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by Zikes 11y ago
> A close cousin to crowdfunding is the trend of pre-releasing games before they are finished. This has contributed to a disturbing trend of actually releasing games before they are finished. AAA titles have been released in the past co
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by Zikes 11y ago
> Legally, it would probably be easy for the games industry to crack down on broadcasting, but instead they have encouraged it, seeing it as a new way to engage users and generate revenue. Nintendo is a notable outlier in this instance.
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by Zikes 11y ago
The author sure seems to appreciate it. Even if there's a tradeoff, I would gladly accept senility in old age in exchange for sanity now, especially when doing nothing will certainly mean senility in old age regardless.
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by Zikes 11y ago
It might be easier to think of it as a lesson learned. It's likely obvious to everyone (Jessica included) that the media can't be implicitly trusted, but the true nature and impact of interacting with the media in that way may ha
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by Zikes 11y ago
It's unfortunate that such sensationalized articles tend to get so much attention. They make it all the more difficult to have a reasoned discussion on the matter, because they introduce so much "outrage fatigue".
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by Zikes 11y ago
That subpoena is fairly damning evidence that these politicians don't understand how science works. Instead of scrutinizing the published data they have to dig into communications - where all sorts of theories might be floated and dis
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by Zikes 11y ago
It's funny, RSS is in principle the same as many socially-powered link aggregators (reddit, HN, 9gag, etc) except you're fully in control of the content you subscribe to. I guess that introduces the hurdle of finding content wort
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by Zikes 11y ago
> no 3rd party to decide what I can send It's my understanding that the biggest hurdle in owning your own email stack is that a lot of 3rd parties decide what they'll receive, and hold senders to very strict standards. Have yo
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by Zikes 11y ago
You're assuming the goal is to teach astrophysics, rather than astronomy. If we're just trying to teach the space equivalent of geography, the physics and plot don't matter so much as the physical locations and nomenclature.
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by Zikes 11y ago
But that's my point exactly. If those games did use actual astronomical data (and I'm told by foo123456 that Elite: Dangerous actually does) then could those games accomplish Carl Sagan's goal of teaching astronomy in a comp
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by Zikes 11y ago
Setting aside the ideas for the plot, could games like Eve, No Man's Sky, or Elite: Dangerous accomplish the same thing if they used actual astronomical data?
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by Zikes 11y ago
I was expecting it to be a portmanteau of sort and partition.
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by Zikes 11y ago
Hugo has an option built-in to watch the directory and rebuild pages automatically. It can also reload the browser automatically using the optional LiveReload plugin: http://gohugo.io/overview/usage/
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by Zikes 11y ago
For Go fans, I had a lot of fun playing with Hugo: https://github.com/spf13/hugo
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by Zikes 11y ago
Thanks, looks straightforward enough.
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by Zikes 11y ago
It doesn't seem to support pagination, e.g. 10 posts per page, next/prev buttons, etc. Is that a Jekyll limitation, or a theme limitation? If the latter, would a reasonably competent Jekyll user be able to implement that?
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by Zikes 11y ago
I would really like to see a visual roadmap of how we get to true AI, so I was pretty disappointed.
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by Zikes 11y ago
That's a pretty misleading title. I clicked through expecting a discussion of what AI means and what various properties are that it will have to possess, laid out in a hierarchical manner. Instead I'm getting pitched on Yet Anothe
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by Zikes 11y ago
The state takes actions under reasoned and measured approaches (barring obvious bad actors), whereas the private citizen/vigilante approach historically does not practice reason or restraint in their application of justice. It's f
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by Zikes 11y ago
Individually, they are expressing freedom of speech. What is the basis for expulsion, jail, and civil suits?
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by Zikes 11y ago
Lobby against drug decriminalization, since it is already criminalized.
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by Zikes 11y ago
I do believe in right and wrong, but I do not believe that there are no bad tactics, only bad targets. Internet vigilantism isn't going to work out for anybody, it'll only perpetuate the cycle without resolving the core issues.
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by Zikes 11y ago
You're conflating unrelated issues in order to bolster your arguments and justify vigilantism.
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by Zikes 11y ago
It's their position as victims that lets them get away with these actions in the first place. Further "victimizing" them will only give them more power. It will let them further capitalize on the "David vs Goliath&quot
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by Zikes 11y ago
This is exactly the tactic those bullies use on their victims. "But it's okay because we're on the right side" is exactly the reasoning they use, as well.
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by Zikes 11y ago
There is a disturbing trend over the past few years of using social activism as a pretense for outright harassment and bullying. The most disturbing part is that it allows the harassment to happen completely out in the open. The harassers
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by Zikes 11y ago
But it is broke, and needs fixed. The site is nigh unusable on a mobile browser, for instance.
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by Zikes 11y ago
I watched my dad try and fail half a dozen times to quit smoking over twenty years, and the thought that nicotine addiction is a myth perpetuated by Big Tobacco is so frankly ridiculous that I can't believe I'm dignifying it with
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by Zikes 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substance_dependence#/media/Fi... According to the above chart, tobacco, whose addictiveness is driven by nicotine, ranks above the following in dependence: meth, alcohol, steroi
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by Zikes 11y ago
Anything can be psychologically addictive with habitual use and what one might call an "addictive personality". Video games, work, porn, caffeine, bacon & eggs, all the same. Some of those things even have support groups, pill

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