dmwallin

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by dmwallin 4y ago
You also have to consider that faces are one of the things that we have the strongest perception of, with lots of our neurons dedicated to the task, so when you get things wrong it's far more noticeable than many other bodily animation
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by dmwallin 4y ago
I recommend thinking about what you can do that would significantly differentiate the gameplay from what is possible irl. Just putting laser tag in VR is a downgrade in many aspects from what you can achieve in reality, so you need a lot of
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by dmwallin 4y ago
It seems plainly obvious that history shows the opposite is true; corruption is increased when money and power are centralized amongst a few people. There's a reason the term "Robber Baron" came around the last time we experi
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by dmwallin 4y ago
This article's title is disingenuous and is guilty of the same thing it accuses the study of. The actual content of this article is the following (TLDR) 1) That the study didn't show a reduction in negative health outcomes, rather
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by dmwallin 5y ago
No way to fail it but you also can't pass a non-existent test. N/A for cases like this would be more accurate.
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by dmwallin 5y ago
That's not entirely true. Having a national presence can pay off in terms of being able to sign deals with larger clients.
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by dmwallin 5y ago
The USA is already one of the world leaders in percent of population incarcerated; it doesn't seem we are suffering from an inability to imprison. If we as a society decide to revoke someones freedom and choice, then we should be willi
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by dmwallin 5y ago
All these "illegal" guns started their life as brand-new perfectly legal firearms. It's a very leaky pipeline, one in which the industry and industry funded lobby groups have at least a bit of a mixed incentive to solve. The
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by dmwallin 5y ago
>>> training your body to see the virus sooner and know how to attack it with less "training" This is literally how every vaccine ever made works.
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by dmwallin 5y ago
There's a difference between the way our minds work and the way reality works. In reality a physical object can only exist in one place which naturally leads to hierarchal organization being the dominant paradigm. On the other hand our
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by dmwallin 5y ago
The goals of a nation-state are not the same as those of a corporation. Having a monopoly on a strategically important industry is valuable in and of itself, especially when viewed from a geopolitical perspective. Just look at what's c
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by dmwallin 5y ago
People love to roll out this popular criticism of democracy but there is very little actual evidence to support it. It can be quite a bit more expensive and much more visible when you have to influence a large number of people than to influ
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by dmwallin 5y ago
The approach that would be most interesting to me would be if you could build out your assets with really high quality assets, along with engine friendly low quality versions and then use a slower but high quality ray tracing setup to rende
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by dmwallin 5y ago
It's unfortunately nowhere near a stealth UBI experiment and really just a classic welfare trap, in the vein of so many other government programs. There are many bad incentives in our unemployment system and it was clearly never design
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by dmwallin 5y ago
We are talking about liquid assets though, not net worth. As other commenters have pointed out, the middle class has most of their net worth tied up in non-liquid assets such as cars, houses, or retirement funds.
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by dmwallin 5y ago
I think you need to adjust your internal model as to what constitutes solidly middle class. To quote some more realistic numbers: >> Here, we define the middle class as the middle 60 percent of the income distribution in terms of what
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by dmwallin 5y ago
This is a poorly written op-ed. The author claims to prioritize the valorization of wealth, the encouragement of saving, and the encouragement of children, but fails to make any case for why we should value these. He then completely neglect
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by dmwallin 5y ago
What competitors?
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by dmwallin 5y ago
This gets into a chicken and egg argument. You are arguing that the level of demand is leading to the current price point, while complainers about E Ink argue that anti competitive practices lead to higher prices which results in a lower de
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by dmwallin 5y ago
Seems pretty obvious to me that conservatives would be as susceptible to prejudices as the rest of humanity. Stating that common prejudices amongst those who identify as conservative might negatively affect specific policies is not itself m
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by dmwallin 5y ago
I trust their business incentives more than my ability to self-host securely and I value the convenience more than the extra cost.
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by dmwallin 5y ago
There's no such thing as perfect and unimpeachable and attempts to move the needle eventually have diminishing results and steadily increasing costs on the system. If you let a side push the definition of whats acceptable beyond what i
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by dmwallin 6y ago
“Corporations are capital mafias that extort money from employees or government. They do whatever they can for shareholders at the expense of people that rely on those jobs. Furthermore they are just political machines for uber-capitalists
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by dmwallin 6y ago
It's more that intelligent people are still human, and human beings are not good at being clear-headed when they feel that their identity is being attacked (ego protection). If you identify as "rational" or "intelligent&
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by dmwallin 6y ago
Set yourself a threshold amount that you are okay with a 100% loss on, and a periodic schedule based on your risk-appetite. At each interval if you are above your threshold you sell your excess holdings and if you are below you sit tight. A
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by dmwallin 6y ago
The problem is their opinion often aren't actually based on first principles. Humans have a strong tendency to form an opinion for various emotional and social reasons, and then build up a set of justifications ex post facto, often wit
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by dmwallin 6y ago
There's a tradeoff here. While obsessing over small details can take you away from more important work, it's also something that you can build up an instinct in your craft for and the actual cost in productivity drops precipitousl
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by dmwallin 6y ago
To be clear, Excel is a prominent and notable example of a visual programming tool. It uses a functional programming paradigm across a 2 dimensional data structure and has obviously been remarkably successful in it’s domain.
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by dmwallin 6y ago
If you goal is to work on a top down Rpg-style game, as a single developer I would HIGHLY recommend using a tool like RPG Maker ( https://www.rpgmakerweb.com/ ) Games like Pokemon/Zelda are very content driven and usuall
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by dmwallin 6y ago
How are you going to decide which corporations are you going to tax? How are you going to get citizens from the upper percentage of the tax bracket to just agree to join a voluntary experiment. It turns out that designing studies for natio

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