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by worrycue 3y ago
But where would the average person get money. No matter how cheap, if you have no money at all you can't pay.
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by worrycue 3y ago
> But assume that there are jobs "high in the ladder," for amazing engineers and creatives super-charged with AI powers. IMHO such jobs won’t exist. Once AI have reach AGI level there is nothing that a human can do that the AI
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by worrycue 3y ago
> The romans were at least as violent as anything that came after. The idea that they provided unique stability in exchange for that violence is the roman justification for it. Vestigial propaganda from 2000 years ago. We are not obligat
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by worrycue 3y ago
I wouldn't say mods are unelected. Readers basically vote by visiting the subreddit they mod. If a bunch of mods become too much of a problem, you can just "leave the country". If enough people leave, those mods will just be
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by worrycue 3y ago
> They could even ultimately challenge Reddit. Frankly I feel Google would be more motivated to challenge Reddit. Since so many of Google’s search results go to Reddit, they might as well try to take over that part of the web rather than
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by worrycue 3y ago
I despise Musk as much as anyone else and charging for API access has hurt a lot of valuable use cases like improving accessibility but … how about not massive scraping a site that doesn’t want you to?
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by worrycue 3y ago
Affirmative action as we know it only works along race lines. There is no affirmative action based on other criteria. Whenever I hear about affirmative action it’s always about race, race, race, …
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by worrycue 3y ago
Also even if you don’t buy a new iPhone now, i.e. you keep using your old iPhone, they still benefit if you continue to buy apps (and buy in-app purchases), if you continue to buy from iTunes just for the convenience, or subscribe to Apple
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by worrycue 3y ago
Why do we only care about inequality due to racial discrimination?
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by worrycue 3y ago
To have complete equality of outcome between ethnic groups would surely involve homogenisation of their cultures. That sounds totalitarian as hell if you ask me.
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by worrycue 3y ago
> Well, if we follow the meritocratic ideology that everyone has the same opportunities available to them, it would be a natural conclusion. There is nothing that inherently causes a specific skin color or gender to have the ability to c
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by worrycue 3y ago
> Poverty has a huge impact on childhood accomplishment. So help the poor. This has nothing to do with race.
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by worrycue 3y ago
Don’t know about BP or Shell but local power companies seem prime to take over that space. Tesla relies on them for power. I don’t see why the local power companies won’t cut out the middle man that’s Tesla and service customers directly.
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by worrycue 3y ago
> If the "wrong" groups have something to offer in the way of second fathers, maybe their values aren't as bad as expected. Nobody wants to even consider that. If only The Bad Guys are making sense about some issues, what
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by worrycue 3y ago
Most of the studios Sony bought were “2nd party” - i.e. they predominantly made games only for PlayStation. The effect on competing consoles was minimal - their game never made it to non-Sony consoles anyway; this was a different era where
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by worrycue 3y ago
Going to need a citation for that. The PlayStation all started with Ken Kutaragi who worked in Sony’s digital research labs. It started as the “Play Station” a CD addon for the SNES. But due to contract disputes Sony got dumped for Philips
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by worrycue 3y ago
> Everyone was going to have work meetings there I think we can give up on anything common from the real world happening in VR (including SL style 3D worlds). Why have meetings in VR when Zoom is better? Why shop for things in VR when Am
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by worrycue 3y ago
Because we are talking about the companies’ behaviour today? MS is trying to buy one of the biggest publishers right now. Secondly, most of those game studios already have a close relationship with Sony, they can be considered 2nd party, an
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by worrycue 3y ago
> in reality the populace harbours the same ambitions for a return of Russian imperial power that the Russian leadership does, and also holds similar moralistic perspective Or people are terrified that if they appear to not be supporting
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by worrycue 3y ago
I meant recently. Those are ancient history - most of them have history with Sony before being acquired.
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by worrycue 3y ago
The exclusive content thing during the 360 era was to counter MS buying up timed exclusives. Sony basically said, sure you can do time exclusivity for MS but we demand that games that launch late on our console have content exclusive to it
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by worrycue 3y ago
They have to be walled gardens. Game licensing is how they make money, fund future R&D, and sell their hardware at break even prices.
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by worrycue 3y ago
Might as well drop the console then or at least drop the console business model. However I have a feeling they won’t. Consoles make money via licensing - each game sold they get a cut. Is MS willing to give that up? If no then they are stil
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by worrycue 3y ago
I feel they are different genres. The former 2 are cinematic games. The latter is a huge RPG.
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by worrycue 3y ago
Insomniac I can understand. The company has a lot of history with Sony. Bungie is puzzling. Frankly, I’m not even sure what’s there to buy. All they got is Destiny that’s a pretty so-so game popularity-wise. Who else has Sony bought?
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by worrycue 3y ago
> Personally I am hoping this deal goes through because I want Xbox to be taken more seriously It was taken seriously by the 360 era. MS just bleed away all the good will the following generation, ceding significant market share to Sony.
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by worrycue 3y ago
> Now if we could get them not to lie? This reminds me. Whatever happened to IBM’s Watson? It’s not a LLM right? But it seem similar enough function wise.
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by worrycue 3y ago
I think for 3-4km it’s practical to run a wire from the surface all the way to the submersible - that’s what they do for torpedos and anti-tank TOW missiles.
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by worrycue 3y ago
The Wii did well as a fad but most of its buyers just toss it in the closet after the novelty wore off. The PlayStation 3 was a screw up. It was too expensive and came out late after the 360. It damaged Sony’s reputation somewhat but did al
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by worrycue 3y ago
> The N64 was the last console they made that attempted to compete on performance. Should that be the GameCube? It’s successor the Wii was went they stopped trying to keep up tech-wise.

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