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by anthonyb 13y ago
I had exactly the same experience, using autohotkey, and blogged about it at the time http://teh.oarsum.com/posts/cheating_and_game_design.html . (tl;dr: if it's easy to script your game and win, your game design i
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by anthonyb 13y ago
It's a rating system . Next you'll be accusing Roger Ebert of censorship.
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by anthonyb 13y ago
"Fizzbuzz for movies"
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by anthonyb 13y ago
You would lose going downhill (when you don't need it) and gain going uphill (when you do). Seems sensible to me.
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by anthonyb 13y ago
Reading comprehension is not HN's strong suit. Or basic arithmetic. 30,000 miles in a year is about 3 x 30 mile trips per day, every day.
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by anthonyb 13y ago
All of which ignores that there are many different ways of interacting with the state without resorting to violence, in favour of a nice soundbite. "Libertarian or people pointing guns at you" is a false dichotomy.
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by anthonyb 13y ago
> you have no recourse ... you have to know that there's no negotiation Bullshit. http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/aug/20/civil-d...
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by anthonyb 13y ago
Or legal action! Of course, shooting people over "legal action" sounds crazy, so to make yourself sound better you'd better keep talking about guns. Edit: Here's a good example of the alternative to shooting people, from
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by anthonyb 13y ago
I'm not sure why people with a libertarian bent have to keep bringing guns into arguments. The Rule of Law is one of modern societies great inventions, as long as all parties agree to abide by it. When they don't, organised opposi
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by anthonyb 13y ago
In this case, there is no overt threat - the government employee is not holding a gun to your head, so you have no right to kill him. Most people are not very even handed when they feel that their rights have been violated, so it tends to l
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by anthonyb 13y ago
Not just AP, but nuking people you don't like, too: https://twitter.com/pro2rat/status/389410900832038912
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by anthonyb 13y ago
"Killing the government" is a euphemism. He's talking about killing government employees who implement things you don't like. What you're ultimately talking about is terrorism - if you're a government employee,
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by anthonyb 13y ago
Interesting that the libertarian solution to someone violating your rights seems to be to violate their rights back in even more spectacular and violent fashion.
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by anthonyb 13y ago
I think you mean "like" PHP despite experience with it.
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by anthonyb 13y ago
Herp derp derp herp derp herp derp derp herp derp.
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by anthonyb 13y ago
Yeah, it's the same story across the board really - not even many private hands, just a small handful of them. Public infrastructure was never particularly invested in, even under Labour, but now that the Liberals are back in (I'm
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by anthonyb 13y ago
Disgraceful, IMO. The last Liberal government over here entrenched Telstra as a monopoly by selling it off in its entirety. They were kicked out of the process last time, due to not taking it seriously, now that their cronies are back in po
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by anthonyb 13y ago
For me it was the opposite - I was quite happy to pay, but didn't have enough control of, or visibility into, what was going on on the server. I set up a minefold instance for my daughter and her friends to play on, having previously s
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by anthonyb 13y ago
Which apparently has been flagged off of the front page.
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by anthonyb 13y ago
From the article: Some also caution that on the Verizon network, my Nexus 7 will connect only if LTE is available; it will not be able to fail down to slower speeds as it could on other networks. True; that is how my Chromeb
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by anthonyb 13y ago
I disagree with that pretty strongly - if you have time, go and read the NYTimes link that I posted below. Their point is that many children don't have that opportunity, since they're already well behind by the time that they star
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by anthonyb 13y ago
principles, not principals. Which, thinking about it, is an even more condensed version of my argument above. Competition is all very well, but if you're talking about the education of a country, you can't very well just chuck out
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by anthonyb 13y ago
Not really a shallow analysis, but they don't make their point particularly well. I think bringing in "sacrificing your kids to make a point" is unnecessary linkbait. The basic issue for me is that western democracies and the
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by anthonyb 13y ago
With a mouse in your off hand? That's got to be slower.
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by anthonyb 13y ago
But then how do you cut and paste? Ctrl-Z, X, C, V are going to be hard to reach if you're mousing with your left hand.
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by anthonyb 13y ago
I disagree. There's a fairly large incentive for the US military / intelligence and its supporters to demonstrate that the leaks have killed people, or otherwise caused damage. If there were casualties, wouldn't we have heard
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by anthonyb 13y ago
So you're fighting melodrama with more melodrama? Well done .
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by anthonyb 13y ago
Politicking? I would see that as a good thing, and part of a healthy negotiation about issues, eg. transparency in government, the environment or civil rights. Compare that to the first-past-the-post systems of the UK and US, where there ar
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by anthonyb 13y ago
It's not really a labyrinth, and in this case it sounds like someone's subverted the democratic process, ie. they voted one way, but whoever sent the preferences to the Electoral Commission switched them over. As far as the Austra
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by anthonyb 13y ago
Well, this is the first I've heard of Patch, so I went and had a look at http://www.patch.com/ ... Er, is this supposed to be a news site? There's not a lot of actual news, but I can go and see what's happeni

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