forest_dweller

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by forest_dweller 6y ago
Why do people buy Apple products on mass then?
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
I've given my rationale. Calling it evidence-free when there are thousands of examples where it works and almost everytime there is government involvement it happens to be a mess. So piss off with you patronising response.
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
> GDPR is quite decent as laws go; the problems you mention happen because the regulation enforcement is too weak. Displaying a cookie popup was never anything but an admission that you're doing something you're not supposed to
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
> Not really. My perception comes from thinking about the market as a dynamic system, and not a static picture described by pro- and anti-market propagandists. Nonsense. Your framing is exactly the same. Don't gaslight me on this. I
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
I don't care for democracy, so no I don't want to call myself democratic. > But that does not absolve the producer. They are still using ethically questionable methods. Most people don't care. How can it be an ethical issu
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
> But the free market literally cannot exist? The free market won't bring you back to life so you can "choose a different competitor" if it kills you. Life is full of risks. Lots of things were approved by bother governmen
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
I cannot stand the gas-lighting here. Your perception of capitalism is one that is framed as a winner takes all mentality that been sold to you by propagandists. Capitalism is about free market trade. You provide something and people choose
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
I always hate the framing of something being "capitalistic greed". The market has decided that they don't care about their privacy. You are complaining about the wrong people, you should be complaining to your fellow consumer
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
Not always. There are quite a few drivers with more than 12 points on the road. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-40862975 I personally am aware of many people that were speeding at well over 100mph. When they went
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
The wage stagnation relative to inflation started happening 1960s-1970s, so that was well after the time period we were discussing (pre-1960s).
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
I find it hard to believe as well. However without knowing specifics it would be impossible to judge fairly.
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
All modern police forces are modelled to some extent on Robert Peel's ideas ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peelian_principles ). That includes to some extent the US police as well. The notion that US police just go
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
> I agree visibility can be poor but is easilly mitigated by driving at a suitable speed. Not at all. I've been driving at what seems like a sensible speed for the conditions and suddenly there is a deer right in front of my car. Yo
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
> Maybe making a regualr speeding fine a life changing amount rather than the negligable sum it is now would improve people's behaviour, raise some much needed revenue and save a few lives too The fine is negligible if you are well
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
Driving in the UK is stressful enough. If I've driven down the motorway for long periods I am normally wondering if I've got a ticket because of the variable speed limits. I have no intention of breaking the speed limit, but I hon
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
I actually used to live near there and have driven down that road numerous times. * @7pm in the morning in the winter the whole area can be fogged up and it was dark. I've driven down and cycled down there when it wouldn't have be
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
> It was always thus. In fact, until the ‘60s, a girl had to rely on her beauty and personality to eat and survive, i.e. by marrying. The way this is framed today by people is soo disgusting. 1) Women did work before 1960. 2) Two incomes
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
These conversations always go like this. It becomes tedious. 1) I don't care what Rothbard became in the end. It is completely irrelevant. Rothbard's critique of the state is an interesting perspective and some of them seem partic
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
Doesn't slack allow you to email a channel?
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
You make that sound like a bad thing? There are some that believe (as I do) that democracy will leads to oligarchy. But then again I've been reading a lot of Rothbard recently. https://www.britannica.com/topic/iron
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
I am going to wait. I am concerned about the amount of time and the record of the companies that have created the vaccine. I work remotely and live on my own, so my exposure to other people most of the time is pretty minimal and I am convin
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
The context in which we are speaking is whether proton is a suitable replacement. It cannot be ignored in this context. The point is that people pretend everything works perfectly, when it doesn’t. On some games literally moving your mouse
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
Whether you are targeted for a mugging is dependant on whether the criminal thinks you are an easy target. Most muggings will be crimes of opportunity. I used to live in a very dodgy part of Spain near Gibraltar. I was never mugged or beate
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
> I don't understand your logic: you'd rather there be no games on Linux at all instead of some working well, some with hacks, and some not working? Other than the false dichotomy. Yes. I would rather not have the game on Linux
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
The idea of the future markets was because of the fluctuating rice supply in Japan during the 17th century. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/dojima-rice-exchange.as...
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
> The alternative is "games don't run on Linux at all". I would prefer that over false hope.
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
I might try GPU pass through. Proton is too much faffing and I stream games a lot on discord which barely works on Linux.
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
No it doesn't solve the chicken and egg problem. Because the games are just being tested to work on proton.
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
> As rjn said, it is also a way to lure players to Linux. It has the opposite effect (on me at least). > I've personally switched three weeks ago, and I'm not looking back: every game I want to play works, ranging from almos
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by forest_dweller 6y ago
They don't work properly. Things like alt-tabbing out of the game crashes the game for example, or performance with streaming is utter shite. So it doesn't run fine. The few games I have native linux ports for, I can alt-tab out o

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