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There’s no real point to nfts as licenses though. The only party that can authenticate a license, the creator, wouldn’t want to give up their control over licenses, and the wouldn’t want to resell used licenses because… Why? That’s a ton of work to implement when they can just sell a new license.

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Arms manufacturers want more $ and can’t get more $ if the stockpiles are full

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Article seems to push the point that you can, in fact, buy a “last-gen” phone and it’ll be just as effective as the current gen. Which is true, since phone improvements are marginal or just shit that includes image-editing AI in the camera firmware since the diminishing improvements of hardware are really starting to kick the manufacturers’ ass.

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It won’t stop an infection from going bad but it can mildly reduce risk of infection iirc

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Some people genetically just don’t smell bad when they sweat

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Gabe was talking about the making of Half Life, back when you shipped your disc and that was that. And the game was, apparently, crapola.

Same kind of deal with the original Deus Ex. It was a spaghetti of poorly interacting systems until the devs were able to make it all click together.

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Most countries that aren’t America aren’t inundated with anti-China rhetoric, so if someone starts spouting off about China (and especially Chinese civil rights, or uses the term “CCP”) in English they’re almost certainly an American.

Does China lag behind the west in terms of queer rights? Yes. We’re critical of that but also recognize the grassroots initiatives within the CPC to change that, and support those efforts. Does China pollute more in raw numbers than America? Yeah, but they’re also the global leader in green power production, so they’re clearly working to fix the emissions problem, which we support. China also takes a non-imperialist stance internationally, which is far and away better than anything America has ever done internationally.

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It’s definitely not simple to use but I agree that the conceptual model it represents is straightforward. I think a lot of the problems people have with git come from not understanding the underlying data structure before learning how to manipulate it.

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D&D: individual poundage

Pathfinder 2: Abstracted Bulk

Lancer: Pick up half your mech or more if you get the right loadout

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Someone else has a server and their infrastructure is set up so you can upload a zip of some executable and they’ll figure out how to make it run. You don’t worry about any details except your code and whatever API is require to be compatible, and they worry about hosting it, making sure it has memory, CPU time, disk space, DB, etc.

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Right tool for the right job. C is a stupid choice for most modern apps but it’s indispensable for embedded stuff

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I’m sure it was revolutionary back in the day for warlords to learn that keeping your supply lines defended was important and also you shouldn’t fight a battle against an uphill defender with the sun at their back on muddy ground.

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What a grand and intoxicating innocence to presume Marx did not consider these things

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It’ll be fine. There’s always some cohort of people who take an actual interest in the magic boxes enough to want to learn compsci.

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This was the peak. Every meme since this fella has been “thing good, thing bad”.

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Probably if they decided to assertively solve the matter they’d provide free extermination services and temporary clean housing (for the day or two it takes to do a clean extermination) for affected households and use the data of which addresses have used the service to map out infestation sources and clear them.

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Swartz had good beliefs about freedom of information but politically was kind of a weirdo. What happened to him is an unlimited tragedy and outright criminal.

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There’s also no real reason for there to be more matter than antimatter in the universe. Any sufficiently high energy action will produce equal amounts of matter and antimatter, but there’s overwhelmingly more matter than antimatter floating around. It’s one of the big questions.

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Half the user-facing internet broke for a few hours when one guy withdrew a shitty one-liner piece of JavaScript (the whole leftpad thing) because someone somewhere added it as a dependency to a dependency to a dependency until it was pulled into an enormous frontend library. The internet relies more on random open source contributions than a lot of people are aware of.

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That’s just how anime is shot I think

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Musk is an idiot who bought Twitter stock, tried to pump and dump, waived due diligence as part of the pump, and found himself contractually obligated to buy the company. Everything since then is what Musk thinks are good ideas.

What are some commonly known facts that are too bizarre for you to believe to be true?

For me it is the fact that our blood contains iron. I earlier used to believe the word stood for some ‘organic element’ since I couldn’t accept we had metal flowing through our supposed carbon-based bodies, till I realized that is where the taste and smell of blood comes from.

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It’s kind of an old concept. The idea is that truly new discoveries, like new theories and inventions rather than expansions or extensions, mostly happen by serendipity. So if you have more people churning ideas you get a higher probability of winning serendipity.

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We can and do. GPS satellites need to be regularly calibrated to Earth clock signals or they’ll start to drift their calibration by meters per day.

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FO3 was kind of a disaster in terms of narrative and roleplay. And the established world building.

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It’s mostly to sell to the Japanese market iirc. Not many in Iceland actually have a taste for whale. Huge waste of time and resources.

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Gose beers finally arrived in my area after years of waiting. Still fifty IPAs to every gose but it’s something

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During WW2, the Allies wanted to armor their planes better so more would survive missions. But armor is expensive and heavy so you’d have to prioritize where to put it.

So they go out and collect data on the returning planes to see where they’d been hit. That picture is basically the data collected: where returning planes had sustained the most damage.

So most of the engineers looked at that and went “Aha, the points with the most damage should be armored, since they get shredded up pretty good.”

And one engineer went “Um actually, if they got shot there and came back, armor doesn’t matter. We need to armor the spots with no bullet holes, since a plane shot there wasn’t able to return.”

And so it was, and they called it Survivor Bias.

In this case, it’s survivor bias about becoming more conservative as you age

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:shaka-walls-fell:

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It did though? I don’t know what point you think you’re making but the internet did in fact grow from a technology limited to universities and the armed forces to a publicly accessible network, mostly off the back of publicly funded researchers and various techies that started their own neighborhood ISPs.

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Let me be clear, uh, you wanna know how I, uh, ruined Reddit? obama-socialism

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Just close your eyes. Illusions don’t work if you can’t see them expert-shapiro

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Actually? I thought it was because Marxist-Leninist. Domains are like ten bucks a year

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I’ve got a Windows desktop and a MacBook. For the life of me I cannot figure out why coding on the desktop feels like ass.

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A damning condemnation of your education system, to be certain

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Does a more recent stack translate to any real benefits?

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I want for very little. Therefore I clearly want ads personalized to me that try to make me feel inadequate so that I do want more.

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Nah, meters are very straightforward and easy to work with. How far is a kilofoot? God only knows, but a kilometre is a trivially visualized distance. What’s 1/100 of a foot? Dunno, but with meters it’s a centimeter which is, again intuitively easy to grasp.

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