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by thrance 3mo ago
In fact, the subprime mortgage crisis impacted the average Joe much more than the fuckers responsible for it, who ran away scot-free with fat money bags. The financial crash that will happen as the result of the AI speculation bubble poppin
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by thrance 3mo ago
DOGE is simply a tool of global capital, and shouldn't be singled out as the root cause of anything. Its purpose was to cut money from being redistributed through government programs, so it could go to the financial markets instead via
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by thrance 3mo ago
Yet adding them wouldn't make the game better, as it just wasn't designed around voiced lines. NPCs in Morrowind are much more numerous and verbose than in Oblivion or Skyrim. To some like me, the sequel games were downgrades in t
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by thrance 3mo ago
Morrowind wasn't meant to be narrated, NPCs blur out walls of text with hyperlinks in them leading to more walls of text. If I had to sit idle while someone/something was reading all of this to me, I'd be bored out of my mind
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by thrance 3mo ago
Camus, for one.
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by thrance 3mo ago
Camus would call Buddhism, and other religions, "philosophical suicide", because you're basically believing in a made-up justification for your existence and what its purpose is. Stoicism is a guide on how you should live you
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by thrance 3mo ago
But this use isn't specific to the Vision Pro, or am I wrong? What prevents things like that from running on any other VR headset, like my half-broken Quest 2?
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by thrance 3mo ago
Oh, I trust he'd be pandering to the Harris administration too, if they were in office. It's true that antagonizing China has been a constant in US politics for a while now. It's just especially funny to see someone pretend t
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by thrance 3mo ago
He's just pandering to the lunatics in office. They're even quoting Vance, like he was a respectable and wise politician and not an insane puppet built by oligarchs and for oligarchs.
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by thrance 3mo ago
> You’re just carrying a blank phone that you intend to set up and use later, and they can’t force you to install your backup onto a phone. They can just make this illegal too, and ask for the keys to your backup, or detain you until you
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by thrance 3mo ago
Is this 16GB for those so-called "Vibrant Visuals" or just for parity with the old version? If the latter, then what's the point of the transition to Vulkan if it quadruples resource use?
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by thrance 3mo ago
I think my point still stands? For selective pressure to select anything, there has to be preexisting genes that predict how much someone wants kids. And again, cultural and material factors are so much more important than genetic ones on t
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by thrance 3mo ago
Why did you just assume there are genes that predict "not wanting children"? It's happening uniformly all around the world, and is much better predicted by things like wealth and freedom than anything else: cultural reasons,
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by thrance 3mo ago
> The way through is to change the way you relate to your work, and to appreciate the fact that you can now produce far more output. Yeah, just like artisans enjoyed being turned into assembly line workers in the industrial revolution. T
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by thrance 3mo ago
Between China and the USA, the latter is the irrational agent. They were rumors that Trump attempted to use nuked on Iran recently, but was barred from doing so by some general.
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by thrance 3mo ago
It would be like calling Roosevelt a fascist because he said "Nazi Germany as a nation has no right to exist". It's ridiculous.
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by thrance 3mo ago
We've had enough time with crypto as a technology to see that it provides strictly negative value to the world. Banning all related projects wholesale is not unreasonable, in my book.
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by thrance 3mo ago
HN ownership is complicit. They've been censoring everything "political" recently, as it becomes harder and harder to rationalize this regime's exactions. Used to be that such links would show up in the front page of &#x
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by thrance 3mo ago
> For owning a home, this would be a duty for everyone else to build you a home, satisfying your requirements. One thing everyone agrees on is that other people do NOT have the right to force you to work. But that is the only way governm
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by thrance 3mo ago
Notice how when it comes to the interests of Capital, suddenly regulations or NIMBYs are rendered powerless. Building homes and infrastructure? Impossible. Building datacenters that will be obsolete in 4 years and abandoned just to fuel a s
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by thrance 3mo ago
(1) is a negative liberty: freedom from being forced to eat a certain diet. (2) is a positive liberty: actual ability to eat a certain diet. Western society is still mostly blind to the latter type of liberty. Similarly, everyone is fre
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by thrance 3mo ago
Yeah, I noticed. I had Claude write a quick JS script for me a few days ago, it then tried to use Bun to run it. When it couldn't find it, it tried to install it with `sudo pacman`. I had to fucking tell it to use Node instead.
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by thrance 3mo ago
A human voice is just a marker that some effort and care went into the making of this video. With AI voices, it's lazy slop more often than not.
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by thrance 3mo ago
> The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest, bitterest thing of all. Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit, but this
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by thrance 3mo ago
Reminds me of that time Netflix made fun of its customers that watched bad Christmas movies over and over. It's in poor taste.
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by thrance 3mo ago
Insider trading as a service. They're not even pretending not to do it, utterly shameless.
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by thrance 3mo ago
Spaghetti Will Smith was funny, this only inspires disgust in me: a clear downgrade. We're just getting deeper in the uncanny valley, with no end in sight. > Visual effects went through this same development issues as the industry m
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by thrance 3mo ago
It's not a kernel either, 1.3M LoCs is ludicrous.
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Because the American Empire is extracting massive amounts of wealth from these places. Feeding the children there is the barest of decencies. Even from a purely strategic POV, it makes these places more likely to turn away from the US and t
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by thrance 3mo ago
That's because dofm is conflating general literacy with the political class'. There are still very smart people around, but they're no longer the face of elections. As they said, decades of glorifying dimwits will do that.

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