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by zanny 9y ago
I disagree with 1, because the real controller in any cryptocurrency is the software users of the coin are running. You could have trillions in mining hardware but that doesn't matter a bit if a popular implementation changes the minin
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by zanny 9y ago
More like a studio apartment today costs as much as a McMansion did per month 20 years ago. Wages went up 30%, price of housing went up 300%. The relevant statistic is that there are simply not enough jobs paying living wages relative to th
903.
by zanny 9y ago
Another thing to remember is that serfs and slaves had large collective families of blood and coworkers. You might work oppressive hours and suffer for it, but you aren't doing it alone. Most gig workers are going to job to job in isol
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by zanny 9y ago
I'm not a fan of the argument that since the Soviet Union and its derivative states (including China) failed that there is no way to accomplish that Marxist utopic vision or that any variation on socialism has to fail. Russia was the o
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by zanny 9y ago
I used Python enough that braces are completely meaningless to me in languages with them (ie, everyone else). Indentation is my mental delineation of code blocks. I just have to write these {} things all over the place because every other l
906.
by zanny 9y ago
Yes, absolutely. Probably by far the optimization between being able to do anything you want while being dead simple to do it in. "Easier" engines like rpgmaker or LOVE severely limit what you can accomplish with the game, while m
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by zanny 9y ago
I don't get what the difference between Facebook and Twitter even is supposed to be. One for people you know and one for people you don't? You can solve that in something like Mastodon by just having two independent content feeds
908.
by zanny 9y ago
I don't think graphical fidelity is a good argument for any engine today. People are making movies with Unity[1] and Godot has demonstrated[2] all the bells and whistles you could want at least if you intend to target consumer PCs that
909.
by zanny 9y ago
Nobody can force you to join a union. The scenario you describe only applies if Itch or Steam agree to only take game submissions from union members, which would just prompt non-union alternatives.
910.
by zanny 9y ago
So just set the bar of compliance to start any company at several hundred thousand dollars (which is pretty much where it is) and you get the lovely contemporary effect of 40 year lows in new business creation[1][2]. There are active, obser
911.
by zanny 9y ago
Why would the Mad King not have all the fireplaces he could want, considering he was a king? Traditionally heating was easier to come across than cooling, despite cooling taking less energy to have happen.
912.
by zanny 9y ago
I'd imagine they would use Monero or Zcash nowadays since those are proven fairly more anonymized. Bitcoin is wholly public so all it takes is one identifiable wallet to start profiling addresses they interact with.
913.
by zanny 9y ago
A lot of the KDEPIM devs are working on Kube, which might be what you are after in... a long time. Whenever its ready. Though its been in development for two years and its soon to release 0.6, so it probably won't hit 1.0 for another t
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by zanny 9y ago
A majority of the advances in Krita come from the crowdfunding campaigns, and those are centered around the painting part. I'm sure if there were a senior dev in the project who had the desire to improve the photo editing parts the fou
915.
by zanny 9y ago
Almost every KDE app for the last 2 years has been portable to other desktops and OSes since they broke up the kdelibs into frameworks and moved to Qt5.
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by zanny 9y ago
Kritas first name was KImageShop, which got legal threat from a German lawyer for being too similar to Photoshop. They renamed it Krayon, which the same lawyer threatened over it being too similar to Crayon. So they then went with Krita, be
917.
by zanny 9y ago
Just from someone who has dug too deep trying to figure out what it would take to make this happen, KWin on Wayland right now does not support graphics tablets at all. It needs to be wired up to support them still. And we still don't h
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by zanny 9y ago
Except after the billions on self driving cars you still have horribly designed cities. If there is anything to be nostalgic about the past over, its how civil engineering projects of such scale were a lot more feasible when the complexity
919.
by zanny 9y ago
How can you reject something you never had or used? Almost nobody alive in the US today has ever engaged with general commuter rail. Trains as a common mode of transit died off with the rise of cars and planes post WW1 and had them near-era
920.
by zanny 9y ago
This doesn't work, though, and we can use Qt and wxwidgets as the reasons why. Qt has tried a lot of different ways to render GUIs. Traditional qwidget applications use, depending on the widget object, either native platform specific
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by zanny 9y ago
If solar can manage to maintain even 10% of its performance growth per annum it has had in the last decade coal will be obsolete completely everywhere except in the most geographically extreme environments by 2030. People are very much unde
922.
by zanny 9y ago
The CCP is not interested in progress, its interested in maintaining permanent, absolute power at any cost.
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by zanny 9y ago
There is a massive divide between private citizens harassing and bulling one another and governments wielding a monopoly on force outlawing and punishing dessent against the ruling class. You can sue someone for attacking you online if they
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by zanny 9y ago
> If you want security, why invest in anything other than the government? Because you make more money in index funds with comparable security? Bonds used to be the principal way to save and invest in the past when interest rates were mu
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by zanny 9y ago
Nobody "just dies". Most "natural deaths" are still heart failure. The rest are other kinds of organ failure. For a lot of people that die natural deaths they could have lived longer if they had kept fit. It just gets re
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by zanny 9y ago
You don't get "free speech" on Youtube. Its not a government censoring you. Its a private company doing whatever they want on their private website. Same with Facebook, Twitter, etc. The only public spaces online are decentra
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by zanny 9y ago
> And who decide what's a conspiracy ? Well, Google. Its their website. They are going to do whatever they want with it.
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by zanny 9y ago
Heres just hoping that Mozilla is prepared to take responsibility for what they are trying to accomplish in the long haul. A lot of companies have tried to make products that are both infinitely backwards compatible and always supported w
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by zanny 9y ago
General consumers are not the customers of education, employers are. And you can bet your bottom dollar that when HR is hiring at Purdue they take the ag science BS grads over the high school grads. Not necessarily because they know what th
930.
by zanny 9y ago
Except Telegram is not pervasive in emerging markets like Whatsapp was, and history has demonstrated that users are very fickle with messaging apps - they aren't keeping an essential history like in social media that they cannot easily

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