bluedanieru

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by bluedanieru 13y ago
You misunderstand the purpose of voting. It's not so that the people can choose the government they are subject to (that would be nice, but in practice it's difficult or impossible to implement). Rather, it's to serve as a check on tyranny.
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by bluedanieru 13y ago
Tell that to the executive (and Congress, for that matter). they could use a good chuckle.
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by bluedanieru 13y ago
Even US citizens traveling outside the country, and especially residing outside the country, are on thin fucking ice. No, the US government does not consider itself beholden to any laws when operating on foreign soil. It also doesn't really
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by bluedanieru 13y ago
How important that point is depends on how much range affects viability as opposed to the cost of the vehicle itself. Electric cars are rather expensive I guess, but few people are going to make the switch to cheaper cars if they only have
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by bluedanieru 14y ago
But, then they can't push their agenda with loaded language! Did you consider that?
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by bluedanieru 14y ago
Everybody knows diamonds are worthless rocks priced in blood. The reason they retain the status they have is your girlfriend doesn't give a shit.
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by bluedanieru 14y ago
Take note: this kind of thinking is what being purely an "ideas guy" leads to.
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by bluedanieru 14y ago
Eh, that quote from a year ago isn't entirely clear on how they will look for a new job. I'm sure if the implications of the AI behavior were clear then, there would have been at least some raised eyebrows.
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by bluedanieru 14y ago
Haven't they been been posting pretty shitty quarterly statements for a few years now? They have a lot of money in the bank, so to speak, I'm sure, but it will catch up with them eventually.
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by bluedanieru 14y ago
There is definitely a cost but it's hard to calculate so it gets ignored. Certainly the rise of indie game developers has been aided in part by the continuing fuck-ups of AAA publishers, though.
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by bluedanieru 14y ago
I upvoted this. Yes, if :-)
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by bluedanieru 14y ago
Large corporations are rarely driven by profit, but rather petty political bullshit and personal crusades.
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by bluedanieru 14y ago
Because if your whole idea of what civilization is, is a bunch of bullshit rules enforced under the threat of violence, then I find it hard to imagine you're anything but an anarchist. Or a petulant child. Or both.
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by bluedanieru 14y ago
They knew exactly how many users to expect, I'm sure. But you aren't going to pay for a solution to handle all of them when you expect the demand to taper off after a few days.
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by bluedanieru 14y ago
Do you think you would fare well under an anarchy?
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by bluedanieru 14y ago
The derived market valuation of the commodity at that price in whatever reference currency you choose, of course.
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by bluedanieru 14y ago
This is the standard argument against affirmative action as well. Of course affirmative action is more about addressing pay inequality and discriminatory hiring practices, while the focus of this post is more around changing cultural attitu
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by bluedanieru 14y ago
No shit. And let's quit going along with the fiction that the online requirement was for any other purpose.
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by bluedanieru 14y ago
This isn't a bad thing. EA should fire all it's developers, designers, sales people, management, liquidate its assets and distribute the proceeds to its shareholders, and quietly go out of business. Really, the tech guys that got laid off w
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by bluedanieru 14y ago
Fought and lost.
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by bluedanieru 14y ago
I agree with you in principle but I will suggest that titles which are overly-burdened with bullshit DRM will tend to be less important to the cultural record. I think that's the case here.
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by bluedanieru 14y ago
>Brewster Kahle at archive.org gives his employees the option to be paid in bitcoin received by the site. That's pretty cool actually, although personally I wouldn't do it. Hope to see more of that. >Bitcoin has proven to be an exce
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by bluedanieru 14y ago
>Limitation: I accept the argument that says if they are producing significantly more than they are paid, they will eventually be paid more anyway, so the gain is both temporary and small. Where the flying fuck have you been for the l
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by bluedanieru 14y ago
More adoption doesn't necessarily mean that. Of players who hold on to Bitcoin for longer than a few minutes, virtually all of them are speculators. If you accept Bitcoin as payment for services, your biggest technical challenge is converti
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by bluedanieru 14y ago
It shed 25% of its worth just as quickly. "This time it's different."
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by bluedanieru 14y ago
Which is what they were doing in the browser case right? And yes, I do think Windows is still a monopoly. I think its days as such are numbered and I think that is a good thing not just for the PC space but for Microsoft as well (in the lon
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by bluedanieru 14y ago
I agree it isn't fair and I hope that, when Microsoft Windows no longer has monopoly status in the desktop OS market, these onerous regulations are rescinded.
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by bluedanieru 14y ago
I think what we see here is a case of putting your mouth where your money is.
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by bluedanieru 14y ago
Bullshit. The Tea Party was swept into power because they had financial backing from rich extremists and mass media support. I'm somewhat sympathetic to the point you're trying to make, but you could not have picked a worse example. Yes,
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by bluedanieru 14y ago
Eh, yeah and that's the correct one. In the interests of brevity I guess I left some ambiguity there in what I meant.

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