EdgarVerona

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by EdgarVerona 8y ago
I feel similarly. I often find that I run into people who are eager to have a face-to-face debate about something, and who come up with opinions and rationalizations that sometimes end up being dubious. But I feel a strong desire to hear
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by EdgarVerona 8y ago
Yes, exactly - I totally agree. That's why we both need to have an introspective moment in our industry - where we think about what the things we're making are really doing - and why intent is so important when talking about th
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by EdgarVerona 8y ago
I agree. This entire industry needs to take a good, long look in the mirror and ask ourselves whether the ends justify the means. Now, I'm not saying it's a clear-cut issue. There's a lot of murky grey area in the land of &
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by EdgarVerona 8y ago
Are you saying that we shouldn't act on scientific research based on the possibility that the research will be disproven in the future? Or on the possibility that the research was done in less-than-good-faith? The latter would requir
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by EdgarVerona 8y ago
Ah, sweet nostalgia. 26 years ago, our once-a-month science teacher in elementary school showed us how to find, open, and use QBasic to print "Hello World." 24 years ago, my Dad took home a computer that his work was going to th
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by EdgarVerona 9y ago
This is, sadly, 100% true. I know because I've been there. I've been that engineer who was so interested in the technical problems of what he was doing that he didn't think about what it was being used for , which I think
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by EdgarVerona 9y ago
The system that you describe in no way resembles the lottery system as it exists today: it's so far from reality that I'm not quite sure why you're even bringing up this fantasy representation of a lottery. The real lottery a
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by EdgarVerona 9y ago
It is interesting to contrast the decline in fertility rates in China and India. Would China have had a similar dropoff if not for the One Child policy? Will we see the number increase again given enough time after the 2013 easing of that
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by EdgarVerona 9y ago
I agree with your perspective in general: I think that often we underestimate the power of our intuitive reactions (particularly in the tech world, where we often embrace that platonic notion of rationality as a tool to suppress emotion and
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by EdgarVerona 9y ago
Imagine being his brother. Yikes. I can't even imagine what it must have been like to feel a sense of familial duty toward such a person. Those tenants were entrapped for sure, but I get the feeling none of them were as trapped as h
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by EdgarVerona 9y ago
Ah, by draft we are referring to a mode of play in modern CCGs: one where players gather around a table, passing packs around and picking cards from them for the purpose of making a deck on the spot , and then playing with that deck in the
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by EdgarVerona 9y ago
I agree, that is an important distinguishing point between trading card packs and loot boxes and I am glad that you mentioned it. Looking at trading card packs in isolation of drafting, I would call the two the same. But drafting does cre
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by EdgarVerona 9y ago
I have two points I'd like to make. First, I disagree with those who have been saying that piracy or purchasing keys from the grey market are solutions: those are just making the problem worse , not better. These gambling-like mechan
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by EdgarVerona 9y ago
Easiest short opportunity of the year.
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by EdgarVerona 9y ago
I agree with your assessment. I also personally feel like this needs to be regulated by governments. I don't think that companies can be trusted to govern themselves, and I think that what we're seeing not just in f2p mobile g
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by EdgarVerona 9y ago
For me (lost 90 pounds, went from 10.5 A1C to 5 A1C), it was: - Removal of all beverages aside from water, unsugared coffee, tea - Removal of all rice, grains, potatoes, corn - Chicken, Pork, and Beef (in that order) became my primary food
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by EdgarVerona 9y ago
This happened to me as well. I was diagnosed about 5 years ago, and I thought for sure this was the beginning of a descent into my early death. But after about a week of moping, I got off my ass. I'm down about 90 pounds now, I&#x27
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by EdgarVerona 9y ago
Yes, definitely both mindshare and piggybacking on Intel's existing product pipelines. Playing sidecar to Intel means getting in and getting the spotlight with every major computer manufacturer, where right now they are struggling to
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by EdgarVerona 9y ago
Though to be fair, they also are significantly cheaper than the 1080ti. Well, if you can find one at MSRP at least.
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by EdgarVerona 9y ago
Getting in the zone is something exhilarating for me - I experience euphoria, though I don't really notice the feeling until after it's over or if I get broken out of it. It was actually something that as of late has started to di
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by EdgarVerona 9y ago
Yes, this is why - regardless of the outcome - he needed to be charged. People shouldn't be able to think they can get away with a thought process that equates to "I can defraud people and if my plan doesn't work out I'
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by EdgarVerona 9y ago
I should point out too that his being able to pay them back with profit really had nothing to do with his original taking of money. It is tantamount to pure luck that he was able to, entirely separately from the fraud, recoup their losses.
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by EdgarVerona 9y ago
True. It'd be like robbing a bank, using the money from that robbery to, say, start up a successful business, and then discreetly give the money and interest back. Money taken on false pretenses, regardless of what you end up doing w
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by EdgarVerona 9y ago
As a Seattle resident, I'd really love to see telecommuting become more widely used. I can understand the connection that comes with meeting in person, but as our teleconferencing, online communication, and even Virtual Reality techno
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by EdgarVerona 9y ago
Reading this, it felt pretty strongly like the person wasn't asking for genuine input as much as they were asking for permission from strangers. He defends the "don't tell" side of the options with a fervor that strongl
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by EdgarVerona 9y ago
Ah, just saw this, sorry for the delay! I was a 2 cans of soda a day drinker, and any given day if I felt like I didn't have enough energy one or both of them would be replaced with an energy drink (usually red bull). There was also a
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by EdgarVerona 9y ago
Aye - energy drinks were mine. I ended up almost ruining my body by the time I was 30, so that I could have the energy to pursue all of these side projects that I felt like I "had to" work on. I think side projects are good, part
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by EdgarVerona 9y ago
I think this is important. Someone else mentioned that this isn't helpful for what he asked, but I think it is - I think it's important that we understand that working is not passive. If you're working 40 (or in some of o
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by EdgarVerona 9y ago
Just yesterday, I ran into a site that was doing this for the first time in years. It annoyed me to the point where I used the console to override it and allow pasting again. Password managers are a thing. Please don't force me to ty
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by EdgarVerona 10y ago
I think part of their assertion is that even being able to play the game for free isn't necessarily a good thing. It's an interesting problem, one that I am still on the fence about myself. You see companies that are trying their

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