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gamepsys

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    Comment #41524990

    There's miseries in all stages of life. I've known people that still enjoyed life into their 80s and even 90s. I'm not very afraid of being physical uncomfortable, and I enjoy bein…

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    Comment #41524895

    Life is great, who wouldn't want more of it? I'm old enough to see some the advances in medical care different family members were able to receive when they became very ill over th…

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    Comment #41522433

    According to the article, the game developers plan on removing exclusive access to the underlying blockchain that is governing the rules of the game. This means other game clients …

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    Comment #41512725

    If the unbiased view is leftist then an unbiased newspaper would be left leaning.

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    Comment #41511584

    Exactly, winning the lottery is massively life changing. This is actually something I think people don't understand about the psychology of lottery. In some regards it doesn't matt…

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    Comment #41504745

    It means that even though there are members in the guild/union, the company NYT negotiates individually with every member of the guild/union instead of going through the guild/unio…

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    Comment #41504274

    This could be a blueprint for how other tech departments unionize, but I suspect NYT is a unique case because of their politics. Can such a left wing cornerstone really afford to l…

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    Comment #41495003

    I get excited when Toyota does a major model does a refresh. The Corolla is likely the #1 selling car model globally, so it has a major impact whenever they change something.

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    Comment #41494661

    The rumors of the thinner iPhone made me disappointed when this wasn't thinner.

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    Comment #41469583

    Hopefully your projects aren't too ingrained in the github ecosystem for migrating to be an issue. It's a bug tracker, a feature request tracker, a patch tracker ,a wiki, a release…

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    Comment #41467456

    That seems to be the recent business plan of the military industrial complex. Wars aren't popular among US voters, and military recruitment numbers are struggling. Instead, if we s…

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    Comment #41467288

    I think it's disappointing that the default toolchain for collaborating on free and open source software includes GitHub which is very much not free and open source, and is backed …

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    Comment #41461997

    It's blatantly about international power. Technology is seen as a bottle neck to limit China's power on several fronts. Economic power, military power, scientific power, technologi…

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    Comment #41450577

    Nothing about operating a vehicle is safe. I think it's unfair to judge someone morally for doing an activity that is common practice.

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    Comment #41419613

    Freight -- Ideally this causes more investment into freight rail and more freight to be moved by rail/boat. This might cause short term price increases to expand the infrastructure…

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    Comment #41413957

    Yes. In regions where real estate prices explode many people are forced out of their homes because they cannot pay the increased tax. This specifically hits senior citizens hard. I…

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    Comment #41413879

    > Copper is of course valuable enough that at times people have stolen copper wiring to sell it for recycling. I don't know whether that's a thing today. You can scrap copper for a…

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    Comment #41332371

    Right now we have a common architecture where users upload files to a central service, and that central service then forwards the content to other users. This is true of services l…

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    Comment #41323773

    Earlier you said "There’s just too much opportunity loss compared to lower income / less rich countries." I think the lost opportunity value of dicking around would be about equal …

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    Comment #41322614

    Out of all of Japan's problems, I think the fundamental root is they need to import a significant amount of energy. They do not have significant coal, oil, uranium. They have limit…

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    Comment #41322412

    Generous ration. Yeah there should be limits, depending on the environment.

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    Comment #41321082

    Seems pretty clear to me that agriculture should wax and wane it's consumption and humans should have access to a consistent generous ration.

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    Comment #41313915

    As a 4k monitor user, I think KDE has DPI scaling on par with MacOS.

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    Comment #41313902

    OP is talking about WSL. I've seen some technical documentation, such as readmes for source code, that assumes the user is on a Windows laptop running WSL. At this point in time if…

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    Comment #41313846

    I had the same experience about 5 years ago.