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by viridian 1y ago
At some point you reach a critical mass of personal responsibility failures where you need a systemic solution. Even if the internet doesn't need training wheels, the video game where the average player is 12 might.
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by viridian 1y ago
Yeah, same was true of me until a couple of years ago when I started playing call of duty with my younger brother to reconnect. At least for me, PC gaming puts me in a massive filter bubble in terms of what you see and hear about, and call
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by viridian 1y ago
I think its both. Modding has become harder, and making games easier. At some point they are close enough to parity that it just makes sense to put in the extra effort to avoid all the tertiary issues, like copyright/trademark violatio
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by viridian 1y ago
Saying its among the least egregious examples just isn't true. Doppler knives can sell for over $10,000. We know the sorts of psychological outcomes that occur from putting a vanishingly unlikely $10,000 jackpot on a slot machine. Peop
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by viridian 1y ago
As much as I love all the maps you mentioned, and could probably sketch their layouts from memory, I think Rust and Nuketown from the call of duty series are probably better known by a wide margin. Rust has been featured in 3 different game
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by viridian 1y ago
I'd go a couple of steps further, not the tools, or even the people, or even the culture, but rather the incentive structure. There are massive social rewards, psychological rewards, and even financial rewards, for identifying and shar
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by viridian 1y ago
I use nonverbals frequently as well, but I think what 0xDEAFBEAD is getting at is more like if everyone were to walk around with a touch display hanging from a lanyard where you could like or dislike every comment. The simulacrum would chea
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by viridian 1y ago
This is actually significantly worse now. The video game Roblox alone is awash in tens of thousands of cases of attempted grooming or child endangerment, according to their own metrics, and that's just what they have detected.
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by viridian 1y ago
It absolutely will change us. Just like how the internet has changed how people read and search for information, or cell phones have changed the acceptable level of communication between parents and teenage children. As a tiny micro example
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by viridian 1y ago
This post is sort a pot and kettle situation, as you also write in a highly emotionally charged way. The sub-clause "you're one of those dishonest people that resorts to emotional manipulation to try to get their way" alone l
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by viridian 1y ago
In the spirit of assuming good faith on HN, I'd like to critique a particular line of thought you keep repeating, that is continually met with hostility. You continue to generalize criticism of Jobs as an attack on cancer patients as a
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by viridian 1y ago
Believe it or not, China has far and away the largest Christian population in the world. (I know, I know, culture, percent of the population, etc, this is just a fun fact that runs counter to intuition.)
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by viridian 1y ago
The hypocrisy in the context of the content of the article is, in its self, interesting. It's not tangential by any means.
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by viridian 1y ago
Sealand is a fake country, a state without a nation. Even a nation without a military like Costa Rica can muster a defense via its people. Sealand on the other hand exists solely because no one cares to even acknowledge its existence. If Ru
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by viridian 1y ago
Perhaps bobxmax should have asked an LLM what the exact number was instead of relying on his outdated & error prone human memory.
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by viridian 1y ago
True. And I agree with it in terms of cardinality (bad stuff incoming), just not magnitude. The starvation thing that appears throughout this larger thread is exceptionally odd to me, how does a planet where food is mostly harvested mechani
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by viridian 1y ago
People are capable of looking past their nose, and I've never claimed the outcome will be mass starvation or a doomed civilization. Societies will just have to change, in a way that is without precedent. And I think you are being playf
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by viridian 1y ago
Moana might actually be a better example than Mulan or Frozen, because there's not even any inner turmoil outside of the very beginning. Moana herself is just about the only person who doesn't have a character arc, she just gets b
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by viridian 1y ago
birth rates are below replacement in the majority of countries now. Global birth rate is down to 2.24 this year, and 2.11 is the baseline for maintaining the population. I'd bet a tremendous amount of money that we cross the threshold
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by viridian 1y ago
You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube. The median age is 45.6 and rapidly rising. All of these people can't decide to adapt to market conditions and have children. The population crash is almost inevitable unless SK breaks
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by viridian 1y ago
Reads like you are trying to argue for abstinence only education here. The reality security must operate in is that the best security policies are those that people don't circumvent. If people have to resort to sticky notes, sharing cr
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by viridian 1y ago
Why did you choose to write your first post in bad faith?
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by viridian 2y ago
I live in a suburban area, and I have 2 hardware stores within 5 minutes, a Menards and Harbor freight within 10, and like 5 big box hardware stores within 15.
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by viridian 2y ago
"Right, I'm just going to jot down Eastern Orthodoxy then, move along."
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by viridian 2y ago
You really do need to adapt your message to your audience. If I'm explaining tech issues to my mom or in-laws, I over-simplify and analogize. If I'm talking to a team member, I'm direct, and specific. If I'm talking to m
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by viridian 2y ago
Are you interested in talking to people to understand, or do you prefer to just pontificate as to why people would engage in "nonsensical" behavior?
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by viridian 2y ago
What I find strange is that I was able to search it last night no problem, but just tried and now I can't. It's not the only change that went live today as far as I can tell though, it seems like they are also A/B testing not
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by viridian 2y ago
Just tried, this is weird, not even a direct video title match worked. For reference, I can confirm that as of around Midnight EST, I was able to pull up the video as the first result, so something changed in that 10 hour span on Youtube&#x
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by viridian 2y ago
This is misinformation. My employer mandated it for all employees, and my entire IT organization 100% WFH, coming in wasn't even an option.
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by viridian 2y ago
I don't think the US is really first tier peer-allies with anyone, all friendly nations are on the spectrum of assets we utilize to cultural vassals that operate as reputationally independent extensions of the American empire.

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