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by elefanten 3y ago
Are you referring to the original fairy tales that Disney content is based on? Even there, no example comes to mind. Which stories are you referencing?
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by elefanten 3y ago
A more charitable interpretation would be that the author is being tactical in addressing a discipline where the dominant fashion has been to critique or dismiss scientific methods. By packaging “let’s be more scientific” in an argument tha
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by elefanten 3y ago
It’s not as “simple” as gp suggests, nor is it “the right thing”. We really don’t know what psychological and qol differences there are between the two… we’ve never been able to ask the cats. There are trade-offs, life expectancy being only
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by elefanten 3y ago
Yes, that’s the primary meaning of “arbitrarily”. Party elites ban companies and competition at their whim for purely their own selfish ends, rather than according to principle. They act as the arbiters of the matter.
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by elefanten 3y ago
Fair observations broadly, but gp’s points are fair too. It’s hard to predict hits but the points listed are all factors that helped the title out. Larian got the contract precisely because they proved themselves to be what you describe in
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by elefanten 3y ago
I don’t follow this logic. For one… the other 50% is Google. But Google has equal or better market share of many other key product/service areas… and significantly higher share in the web advertising ecosystem central to the discussion
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by elefanten 3y ago
That’s a significant oversimplification. These days, most of humanity has access to many types of powerful potential addictions. For many of them, trauma suppression is not a necessary condition. Reward chasing can exert enormous influence
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by elefanten 3y ago
Yeah, this is the real danger of the deal. Most likely, it will: 1. First, be good for consumers short-term as MS floods the market with high quality cheap content. 2. Next, be bad for the games industry medium term as their product gets d
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by elefanten 3y ago
All market segments have subsets and supersets. Why should the line be drawn where you imply? Is Sony monopolizing the God of War market because God of War fans understand how those games are differentiated to appeal to their preferences? T
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by elefanten 3y ago
Oh, I shared plenty specific to the case that you've glossed right over. Why does your observation matter more than any of mine? Do you have a theory of how the tenuous connection you state might induce a district court judge to risk h
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by elefanten 3y ago
There are laws and case law that set standards of varying degrees of precedent that both parties and the judge need to form their arguments around. The losing side can appeal to other courts and, in this case, the FTC can continue their own
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by elefanten 3y ago
Can you elaborate a full argument here? Or link somewhere that does?
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Historically, it was typically quite a bit smaller than consoles. Recently, they’re pretty similar in size but both significantly smaller than mobile.
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by elefanten 3y ago
Can you elaborate about the Shield? Seems like a perpetual flop.
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by elefanten 3y ago
Circling back late here, but thank you.. and thank you to all the sibling commenters as well!
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by elefanten 3y ago
I’m saying it made those companies more competitive (as in “better equipped to compete”), not that it made the various markets more competitive (as in “characterized by competition by multiple actors”). “Big Tech” tends to refer to the
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by elefanten 3y ago
The real answer is that the FTC is pursuing the currently canonical Democrat party regulatory agenda of trying to stop big companies from getting bigger (search terms “Neo-Brandeisian” and “market power”). This goes along with the general o
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by elefanten 3y ago
Meandering and muddled bit of content marketing here. For one, their self-placement at the top of the hierarchy of undisruptible learning tools is rich, especially while dismissively putting Khan Academy at the bottom. KA isn’t “just” for r
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by elefanten 3y ago
This is old news among the trial watchers. The article author has clarified (and updated the article near the end) that he was informed the email is from 2019 and doesn’t pertain to the Activision acquisition. https://twitter.com
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by elefanten 3y ago
“Ryan Weed, Jeff Wynn, Charles Hoskinson, J.J. Siler and Amir Siraj are all engaged in this effort.” The founder of Cardano is on the team? Weird. I thought maybe just a coincidence of two people with the same name, but appears confirmed on
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by elefanten 3y ago
Because it’d either be expensive or illegal, and all content owners are paying attention now
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by elefanten 3y ago
Can you share any references for finding the top quality or best known games made using Godot? I haven’t looked in a while.
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by elefanten 3y ago
Both salary and hourly roles ultimately have expectations around both time spent and work contributed. On average, in both cases, the time spent portion is tracked more closely while the worked performed portion is functionally given more l
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by elefanten 3y ago
Is that why its measured and paid in time-based increments while output is only measured in arbitrary ways and at fuzzy granularity?
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by elefanten 3y ago
Oculus wands would make a barely more compelling experience of a butterfly landing on your finger. When Apple’s ready they’ll release haptic gloves that smash that experience out of the park.
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by elefanten 3y ago
The open secret is that the units they’ve sold get very little use. The typical user plays around with it for a few weeks and then it sits on the shelf.
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by elefanten 3y ago
I buy that... but real talk, there's gotta be a ton of bloat in the engineering org, no? I've never worked at Google but I know shitloads of Googlers. And listening to their work problems... it sounds like engineers outnumber the
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by elefanten 3y ago
It's fun to observe the difference in framing and word choice here. NY "cynicism" vs CA "toxic positivity". As a Bay native, a younger version of me would've produced the mirror image to that rant along the lin
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by elefanten 3y ago
Seems reasonable that even an intersolar civilization would be subject to bugs, errors, degradation and bad luck. An intersolar trip could’ve damaged a craft far more advanced than what we can make. Could be (perhaps even likely to be) an u
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by elefanten 3y ago
What’s your take on the directed energy assessment in the article? Seems the author is ultimately advocating that route

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