Captain_Usher

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by Captain_Usher 8y ago
The "monopoly money" perspective isn't wrong, and in general an ICO for a coin that's, say, "bitcoin but a little different" doesn't make much sense. Bitcoin is supposed to be a currency, so an ICO for som
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by Captain_Usher 8y ago
An ICO is an "Initial Coin Offering", it's supposed to be like an IPO except instead of offering shares, you're selling cryptocurrency coins. ICOs are usually framed as a way to fund a project or business, usually relate
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by Captain_Usher 8y ago
>I think Go hits the right spot You make an excellent point here that I don't see articulated very often. The Landscape of Popular Languages, let's say C/C++/Java/Python/Ruby/JavaScript, has a big gap i
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by Captain_Usher 10y ago
>it's the feeling that could produce this response that they should be optimizing for As near as I can tell, this is exactly how Apple got to be Apple and they already know how it's done. When people I know who have owned non-r
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by Captain_Usher 10y ago
>An interesting example would be Call of Duty: Infinity Warfare. The differences between the market of people buying console-focused first-person shooters and the one for virtual reality headset systems make this comparison not really wo
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by Captain_Usher 10y ago
Fun fact: once you know to look, and provided they're close enough to the camera, you can sometimes see the view-ee's eyes making small side to side movements as they read lines of text from the prompter.
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by Captain_Usher 10y ago
Sure, but the unstated assumption there is that stage won't also force-feed you the side of a tractor trailer through your windshield. Currently Tesla's cars act as though they've satisfied that assumption even though they ha
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by Captain_Usher 10y ago
I'm shocked they reacted to the complaints at all. Chrome is infamous for painful UX blunders that Google refuses to acknowledge, let alone fix. Mouse thumb buttons are permanently bound to forward and back, the only workaround is to u
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by Captain_Usher 10y ago
I was surprised to even see the article posted because I didn't think there was a lot of doubt about this. I have no special knowledge of or interest in cholera, Haiti, or the UN, but I've known since around this time last year th
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by Captain_Usher 11y ago
There's some additional nuance to Sergeant Major Sixta and his enforcement of the grooming standard. His intention was not to psychologically trick his marines into being good soldiers by way of facial hair. The idea was to set himself
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by Captain_Usher 11y ago
The difference is whether the decision is based on where the money is today or where the money's been historically. The board game analogy is pretty apt. In The Settlers of Catan, players compete to reach 10 Victory Points by developin
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by Captain_Usher 11y ago
This makes no sense. I have an American degree and I've heard the phrase "Fourier transform" before, but I couldn't have possibly told you anything about it until I googled it just now. I wouldn't have expected any
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by Captain_Usher 11y ago
The Culture doesn't have quite the same aims as Japan in this scenario. The Culture reluctantly entered into open, large-scale war against the Idirans because they had incompatible morals. The Idirans were religiously-motivated conquer
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by Captain_Usher 11y ago
Sega once participated in the video game industry roughly how Nintendo does today, by producing a home console and making first-party titles for it with their established properties like Sonic the Hedgehog. Sega's consoles definitely h
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by Captain_Usher 11y ago
I'm sure there's something like what you're describing in existence, probably in a lab somewhere, clamped in front of a metal plate with burn marks on it. I think you're out of luck on commercially available man-portable