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by drawkbox 5y ago
The whole mission of Coinbase is legitimizing cryptocurrency when you break it down. They are like Windows 95 to the internet, it is how many people will use the market. People also asking why a company would go to the public stock market
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Still blown away that he was basically just putting the funds in a Chase bank account and not even investing it. > In a 2013 email to CNBC from prison, Madoff claimed the break in the market that started the Great Recession led to his s
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by drawkbox 6y ago
The value creators (engineering/programming/creative/design/product) people have been pushed aside for the value extractors (finance/managers/marketing/oversight) and now the extractors are creating the pr
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Nightcrawler is also about this. Both excellent movies and observations of what drives content that gets attention. Both were about TV, with the internet, this is even more of a competition since it is worldwide so they push to the extre
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Social media "vacations" are a good idea, "engagecations" or "disengagecations". Another comment mentioned in this thread is "enragement is engagement" and really that is true with most algorithms. Th
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Doomscrolling caused by "engagement" metrics. When engagement is all that matters, the most engagement comes when people are divisive, mad/angry or even pushed to extremes. When you feel yourself getting bothered, angry and y
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The Constitution and Amendments though typically only work when they expand rights/freedoms rather than contract rights/freedoms. A good example is the 18th Amendment [1] which was drug prohibition of alcohol in 1920 which wa
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Additionally, California is one of the only states that doesn't recognize non-competes [1], that is key for innovation and competitors coming up including small/medium competitors. This part is always overlooked. > A few state
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What is really interesting to me is to train the game models from the existing player base. This is fairly common but more simulation replaying in networked games with fake bots based on that gameplay. Previously I have done similar in netw
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Now the mixtape is a playlist. The art and writing the list is missing though, might be a product there.
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"Father, the sleeper has awakened!"
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Here's my Mr. Brightside view of it, there is a Black Mirror-esque side as well as some humans build towards utopias and some build toward dystopias. I look at the quality of life and good side of things where I can. I agree with most
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Short term view NFTs look like a scam or a joke. Long term view we will need digital ownership especially when it comes to content or individual data/items. When the augmented reality spectacle takes over and everyone is looking throug
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I agree and like your style. Messaging is ideal for decoupling, sending/receiving data and it makes networking parts of the game much easier. Every game engine or system I use I set it up this way. I always make my components or entiti
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Youtube early days were similar to TikTok or any new platform, there are now just regular people doing creative things. As more and more videos are added, more businesses start to participate and more video depth/detail is added, then
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Google Movies and Disney+ can be watched on their app though. They are still "reader" apps. Buying/renting you can go via their site and I bet they prefer that for at least Google. They get all that customer info and no cut n
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Exactly, there are "Reader" apps that Apple has at 15%, these are video platforms, books and more which Amazon falls under. Amazon Prime Video, Netflix, Dropbox, Audible, Spotify and others also fall under this category. All of th
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From this article[1] it seems that nearly every game ever used something similar that has any procedural leveling at all. > How the system operates is a bit complex. The game provides a variety of enemy tribes, and each tribe has a lead
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by drawkbox 6y ago
Wikipedia and Archive.org are doing what the internet was made for at least on the history side of things, but also culture, information and education. If you can, donate.
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Shadow of Mordor Nemesis System Patent Unfortunately Approved for WB Games(screenrant.com)
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Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover Landing This Month(mars.nasa.gov)
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I was just saying to people interested in games, it is good to get a base level to advanced guide to every part including rendering, networking, gameplay etc that is a good source built from experience and explains things clearly. Yours lo
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When you get to game networking Gaffer On Games is a must read. Efficient game networking layers are all about that UDP [2] and reliable UDP [3]. When web games were huge it would have been pure gold to have WebRTC with built in UDP, NAT&#x
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Maybe this is an attempt to force that change to be faster? It really should be faster today, clearing sped up. The lag for bank account transactions makes sense to wait to make sure money is there and no fraud. However, once money is in an
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Coinbase customers aren't just the consumers, but the investors that expected a market entry for return. They are adding more of those customers as well. Cryptocurrency is more an alternative to banking, Coinbase is like a bank but mor
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Indeed. Hedge funds by nature skim from volatility. When they hold short positions they have "partners" that short and distort. Everything is astroturfing/selling pretty much nowadays. Social media is not reality, though ast
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... with a dash of flash mob and viral marketing.
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What a great write up and very open and honest. The timeline format is amazingly clean and I am a sucker for timelines. I think the product is great and the name bannerbear really is memorable. I think that is a major key along with a grea
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Search is not as reliable anymore because everything is locked up in an app, walled garden or javascript monstrosity now. The major players like it that way and marketing/business/finance people seem to only care about the data yo
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I hear you on land and population. There is also climate changes, limitations to fertile soil and many other things. As I mentioned in my edited comment above, most large farms are cattle ranches or livestock that need massive amounts of la

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