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by abakker 8y ago
Agree. There was a real story going on inside Myth and Myth 2. Both genuine efforts of creativity beyond just the gameplay.
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by abakker 8y ago
Myth!!!!! I spent so much time posting as "Gothmog" on myth.bungie.org. to me, it is still the quintessential game.
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by abakker 8y ago
Exactly right, except one of my grandmas only sends me articles from Snopes. It's kind of like reverse fake news. The only online contact I get from her is articles debunking fake news, but, never any actual real news.
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by abakker 8y ago
That's true, but if you were at conferences for SuccessFactors or Workday about 4 years ago, you'd have heard lots of presentations about the rise of contingent workforce and the gig economy. In fairness to management consultants,
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by abakker 8y ago
I always loved the corporate euphemism “contingent labor” more than gig economy. It contains all the cynicism you need, right in the semantics.
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by abakker 8y ago
it kind of looks to me like someone ran amok in the 8020 catalog. It looks pretty cool, in that prototypish kind of way.
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by abakker 8y ago
Just find where it plugs in. All the wires go to the same few places.
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by abakker 8y ago
The point is that they would not do anything to reduce the calls, instead, they would erode your freedoms and charge you more to pay the fines.
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by abakker 8y ago
i bet that instead, you'd just get a new contract in which verizon decided that it was only free to talk to other verizon numbers, and would require you to pay extra to call outside the network. Then, they'd ask you to provide a b
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by abakker 8y ago
That’s a bit reductive. You may be right, but it would be less facile to say that poor designs can be made by anybody, but that a mismatch between design and business objectives led to bad results. Not all business people are morons, and no
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by abakker 8y ago
Not if they are eventually deadly, like HIV. If HIV spread in a targeted way, with the level of contagion in a common cold cold it would be bad. Of course, it’s not great if you want to prevent retaliation.
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by abakker 8y ago
This is cool. When looking to muzzle velocity, did you measure the diameter / weight / length of the bullets? It seems there could be some interesting effects there. 1. Interference with the rifle barrel 2. Interference with the s
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by abakker 8y ago
I think it is because the newer phones all use intel modems.
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by abakker 8y ago
I would just like to chime in to say that users expect links in webpages and not in apps. I fully expect the webpage of hacker news to behave the way you describe, because it's a webpage. I recently used the best webapp I've ever
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by abakker 8y ago
I agree with you completely. And that is kind of my point. At its core, it has some parts that are great. The trappings paying the bills are what have created so much damage. I think ultimately, the world would be a better place if people w
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by abakker 8y ago
At its core, facebook contains a useful service. It's messaging capabilities are good, and the fact that identities and connections facebook are persistent effectively combats the problem that plagued much of the early internet: consta
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by abakker 8y ago
Tartarus was also the place where the Titans (The Elder Gods of Greek mythology) were cast when Zeus and his siblings ascended to Mount Olympus (Zeus's father Chronos(Saturn) included).
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by abakker 8y ago
Yep! I can play endless hours of Halo, WOW (In FPV), GoldenEye Can't play Red Faction, Portal, Portal 2, that climbing game on Oculus rift...the list goes on. I've always thought that "bad" physics engines were easier to
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by abakker 8y ago
I think theory with the cold was not related to temperature differential embrittlement, but sulfur embrittlement in the fabrication process. In the case of the steel in the titanic, the theory is that there was excessive amounts of suphur i
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by abakker 8y ago
>Houses that went for $120,000 four years ago are listed for $400,000+ for no other reason than people think they can cash in, and see all the other listings for the same unrealistic prices, and they're trying to "get theirs wh
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by abakker 8y ago
My experience has been that even all in, renting a truck once a month is not really that much cheaper, since buying a truck vs a car is not really a huge cost difference. Practically, getting to a place to rent a truck still sucks, and the
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by abakker 8y ago
it is entirely possible to pay back money without raising prices. Yes, money flows from the consumer, but, you can: a) reduce profitability b) issue more equity and use the proceeds to pay back debt c) increase efficiency/lower cost to
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by abakker 8y ago
Government and distributed ledger seem diametric. Either the government creates a centralized identity system and is the sole authority, or, a distributed system is used to grant identity numbers. Half measures between seem more problematic
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by abakker 8y ago
Insurance pays some, and the rest is paid back by bond. I.e. the state government just give PGE an installment plan and they have 30 years to pay it back. In theory, the government has time to wait.
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by abakker 8y ago
You should read “Poorly made in China”. There are people and companies that do this, but, typically not accessible to small, one off projects.
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by abakker 8y ago
Aviation is all about remaining operational during rare events, though.
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by abakker 8y ago
I think this might be dumb, but, what if negative mass was just positive mass in some alternative dimension? If mass could be negative with respect to our observable space time, does that actually mean it is a binary kind of thing, or could
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by abakker 8y ago
I'm calling it here: the most useful data is private, or, can't be sold due to confidentiality. The fact that data is confidential is great evidence that we know it is useful, but also that we hope others won't use that signa
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by abakker 8y ago
Yes, I cook for myself, and for my wife. I don’t have a commute (or more properly, I work from home, or fly somewhere to do on site work with clients). My wife does commute so I do all our cooking. I keep the time down with a combo of simpl
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by abakker 8y ago
I have a wife, no kids. My wife and I will go to the gym together, eat dinner together, and spend time together, but her work and mine have different schedules so I am done much earlier than her each day. (I usually start at 5-6am and finis

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