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by bryans 5y ago
Again, just because people use the technique, doesn't make it the best or even most appropriate method. It is incredibly inefficient and no technology can make it more efficient, because it is limited by the laws of physics -- which yo
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by bryans 5y ago
You're proposing nothing but hypotheticals based on what a utility SHOULD care about as opposed to what they ACTUALLY do. And it's an exhausting amount of mental gymnastics. As for my father's invention, the reason it didn&#x
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by bryans 5y ago
How exactly am I being unnecessarily confrontational? The OC constructed an entire argument based around something I never said. That is called gaslighting and is the very definition of confrontational, and I have every right to defend myse
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by bryans 5y ago
You seem to be suggesting that removing the aggressive fundraising from the equation automatically means the revenue goes to $0, and the organization runs out of reserves in one or two years -- except that's not how anything works, and
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by bryans 5y ago
Give me a break, Walter. I explain that you're viewing this from within a bubble, and your response is to insist that you're not in a bubble because you, personally, haven't lived somewhere without fixed rates? That's th
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by bryans 5y ago
I never purported that fossil fuels are a good thing. In fact, I never mentioned them at all and was only discussing the concept of "ideas being cheap." Honestly, it's rather troll-ish and shameful that you've concocted
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by bryans 5y ago
Walter, the things you're saying are patently untrue. Many, many countries and municipalities do not have fixed pricing, so you're looking at this from inside a personal bubble, which does not reflect reality for the rest of the w
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by bryans 5y ago
Try not to get suckered into the notion that all ideas are cheap. Bad ideas are cheap and come from a place of either arrogance or ignorance. Great ideas are not cheap, as they typically come from folks who expended the required effort to b
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by bryans 5y ago
Except you've almost exclusively sown distrust and treated this community like we're incompetent. It's beyond disturbing that you believe it's appropriate to gaslight the entire startup community during your product anno
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by bryans 5y ago
The OP even admitted he hasn't given any thought to monetization, which almost certainly means that this is another dime-a-dozen startup with a built-in exit strategy. The fact that his primary value proposition is that You isn't
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by bryans 5y ago
Spot on! The OP appears to be so obsessed with taking down a monopoly that he forgot to make a good product, or a good onboarding experience, or to just be a respectable human when interacting with others. He came here to convince the start
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by bryans 5y ago
That is incredibly dismissive of legitimate feedback, and you should honestly be ashamed of your response. I personally find your attitude in these comments to be absolutely reprehensible, and will never use this site -- or anything you&#x2
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by bryans 5y ago
We're really just a couple steps past the Virtual Boy, and that was 25 years ago.
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by bryans 5y ago
Except the organization already has liquid assets nearing twice its annual expenses, on top of the endowment, and >20% of the revenue is simply redirected to other organizations. It's also a little ridiculous to suggest that the inf
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by bryans 5y ago
> “This comcast outage is a great reminder of why it's still important to download and own physical copies of music, movies, etc.,” @krakinov tweeted. This is a bizarrely overdramatic response to one provider being down for an hour,
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by bryans 5y ago
> Yeah, I do. This is all we need to know about you. Everything you've said comes from a place of extreme arrogance, while also possessing an immense ignorance on so many subjects. I'm done engaging with your psychopathy.
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by bryans 5y ago
It goes far beyond people asking them to do it. They are extremely proactive about their censorship, and most of the time they have zero justification for it. For one example of many, they permanently banned an autistic live streamer for as
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by bryans 5y ago
A sweeping generalization can't be made with one word -- there has to be some context which applies that generalization to the totality of the overall subject. Unfortunately, neither of the words you capitalized are absolutes or sweepi
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by bryans 5y ago
I appreciate the clarification, and I do think we're pretty much on the same page. There is definitely an overall responsibility to be a more-helpful-than-harmful member of society, and particularly when it comes to something like a ca
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by bryans 5y ago
You're twisting my words. I never suggested that nobody should care about addiction, nor that severe opioid addiction (how'd we even get there?) is purely a matter of personal responsibility. In fact, the whole "line" co
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by bryans 5y ago
As a current target of malicious censorship and threats by the admins, I'd have to agree that anyone from the original team would be horrified by what's happening at Reddit right now. Being directly and abusively gaslit by a billi
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by bryans 5y ago
I really wish y'all would stop with the absolutes and sweeping generalizations. It's truly exhausting. None of the games or categories I listed are any more clear or deceptive about their mechanisms than any other game. I listed i
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by bryans 5y ago
Yours is the only reply that didn't use absolutes to describe human behavior, and I genuinely appreciate that. I agree that there are situations where a similarly-structured playing field becomes important to the main function of the g
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by bryans 5y ago
That's a slippery slope argument, at best. Every single video game is designed to be addictive to some degree, much in the same way that every chef is attempting to create recipes that bring people back into their restaurant. What you&
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by bryans 5y ago
I hear you, but like the OP, your argument is still based entirely around absolutes, and is rather dismissive of the vast spectrum of human behavior. Just because some people get lost in the addictive mechanisms of a game, doesn't mean
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by bryans 5y ago
Every single business in every single industry is based around developing products that make as much money as possible. They even have meetings about it.
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by bryans 5y ago
I literally said none of those things, or even suggested them, so now you're just making up arguments for the purpose of repeating the exact same flawed claim -- and yet, somehow I'm the one who can't entertain a possibility?
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by bryans 5y ago
Again, you're asserting your personal preferences as universal fact and using absolutes to describe human behavior, which makes this less of a conversation and more of a series of opportunities for you to repeat the same claims. You do
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by bryans 5y ago
No, the original commenter repeatedly used absolutes to make a baseless claim that a game is automatically bad if it includes any functionality that they, personally, perceive as a "boring and repetitive, but effective strategy."
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How can it be exploitative and disrespectful if the person is enjoying it? You're projecting your own preferences on others, and insisting that anyone who doesn't fall into that arbitrary category is either "wrong" or be

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