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by exogeny 5y ago
I went ahead and created it: https://youtu.be/thnXzUFJnfQ I stayed within the Amiga scene, which means a lot of the picks are demo soundtracks that have that Italo/synthpop kind of style. But there's lots of class
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by exogeny 5y ago
One of the best MODs ever. Right up there with Enigma, Stardust Memories, Elysium, and others. From a technical perspective, the level of musicality that some artists could derive within the limitations is truly crazy. 100k or so, 8-bit sam
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by exogeny 5y ago
Easy. Scam. At least in the sense that it exposed the scam that you need to have a viable business or even be a competent executive to raise gobs of venture capital.
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by exogeny 5y ago
There are about 200-300 people who play fantasy sports full-time as a career on FanDuel and DraftKings. Probably another 20,000-30,000 use it as a legitimate stream of secondary income. Legitimate games of skill, when regulated, will always
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by exogeny 5y ago
Based on the brigading and bad faith arguing in this thread alone, I don't blame FB for doing whatever they can to make it a less toxic place, however ham-handedly they do it.
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by exogeny 5y ago
Addressing a few different comments because it may not be known: Bridgewater is a hedge fund. One of the bigger ones, and most successful. Kind of old school. But because of this, any content that they disseminate must be very clearly be la
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by exogeny 5y ago
If I'm Goldin, there is absolutely no way I'd be openly promoting the fact that Deshaun Watson invested in us.
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by exogeny 5y ago
The implication of course is that YC is great at picking companies, which is assuredly true. But they also fund what, like 200 per session? Do not discount the degree in which quantity plays a part here.
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by exogeny 5y ago
>Anyone who can solve the the "less echo chamber than Reddit but less racist than Ruqqus" hosting dilemma stands to gain a large audience. Do you believe that is possible? Ruqqus would lead me to believe that it's not. The
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by exogeny 5y ago
I mean, sure, yeah, Stormfront is still up too. I don't think "remaining up" is the totality of their goals. I think what the writer of the post is getting at is that pursuing this direction leads to no outcomes better than a
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by exogeny 5y ago
I would argue that the person who wrote that comment understood it better than anyone on this thread.
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by exogeny 5y ago
That's the catch, though. For their extremely broken brains, everything is political discussion. Talking about finance? Well, who do you think controls the world's money? And on and on. Note to dang/admin: I'm sure it is
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by exogeny 5y ago
It's hard for me to imagine a less surprising result. And yet it's going to happen again, and again, and again. Voat, Parler, whatever.
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by exogeny 5y ago
I'm from the '80s, so for me, it's Square One TV, Where In The World is Carmen Sandiego, 3-2-1 Contact, and more. I mean, just take Square One as an example here. Imagine walking into a TV producers office and saying, "A
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by exogeny 5y ago
Similar path for me! My entry point was Epic Pinball, then the works of Future Crew, and then further into the demoscene. I was more interested in the art than the coding however, so my next deep dive was into the artscene: ANSI and BBS mod
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by exogeny 5y ago
68,154 people have died of COVID in Texas, including 33 today.
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by exogeny 5y ago
MagicLeap, Groupon, Nikola, WeWork, Uber.. A company doesn't have to have an exit for early investors to get out. You just need to find a sucker to buy into a round later than you. How to do that, in the modern context, is pretty clear
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by exogeny 5y ago
To be the biggest media company of 2014.
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by exogeny 5y ago
I would strongly posit that influence was a bad thing, unless you think following the example of someone who told a gay professor to die of AIDS is a good thing.
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4.5MM excess deaths over 16 months during the pandemic in India(nber.org)
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by exogeny 5y ago
I've lived in a few different major cities and NYC for the last decade, and I can definitely say I have never seen more broken, ineffective policing than here. It's truly ridiculous. Your experience, obviously, may vary. Multiple
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by exogeny 5y ago
The analogue with Disney and FastPass/VIP resonates with me. A few years ago I was speaking on a panel at a two-day conference in LA. My panel was the first day, so I decided to quietly skip out on the second day and go to Magic Mounta
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by exogeny 5y ago
Is there a more credible source available than this?
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by exogeny 5y ago
That is an amazing story. I had a few nice conversations with some of my favorite musicians (Firefox, Uncle Tom, Jester, etc.) and many of them are shocked and overjoyed that things they worked on for fun a lifetime ago are being enjoyed by
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by exogeny 5y ago
That's so wild. I was lucky to grow up in a relatively large city in the era of BBSes and then IRC, so I was able to find a decent community of fellow nerds. If there was one thing that consistently blew us away, it was the demoscene -
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by exogeny 5y ago
Yes, this -- I didn't want to be too pedantic :) If we were getting into the PC scene, Elwood would have made an appearance with Purple Motion and loads of others.
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by exogeny 5y ago
My pleasure! Let me know which one is your favorite :)
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by exogeny 5y ago
Here are some recommendations for those on HN new to the tracker scene: Jester - Elysium Jester - Stardust Memories Tip and Firefox - Enigma Greg - Odyssey Pt. 2 Firefox - Galaxy 2 Mantronix - Act Of Impulse Dr. Awesome - 12th Warrior NHP +
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by exogeny 5y ago
Yeah, poor guy. He earned so much credibility with his no-nonsense, straight-shooting communication style full of poignant truths that it’s such a mystery why no one took him seriously on a subject in which he was so clearly well-versed and
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by exogeny 5y ago
Nice guy? Weirdo? Yeah, that sounds like CMU alright. The friendliness of Pittsburgh will ensure the former; the school will exacerbate and exponentially develop the latter.

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