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by chillacy 6y ago
If it helps I found the addictive driver of factorio to be very different than MMOs. It's more like the feeling of cleaning and refactoring code, but more enjoying than frustrating. Hard to explain but their game design is quite good.
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by chillacy 6y ago
Yup, not unlike how actual factories operate apparently. It's also a never ending process because once you unblock one bottleneck, a new one is revealed somewhere else. That the primary challenge in the game is an emergent phenomenon o
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by chillacy 6y ago
Yup, Factorio is addictive in the same way that reaching flow (the psychological state) is addictive. It's a game to experience the joy of problem solving.
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by chillacy 6y ago
I got into playing Mindustry on plane rides sometime last year and it has the amazing ability to make a 5 hour cross continental flight go by in an instant.
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by chillacy 6y ago
The mainstream view in America has been that political liberalization necessarily means "one person one vote democracy". Most can see China's economic progress, but early on there was hope that economic progress would lead to
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by chillacy 6y ago
The video also uses the word "monopoly", which plays right into the current anti-trust sentiment. Now's the best time to pull something like this. If I had to guess, Fortnite players probably drive a lot of demand for iPod To
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by chillacy 6y ago
Yup, and social liberalization has followed economic success for SK and Taiwan. A lot of people thought it would happen to China as well but it's been resistant. I find OP's assertion a bit comical because trying to tie governance
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by chillacy 6y ago
Each city has completely different job markets. Even within the same country, salaries aren't even level (as is the case between different US cities).
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by chillacy 6y ago
I recall reading that. It's all very true, but it also glosses over the fact that some people acquire money through regulatory capture, violent crime, inheritance, etc, etc. I think capitalism is the best system we have, but Atlas Shru
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by chillacy 6y ago
> Be kind. Don't be snarky. > Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by chillacy 6y ago
Promoted, celebrated, and continued to be fought for. If you tautologically define "freedom of speech" as the compromise we have in the US, then that's true that we "have freedom of speech", but if you think at an o
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by chillacy 6y ago
I know enough not to do seek it out anymore but I will admit that some of the better conspiracy videos on youtube are pretty convincing if only because they take advantage of how your brain (system 1) decides truth. A lot of political docum
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by chillacy 6y ago
I don't understand, if you actually assume that ID screening is actually 100% useless (in reality it probably has some reduction), you wouldn't screen at all yes. If you disagree with the premise that ID screening is 100% useless,
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by chillacy 6y ago
> Especially considering the buyer has no other choice if they want to buy that inventory. Its not like you are purchasing a product at market. You're buying from the only supplier. Okay but that's because a specific ad placeme
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by chillacy 6y ago
I definitely agree with you on this issue, but want to point out that "free choice" can lead to suboptimal outcomes. Here's an excerpt by Singer: > Suppose I live in the suburbs and work in the city. I could drive my car t
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by chillacy 6y ago
In case someone actually wants to read Atlas Shrugged, I did actually read it. It's a fictional world where the strawmen business people are happen to always be good and moral, and are oppressed by the strawman government people who ar
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by chillacy 6y ago
I thought the prices of clicks are determined by auction? So if it's $50 a click it's because your competitors find they can still make money paying that much. Most categories have PPCs in the sub $1.00 range last I checked.
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by chillacy 6y ago
Depends how paranoid you want to be, and to what degree of certainty (after all it's impossible to prove a negative). But in general, backdoors for "the good guys" are just more surface area for "the bad guys", and
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by chillacy 6y ago
I found that the moral ambiguity only ratcheted up over time. In 3rd grade it was peaceful pilgrims co-existing with the natives. In 9th grade it was the trail of tears and Vietnam. In college it was "the sons of liberty were terrorist
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by chillacy 6y ago
Your own government also has more tools to use against you. You'll pass through your own border more frequently, you're more available to be arrested, harassed by LE, etc. How about as a lover of liberty, _nobody_ snoops on our da
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by chillacy 6y ago
I think the parent commenter's point is that making laws based on objective rules would make it more future-proof. Laws once passed usually stay for a long time. Huawei wasn't a big deal 15 years ago. 15 years from now someone els
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by chillacy 6y ago
That was their loss. If China does something, does the US have to follow? As it is, this just makes it seem like China was right this whole time and the US ideals of an open internet were a failure.
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by chillacy 6y ago
Out of curiosity I dug up some of the research, at least as of 6 months ago (haven't found anything more recent) it's fair to say that overall APAC leans towards "unfavorable" in its attitude towards China. Favorability
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by chillacy 6y ago
US attitudes towards China are at all time lows [1]. It doesn't seem as bad as the 1960's and the USSR, but I'm fearing that the rhetoric continues to get more polarizing until we're at "better dead than red".
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by chillacy 6y ago
> Iraq could be harboring weapons of mass destruction Too many of these articles feel like they're part of creating manufactured consent. It's all too common in the history of the US, and sadly works every time.
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by chillacy 6y ago
When you say "can", do you mean in the sense of "is it possible for the average homo sapiens..." or "is it the case today in America that..."? I think it's yes to the former and no to the later. I don&#x27
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by chillacy 6y ago
> why is the creator not entitled to protect it as an asset for as long as people value it? That masks the fact that IP laws are a form of regulatory capture. The original deal was to gain exclusive ownership _for a limited time_ at the
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by chillacy 6y ago
> Not really off tangent, > I just can't understand why... HN just can't keep the discussion related to the submission? I personally enjoy meta conversations but I hope OP realizes the irony of this comment.
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by chillacy 6y ago
Worth noting that plenty of democracies aren't as dysfunctional as the US and have more than 2 viable political parties.
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by chillacy 6y ago
I wonder to what extent it's just new people joining the internet, where late-adopters are more likely to be more risk-averse by nature. US Internet penetration was only 50% in 2000, now up to 78%: https://www.statista.com&#

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