an_opabinia

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by an_opabinia 4y ago
Which is it? Sounds cool.
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by an_opabinia 4y ago
It’s incredible really that these guys are talking about using Godot on consoles when it is in such bad shape. Even if it’s a bait and switch, and they spend 100% of the funds on just like, making the engine better, $8m isn’t going to get y
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by an_opabinia 4y ago
Ink
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
The Victoria man is a radical, he's there to start an interesting conversation, he's succeeding. > power to compel people to do the dishes... and some type of punishment to mete out. Moneyed, Adam Smith style capitalist economi
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
The USA was a fine place to live, many people happily gainfully employed, many investment accounts booking gains, labor and capital coexisting in harmony, when inflation was double what it is now.
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
Nobody said no classes. There wasn’t money like there was in Europe. There were by some intellectually honest estimates 50m people living in N and S America at the time of arrival, a huge number of people were living day to day without mone
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
We could probably 10x the number of “handouts” as you call them, at least in the US, and nothing would change. We’ve auditioned it already: $4T in stimulus, the $600/wk employment checks, etc. What negative negative impact really did t
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
Indigenous Americans, prior to colonists’ arrival.
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
90% of the revenue is games. Mobile Chrome would only need to support idiosyncratic Unity and Unreal web targets for a significant chunk of that revenue.
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
Listen to yourself. “Under the works.” Dude, c’mon of course it was the lawsuits.
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
Show me a traditional App Store app that doesn’t pay 30% of IAP to Apple.
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
It is totally about preventing alternatives to the App Store.
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
National, standardized, digital ID is inevitable.
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
Retrocomputing is the programmer’s version of cringe. The very border of benign.
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
Indeed, because of diminishing marginal returns on studying, even being in the 50th percentile of SAT test prep hours can improve your score by 10 percentiles. It’s hard to know how many students spend 0 hours studying but it is definitely
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
Most people who weren’t 18 and living in CA in the last 3 years don’t know much about how UC admissions work.
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
Dropping the SAT is an affirmative action measure.
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
In my experience, for every engineering subordinate that turned out to be good that I didn't bother testing with leetcode, there were 19 who sucked and also failed their coding test, or sucked and we should have tested them. So far, am
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
??? That’s not how this stuff works at all. This is a dispute over the facts, and how much money the facts are worth, and to whom. Someone in California DOJ had a 15 minute meeting with their people and ATVI people and already decided that
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
Public health emergencies exceed the limitations of your contrarianism.
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
> trust the ruling class Where did you get the idea that in this country, rural people aren’t ruling the country? Have you looked at the senate lately?
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
People are downvoting you because you’re saying something in bad faith, knowing full well you can just punch into Google and go down this specific thread of argument all you want. But to keep this on topic, being on the “don’t deal with it”
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
I don’t think you understand those charts on the CDC website. Did you notice that the bars for, eg, fully vaccinated add up to 100 across all groups? Did you look at the table?
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
Because digging entrenches incumbents.
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
There's no point, you're right. On the other hand, there is no money shortage. I wish the government ordered PG&E to make poles ready for fiber instead.
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
> Although in reality the cost reduction will likely be spend elsewhere to makes things a little better. So it is either cheaper or higher quality games. I agree. Photoreal asset libraries will make it a lot cheaper to finance games th
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
Brandon Beck and Marc Merrill were rich kids who spent millions on other people to develop League of Legends. We don’t talk about them as indie developers obviously, even though in 2009 they were independently publishing (and continuing to
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
Prices are rising.
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
Like with everything, all that matters is whales. The kind of person who eats lunch out every day doesn't care if it's 20 GBP or whatever, so they'll keep paying whatever it costs to eat whatever they want. What'll happe
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
People are obsessed with that siphash paper, and they're obsessed that Java hashcodes do not do the siphash mitigation, but I don't know if any of it matters. People are obsessed with thinking it matters though.

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