Macross8299

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by Macross8299 7y ago
>Facebook earned about $172 billion since 2013. Do you think facebook would have earned $167 billion while behaving legally? >5 billion is ... an order of the magnitude off So you're saying a 30% of their income came as the resul
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by Macross8299 7y ago
>But also because crypto is totally unregulated -- and by the rules of the game, if you have the keys, you have the coins -- you have zero recourse. I don't think that's true. If you could go to the cops with dead-to-rights evi
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by Macross8299 8y ago
Unpopular opinion: someone who welches on their debt SHOULD have their reputation blackened for a reasonably long time. When you default on your debt, it makes it much much harder on everyone else in the system. All other things being equal
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by Macross8299 8y ago
The money that banks loan out is not entirely their money.
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by Macross8299 8y ago
I bet you anything that the "turn location history off" switch is just a placebo switch. All it does is send the data with additional flag saying that the data shouldn't be displayed to the end user.
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by Macross8299 8y ago
I like how you highlight some admittedly minor commits in big scary red boxes while ignoring technically significant ones like "added function to figure out amt of systematic noise you need to add to get a chi squared of 1", This
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by Macross8299 8y ago
Yeah, I've had bad roommates before but my reaction has always been to avoid them and want less to do with them, not invade their privacy and find out more about them. I guess that doesn't make for as interesting social media po
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by Macross8299 8y ago
> Three months into the hell of living with him, I saw his wallet sitting out in the kitchen. He was passed out drunk in his room, so I looked in it Oh okay, someone left some glitter in the bathroom so it's okay to root through the
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by Macross8299 8y ago
Funny that they care about the environmental effects when the end result is something they have little control over, less so when it's a state-run or state-affiliated business
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by Macross8299 8y ago
From what I understand, and, correct me if I'm wrong, but Bitmain _does_ make money by mining, but they do it by using their own next-generation hardware to mine before making it available for sale, which spikes the difficulty and then
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by Macross8299 8y ago
I play guitar and I'm similarly not a fan (most of the time). Someone drunkenly fumbling through wonderwall or whatever in an attempt to impress is not interesting.
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by Macross8299 8y ago
That just sounds like you've internalized some amount of the shame without knowing it.
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by Macross8299 8y ago
>The good life as members of distinct moral communities ... I suspect [answers] will also be less sensational and more nuanced I really don't know about that. Defining "The good life as a member of a distinct moral community&qu
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by Macross8299 8y ago
Out of curiosity, what was the startup doing and did you ever get Oblivion running at a 100% similar experience to native? (Bethesda bugs and all)
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by Macross8299 8y ago
>the "demonstrate a vulnerability exploit on a live system" game creates greater value than a video game Right, but there are instances where you can train for that live demonstration, like CTFs in self-contained environments l
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by Macross8299 8y ago
Mailroom to CEO Let's Play (speedrun 100% achievement)
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by Macross8299 8y ago
Trolls trolling trolls, etc etc
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by Macross8299 8y ago
Why not reframe the question to true/false? Rather than "Are you aware that Google does X?" (which implies that Google does x implicitly) to something like "True/False: Google does X"
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by Macross8299 8y ago
>You can short established coins like BTC and ETH. You can, but it's hard to find reputable vendors that offer this that aren't bucketshop scams.
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by Macross8299 8y ago
>No matter how much you want find a market effect, it's due to _human stuff_, like people's actual lives and problems. There is nothing even close to an economy around sex This kind of wishy washy thing I'm sure feels nice
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by Macross8299 8y ago
O/T but I find the first link absolutely hilarious as a non-Brit. The stereotypes about binning that knife are real.
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by Macross8299 8y ago
Subs kill any comedic timing for me. Something about reading the punchline when the joke is still being setup is a bit jarring.
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by Macross8299 8y ago
>Because it's technically cheaper to have less workers and to work them for longer hours That depends on whether fixed costs of hiring another developer (and coordination costs) outweigh the variable costs of the current developers
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by Macross8299 8y ago
In some cases, nepotism isn't even harmful. Plenty of cases where hiring a family member doesn't mean that family member is necessarily unsuited for the job.
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by Macross8299 8y ago
Cool idea, but how do you split the profit (assuming this is a world where games are still sold for money)? I'd imagine once you start having discussions about equity distribution and revenue split, it stops being a collective of equal
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by Macross8299 8y ago
My understanding is that pro counter-strike players also have to memorize and practice an obscene amount of nade throws these days just to be competitive since the physics are so predictable and things like flashbangs are so strong.
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by Macross8299 8y ago
When I was younger, I'd agree. Was for sure a vidiot but now I don't play much. But programming is more compelling now than playing in someone else's skinner box. Watching something compile, link and pass all your test cases
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by Macross8299 8y ago
>With hockey, or any other professional sport, it doesn't matter if the skills aren't transferable, Well, if you're making the argument that these pro gamers are worse off because they spent a large portion of their lives
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by Macross8299 8y ago
>eSports at this level reminds me of the old circus/carnival freak shows, I don't think that's really a fair comparison. Most of the appeal of esports is just admiration for someone who's really good at something yo
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by Macross8299 8y ago
>I don't know why it is but people seem much more interested in the tech than in the value they can create. Well, for some engineers who don't have much say in product development, the amount of value they can create is bounded

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