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Comment · 2 years ago
Why do the "pollution" homeless simply not exist in so many other wealthy countries, to even a fraction of the degree that they exist in the United States?
Comment · 2 years ago
correct. the process is called texture baking. however, displacement uses displacement maps, which are grayscale, essentially depth maps. displacement is not very useful for realtime rendering because then the displacement has to be calculated in realtime. displacement is mostly used in offline rendering. realtime rendering just uses normal maps.
Comment · 2 years ago
>I'm surprised more restaurants aren't suing DoorDash for damage to their reputation.

I'm not. They have every reason to expect DoorDash to throw the book at them if they did that. They'd likely end up bankrupt.

Comment · 2 years ago
Americans are incredibly ignorant of how the world actually works because the American living memory only knows the peak of the empire from the inside.
Comment · 2 years ago
>and thinking they can get away with it

Can they not? I think that remains to be seen.

Comment · 2 years ago
Very simple. Because those jobs were once available in mass without an extremely expensive risk of college debt, often unionized and provided good stable salaries that raised many millions of healthy families and provided pensions that have allowed for healthy retirement.
Comment · 2 years ago
>It is not the number of base stations that is important, it is the ability to use 5G to create new goods and services (or be more efficient in the use of existing goods and services) that is important, and this is best measured by the monetization of new 5G enabled services and products and their revenue.

In other words, profit is the only thing that matters.

This is a practical definition of insanity.

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