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by xzcat 7y ago
As an example, in Ark, people use cementing paste as a currency. It's very time-intensive to make, stacks a lot, is not terribly heavy, and high-level crafting and building needs it in solar-mass-esque quantities.
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by xzcat 7y ago
That's the joke/trick, it's basically begging the question. You can out a cheater by asking a question of the form: Which is true, (A and A->B) or (A and A->C)? A cheater will fret over whether B or C is true, while som
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by xzcat 7y ago
I'll throw in my own anecdote. ZFS on root caused me a significant amount of headache when the proxmox node I was using it on just randomly decided it wasn't going to boot anymore. The ZFS pools were fine, no data was lost, but no
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by xzcat 7y ago
"fairly painlessly" and "without significant work or downtime" doesn't sound like it lines up with btrfs's, which I would describe as "one command and zero downtime (just some io load if you rebalance imme
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by xzcat 7y ago
I think the clothes-on-amazon thing is fair and a cost of doing business, though. If my only choices, as a customer, were "all sales are final"-buy-online or go in-store, I would 100% go in-store. I would never, ever buy what coul
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by xzcat 7y ago
I take issue with #1. The rich have very large percentages of their wealth in vehicles that don't get inflated away. Stocks. Interest-bearing debt. Etc. I would argue that Somewhere in the middle class is probably the peak for "%
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by xzcat 7y ago
I would much prefer every person on Earth be a philosopher than no-one. I think a lot of bad things exist today not because someone saw a good option and a bad option and chose the bad, but because someone saw two options and, being unable
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by xzcat 7y ago
The trick is generally to find yourself in a situation where you take home 300k because you made 3000k for your firm. I'm not being facetious. With anything trading-related, a big part of having the ability to make three million dollar
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by xzcat 7y ago
I'm under the impression that massive investment in DRM is more of a way to satisfy tech and (pirate) culture-illiterate humans while making deals for content. Even Steam needed to nominally do something and Gaben's position on
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by xzcat 7y ago
Just for the record, for the most part, it should be legal to sell CD's of most Linux distributions, assuming you honor the GPL and any other licenses for any software that's physically on the disk.
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by xzcat 7y ago
I'm sure some/most of the stats are cherry-picked, but several of them seem somewhat comprehensive- like the stats on drug use, suicide, and all-cause mortality. Seems like men struggle far, far more than women do with these issue
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by xzcat 7y ago
The rationale for why "just add more shelters" is hard has been explained to me as: * nobody wants a shelter built near them * even if it does get built, it's often women/children only and the second bullet point isn&#x2
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by xzcat 7y ago
Looks like civilian GPS accuracy is 4m or so. I could imagine that dropping someone's dot in the middle of a street, and then a driving having to guess which side of the street the error is coming from.
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by xzcat 7y ago
Well, that seems to be the policy solution that Japan picked. In addition to the cultural development of well-intentioned men holding their hands in the air on crowded mass-transit to prove their good intentions, and thus throwing suspicion
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by xzcat 7y ago
I really can't overstate how skeptical I am of all the supposed benefits of gender-segregated schooling when attendance of a gender-segregated school is so strongly correlated with socioeconomic class. I agree that all of your explanat
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by xzcat 7y ago
Except that the marginal cost of each "shipped good" is only a very small handwave away from zero. Which, as I understand it, is fundamentally different from the cost model of shipping physical packages.