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by bduerst 5y ago
Most big box retailers lease store space (by the sq ft) to OEMs now, instead of buying and distributing the goods themselves. Much less liability for the retailer, and puts the onus for sales on the manufacturer. I would be surprised if Am
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by bduerst 5y ago
>How would it make licensing easier? If you have a platform that artists allow purchasing of their music through, you can extend it to allow customers to sell/license songs in their games (developer) or buy snippets of song in Fortn
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by bduerst 5y ago
Usually I just got to Adobe kuler to find color schemes for projects: https://color.adobe.com/explore But this project creates some pretty good ones on the fly. I'd be interested in knowing what features of colors it&
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by bduerst 5y ago
Yeah, this is just Epic blurring the lines between video games and music content as it moves to become more of a media company. It's also an easy way to to procure licensing to sell music content in games. I'd be interested to kn
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by bduerst 5y ago
So you're creating user records every meeting in a spreadsheet to get around having user records?
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by bduerst 5y ago
>Sure, but then the student who shares their interactive class URL ( w/ or w/o password ) on 4chan still isn't accounted for. Emphasis added. You could create user-specific passwords, but that would require... users.
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by bduerst 5y ago
The individual share links would be linked to what exactly? A non-user object with the student's name and email address?
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My original question is: >How do you solve problems arising from bad actors without an object representing the user? In response to the argument that user objects are no longer needed, even for something like virtual meetings. The scena
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Trade and economic sanctions each chip away at the Russian oligarchy, who Putin does listen to. "Stops bombs" isn't the minimum bar for behavior affecting change.
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You are arguing against international trade and economic sanctions though, by saying it inconveniences Russian citizens while ignoring the Ukrainian citizens who are being killed. Officially removing your business from Russia is a form of
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by bduerst 5y ago
Yes it's true the Russian regime is not a representative democracy, but it is an oligarchy. International trade and economic sanctions hits the wealthy elite and is effective at influencing change. It's unfortunate that this incon
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by bduerst 5y ago
But his government is directly killing innocent people in Ukraine right now, which is worse. Different times call for different measures of protest, albeit these two people still share the same goals against the same aggressor.
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>Unlike you, I've been protesting the regime for several years, putting my health and well-being at risk If you've been protesting your regime for years, why don't you also understand their protest? It seems like you are b
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by bduerst 5y ago
IIRC Zach was only temporarily involved but I could not be remember it right.
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by bduerst 5y ago
Yeah, Amazon's seems to be based off of customer purchase history and some tagged metadata, but almost always just ends up recommending the most popular book by sales (which are not necessarily the best). Short of some infeasible brute
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by bduerst 5y ago
As a potential power user of your platform, let me just say I really hope you solve the book recommendations problem, agnostic of sales or other influence. I spent almost as much time hunting for new books/authors as I do actually rea
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by bduerst 5y ago
This is probably (partially) attributable to the IKEA-effect [1], where people perceive better quality in the things that they partially create. Also one of the joys of cooking is that you are experiencing the immediate fruits your own labo
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by bduerst 5y ago
> How do you prevent others from sharing URLs with bad actors? Sure, but then the student who shares their interactive class URL (w/ or w/o password) on 4chan still isn't accounted for.
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by bduerst 5y ago
Given we can make certain plastics from renewable resources, recycle them, or even compost them, I'd lean better, but I also think we're on a trajectory to people preferring 'micro-plastic free' diets.
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by bduerst 5y ago
How do you share a URL without a user representation to share with? How do you prevent others from sharing URLs with bad actors? Or meeting passwords? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoombombing
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by bduerst 5y ago
The article gives specific examples like virtual meeting software that doesn't have users, just URLs. It's more than that.
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by bduerst 5y ago
How do you solve problems arising from bad actors without an object representing the user?
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by bduerst 5y ago
John Wesley Hyatt - Plastic The guy was trying to make ivory-free pool balls and discovered something that changed the future.
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by bduerst 5y ago
Dwarf Fortress by Tarn Adams Also worth noting, Chris Sawyer wrote the original Roller Coaster Tycoon code directly in Assembly. It's probably one of the reasons the simulation game worked so well on earlier systems.
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by bduerst 5y ago
There's a difference between a dietary supplement being overhyped, and it actively causing harm. Unknowns != Linolenic acid is harmful; and from this study it's at least obvious that it doesn't change genetic expression in th
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by bduerst 5y ago
Then help me understand how my comment is gaslighting? Do you mean wikipedia is wrong? Or maybe you can finally answer why sanctions made things worse?
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*Cacao butter diet. Not the delightful as the candy bars but still just as possible.
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IIRC, that was more from the fact that coconut oil has zero linolenic acid, which is an essential metabolite. Coconut oil is still a huge calorie source for livestock, just that it's also mixed with soybean oil. Basically, any combina
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If there are effects of linolenic acid on mammalian torpor, then the second sentence is still true. Life science is based on observational evidence, and since humans are some mammals who have never been observed to undergo torpor, effects o
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by bduerst 5y ago
The Magnitsky legislation was a global sanctions response to human rights violations in Russia[1], not the Russian occupation of Crimea. The point is that they are a prime example of how economic sanctions are effective, especially against

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