neona

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by neona 12y ago
I agree, this talked about none of the things I was hoping it would talk about. I've always assumed that breakfast was said to be important because it improves various facets of functional performance, not because of weight loss. Mayb
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by neona 12y ago
I have to say, splitting things up makes me think of the whole Netflix-Qwikster thing - pointless brand splitting that does little more than confuse and frustrate consumers. I do like the new logo though.
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by neona 12y ago
4% is an average anyway. There are absolutely people in the US that must spend a notable portion of their income on food. I'm not in the best of situations, and I generally end up spending 20-30% on food, and I don't even eat en
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by neona 12y ago
Another non-obvious change would be the elimination of minimum wage, which would improve corporate profits, which should (theoretically, at least) increase the taxes they pay.
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by neona 12y ago
As someone who's worked retail in america, this is entirely unsurprising. I didn't sell furniture for the most part, but it's probably consistent with my experiences. This has little to do with defective products. People ju
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by neona 12y ago
I hope we see an increase in real software parallelism, since that's the only real way out of this for the foreseeable future. Tacking on more cores is still an option we have, we're just having trouble using them right now in ma
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by neona 12y ago
Retail, going to start school soon instead.
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by neona 12y ago
I don't feel like finding the source, but iirc one of the articles covering this mentioned that they actually managed to grow a penis before they did vaginas, so that is indeed very good news for transmen. Whether it's been actua
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by neona 12y ago
A tangential, but this complexity is one reason I think that sales tax should largely be abolished in favor of rolling it into income taxes. The only context it makes much sense in is taxing various luxuries. Beyond that, it's confus
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by neona 12y ago
At least to me, the issue is more that Facebook is not who I want developing these technologies. I think facebook is going to eventually use this to create a modern connected virtual world. Which is something I dearly want. I just don&#x2
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by neona 12y ago
CCP might make more sense, but they still don't really have technology for building these sorts of worlds. I deeply respect them, and think that they probably have more appropriate tech to offer than most, but I think that one of the m
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by neona 12y ago
I hope not. Secondlife is a terrible and dated piece of software. For a serious virtual world, they'll need something a lot more modern and robust.
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by neona 13y ago
Ow, my eyes.
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by neona 13y ago
I've actually wanted to build something like this for a while, but with something a bit more.. modern than secondlife/opensim. Firestorm is a great project, but second life is so badly engineered at its core that using opensim se
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by neona 13y ago
There should probably be a way be a way to contact you, if you're going to invite people to message you.
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by neona 13y ago
It would be interesting to see a pixelart/emulator scaler that was temporally aware - that is, able to use context from near or all relevant sprite frames to get additional detail/context. This would require a compositing emulato
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by neona 13y ago
While I can certainly agree that people can have relative value, and even agree that a disparity of four orders of magnitude might just be possible on occasion (though overall i'm skeptical of that claim), I think we're confusing
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by neona 13y ago
True, it's an imperfect solution, but it was an example. Of course robots are inevitable for such menial tasks.
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by neona 13y ago
Honestly, while I think many out there have earned their money, this stops at a certain point. It's just not reasonable to think someone is 10,000x more valuable than someone else. That's just ridiculous. Even beyond this, I see
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by neona 13y ago
I wouldn't say more options so much as societally-encouraged options. It's a lot more conforming to expectations to be attractive than it is to be a hacker, so it's easy to leave the less-accepted things by the wayside in a
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by neona 13y ago
Generally not. I work in retail and we're not really supposed to take PC games back, though this is often fudged. Console games we'll take back if our disk tester says they're faulty.
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by neona 13y ago
It's too bad it's too expensive to be relevant for people who rely on bike transportation for financial reasons (at least, in much of america) :( I'd love one, but it seems silly to spend that much on my bike.
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by neona 13y ago
Similar situation here, my only problem is that while I am able to (barely) sustain myself, depression and similar issues are continuing to stymie what attempts I can make to better my situation. I honestly don't know what I think the
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by neona 13y ago
8pen is neat, but i'm still not entirely convinced it can be that fast an input method. I've started using it semi-recently (last month or so), as it seemed better than using a touchscreen keyboard (swype is an okay solution, but
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by neona 13y ago
You'll hopefully be able to choose based on preference, since choice seems to be the theme here.
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by neona 13y ago
I always liked Halo a lot more on PC, so that's pretty subjective. I'd say that Genres built for a gamepad, such as platformers, feel much better on a gamepad, but shooters still feel best with a more precise and fast device. Sur
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by neona 13y ago
I really do hope you're right on the trackball bit, though i'm sure a lot of other people would hate it..
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by neona 13y ago
At this point, unless you care a lot about keeping graphics high, I wouldn't be too surprised if you could keep a decent computer for at least 4 years. Even more so if you didn't care about resolution/played games at low res
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by neona 13y ago
This, so much this. The problem with poverty is often not that you have no excess income, but that you have so little (or should have none, but sacrifice some food to have some) that you're exhausted and can't help but want what l
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by neona 13y ago
The problem is that this is comparing apples to oranges. Things also cost more in the US than in many places with lower incomes, so it's not fair to say "But people in country x make lots less money, so our poor people aren't

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