Brockenstein

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by Brockenstein 8y ago
I would say it worked until the world changed in such a way that old systems were entirely dismantled. But even in previous eras that system of wealth preservation only worked when it worked. If the invading army was never expelled, your la
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
That is a good question. And I'm sure it's because the reality isn't much like what we perceive from TV and movies. And cartels and crime organizations are far from omnipotent. They don't have infinite resources. And if
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
During the dotcom bubble thousands of companies were way over valued, where are they now? Mostly gone. Amazon survived and evolved. They actually were the exception. That doesn't mean every company that you can imagine being in a simil
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
Well the wikipedia synopsis is pretty kind in that regard.
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
Well that's only a problem if 6GB isn't enough, and for the time being it's more than plenty.
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
All airlines do, because they have decades of passenger data to work with and can estimate how many people won't show up, how many people will take compensation, etc. They have policies in place for every contingency. Passengers don&#x
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
You can't fix people.
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
>I'm convinced that since citizens don't know their rights, that the government doesn't think we care about them, and uses that against us when we try defending them. It's the idea of... If you don't use them, yo
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
>Solid state drives still cost about 10 times more per gigabyte I think you should go shopping, because the time where SSDs cost 10x as much as an HDD is over. When a WD Blue 1TB SATA 6 Gb/s 7200 RPM 64MB is $46 on Amazon and a Cruc
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
It's more expensive to run three schools. And if those three schools don't each have enough students, they're going to be underfunded as funding is largely based on the number of students. So the problem starts multiplying. 1
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
Lawyer'd. Or at least let's not pretend that this 21st century version of status symbol nonsense is really any different than what kids have always been doing. Some kid has a SNES and you only have a NES... Who's got Air Jord
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
"Hey kid, how does it feel to want?" If they want it that bad, let them go mow lawns or shovel driveways or whatever. You know, like kids have often had to do when there was something they wanted, no matter how silly it seems to a
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
I'd agree, except that Fortnite is hardly the originator of this sort of model. Blizzard has been doing similar things for years. And once upon a time Team Fortress 2 being dubbed a hat simulator comes to mind. And then there was Count
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
Way more people use Steam than Epic Launcher. The oldest Steam accounts are 15 years old now, people have been using it for a long time when it was largely the only game in town. People may use another company's platform because they h
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
You might be surprised what people consider love, and how all sorts of other beliefs get intertwined with it. IE you have strong sacred long held beliefs that your female children are not independent, are your property. That you want the be
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
Oh I dunno, fascination with a device ahead of it's time is always there, even if it lived a good life. And some people like history, or specific parts of history.
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
Fortunately, when you're dead the living will do whatever they want and you're too dead to care.
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
Depends on if you care more about the benefits of getting at your enemies than the consequences of legitimizing criminal behavior and/or the inevitable "friendly fire" incidents.
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
There's a million ways to be. One of them is good for some group of people.
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
Android is already used in the majority of the market. It's just that android phones aren't under a single corporate umbrella like Apple phones are.
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
If you're on modern treatments life expectancy is near that of a non-HIV person. The biggest problem is modern medicines aren't available to everyone across the world. So it's still a much more serious problem in developing n
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
If you want to interpret it that way. If you have some idea of cosmological scale and time frames you're probably willing to read the headline in those terms. After all at 8,000 light years what we're seeing right now "just h
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
I think that's why crypto-currencies will be doomed. Because too many people see it as something they can maybe buy for a pittance and at some point in the future cash out for a 5,000% increase. It's not currency, people don'
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
>We have email, which is basically instant, free and worldwide. Why can't we have the same for payments? Only time will tell if such a major shift can happen. Ever had a free email account compromised? Good luck. Not to mention emai
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
Obviously he's referring to the current value compared to the high last year. You know where the current price of bitcoin is over 75% less than it was last year... Any time something loses 75% of it's value (and still dropping) an
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
I wouldn't say it's hard. But it does have certain requirements that just aren't universally appealing.
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
That's really up to each individual to decide for themselves. There's not an objective answer to the question.
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
I'm quite sure Boeing is not going to ignore this because Lion Air is a crummy airline...
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
People keep thinking AMD's 7nm is this amazing thing, like everyone is talking about the same thing when it comes to CPU's and nm. When in reality nm has just been marketing fluff for a decade now, just like response times in moni
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by Brockenstein 8y ago
Not to mention but high status flyers make up like 80% of the airline's revenue. Everyone else who flies once in a while, once every couple of years, who's trying to get the cheapest economy class ticket possible really doesn&#x27

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