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s3r3nity

4,105 karmajoined 13 yıl önce

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Yet another Valve lawsuit on loot boxes

windowscentral.com
2 points·by s3r3nity·4 ay önce·0 comments

SpaceX's 11th Starship flight a resounding success

npr.org
32 points·by s3r3nity·9 ay önce·1 comments

Zohran Mamdani to phase out Gifted & Talented program in NYC elementary schools

nypost.com
3 points·by s3r3nity·9 ay önce·1 comments

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s3r3nity
·3 gün önce·discuss
Then…don’t? You are free to not do so, while others (like myself) can choose the opposite.
s3r3nity
·3 ay önce·discuss
>One of the things I have disliked about the Iranian conflict is that their propaganda/messaging has been, by quite a margin, more reliable than what the US/Israel have been putting out.

Kek. Tell me you live in a bubble without telling me you live in a bubble.

"Both are doing propaganda, but one side's propaganda is totally less propaganda" gave me a good laugh today, thank you
s3r3nity
·4 ay önce·discuss
Did they stop teaching "actions speak louder than words" in schools, or something?
s3r3nity
·5 ay önce·discuss
Nah I’m good, and we’re pretty good overall.

See how I can have a different opinion and not get arrested? Whereas if you ask someone in China if they’re communist, they’re not allowed to say “No.”
s3r3nity
·5 ay önce·discuss
> The US government is now more authoritarian than the Chinese government

Nah we’re not playing this game.

Try asking the CCP officials in person about Uyghur internment camps, or Tiananmen Square, and see if your family isn’t all arrested.

Ask Olympian Alysa Liu how the CCP targeted her father to try to coerce her to skate for China.
s3r3nity
·6 ay önce·discuss
The last World Cup used slave labor to build their stadium in the desert, in a country that banned beer/alcohol consumption - the latter of which was relaxed eventually due to heavy lobbying (and possibly corruption.)

Relax.
s3r3nity
·7 ay önce·discuss
Can't tell if this is sarcasm or not.

These don't magically appear - people have to create / store / distribute those things, and/or develop the science / engineering to do so.
s3r3nity
·9 ay önce·discuss
lol if you think $ was the barrier there, I have a few bridges to sell you too…
s3r3nity
·9 ay önce·discuss
With so many recent leadership hires / acquire hires with Facebook Growth Team backgrounds, ya’ll are naive if you think OpenAI _isn’t_ using this business data for their own means…and/or intends to lean more heavily into this direction

Ex: if you’re a Statsig user, OpenAI now knows every feature you are releasing, content you produce, telemetry, etc.
s3r3nity
·9 ay önce·discuss
So was WeWork
s3r3nity
·9 ay önce·discuss
“… FTC when it challenged Microsoft's proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard, a convoluted process that didn't formally end until May of 2025—almost two years after the deal closed.”

This process needs to be faster for these types of challenges to be more successful - both in the market and in consumer opinion. Markets move too fast, and the answer can’t be “FTC needs more of my money to hire more people.”
s3r3nity
·2 yıl önce·discuss
> Deterrence Theory is back-justification to make yourself feel good

Retribution is a valid component of justice.[1]

[1] Stolen from another commenter above
s3r3nity
·2 yıl önce·discuss
Actions have consequences.

Billions of dollars of fraud that took years and hundreds of thousands of dollars in lawyer fees to prove should have a sentence that is a strong deterrent to future crime probabilities.
s3r3nity
·3 yıl önce·discuss
> Only 1 14" screen and a different timezone

Of all the optimizations I've done, moving to one screen/monitor ~10 years ago has been the biggest positive impact on my work, anxiety, and overall focus.

When I was younger, I was way too naive in the memetic desire when seeing other more senior folks with multiple screens, or even seeing "hacker" representations in the media with many screens with different orientations (silly, I know...everyone is dumb when they're young.) When you're 22 and insecure about whether or not you're actually "good" or belong, then you try to mimic the "best."
s3r3nity
·8 yıl önce·discuss
Yeah it's on-brand with Apple's approach for privacy and the like. Plus, the end-game to me seems like tighter integration with Siri and the AI ecosystem they're building.
s3r3nity
·10 yıl önce·discuss
This might be a dumb question, but can someone elaborate on how you can get such good graphics like they were showing in the Skyrim and Zelda images on such a small cartridge (i.e. not a disc?)