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by seabird 5y ago
"Technologies that replicate the hard limits of paper punch cards" and "mainframe" are not necessarily synonymous. You can make bad decisions with any given set of hardware/software you choose to use. Mainframes hav
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by seabird 5y ago
Would you sacrifice hundreds of jobs (maybe even thousands if you account for second-order effects) for a chance (not a guarantee) that some other company will be able to use the technology in time to deal with the Coronavirus? Could you ac
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by seabird 5y ago
It is a serious risk. Their manufacturing process and their tribal knowledge of it is all they have, save maybe political clout. Through this they prop up everything else. On top of all of this, they might not be able to convey the pro
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by seabird 5y ago
They're going to continue to explore, experiment, and create up until their curiosity is satisfied and they've run out of gas for dealing with regulatory bodies and running a business. It's true -- people will still research
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by seabird 5y ago
The superhero analogy is akin to saying "football is a game where you run a ball to the end of a field". It completely trivializes the realities of developing highly experimental technologies. Moderna doesn't get to fly in li
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by seabird 5y ago
I don't think it's wise to create an environment where medical advancements are gated behind there being enough people in the world that are passionate about pencil-pushing and dealing with the FDA and other regulatory bodies. Ple

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