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by Jd 13y ago
I know both Classical Chinese and Sanskrit and have no idea what you are talking about. "It's rare in both languages to stumble across a word that is just a black box, whose etymology you can't pull apart so as to guess what
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by Jd 13y ago
So there are several things in this article that are flat out wrong: (1) "No wonder so many languages are derived from it." Not sure what he is referring to exactly, but Sanskrit itself is a descendent of proto Indo-Europea
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by Jd 13y ago
TLDR: Startups that try to focus on big launches are generally lazy. Success comes from putting in extraordinary effort to putting your customer first. This means you get super-enthusiastic users. This works by the principle of compound gro
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by Jd 13y ago
Pro typers frequently remap Caps Lock to backspace. Backspace/delete is in an inane position on most keyboards.
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by Jd 13y ago
Frankly, reports from doctor-friends who work in ERs indicates that a large part of costs are treating people who are dealing with preventable often drug-related problems that create emergencies because the people involved are basically inc
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by Jd 13y ago
-"remuneration would likely improve" why? -"artificial competition for jobs would decrease drastically" why is artificial competition important? You are saying that it will be easier for qualified people to get jobs beca
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by Jd 13y ago
In fact, you already see this in places like Israel and the perpetually "studying" ultra-orthodox who refuse to do military service, have lots of kids, and, of course, take massive state subsidies.
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Doubly true if you are talking about a globally applicable basic income.
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by Jd 13y ago
The problem is that when consumer make bad decisions (i.e. don't go to the doctor and develop serious health problems), the government in the end still has to foot the bill. You can't turn people away from emergency rooms and have
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by Jd 13y ago
As I assume tptacek would also say, the specifics of the "direct access" are rather a big deal. If the access is constrained to NSLs approved by judges in regulated quantity, you have a legal process. Perhaps there is no independe
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by Jd 13y ago
I think this is a bit of a cheap shot at tptacek so will defend him in his absence. First, when it comes to programs by US intelligence agencies (both previously known, currently revealed, and yet to be revealed) there are multiple categori
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by Jd 13y ago
Fascinating. My preferred choice for transmitting arcane knowledge is poetry (in fact, there is a long tradition of exchanging alchemical poetry in cipher).
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by Jd 13y ago
Additionally, it is worth noting that the weakest target is very often the human element. Although this was noted by Mitnick in his "hacking" (which generally was just clever social engineering), it is equally true when government
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by Jd 13y ago
2 minutes per trip. 35 scales per trip. 700 scales needed. That works out to 40 minutes per Alien Alloy. I guess it depends on what you consider unreasonable. I don't usually play games w/ a large amount of grinding.
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by Jd 13y ago
Very cool, thanks for your response. Btw, do you know any other online sources for good minimalist games (text adventures or otherwise) ? I'm trying to use some as a way to teach programming.
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by Jd 13y ago
Ok, so I just played through your game since you put the link here. Qs: (1) are you supposed to interact w/ the NPCs? Only substantial interaction I noticed is when you turn on the lighthouse and the pirates run away (2) Looks like you
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by Jd 13y ago
Despite attending an "activist" undergrad school, I've never attended any protests -- since I'm out of the US at the moment I can't attend this one even though I would like to. But here's the question, what can
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by Jd 13y ago
You mean I can't build any more huts... I almost cried...
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by Jd 13y ago
Maybe you could have live competition between villages on other worlds? For example, if you and I start at the same time, we can each see the number of villagers of the other person and houses, etc. built so far.
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by Jd 13y ago
Yes, ironically I didn't figure this out until I had already beat the game.
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by Jd 13y ago
Modding would be fun, could even be refactored as a "minimalist game framework." No particular mods come to mind ATM though. Any ideas?
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by Jd 13y ago
What better sources of teeth and scales are you referring to? Harvesting them from wandering beasts seems extraordinarily tedious and time-consuming. Converting to them from fur requires an incredible amount of fur.
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by Jd 13y ago
Maybe you just don't have the health upgrade. Once you get 20 health per cured meat the ferral beasts are much easier to keep at bay.
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by Jd 13y ago
Dunno, but if you are a frequent online gamer you probably know that 'minimialism' is a frequently used tag over at Kongregate and that there many other minimalist games that are not text adventures. Notable examples: Momiga ( htt
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by Jd 13y ago
I'm not sure if this is cheating, but I set auto-clicking on the buttons with the console and left it open in its own tab so that I could do other things while my minions created steel. Certainly my time spent was considerably less tha
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by Jd 13y ago
You didn't miss anything. There is no cool end, just a reset (sadly IMO). However, "End game" usually refers to the gameplay at the end of the game, specifically in chess where you try to force mate with only a few pieces.
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by Jd 13y ago
The Ferral beast is more easily defeated than you think, simply an iron sword plus a steel sword fairly easily does the trick. Add in a rifle and/or laser rifle and you can finish him off quickly every time.
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Riffs: <<Why don't more painters have hacking jobs?>> I think pg is right in highlighting age here. Generally speaking you need to get started young. Beyond this, there is a natural synchronicity in all "arts" whe
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by Jd 13y ago
Very true, and I think is great that Garry here is including a little historical perspective on this. Civil liberties are something that have to be fought for by every generation. It may be a battle that can never be won completely, but if

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