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by ethbro 7y ago
Folks forget about Dune 1 too. In 1992, it was one of the first "modern" 4X games (SimCity 1989, Civilization 1991). Even given shorter game development timelines, it deserves more credit than it gets.
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by ethbro 7y ago
How is that not as clear? The real world money to purchase those token (and anything else) come from people . Those people do not have infinite resources to spend on the game. Ergo, if you exhaust their real world resources, and then offer
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by ethbro 7y ago
You're taking a company's statement, that avoids any mention of money, economic interests, or China, at face value? I hear your point, but what would a smoking gun look like? An email or recorded conversation from the CCP about th
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by ethbro 7y ago
> Heck, even if Blizzard went out there and would fully admit "The Chinese government pressured us to shut this particular player down", then people would complain how Blizzard could ever buckle to those demands in the first p
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by ethbro 7y ago
Are there any multinationals that aren't chaotic evil, posing as lawful neutral?
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by ethbro 7y ago
If you're talking in real-world currency, then the size of the ingame economy is the sum of the maximums each player would be willing to spend for things in the game. Any other calculations are just cryptocurrency-esque market cap drea
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by ethbro 7y ago
That's awesome! That said, if a customer has to fuzz a platform's settings to discern their effect, the UX definitely needs work.
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by ethbro 7y ago
I'm not sure if it was as prevalent in other games (WoW et al), but the cutthroat, zero-sum nature of Eve Online produced a ridiculous volume of user-made, pro-group propaganda videos. Goonswarm was especially famous for it. All versio
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by ethbro 7y ago
I feel like the "authoritarian capitalism" trope is inaccurate. China introduced some elements of capitalism and liberty into its economy, but clearly retains government control over what would otherwise be independent companies
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by ethbro 7y ago
> I know for a fact that they have large data and machine learning teams spread across SF, NYC, Tel Aviv, Shanghai and maybe more That's going to be an awkward presentation to management when they present their revenue forecasts u
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by ethbro 7y ago
> Not everything is a conspiracy. But it's so much less fun to debate normalcy on HN.
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by ethbro 7y ago
The difference is Russia (the country) is poor . While China is not. Russia's GDP is about 2017USD$ 1.7 T. China's is 2017USD$ 12.2 T. Companies traditionally aren't in the habit of doing favors for inconsequential entities.
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by ethbro 7y ago
I feel it extends the same way. Allegiance is not... politeness and decency.
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by ethbro 7y ago
- completed in 2012 - completed in 2015 - completed in 2017 - completed in 2015 - completed in 2017 Mmhmm.
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by ethbro 7y ago
My dad was a poultry pathologist. Spent some of my childhood touring chicken houses. I feel absolutely no ethical qualms about murdering chickens from an intelligence aspect. ;)
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by ethbro 7y ago
Forest, trees. You should call both conservative and liberal assholes assholes.
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by ethbro 7y ago
If anyone on HN has never hoisted an LVL beam (or even glulam), I would highly recommend it. Suffice to say they're 'quite a bit' heavier than wood. That weight is the adhesive and/or compression. So we're very much
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by ethbro 7y ago
"The issue with CLT as a building system is exactly that -- its behavior as a whole when subjected to differing forces as statistically magnified by the great number of joints. There are a ton of connections in a CLT building. Thousan
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by ethbro 7y ago
Ironically, the exact inverse of carbon emissions per meat species. Chicken < Pork << Beef
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by ethbro 7y ago
True story: I stopped eating pork after watching Okja and reading up on pig intelligence. That final scene... oof. ( bawl )
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by ethbro 7y ago
Assuming objective tone interpretability seems like a leap. Some people are Shakespeare with words. Others, especially those for whom English is a second+ language, may not have such a nuanced box of crayons to work with. So one person&#x27
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by ethbro 7y ago
The problem (as I see it, and agree with gp's formulation) is of communities failing to police their own by using double-standards. One set for "us", one set for "them." It's okay for one of "us" to b
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by ethbro 7y ago
Netflix and Chill: Crimes Against Humanity
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by ethbro 7y ago
That Wikipedia article is a train wreck in shock journalism. As documented as the material is, the current state is basically just a pile of descriptions of attrocities committed. With many duplicated. Compare to https://en.m.wik
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by ethbro 7y ago
Lucking across a local maximum seems to warp peoples' perspective on what to do next. Of course little else is going to look like a better idea! Every direction is downhill! But every other local maximum can only be reached by firs
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by ethbro 7y ago
This blew my mind when I discovered it. It's essentially a "literally get the best (short term, stable) for your savings, always." And it's cash-equivalent, so can be purchased and held in any cash management Fidelity
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by ethbro 7y ago
Also the most common squash dish! And green bean! And sweet potato (with more sugar)!
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by ethbro 7y ago
One could make the argument that wealth inequality is higher than it was in previous eras. But there's always been a major disparity between capital owners and everyone else. Even in the 60s. And certainly at the turn of the century (1
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by ethbro 7y ago
Compared to the 50s and 60s?
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by ethbro 7y ago
There are 3G+ enabled laptops. Certainly there are many apples to oranges differences, but I don't think it's fair to discount the "managed" nature of mobile devices as a component of their success. The uptake in Chromeb

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