trgdr

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by trgdr 3y ago
Keep it civil, dude. This is a pretty reductive take that is not obviously true and adds little to the discussion.
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by trgdr 3y ago
I haven't lived _everywhere_, but I can personally attest that is definitely not true in SF, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Philly, NYC, Seattle, or Raleigh. I have never lived in a city where the argument you're attempting could be made in
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by trgdr 3y ago
I mean not all businesses need to thrive. If the thing generates significant profits for a while then the founder can retire and either sell it or just let it die. If it's not a publicly-traded company there's no fiduciary duty to
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by trgdr 3y ago
Ehh if you look at other "modern" countries you see workers being paid half as much. Not to say that the US is any sort of paradise, but there are definitely tradeoffs that favor either direction.
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by trgdr 3y ago
If you look at the market, this is a pretty small fraction of gaming revenue. Sure these things will continue to exist in competitive format, but a significant majority of gaming is not highly latency-sensitive in this way. fwiw I like owni
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by trgdr 3y ago
Honestly this sort of thing is so horrific that it makes me glad I'll be dead before the AI revolution really takes off.
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by trgdr 3y ago
I mean, microsoft's code is probably better than the github average. There's an awful lot of horrific code out there.
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by trgdr 3y ago
IIRC advances in women's education and healthcare have historically correlated with sharp declines in birth rates in developing countries.
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by trgdr 3y ago
I think you should spend some time thinking about the purpose of progress. Progress in and of itself is not useful, nor is it necessarily desirable. It's very easy to envision a society that is both more advanced than ours and profound
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by trgdr 3y ago
This doesn't really bother me. My experience at football games tells me that, regardless of socioeconomic stature, no one really handles themselves well at sporting events after a few shots. It's not too hard to keep a small numbe
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by trgdr 3y ago
The healthcare thing is really a moot point. Everyone who can afford private medical care in the UK goes private for anything they can. The NHS is good (and I _do_ mean just 'good' -- the quality of US healthcare is very uneven ac
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by trgdr 3y ago
As an American expat in London, I think the thing that consistently shocks me is how neither Brits nor Americans understand how much poorer Brits are than Americans. The median London wage is something like 30k GBP / 40k US. In New Yor
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by trgdr 3y ago
It is certainly true that there are many inventions that pose some sort of threat to humanity, and that they are generally pursued by people who have some sort of personal/professional interest in their development. In that respect, th
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by trgdr 3y ago
Yeah I don't want to be unfair or unkind, but his responses in this article seem to reflect rather poorly on his character. The thought process seems to be something like: "There was an opportunity for someone to gain notoriety an