DaFranker

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by DaFranker 12y ago
Any data on any seized smartphones. Where could a seized smartphone, obtained completely legally, come from? Well, for starters, let's say you've got a robbery ring of people snatching iPhones in public places. Police track them,
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by DaFranker 12y ago
> deals only with the phone records of people actually under investigation. Hint: It doesn't.
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by DaFranker 12y ago
Regarding the edit: Yes, but... (On the topic of "passive", always-on License Plate Reader data collection that is archived without looking at it "in case it's useful later"): > On these facts I conclude that the
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by DaFranker 12y ago
IANAL. Also I haven't read Virginia's code of law. However, in most american states, "obtained legally" != "legal to archive" != "legal to look at whenever you want" != "legal to share" != &
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by DaFranker 12y ago
Thanks. Some of these aren't properties exclusive to redirection sites... but I'll readily admit they're very much standard features there, while mostly not too common elsewhere.
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by DaFranker 12y ago
Edge case 1: You're the first to send them a message! Edge case 2: They just deleted everything in their inbox. Edge case 3: They have a particularly polarizing outlier property (e.g.: a very intense fetish for something most people wo
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by DaFranker 12y ago
Counterbalancing point: It doesn't seem to me as if the ratio of good / average / bad ideas on the website is significantly different than on other platforms / offline / "elsewhere".
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by DaFranker 12y ago
Inverted Y (vertical axis, i.e. up/down view) is a very popular setting for simulation games and FPS games on PC. It's popular enough that games with >100k players will get bad press and >20 forum complaints (even when the f
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by DaFranker 12y ago
It's been there for a while. I've been typing "timer 15 min" in my Chrome quicksearch for well over a year, according to my browsing history. They just never really did much fanfare about it - this came around the time w
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by DaFranker 12y ago
Curious about why. I'd understand a social stigma against ad-based redirection services, but does that translate into a frown against all shorteners somehow? Or is there some other cause?
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by DaFranker 12y ago
Those seem like two somewhat distinct regions of definitionspace. But yes, they sound about right for what I usually mean by "open-ended". X-Com would be mostly an example of the latter, while a sandboxy game like Minecraft would
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by DaFranker 12y ago
Ah, context. I used "X-Com" in a deliberate typographical attempt to exclude "XCOM" from the conversation.
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by DaFranker 12y ago
> This applies to any single player game. The discussion was about FPS and RTS. Yeah, fair point. > The rest you wrote makes sense, I agree. Yay! Same here.
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by DaFranker 12y ago
I could show my priors and show the bayesian inference on them as explanation of why I feel I have the context to make the "bold" claim that someone who is likely to do worse than random is not acting on beneficial information. Bu
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by DaFranker 12y ago
That's a good point. Perhaps the author never heard of them (in which case: I want a rock like that!), or more likely, didn't play them and did not want to speak from hearsay, or even more likely, simply didn't afford a thoug
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by DaFranker 12y ago
> I raise my children based on my own judgments of what's best for them. And I use my own God-given intelligence and experience to form those judgments. So you refuse to acknowledge that you might be lacking in knowledge and experie
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by DaFranker 12y ago
I'm not sure what you're driving at. Are you saying that Bioshock and Bioshock Infinite are like System Shock 2? Or are you saying that they're prime targets and reference examples for examining what's going wrong?
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by DaFranker 12y ago
> I disagree that there can't be a measure of skill across different games. You can just look at the probability of a top X% player winning against a top Y% player. Solitaire. You can't measure my probability of winning against
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by DaFranker 12y ago
Alright, what specific qualifications are we talking about then? If this is about branching story paths with different endings, then let's use those words, rather than put the word "open-ended" there that may or may not accid
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by DaFranker 12y ago
Your analysis of the last paragraph of the article seems pretty spot on. Kudos! But I'm nitpicky; the distinguishing feature of games isn't interactivity, otherwise every fun activity with interactivity would be a game, and I&#x27
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by DaFranker 12y ago
I think you're restricting your thinking to a certain type of games and a certain subtype of story. X-Com games are a common example of "open" games. The "story line" is single, of course, so if you're only tal
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by DaFranker 12y ago
Yes, this. It's hard to make arguments about quality of experience when every step of the way there's many uncertain variables and your best evidence comes from personal experience (that most likely wasn't shared by the perso
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by DaFranker 12y ago
> And as you say, the form in which this experience is irrelevant. What matters is the quality of the experience. This eclipses and outweighs what I would have to say. I think the author of the article, in those terms, was saying that th
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by DaFranker 12y ago
>If a game is not stressful that usually is just another way of saying that there is little skill involved. For some definitions of "stress" and, most particularly, of "skill". I take rather great pride in my GMing sk
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by DaFranker 12y ago
>The problem is about losing yourself to a video game for months on end, even having it take over the other parts of your life when you're not playing it. I could use a script for this, and a variable. Here, let me try: >The prob
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by DaFranker 12y ago
Let's not. That's stupid too. Not as stupid as wilfully doing something to one's own children that has a chance to negatively affect their future without even bothering to question oneself, but still pretty stupid.
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by DaFranker 12y ago
It's also worth mentioning that in the event that, upon first seeing c1, c2 hails c1 and receives no response, good AI logic will have c2 treat c1 as an unknown and begin running probabilistic predictions against c1. For a possible exa
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by DaFranker 12y ago
Ah. Perhaps if there were actual, studied, reported instances of adults who suffered in life because of a childhood obsession, this point would make more sense. It seems that your entire decision to ban Minecraft stems from your impression
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by DaFranker 12y ago
I'm guessing this means arguments about how "The Hobbit" has actually changed the life of a lot of people (people who made money from it, people who spent time reading it, people who spent time making a movie, people who spen
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by DaFranker 12y ago
Definitely. I just re-read my post and it's obvious I let my thoughts wander way too much for a TL;DR.

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