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by Lazare 4y ago
That's blogspam; it's quoting reporting it claims to be from Boing Boing, but actually came from a poorly sourced editorial in the Independent from back in 2009, which in turn is just retelling the allegations from here: https:&#
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by Lazare 4y ago
Sure. It's called "put it over there in the corner". That's really all the long term solution you need . I mean, okay, I guess pick a corner that's fairly geologically stable. But the volume is (compared to other e
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by Lazare 5y ago
That makes no sense. > try going to a bank and taking out a loan because you're broke and unemployed), but because I had digital assets to pawn "Broke" means you have no assets, thus you have nothing to pawn, therefore the
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by Lazare 5y ago
> There are previously popular genres that are either in sharp decline or basically dead (RTS comes to mind). And other genres that are extremely popular that didn't exist a few years ago. Also, there are good new RTS titles out t
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by Lazare 5y ago
Quite right. If there's a golden age of video gaming, we're living in it now. The sheer quantity of quality, innovative games out there is almost absurd.
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by Lazare 5y ago
I dunno. First, there's more non free-to-play games out there than ever before, and some are truly amazing and innovative, so I'm not sure about what "games have become". In the last couple of years my top games by hou
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by Lazare 5y ago
I agree (and have posted elsewhere in this discussion) that there's a problem that needs solving. Nonetheless, the Fairness Doctrine didn't do what the OP claimed, and couldn't be made to do what the OP wanted, and yes, I thi
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by Lazare 5y ago
I wonder if this is actually exploitable in the wild or not? A 4GB request is a very large amount of data indeed.
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by Lazare 5y ago
The Fairness Doctrine applied to holders of broadcast licenses only, not to publishers in general. Per Red Lion Broadcasting Co v FCC[1], the FCC's power to enforce this rule only applied to mediums where there were limited channels.
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by Lazare 5y ago
It does seem problematic that on some level we treat YouTube (and Twitter, and to a lesser extent other platforms like Spotify) as a sort of public square or generic "communications utilities"; the default virtual place we go to h
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by Lazare 5y ago
With brown stock, you're eating bits of the bone. With a bone in steak, you're eating bits of meat that have been near the bone. It's not impossible that it would have an impact, but there's no obvious mechanism eith
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by Lazare 5y ago
You know what would be vastly better than NPS? Ask people every so often how they're feeling about the product. Let them pick a thumbs up or a thumbs down. If they pick thumbs down, say "we're sorry you hear that. Please let
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by Lazare 5y ago
> they always tend to ignore the underlying science that went into making NPS in the first place, primarily that there was a very strong correlation between the calculated NPS score and business performance. There is no underlying scienc
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by Lazare 5y ago
> But it’s probably better to think of an ERC20 (tokens) and ERC721 (NFTs) as self executing code on the Ethereum Virtual Machine. Right, and Ubisoft is making NFTs right now, that will use that self-executing code to implement customer
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by Lazare 5y ago
> I can sell my NFTs on marketplaces completely independent of ubisoft. See the link I posted. As of right now, the stated plan is that you will NOT be able to do so.
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by Lazare 5y ago
> That wouldn't be a problem with NFTs as they could just go to another game provider... ...nothing says an NFT needs to be arbitrarily transferable. Again, Ubisoft is launching an NFT that has a huge laundry list of conditions ar
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by Lazare 5y ago
Ubisoft is already making NFTs (for cosmetics in this case; same tech though) where they control who can own or transfer NFTs. So...no., this doesn't help. Ubisoft doesn't need NFTs to let people transfer their games to a new acco
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by Lazare 5y ago
I feel a bit disappointed by the number of people suggesting that an NFT would somehow help here. An NFT is just a fancy signed receipt. I can mint an NFT saying the OP owns a bunch of Ubisoft games and give it to him, but his account will
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by Lazare 5y ago
Please. iPhones have a browser; you can open google image search, type "sex" and get some adult content. Apple is not attempting to create an adult content free device (not that it'd be a good idea if they were; it's jus
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by Lazare 5y ago
Hard disagree. 1) They only made changes on the iOS app. 2) The last time they made sweeping changes to content policies it was at the behest of Apple ( https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/13/18139940/tumbl
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by Lazare 5y ago
Quite right. On the other hand, plenty of other dumb technologies have launched, been mocked, and sunk without a trace (or worse) because they were just bad . As Carl Sagan apparently said "They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fu
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by Lazare 5y ago
See also the inflationary spike of the Renaissance era, sometimes called the Spanish Price Revolution: https://voxeu.org/article/does-inflow-precious-metals-new-wo... Prices rose sixfold over 150 years, which represent
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by Lazare 5y ago
Just so. (And it's a bit ironic to see crypto enthusiasts place so much weight on the opinion of the largest players in the traditional financial system!)
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by Lazare 5y ago
Very similar arguments can be made about gold. And have been! And the fact they have been wrong until now is not necessarily a good predictor of the future. In any case, there is one key thing which differentiates gold from crypto - there&#
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by Lazare 5y ago
I must congratulate on your excellent demonstration of Poe's Law. Nonetheless, to the extent that you are being serious and not sarcastic, I largely agree with you.
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by Lazare 5y ago
I think the peak of professionalism is: 1. At all times, you should tell the truth. 2. As long as you're employed, you either speak the company line, or carefully avoid commenting, in order to avoid breaking rule 1. If you can't n
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by Lazare 5y ago
Parties (generally, at least in the modern era) can only nominate people who run, and people run based on their estimation of the odds, the competition, and their estimation of their ability to wait until the next cycle. Somewhat famously,
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by Lazare 5y ago
Interestingly, I went to an ENT recently with chronic sinus problems. Me: "My nose has been clogged since the 90s, I'm on three different antihistamine prescriptions, do you think surgery might help me?" ENT: "Surgery? I
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by Lazare 5y ago
I googled, and apparently the plans to redevelop it as a business park have been complete and the first tenants have moved in: https://www.bizjournals.com/cleveland/news/2021/10/21/highla... I dunno
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by Lazare 5y ago
Yes. In the US context, we already have a digital currency, they're called "US dollars". Something that gets floated periodically is the idea of creating a bank that only accepts deposits, and then sticks them in the Federal

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