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by arkades 6y ago
I think you may be half-right. I don't recollect the guidance on fleshing out NPCs quickly, so that's definitely something I should revisit. > Or the play style section in chapter 1, which is about how different people play for
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by arkades 6y ago
Oddly enough, I find the DMG advice so specific to the type of gaming that sits in the general category of "D&D-type play" that I find it of pretty minor value in any other game at all. Think of how much value the DMG brings t
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by arkades 6y ago
Video games don't have NPCs in the same way. They have scripts. The key distinction being that the purpose of knowing their wants/fears is to know how they should respond as unforeseen events unfold. Real RPGs have unforeseen even
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by arkades 6y ago
Not the previous poster but: I've tried picking up things a cut above random pop books about marketing and haven't found any depth there. If you have any links to somewhere I can actually do a deep dive on marketing, I'd appr
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by arkades 6y ago
> Why is this a hard thing to do? It’s literally what everyone who ever messes something up is asking you to do. Because you're treating a service-client relationship as an interpersonal relationship. They are not, and the same norm
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by arkades 6y ago
> Given the prevalence of comments like this, I wonder why any company would ever bother offering an apology or retraction. I wonder why anyone would ever place a non-zero value on an apology from an organization acting in its own inter
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by arkades 6y ago
What's the takeout process look like? That is, once I generate a body of useful information but perhaps decide to move on from the service, how do I usefully take it with me? Or is that part of my lock-in?
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by arkades 6y ago
An unpaid internship is done at a place where you expect to either get a job, or because the place and the work you do there is important to your subsequently getting a job or school entrance. E.g., I did a quality improvement internship at
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by arkades 6y ago
> Whenever in therapy it seems that I always try to argue against any advice given You're not unique in that. There are a lot of patients that will fight against advice, tooth and nail. Sadly, we aren't very good at helping tho
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by arkades 6y ago
Exaggeration, colorful metaphor, and feeling miserable enough to say something are all different things, and aren't what we look for. Except that last one, because that last one actually correlates with bad outcomes. You're warnin
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by arkades 6y ago
> Who is this "we" you think you speak for? You may be right about what people are supposed to do, but people, even professional therapists aren't perfect. I can't argue about the variation in quality of practitioners
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by arkades 6y ago
Thank you for giving a real example. I appreciate that - it gives an opportunity to highlight a couple of aspects that people keep obliquely referring to. 1) This didn't end with him going to jail, right? Which is to say, the guy who w
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by arkades 6y ago
I don't think I've ever volunteered for a profit-maximizing private venture. Is that a thing people commonly do in real life? I mean, I've done internships, but the quid-pro-quo there was quite clear.
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by arkades 6y ago
We don't throw anyone in jail for being suicidal. We don't throw people into psych hospitals unless they're at imminent risk of successfully committing suicide - we don't do admits just for suicidal ideation. One of the
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by arkades 6y ago
I mean... FAANGM for programmers is probably a fair comparison to being a SpecOps soldier, right? It's also a cream-of-the-crop type scenario.
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by arkades 6y ago
I can't make any claim to expertise, as I've only known a handful of these folks in the US, but from what I've heard, they don't make pennies. They just make a lot less than what private industry is willing to pay for
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by arkades 6y ago
Of course they have. And when they have, it's almost always because of more nuanced reasons than off-the-cuff random internet posters are privy to.
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The Facts Around Zoom and Encryption for Meetings/Webinars(blog.zoom.us)
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by arkades 6y ago
Nah. Walmart totally makes multi-million dollar business decisions with less diligence and critical analysis than random HN posters. I think of this as the social media Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect. You see comments from folks with zero insight
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by arkades 6y ago
There's a subset of people that would prefer to think that the halls of power are manned by morons, rather than the criminally selfish. I don't know what that says about any of us.
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by arkades 6y ago
Of course they can. Public health agencies' powers derive from founding statutes. A legislative body can always undertake an act of legislation to change the founding statute and, in so doing, change the powers of the public health a
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by arkades 6y ago
Which this wasn't - this was the executive acting in concert with public health officials, which are empowered under a founding public health statute, making their exercise of power one delineated by the legislature . Which is literal
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by arkades 6y ago
You are correct, there is not. I didn't attend to which circuit had issued the landmark-stupid ruling.
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by arkades 6y ago
There's a couple centuries of common law precedent that the government can compel behavior for public health crises. The state supreme court here grossly violated legal precedent, and will have its ass overturned in a heartbeat if anyo
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by arkades 6y ago
My nieces had it explicitly assigned as part of their math homework.
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by arkades 6y ago
All the kids I know of (Jr High / High School) already actively participate in Khan Academy - on some topics at school requirement, on other topics at their own discretion because they're already accustomed to the platform.
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by arkades 6y ago
No one said anything about pressure :)
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by arkades 6y ago
I transitioned to FFox myself. I occasionally have to use Chrome for work, and it's nothing I find myself missing. If Chrome is messing up your day, it's really easy to cut it out.
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by arkades 6y ago
> The Bay Area health officials have formed a cabal to move the entire region in concert The word "cabal" generally has a very sinister undertone. I can't tell if it was intentional here. "Coordination between public
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by arkades 6y ago
> Anecdote: I work a lot with low income people and the vast majority want to be considered essential with the ability to earn. This is because they, like most people, are smart and are able to understand the risk and make decisions for

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