CarbonIceDragon

@CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientists Want to Teleport a Whole Human. A Quantum Breakthrough Could Make It Reality.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That depends on the nature of what “you” ultimately turn out to be. I tend to suspect (though with only a suspicion to go on and not proof, I probably wouldn’t be volunteering) that what “you” ultimately are is the pattern of information stored in the structure of your brain, and thus, any sufficiently perfect copy of that information is the “same” person regardless of continuity of the body. Though creating a second copy before destroying the original would have the caveat that as soon as the second you exists, the different perspective and experience will lead them to diverge into two different people who both have equal claim to the original identity, so that I think to do this, you’d want to destroy the original slightly before, making the process more like resurrection in a new location.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No Man's Sky adds fishing, a fishing skiff, a new expedition, deep-sea diving and loads more⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Doesnt really tell you what it is tho, beyond something very vague. Its not like promising some feature, getting hyped over it, then finding it isnt as much as what was hyped up

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No Man's Sky adds fishing, a fishing skiff, a new expedition, deep-sea diving and loads more⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve honestly kinda come to appreciate how NMS doesn’t really publicize their updates much beforehand. It’s not super hyped up for a month where one hardly feels like playing the game cause it will have more later, and it’s hard to be let down over something you didn’t anticipate being different before. It’s just “oh cool, they added more stuff to the game again”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Helixx wants to bring fast-food economics and Netflix pricing to EVs⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Giving the article a quick read though, it does look like this isnt their real issue, since near the end it says that the final van isnt supposed to be printed, its to be made via more traditional means and the printing is just for the prototype. However, their model seems to be that they want to get other people to actually make their cars, but then sell all the manufacturing equipment and parts to those factories. Which seems dubious to me, because while they compare it to McDonald’s franchising, it misses that McDonalds both operates by selling a well known brand that customers might find more appealing than an unknown restaurant, which is a benefit that a startup wont have, and that doing this enables the company to not have to run tons of locations everywhere directly, which must be located that way for a restaurant, but dont for a product like a vehicle that can be made efficiently in a few centralized locations.

  Honestly what this seems more like is an attempt to make something almost like an mlm scheme but for cars; its not exactly the same, since theyre not getting their customers to rope in new ones, but they are creating a situation where what they actually sell only has appeal in that the customer is promised that they can make money from then selling to other people, thus meaning that as long as the customer is sold on this idea, the company makes money regardless of if making these pretty bad sounding cars actually turns a profit or not. I dont suspect it will work for them, given their customer base is a much more limited supply of businesses with the right amount of factory space and not just gullible individuals, and if the inefficiency of their decentralized production means that their customers close up shop, that business will dry up. They might make a bit of money at first from roping in a few companies into this scheme, but Im skeptical that will last long.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Life By You devs spent “a month in purgatory” prior to closure, says laid-off designer, despite their sim-like exceeding Paradox's expectations⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Tbf is there any game publisher that doesn’t act like this? I like a lot of paradox’s games too, but expecting any company to be the “good” company in the industry is asking for disappointment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fisker reaches end of the road and files for bankruptcy⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Seems like this guy doesn’t have the best track record with starting car companies

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fisker reaches end of the road and files for bankruptcy⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fisker? I thought that went out of business like a decade ago? Did it come back somehow to die again?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palestinian Relief Bundle includes indie classics (and hundreds more) for just $8⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  From the sound of it, they are selling games, and then donating the money to a nonprofit that is supposed to help Gaza

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the point of individually wrapping cheese slices in plastic, only to cover a bunch of them in more plastic?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To my understanding, it is actually made of cheese, just cheese that has been melted, pasteurized to extend shelf life and then cooled back into solid cheese again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What a steal⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hairless Fizzgig