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Spitfire75  ·  4317 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What do you do for fun? For play?

I tried a PC port of Dark Souls but I couldn't get past the horrible controls. Do you play on PC or console? If you like action RPGs you might want to try Path of Exile.

Spitfire75  ·  4318 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Declining Infrastructure, Declining Civilization

I completely agree with you, but unfortunately they're in so deep now they can't just suddenly reallocate massive amounts of military spending with huge repercussions. I believe the transition would have to slow and gradual to accommodate the job loss and retraining of those employed by the military. Another fun thing to think about it what effects it would have on global politics if the US withdrew military presence around the world.

Spitfire75  ·  4332 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Will the Real Lance Armstrong Please Stand Up?

No offense, but I've never heard of that theory before, do you have a source?

Population control and stabilization seems to be a reoccurring theme of your posts. Did you know this is already happening across the world? People are having fewer children because of advances in medicine and science, among other reasons. It seems to me that following your view could actually increase population as child mortality increases, people would have more children fearing some would die of sickness or infection.

Spitfire75  ·  4332 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Will the Real Lance Armstrong Please Stand Up?

Or we could have 2 separate classes, one for doping and one for the way is now. I'm kinda curious on how far they can push the human body.

Spitfire75  ·  4332 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Will the Real Lance Armstrong Please Stand Up?

Different strains have different effects. Some just make me want to build a city in SimCity, create something in Blender, or I just get random ideas that I have to sketch up before I forget them. And then on the other hand there's strains that just make me a zombie.

Spitfire75  ·  4338 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What Hyperspace Travel Would Look LIke

I wonder what that would be like from the astronauts point of view, as they experience the shifting of the frequency of light.

Spitfire75  ·  4338 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: CES 2013: The tablet that turns itself lumpy

I tried to post this and it looks you beat me to it. I wonder what it feels like to touch it? Would it be like typing on a squishy keyboard? There wouldn't be any mechanical feedback like a normal keyboard that's for sure. It might have other uses though, like simulating textures for games.

Spitfire75  ·  4349 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Quantum gas goes below absolute zero

There's a really great documentary on absolute zero here. It's from 2009 so it doesn't include any of this "negative absolute temperature" stuff, but it's still relevant.

It's a great thing for humanity, but it's the transition that's the hard part. New jobs are being created all the time, stuff we wouldn't have imagined 10 or even 5 years ago. But these are highly specialized jobs that require years of training. When people get laid off because their old jobs become obsolete, it's expensive and takes a lot of time to go back to school and learn a new skill. Some skills are obsolete shortly after graduating or before they even graduate. I went to college 7 years ago and everything they taught me is useless now.

This took me a while to adjust to. At first I wasn't sure what I could open in a new tab and what I couldn't. Now I just open posts in new tabs and everything else (tags, users, etc) I just click on normally to get the pop-up.

Spitfire75  ·  4353 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Thoughts on Capitalism

How about E-democracy? It's a digital form of direct democracy, simple with today's technology. You could vote on your smart phone. It would increase vote turnout too.

Spitfire75  ·  4356 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: I've got some questions - Somebody coming from the Reddit communiy

    I realize that you can "follow" a hashtag, which is a feature I like and am currently utilizing, but I feel as if that could be easily abused. Somebody could just make an outrageous title, like "Apple stock tumbles, company goes bankrupt" and link it to some NSFW/NSFL content.
They could post the same thing in a subhub. Either way, it gets reported and removed.
    The hashtag, eg, #Technology could be a "blanket" of sorts for subhubs. So #technology could include places like /h/Technologynews, /h/programming, /h/buildapc, /h/linux, /h/android, etc. When you decided to go to the #technology link, it would show intermixed posts from all of those subhubs.
Is this really necessary when you can have multiple tags per post?
Spitfire75  ·  4356 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Ask Hubski: Where was the last place you flew? Where would you like to fly to?

Halifax, NS>Boston, MA>Newark, NJ>New Delhi, India. I missed my connection in Newark and had to stay the night in a hotel, but I could see the NYC skyline from my window so I didn't mind at all. On the way back it was New Delhi, India>Brussels, Belgium>Montreal, QC>Halifax, NS. First time flying by myself too, it was fun.

Spitfire75  ·  4356 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Reddit Format is Broken

I like the wheel too, but as someone viewing posts that already have a full wheel there's little reason to click on the wheel. Does it do anything?

Spitfire75  ·  4356 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: P3

Halifax, NS, Canada.

Me too. But I don't really know what I'm doing on here yet.