crystalis

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by crystalis 16y ago
I see this happening in more and more articles, e.g., the Ask HN nutrition post that asked for more scientific versions of 'Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.' and received highly upvoted comments like 'Eat food. Not too much. Mostly pl
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by crystalis 16y ago
You claim you try to make "substantive contributions", [ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1582396 ] but really, I'm not sure I'm seeing it.
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by crystalis 16y ago
I'm pretty sure your post was downvoted because of your immature tone and your downright ridiculous arguments - Starcraft II "innovative"? Ha! You're right though, that it is sometimes like high school, with the unsubstantiated arguments th
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by crystalis 16y ago
Some companies have done the unthinkable and actually run some numbers... Eliminating 1,000 pirated copies tended to result in 1 additional sale. You turn 10,000 copies into 1,009. http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=1735
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by crystalis 16y ago
Well, considering that their infrastructure also prevents you from hosting a game on your LAN or even playing it in an entirely singleplayer mode...
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by crystalis 16y ago
I was in grade school, cut me some slack :)
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by crystalis 16y ago
Without venturing a personal opinion on affairs, there seem to be a few popular beliefs in certain people (e.g., Bruce Ivins, David Kelly, DC Madam, Hunter S Thompson) being suicided.
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by crystalis 16y ago
There's a good set of articles available at http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Politics_is_the_Mind-Killer on the topic. http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Arguments_as_soldiers is also often relevant. edit: I don't know if I was downvoted for
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by crystalis 16y ago
This seems to read like http://www.recombinantrecords.net/docs/2009-05-Amusing-Ourse... and its source- is there anything new here? (That is, other than the suggestion that the best way to combat large-scale industrial waste is through pe
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by crystalis 16y ago
Yes. This isn't reddit. Please provide some rationale for your namecalling, but preferably please just stay at home.
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by crystalis 16y ago
I hate doing this, but I have to ask- what did I do to get downvoted? This post is a factual correction of his false dichotomy, and even if I show some of my ideology (i.e., that free indie games have actually done a lot more for ludology t
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by crystalis 16y ago
"And pirating PC games is wrong because, were it not for that minority of worthy souls who actually chip in, the industry that makes the games we love would descend into a shadow realm of tiny ad-supported Flash games and Farmville." How do
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by crystalis 16y ago
You might want to know about these things before disagreeing so vehemently: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1492920
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by crystalis 16y ago
Duke Nukem Forever had a longer development time, but a sadder ending. Team Fortress 2 from Valve had a similar development time and has had over a hundred patches since release, in addition to a fair amount of media developed outside of th
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by crystalis 16y ago
> Indeed, I'll go so far as to suggest that no registered user, yet, has ever played in any Superbowl. What about Peter Norvig? http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pnorvig
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by crystalis 16y ago
Sometimes I'm amazed by what people are willing to put their name to.
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by crystalis 16y ago
The old spice container I have shows no aluminum in the ingredients list... care to revise or elucidate?
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by crystalis 16y ago
That that that that offers a nice example too.
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by crystalis 16y ago
Interior design has even taken up this torch! "Every decision an interior designer makes in one way or another affects the health, safety and welfare of the public. Those decisions include specifying furniture, fabrics and carpeting that c
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by crystalis 16y ago
"I'd assume my conclusion any day over considering that maybe my hero isn't also the best hero of all."
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by crystalis 16y ago
> This is fine, except for when it is abused and cited to stop progress. This is a more reasonable stance than the blanket 'radiation regulation is silly', but I hesitate to award it too many points - it's hardly a big step to say you'r
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by crystalis 16y ago
Consider if we'd only ever seen one person jump from a building, but it was from 10,000 feet. (Consider, also, that some might not find 'fall distance' a reasonable analog to radiation relative to other options like 'head trauma induced by
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by crystalis 16y ago
Why are you being upvoted? From your link: "The equivalent dose for 365 bananas (one per day for a year) is 3.6 millirems (36 μSv)." 500 bananas is 5 millirems. Try 500k.
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by crystalis 16y ago
Wait, you mean this was a serious comment? Not a comedy routine?
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by crystalis 16y ago
Isn't marketing about getting your product in the customer's hands? Your product should be able to handle it from there.
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by crystalis 16y ago
Care to point out the fight? I'm not seeing it.
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by crystalis 16y ago
Where did you point out that you prefer the one unit game? Essentially everything you put in this second comment is absent from the first- it's in your head, but not anyone else's until you say it. Anyone who knows what Dota is will know wh
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by crystalis 16y ago
You just compared a one unit game to an entire army.
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Hold off on proposing solutions(lesswrong.com)
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by crystalis 16y ago
Paul Erdos, the peripatetic mathematician.

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