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by Zikes 11y ago
Technically you could say the same of homosexuality, but that only seems to be growing.
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by Zikes 11y ago
Good lord, did they trademark Crush as well?
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by Zikes 11y ago
> I'm sure many men don't care, since the pressure is generally placed on women. As a man with a mother who asks when she'll get grandchildren at every opportunity, I'm going to have to disagree with you there.
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by Zikes 11y ago
Amongst other things, including the new avenues for filing breaches of copyright against web sites and content providers.
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by Zikes 11y ago
If the article seeks to attack the adblocking system itself, then I would press that the most important utility of adblockers is that they block dangerous elements on sites that the user has no history with or knowledge of. I feel perfectly
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by Zikes 11y ago
Ideally that could be included in the User TOS. Think of it like the Creative Commons model, a lot of standardized information is contained in the string "CC-BY-NC-SA", even though it's been customized for a particular person
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by Zikes 11y ago
The problem with that model is that there are too many competing companies. As it is, you have to subscribe to half a dozen online publications if you don't want to hit a paywall for every other link posted to HN. But even if there wer
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by Zikes 11y ago
Like Saga, you mean? I don't recall any cases around the word Candy, but The Banner Saga got hit.
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by Zikes 11y ago
I just realized I just proposed a more complicated version of "Do Not Track", for all the good that did.
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by Zikes 11y ago
I'm fairly certain that knowingly circumventing a TOS agreement doesn't make you immune to it.
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by Zikes 11y ago
Can we make a "User TOS" standard wherein a link to a user's personal Terms of Service is embedded in, say, a "User-TOS" GET header, which could include terms implying that by continuing to serve content to the user
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by Zikes 11y ago
Website terms of service are not viewable until you have already accessed the web site. Unless the web sites give users an interstitial page wherein they explicitly click a button to agree to the terms of service before proceeding, then the
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by Zikes 11y ago
I haven't read the book, but here's another product of Disney's that helped me see movement and animation with a new perspective: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12_basic_principles_of_animati...
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by Zikes 11y ago
I don't know what I'm supposed to be scared of here. The concept of genetically engineered food doesn't put me off in the least, and the risk of these salmon escaping to the wild doesn't sound particularly dangerous to
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by Zikes 11y ago
I agree, however given the limited scope of dingbats symbols and the (at the time) unlikeliness that it would grow significantly, I can understand the different reactions. Not to mention there weren't many forums for the general popul
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by Zikes 11y ago
Yes, I misunderstood. I thought you were suggesting a font that replaced existing character codepoints with symbols, along the lines of wingdings.
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by Zikes 11y ago
A dingbat typeface can't be easily used within regular text of another typeface, which is by and large how emoji are used. The debate isn't about how to standardize the display of symbols on platforms, but how to allow the incorpo
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by Zikes 11y ago
The unicode standard doesn't include the artwork, only a description of how the symbol should be represented. It's up to individual platforms to provide the art.
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by Zikes 11y ago
Yeah, Wikipedia says it goes back to 1999. It's certainly a hit in the West, though. Every social media outlet I see is flooded with various emoji. Clearly people are using them, and Unicode has plenty of space, so why not standardiz
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by Zikes 11y ago
People seem to be ignoring that in the absence of standards, the same thing would happen but potentially vary wildly from one platform to the next.
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by Zikes 11y ago
With the amount of battery power required to keep them in the air for a reasonable length of time, I've often heard them described as "flying cinder blocks". Often the injury concerns come not from propeller blade cuts, but a
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by Zikes 11y ago
The gist of the article is that he sees AI as being so staggeringly complex that English will not be sufficient to communicate with it clearly, but that Wolfram Language might work. Since Wolfram Language is largely his project, a few first
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by Zikes 11y ago
Since the blog post contains the player just the same as the current link, it would probably be better to change the link to the blog.
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by Zikes 11y ago
Additionally, "found" may never be true if you don't find what you're looking for. Instead, you would want a boolean for whether or not you've searched all array elements.
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by Zikes 11y ago
Ditto, but I still get annoyed at having to re-generate a password half a dozen times to fit whatever opinionated rules a particular site comes up with.
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by Zikes 11y ago
I'm utterly baffled at how terrible the Playstation 4 store experience is. I can't help but think it's somehow intentional, but for the life of me I can't figure out why.
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by Zikes 11y ago
I think it's a bit of a culture clash. Nintendo of America seems to do what they can, given the short leash Nintendo of Japan has them on. There seems to be something about Japanese culture that is fundamentally incompatible with the &
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by Zikes 11y ago
A good point, and many games are being developed for consoles, or include consoles as "stretch goals".
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by Zikes 11y ago
I think it's a little of column A, a little of column B. The consumers are desensitized to the bugginess of early access, and therefore more forgiving of companies releasing games that aren't yet finished. Companies have been rel
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by Zikes 11y ago
It seems that industry-wide, PC revenue is on par with or surpassing consoles, though. [0] Completely anecdotally, in my experience as a consumer when games do better on consoles than on PC it's because they A) are poorly ported from c

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