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Can confirm. I'm pretty sure it's Keaton Patti's writing, "forced a bot to watch 1000 hours of..." is his shtick. It's all hand written to read like an exaggerated, comedic Markov chain output.

It is just about piracy. Sony's repeatedly demonstrated they don't care about their users' safety (see: numerous high profile data leaks), and these bootloader exploits aren't the sort of thing a virus can exploit.

> (basically Rock Band, and very latency sensitive)

I contest that rhythm games are the least latency sensitive. You'll automatically adjust to (consistent) latency and not notice it. You also don't get much feedback unless you miss a note.

There are private clinics like Medcan, which you can pay for checkups, referrals, etc., so it's not all single payer. You usually end up in the same queue for MRIs though, so it doesn't help there.

> he's old.

He's only 82, and he's got a billion-dollar nonprofit dedicated to keeping him healthy. Don't count on him being on the way out.

I assume you're talking about Impossible Burger and its ilk. Stuff like methylcellulose (non-digestible fiber) and L-Tryptophan (present in meat and eggs, added here to supplement nutrition) sound scary, but they're everywhere as boring nutritional additives.

The only odd one is soy leghemoglobin, which comes from soybeans but mimics meat hemoglobin. It's just part of the legume, though.

The only troubling thing on the ingredients list is how much oil they put into it, but you can make the same complaint with 70/30 meat burgers. The macros are bad, but most burgers are.

I hope you use fresh turmeric for your Indian meal, because the powdered stuff is sometimes adulterated with lead oxide.

> the ultra processed soy beans and various chemical binders wearing a meat Halloween costume.

This reads like propaganda. Take tofurkey for example, it's just seitan and tofu and the same "chemical binders" you'll see in every other product in the freezer aisle.

And tofu is only as "ultra-processed" as cheese or bread is.

I don't think this is always true; mature security teams consider their threat models. There's just a lot of Schneier groupies in the field as well...

Replace "goal" with "solution" and it makes sense. Otherwise (trite) you might solve the wrong problem.

I don't think it was just the random generation; Desktop Adventures didn't quite have the depth of a rogue game.

Not etymologically related, just homophones; barb (from French) and barbarian (from Greek) have distinct roots.

Did you come up with anything? Because I'm drawing a blank.

Nature's "made" natural nuclear reactors (Oklo), but we had to make the hydrogen bomb ourselves.

Not sufficient, given reports of TVs and other devices automatically creating mesh networks. Your disconnected TV could talk to your neighbour's connected one. If anything, I wonder why LG isn't already doing it.

Edit: Getting pushback asking for evidence (fair). Most recently I read it in an HN thread a few years back. I thought it was a TCL TV, but I can't find it anymore. It wasn't Samsung's WiFi Direct, which I don't think was ever on by default.

Lacking better evidence, I'll admit I'm probably wrong and no TV has been documented doing this (yet).

I think you can find a Miyamoto interview where he claims he chose the name from Zelda Fitzgerald.

You won't really get much out of it playing 3hrs/week though.

30-player lobbies isn't exactly "massively" multiplayer though.

Grind addiction aside, the gameplay was legitimately good. PvP was compelling, raiding was compelling, even the grind was pretty fun (especially compared to your usual free-to-play MMO).

> nobody has a competitive advantage

This presupposes that a company's competitive advantage comes primarily from their CEO.

It also presupposes that success is zero sum and winner takes all, which isn't always the case (example: when you're building out a new market segment, it can be beneficial to have competitors that are also building it out).

> So many things I would have completely missed if it weren't for this.

This is the "unknown unknowns" problem. It sounds like the agent is a reasonably good source of obvious-in-hindsight problems that a experienced founder would have experienced, but a new founder wouldn't easily guess at.

> judge if these are the right things

This problem exists no matter where you get the things from.

I don't understand. The 10year view on the site you linked shows a spike in unemployment in 2020 after Brexit took effect, and current rates are still higher than pre-Brexit rates. Is there an explanation for why the 2016 vote would be directly responsible for the temporary dip?

But I'm not convinced you can prove or disprove anything from one graph without context and analysis.

I don't have a horse in this race, but sources I found claim Brexit was economically detrimental to this day, including but not limited to the wiki page and its citations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_effects_of_Brexit

> Deckard certainly isn't supposed to be a good one.

Why not? He's a seasoned detective with a track record, why's it so hard to believe he picked up some tricks?

Those European countries are miles ahead on metrics that matter, like maternal mortality rate.

> cyberpunk

> horrifying totalitarian dictatorship with a market economy

These things are totally compatible, and usually basically synonymous.

> not sure if all

A fair amount, but far from all of them. AFAIR it was largely a technical decision with trade-offs; games that did it could offer CD-quality music, but wouldn't be able to read data from the disk and play music simultaneously.

I assume it's just people mimicking/cargo culting content creators, who are indeed being oppressed by the dark forces of the algorithm and the de-mometizer.

In my experience, conversations on Facebook also cause cognitive damage.

Video games can be any combination of those three. They don't even have to be fun in a traditional sense to be engaging. In any case, they're probably looking for transferrable skills, not gamifying ATC.

> unprocessed corn and soy

You mean edamame and sweet corn? You can grab an ear of the latter right off the field, husk it and eat it raw if you'd like. Or is there something about megafarms that prevent that?

> Most people don't know how to use them as ingredients.

If they get hungry they'll do what people have done since time immemorial and boil them. No-one will starve sitting on a cache of beans. For that matter, humans can eat pig feed directly (it's not as safe as human food, but you can boil it too).