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by PostOnce 4y ago
I'll add to what should and what will happen a third category: what could happen. But first: The problem with public domain is that there's no legal requirement for the publisher to give it away once the copyright expires (if they
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by PostOnce 4y ago
I don't want literature, film, or music to be "ephemeral", and I don't want to be unable to show these things to my friends and family. I don't want games to be ephemeral either. They are a form of art as valid as a
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by PostOnce 4y ago
GOG sells new games, too! Just pointing it out so other readers know its an option.
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by PostOnce 4y ago
They let you bring your own games for now , once they're entrenched, games will be locked in exclusives. $1500 per subscription service , think, netflix apple disney yadda yadda, it might cost $5000 or more to play the half-dozen maj
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by PostOnce 4y ago
You guys are walking into a trap. This is going to be way worse than movie streaming, and unlike movies, when one of these companies pulls a game you once loved and it's not available, there will be no pirates to save you, because the
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by PostOnce 4y ago
There are other uses for an N95 mask than robbing a bank. Similarly, there are other uses for anonymous money than laundering illegal money, for example, getting an abortion, buying a gift, having a vacation in Las Vegas as a Korean citizen
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by PostOnce 4y ago
Also New Zealand and Australia, NZ is life+50, Australia now has life+70 but it wasn't retroactive so Tolkien's works are life+50 there too.
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by PostOnce 4y ago
We'll all live in megacorp apartments eating crickets and own nothing but subscribe to everything.
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by PostOnce 4y ago
The one with very low unemployment, newly popular concept of remote work, and shortage of skilled tech workers.
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by PostOnce 4y ago
Fusion360 keeps getting worse and worse, they revoke features and jack the price every few months. At some point open source becomes the better value, at least there you know features won't be stolen or the price increased without noti
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by PostOnce 4y ago
Those people would probably find new jobs the same week in the current market
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by PostOnce 4y ago
Will you also be disappointed to learn that terrorists benefit from penicillin? The fact that a good thing can be used by anyone, including bad people, does not make the thing itself bad. In fact, the greed of the John Deere corporation is
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by PostOnce 4y ago
Stardew Valley is itself either homage to or a ripoff of Harvest Moon, depending on your opinion. We all stand on the shoulders of giants, almost nothing is really new, we've all seen it somewhere before. Everything is inspired by, ite
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GameLine was like Steam for Atari 2600 in 1983(en.wikipedia.org)
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by PostOnce 4y ago
Apparently this guy invents music streaming in 1983, can't sell it, pivots to it being Steam for Atari 2600, game industry collapses, company later becomes AOL. Getting lost on Wikipedia at midnight is fun.
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by PostOnce 4y ago
That's right, it wrecks future playability; it also kills any chance kids have of getting $5-10 secondhand games. Game consoles used to mean plug and play instantly and it works every time, but now it means subscriptions and mandatory
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by PostOnce 4y ago
Microsoft's list of faults would make this comment several megabytes. Sony is not without fault either: they're already selling a PlayStation with no game slot for a disk or cartridge, it's download only. They're killing
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by PostOnce 4y ago
Play it coop with them, it's great fun as a team with your kid if you have 2 computers.
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by PostOnce 4y ago
Adtech companies being more "productive" than they already are is a terrifying thought. How much worse could they make our world? It's not just the ads, its the search result / timeline / suggestion bubble echo cham
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by PostOnce 4y ago
The Ashley Book of Knots became public domain a few years ago (70 years after Ashley died) and you should absolutely read it or at least skim it here: https://archive.org/details/TheAshleyBookOfKnots This would have be
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by PostOnce 4y ago
I know the github link is on the main screen, but people are going to click past it to play of course so here's the github link to click on from HN: https://github.com/brianrisk/SYNTHBLAST
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by PostOnce 4y ago
Not quite. The researchers also tested the thread in a life-size silicone replica of the brain’s major blood vessels, including clots and aneurysms, modeled after the CT scans of an actual patient’s brain. So no, not a brain. Silicone tub
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by PostOnce 4y ago
Ah, I found one. "MIT Engineers develop magnetic soft-continuum thread-like robot with lubricating hydrogel skin" or in no-BS language: "Some college guys move coated wire with magnets" https://news.mit.edu&#x
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by PostOnce 4y ago
They can transmit thoughts directly into your head... via a computer monitor. They call it a "a brain-to-brain interface", doesn't that imply one brain is wired directly to another electrically? It opens with "The abilit
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by PostOnce 4y ago
It's not though, they really do wildly exaggerate trivial things to aggrandize MIT; we could go digging for examples, there are many. It's understandable, reputation is valuable, both for organizations and for the individual. So,
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by PostOnce 4y ago
MIT itself does the same shit, they make every minor toy cobbled together by just-recently-high-school students sound like something it's not. MIT Researchers Invent ________, where the blank is billed as a self-aware machine, when in
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by PostOnce 4y ago
Yes, but you can either die having achieved your goals, or die with them unmet.
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by PostOnce 4y ago
There seem to be a few misconceptions or oversights here: The US military can essentially break almost any government instantly, insurgency is a different beast. That's no mystery. North Korean ICBMs can theoretically reach America in
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by PostOnce 4y ago
In NZ we like to claim we don't have a culture of suing, when this is mostly only because personal injury suits and ambulance-chasers don't exist here, largely because the ACC precludes that particular avenue for litigation. All k
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by PostOnce 4y ago
Stronger men can carrier bigger guns, but no one man is stronger than an army. The rich still benefit from organization. Also, an organization may have legal standing where an individual does not, and can then deploy their lawyer-army. Wher

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