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byJonnyCalcutta
2023 @04:28AM
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Attached to: 'Just Making Great Games' Won't Change Xbox Console Market Share, Says Spencer
It's not even streaming. Its downloads. I haven't bought a game on disc for so long it feels like it's from another century.
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byJonnyCalcutta
7, 2023 @08:57AM
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Attached to: A Growing Number of Scientists Are Convinced the Future Influences the Past
No mod points but wanted to say thanks for an informative post.
Since I've nothing directly to add I'll just say that the first thing that popped into my head when I read the summary was - 'I wonder how long it will be before this will be used as the badly deformed justification by someone pushing woowoo on Faceogram?'.
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byJonnyCalcutta
0, 2023 @01:08PM
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Attached to: Meta is Building a Decentralized, Text-Based Social Network
I read your comment and suffered a -2 to INT. Thanks for that.
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byJonnyCalcutta
y 10, 2023 @10:25AM
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Attached to: Coinbase To Cut 20% Jobs, Abandon 'Several' Projects To Weather Downturns in Crypto Market
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byJonnyCalcutta
mber 28, 2022 @04:55PM
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Attached to: Police, Prosecutors Used Junk Science To Decide 911 Callers Were Liars
I would suspect that the problem is similar to talking to conspiracy nuts. To argue from a position of authority is much harder than just making up sciencey sounding woo-woo.
The judge or the juror would have to understand the subject (and probably many others). The woo-woo merchant just has to sound convincing (and is probably being pushed as an expert).
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byJonnyCalcutta
ber 26, 2022 @12:22PM
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Attached to: 'Partner-Swapping, Pills...' NY Post Investigates Sam Bankman-Fried's 'FTX Party House'
...like its UK equivalent, the Daily Mail, is ...half provocative actually useful newspaper that covers articles which everyone else is afraid to report.
So nothing like the Daily Mail then? The Daily Mail has only ever matched reality by coincidence.
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byJonnyCalcutta
ber 26, 2022 @05:42AM
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Attached to: Indian Actor Wins Court Order for His Personality Rights
He went to the same acting school as The Rock and Tom Cruise?
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byJonnyCalcutta
er 22, 2022 @09:42AM
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Attached to: Amazon Alexa Is a 'Colossal Failure,' On Pace To Lose $10 Billion This Year
I'm not disagreeing with you - what you say is true. Its not smart at all. But it works. At least for the few things I use my echos for (timers, lights and music) I find that it works and it works fast.
Google on the other hand is much smarter, but it is painfully slow. I often think it hasn't heard me because the response takes so long. And when things don't work there is generally no work around, like there is with Alexa skills (try playing non-UK based internet radio if you're in the UK. Its blocked by Tunein because of a court case and yet Google still doesn't offer an alternative years later).
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byJonnyCalcutta
er 22, 2022 @08:28AM
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Attached to: Amazon Alexa Is a 'Colossal Failure,' On Pace To Lose $10 Billion This Year
Totally agree - what you say, plus listening to music (I have one that connects to my amp). Given the cost though, that's enough for me to have a couple.
I mean, I can't imagine bothering with smart lights if I didn't have voice control (and I find Google to have some pretty big flaws which makes it inferior, not least of which is that its much slower to respond)
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byJonnyCalcutta
er 27, 2022 @04:09AM
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Attached to: Meta's Profit Slides by More Than 50 Percent as Challenges Mount
The net is also full of articles on why the Earth is flat. That doesn't make it true.
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byJonnyCalcutta
14, 2022 @04:32AM
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Attached to: Netflix's Ad Tier Will Cost $7 a Month and Launch in November
You guys. Just get a room already
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byJonnyCalcutta
ber 05, 2022 @03:03PM
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Attached to: Robots Are Making French Fries Faster, Better Than Humans
Sounds like the perfect job for a robot
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byJonnyCalcutta
ber 27, 2022 @02:38PM
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Attached to: Why a Weak British Pound Matters
Do you know how VCs work? Do you actually think VCs are investing their own capital?
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byJonnyCalcutta
er 26, 2022 @03:42PM
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Attached to: Why a Weak British Pound Matters
Tax it off them and give it to f-ing politicians and you bet your ass they'll immediately spend it down to last penny.
Good. Sounds like a plan
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byJonnyCalcutta
er 26, 2022 @03:40PM
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Attached to: Why a Weak British Pound Matters
That's circular reasoning at its best. But even discounting your chicken and egg logic, you make the mistake of assuming that the rich risk there capital when they 'found' companies. Limited liability proves you wrong (and that's even before you get onto publicly traded companies, venture capital, etc, etc). Its only the relatively poor that have to risk their capital when they try and work for themselves.
Also please refer to it by its proper title, which is 'golden shower economics'
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