Agathos

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by Agathos 6y ago
Recent example: the Cyberpunk people announced the latest delay after the game had already gone gold. So they’re taking an extra 3 weeks to fix it, while also pressing discs that have none of those fixes.
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by Agathos 6y ago
A third issue: the House and Senate polling was way off, much worse than the presidential contest.
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by Agathos 6y ago
> The only thing they say about flavor is that it’s classic - your granddad drank the same stuff. And they fell into that by accident, after the infamous retreat from New Coke.
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by Agathos 6y ago
> A startup doesn't need AWS right off the bat. Planning for scale right from the beginning is a way to quickly bleed $. Of course, if you have VC money, why not spend that cash right? Especially when the alternative is to hear a lo
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by Agathos 6y ago
Did some googling. The US is the #2 beef exporter, and Sweden is not in the top 15. Admittedly that doesn't necessarily tell me about domestic consumption. http://www.worldstopexports.com/top-beef-exporting-countries...
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by Agathos 6y ago
You really think your restaurant and supermarket beef is coming from grazing? Those cattle live in dense feedlots, where they are fed corn and soy.
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by Agathos 6y ago
Unsafe at Any Speed as an argument _against_ safety regulations? A creative approach, at least.
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by Agathos 6y ago
Most working poor have to manage their finances every day. I think about my finances maybe once a week, because I make developer money and I don't have to worry about it.
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by Agathos 6y ago
How thick does the breading have to be before fried chicken is a dumpling?
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by Agathos 6y ago
I usually spend that time distracted with thoughts of where is my delivery, why is my delivery late, I'm so hungry, why did I even order delivery? The walk is a lot more pleasant.
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by Agathos 6y ago
I think djohnston's point was that China's global reach started expanding after they stopped killing tens of millions of their own citizens, which was around the time Mao died.
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by Agathos 6y ago
"I want shorter games with worse graphics made by people who are paid more to work less and I'm not kidding." -- https://twitter.com/Jordan_Mallory/status/127748375624544256... (later immortalized i
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by Agathos 6y ago
A casino is a funny comparison here. I doubt Robinhood wants to be regulated the way casinos are. Casinos in most jurisdictions are mandated to take at least minimal steps to address the risks of problem gambling. For example, posting hotli
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by Agathos 6y ago
An Apple keyboard is a funny example to open with. Weren't we just recently celebrating the end of Apple's ill-advised MacBook keyboard experiment?
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by Agathos 6y ago
I loved A Fire Upon the Deep, but I thought Deepness was a little disappointing because the aliens aren't alien enough. They seem like regular people who happen to look like bugs and who sometimes need to hibernate because of how their
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by Agathos 6y ago
You suggested paying a dividend was similar to paying employees. When throwaway2048 challenged this, you brought up stock-based compensation. Surely if such compensation (including dividends) was an obligation in the same way as wages, then
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by Agathos 6y ago
Suing your employer for wage theft because 1. They are still paying your salary, and 2. They are still granting you stock, but 3. They have suspended dividends on the shares you were granted seems like a reach. I'd definitely be intere
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by Agathos 6y ago
It sounds like you may be assuming the dividend is required, like a debt. It isn't. A company can stop paying its dividend at any time, so Denmark isn't excluding any company. Investors will grumble when the dividend stops, but so
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by Agathos 6y ago
I don't really know what to make of "republicans have had control of the Supreme Court for years." Overturning Obamacare was their number one priority during the Obama administration. The Supreme Court chose not to. The five
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by Agathos 6y ago
So what? The Chief Justice can write the minority opinion next time. That 5-seat majority includes some who will almost certainly retire in the next four years.
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by Agathos 6y ago
So you're confident that the Supreme Court will overturn the 5th Circuit's decision to throw it out? The Supreme Court will be hearing the case this autumn. And you must be confident that Trump will lose, since the 5-4 majority th
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by Agathos 7y ago
I assume some HNers of a certain generation had their lives changed for the better by the likes of Byte or Dr. Dobb's Journal.
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by Agathos 7y ago
Very possibly yes. That would be a chance for additional entities to bid on Sprint's spectrum, or even to break that spectrum up. When irreplaceable assets like that are concentrated into the hands of a few bigger and bigger companies,
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by Agathos 7y ago
Germany: https://www.dw.com/en/germany-mulls-mass-testing-for-coronav... The original report from Friday, auf Deutsch: https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/medizin/coronavirus-gros...
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by Agathos 7y ago
Gamers at Work is also great if you're curious about the early days of the games industry. The discussions focus on the business side, so it reads more like Founders than like Coders. Interesting to see where some of today's giant
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by Agathos 7y ago
I had a 45-minute standup the other day.
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by Agathos 7y ago
Many successful interplanetary probes have launched with significant faults that had to be patched or worked around to complete the mission. Luckily the teams are usually able to do that.
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by Agathos 7y ago
The SolarCity acquisition.
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by Agathos 7y ago
If it's a DeLorean, just head back to 1978 when Proposition 13 passed in California.
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by Agathos 7y ago
Yeah, a lot of "indie" studios today are as big as Westwood was when it made Command & Conquer.

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