MagnumPIG

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by MagnumPIG 7y ago
Yeeeesss thank you! I remember dying a lot, wonder if the game is actually hard now... I'll check it out :)
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by MagnumPIG 7y ago
I have very vague memories of a game where you played... I think it was a barbarian? I remember the weapon could be upgraded but I don't remember how! The graphics looked basic even for the time. Any ideas?
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by MagnumPIG 7y ago
In Kuhn's main book (scientific revolutions), he mentions creativity as vital to discoveries, multiple times. Not sure if intelligence is ever mentionned, but I doubt it because it can't be defined in a useful way.
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by MagnumPIG 7y ago
Much less cyclopean than I expected!
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by MagnumPIG 7y ago
Option 1: Fix the leak, i.e. the download strategy. Option 2: BURN IT ALL. Guess which one I don't want my apps to ever do.
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by MagnumPIG 7y ago
The idea is interesting, but everyone is a caricature of their role (marketing people have no morals, programmers are clueless about business). I guess there may be some "intentional" hyperbole but overall it's a badly writte
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by MagnumPIG 7y ago
Furthermore, apart from the fact that geek culture has always had a hate-on for TBBT, we don't import/export TV show concepts because they are perceived as good, but rather because they are seen as profitable. Good is subjective,
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by MagnumPIG 7y ago
I don't think that's a new market actually. But I guess startups can be anything now.
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by MagnumPIG 7y ago
> At one end of the spectrum are people with hyperthymesia, who appear to be able to instantly reconstruct every tiny detail, including visual details from a first-person perspective, of everything they've ever experienced. Psycholo
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by MagnumPIG 7y ago
Managers themselves often don't realize how much money automation could save them. Perhaps their role could be automated away ;)
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by MagnumPIG 7y ago
The gist of what you're saying is correct, but we must be careful with words such as "monster". There may not be anyone in their life causing their suffering, it's actually often the opposite, there is simply no one to t
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by MagnumPIG 7y ago
> Professor Jonathan H. Adler of the Case Western Reserve University School of Law has said that he believes the legality of the trillion-dollar coin to be dubious. One of the most harebrained schemes hatched to date, "dubious"
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by MagnumPIG 7y ago
Funny sketch on this topic from CollegeHumor, about a year old: https://youtu.be/YBO_7UezpbY
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by MagnumPIG 7y ago
Agreed, here in Montreal it's something like 2%.
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by MagnumPIG 7y ago
It's not just noise though, it gives you time to mentally prepare to interact with someone. It's like a practice run!