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soup10

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    Comment #45677662

    i see, thanks

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    Comment #45677561

    what's the natural proof barrier

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    Comment #44464704

    >It's a lot harder to take a creative risk when a lot of money is on the line. It's also harder aligning a large team to execute on a novel vision. well indie games are their own s…

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    Comment #44463033

    i'd rather see studios take creative and financial risks personally, not saying I care about yet another battle royale game, but in principle it should be about good games that are…

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    Comment #44461204

    every video game is a financial gamble, it's not his money so who cares if they try to make a battle royale and it flops

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    Comment #43711655

    i agree, no matter how much wishful thinking jensen sells to investors about paradigm shifts the days of everyone rushing out to get 6 figure tensor core clusters for their data ce…

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    Comment #43684681

    Harvard has a 50 billion endowment, what do they need federal funds for. If they value their intellectual independence so much, then cut the cord.

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    Comment #43674779

    i'll be a contrarian, that css and svg "hacks" like this are "impressive" are a symptom of a web-platform that is dogshit for multimedia. If a game did this nobody would even blink…

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    Comment #43407059

    many businesses are boring or a grind by their nature and would not exist without financial incentive and an exit plan

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    Comment #43385724

    i started writing a response about how the human brain is designed to operate in an environment where classical physics is the norm, so we need to bridge the deviations from that i…

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    Comment #43385580

    just because QFT follows an internal logic, doesn't mean the jump from macro physics to quantum physics itself is logical. In my opinion we still don't have a logical explanation f…

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    Comment #43144365

    I would rather have an AI write the incident reports, I trust AI more than I trust police to be objective.

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    Comment #42781647

    The church has a long history of defending and clarifying the principles and practices of faith in a relatively academic way, in a way that would surprise people who believe religi…

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    Comment #42754016

    it's such false power though, the politicians don't realize we can regulate the shit out of big tech and reallocate the money to more noble causes and google and facebook and all t…

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    Comment #42360828

    flappy bird is a simple game, 1000 lines sounds like a normal amount(assuming there is a graphics scaffold, which in this case appears to be SDL), and it would indicate that it's n…

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    Comment #42182180

    It's not always that simple, sure the more time you spend researching and reading books, the more certain types of knowledge accumulates but we all know someone that is book smart …

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    Comment #42162128

    I picked up SICP expecting to read something really interesting or profound with the way it's been hyped up over the years however it's more of a how-to manual for working with Sch…

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    Comment #42134586

    set a policy for what happens when the spend limit is reached? not rocket science

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    Comment #42134375

    Spend limits are such an obvious and necessary feature that the only reason they don't have them is shady business practices.

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    Comment #42077941

    [flagged]

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    Comment #41741061

    Sure, I just think it might have a more "boring" answer than people are hoping for. E.g. behind the veil is something extremely high mass and energy, but it's more akin to a new cl…

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    Comment #41740741

    Ok, but in my mind it's a lot like a mystery box, there's a lot of speculation about what's in the box, but without new instruments or new observation techniques, if the light/info…

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    Comment #41738716

    My understanding of black holes is rather straightforward, gravity is so strong it prevents light and matter from escaping it's orbit. That does not mean that nothing is there or t…