shoxidizer

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by shoxidizer 4mo ago
The 1989 board game is supposedly an acceptable variation on Monopoly. I guess it's sales were a disappointment for the publisher, but not catastrophic.
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by shoxidizer 4mo ago
Yeah, they're both about periodic repetition. But a periodic tiling repeats in its entirety, exactly, with a fixed period. The periodic table groups elements based on properties that repeat periodically, but the periods change as you
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by shoxidizer 4mo ago
> Does it mean simply lack of pattern? But that doesn't seem to be the case, at least visually. Aperiodic tiling means that the whole thing doesn't repeat. If you overlay a copy of the tiling and move it around, you'll
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by shoxidizer 4mo ago
It's not that altitude isn't important, it's that it's basically determined by latitude and longitude (and time). Cultures don't exist directly above or below each other, especially not at the national scale being
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by shoxidizer 5mo ago
Yeah, motorist clubs. AAA did a lot of advocacy for expanding driving back in the day, apparently they still lobby for & against certain taxes.
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by shoxidizer 5mo ago
Showing adult content to minors is also probably not an insignificant part of their business (certaintly a major part if the classification of social media as adult becomes more widespread), and having age be an os-user property might give
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by shoxidizer 5mo ago
This does sound absurd at first, but how much gravity is really needed for collection? Is there any value in just a few hundredths of earth gravity?
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by shoxidizer 5mo ago
Municipalities, at least in some states, can be sued for refusing development that meets existing regulation and zoning
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by shoxidizer 5mo ago
This is more of my personal axe to grind, but it's important to view this as a result of monetized content and highly algorithmic feeds. It is my understanding that these platforms don't even really remove this language, just dem
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by shoxidizer 5mo ago
> hard to imagine someone identifying with the over-the-top stupid people in Idiocracy. Presumably they identify with cultural elements (e.g. amateur football, professional wrestling) and then interpret the rest as "this is how dumb
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by shoxidizer 6mo ago
They're officers and researchers strapped into their seats for 10 days, what could they be doing that doesn't involve email
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by shoxidizer 6mo ago
Parking minimums are implemented during building permitting. Natural lakes don't have building permits, and the parking is often constructed by the state.
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by shoxidizer 6mo ago
The purchases are purposely similar to previous examples of gameplay in design and language.
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by shoxidizer 6mo ago
> Germany after they lost WW2; they still speak German This is a trick of definition. There were a few places that spoke German before the war and don't now, but they aren't part of Germany today.
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by shoxidizer 7mo ago
Both these trends have reversed in 2025. US emissions icreased by 2.5% https://rhg.com/research/us-greenhouse-gas-emissions-2025/ China's emmisions have decreased by <1% https://e360.yale.edu&#x
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by shoxidizer 7mo ago
If country B splits into countries C, D, E and F, all of which emit less than country A, has it found an effective way to reduce emissions? Should all countries adopt the Monaco lifestyle to defeat global warming? I guess if you want to f
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by shoxidizer 7mo ago
And of course the influencing on media networks doesn't stop at the 30 second slot when the money is spent by the million ;)
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by shoxidizer 7mo ago
The use of "back yard" refers to the local area, not the literal extent of one's property. This usage is not unique to NIMBY and it's derivatives. YIMBY sentiment also clearly extends beyond developers themselves and s
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by shoxidizer 8mo ago
That's a Dreamworks movie actually
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by shoxidizer 8mo ago
Perhaps it isn't possible because of economics. If you build an aquaduct to a somewhere sunny so that water is plentiful there, then farms, cities, parks, and so on will grow as long as the water is cheap, reaching the capacity of you
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by shoxidizer 8mo ago
And then later they realize the tar that comes out of making coal coke can be used to treat railroad ties to prevent rot, letting you lay larger networks of rail.
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by shoxidizer 8mo ago
It's certainly better in person, but if you hate the photos you probably won't love it. In particular, the interior: is cozier (smaller) than it looks, as the ceilings are a bit low; has better views of the outside when not stuck
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by shoxidizer 8mo ago
Frank Llyod Wright lacking warmth and humanity? Never been to Falling Water?
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by shoxidizer 8mo ago
> Metric lacks a good "foot", but I guess people would get used to eyeballing things in ~50cm increments instead. Perhaps as a compromise we could adopt the meter but divide it by halves, quarters, and so on. Binary fractions
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by shoxidizer 8mo ago
Another point for the copyright term being a fixed 5~10 years. The current system already incentivizes such agressive tactics to anyone with sufficient patience. If a teenager's favorite book has just been written by a young adult, t
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by shoxidizer 1y ago
This is a very persistent rumor. I forget the details but it comes from a customer support email, not some official statement or promise from Gabe, and even that was originally posted on a long gone forum which you can only find quotes of.
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by shoxidizer 1y ago
While I don't think MC's or Visa's reputation is at all close to being fragile enough to be harmed by use on any Steam game, the idea that these companies are almost like public utilities that shouldn't have a say in the
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by shoxidizer 1y ago
The reasoning is that the deductions for expenses should be applied for the same year as the income they bring in. For expenses that will cover multiple years, they are spread out over those years.
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by shoxidizer 1y ago
Refining gasoline isn't special. The Syrian civil war caused the construction of thousands of makeshift oil refineries. It's basically just distillation. You won't have an easier time making batteries and semiconductors fr
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by shoxidizer 1y ago
Personally I think the collection used is pretty good, not perfect but not cherry picking. I find CC's explanation unsatisfactory and loose, mostly placing the blame on philosphers that predate the recent trend of less color by decade

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