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by Danieru 6y ago
Heads up, PUBG was released under the EULA and thus the 5% but after release the publisher sued to be able to buy a buyout license. Thus no, Epic gets no new revenue from PUBG.
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The Poor ROI of Autonomy(medium.com)
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When I did the math for our house, despite a 13yen difference between night and day, the power wall never made recoup. The biggest issue is battery's limited life cycle and overall high cost. The math worked out to 30 years before raw
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by Danieru 6y ago
Humans live for 60+ years. The damage appears in the population age distribution decades before it appears in the total.
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by Danieru 6y ago
My main job is programming video games, not boring at all. Even for us Factorio is a perfect addiction. So much so our main game is a train tycoon version of factory automation.
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Only the older chip series they could not sell to tablet makers. The newer chips are too power hungry for mobile and are targeted at automotive where Nvidia has gotten traction. Nintendo better hope Nvidia has something new coming up in tim
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Rather Alibaba and Yahoo Japan are Softbank's dividend-payers. ARM has proven nothing more than a bargaining chip to kickstart the vision fund and now a crunch zone to keep the group liquid. ARM's valuation has barely moved despit
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by Danieru 6y ago
The moment I saw the title I thought of you Paul (polm). No doubt you are the world's expert on tokenizing Japanese.
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It is wise of you to document this mess, it will surely bring about good.
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Lots of people missing the core thing here: savings rate. When the propensity to save increases it reduces consumption. Falling credit card debt, reductions in mortgage delinquency, those are all trailing results of the increase in savings.
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ADT and other American security is broken. They are missing the hard part of an active security system: response. In Japan there is a company called Secom. This company has a near monopoly on security systems. They have this monopoly becaus
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Similar thing happened to _all_ of corporate japan. Bubble era left a strong desire to hoard cash. Thus Japan Inc has vast reserves of cash. Ironic, but such reserves have not help valuations even during this pandemic. There is a lesson on
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by Danieru 6y ago
The author seems to be unaware of two notable historic shifts in western investing. 1. Bonds used to be the preferred method for investing into businesses. Equity was considered so unsafe as to be not much more than gambling. Judging if a b
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by Danieru 6y ago
Indeed, transferwise is all about international transfers. For domestic sending the US has fedwire. Japan has furikomi. Banking systems have fine domestic systems, transferwise works by bridging those instant systems. By bridging they skip
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TransferWise is incredible. It was cheaper for me to take USD in my account, forex it to Yen, send the Yen to transferwise when paying a co-creator in USD. Sending a USD swift transfer would skip 2 forex transactions yet TransferWise is sti
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) If I'm an indie developer with no negotiating power, is that a 70/30? That rate is under nda. What I can say is I've never heard of big studios getting a better rate in the first place. As in real estate you can get upfron
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The pizza van guy was active here on hacker news right? I remember seeing posts from a robot pizza guy. Shame they got caught up with softbank.
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Anyone have a clue how there are so many white F150s? All looking identical yet there must be over a hundred. Is there a local cartel buying a new truck every time they get busted?
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Accessible to nation state actors, and order-able off Alibaba, are 2 different levels of "available. You would be surprised, that most acts of aggression do not have months of planning and 1M+ engineering budgets. Remember the most &qu
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by Danieru 6y ago
Hey Paul, nice to see on you HN. How likely do you think it is that China is the origin of the mice? Doubly so these mice being brought over during the closed country policy of Japan era.
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by Danieru 6y ago
I'm Tokyo based so bunch of local multi-billion dollar companies doing Unity. Mobile games for the most part. A good chunk of their developers or either outsourced to smaller local studios, or contractors themselves. Unreal contracting
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by Danieru 6y ago
Great, nope, nope, and nope. I've been continously upgrading a couple months behind new releases on commercial projects since 2015. I've upgraded about 17 times so far. Unreal's update story is light years ahead of Unity&#x27
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Unity has gotten so painful I've sworn off ever taking another Unity project. Since mid last year I am 100% exclusive on Unreal Engine. Unity wants you to think this instability is temporary. It is not. Unity has been unstable since at
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by Danieru 6y ago
Unreal Tournament 2021 exists, it is Fortnite. Dont't see it? The Unreal Tournament is the team which released the Battle Royale version of Fortnite. Hence why Fortnite has bouncy, fast, area-ish gameplay. Sure it is different, but if
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by Danieru 6y ago
Sibling comments are missing the point. I am capable of make video game A. I am also capable of making video game B. I do not have the capacity to make both video games in parallel, even if I give myself twice the time. A core level of atte
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by Danieru 6y ago
Indeed, new machines can have decent GPUs. Except the install base is where your game will be played. Thus the average matters.
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Updates are planned, and more and more games get longer support periods. Still majority of games stop getting updates within a year. Every game is different, but for every Subnautica with 5+ years of active development post initial sale you
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by Danieru 6y ago
Mac is a horrible platform to support for video game developers. Speaking from experience the issues are: 1. No cross platform builds allowed. We can compile to Windows, Linux, Android, Switch, PS4, Xbox One all from one windows build machi
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In Japan it means "Adult Video", so yeah I puzzled too.
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Oh those are interesting stories! Thank you for sharing. I would love to read more about such financial oddities of history, maybe a blog post?

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