aspenmayer

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by aspenmayer 2mo ago
I think the sexuality of Kusanagi works on multiple levels. She is a full cyborg, and she could present however she wishes. She explicitly uses her appearance toward social engineering ends in the Stand Alone Complex series. I’m not very
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by aspenmayer 2mo ago
> What's your point with this line of argumentation? Are you disagreeing with my definition of "corporate war", or are you disagreeing that the Ukrainian war is not a corporate one by my definition? It’s a discussion board
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by aspenmayer 2mo ago
It’s more corporate than any past war, and for the reasons stated, it is hard to imagine how it could be more corporate if the belligerents tried. The direct involvement of startups in weapons dev combined with the points system creating a
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by aspenmayer 2mo ago
The points system whereby Ukrainian soldiers’ units earn credits for confirmed kills (with a bonus for live capture) of Russian and other nations’ hostile forces, which can be redeemed for drones and other materiel from plethora of internat
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by aspenmayer 2mo ago
Considering how the former leader of Wagner countermanded orders from above and was recalled, as well as Wagner’s usage of press-ganged convicts straight out of gulags, the unit was fairly irregular compared to the Russian military proper.
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by aspenmayer 2mo ago
Since the conflict began in 2014, Wagner Group PMC has been involved in many operations in Ukraine, which seems to contradict your line of reasoning. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagner_Group_activities_in_Ukr...
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by aspenmayer 3mo ago
> I'm saying the thing you just declared "never under debate". The only one having a debate here is you. The thing that isn’t under debate (that the flips are independent) is the thing which we both agree upon, and I belie
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by aspenmayer 3mo ago
> Bro just assume there's been a billion flips right before my example indicating it's close to perfectly fair, the only point of my comment was to illustrate that previous flips don't influence future flips. I agree: the
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by aspenmayer 3mo ago
> I already said the coin is known to be fair. The coin can be assumed to be fair before the flips , but after the flips we have no mathematical reason to believe that the coin is fair, as our results heavily suggest that it quite sim
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by aspenmayer 3mo ago
Presupposing that the same coin is used for every flip (which is implicit in the example), it would be fair to question whether the coin could possibly be a fair coin after 500 heads in a row, even (and especially) if the flipping process w
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by aspenmayer 3mo ago
The scan at the time of purchase is just for tracking what the store owes to the state for the lottery system. The last ticket in each roll of tickets is scanned by the dedicated lottery terminal prior to being placed for sale in an admin
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by aspenmayer 3mo ago
HN is part of YC, which are VC. What are VCs if not market activists?
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by aspenmayer 3mo ago
I’ve worked in the industry, so just adding some extra info, as I agree with you that the ticket system is not really less tracked than other systems, just differently tracked: Lottery tickets don’t “fall off of trucks” or get “lost in the
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by aspenmayer 3mo ago
> It's the exact same process by which you buy lottery tickets in a world where they don't need to verify your identity when you redeem them. I’ve sold lottery tickets, and you have to be legal age to both buy and redeem them
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by aspenmayer 3mo ago
It’s not really helpful in furthering good discussion, though, and it assumes too much. To compare a reply to being akin to/belonging on Reddit is to say that it is low-effort or not intellectually rigorous, but this critique is self-d
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by aspenmayer 3mo ago
Nippon Sangoku and Witch Hat Atelier are worth mentioning, on the strengths of both their animation quality and generally amazing storylines.
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by aspenmayer 3mo ago
> Trigun sequel is coming out this year. Aren’t there a few Trigun sequel series already out (Stampede (2023), Stargaze (2026)), or do you mean something different?
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by aspenmayer 3mo ago
That’s an interesting idea. I think that folks have already built something like this for internal use or as a service, but I’m not sure if it exists as a free service. This might be enough to get you started if you wanted to roll your own
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by aspenmayer 3mo ago
In good faith I feel obligated to point out the following, so that those who may read this thread in the future don’t interpret any lack of a response on your part as an confirmation of your claims: HN threads close automatically after a fe
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by aspenmayer 3mo ago
Joining two cliches: $1 Knowing which two cliches to join: $2.49M
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by aspenmayer 3mo ago
It’s also fair to say that there’s another possible world you haven’t mentioned: one where you’re both right. In such a world, you would have looked it up before posting, and your comment, their reply to you, yours to them, and mine to you,
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by aspenmayer 3mo ago
Accounts with zero karma don’t have the ability to downvote comments. https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#downvo... > After users reach 501 Karma, they gain the ability to downvote another comment.
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by aspenmayer 3mo ago
Your mention Hot Ones reminded me of Nardwuar, who has been doing similar “social cache busting” interviews of musicians and other celebrities for literally as long as the Hot Ones guy has been alive. I appreciate them both, so that isn’t m
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by aspenmayer 4mo ago
I can’t say for sure, I’m just taking them at their word. Given what OP omitted due to possible spoilers, it’s hard for me to second guess either of you. It seems fair to say that you might be right about the conclusion that you’re drawing
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by aspenmayer 4mo ago
Not OP, but they probably mean the novella that they mentioned, which is also new to me. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anxiety_Is_the_Dizziness_of_Fr...
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by aspenmayer 4mo ago
> barrad owl I am not an ornithologist, but I’m assuming that’s a typo for barred owl? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barred_owl
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by aspenmayer 4mo ago
Demon Seed is schlocky, but it’s perhaps worth watching once. That said, I will readily admit that the film is bad for many reasons. Though horror films aren’t generally known for being inoffensive, the ending is disturbing in content and g
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by aspenmayer 4mo ago
https://archive.org/details/colossus-the-forbin-project-1970...
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by aspenmayer 4mo ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS_c2qqA-6Y
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by aspenmayer 5mo ago
HyperNormalisation (2016) is a documentary film by Adam Curtis; the word/concept is from a book, so maybe that's what you're referring to? I have only seen the film myself. As to your question about Soviet collapse, I don

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