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by tines 2y ago
The App store isn't an intellectual treadmill the way Youtube, for example, is. How much time have you actually spent browsing your platform's App store? Compare that to the time people spend hooked on Youtube, Tiktok, Reddit, Ins
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Apple's revenue from advertising is tiny compared to its revenue from other sources, while Google's revenue from other sources is tiny compared to its revenue for advertising.
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> Also, there is no "program" here, in the same way that coding HTML is not programming, as vector graphics are not supposed to be Turing complete. And where they pulled the "symbolic" from is completely beyond me. Ar
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Ah, the hubris!
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I think the ubiquity of gameplay videos really takes something away from the experience. I feel like it puts you in a different mindspace when you're "unspoiled" and seeing everything for the first time. And having to experim
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by tines 2y ago
> Utilitarianism/Consequentualism is literally the only way humans actually act in the world From what I understand, both of those systems define utility/consequence in terms of the entirety of society instead of only the indiv
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I binged it during the time I was trapped in my room with COVID. You're right, it is a very weird game(s?) in the best way, it's literally sent me off on a card game design jaunt that's still ongoing haha. And I found myself
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Inscryption is a must play.
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How does one go about learning to design and make something like this?
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That's a good point. Maybe one could argue that rather than the unit type not being constructible, the wart of C is that functions that return "bot" can still "finish executing without returning". I would almost rat
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void isn’t a unit type (inhabited by a single value), it’s a “bot” type, I.e. no values inhabit it.
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Can you elaborate more here? I don’t know anything about Nim.
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Yeah that's rough, the world isn't friendly to dumbphone users. A website blacklist is pretty easy with the parental controls on most smartphones these days. Unless you're like me and you just disable the whitelist when it sl
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I went down this path, it's actually very easy to uninstall the built-in web browser and the Play Store via adb, which actually got me exactly what I wanted in my dumb phone without too much technical work.
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Get an Android phone and uninstall the Play Store and built-in web browser via adb. Gets you Maps, Spotify, banking etc. and nothing more.
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I found that Android was better for dumbing down. If you have enough technical sophistication to run adb over a USB cable, you can run a single command to uninstall any app, including the built-in web browser app. Super nice for getting exa
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One of the selling points of this language is claimed to be that it executes in constant time.
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Reposting from a child comment: I don't know why anyone is talking about insider trading. I don't give a shit if the congresspeople do insider trading. What I care about is that if congresspeople can trade at all, they have a conf
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by tines 2y ago
I don't know why anyone is talking about insider trading. I don't give a shit if the congresspeople do insider trading. What I care about is that if congresspeople can trade at all, they have a conflict of interest in doing their
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> I doubt I would have described it as soap-like[herbalessence] or stink buggy without being "primed" though. I thought this way until a few days ago, when I smelled some new soap in the shower and the thought popped unbidden i
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Hard to take seriously anything in an article that says things like > If I was to rewrite the Wikipedia summary of the Enlightenment, my cynical side might just edit it to: An Age in which European men developed a high opinion of themsel
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So the government can violate my rights as long as it kills me too? That doesn’t pass a sniff test.
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Gotcha. So how do we know what rights we have for sure?
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> Not only that, but this same court removed the constitutional right to an abortion because it wasn't enumerated in the Constitution. I'm as against this court as the next guy, but don't constitutional rights need to be,
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> Good. If it were easy to bring charges against a President, then Presidents wouldn't be able to do anything they were elected to do. Leaving aside the difference between "bringing charges" and "successfully bringing
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by tines 2y ago
The other problem is that we have no idea what "official acts" are.
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> Separation of powers comes down to "never give anybody power that someone else cannot block". That "someone else" needs to be independent, too - that's the "separation" part. That's what I said,
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I don't agree with the outcome, but at least the motive mattered there. The target was ostensibly leading a military operation against the US or something. Motive doesn't matter any more. EDIT: And yes, what Obama did was illegal
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Assassinating people is my job, I'm the commander in chief of the military. I just happened to do my job on someone who also happened to be my political opponent. How is that not an official act for which I am immune? The court cannot
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The constitution gives me the power to kill people for good reasons (I am the commander in chief of the military, after all), and I assure you, I have good reasons. Which you can't ask about. And don't tell me I need Congress to a

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