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Re:John Carmack's arguments against building a custom XR OS ... by wafflemaker on Saturday August 30, 2025 @07:27AM (#45073752)
Few more years and they would've finished Polarbanen. The northern Norway railroad connecting Trondheim to Tromsø, far inside the Arctic Circle. Giving us $50 trains to Tromsø instead of $500 planes.

But my enthusiasm diminished after learning that they worked thousands people to death.

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Re:John Carmack's arguments against building a custom XR OS ... by sapiogram on Saturday August 30, 2025 @08:39AM (#45074129)
> Giving us $50 trains to Tromsø instead of $500 planes.

It's only $50 if the government pays for the rest of the ticket. $50 per passenger won't even cover track maintenance. Source: My ass, but I still think I'm right.

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Re:John Carmack's arguments against building a custom XR OS ... by procaryote on Saturday August 30, 2025 @10:07AM (#45074814)
> thousands people to death

I have some bad news to tell you about the overall number of dead related to that government

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Re:John Carmack's arguments against building a custom XR OS ... by wafflemaker on Saturday August 30, 2025 @01:18PM (#45076349)
You tell me, I'm from Poland. Talked to many older people, who remember the war. One thing that caught my attention, because it surfaced with every single old person I asked about the war: Germans/Nazis were horrible, but Russians/Soviets were an order of magnitude worse.

Funny thing that now many people don't even know that it was Russia and Germany BOTH that started the war. And they were supposed to attack Poland simultaneously, but Stalin, PR animal that he was, delayed Red Army's attack by one week, thereby creating the legend that it wasn't Russia that started the war.

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