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by speeder 6y ago
The sole purpose of the state, is organize its population for war. All other stuff a state do, is extras. There were stateless societies with things like social welfare and public health and so on. But the purpose of the state itself, as or
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by speeder 6y ago
Often I have to explain to people that no, people in medieval age didn't die when they were 25, that life expectancy is just an average, and thus it averages out people that lived normal lives (ie: plenty of people died in their 90s, a
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by speeder 6y ago
Source engine is actually a fork of Quake engine. Back then people often had no idea what they were doing, often because they were doing stuff nobody did before, ever.
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by speeder 6y ago
What is very unlikely? I do not understood what you meant.
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by speeder 6y ago
I stopped playing RTS entirely some years ago because of that. I used to love RTS but... 1. Rushing is stupid, all RTS seemly suffer from allowing it even when devs attempt to curb that down, I remember in AOE for example people training on
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by speeder 6y ago
My grandfather was getting obese and had a risk of getting diabetes. I always assumed he ate healthy food, since he always made an effort for it. When his medic reviewed all his food choices... the issue was actually fruit, in particular va
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by speeder 6y ago
Pangea theory is much more obvious when you look at that map. Also it is interesting that it is as if the whole "land" of the world is basically a big island in the middle of the ocean.
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CloutHub claims IBM deplatformed them(twitter.com)
2 points by speeder 6y ago|0 comments
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by speeder 6y ago
Here in Brazil those still exist, reason is that tax on literature is zero, but tax on software or games is ridiculously high, but if you put your software on a magazine, it counts as literature and get zero tax...
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by speeder 6y ago
I've been using GitLab for a while now. GitHub did many, many decisions that I found sketchy.
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by speeder 6y ago
Nobility was nobility because they did stuff that didn't get them (directly) paid. Defense, research, some higher level medicine, engineering, etc... They would get money from rents, but were expected to spend that money in weapons, eq
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Parler malfunctions, OVERWHELMED by new users fleeing censorship(rt.com)
3 points by speeder 6y ago|0 comments
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Georgia election official: Machine glitch caused by last-minute vendor upload(politico.com)
8 points by speeder 6y ago|0 comments
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by speeder 6y ago
AMD hired the genius CPU designer Jim Keller, that is it. His previous stint on AMD was when he invented AMD64.
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by speeder 6y ago
I am from Brazil... During cold war, any kind of suspected "socialism" seemly counted as "something to do with USA" because a bunch of people were thrown out of helicopters (literally) when they couldn't be extradit
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by speeder 6y ago
I am not from US... As someone from another country this is looking like a complete shitshow. Some bizarre stuff I noticed: Pennsylvania not checking if mail in ballots signatures match (at least in my country everything is checked for sign
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by speeder 6y ago
Cyberpunk 2077 runs on Windows 7. Microsoft made DX12 work on Win7 for some games, Cyberpunk 2077 is one of them. They are not THAT dumb to waste a huge market. Source: https://www.gamepressure.com/newsroom/cyberpunk-20
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by speeder 6y ago
Telecom is... too nasty to touch to be honest. Brazil tried it, we had a state company that had a monopoly of telecom, we broke it up intentionally in many tiny parts and sold them. Results were basically this: 1. A bunch ended eventually m
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by speeder 6y ago
Another thing that bugs me: many countries are taking "tech improvements" in inflation. For example: suppose a TV costs 2x now than what it did 10 years ago, but it is also twice the size, for many countries this means 0% of infla
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by speeder 6y ago
I just explained to you, that they were ALREADY there, they didn't take it by force, they already lived there, for litearlly thousands of years (we have archeological evidence for at least 2 thousand, thus thousands, in plural). Legall
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by speeder 6y ago
This, Crimea, and a ton of other places near Russia, have "occupation" because some stupid random URSS leader gave random territories away to random governors, because the logic was: "it is all part of URSS anyway". So N
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by speeder 6y ago
Turkey military is inside, without permission (thus what we call "invasion") on: Cyprus, Syria, Lybia, sometimes in Iraq (they claim to be fighting kurds, invade, do their thing, and retreat), Greek waters Turkey is also seemly he
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by speeder 6y ago
I wish Fairphone and their german competitor existed in Brazil. My last Android phones all of them failed in ways that were obvioous and simple to repair if it weren't for the fact they were glued shut.
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by speeder 6y ago
I don't, i gave up and run my own business, sadly unrelated to tech
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by speeder 6y ago
This made me remember the story that early Nazi Party was full of government spies tasked in destroying Nazi Party, Hitler being one of them. They were supposed to act like true Nazi and infiltrate them heavily until they had enough informa
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by speeder 6y ago
You don't want to go down that path, because will result in endless finger-pointing. Why Japan joined WW2? Because they were playing catch up with European powers and doing what they did to Japan a some time earlier, and were trying to
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by speeder 6y ago
I am from Brazil, here usually door numbers zig-zag (one side is odd, the other is even). But for some reason, on the street of my business, the numbers are seemly completely random, really. Cue the drivers that are supposed to come pick-up
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by speeder 6y ago
Seemly people want badly to abandon X Server (not the protocol, I mean the server). Assuming they do. Is there any software that can replace the server part of it? For example in my current work I SSH -X to another machine, and use X apps i
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Does Section 230’s Sweeping Immunity Enable Big Tech Bad Behavior?(commerce.senate.gov)
2 points by speeder 6y ago|1 comments
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by speeder 6y ago
The delay doesn't annoy me that much but the Day 0 patch trend does. Seriously why people can't just release 1.0 software that is 1.0 anymore? Although broadband now is widespread, in many situations people might not have it. Situ

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