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by KVFinn 13y ago
>The only games that are worth playing is stuff released years ago. Wow. I absolutely detest the kind of games talked about in this article but I believe more great games are being made now than anytime in history. The whole gaming spa
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Agree 100%. I would add that IAP that are have no effect on gameplay (skins, announcer packs, etc) are not a sham.
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I find that even in games which are generous and you could play them just fine without paying, if I can buy consumables that effect the game it severely reduces the enjoyment. Ben Kuchera said it like this: https://web.archive
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>Wouldn't a drastically more advanced intelligence just dwarf and dissolve any lesser intelligence that tried to meld with it? It would be complete ego death. A lot of the singularity people think that superhuman AI in inevitable wh
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by KVFinn 13y ago
Anyone have a link to a tl;dr on how market manipulation like this works? It seems like crypto-currencies are ripe for for this of thing and it doesn't take much money to do it. Presumably the hidden information you have from being pa
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>Your attitude and remarks are creating a hostile and uncomfortable environment for me. I demand that you stop immediately. I don't understand the point you are making. If your remarks were making me feel uncomfortable wouldn'
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>The cost of censorship is real A portion of your potential audience giving you feedback that think that they the name is bad is 'censorship'?
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>The only way to fight moralfags That does wonders for your argument.
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>If you're feeling oppressed and excluded by a command name, your real problems lie elsewhere. Similarly, why are you so offended by people thinking something is a bad name and expressing those sentiments?
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>I would argue that intent is all that matters. We are talking about whether the name is a good choice, right? How is intent even relevant? If I'm making something and trying to get other people to use it then all the matters is h
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>1) Catering to every person's sensibilities is impractical. Catering to every person, sure. But when you get enough people at some point it becomes a significant fraction of the audience instead of a few individual sensibilities
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>You havent explained how this is related to 'brogramming' yet. the word bro in a programming context does not automatically mean it has some kind of conspiratorial relationship with the concept of brogrammers. I don't thi
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>Was the creator thinking of brogramming? Was the creator thinking of it being the "bro"ther of the man pages? What does intent matter? If the discussion on a tool is overtaken by the discussion on the gender trolling in the n
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>If you feel the name bothers you so much that you can't use it then that's your prerogative just like it was the developer's prerogative to name it whatever he/she wanted If you think something is a bad idea then say
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The modern version is probably what kids are doing iwth Redstone in Minecraft: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oc6spHvGPtQ
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>Like if your computer folds a correct protein that solves a problem re cancer or aids, you get 1 "humanity coin" ? There have been a couple of attempts. GridCoin comes to mind. It works like a regular coin but you get a huge
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>What end benefit does this give to the users or to the currency? People either spend money on dedicated computers or dedicated ASIC miners. Once a currency switches to ASIC the mining power becomes a more centralized.
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>That's how I felt about Dogecoin at first, but their silliness seems to have generated an unusually nice community. It's so true! When people post really basic or dumb questions they could have googled in twos seconds, or sho
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I think those are different sets of people for the most part. The people who think of it as a currency-of-fun are still there, but investors/speculators/scammers have joined too.
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>None of this kept me from experiencing immediate, full-on, feverish anxiety. >And then—for the first time in nearly an hour—I could work. I found that I was so accustomed to his voice, how he holds his body, his aura, that ignoring h
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by KVFinn 13y ago
When those people mined it it wasn't worth anything. It was a surprise to pretty much everyone that a joke became a real coin. Now that people are trying to copy dogecoin it's going to be a lot harder to have that slow ramp.
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>Nothing to do with RES? Before RES you had to click on images. I don't know anyone in 'real life' who uses RES, but many who use reddit. I expect it's less than 10% and maybe much less of readers.
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>He touches on reddit becoming very picture heavy circa 2012 but doesn't guess on why. My theory is that it is because RES. RES has a "view all images" feature that automatically opens all links out to images the page and
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>Or maybe the D700 is equivalent to a 7970. The 300 - 500 dollar range consumer cards seem to crush all over the $4,000 cards for anything I might use. Are there popular apps that are locked to the Pro series cards or something? Vegas
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by KVFinn 13y ago
Calorie Restriction for Life Extension mailing list.
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From Aubrey De Grey: Short answer is it’s not all that big a deal in biomedical terms. It’s a great discovery in terms of understanding mitochondria, and it provides a new way to rejuvenate mito function, but it doesn’t tell us that rejuven
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>>I was in the early days of Dogecoin >It launched two weeks ago Yup.
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>Well we could always make a new worthless currency. And set it so it intentionally inflates infinitely so that this can't happen. Zimbabwe-coin maybe. Yeah that might work. If you could somehow decay the value of held currency to
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I was in the early days of Dogecoin and it was fun BECAUSE it was worthless. Give out 10k on a lark for a funny picture, etc. Now that's it's being seen a real story of value, rather than a tool to send a bit of karma around... i
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While bitcoin supporters tend to hate the idea of inflation, there are others coins that have inflation built in to encourage spending -- a kind of progressive version of bitcoin. Here's a random example of a coin designed around a spe

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