PostOnce

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by PostOnce 9y ago
Little Workshop has done neat stuff, none of it rocket science, but all of it very polished. My favorite is http://www.playkeepout.com/ Sadly they never seem to open source anything? It'd be nice to see how such polish
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by PostOnce 9y ago
In the US, you essentially can't return games if bought physically, you can only exchange it for the same product if it's broken physically (i.e., not just buggy). Steam has a 24 hour return policy? I haven't used Steam in a
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by PostOnce 9y ago
How about all the bodies that piled up in defense of capital and capitalism? It seems worthwhile to tell both sides of the story. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Persian_Oil_Company#Nati... https://en.wi
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by PostOnce 9y ago
Extremely relevant book, https://www.amazon.com/Digital-Retro-Evolution-Personal-Comp... (the refcode is from the authors site, https://www.cameralabs.com/digitalretro/ ) The interior of the book is mu
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by PostOnce 9y ago
A lot of people here are arguing with corporateguy5 (to whom i can't reply directly on his dead comment) on the basis of his apparent racism, which is bad, but no one has pointed out that he's just passing the buck, instead of mak
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by PostOnce 9y ago
This kind of apathy is how you end up 40 years down the road asking yourself what happened to your country, where all the good jobs went, why your kids and grandkids can't afford the things you remember having. Because we led, doesn&#x
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by PostOnce 9y ago
There are 55 million people in elementary/middle/high school in America, and 20 million in a college or university. Google employs 74,000 people, so, there are a thousand times more students than Google employees, and obviously no
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by PostOnce 9y ago
it's either impossible or near impossible for normal people to change the operating system on an iPhone so iOS essentially is the phone, since there are no iPhones without it. It's not like you can just pop in an SD card with Linu
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by PostOnce 9y ago
As kobeya points out https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15719171 they are not the same thing they do less; the software is restricted, especially on iOS, there are _rules_ set out by the manufacturer about what is accepta
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by PostOnce 9y ago
https://www.top500.org/green500/lists/2017/11/ There's also a Green500 list of most performance-per-watt, i.e. greenest, most efficient computers, and Japan is the clear leader there.
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by PostOnce 9y ago
Being legally free to leave may not mean you're also financially free to do so. In a hypothetical designed dystopia, your wages and employment would be such that you couldn't afford to leave the machine that makes the designer ric
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by PostOnce 9y ago
Sales tax is like inverting the income tax brackets. Suppose the rich can buy everything they need with 1% of their income, sales tax is 10%. Then, the rich are paying 0.1% income tax. If the poor have to spend 20% of their income on the sa
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by PostOnce 9y ago
meta about hn's comment systems, but: why else would you ban low-karma accounts from downvoting? It seems like upvote-only systems make for better comment sorting, thus why downvoting is not even allowed by low karma accounts. Still, t
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by PostOnce 9y ago
Replying to myself because I can't add an edit: It's interesting that I'm being downvoted without many comments arguing that I may be wrong in some way, it feels like a downvote-of-disagreement. I thought HN meant downvote fo
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by PostOnce 9y ago
There have been benevolent dictators, it does not mean subsequent dictators will also be? Should we not be wary?
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by PostOnce 9y ago
Everyone here is so optimistic; no one is talking about a dystopia in which one man owns everything. Obviously planned experimental cities ala Disney are cool, and interesting to think about, and perhaps beneficial, but it's worth play
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by PostOnce 9y ago
I will try it eventually and have heard good things, I'm just disappointed they didn't let Human Head finish it -- I really like their original 2006 Prey, and Rune when that was new, too. Oh my. I just looked up Human Head on wiki
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by PostOnce 9y ago
I still play all the time and there's some truth to them all being the same. They get more and more polished on a UI level, and more realistic looking, but remain static mechanically. For example, Skyrim doesn't do much mechanical
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by PostOnce 9y ago
A couple points and devil's advocacy on a couple as well: Search is as bad as social, even if we give up social, it'll be hard to replace search (I read Wikimedia is working on something... a nonprofit search would be a fantastic
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by PostOnce 9y ago
The problem is that tech companies aren't just showing you everything everyone says... they're picking and choosing what to show you. The 10,000ft overview is that they show you whatever keeps you coming back or staying on-site lo
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by PostOnce 9y ago
> We have the capability to annihilate as much of NK as we need to prevent a counterattack ...from North Korea If we start launching nukes in the direction of NK, how does China know it's going to stop in NK and not hit them? Do we
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by PostOnce 9y ago
the obvious solution imo is to add an emotional modifier as with the skin tone modifier that would allow essentially any emoji object to be assigned emotions, sad car needs repairs, angry envelope is a bill, etc but then the same question,
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by PostOnce 9y ago
their QA on everything is abysmal my brother in law got a new razer gamepad, a Sabertooth, and the joystick won't go to 11 o'clock, only 10 or 12 i got a Razer Onza gamepad , secondhand but like-new, the R trigger jitters, if your
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by PostOnce 9y ago
I came to write that facebook is just a carrier, and that people can lie to the masses via a printer, or a radio, or any of a million web outlets or non-FB social networks. But I was wrong, facebook doesn't just post what you say, they
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by PostOnce 9y ago
"it doesn't work very well" for the purpose of ensuring the absolute optimal immunity, but it does work very well for ensuring the absolute optimal individual liberty. I vaccinate, always, and I am hopeful that other people w
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by PostOnce 9y ago
Perhaps instead of a censorship arms race, we could stop trying to police speech & thought? Is it better to push extremists and other weirdos to the echo-chamber fringe, to forums where they only ever encounter those that agree with the
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by PostOnce 9y ago
65 isn't so near EOL, the average life expectancy for a 65 year old woman is 20 years, and 18 for a man[1]. 20 years is a long time... everything you do between 15 and 35? The majority of life's accomplishments for most -- you cou
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by PostOnce 9y ago
Or so the readers claim. What lessons, specifically, can we derive from the Book of Five Rings that apply to modern business? If you or anyone else can elaborate on that in the context of The Book of Five Rings specifically, I would be fas
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The Book of Five Rings is relevant to what, exactly? Why do business guys latch onto stuff like this so hard, it is literally a book about sword fighting, it tells you where to put your feet, how to grip the sword, to keep your pinkie loose
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by PostOnce 9y ago
If a murderer believes the sky is blue, does that mean it is actually lime green? If Hitler believed washing your hands before surgery improved patient outcome, would that also be wrong? It's not as though the speaker alters reality by

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