elektronika

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by elektronika 2mo ago
> Every game engine has a sort of "grain" to it where it tends to produce games with a certain look and feel There's a degree of toupee fallacy to this. It's hard to tell what engine something is on just from gameplay
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by elektronika 3mo ago
Do you really think we'll have optimization in an era of metrics encouraging developers to approach shipping a million lines of code a month?
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by elektronika 3mo ago
Right, it's dystopian if they do it, but utopian if we do. If anything I'd trust Chinese surveillance more. It's accountable to the government not the whims of profit motive and private individuals.
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by elektronika 3mo ago
We all know how much local PDs like collecting traffic fines, but I wish they would enforce the laws around yielding to pedestrians with the same enthusiasm as speed limits. I walk a lot and pretty much every day someone blows by in front o
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by elektronika 3mo ago
> The level of international coordination with vaccine rollouts and agreements between countries was way more than I had initially expected Did we forget the DoD running anti-vax propaganda campaigns because the USA's vaccines weren
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by elektronika 3mo ago
CPI functions to obscure disproportionate price increases in essentials by lumping them in with cheapening commodities (e.g. electronics) that have a high demand elasticity. It's as much a choice to to use CPI to come to the conclusion
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by elektronika 4mo ago
I hear this all the time as a rationalization for why people don't go out anymore, but I don't buy it. You're afraid people on the internet might see you having fun? I've had people shove a phone in my face and take vide
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by elektronika 4mo ago
It's very blatant and below that range. They got many orders for the exact same model that's around $50k.
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by elektronika 4mo ago
Watches are the commodity of choice for corruption in some circles. I know people in jewelry and a significant portion of their transactions are watches to Chinese businessmen, formerly through Hong Kong, now through Singapore. They're
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by elektronika 4mo ago
Americans like to downplay the impact of the situation of their birth in their successes and others' failures.
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by elektronika 4mo ago
> AI and automation makes things so cheap that today's underclass lives better than kings ever did I suggest you go share this opinion with the people living on the street because they can't afford housing.
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by elektronika 5mo ago
> The question is whether we feel air travel is as essential to everyday life as busses and trains are. Anywhere I can get to by train in the USA I can go faster and cheaper by plane. By bus I can go "cheaper" if I ignore the v
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by elektronika 5mo ago
> Specifically, for the least happy group, happiness rises with income until $100,000, then shows no further increase as income grows. For those in the middle range of emotional well-being, happiness increases linearly with income, and f
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by elektronika 5mo ago
The state of the UK suggests to me that Orwell's writing was as much an expression of British post-colonial anxieties as it was an indictment of the USSR. His books are no doubt pushed in US education system for their nonpartisan anti-
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by elektronika 6mo ago
Under qualified immunity cops are all but completely immune to being sued.
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by elektronika 6mo ago
More accurate to call it the War for Terror at this point.
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by elektronika 7mo ago
Sadly, or not, they still sell the best laptops.
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by elektronika 7mo ago
A market economy is just as good if not better at denying "the agency to live their lives as they choose". Do you think the bum on the street or the poor family working paycheck to paycheck have more agency than someone with a dec
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by elektronika 7mo ago
They will fall in line as property crime increases.
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by elektronika 7mo ago
Is it any surprise when wealth inequality has been increasing in the USA for the past 50 years? Globally the picture is even more bleak.
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by elektronika 7mo ago
Universities are just as bad or worse on this front. They will buy up properties with no plan simply because they have the cash to throw around and don't have to pay tax.
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by elektronika 7mo ago
So glad we don't have propaganda, only independent journalists who just coincidentally parrot the same think-tank talking points. See the wealth of articles that are even more obviously wrong predicting China's collapse.
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by elektronika 7mo ago
> The reason for the "talent shortage" (aka "talent more expensive than we'd like") is really just because hardware design is a niche field that most people a) don't need to do, b) can't access because
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by elektronika 7mo ago
If you can't beat them join them. The rest of the world is getting the same thing as China, but less transparent and more hypocritical.
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by elektronika 7mo ago
It's tiresome. I would rather read the bullet points he fed in and be done.
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by elektronika 7mo ago
Try Generals Evolution mod for RA3.
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by elektronika 7mo ago
> getting everyone to spontaneously switch with no clear benefit hasn't worked Somehow Discord pulled it off. It really didn't have much of an edge over the other chat apps at launch, just was slightly easier to use because it
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by elektronika 7mo ago
Really makes you think when petty criminals use privacy tech while billionaire pedophiles run their dealings through gmail.
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by elektronika 8mo ago
>Now look at China. They decide to build it, and it gets built. Look up "Nail Houses". The USA used eminent domain heavily in the same situation back when they were still building new infrastructure. >Take California’s high
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by elektronika 8mo ago
This is at General Manager's discretion, and many will kick you out if you look "troublesome" that is young, poor, or tick any other bias the manager has.

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