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by ascar 5y ago
I mean I don't disagree with your reasoning, but the economic viability was brought up as an argument against legislation forcing them to do it. So in that context it's certainly about affordability.
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by ascar 5y ago
I think that's a classic case of reading between the lines and making implications where one shouldn't. If I'm using words that state uncertainty, it is because I am not certain, but only say it is a possibility. A research r
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by ascar 5y ago
> but then it might not be economically viable at their scale either. Google has a net income of well over 20% of revenue in their last quarterly earnings, even over 30% last March. This is ridiculously profitable. So I don't buy th
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by ascar 5y ago
This reads a bit like deliberately aiming for Parkinson's law. "Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion." However, I agree to some extent. I'm especially opposed to the concept that there should
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by ascar 5y ago
> That device is SO much more engaging and approachable for kids than trying to teach them to use a controller. I dunno. I had the original kinect for the Xbox 360 and the controls were wonky. A controller might be weird for a few hours
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by ascar 5y ago
I'm not sure what can be done here. Having had a very close relative (as close as it gets, but I don't wanna associate anything precise publicly) being an alcoholic for decades, watching them succumb, degenerate and eventually die
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by ascar 5y ago
I wanna add my own story below my comment as it's justvtangential to my point and the question. I maintain a couple open source projects and one of them solved a business need for my employer back then. I asked permission and got clear
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by ascar 5y ago
The best motivation is a need for yourself or your job. If you're using open source and inevitably find bugs or missing features start with opening good and thorough issues for them. That's already a (minor) contribution that is m
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by ascar 5y ago
I do the same. Most people really don't expect it, that's how uncommon that is. When I signed a work contract at an university it was filled with legal text and obligations, mostly in regards to expected work ethics. Nothing actua
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by ascar 5y ago
Man your attitude is really unwarranted. Not the kind of comments and discourse one likes to have here. I provided anecdotal evidence (which I added because the tone of your comment provoked me to give evidence that I actually do have some
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by ascar 5y ago
Well, I have lived for 6 months in the Kansai region and also had a very nice guest family that I met at least every second weekend, also multiple times in their house. They certainly didn't have beds and the futon they used definitely
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by ascar 5y ago
Her being Japanese and being used to sleeping essentially on the floor certainly helped. Pretty sure the result would have been different for us westerners being used to sleep in soft beds. Couldn't help but laugh out loud when seeing
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by ascar 5y ago
I was talking about skipping Margit (which is boss 1) and all bosses after. But at the capital after the Dectus lift you will get blocked. I don't wanna spoil too much, but that's basically as far as you can go without killing any
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by ascar 5y ago
You can actually progress until the main capital without killing a single enemy. Like 70% of the games world. I started as a Wretch and arrived completely under leveled and without gear at the first boss, which felt nearly impossible to bea
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by ascar 5y ago
Posted further down in another comment this seems to be the full interview: https://www.giantbomb.com/profile/7force/blog/dark-souls-des... However, the translation differs a bit (e.g. zombie instead of undea
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by ascar 5y ago
we have chess clubs in pretty much every village here in Germany. My ~10000 people birthplace had one. Doesn't make chess hugely popular tho. It's still a niche activity and I would argue that interest is the dmoniating factor her
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by ascar 5y ago
> Sure, but we don't make judgements on individual data points. And yet here you are making a judgement on the effectiveness of a method of education purely based on the single datapoint chess. But leaving the hypocrisy aside, I don
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by ascar 5y ago
I don't see the author addressing most obvious criticism. There is no definition of genius. He mentions a lack of ideas, but doesn't talk about the effect that every field is much more specialized. You won't make advances in
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by ascar 5y ago
> Also unlike being a celebrity you may get some fame but rarely any fortune I know this isn't your main point, but afaik most low-level celebrities barely make money from it either. So it's actually even more similar than you
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by ascar 5y ago
Rarely happens with its for me, but to/two/too, where/there and most annoyingly know/now are common ones.
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by ascar 5y ago
This is just awesome. Combining Pokemon art with Super Mario music is also an interesting choice that gave my brain a slight feeling of cognitive dissonance xD
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by ascar 5y ago
Yea I know it exists, it was just really rare from my limited shopping experience. I have used induction a couple of times when cooking at my parents house and in a friends kitchen and I happily stay with my ceramic cooktop. Induction is mu
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by ascar 5y ago
My ceramic cooktop is basically stain and scratchfree after using it for cooking 4-5 times a week for 8 years. It's incredibly easy to clean as you can literally scratch of everything that doesn't just wipe away. The temperature d
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by ascar 5y ago
As a fellow German I didn't go induction on purpose, because I prefer the ceramic hob cooking experience. "Pans cannot be used" wasn't part of the decision. Having "control nobs" on the front rather than a touc
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by ascar 5y ago
> That has nothing to with the choice of language That is exactly my point. Localization isn't about choice of language and thus the choice of words of GP was wrong. He was talking about language, translation or internationalization
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by ascar 5y ago
Well, your example will be in many cases against the law. Netflix isn't allowed to let me choose which countries catalogue I want to watch. A website isn't allowed to choose which VAT to charge and who they owe it to. In an Arabic
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by ascar 5y ago
In general I totally agree with your sentiment. As you seem quite knowledgeable in the subject I want to nitpick your choice of words in your closing statement. > any company that uses geo-IP location to serve me pages specific to that l
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by ascar 5y ago
> outside of Xbox play anywhere it’s the first time players don’t have to repurchase a game in order to play it on a portable device. I agree that's a nice perk and I also regularly pay more to have my games in Steam rather than som
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by ascar 5y ago
Well that's why I said "or". I'm honestly not sure, I never tried to play them while not having a subscription. The subscription at 20€/year is much cheaper than what Microsoft or Playstation are offering though. Ed
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by ascar 5y ago
I have to disagree hard on this. Nintendo was on the forefront of making old games playable on the new hardware. On the switch you can play many old SNES and N64 classics included in the Nintendo online subscription at ~2-4€ a month. They r

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