Folcon

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by Folcon 5y ago
"taking the piss" can also mean taking a situation too far / making fun of someone =)... Lots of Britishisms require context to disambiguate.
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by Folcon 5y ago
I may be being very naive here, so it would be great for someone to point out where I'm missing a trick, but if they make $2 billion in revenue and keep 20% of that, why don't they found or buy a small bank? I mean granted it&#x27
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by Folcon 5y ago
Sorry, you added the question after I'd read and responded to a previous version of your question, I'm currently answering it.
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by Folcon 5y ago
You're making a lot of short points without actually describing any reasoning behind them. If you just want to disagree that's fine, but I was actually looking for a discussion? For example: >>I'm sort of confused why y
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by Folcon 5y ago
> Where are the weeds? I've been describing them? "number of shares owned x current market price on an actively traded public corporation" doesn't mean that you can execute it. So it's not perfectly valid, to the
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by Folcon 5y ago
I mean that is broadly how we come to compare wealth, we don't spend much time going into the weeds of how that number came into being and what assumptions were made there. So I'm not surprised that some people think that of money
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by Folcon 5y ago
Ahh, so one continuous block of wood following the grain vs sliced together chunks that will bring to mind Frankenstein's monster. Hmm, I wonder if you can feel the difference when you rub your hand over it if it's just polished,
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by Folcon 5y ago
Could you link to some screenshots? Sorry it's really hard to get a sense of the difference you're describing and I'm really interested to see what it looks like.
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by Folcon 5y ago
I do wonder whether things will change if the tools become even more accessible? I mean do you start caring about privacy when your local script kiddy can warrentlessly tap you? In my experience people tend only to care about things that di
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by Folcon 5y ago
I've had this experience, all that it's taught me is that Ubereats marketing is primarily just spam. So I pretty much just assume that they're marketing department doesn't speak for them. I mean what else am I supposed t
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by Folcon 5y ago
I find the notion of a sim a little more interesting that other kinds of closed systems, because unlike say "what if the world is a dream" there are constants in a sim, rules are fixed. Those rules may be exploitable. So I'm
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by Folcon 5y ago
No problem, definitely let me know when you add it :)...
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by Folcon 5y ago
Do you save the tab history? IE its back and forward links? I find it really frustrating that most solutions don't do this...
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by Folcon 5y ago
I didn't know about this! Thanks for bringing it up :)...
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by Folcon 5y ago
"Guns, Germs, and Steel" is a good book, really enjoyable read. But speaking to historian friends of mine has given me the impression that it's not highly regarded in those circles. Unfortunately I can't give any critici
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by Folcon 5y ago
I was curious about your comment so I looked it up[0] and yep, around $20 seems about right. - [0]: https://www.epi.org/publication/the-federal-minimum-wage-has...
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by Folcon 5y ago
My biggest bugbear with youtube premium is that there's very little way to control your youtube recommendations other than being in incognito / a new browser session. I constantly find that youtube's algorithm just recommends
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by Folcon 5y ago
This may not be a popular opinion, but I can't help but think that though the claims are a bit grandiose the fundamental thesis statement is true? IE: Each generation sees a "simpler" toolset being made available which opens
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by Folcon 5y ago
So I use Process Explorer, but I've not noticed it having a filter? It has a find, which is something, but I mean actually filtering a list should not be that problematic in this day and age? The reason I'm making the distinction
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by Folcon 5y ago
Some of the most useful fundamental functionality doesn't work either, running windows 10, you can't filter in task manager. It irks me to no end that this isn't possible. Try finding a misbehaving program on windows, you nee
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by Folcon 5y ago
I'm not sure if this is enough, but I wrote these [0][1] a while ago and if they're not to your taste, I do admit to a fairly offbeat writing style, there's also Luminus[2] and re-frame[3]. They may not be complete enough for
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by Folcon 5y ago
Ok wow, I feel like this really describes me, I'm playing Kerbal Space Program Multiplayer and one of my friends has completed the game so knows how to do everything and I'm still trying to do each bit that's already been don
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by Folcon 5y ago
This is beautiful, I really don't understand people who don't see the value in creating beautiful or interesting things. I can understand not wanting to do it, it takes a fair bit of time and energy that only comes with a fair bit
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by Folcon 5y ago
Not sure about 27 and 29...
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by Folcon 5y ago
I feel like I've moved onto the next stage of this =)... Friend: How's your game going. Me: I've got some of the map stuff I was working on working, but last weekend I had a brainwave for a new mechanic idea that I really lik
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by Folcon 5y ago
The robber placement, players who are behind can target the lead player.
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by Folcon 6y ago
Have you looked at or heard of the Humans of simulated New York project? It reminds me of what you're looking at [0][1](github[2]). The project broadly covers what you're doing with agents also starting businesses and going out of
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by Folcon 6y ago
I've been working on something similar for the last couple of years, mine's more focused on a fantasy style society =)... I've built a couple of different models all of which have failed to be quite fun =)... I've talked
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by Folcon 6y ago
The really fun part is doing this :)... Evaluate the expression: const x = {value: 0}; console.log(x); console.log({x}); x.value = 1; You get this: {value: 0} {x: {…}} Expand the first arrow of the `x:`:
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by Folcon 6y ago
Their live editor is here[0], for anyone interested in seeing a working example. I'm not affiliated with the project, just found the link among all the other stuff there. - [0]: https://stonecypher.github.io/jssm-viz-de

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