chilldream

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by chilldream 13y ago
Either it stops being optional after some point, or they tricked me into converting vis-a-vis some Dark Pattern (which is if anything even more scummy as far as I'm concerned). My YouTube account is separate from my Gmail account and I
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by chilldream 13y ago
I think the disconnect here is that people don't seem to get that "I voluntarily signed up for a social network" is an important step for a lot of people. It's entirely possible that a lot of people who hate g+ now woul
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by chilldream 13y ago
Facebook has an opt-in mechanism called "signing up for a Facebook account." G+'s equivalent is "signing up for an unrelated service, possibly as long as a decade ago."
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by chilldream 13y ago
Yes, exactly this. I was fine with my Google Account; now I have a Google Social Networking Boondoggle. And the rare times G+ makes a difference in my use of other services, the net effect has been worse (I'm still not over the YouTube
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by chilldream 13y ago
I don't identify with the "social justice" movement for similar reasons, but that doesn't mean racism doesn't exist, and that certainly doesn't mean it's productive to try to remove discussion about raci
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by chilldream 13y ago
> P.S. Just saw that immediately race was brought up. As a tip to anyone who wants to make a difference, people in power will divide you into as many groups as you let them in order to subjugate you. You can simultaneously recognize that
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by chilldream 13y ago
The average person does not make a cost-benefit analysis for things like this because that would require admitting that the question is complicated, or must result in some risk of death. Instead they silently drop the cost half of the equat
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by chilldream 13y ago
Actual threats, stalking, and intimidation do exist. The problem here isn't that threats don't happen, it's that anyone with half a brain can see that this conversation wasn't a serious threat.
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by chilldream 13y ago
I'm 31 and my adult life has been about a 50/50 split between OK and WA. They're not as different as you might think.
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by chilldream 13y ago
> "protecting" games has been a problem, almost literally forever. On the one hand you want folks to benefit from there work, on the other hand sometimes a 'derivative' is a much much better game Despite this argument
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by chilldream 13y ago
Also, reading "obvious" as "obvious to the general public" rather than "obvious to the person I'm speaking to right now: a journalist specifically asking for comment because they already believe it's not a
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by chilldream 13y ago
> Edit: also, the indentation in the first example is obviously just a means of illustrating that whitespace is non-significant with this project. I don't think they're suggesting code ought to be written without correct indent
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by chilldream 13y ago
> Also, isn't your argument re: information asymmetry an argument in favor of F2P? It's an argument that developers and consumers can both be correct to gravitate toward F2P. It's not an argument that this is the happiest
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by chilldream 13y ago
Atheist who grew up in Oklahoma here. The people in this thread who think that the correct tactic is to immediately jump to "Why is your religion better than Mayan creation myths?" are completely clueless. If you ever even met a c
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by chilldream 13y ago
While I think your response is justified in this specific case given the small sample size, I don't think making two "contradictory" complaints is necessarily wrong in this context. If you make a lot of Type I errors, it mi
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by chilldream 13y ago
The difference in your example is that you're trying to catch the same user in the best mood and not filter some users out. People keep saying "this isn't preventing anyone from rating," but that's total nonsense. I
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by chilldream 13y ago
> I actually think it's a great idea for any developer. > With that said, it's obviously not in the end user's best interest I think you mean, "a great idea for developers who don't mind abusing their users&qu
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by chilldream 13y ago
> you seed with something they can predict One of my favorite examples of this ever: Once in Las Vegas a keno machine mistakenly used a fixed seed. Meaning once someone figured this out, he could show up when the game started for the d
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by chilldream 13y ago
The scoring is based on upvotes from other users. This often does translate to the "top answers" being dubious one-liners.
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by chilldream 13y ago
Honest question, why is it bad if a union becomes powerful enough to convince an employer to sign a contract forbidding them to hire non-union employees or fire during a strike? I can think of some answers, but none that can't also b
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by chilldream 13y ago
It depends on which stripe of libertarianism you're talking about, although I'd argue that it's the worst variants that would say "no". It's not a use of force in the strictest sense, but it is an attempt to su
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by chilldream 13y ago
Further coverage: http://photographyisnotacrime.com/?s=dominic+holden I'm posting that link mostly for the name of the blog, to demonstrate that this kind of incident is common enough in the US to have its own blog. Pe
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by chilldream 13y ago
The point is, if a company wants the public to forgive them for terrible outcomes, they should have to give the public the evidence that they deserve forgiveness instead of having random people shill for everything they do on spec . It is
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Gossip By Algorithm(onthemedia.org)
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by chilldream 13y ago
> It's not unlike when I was eight and pumping quarters into Gauntlet in order to reach the next level -- Blue Warrior's health dropped whether or not you were taking damage You certainly could play arcade games that way, but t
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by chilldream 13y ago
There are now enough good games in the universe that I have trouble imagining the person who can legitimately think, "I have too much time, I should play some garbage to fill it."
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by chilldream 13y ago
> All of AA and everyone who's ever quit smoking stand as evidence Have you ever met a "former" addict? Plenty will tell you it's not as simple as that, unless you're using your own novel definition of "ch
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by chilldream 13y ago
> a free-to-play game is a fully functional game I suspect my definition for "fully functional" is different from yours, but I have high standards. > If consumers hated freemium, it wouldn't dominate the app store. Actu
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by chilldream 13y ago
Gaming is actually the most evil possible context for freemium. It encourages bad design at literally every level, in ways that generally do not transfer to other types of software. If freemium were generally just a demo for a better game
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by chilldream 13y ago
You could beat the good arcade games on one credit, and if you were skilled enough to do so it was the best possible experience. Some people still consider it the only "legitimate" way to play those games.

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