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by edavison1 5y ago
I'm sure you know this because you read the article (lol) but the plant was shuttered due to lack of energy demand. So it isn't a question of coal vs. bitcoin, it's a question of beautiful lake frontage vs. bitcoin.
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by edavison1 6y ago
Journalist here. While I love that there's a discussion about burying the lede on HN, the practice you reference is known as a kicker. It's a last thought that is meant to twist, undercut, or add complexity to the narrative thrust
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Is aim assist fair? Pros, streamers, experts and developers can't agree(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by edavison1 6y ago|0 comments
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by edavison1 6y ago
Hi all, Thought the gamers in the HN crowd might be interested in this. I discussed how different TTK's make for very different feels in shooters like Halo and CoD, and how it's usually a bad sign when devs change TTK.
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Why Time to Kill (TTK) in multiplayer games is so important(urscrubb.substack.com)
1 points by edavison1 6y ago|1 comments
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by edavison1 6y ago
Good question. Competitive Apex has struggled to maintain a stable roster of pros who can make a living from it, so for now, financial health and its associated evils (I guess in your view, product promotion, commercialization) are importan
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Netflix promoted its new Charlize Theron movie with a girls-only esports tourney(urscrubb.substack.com)
3 points by edavison1 6y ago|2 comments
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by edavison1 6y ago
I did a little round-up documenting some of the times that Respawn/EA, who make Apex Legends, made payments to streamers. It's a fascinating gray area for me between legitimate payment for marketing and an outright bribe for good
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How Respawn/EA make informal payments to streamers(urscrubb.substack.com)
1 points by edavison1 6y ago|1 comments
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On lag, peeker's advantage, and 128-tick servers in competitive online games(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by edavison1 6y ago|0 comments
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by edavison1 6y ago
Sorry didn't see this! If you read The Economist, it's strongly in favor of free markets, but I personally don't think it's zealous about that stance. It's also strongly pro-regulation and many articles criticize go
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Valorant’s 128-tick servers attract streamers and pros in droves. Here's why(washingtonpost.com)
3 points by edavison1 6y ago|0 comments
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by edavison1 7y ago
Freelance journalist checking in: Current Affairs trashing The Economist is hardly surprising. I'd expect nothing less— as a newer pub you need to differentiate yourself from the marquee names in the field and challenge the more conser
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by edavison1 7y ago
Every organization you listed has fact-checkers, even Fox News, if you can believe it. That doesn't mean they're infallible, but they will all publish retractions when they get the facts wrong. The notion that major news outlets d
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by edavison1 7y ago
Fallout: New Vegas, a bunch of Telltale games, Myst/Riven, dozens of JRPGs (Chrono Trigger/Cross come to mind immediately) with branching endings and characters who survive or die based on player actions. Yeah, games are made all
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NYC's bodegas confront a new, 'revitalized' future(ny.curbed.com)
2 points by edavison1 7y ago|0 comments
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Before Oprah's Book Club, There Was the CIA(theoutline.com)
9 points by edavison1 7y ago|0 comments
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On the VanderMeer's 'Big Book of Classic Fantasy'(lareviewofbooks.org)
2 points by edavison1 7y ago|1 comments
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by edavison1 7y ago
American culture is not the same everywhere—try living in NYC for a few years, walking around for miles every damn day, I think people stay pretty active and healthy here just by virtue of the urban density, even if we drink a lot more.
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by edavison1 7y ago
Unless I'm sorely mistaken, Kanye definitely did not say that——Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote a response in the Atlantic to Kanye's public statements about race and Trump and the headline was 'I'm Not Black, I'm Kanye'
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by edavison1 8y ago
I'm down with the points you made in the first three sections but your last point ("That's who we humans are and it's foolish to think we can change that.") is needlessly cynical. Attitudes toward work have changed
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by edavison1 8y ago
I wouldn't say that Bezos has an obligation to maximize well-being any greater than ours; but as the other comment pointed out, he is uniquely placed to have a much larger impact on large-scale problems. You're absolutely right wh
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by edavison1 8y ago
"Does he have a greater moral directive to do so than us because he has accumulated a great fortune?" Yup!
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by edavison1 8y ago
Just wanted to jump in here to say (with the imperfect authority of an undergrad philosophy major) that your characterization of Nietzsche is very wrong. A quick google search provided a slightly more nuanced but still absurdly basic view o
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by edavison1 10y ago
I'm pretty poor but I've found having a bike AND Citibike is the real NYC dream, worth every penny.
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by edavison1 10y ago
I've been Citibiking since nearly the start and I prefer the new models. Sometimes the brakes are bad, true, but I never pick one with a flat tire (of course checking before I take it out) and I have to say I have gotten tremendous uti
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by edavison1 10y ago
Hmmm you should come to New York. Citibike is absolutely everywhere... but then again you'd never have to bike a kilometer from the train station to get where you need to be either.
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by edavison1 10y ago
The thing is, she made a huge impact on the world. She changed the fantasy genre immeasurably, as much as Tolkien. She wrote bestselling books about gay, non-white, non-European, heroes when that was super rare (not to mention thought of as
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by edavison1 11y ago
There is! JMZ
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by edavison1 11y ago
"All that is needed is to figure a way, to make neural networks handle the flow of thoughts of human consciousness." Good luck with that!

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