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Which is it? Sounds cool.

It’s incredible really that these guys are talking about using Godot on consoles when it is in such bad shape. Even if it’s a bait and switch, and they spend 100% of the funds on j…

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The Victoria man is a radical, he's there to start an interesting conversation, he's succeeding. > power to compel people to do the dishes... and some type of punishment to mete ou…

The USA was a fine place to live, many people happily gainfully employed, many investment accounts booking gains, labor and capital coexisting in harmony, when inflation was double…

Nobody said no classes. There wasn’t money like there was in Europe. There were by some intellectually honest estimates 50m people living in N and S America at the time of arrival,…

We could probably 10x the number of “handouts” as you call them, at least in the US, and nothing would change. We’ve auditioned it already: $4T in stimulus, the $600/wk employment …

Indigenous Americans, prior to colonists’ arrival.

90% of the revenue is games. Mobile Chrome would only need to support idiosyncratic Unity and Unreal web targets for a significant chunk of that revenue.

Listen to yourself. “Under the works.” Dude, c’mon of course it was the lawsuits.

Show me a traditional App Store app that doesn’t pay 30% of IAP to Apple.

It is totally about preventing alternatives to the App Store.

National, standardized, digital ID is inevitable.

Retrocomputing is the programmer’s version of cringe. The very border of benign.

Indeed, because of diminishing marginal returns on studying, even being in the 50th percentile of SAT test prep hours can improve your score by 10 percentiles. It’s hard to know ho…

Most people who weren’t 18 and living in CA in the last 3 years don’t know much about how UC admissions work.

Dropping the SAT is an affirmative action measure.

The stuff the person is talking about is a bad faith argument.

No one ethnic group owns the schools.

Don't downvote me. But whenever I can't figure out the politics of the historian in the first five sentences of their writing, I assume it's a Republican. Then I stop reading becau…

In my experience, for every engineering subordinate that turned out to be good that I didn't bother testing with leetcode, there were 19 who sucked and also failed their coding tes…

??? That’s not how this stuff works at all. This is a dispute over the facts, and how much money the facts are worth, and to whom. Someone in California DOJ had a 15 minute meeting…

Public health emergencies exceed the limitations of your contrarianism.