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by flaque 5y ago
> Genuinely curious - why not? Is it just for ideological reasons or is there an actual use case preventing you? Ownership requires decentralization. In our case, we can't make a "Steam that's owned by game developers&quot
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by flaque 5y ago
> Its too early! I think most critics of crypto come into the conversation with a "crypto is bad, and so I must find ways to reinforce this belief", and it's relatively obvious that the critic doesn't have the perquis
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by flaque 5y ago
The issue with crypto is that reasonable use cases are early, and don’t attract attention except for niche communities. There’s a few big ones, for example, filecoin right now has created a commodity market for storage that is currently 10,
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by flaque 5y ago
Yes
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by flaque 5y ago
> You can and should practice both. Yes.
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by flaque 5y ago
Mindfulness isn't "thinking about chopping onions while chopping onions." Mindfulness is chopping onions. The confusion is that "developing" mindfulness means recognizing when, while chopping onions, you're ins
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by flaque 5y ago
The cost of not doing it would be much, much greater though, and disproportionately affect lower income folks
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by flaque 5y ago
oh, good point, apologies
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by flaque 5y ago
There already is one, and it’s used by Deno! https://swc.rs/
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by flaque 5y ago
> The only way to get the vaccine numbers up is to make vaccines mandatory for school, employment, travel, etc like other vaccines are. I agree with this, but not necessarily for the same reason. I think this gives a whole lot of people
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by flaque 5y ago
The difference is that it doesn't matter if the behavior is justified. The only thing that matters is getting them vaccinated. Even if you have to forgive them, even if you have to give them sympathy they don't deserve. Shaming do
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by flaque 5y ago
If you shame people, they dig in their heels. If you care about stopping the pandemic, you need to create an environment in which someone can safely stop believing their falsehoods. You actually have to convince people, regardless of whethe
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by flaque 5y ago
Right, but you don’t break through to someone who’s in an “in-group” by mocking their group. It just creates more in-group / out-group. I’m not saying you should buy their arguments. You need to give people an “out”. If folks approach
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by flaque 5y ago
Correct, they’re not reasonable reasons to not get vaccinated. But they are reasonable fears to have. They’re normal fears, that make sense from their point of view. They’re factually wrong, but understandable.
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by flaque 5y ago
It’s worth noting that, even if you think shaming encourages people to get vaccinated, these stories are still bad because they are almost never seen by the people who you’re trying to shame. Unvaccinated people don’t like and share stories
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by flaque 5y ago
It's worth noting that while upzoning can help the whole housing market go down in price, it can also unlock value for existing home owners. If you currently own a home and a law is passed that allows you to turn your upstairs into an
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by flaque 5y ago
This argument is commonly thrown around, but makes no sense in practice. The denser the place, the more efficient the infrastructure use. 50 families in a single apartment building use massively fewer pipes & power lines than 50 familie
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by flaque 5y ago
millions, preferably
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by flaque 5y ago
> There is genuinely no scenario in which a person can actually want the construction of affordable units? Not at all, I'm saying Preston in particular has historically ran on the construction of affordable units, and then worked to
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by flaque 5y ago
It’s more that many people who don’t want to build more housing use “affordable housing” as a way to do so. If they build a few “affordable” units, it’s a way to still seem like you’re pro-housing. To be clear, I think most pro-affordable h
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by flaque 5y ago
The gist is that is significantly harder to build “affordable” housing (where prices are kept artificially low). So if you mandate only affordable housing, then you help a few people, but restrict the overall housing market, which makes ren
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by flaque 5y ago
There's an interesting GDC talk about this for folks who are curious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WycVOCbeKqQ
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by flaque 5y ago
i like your art style, digging the cools vs warms for character distinction
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by flaque 5y ago
> Happy to chat about instant games anytime, email me at Lars.doucet@gmail.com and in return you can tell me more about what you’re doing in video. I'll absolutely take you up on this! :D Email coming soon! > how do you feel you
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by flaque 5y ago
oh hey, I've played the original defenders quest, thank you for making that. I think this framing exactly applies to our space, down to the term "anti-platform". Also I'd be deeply interested in how "Instant games&q
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by flaque 5y ago
> I look at all of the people who happily put content up for free on YouTube with no intention or desire to monetize. Oh, that's a good point. If I understand correctly, you're worried that the companies desire to "make yo
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by flaque 5y ago
This is cool, we'll look into this
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by flaque 5y ago
Streambus already offers a higher revenue model than Youtube. A Youtuber with a million subscribers that can convert 1% of their audience to paid subscribers at $5 a month makes $540k a year on Streambus. And they'd do it on their own
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by flaque 5y ago
we might consider this if the video cost economics force it (though we'd grandfather free folks in). but early on, I'd like to try and make the initial business model define the mission and incentive structure of the company. &quo
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by flaque 5y ago
This is something that we're keeping an eye on. Our current bet is that it's got better economics than Youtube (lots of video plays, but little revenue flowing through per video), but probably worse economics than Substack.

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