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by topmonk 7y ago
> So any time you want to get all the CHILDREN of a PARENT you have to query all children to see if they have a FK to the appropriate PARENT. It's just an index lookup, so what? You'd rather mash all the data into a single pare
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by topmonk 7y ago
Why workers producing goods that exclusively go to benefit the upper class be considered a good thing? If there were no idle rich to make expensive products for, (say they were all beamed off the planet to work in an alien slave mining faci
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by topmonk 7y ago
It's just micro scale production apparently. More of marketing hype than anything else.
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by topmonk 7y ago
> There are other defects that can cause nausea that are not adaptable. I think you're wrong about that. Any proof?
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by topmonk 7y ago
IPD alignment is adjustable on most headsets nowadays. My experience is anecdotal anyway and I fully accept that some people can't handle it. That said, being on a boat for hours is hardly something we were evolutionarily designed for
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by topmonk 7y ago
You mean this, right? https://sivers.org/trust That is a very common tax shelter rich people use to avoid paying capital gains tax, called a CRUT. It hardly makes him a saint.
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by topmonk 7y ago
> Who does this work for? It doesn't for people with spouses and children. I can't be removed from the real world when my child wants my attention. How many hours of game play do you think the average family person might have a
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by topmonk 7y ago
It's called, “getting your VR legs”, akin to sea legs. It worked for me, at least. As an extreme example, I can now play as a character in a space suit, twirling and spinning around for hours, without getting motion sickness. I also re
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by topmonk 7y ago
It doesn't seem so revolutionary from what I've read.
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by topmonk 7y ago
If Biden is actually guilty, wouldn't we want him to be investigated before possibly becoming the President? If Trump didn't push for this, who would? It's the same as when Obama called on the FBI to investigate Trump.
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by topmonk 7y ago
What's “flutter”?
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by topmonk 7y ago
> ultimately the market is the best judge of which is the best design. This is just bias. How can you know what the ultimate best judge of anything is? You would have to know what all the alternatives that could ever be conceived would b
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by topmonk 7y ago
If you are able to recognize that diversity of opinion is desirable, why can't the person in charge recognize this, and create groups that work on different ideas in tandem? Once the ones that are successful bear fruit, those that are
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by topmonk 7y ago
The problem is not incentives, but culture. From a view purely based on incentives, there is no reason to support your grandmother, for example, rather than kicking her out in the cold. Only our culture stops us to treat our closest family
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by topmonk 7y ago
The person in charge could have the same philosophy as you, and after seeing several reports of non-progress, invite some other people with alternative ideas to work in tandem. There is nothing wrong with trying different approaches in para
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by topmonk 7y ago
Wouldn't we all fair better if those doing the duplicate work of researching for their individual companies instead were able to work together on a single design? If instead of two corporations wasting resources fighting each other for
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by topmonk 7y ago
When I was around 8 my parents had ne take a class in logo.
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by topmonk 7y ago
If you didn't watch it, why are you commenting on it? Just to needle me? Thanks.
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by topmonk 7y ago
You would need? Did you watch it or not? If not, how would you know that he “doesn't even have anything to say”?
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QE/Repo Is Killing the Dollar and Will Devastate the Entire Planet(youtube.com)
1 points by topmonk 7y ago|5 comments
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by topmonk 7y ago
> Are those the same people that were unable to notice not one, but two cameras broken pointing to a very special recluse for an undefined amount of time? Did the people who design the prison also work there as security guards? Is that w
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by topmonk 7y ago
Yea, I'm sure the people who designed prison procedures didn't think of that before, rolls eyes
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by topmonk 7y ago
If you have a subscription, here is the source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/investigators-scruti... The relevant text: At least one camera in the hallway outside the cell where authorities say registered
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by topmonk 7y ago
That's why I keep smoking. Those lungs deserve a workout!
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by topmonk 7y ago
Every which way is considered because that's what humans do . Everyone wants to be the guy who came up with an original theory to show how clever they are. Your vague “internal job” accusation is no exception to this.
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by topmonk 7y ago
The camera showing the hallway outside his cell was working, and showed no one leaving or entering during the time period of his death.
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by topmonk 7y ago
But that's mob justice. I'm not saying you're wrong, but failure of our courts can lead to extraordinarily bad times.
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by topmonk 7y ago
But does it include itself as one of its members?
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by topmonk 7y ago
Why not potato plants? How about a briar patch or mulberry bushes? Why is this good if we're disrupting the natural ecosystem that is already there?
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by topmonk 7y ago
Just an FYI, I was able to make a rough design of our small house using the free, opensource sweethome3d program, convert it to webvr using obj2vr, and then virtually walk through it.

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