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by flashman 10y ago
It's along the lines of how do you manage scarce resources and space in the centre of the map. Who do you allow to build there? It can be free-for-all (and certain servers like 2b2t.net have an anarchist charm) or it can be restricted
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by flashman 10y ago
How do you handle cheating? If you're hosting all the wallets, what's to stop you (or someone who gains control of the server) taking off with all the money? Don't get me wrong, this is very cool and using real money might so
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by flashman 10y ago
How would you design an unbiased news recommendation algorithm? You can't - the definition of 'trending' has to include decisions and values. Is the most-shared story always relevant to a wide audience? An organised brigade (
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by flashman 10y ago
That video is half an hour long. Here's a Google Images search for 'Antarctica' for those of us without the time to spare: https://www.google.com.au/search?q=antarctica&tbm=isch
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by flashman 10y ago
Python analogy for why you're wrong: >>> white_lives = {"matter": True} >>> black_lives = {"matter": True} >>> black_lives['matter'] == True True The stateme
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by flashman 10y ago
I would assign anything hosted on .blog a huge reputational hit. But the fact that so much money was put behind it makes me think of two possibilities: 1) Auttomatic has far more money than sense, or 2) I am out of touch with the way othe
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by flashman 10y ago
Under that logic, the 87% Hispanic population of Texas's 15th and 34th congressional districts ought to welcome the Mexican army.
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by flashman 10y ago
“Mortgage-default rates are currently very low, but that shouldn’t be any source of comfort because they are always low when the economy is doing well and home prices are going up,” said Oliner. “That can turn around quickly if there is a r
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by flashman 10y ago
This is similar to the view of those in Iain M. Banks's "Culture" novels. They view living on a planet as hopelessly primitive and inefficient. Most of its mass is dead, useful only for the gravity it generates. Terraforming
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by flashman 10y ago
> USA has been (correctly) pressuring Australia to select vendor on its merit I am almost certain the USA is disappointed with Australia's selection, as US companies would have supplied several critical battle systems. In fact Austr
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by flashman 10y ago
> I'd subscribe to a newsletter focused on great, non-IAP-driven iOS games. I guess one would monetize that by soliciting advertisements and featuring particular games?
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New Tinder feature outs its users to their Facebook friends(news.com.au)
5 points by flashman 10y ago|2 comments
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by flashman 10y ago
One I have experience with is DayZ, which has terrible hacking/scripting problems because it is based on the ARMA military simulator whose audience wasn't inclined towards cheating; the server thus trusts many client actions. They
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by flashman 10y ago
If I was a game developer and a person developed a bot to play my game perfectly, I'd let them have the high score.
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by flashman 10y ago
"It’s your entire job to say no to stuff like this [asking for more time]." No, as a manager it's your entire job to make sure stuff like this doesn't happen. How did you let the project lead get into this situation? How
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by flashman 10y ago
Way off topic, but who sells good menswear on AliExpress?
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by flashman 10y ago
Sarcasm aside, what's a few pennies per sale on $105bn in sales?
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by flashman 10y ago
Hmm. Amazon puts a few pennies extra onto my items, and poor communities get access to a service that's much cheaper than shopping at a convenience store? Freeing up their capital to spend elsewhere in the economy, like on products and
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by flashman 10y ago
That's a bit of a reductio ad absurdum. Same-day Prime service is a bit of a luxury now, but so was internet access twenty years ago. Widespread internet access has had many positive economic effects in poor communities. Better Prime a
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by flashman 10y ago
I'm less worried about the economic aspects (western countries can afford this) than the social ones, namely the new forms of resentment this will encourage when taxpayers see all the things 'their' money is buying people.
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by flashman 10y ago
My primary motivation is to explain death at a four-year-old's level.
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by flashman 11y ago
> Imagine you have a box of Lego, and you build a house, and you keep it. And you keep making new houses, and never breaking the old ones. What happens? "The box gets empty, Daddy." Good, yes. And can you make new houses then?
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by flashman 11y ago
On asteroids.
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by flashman 11y ago
> According to Kyle, Jeremy did not write any code or build any hardware during this exploratory period. He'd better be 100% right about this. I imagine it wouldn't look good for Kyle if it comes out that Jeremy wrote some code
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by flashman 11y ago
Minority Report's personal advertising is getting closer and closer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bXJ_obaiYQ And they won't even need retinal scanners. Facial recognition will probably be good enough.
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by flashman 11y ago
A little bit non-standard, but I used them to generate a map of the nearest vehicle spawn points for the game DayZ: http://i.imgur.com/GryW1fz.jpg In the attached map, the red dots indicate a place where a truck might spawn
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by flashman 11y ago
If you use a grid of regularly-spaced points, you end up with a pixelated/mosaic image. Here's a (sadly Flash based) tool for applying a quadrilateral/triangular/hexagonal mosaic effect to a photo: http://dami
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by flashman 11y ago
The final quote has a lot of relevance for any person building a product or service: "I didn’t start this because I want to be a business lady. I started it because I really wanted to sell people pencils.”
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by flashman 11y ago
> How is an IP address even remotely considered "evidence" enough to search someone's home? Because it localises a particular network request to a piece of hardware, e.g. a modem, located within that home. In my opinion, i
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by flashman 11y ago
> while they pay out royalties on a per-song-played basis I believe this is inaccurate. They pay out royalties on a share-of-all-plays basis, don't they?[0] So an outage wouldn't reduce the payout amount, it would just slightly

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