BlarfMcFlarf

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by BlarfMcFlarf 4mo ago
If everyone in the industry knows what the rules are, you can make contracts and agreements and licensing that works with those rules.
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by BlarfMcFlarf 4mo ago
Endgame assumes intentionality. Maybe the economy is just people responding to much shorter term incentives and the whole thing is a misaligned runaway process.
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by BlarfMcFlarf 6mo ago
It doesn’t have to be an identical material, just one that has similar properties in attracting and holding contaminants.
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by BlarfMcFlarf 6mo ago
If it was kernel level only, maybe. But why does windows seem like it needs to restart after every little update?
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by BlarfMcFlarf 8mo ago
Supply is only one half of value. The demand for gold is almost entirely speculative, whereas dollars can be directly used for almost anything.
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by BlarfMcFlarf 8mo ago
Licenses like GPL are built on top of an enforcement mechanism like copyright. Without an enforced legal framework preventing usage unless a license is agreed to, a license is just a polite request.
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by BlarfMcFlarf 9mo ago
Are billionaire oligarchs misaligned with humanity, or is egalitarianism and democracy misaligned with them? Time will tell.
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by BlarfMcFlarf 9mo ago
Reality is short term thinking. Idealism is long term thinking. If you disregard reality, you will never understand the world around you to make change. If you disregard idealism, you will only ever be able to react. You will end up dragged
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by BlarfMcFlarf 9mo ago
I mean, we already had PRISM, why is anyone acting like this is a big deal?
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by BlarfMcFlarf 11mo ago
39% of US adults think they live in the end times, and 10% think Jesus will definitely show up in their lifetime. Given those priors, planning ahead probably seems like the less rational choice for them.
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by BlarfMcFlarf 1y ago
Poorly. GPUs are easily the bulk of the costs, and a disposable asset.
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by BlarfMcFlarf 1y ago
You can pick any set of axis you feel like and get similar results. “Do you like X? Wow you are an X person!”. So yeah, technically better than horoscopes, more like a “warm” reading where you tell a person what they told you earlier. But i
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by BlarfMcFlarf 1y ago
But it has the suburban cars and suburban zoning, without the parking lots or even a full simulation of the generated traffic (because that would render it nearly unplayable). It sells new generations of potential urbanists on the idea that
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by BlarfMcFlarf 1y ago
I tried this, but I couldn’t really tell the differences between even quite obvious characters until I sat down with them individually.
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by BlarfMcFlarf 1y ago
In the USA, any non-private government investment is considered to be foolish and doomed at best, and an existential threat to business at worst. The best we can do is “public-private partnership” where all the profits get absorbed by middl
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by BlarfMcFlarf 1y ago
Talk radio reaches well past broadband. These problems aren’t new, they are just social problems from decades ago finally surfacing.
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by BlarfMcFlarf 1y ago
What about proven facts that get disproven? Is there room to rethink your priors?
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by BlarfMcFlarf 1y ago
Imagine you are a 19 year old in charge of some Hamas survivors. Let’s say you want to surrender. 1. Would it even mean anything? It’s not like you or anyone else has the control to stop everyone else. And Israel will use any attack as a si
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by BlarfMcFlarf 1y ago
Most games that use an existing engine get like 60% on metacritic and ship like less than 1000 copies and are a generic flop. “Shipping no matter what” is a lot less valuable in games.
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by BlarfMcFlarf 1y ago
Do what Japan desperately wants people to do, and visit any of the 95% of the country that isn’t Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, Fuji, or Nara.
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by BlarfMcFlarf 1y ago
The whole idea that the way to reduce crime is by surveillance and enforcement is a con. Like in this case, all the places that managed to significantly reduce traffic accidents do so by carefully redesigning their street network to make sa
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by BlarfMcFlarf 1y ago
> Most of us are not esoteric authoritarian freaks pining for a CEO of America who'll track us all using mandatory Fitbits and assign us jobs based on an AI's estimation of our cranial geometry. Maybe not broadly, but have you
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by BlarfMcFlarf 1y ago
Yeah, cause while blood type is like horoscopes which absolutely no meaningful information, silly personality quizzes at least tell you back what you told them, so some kind of correlation exists, even if the categorization and implications
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by BlarfMcFlarf 1y ago
Imprisoning someone is also a great harm. That harm should have a cost, so that it is not employed flippantly.
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by BlarfMcFlarf 1y ago
The idea is that if they are making a rational choice to embezzle or not (and have other viable options for living), then knowing jail time is a possible outcome changes the expected payout equation. In that way it can be preventative, but
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by BlarfMcFlarf 1y ago
No. Prisons should cost society money. If you are taking away someone’s freedoms, there should be a high cost so you don’t do it flippantly when another solution will work.
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by BlarfMcFlarf 1y ago
When an insurance company executive decided to start screwing consumers a bit less, a board member initiated a lawsuit against him and the company. The system corrects for errors, and individual choices to do better are exactly such an erro
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by BlarfMcFlarf 1y ago
Theoretically, fines replace tax revenue, so you get compensated by lower taxes. (Practically, spending and income are decoupled and taxes are mostly just an inflation management strategy.)
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by BlarfMcFlarf 1y ago
I found that with other study options, I learn faster and get tired less quickly (since they are less “puzzle-y” and more just language learning plain).
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by BlarfMcFlarf 1y ago
Ver few competitive games can survive, because you need a huge player base to maintain a skill based matchmaking ladder 24/7, and the moment you dip below that critical number the game is doomed since new players are locked out. Its wi

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