SpEd3Y

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by SpEd3Y 7mo ago
Not saying this is the case, but I heard an argument made about this on the other side. Saying the ICE situation is manufactured by the Democratic party by not playing ball like they did in the Obama times. Instead they encourage protests a
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by SpEd3Y 9mo ago
> I can't think of a game available on GoG that sells on Steam for > $20. I am sure one exists, but in general these are older, cheaper games. Fair point but I think there are quite a few of those: Baldur's Gate 3 comes to m
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by SpEd3Y 2y ago
I never said that a person cannot appreciate the contribution while agreeing with the decision to break it apart. The idea was if monopolies are bad an Bell Labs is the product of a monopoly in an ideal world AT&T would never be a monop
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by SpEd3Y 2y ago
Noise for you maybe. I don't expect people with limited time to give me a scientific paper level details regarding every idea they have. If their idea is interesting I spend time researching it myself.
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by SpEd3Y 2y ago
> That which can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. Fair enough :) That's one way to think about it ^^ If this would have been a debate I would agree. But I don't have time for a debate so I threw a
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by SpEd3Y 2y ago
I'm sorry, I should have used more explicit terms: "free of monetary charge" is what I meant. Nothing can be free in this world. For some people not paying money for something but getting their privacy invaded is an acceptabl
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by SpEd3Y 2y ago
> then paint a black and white argument I fail to see how my argument was black and white when I say there's a trade off. Can you please tell me how my argument is black and white? Maybe we have different understanding of what a bla
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by SpEd3Y 2y ago
Thing is Google lost money for many years in YouTube. Nowadays I think it's profitable but it seems unfair to ask a company to take loses for a decade or more and then force to sell it when it's making profit. If we set that prece
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by SpEd3Y 2y ago
> By that logic, people should still be at the mercy of AT&T because Bell Labs gave so much back to humanity. So your argument is that Bell Labs should have never happened since it's the result of a monopoly? My argument is that
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by SpEd3Y 2y ago
I meant OSS or free products. Windows / Office / Visual Studio are for profit products? GitHub was free before Microsoft bought it, they just made the private repos free as well. But arguably GitHub was better before. But I do agr
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by SpEd3Y 2y ago
I agree that war pushes innovation the most, but I assume you don't want humanity to be in constant state of war. So how do you get innovation in peace time? I would argue if you're in a very competitive market and you're mar
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by SpEd3Y 2y ago
I agree. Love C#, VS Code and TypeScript. Microsoft changed a bit lately. But there's a lot of history with Microsoft and the recent CoPilot ripping off OSS code and blocking C# support in VS Code are still mudding the waters.
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by SpEd3Y 2y ago
Fair. These are good examples of open source that Microsoft did! I love all 3 of those.
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by SpEd3Y 2y ago
You're missing my point. In a perfect competition environment all profits go to 0. This is great for customers horrible for innovation. Innovation happens when there's enough capital to take huge risks and lose. Google had a ton o
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by SpEd3Y 2y ago
It's not but it is free to use.
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by SpEd3Y 2y ago
Arguably out of the big 4 (Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon) Google gave the most back to humanity: Android, Chromium, Kubernetes, Google Office suite, the Go programming language, Tensor Flow, Alpha Fold (and Google DeepMind), donating to
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by SpEd3Y 3y ago
Not sure if you're being sarcastic, but if you're serious, I'm pretty sure the OP is talking metaphorically. It's just a slight annoyance he's not "emotional" about it. I also fail to see how someone who i
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by SpEd3Y 4y ago
Why do people compare Netflix with cable? It's a completely different technology. There are more differences in the technology that similarities. It's similar to asking someone who's using a mobile phone to buy a 2nd mobile p
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by SpEd3Y 4y ago
I agree with what you're saying. I don't like racist/homophobic/transphobic behavior but I find it hard to reconcile that with free speech. And I think they only way you can change someone's mind is by allowing free
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by SpEd3Y 4y ago
Yeah, frustration breeds frustration. So I agree that it's better to disregard it if you can't handle it. But I'm just wondering, is it possible to ignore the form of the message and listen to the content? Looking back the st
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by SpEd3Y 4y ago
I agree. And ideally this is what all emails should look like. But you're ignoring the context. Do you know what that guy was going through? Maybe his wife just cheated on him, divorced him and took half his money, his kids don't
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by SpEd3Y 4y ago
Only true if you're expecting the the person who provided feedback to behave like a robot and exist without any kind of emotions. Loose analogy, I don't watch videos with people buying a bike with no breaks, fall and get hurt, the
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by SpEd3Y 4y ago
Isn't it smart to invest in Nuclear? Sure, there might be drawbacks right now but if we invest in research and improve it we might find a way to make it "greener"? Also we seem to be focusing on space exploration again. To ta
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by SpEd3Y 4y ago
I think is so popular because of the Killing Monsters trailer. He does end up actually making a choice. But the choice is not between killing Renfri and Stregobor (which was the initial lesser evil choice) but he chooses to stop Renfris&#x2
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by SpEd3Y 4y ago
Why? :) Edit: Switzerland chose to stay neutral in a world war. I think that's fine. Not getting involved is a viable option in my opinion.
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by SpEd3Y 4y ago
Andrzej Sapkowski in the Witcher books, through Geralt, said something that might apply to this situation: "Evil is evil [...] Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I’m not a
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by SpEd3Y 4y ago
Cause most likely they will be thankful and reward you financially and in the long term you might get your fortune back and then some. You have to play the long game! xD
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by SpEd3Y 4y ago
But what if in 100 years most of humanity dies, all that's left is a group of 5 survivors that took shelter in a trolley station. Then all of the sudden a trolley appears out of thin air and kills all 5 of them? You would be the man&#x
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by SpEd3Y 4y ago
How cool would that be? You don't need containers for the water as they will just float, outer space is very cold. Perfect medium for this experiment.
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by SpEd3Y 4y ago
When I was a kid we used hot water to defrost the windscreen regularly. A couple of hundred times over multiple winters. Temperatures around -20. No cracks or anything like that ever occurred.

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