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duTrieux. posted:carmack is an excellent and textbook example of antisocial personality disorder (i.e. sociopathy) he has a wife and children and i sometimes wonder how super hosed up they are since he used to live in my hometown
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:he has a wife and children and i sometimes wonder how super hosed up they are since he used to live in my hometown you, signing your posts next spring
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:he has a wife and children and i sometimes wonder how super hosed up they are since he used to live in my hometown carmack seems fairly high-functioning so i'll choose to believe that they're doing ok
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:he has a wife and children and i sometimes wonder how super hosed up they are since he used to live in my hometown chet and erik of oldmanmurray (then later of psychonauts and portal) used to joke carmack and his wife wanted to "gas the retardeds", and i dunno if it was because of their randian views (kang, his wife, literally called her company fountainhead) or they said something specific about it, but they definitely had weird armadillo aerospace videos in 2005 or so about federal regulations strangling carmack's rocket ambitions anyway yeah he seems like yet another bootstraps!! software guy, which was disappointing to discover long ago
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i liked doom but yeah i could see how Carmack was a brain with legs.
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he wrote some typical randroid "all taxation is theft" type thing so yea he's a shithead as far as i'm concerned he hasn't been relevant for about a decade and a half either, ever since unreal became the gamedev middleware of choice. if he's so smart then why didn't the free market choose his superior product? 
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Sapozhnik posted:he wrote some typical randroid "all taxation is theft" type thing so yea he's a shithead as far as i'm concerned 640k should be enough for anyone also invented trigonometry for doom
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Phone posted:The text messages cited in the charging report also included a discussion of Katz obtaining condoms, the number needed for the encounter, and whether the girl would consent to unprotected sex. 
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DOWN JACKET FETISH posted:He ain't standing on poo poo no more now that onstad has killed achewood again https://twitter.com/utilitylimb/status/193412321329152002
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Improbable Lobster posted:bray has to be the worst name i've heard in a while yea def go with goku
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put it in a loving cage with a shovel
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also why the gently caress does the snail get 1 million dollars
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abraham linkedin posted:also why the gently caress does the snail get 1 million dollars needs to be able to buy a plane ticket
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it follows sequel got real weird real fast
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Improbable Lobster posted:needs to be able to buy a plane ticket thats going to be one slow rear end treadmill
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use the money to provide for my family's financial security and then touch the snail
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Salt maze.
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pay someone to put the snail into a tupperware container, then pour that in a few pounds of cement and drop it in a lake/ocean duh
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idk you'd probably want to keep the snail around for when you want to eventually die inthe future
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if the snail is super intelligent then i'd pool my money with it to create some sort of snail foundation
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they don't even say that the snail wants to kill you. just let it be on its way and be that guy who has a phobia of snails
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SNAIL WHY YOU GOTTA BE SUCH A JERK
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is this frog fractions 2?
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just smash it, immortal != impervious
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Sapozhnik posted:he wrote some typical randroid "all taxation is theft" type thing so yea he's a shithead as far as i'm concerned Almost everything that I write publicly is about technical details in software or aerospace, and the points are usually not very contentious. I’m going to go out on a limb today and talk about a much more banal topic -– government. This is sort of an open letter to my mother and stepfather, who are intelligent people, but we don’t see eye to eye on political issues. A couple brief conversations a year during visits doesn’t really establish much, and I have wanted to make a more carefully considered set of points. I had nearly disqualified myself from discuss politics by not bothering to cast a vote for almost 20 years after I was legally able to. I was busy. I paid millions of dollars of taxes without any dodges, and just focused on my work. Listening to political speeches full of carefully calculated rhetoric is almost physically painful to me, and I diligently avoided it. A couple things slowly brought me around to paying more attention. A computer game company doesn’t need to have much to do with the government, but a company that flies rocket ships is a different matter. Due to Armadillo Aerospace, in the last decade I have observed and interacted with a lot of different agencies, civil servants, and congressmen, and I have collected enough data points to form some opinions. The second thing that has changed for me is becoming a father; with two young sons, I think more about how the world might look in twenty or thirty years when they are adults. I am an optimist on almost all fronts. Throughout history, there have always been those that argue that the world is going to hell, yet here we are, better off than any previous generation. Not only are things pretty drat good, but there is a lot of positive inertia that makes it likely that things will continue to improve for quite some time. We aren’t balanced at a precipice, where the result of any given election can pitch us into darkness. However, trends do matter. Small, nearly painless losses accumulate over the years, and the world can slowly change into something you don’t want while you weren’t paying attention. It doesn’t take a cataclysmic crash, just a slow accretion of over regulation, taxation, and dependency that chokes the vibrant processes that produce wealth and growth. Without growth, you get a zero sum game of fighting over the pie that breeds all sorts of problems in government and society. My core thesis is that the federal government delivers very poor value for the resources it consumes, and that society as a whole would be better off with a government that was less ambitious. This is not to say that it doesn’t provide many valuable and even critical services, but that the cost of having the government provide them is much higher than you would tolerate from a company or individual you chose to do business with. For almost every task, it is a poor tool. So much of the government just grinds up money, like shoveling cash into a wood chipper. It is ghastly to watch. Billions and billions of dollars. Imagine every stupid dot-com company that you ever heard of that suckered in millions of dollars of investor money before leaving a smoking crater in the ground with nothing to show for it. Add up all that waste, all that stupidity. All together, it is a rounding error versus the analogous program results in the government. Private enterprises can’t go on squandering resources like that for long, but it is standard operating procedure for the government. Well, can’t we make the government more efficient, so they can accomplish its tasks for less, or do more good work? Sure, there is room for improvement everywhere, but there are important fundamental limits. It is entertaining to imagine a corporate turnaround expert being told to get the federal house in shape, but it can’t happen. The modern civil service employment arrangement is probably superior to the historic jobs-as-political-spoils approach, but it insulates the workforce from the forces that improve commercial enterprises, and the voting influence of each worker is completely uncorrelated with their value. Without the goal and scorecard of profit, it is hard to even make value judgments between people and programs, so there are few checks against mounting inefficiency and abject failure, let alone evolution towards improvement. Even if you could snap your fingers and get it, do you really want a razor sharp federal apparatus ready to efficiently carry out the mandates of whoever is the supreme central planner at the moment? The US government was explicitly designed to make that difficult, and I think that was wise. So, the federal government is essentially doomed to inefficiency, no matter who is in charge or what policies they want it to implement. I probably haven’t lost too many people at this point – almost nobody thinks that the federal government is a paragon of efficiency, and it doesn’t take too much of an open mind to entertain the possibility that it might be much worse than you thought (it is). Given the inefficiency, why is the federal government called upon to do so many things? A large part is naked self interest, which is never going to go away -- lots of people play the game to their best advantage, and even take pride in their ability to get more than they give. However, a lot is done in the name of misplaced idealism. It isn’t hard to look around the world and find something that you feel needs fixing. The world gets to be a better place by people taking action to improve things, but it is easy for the thought to occur that if the government can be made to address your issue, it could give results far greater than what you would be able to accomplish with direct action. Even if you knew that it wasn’t going to be managed especially well, it would make up for it in volume. This has an obvious appeal. Every idealistic cry for the government to “Do Something” means raising revenue, which means taking money from people to spend in the name of the new cause instead of letting it be used for whatever purpose the earner would have preferred. It is unfortunate that income taxes get deducted automatically from most people’s paychecks, before they ever see the money they earned. A large chunk of the population thinks that tax day is when you get a nice little refund check. Good trick, that. If everyone was required to pay taxes like they pay their utilities, attitudes would probably change. When you get an appallingly high utility bill, you start thinking about turning off some lights and changing the thermostat. When your taxes are higher than all your other bills put together, what do you do? You can make a bit of a difference by living in Texas instead of California, but you don’t have many options regarding the bulk of it. Also, it is horribly crass to say it, but taxes are extracted by the threat of force. I know a man (Walt Anderson), who has been in jail for a decade because the IRS disagreed with how his foundations were set up, so it isn’t an academic statement. What things do you care strongly enough about to feel morally justified in pointing a gun at me to get me to pay for them? A few layers of distance by proxy let most people avoid thinking about it, but that is really what it boils down to. Feeding starving children? The justice system? Chemotherapy for the elderly? Viagra for the indigent? Corn subsidies? Helping people directly can be a noble thing. Forcing other people to do it with great inefficiency? Not so much. There isn’t a single thing that I would petition the federal government to add to its task list, and I would ask that it stop doing the majority of the things that it is currently doing. My vote is going to the candidates that at least vector in that direction.
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fart simpson posted:idk you'd probably want to keep the snail around for when you want to eventually die inthe future this is an important consideration
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Linguica posted:John Carmack on 10-28-2010 Some Esquire writer has a "5-minute" rule of thumb when listening to libertarians. Initially they talk sense and make a lot of valid points. At the 5-minute mark, they immediately go off the deep end and start saying poo poo like how doctors shouldn't need to be licensed and restaurant health inspections are a government scam.
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:he has a wife and children and i sometimes wonder how super hosed up they are since he used to live in my hometown Grew up in Mesquite, used to work for his wife, bought one of his old cars. He's on the spectrum for sure, but genuinely a good dude.
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which one of you is this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl32h710_wg
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Valtaherra posted:which one of you is this it's you
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nerd beavis and butthead just wasn't as popular, i guess
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that's all lovely to hear about mr carmack but i won't write him off as a complete shitbag yet
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minato posted:Some Esquire writer has a "5-minute" rule of thumb when listening to libertarians. Initially they talk sense and make a lot of valid points. At the 5-minute mark, they immediately go off the deep end and start saying poo poo like how doctors shouldn't need to be licensed and restaurant health inspections are a government scam.
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