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> Every game engine has a sort of "grain" to it where it tends to produce games with a certain look and feel There's a degree of toupee fallacy to this. It's hard to tell what engi…

Do you really think we'll have optimization in an era of metrics encouraging developers to approach shipping a million lines of code a month?

Right, it's dystopian if they do it, but utopian if we do. If anything I'd trust Chinese surveillance more. It's accountable to the government not the whims of profit motive and pr…

We all know how much local PDs like collecting traffic fines, but I wish they would enforce the laws around yielding to pedestrians with the same enthusiasm as speed limits. I walk…

> The level of international coordination with vaccine rollouts and agreements between countries was way more than I had initially expected Did we forget the DoD running anti-vax p…

CPI functions to obscure disproportionate price increases in essentials by lumping them in with cheapening commodities (e.g. electronics) that have a high demand elasticity. It's a…

I hear this all the time as a rationalization for why people don't go out anymore, but I don't buy it. You're afraid people on the internet might see you having fun? I've had peopl…

It's very blatant and below that range. They got many orders for the exact same model that's around $50k.

Watches are the commodity of choice for corruption in some circles. I know people in jewelry and a significant portion of their transactions are watches to Chinese businessmen, for…

Americans like to downplay the impact of the situation of their birth in their successes and others' failures.

> AI and automation makes things so cheap that today's underclass lives better than kings ever did I suggest you go share this opinion with the people living on the street because …

> The question is whether we feel air travel is as essential to everyday life as busses and trains are. Anywhere I can get to by train in the USA I can go faster and cheaper by pla…

> Specifically, for the least happy group, happiness rises with income until $100,000, then shows no further increase as income grows. For those in the middle range of emotional we…

The state of the UK suggests to me that Orwell's writing was as much an expression of British post-colonial anxieties as it was an indictment of the USSR. His books are no doubt pu…

Under qualified immunity cops are all but completely immune to being sued.

More accurate to call it the War for Terror at this point.

Sadly, or not, they still sell the best laptops.

A market economy is just as good if not better at denying "the agency to live their lives as they choose". Do you think the bum on the street or the poor family working paycheck to…

They will fall in line as property crime increases.

Is it any surprise when wealth inequality has been increasing in the USA for the past 50 years? Globally the picture is even more bleak.

Universities are just as bad or worse on this front. They will buy up properties with no plan simply because they have the cash to throw around and don't have to pay tax.

So glad we don't have propaganda, only independent journalists who just coincidentally parrot the same think-tank talking points. See the wealth of articles that are even more obvi…

> The reason for the "talent shortage" (aka "talent more expensive than we'd like") is really just because hardware design is a niche field that most people a) don't need to do, b)…

If you can't beat them join them. The rest of the world is getting the same thing as China, but less transparent and more hypocritical.

It's tiresome. I would rather read the bullet points he fed in and be done.