mcphage

> 90% of people also don't create any value

Isn't it weird that the people that don't create value are also the people with all the money, though?

> At $5MM farmers are affected.

Farmers—as in, the land-owning famers—are generally wealthy people.

> If you take real resources away from the person who owns the McDonald's ice cream machine in real terms I have a hard time seeing how it won't come out of the lifestyle of the dude buying icecream.

What you're describing is called "Trickle Down Economics", and has led to 50 years of economic failure.

> now you have people fighting in the street over stupid things like politics.

Politics is how we interact with each other as a group, how we make decisions as a society and put those decisions into effect. That seems like one of the least stupid things I can think of.

> wasn't like that before my time

As the great William Martin Joel once said, "We didn't start the fire. It was always burning, since the world's been turning."

> you probably dont know that once in the country it was acceptable to have differing political opinions

"acceptable to have differing political opinions" is not the same thing as "all political opinions were acceptable". The former was true, and still is. The later never was true, and never will be. But supporters of deeply unpopular opinions always try to pretend those two things are the same.

Disney's research lab did something along these lines some years ago for making a point follow a path. You draw a path, and it generates the linkages required to match that path as closely as possible. They've had a lot of follow-up work since, but I remember this video for it: https://youtu.be/DfznnKUwywQ?si=F-5NZxKu4hP_mand

Good choice in using the city hall for Buffalo, although the entrance shown is entirely made up.

On the other hand, I can’t tell what St. Petersburg is supposed to be. Is that the Dali Museum?

- those that tremble as if mad

> They are concerned that the German culture get erased within a few generations, because to many people with a too different cultural background enter the society.

That's how German culture as it is was created in the first place. And that's how the future German culture will be created, ad infinitum.

> we will share precisely none of experiences

How miserable that sounds. And how limiting.

Yaaaaasssss. It's one of games that's both delightful, and short.

> You can buy your eggs from Costco

If you live near a Costco, you can. The one near me is opening in a week, and I can't wait.

> Too many districts mean high costs because of the need to communicate between all the locations. Shipping parts from state to state is not cheap.

I agree, this isn't the cheapest way to develop. I just don't think I'd call it "fraud".

> the code typing part of the job

I have trouble imagining you misread the comment you were replying to, that badly, accidentally.

The sanest option is not to have capital crimes, that way nobody can commit them.

> procurement fraud looks quite different (e.g. having anpart for your weapon made in every congressional district, a tactic developed for the B-1)

Why is that fraud? That seems more like congresspeople having something to offer each other, to build up relationships and interdependence. What we have now is that our 2 parties don’t care about each other and don’t need each other, so there’s no reason for them to work together.

I never said he wasted it. The person I responded to said “why don’t you do what he did”.

Not everybody inherits millions of dollars from daddy.

> Regular buyers are gamers who spend a lot of time playing games.

Sadly, like most things, Buying Games and Playing Games are 2 different hobbies.

Have you played Öoo?

> An average person who makes regular game purchases likes long games. They want value for their money, and the number of hours is a big factor.

Is that the case? Or do they want short games, so they can complete it and move on to the next game. If you’re buying games regularly, either they’re shorter games, or you’re not completing them all—in which case, the length doesn’t really matter. Or looking at it the other way, if you like long games, and you’re completing them, you’re not buying games regularly.

> Our world today is filled with far more interesting things.

More interesting than each other?

O shit, I didn't even think of that. I've got a few of those kicking around, honestly I was just using them as doorstops at this point.

> you do need a really capable computer though

They suggest a pair of Mac Studios w/ M5 Ultra chips and 512 GB of RAM. A single Mac Studio w/ M5 Ultra and half that RAM (256 GB) is around $11k, and the 512 GB option isn't even available yet. So.... yeah.

> the "I dont like AI" is more "I dont like HOW people are using the tools." It's the people the author doesnt like

I don't think it's the technology OR the people that the author doesn't like—I think it's what the people produce with that technology. Namely, the slop and bots currently overwhelming the internet.

Well, they do say write what you know.

If you're asking this question, then I'm not sure you actually understood what college campuses were for previously, either.

> The end result will be a lot of mass market art is going to become noticeable worse in the years to come in order to earn some shareholders a few extra cents in profit.

I agree, but I think pretty much everything will get noticeably worse in the years to come. It has happened to a lot of civilizations: they had some high level of skill in beautiful pottery, and then over the generations that skill disappeared. Probably because they were cheaper.

> Somebody has done something artistic

Nobody did it, and it’s bad.

> I’d be remembering the cities rather than conjuring them

Having looked at some of them (and it being one of my favorite books) ... it won't do that. These visualizations are as terrible as they are unnecessary.