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by esyir 6y ago
>Now thiusands of games are announced a day, it's become a cesspool of crud not worth even looking at, and at this point it's just a fancy frontend for Steamworks, a download page, and payment processing (none of which is worth
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by esyir 6y ago
You say monopoly over and over as though I made that argument. Rather I think it's fairly irrelevant here. Rather the actual consumer experience, and consumer agency is to me far more important. This has been explicitly degraded by Epi
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by esyir 6y ago
They didn't just "challenge the monopoly". They made consumer experience worse by introducing exclusives to an ecosystem that was previously largely free of them. Then they bought over exclusives that were announced for other
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by esyir 6y ago
First up, monopoly is a false argument here. Consumers have choice, and Steam doesn't prevent games from launching on other platforms. Compare this to Epic, which directly impacts consumers by limiting their choice of platform. Epic&#x
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by esyir 6y ago
As far as I can tell, there aren't any legally binding steam exclusives. The pc was the device with oo mandate exclusives, and epic brought that there. They deserve whatever hate they get for that.
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by esyir 6y ago
Yes. In one, this refers to a specific company's product with a pretty standardised output. The dop designation however refers to the food itself, and can be manufactured by multiple independent entities with no explicit association. A
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by esyir 6y ago
Probably worse. It's not just going through dysphoria, it's having it forced upon you via coercion.
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by esyir 6y ago
Honestly? Yes. I judge a country first and foremost by How it treats its own citizens.
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by esyir 6y ago
From my perspective though, your cultural revolution might be already on its way, with a more genital cancellation, rather than execution.
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by esyir 6y ago
He's probably talking about the principal of liberty. Turns out branding works really well to muddy natural language
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by esyir 6y ago
I hate the fact that you're right. And that you've described my job in a small company.
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by esyir 6y ago
The point of messing with section 230 is to undo that. Basically, it's the first party starts curating the third party, they're now "publishing" that
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by esyir 6y ago
I wrote a pile before I realised it was largely irrelevant, especially since the largest platforms are also the easiest to handle. The easiest one to handle first would be the topic-agnostic platforms. Those also tend to be the biggest ones
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by esyir 6y ago
This looks interesting, I do enjoy the way you've structured it to be 1v1, allowing for minority opinions to be presented without the typical distributed-gish-gallop that online discussions can be.
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by esyir 6y ago
I have a sort of answer to this. The issue seems to be generally framed as "FULL CENSORSHIP" or "FULL ANARCHY NO MODERATION", with little middle ground considered. The US already have a sort of line as to what it as a cu
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by esyir 6y ago
Or you could model it a different way. They know it sucks, would rather it not be an issue, but hey, take all the advantages you can get. If everything is the same, would a rational actor not pick the one which is more advantageous?
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by esyir 6y ago
You don't even need RoI here, and I never even had that baked in. Any sustainable system of credit even would result in the same phenomenon. In it's simplest form, to make a loan, you have to have the resources to loan out to begi
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by esyir 6y ago
I'll go one step further. This inequality is built into how humans work. Most of us would not extend credit to somebody with low odds of returning it, so why do should we expect companies and organizations to behave differently? I feel
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by esyir 6y ago
This is exactly what I'm thinking. I got the quest, and having played around with link, it's terrible going from fully wireless VR back to tethered. It doesn't sound like much, but cable tangle as you move is an absolute nigh
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by esyir 6y ago
$400 for the rift S/Quest are nowhere near $1000 though. As a Quest owner, I'll say that I've been pretty happy with it.
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by esyir 6y ago
Unless something has drastically changed in the past 5 odd years, Actual Geneticists (tm) happily use GWAS in many investigations of complex traits. They're often an early step in the overall pipeline in which they trawl for potential
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by esyir 6y ago
Doesn't really seem to work now. Social media turned tribal instincts can readily be turned on "real in person people".
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by esyir 6y ago
There really isn't. The current argument is weasly though, approaching it as follows: Race is a social construct and not a genetic one. Humans exist on a genetic spectrum. Therefore you can't box humans into distinct groups there.
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by esyir 6y ago
That's a terrible argument that's often used to deflect from its crux. Of course within group differences are larger than racial differences. You're comparing a single (admittedly aggregated) factor to the sum total of human
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by esyir 6y ago
These are people who are not arguing on any scientific basis, but rather against any evidence that we've collected and against further collection that might prove for or otherwise. Those in leadership positions for a scientific positio
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by esyir 6y ago
My main gripe here is that as time has gone on, and I've racked up the RSI's, is that the brain-to-text latency has gone up notably. This scares the shit out of me. I'm not in the older subset of programmers (<30 atm), and
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by esyir 6y ago
So this sort of works if you use those numbers, but for the more hoardy sort of us, we're using completely different scales and prices, especially since the relationship between HDD price and size is distinctly sub-linear as compared t
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by esyir 6y ago
Unfortunately for bulk data storage, spinning rust is currently the only viable option at the consumer level. For now, until ssds reach competitive prices at the same scales, we're stuck with them.
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by esyir 6y ago
From what I've seen of those on the right, they see it as ideological capture of core institutions by the left. I can't really refute that.
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by esyir 6y ago
I'm just going to wait for the other shoe to drop when campaigns start getting waged to ban the "racist" master branch.

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