banannaise

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by banannaise 7mo ago
The best way to protect children is to educate them to protect themselves, but that argument generally falls on deaf ears, doubly so when there's an opportunity to use "but the children" as a political cudgel.
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by banannaise 8mo ago
I've seen a couple roguelike developers report that they played around with procedural generation, but it was difficult to prevent it from creating dungeons that were bad, unfun, or just straight-up killscreens. Turns out it's oft
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by banannaise 8mo ago
You have not read far enough.
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by banannaise 8mo ago
Yes, the mathematical assumptions are a bit suspect. Keep reading. It will make sense later.
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by banannaise 9mo ago
> Advice: If you want better results from Indian engineers(or designers or anyone else really), especially juniors (speaking as of now, things might change in near future), try to reduce the "authority" gap early on. Make it cl
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by banannaise 9mo ago
> The market then becomes a voting machine for the public to decide if they think the person will succeed or not. Which would be great, if the mechanism and prize for "voting" were something other than people's basic means
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by banannaise 9mo ago
The house isn't a player. They offer the game for players to play. That is a fundamentally different role. Saying that the house is playing the game against you is equivalent to saying that Nintendo is playing Super Mario Bros against
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by banannaise 9mo ago
Talking about "traditional" sports gambling rather than prediction markets: how do we account for the heavy restrictions they place on "sharps" (consistent winners)? If a game can be won through application of skill, but
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by banannaise 9mo ago
"Blocking traffic" is at this point a tired trope. Any sort of disruptive action is described as "blocking traffic", which is somehow framed as a form of violence. (My favorite version is when people argue that it is a f
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by banannaise 9mo ago
I'm beginning to strongly suspect that many foods are being engineered not to leave you satisfied but to leave you so close to satisfied. I never feel like I just got the perfect bite. My brain wants one more, chasing that perfect bi
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by banannaise 9mo ago
This is why I said "direct". This is an indirect financial incentive, and there are other indirect financial incentives at play here (as others have noted).
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by banannaise 9mo ago
Don't punish the behavior you want to see. Would we rather they defaulted there? Sure. But it's arguably an even better signal to see that they're willing to listen to their customers even when there is no direct financial in
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by banannaise 10mo ago
The turn-based version sounds interesting, but I think it falls on its face in practice. The game then becomes: 1. lure the horse to an optimal point on the map. 2. trap it in a small circle of fences. 3. build part of your final wall with
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by banannaise 10mo ago
Public interest stories are left-leaning only in that they tend to oppose the wielders of centralized power, and centralized power is generally a right-leaning construct.
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by banannaise 10mo ago
Not only does the bad tutorial have an in-universe justification; the ways in which it is bad are actually significant to the worldbuilding in multiple ways. The missing information also encourages positive interactions among the community
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by banannaise 1y ago
> I think there's a massive difference between card packs - which have been as you describe for decades - and the recent boom in sports betting. There is, until there isn't. MTG has been leaning drastically into tiered and ultr
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by banannaise 1y ago
Alternatively: ban the instant-gratification bets. No bets on the outcomes of partial games: one pitch, one at-bat, one inning or quarter or half. If you want to get extreme with it, scorelines only (points, moneyline, over/under).
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by banannaise 1y ago
> whereas gambling taxes disinventivize gambling. Do they, though? The vig is 10%, very transparently shown in the odds, and paid immediately. It proves very little disincentive. The tax is paid annually and only if you win; for most peo
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by banannaise 1y ago
Camus strikes again.
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by banannaise 1y ago
Bronze-die pasta has an obvious and substantial textural difference from teflon-die pasta. The stickiness of the bronze requires more force from the extruder, but results in a rougher surface on the pasta, because it literally sticks to the
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by banannaise 1y ago
Sure, it would make it cheaper. Would that result in these companies employing more doctors to perform the same amount of care at higher quality, or would it result in them retaining the standard of care they're currently providing whi
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by banannaise 1y ago
Having a number doesn't make the number a good measure. If all I have is a yardstick, and I'm trying to measure weight, then I would probably be much better served using a qualitative method than by trying to use the yardstick.
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by banannaise 1y ago
Rephrased: Any artistic direction done in the interest of creating or increasing profits is overwhelmingly likely to be tasteless. I don't think that's particularly controversial. Profitability doesn't imply tastelessness, bu
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by banannaise 1y ago
As with many "tech innovations" in the transportation space, this rapidly turns into reinventing the bus. #3 in particular is just "the bus, but more frequent" which you can do by simply increasing bus frequency dramatic
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by banannaise 1y ago
I understand the article's emphasis on exercising good judgment around release timing, but read-only Fridays are not there for the people who generally exercise good judgment. If you are the sort of person/team that is likely to d
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by banannaise 1y ago
why doesn't every MLB team just go get Ohtani
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by banannaise 1y ago
Ideally, it ends with Facebook implementing safeguards on data that could be illegal to use, and having a compliance process that rejects attempts to access that data for illegal reasons.
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by banannaise 1y ago
> What do you think this should look like? Institutions that handle sensitive data that is subject to access regulations generally have a compliance process that must be followed prior to accessing and using that data, and a compliance d
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by banannaise 1y ago
Yeah, the article is a good one overall, but the truthering is obnoxious, especially since it hinges on a basic misreading of the original story.
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by banannaise 1y ago
This is the first roadblock the author runs into - lots of universities ping at <2ms, likely because everyone's on the same datacenter.

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