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by Meekro 5y ago
There's another reason this product doesn't fit the category you've described: they haven't spent countless millions on marketing. They just put up a website, and it's not their fault if the gaming press then turned
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It sounds like your biggest complaint is that there's no clear roadmap for the SDK/devkit that people could use to get into game development, and no clear plans for an app store or some other way for devs to then publish their gam
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by Meekro 5y ago
The Constitution gives the federal government a very short list of enumerated powers, and maintaining a military is one of them. Small government libertarians want the federal government to return to its traditional (pre-New Deal) Constitut
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The way Linux puts the package manager front-and-center is pretty cool, but in my experience it doesn't result in a very up-to-date system. You might have a version of OpenOffice that is years out of date. Oh, you want the latest versi
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You're right-- there will never be a metric that the rich won't find a way to game. SATs will get tutoring (and in rare cases, cheating). If colleges focus on grades, there will be grade inflation. Essays will be bought. Interview
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Reopening Texas Had No Discernible Impact on Covid-19 Cases or Deaths(reason.com)
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Me and my group are definitely going to TBC when it does full release on June 1. I'm playing a Druid bear tank for our group-- we just did Deadmines with me tanking-- and Druid tanks were significantly upgraded in TBC so they could riv
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I understand the sentiment, but you'd end up re-victimizing the victim. Someone who felt like they had no choice but to pay could later be prosecuted, while the the actual criminal walks free in anonymity.
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I recently got into WoW classic, and my experience has been much more positive than what this Kotaku writer describes. I'm in my mid-30s and I never got into WoW when I was younger, but was always curious to try. There were so many exp
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This case seems like an aberration, though? I think the logic goes something like this: bitcoin miners have a huge incentive to find the cheapest power in the world; renewable energy sources are cheaper than fossil fuels and getting cheaper
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by Meekro 6y ago
Rather than annoy the HN mods by derailing this conversation into politics, I can answer in detail to you directly. If you want that, could you update your bio on HN to include your email address?
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I definitely agree that authors and readers should seek out platforms that reflect their values. But to me, what you described is more fairly called a "reshuffling" rather than a "backlash." Some writers that have been c
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I'd like my journalists to be constrained by the truth, and paid editors in the context of a "traditional" newspaper are one possible way to achieve that. However, if you believe the stats on this, trust for traditional news
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"Ignorance of the law is no excuse" is not a just principle when the laws are so numerous and incomprehensible that everyone is always ignorant of the law. Plenty of people just end up getting bad legal advice, even when they
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by Meekro 6y ago
It seems terrible for everyone. Poor people get stuck with false accusations by the police, no bail, and public defenders who are either incompetent or overworked. Rich people (or middle class founders who dream of getting rich) get to deal
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by Meekro 6y ago
Gatto's book Dumbing Us Down expands on the ideas of this essay and argues his side quite effectively. His ideas are based on his multiple decades as a successful schoolteacher and are well-supported by history. You don't have to
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Thank you for your reply-- you got me to reread Seila Law v. CFPB and I now agree with you. The fact that the CFPB had a single officer was clearly important to the outcome of the case. I agree with the outcome of that case, but don'
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by Meekro 6y ago
The Fed is completely under the US government's control. Congress created it by passing a law, and could pass another law to restructure it if they ever wanted to. The President fills the Board of Governors who run it with his chosen
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by Meekro 6y ago
You're right-- the Fed Board of Governors members are appointed by the President for 14-year terms, which is supposed to make them more independent. I'd say that what you're describing isn't limited to just fears about m
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by Meekro 6y ago
Calling the Fed a private entity is really misleading. It was created by an act of Congress and its highest ranking officials, the Board of Governors, are all appointed by the President. Yes, it shares some power with the banks it regulates
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by Meekro 6y ago
Len is a good candidate, but here's one problem: Satoshi spoke up in 2014 on a long-dormant account[1] to say "I am not Dorian Nakamoto." This was a response to a Newsweek article that claimed to have found his identity. So m
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by Meekro 6y ago
Thank you for sharing your story, and I'm sorry it sucked so bad! Let me just ask one thing-- are you saying that people had faucets on and dripping and the pipes still burst? We have plenty of shallow-buried (or even above-ground) p
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Texan here, living in a suburb of Houston. This was a really unique week, but not that bad I think. Everything was totally covered in snow Monday through Wednesday, which was super-weird for Texas. My power was only out on Wednesday, 9am-
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Looks really interesting, I'll give it a try! Does anyone know what the major players are in this space, and how this one compares? I've wanted to record videos like this but never knew how to get started.
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I have a small project that uses Go's built-in webserver libs to display a status page. I've been storing the HTML/CSS for that in Go strings, which breaks color formatting in my editor and generally feels ugly. This embeddin
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by Meekro 6y ago
In that case, I post the 5-star review, claim the $100, delete my own review, and post negative seller feedback.
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If I got that offer I would post the 5-star review, claim the $100, and then edit my review to say "They tried to bribe me. 1 star. Photos attached as proof." But you're right, I think that's a legitimate issue. I'm
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by Meekro 6y ago
It's different because it has Amazon randomly selecting who gets paid to write a review, and the reviewer doesn't have any incentive to lie since they get the $10 regardless. Sellers are currently paying people (in money and produ
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I'm just spitballing, but what do you guys think about this as a fake-resistant review system? To list your product on Amazon as a seller, you pay $500 per year as a "review incentivization fee." The algorithm randomly select
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I agree there has to be a way, but it'll have to be cleverer than what you suggested. App stores already rank apps based on user reviews, and reddit ranks posts based on user voting. Both are manipulated to hell, and I've read rep

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