runesofdoom

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by runesofdoom 3y ago
The problem with that sort "that's what amoral corporations do" reasoning is that corporations are permitted to exist because of the idea that they do contribute to the net public good. Once that idea is out the window, the
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by runesofdoom 3y ago
I have read (though I can't cite a source at the moment) that what is sometimes taken as limits on talent/skill/material limits on medieval art was more often a stylistic choice .
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by runesofdoom 3y ago
Or maybe giant corporations failing to perform due diligence internally ought not be a cost that they get to impose on their customers without legal consequence.
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by runesofdoom 3y ago
The saddest part for me is that the RoP could have done something very similar to what they did, while still staying true to the canon 2nd Age, and arguably telling a much better story. Instead we got sometinf that felt more like ham-handed
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by runesofdoom 3y ago
We (Americans) have normalized, often explicitly legalized , quite a lot of corrupt behavior in various positions of power.[1] We then look at how comparatively little illegal corruption there is, and the official line is that everything
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by runesofdoom 3y ago
No! *The "tech people" are not knights and never will be. The "knights" are upper management. The lords are the centimillionaires and up. The rest of us are slaves, peasants, maybe monks if we're "lucky".
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by runesofdoom 3y ago
"From posts here and elsewhere, I have some idea what a 'life' might be, and how I might get one. But, what is this 'offline'?"
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by runesofdoom 3y ago
As Carl Sagan said, "They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown."
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by runesofdoom 3y ago
While he's certainly careful to hedge (much like the scientists he's critizcizing), Mr. Silver's argument boils down to, "I think four scientists published a technically correct but politicially motivated paper, so from
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by runesofdoom 3y ago
I am not an astrophysicist, but my understanding is that due to the expansion of the universe and the speed of light, the volume of space we will ever be able to access is finite, roughly that of the galactic supercluster we're in.
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by runesofdoom 3y ago
Curses can be addressed by: 1) blessing everything that matters before you start your ascension 2) carrying inventory in an oilskin sack (which will work fine while cursed, and protect items inside it from being cursed) 3) carrying holy wat
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by runesofdoom 3y ago
<raises hand> I played Nethack a lot during school. The only obstacles to ascending any character were my free time, patience, ability to stay focused, and occassionally the unfavorable early-game RNG.
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by runesofdoom 3y ago
A possibly illustrative example: A year or three ago, my uncle (mid-50s, telco IT manager, started on a Commodore in the 80s) decided he'd try Mint instead of upgrading from Windows 7. He got it installed and running, and decided he wa
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by runesofdoom 3y ago
I think the idea is that the item isn't scratched. They're just claiming it is to try and get a refund/credit.
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by runesofdoom 3y ago
Maxim 43: "If it's stupid and it works, it's still stupid and you're lucky."[1] [1]From Schlock Mercenary's "Seventy Maxims of Maximially Effective Mercenaries". https://www.ovalkwiki.com
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by runesofdoom 3y ago
It appears to me that for all the rushing about (which was appropriate and neccessary if there were any surviors or surface debris to be found at all) the somewhat grim reality is: 1) hydrophones heard it implode at the same time it lost co
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by runesofdoom 3y ago
And the same message would still be sent to every user who cares: whatever value you see here is worthless to us, the owners. You have no stake, and we value your experience only as a source of wealth extraction. A lot of users probably don
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by runesofdoom 3y ago
Only he doesn't make as much money as his employers expected. Star Wars Episode IX should have made Avengers Endame box office, and it barely cracked a billion. Yes, a billion is a ton of money, but I'll bet Disney had projections
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by runesofdoom 3y ago
You want the showrunners for Rings of Power instead? Amazon went for the best mix of young, talented and well-rexommended they could find, and they blew it.
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by runesofdoom 3y ago
To stay on brand for Bezos, will be an exact copy of the SpaceX lander made in China?
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by runesofdoom 3y ago
All the fired employees Musk didn't treat as he was obligated to. From the former CEO [1], to the rank and file [2], down to the contracted out janitors [3]. 1. https://www.google.com/amp/s/fortune.com/202
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by runesofdoom 3y ago
It's a lot easier to gamble with your future when failure means a comfortable life of freedom, than when it means poverty and destitution.
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by runesofdoom 3y ago
It's going to collapse when the lawsuits from the former employees (from the C-suite down to janitors) catch up, and when the fines from the FCC and EU hit. That could be 3 months or 18, but it's going to happen unless there'
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by runesofdoom 3y ago
Perhaps his parents owned two emerald mines, making his judgement twice as good as Elon's?
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by runesofdoom 3y ago
Doing one thing and saying you're doing something else is an astonishingly effective tactic.
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by runesofdoom 3y ago
My best guess is that he wants to raze it to the ground and salt the earth on which it once stood so that nothing can grow there again. Not just destroy it, but destroy it so thoroughly and comprehensively that it cannot be rebuilt.
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by runesofdoom 3y ago
>8 hours (4+4) spent in commuting, driving or not, is an entire life. This isn't a realistic concern, but something pulled out of a cyberpunk novel. To paraphrase a certain fictional pirate captain, "You'd best start bel
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by runesofdoom 3y ago
> If there was a better way to do things companies would be doing it. Only if it involved short-term profit for those making the decisions on how to do it. Which is the problem in the first place.
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by runesofdoom 3y ago
From, Yes, Minister , "Stage 1: We say nothing is going to happen. Stage 2: We say something may be about to happen, but we should do nothing about it. Stage 3: We say maybe we should do something about it, but there's nothing we
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by runesofdoom 4y ago
The isolated mammoth population on Wrangel Island in the Arctic lasted until ~2000BC. [1] They died out before humans arrived at their island, possibly driven extinct by 'genomic meltdown'.[2] [1] https://www.sciencedir

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