alanfalcon

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by alanfalcon 8y ago
The same activity can be "numbing" (used to escape real problems and responsibilities) for one person, and energizing and truly comforting to someone else. World of Warcraft absolutely had (and has) people who fall on both sides o
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by alanfalcon 8y ago
This is what the new Apple TV channels thing is trying to solve for while also contributing to the problem :-)
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by alanfalcon 8y ago
“Humans are bad at understanding probability, so lets make it impossible for them to get better by lying to them and reinforcing their poor internal model.” (I know games are ostensibly about fun rather than betterment, but they originate f
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by alanfalcon 8y ago
Not the OP, and I don’t disagree re: the nightmare Medium has (predictably) become. But I’d love to know what platform would you suggest?
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by alanfalcon 8y ago
Penn of Penn and Teller discussed on his podcast how he stopped eating meat and had a similar stance on foods pretending to be meat. Then he was compelled to try a particular meat substitute and discovered that it was actually not just tryi
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by alanfalcon 8y ago
True ownership of scarce digital assets is something that blockchains excel at, particularly decentralized blockchains (because true ownership means no individuals have the power to control your asset) - there are still endless questions ab
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by alanfalcon 8y ago
Do you have sound off?
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by alanfalcon 8y ago
I believe Neal Stephenson essentially anticipates this in Anathem.
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by alanfalcon 8y ago
Sometimes you can take a loss on the car, but make a profit on the sale: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/513/129-cars
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by alanfalcon 8y ago
And how does a judge seriously decide to retroactively apply an arbitrarion agreement when none existed at the time of the transaction? Is the argument that the new ToS were accepted when Lord participated in the bug test? The article seems
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by alanfalcon 8y ago
Maybe if it worked with the Apple Pencil and the taptic feedback was good enough I could see being curious about it. It’d probably just be a good way to incite a riot though.
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by alanfalcon 8y ago
The FutureCop devs did :-) “I... Don’t Believe it!” Went the sound clip as a window popped up telling Mac Users to contact the studio and tell them that they were playing on a Mac since the Mac version was apparently a labor of love for the
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by alanfalcon 8y ago
The best AR theme parks :-)
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by alanfalcon 8y ago
Credit card companies have closed other “buy money on a card and get rewards points” loopholes, I just see this as another such loophole.
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by alanfalcon 8y ago
Full disclosure: I joined the CK team recently after having been a fan, community member, and tool developer since shortly after they launched in December. What very few people realize about CryptoKitties is the vibrant community of players
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Cryptokitty raises $140,000 in auction for blockchain and art(chepicap.com)
2 points by alanfalcon 8y ago|1 comments
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by alanfalcon 8y ago
Is IPFS for you?
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by alanfalcon 8y ago
I'm a huge sports fan and League of Legends eSports fan, and I try to watch Overwatch Legaue but just don't think the game itself is fun to watch. I don't think there are lots of people like me, but we do exist! For me, I act
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by alanfalcon 8y ago
I like the idea of building a reputation system that accepts bots as first class citizens instead of imagining them as an inherent problem. Anyone who meaningfully contributes is good even if they are a bot, and anyone who doesn’t gets left
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by alanfalcon 8y ago
Read "The Used Car Salesman Defense" section in this issue of Matt Levine's "Money Stuff": https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-03-20/explainin... It boils down to this: &quot
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by alanfalcon 8y ago
I don't find joy in a supermarket checkout line, but I have witnessed joy in some people (customers, mostly older, who found a way to stand out from the masses and have a face). Perhaps those who take the time to sing elegies actually
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by alanfalcon 8y ago
The article points out the evolution and how we got from each prior step to this point; it gets worse and worse and worse (and worse and worse)
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by alanfalcon 8y ago
I think you have to be exposed to the bullshit. I explicitly follow people on Twitter I strongly disagree with; that sometimes outright outrage and disgust me. I don’t interact with them, but I read what they’re saying and what people in th
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by alanfalcon 9y ago
I'm clearly missing something: I don't understand why I schedule a session instead of just starting one. Do I need to be a user of the Music for Programming podcast to understand this?
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Blockchain is not only crappy technology but a bad vision for the future(medium.com)
98 points by alanfalcon 9y ago|72 comments
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by alanfalcon 9y ago
I don’t think it involved ResEdit but we once changed the Starcraft sounds at one computer in the school Mac lab so that when you made a dragoon it would play “carrier has arrived.” Freaked opponents out all the time.
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by alanfalcon 9y ago
RedEdit in the system 7 days was a godsend in my life. Hacking new sounds into Maelstrom. Changing character names in Pararena. Stumbling into learning what a sprite was.
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by alanfalcon 9y ago
But the coincidence that makes it to the top of HN is when the poker guy wins his third WS using the exact same hand. (At this point he played the hand entirely out of superstition at a negative EV but got insanely lucky. He will eventually
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by alanfalcon 9y ago
If only we had guaranteed lifespans.
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by alanfalcon 9y ago
An idle thought perhaps not well thought out. But I was envisioning more than the simple Manufacturer to Amazon handoff, something like a new type of individual-item-specific UPC where you could continue to track ownership even through hip-

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