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by vtange 9y ago
>I also think income inequality might lead to more loneliness. I'd say poverty just amplifies the feeling of loneliness. Japan has the same problem of loneliness [0] and they have a pretty good Gini coefficient compared to the rest
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by vtange 9y ago
But then why not just make the shortcut to the game inconvenient to access (hide it in a folder in a folder in a folder) or just plain uninstall the game (adds the extra step of reinstalling to play).
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by vtange 9y ago
Even if you wanted to take steps against the outcomes you wish to prevent, everything comes in baby steps. "Some random database issue" becomes "volunteering for some no-name environmental group". Life rarely just gives
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by vtange 9y ago
Taiwan and Ukraine are very different. The U.S. doesn't have much history promising Ukraine defense as it was part of the U.S.S.R. during the Cold War. In contrast, Taiwan was practically there since 1949. Taiwan's economy is mult
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by vtange 9y ago
Related, earlier thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16449326
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by vtange 9y ago
But if everything were open-source, anything new that's closed-source would get negative-brownie points cause it's not free. That's the thing about open-source though, it's a race to the bottom for market share. We saw i
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by vtange 9y ago
Thanks for the clarification. I believe UE4 is still a good example of how the PR-bias towards anything 'open-source'. All it took was a few headlines with "Unreal" and "open-source" and I naturally grouped it
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by vtange 9y ago
For the longest time now I've always held a bit of bias towards closed-source software, but over time I'm slowly realizing that open source is probably the way to go. If you look at the world as if it was running on a tech tree in
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by vtange 9y ago
So you're saying this whole world is a game where if a species is not intelligent enough to know when to stop reproducing in order to save the environment, it's an inevitable game over? :)
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by vtange 9y ago
It's unlikely we will leapfrog from human-written code to relying on black-box generated code in one step. Everyone's been pointing to AI being used to augment existing jobs, as opposed to outright replacement. In order to augment
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by vtange 9y ago
Wouldn't that effectively render the whole 'matching people based off the passwords they hold dear' premise pointless then?
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by vtange 9y ago
When the inevitable day comes when we fully and thoroughly finish scanning every nook and cranny of the Pyramids, I wonder if they will be able to maintain their novelty? Will tourists eventually cast the place aside as "been there, se
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by vtange 9y ago
Except "work twice as much" is a very vague term. Do they work twice as long? Do they have twice the amount of resources? What is the value of their output - is it twice higher than A? For how long do they work "twice as much
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by vtange 9y ago
At some point though money ends up being a means to obtain a standard of living / a world worth living in. There is no point earning money if you never spend it to get something you want. Money also takes precious time and opportunity
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by vtange 9y ago
This reminds me of an article I read a long while back (I don't remember the title..) that basically argued that by lowering the barrier of entry to your content, be it a game, app, etc., you make it such that others have nothing to lo
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by vtange 9y ago
Are there any stories/examples of MIT-licensed projects being subject to hostile take-overs? Also if it's you are the originator of a project what's stopping you from using the GPL license but not disclosing your own source w
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by vtange 9y ago
Good idea. Though the phone will have to look like it's not hiding/restricting the officer in any way for this to work.
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by vtange 9y ago
I think they named it exactly this to highlight the possibility of malicious use for defamation/impersonation attacks. Plus if it was really used to say impersonate Obama, it'd be rightly referred by name in the news as "Obam
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by vtange 9y ago
Maslow's Hierarchy in action - Tim Cook is at a higher section of the pyramid than most Americans. He's probably at a stage where he's looking to achieve things he cannot achieve purely with money. Hence the "money isn&#
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by vtange 9y ago
Requiring a super-majority might work...until big money finds a way to buy itself a super-majority.
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by vtange 9y ago
I'm surprised the words "capital gains" are not mentioned at all in the article. It's already well known that the richest of the 1% did not get there purely through a high wage/salary. Some might blame loose monetar
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by vtange 9y ago
We'd have to be totally separated from those colonies for an unthinkable amount of time for stuff like that to happen - I'd imagine we'd at least keep contact with our own colonies and the Native Americans were largely separa
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by vtange 9y ago
https://sketchfab.com/models/popular
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by vtange 9y ago
Do you know how exactly the distorted object differs from the original? Is it based on color? lighting? Some subtle difference in texture or material? I know that for 2D images there currently exists something like this where some sort of p
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by vtange 9y ago
If you like the idea of clusters of building complexes you'd also find interest in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kowloon_Walled_City
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by vtange 9y ago
Heck, it might be easier to train an AI for the task of passing coding interviews as opposed to you know, actually replacing real software engineers at their jobs.
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by vtange 9y ago
I know many Chinese that manage to live in America with minimal knowledge of English. There are many sizeable Chinatowns and "bubble" communities in America where a Chinese/Taiwanese person could immerse himself/herself
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by vtange 9y ago
Not to mention for audiophiles there is the extra concern about sound quality loss.
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by vtange 9y ago
Doesn't this just mean people will eventually start building artificial social presences to point to instead of simply lacking any sort of presence?
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by vtange 9y ago
Put options lose value over time. You are speculating on the near-term risk of stocks losing value - effectively trying to time the market/predict the weather. Selling put options is a bet that the put options will expire worthless, wh

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