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by Zikes 11y ago
I appreciate your opinion and your apology, however I still don't follow or agree with your reasoning about "participation trophy culture". Certainly there are games out there that are hard to fail at, but ultimately it all
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by Zikes 11y ago
Security is not one size fits all, especially when a container can contain conceivably anything.
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by Zikes 11y ago
Fair only means that it is possible to win, not that it is guaranteed. There's been a lot of talk about games nowadays being "too easy", but they have difficulty selectors for a reason. Gamers choosing an easier difficulty b
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by Zikes 11y ago
> the goal was to kill you within a few minutes so you would insert another quarter This is at the heart of "nintendo hard". Games were limited in content and scope, and ramping up difficulty was the only way to ensure the exp
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by Zikes 11y ago
> games are engineered so everyone wins Not true, they are engineered to be fair, and that is a very key distinction. A gamer can be reasonably certain that with a good deal of persistence they will eventually be able to overcome any hu
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by Zikes 11y ago
> "We can’t make this deal public because if the American people saw what was in it, they would be opposed to it." This is comically absurd. I know it's cliched and gets tossed around a lot lately, but this absolutely sou
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by Zikes 11y ago
It's also the primary host for dozens of package management systems anymore. It's not hard to imagine a production system being unable to scale out because they didn't vendor and they can't fetch the repo for an essentia
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by Zikes 11y ago
Once it's the norm for browsers it wouldn't make much sense not to use HTTPS everywhere.
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by Zikes 11y ago
> I can hijack a DNS entry and host a server pretending to be you Not for long.[1] [1] https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2015/04/30/deprecating-non...
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by Zikes 11y ago
My knee-jerk reaction was to think of the privacy implications, but then I realized that most people will jump at the chance to upload their minute-to-minute health status to the cloud.
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by Zikes 11y ago
Interesting to think that first responders may someday be able to check a person's "black box" to be able to assess certain aspects of their condition.
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by Zikes 11y ago
There are plenty of other examples where he's let me down, and plenty of good he's done, but the fact remains that Gitmo is still running. He's literally the leader of the armed forces, he has all the power he needs to shut t
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by Zikes 11y ago
We all know what ultimately needs to happen. Marijuana needs legalized. Minimum sentencing guidelines need to be replaced with maximums. For-profit prisons need to disappear. More work needs put into counseling and mentoring at-risk yout
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by Zikes 11y ago
Those statistics have some skew, as well. "Crime" is at a low, but it's not a crime when police steal your life savings of cash via civil asset forfeiture, nor is it a crime when they put you in a chokehold until you are dea
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by Zikes 11y ago
Not that this isn't a nasty security hole, but I should hope that this sort of equipment is firewalled at least.
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by Zikes 11y ago
I do find it hard to believe they can have access to all of that military tech and not have some incentive to use it as often as possible. Maybe it's "toys", maybe it's "budget" (the more expensive the equipmen
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by Zikes 11y ago
As far as I can tell, the rules that are on the books for handling dangerous situations is not at issue, it's the complete disregard for those and any other rules. It's the rampant abuse of power that's the real problem. The
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by Zikes 12y ago
Some of those costs can be minimized by installing fiber while other utilities and maintenance operations are being performed. Some cities have adopted a "dig once" policy for this, saying every time there is a dig then fiber mus
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by Zikes 12y ago
I suspect it will always be a largely subjective measure mostly determined by the respect or accolades of one's peers or the satisfaction of one's target audience/customers. I think StackExchange's "reputation"
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by Zikes 12y ago
It's not inaccurate or offensive to say that some people are more naturally gifted in some areas than other people. It's certainly possible that with 10,000 hours of practice the average person could become competent at just abou
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by Zikes 12y ago
Looking good! I really like the list of features in your roadmap, those will be some big wins that will really set Caddy apart from other web server software. One recommendation I would make is the addition of some simple load balancing, ev
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by Zikes 12y ago
Flash Of Styled Content?
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by Zikes 12y ago
No, that's not the author's argument. Look, I'll save you a click. Here's the line: "What I really hate about it is that it’s a game about convincing yourself that you’re much funnier than you actually are."
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by Zikes 12y ago
It is a perfect example of how much genuine humor can arise tangentially to the game. The author's argument is that CAH is not truly funny or that the players are not truly funny because it's just slapping a few naughty words tog
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by Zikes 12y ago
The original developer's thoughts on Martini: http://codegangsta.io/blog/2014/05/19/my-thoughts-on-martini... Personally, I would like to highlight the part about Martini not being idiomatic. Being
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by Zikes 12y ago
People playing Cards Against Humanity don't merely think they are funny because they have the perfect card(s) to play, though the results themselves might be genuinely funny. It provides a backdrop against which more humor can be made
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by Zikes 12y ago
AdBlock would block the script necessary to identify me as a contributor, and the site owner wouldn't receive any payouts as a result of my visit.
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by Zikes 12y ago
If the service were launched as a wholly separate entity, with clearly stated legal terms for data privacy and retention, I would be able to accept that as a necessity.
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by Zikes 12y ago
My biggest concern with this is that it is still so integrated into the ads system. I don't use AdBlock and its kin solely because I don't want to see the ads, but also so that I am not tracked everywhere I go on the internet.
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by Zikes 12y ago
I think you're vastly overstating the difference between the psychological stresses put upon affluent children versus those in middle class or poverty. Everybody has to deal with living up to their parents' hopes and dreams, and w

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