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by yterdy 3y ago
Mostly because Unity exists.
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by yterdy 3y ago
> is it a scam? Is it a scam if I buy a $1 million painting off you for $50, knowing that I'm aware of its value and that you aren't? It's at best unfair and disingenuous. But what's more important to consider is how
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by yterdy 3y ago
All of that insoluble (as opposed to soluble) fiber is not the best, either.
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by yterdy 3y ago
> On the second point, the elephant in the room is that smart people in the US can make 2-3X as much in software or finance as they can in manufacturing, so what do you think they're going to pick? Which company is private investmen
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by yterdy 3y ago
Not quite. As GGP mentioned, the necessity of keeping stock prices (and property values, and anything else securitized) high so as to not impoverish pension funds, 401Ks, IRAs, etc., is real. That is, if you care about Silent, Boomer, and G
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by yterdy 3y ago
I don't disagree. Please don't take my statement as a defense of Unity. The intended implication was, "A market sans Unity is not a robust and competitive space, it's Unreal as a monopoly." I don't know if ther
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by yterdy 3y ago
The other elephant in the room is that the owner of Unity's main competitor is quite a bit larger than it is. I can't say that anything Unity buys would give it a market advantage.
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by yterdy 3y ago
I've tried using it on a regular keyboard. You need specialized hardware (starting at $100 if you don't want to solder the thing together yourself).
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by yterdy 3y ago
It would be nice to be able to find a keyboard that was comfortable to learn how to steno type with that didn't cost $100-$300. $50 would be a sweet spot. It doesn't need to be a premium kit with expensive switches and LEDs and wh
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by yterdy 3y ago
Follow game devs long enough, you will eventually see the, "I was laid off," "DM me," "I am now proud to be an employee of Game Studio," "I was laid off," loop. Occasionally broken by an indie turn.
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by yterdy 3y ago
You misunderstand. I'm saying that there's more than one way to skin a cat. Again, I would like to know where my Jenga set is. >Liquidity is high because the market makers role has exploded and they invest a lot to make sure i
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by yterdy 3y ago
Labor can shut everything down, working collectively. And it seems like they're trying. I wouldn't count them out.
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by yterdy 3y ago
>we don't think of those humans as less intelligent. No serious intellectual in the humanities or sciences does. Feels like No True Scotsman. Much of Western colonial policy for half a millennium was based on this very assumption, a
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by yterdy 3y ago
There's a worker's rights movement sweeping large parts of the workforce right now. Businesses are being defensive, trying to lower expectations. It's a bit of a game of chicken; they're not actually "making due&quo
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by yterdy 3y ago
>Limited supply of shares and financial products to buy Dunno about that one. Liquidity in even low-volume tickers seems to be "just fine". Market makers see to it that everyone who wants a share can get one, by any means neces
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by yterdy 3y ago
Hereditary is not the same as genetic. Non-genetic inheritance exists; gene expression can be affected by trauma or want experienced by immediate ancestors. The traits that result from this inheritance can be modified through therapy; the f
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by yterdy 3y ago
Unless you're a legacy or a child of a donor or professor. (There are a lot of legacies and children of donors, somewhat fewer children of professors.)
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by yterdy 3y ago
This is not just for "elite" children, also. A good mentor-mentee relationship is how you get the best out of students in non-academic fields, too. It's why apprenticeship systems developed. One of the earlier posts decried &
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by yterdy 3y ago
The answer is somewhere in between pushing people to click ads, the zealous bias towards automation, the pivot towards AI (no, the one that happened in 2016), and (tinfoil hat time) the influence of entities that saw Google's previous
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by yterdy 3y ago
Even Wikipedia sucks. Many articles have biased individuals watching them like hawks; however, as a casual user, you might not notice, and simply trust in the happy idea that misinformation can be edited easily (however real that capability
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by yterdy 4y ago
>Why are you so confident that it's not true? >This study is imperfect in a lot of ways, and fundamentally and irreconcilably confounded by the fact that even though the kids grow up in different environments raised by different
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by yterdy 4y ago
It matters because the topic refuses to stay buried (say, when brought up as an example of a controversial figure's purported views), and the prospect of it not being a closed question invites bad actors to rationalize social inequity,
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by yterdy 4y ago
I was just remarking the other day of the danger one particularly self-righteous man can present to many. There was the guy who advocated zealously against separating bike and car traffic, for years, resulting in untold numbers of dead cycl
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by yterdy 4y ago
I think we should be clear that scientific racism is a case of an infohazard that is not, in fact, true (even if one can make a convincing, though ultimately fallacy-dependent, argument for it, usually by ignoring the falsification of the &
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by yterdy 4y ago
>it's not for every student (at least not yet!) >Donation required after chosen from waitlist So, it's for rich ones?
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by yterdy 4y ago
I maintain that you're privileging the economic wellbeing of privileged tech workers, who have the resources to weather unemployment (and their communities and municipalities who are likewise situated, recognizing the effect of this ma
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by yterdy 4y ago
The magnitude matters, too. Stimulus did not constitute an annualized increase in average consumer purchasing power equivalent to the inflation we've seen. I imagine that wage inflation fills the difference, but of course, the stimulus
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by yterdy 4y ago
>The only entities they seem to worry about is banks. You'll have to support thay with something. Again, the language of their correspondence over the past few years says otherwise.
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by yterdy 4y ago
Neither of the first two are happening, and in any case, would result in losses by another name (because the assets are likely not worth 100% of deposits, and any buyer would have to adjust their business to eat that shortfall). There is no
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by yterdy 4y ago
Overengineering is a choice. You can take the slower way, with fewer points of failure, and while you can't (or might not even want to) always stop people from trying to a build a faster solution, you CAN make them pay for the real cos

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