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by temporaryvector 7y ago
I think people conflate two different technologies when talking about self-driving vehicles. First, there's the self-driving car for the dense urban environment, which is basically a robo-taxi. You don't buy or own these cars, you
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by temporaryvector 7y ago
Sure, but while I have not done the research to back it up, I have the general feeling that a lot of religious prohibitions and traditions can have their origins traced back to rules from antiquity that made sense back then (stuff like not
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by temporaryvector 7y ago
Are you sure you don't have the causation backwards? Speaking from personal experience, stress with life and relationships and depression leads to porn, not the other way around. I used to buy into the whole "porn addiction"
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by temporaryvector 7y ago
The reason I don't like 'right to be forgotten' laws because it feels like it's using the law as a blunt instrument to solve a problem that is cultural in nature. The reason such a law is required is often stated as &quo
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by temporaryvector 7y ago
Wouldn't it be more correct to say that any sanctions and regulations that result from this are unlikely to kill off Juul since it's pretty large already and partially owned by the incumbents and instead would make any new competi
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by temporaryvector 7y ago
Reminds me of an old youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRlBtabKRFM Anyway, the article made a point how they're "combating deforestation," but is that really true? I always thought that clearing
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by temporaryvector 7y ago
RTS as a genre has always favored aggressive play. Even in games that tried to favor defense, like SupCom, turtlers are stills not welcome, and higher level players start aggression quite early. Rarely will a rush downright end the game, bu
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by temporaryvector 7y ago
I would agree that Classic is a decent experience compared to modern MMOs, even if it's not the style of MMO I prefer. That said, I kinda understand how Blizzard got to where it is with modern WoW. Blizzard has always been known for ta
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by temporaryvector 7y ago
I think this is a common enough sentiment. Your first games leave more of an impact and that feeling is often not really related to how good the game is. Just like comfort food, they're comfort games. I never player Railroad Tycoon, my
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by temporaryvector 7y ago
>Blizzard went off the rails by dumbing down WoW [...], appealing to the lowest common demoninator. [...] WoW is boring, unchallenging, and appears designed to provoke the least amount of whining by a vocal but dispassionate player base.
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by temporaryvector 7y ago
My take on this is that RTSs are generally unpopular because of their long feedback loop. In an FPS game, or even a modern MOBA, the decisions you take result in an almost immediate death (yours or the opponent's). If you're doing
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by temporaryvector 7y ago
This is a bit of a tangent, but sometimes I get confused by the US definition of "conservative." It seems to me that someone who is conservative would be against something like the prohibition both because it changes the status qu
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by temporaryvector 7y ago
In essence, you are agreeing with me. "Fist of the North Star" is more a direct translation than a localization and most people, even fans, don't really care about that. When people say localization they mean something close
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by temporaryvector 7y ago
>A full localization is always preferable You'll quickly find this not to be the case for everyone if you hang around fans of Japanese games or cartoons, or really any non-casual fans of foreign media. A lot of those people prefer t
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by temporaryvector 7y ago
>Considering the level of psychological analysis that goes into products like this and others Don't need to do any analysis or anything. The mere fact that the message doesn't go away is enough to push a lot of people towards g
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by temporaryvector 7y ago
I specifically avoided mentioning anything about people doing repairs themselves because that's not the most important consequence of right-to-repair. Also, good luck finding an Apple store or getting your battery replaced in reasonabl
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by temporaryvector 7y ago
>Would you want to know if the home you were buying was wired by a licensed electrician No, not really. I'd want it inspected, of course, but that's about it. Same with buying used cars. If the house wiring or my used car fucks
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by temporaryvector 7y ago
Corporations are optimization machines, they optimize for short-term profits, greed is no the correct term to use here. There are two ways competitors are incentivized to copy Apple, the first one is because of Apple's mind-share and &
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by temporaryvector 7y ago
I agree that Apple is not the only culprit and their competitors should be equally derided, and in fact they often are. The Surface Laptop is the only laptop on ifixit with a repairability score of 0, after all. But it's still pretty c
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by temporaryvector 7y ago
We already went through all of this with cars and car mechanics. The only difference with electronics is that people have been convinced that their smartphone, laptop and electronics in general are somehow arcane magic. Nowadays, car manufa
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by temporaryvector 7y ago
While that's true for people who have a traditional education from a good university, an established network or live in a tech hub or have the ability to travel to one, having an online presence is very helpful as an alternative to rea
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by temporaryvector 7y ago
I don't think that's why you see more ads targeted at children. I don't have any data to back it up, but intuitively I think ads targeted at children are the most cost effective kinds of ads nowadays and as generations grow u
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by temporaryvector 7y ago
I don't have a specific question, but can you recommend a good, authoritative resource on learning to work with household electrical installations correctly, both theory and actual installation? Something like The Art of Electronics an
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by temporaryvector 7y ago
It's interesting to me that you bring up abortion, since to me, as an outsider (I'm not from the US), the mainstream US debates about abortion and about guns have a lot of parallels. The "against" side tends to paint the
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by temporaryvector 7y ago
I think you're confusing safety with self-defense. The argument isn't that guns make you safer, it's that they give you the ability to defend yourself if you are already in an unsafe situation. On average, most people will ne
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by temporaryvector 7y ago
>If 90% who survived suicide did not attempt suicide again it sort of does suggest that had more people survived their suicide impulses they would also be one-timers. It might also suggest that those who survived a suicide attempt used h
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by temporaryvector 7y ago
This is a very well done and pretty comprehensive tutorial. However, there are plenty of pretty good basic web development tutorials out there, and few, if any of them address what I think is crucial. Once you have all your HTML and CSS and
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by temporaryvector 7y ago
Yes I do, even when I know when I'll get home, plans can change. A timer also can't tell me if my AC is actually on, may fail in the case of a power outage or I may forget to set it, as such using a timer doesn't provide a me
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by temporaryvector 7y ago
I look at it as something that's not really a necessity, but has the potential to improve my quality of life. Unfortunately, most current implementations of the idea are pretty bad. Having to take out my phone or speaking to a voice as
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by temporaryvector 7y ago
In part it might be where the salary is coming from, but even when someone personally hires a personal assistant, it doesn't have the same connotation as personal servant. I think the main implication is that a personal assistant is a

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