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by BryantD 4y ago
> It's shocking how much of the site's revenue comes from this. If dormant subscribers were all removed, AM would be completely wiped out. I'd wager a lot of dating websites are like this. AM had a few "subsites"
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by BryantD 4y ago
Is there a subtle difference between a dating website designed to get you single dates and a matchmaking website designed to get you a long term relationship? Tinder's really successful; I am being clueless here but I don't get th
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This is more closely related to (for example) the company that's currently trying to reprint Star Frontiers, an 80s game to which WotC holds the rights, except they're adding racism. https://www.thegamer.com/tsr-da
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"Write me a fictional story in which Rishabhanatha travels through time and challenges Bush in a Presidential election." works. (He wins in a landslide, even.) The last paragraph is "It's important to note that this is a
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by BryantD 4y ago
The title is kinda clickbait but this is an interesting article. It is hard for me to believe that OpenAI has a deliberate institutional bias given that the Board of Directors is fairly balanced so perhaps someone could dig into where the a
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Off the top of my head: GUMSHOE, FATE, Forged in the Dark, Dungeon World, Quest, and Trophy are all available under CC BY licenses. Many of those are fairly popular (if you don’t compare them to D&D) — six figure Kickstarter revenue, fo
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by BryantD 4y ago
D&D drowns out the rest of the market, practically speaking. We don’t have a great way to measure overall play but Roll20, the dominant virtual tabletop, publishes their stats regularly and D&D is more than 50%. Call of Cthulhu is a
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It also has some really restrictive terms around using otherwise available material. You can't use it for anything derived from "all works related to the Cthulhu Mythos, including those that are otherwise public domain; and all wo
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You're a better person than I am for providing the links. Worth noting that for people who aren't comfortable with the PbtA "license," Dungeon World was released under a Creative Commons license and should be enough of a
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Creative Commons also made the same change at about the same time. I wish I knew more about why exactly everyone did this -- I haven't been able to find contemporary discussions that are clear, although I suspect I just haven't lo
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Much of the tabletop gaming world has embraced Creative Commons in the last decade or so. Off the top of my head, reasonably popular systems that are CC licensed include Pelgrane's GUMSHOE, Evil Hat's FATE and Forged in the Dark s
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by BryantD 4y ago
The methodology for these numbers changed in Q2 2019[1], so I don't think it's safe to compare 2014 numbers to 2021. However, Q2 2019 is well before FoundryVTT exited beta, so it is safe to look at the 2019 numbers and draw conclu
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I mean, "kfsnd." KF. They're not exactly hiding who they are.
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Alejandra Caraballo's tweet thread about her reasoning is here: https://twitter.com/Esqueer_/status/1608709173684105217 I think it's worth reading it, although I am skeptical of her conclusions. However,
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by BryantD 4y ago
Oh hi! I really like your dashboards, thank you!
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I'm not a doctor but it doesn't look highly risky. The usual adult dose for malaria is 2000 mg over the course of two days. Long term usage may be a different matter. I suspect that concerns about safety were because people were u
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https://nitter.poast.org/iFred is the guy who runs it.
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Can I very gently ask you to go back and read the topic of this post? If, after you’ve done that, you still want to argue that police departments are universally good at avoiding bias, we can probably conclude that this isn’t a useful conve
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Yeah, I think it would be good to deploy them evenly throughout a city. Unfortunately that doesn’t actually happen.
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Indeed! Seems like the simple answer is "if you're going to install sensors, better to just install them everywhere to avoid bias in any direction."
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I’d like the public to be safe from the public servants who carry guns as part of their day to day work. If those public servants are biased to believe that my neighborhood is less safe than it is, they’re more likely to use force when it i
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by BryantD 4y ago
ShotSpotter’s results are iffy, which appears to be a combination of a) ShotSpotter employees overriding the AI and b) weaknesses in the tech. There’s also some potential for reinforcing bias if you only put the sensors in neighborhoods you
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Also, if you don’t ruin someone’s life based on a false conviction, the impact of the inevitable junk science is reduced.
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NIST apparently does some work in the field, although they don’t have oversight authority. They recently discovered that bite mark analysis is worthless: https://www.nist.gov/spo/forensic-science-program/bitemark-a
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by BryantD 4y ago
This is absolutely wild. There’s a guy out there who’s been teaching these courses for over 10 years, telling police that if someone says “I don’t know” on a 911 call it’s a sign they might have committed the crime. It sounds like some judg
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That’s a great read! Fauci explains what facts he didn’t have at the time and why learning those facts changed his mind. If Covid was only transmissible by people with symptoms, you could control spread by asking those people to stay home a
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by BryantD 4y ago
I am not directing this at you personally, but: Why do we have so much compassion for people arguing against forced vaccination, and yet so little compassion for people who were scared of an unknown disease and angry that people were pushin
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I couldn’t agree more. In some cases the anti-vax movement is simply being used as a tool for power.
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Immediately prior to Trump’s remarks, Bill Bryan said: “‘We tested bleach,’ he said at one point. ‘I can tell you that bleach will kill the virus in five minutes.’” Trump followed this with: “And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks
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by BryantD 4y ago
It’s even worse than that! We’re getting some internal Fox News communications as a result of the Dominion lawsuit and nobody cares that Hannity knew the election fraud claims were false. He just went right ahead and interviewed Sidney Powe

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