georgeecollins

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by georgeecollins 3mo ago
Let's imagine a hypothetical symmetrical war between two modern countries. One can disable the other's satellites and maintain their own fleet. The other can't get access to any third parties' satellites. You aren&#x27
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by georgeecollins 3mo ago
Really? There is a large war going on right now and the key material is chips. Drone don't use a lot of steel, neither do missiles or modern airplanes. Yes you need artillery and particularly shells. But you are so much more limited
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by georgeecollins 3mo ago
In the US that's farming. The "family farm" which is rare ends up being the justification for tons of agribusiness subsidies. The good news is the USA produces lots of food.
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by georgeecollins 3mo ago
Ford has them. What it has meant for Ford-- and will probably mean for Facebook-- is that Zuck's heirs will control the company, for better or for worse. The common justification for this is that for a media company (NYT) you want a p
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by georgeecollins 3mo ago
100% this is great advice!
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by georgeecollins 3mo ago
I feel the opposite way. My time gets more expensive and games are-- adjusted for inflation-- the same price. I know most people don't feel this way. Lots of PC games have a $100- $200 tier where you get merch or all the DLC. That&
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by georgeecollins 3mo ago
Sorry I did not reply with an example earlier, but InvaildorTaken just provide a perfect one. I was talking to some of the creators of this game last week. They are the people who made some of the biggest hits at Blizzard. They are super
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by georgeecollins 3mo ago
Really? I did great just alternating between "grind" and "lay low". Retired with $4.8m at 25!
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by georgeecollins 3mo ago
>> Craft > sales. Great craftsmanship always sells, That is exactly how I perceived the game industry to be before I worked in it. Now I know that there are many objectively excellent or even innovative or influential games that d
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by georgeecollins 3mo ago
The framing of "a professional game developer.. job is to ship a product" is very indie. Places like ID, Bethesda, Volition (RIP) etc.: like a hundred people worked on the product and many did not own shipping the product. Whe
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by georgeecollins 3mo ago
>> The best moment to unionize wad 20 years ago. Sadly true in the USA. The number of people working in games is dropping like a rock. Maybe in Europe.
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by georgeecollins 4mo ago
Not the OP, but Scott Miller said "most if not all" coders at ID were laid off. https://www.gamesindustry.biz/xbox-layoffs-july-2026 I hope the industry will be in a better place in a few years. There is this re
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by georgeecollins 4mo ago
Free rein is bad management by definition. You don’t need a manager to have free rein. I’d be curious what you think the changes in dev culture are. I have worked for or with a lot of these studios and to me they have different cultures.
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by georgeecollins 4mo ago
The thing to understand here is the risk premium. Tesco is less risky on many levels. It also does not live inside a tech company that has really high gross margins.
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by georgeecollins 4mo ago
Nothing against aluminum foil here, but we make lasagna at home all the time in a square ceramic baking dish.
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by georgeecollins 4mo ago
Sure, 3% is terrible. But the point is you spent a fortune buying all these studios-- aka key strategic intellectual properties-- and then you manage them badly. Then you just sell or shut them down at their absolute bottom and you end up
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by georgeecollins 4mo ago
Exactly! And while a well off person may have a memory of a time in their life when they were not doing well (like in school, starting their career etc.) that can be misleading. You tend to end up like your parents more then was true thre
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by georgeecollins 4mo ago
I have an old Osborne 1 that worked the last time I plugged it in-- years ago. I would be shocked if the 5 1/4" discs are still readable. If they aren't, or I wanted to add some new software (like a better compiler) is ther
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by georgeecollins 4mo ago
Just came here to mention that "Eccentric Orbits" the book about the creation of the Iridium system is an amazing book. It's a business heavy book so probably more interesting to people trying to start business or do deals,
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by georgeecollins 4mo ago
It is a problem because people will talk about what AI can do implying that an LLM can do that thing, making it seem like a pure LLM can do almost anything. On the other hand people will say AI will never be able to do X because an LLM can
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by georgeecollins 4mo ago
That you have bought several houses in the USA makes your experience represent 0.01% of homeowners. Most people in the USA only buy one.
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by georgeecollins 4mo ago
Quake III Arena was super fun! I think the point is that Quake (1) came out within months of Activision launching Mech Warrior 2, Blizzard doing Warcraft, and even a couple years before Valve did Half Life. And Quake / Doom were so mu
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by georgeecollins 4mo ago
I think it is a positive for an employer to ask for an SAT because it tells me right away I don't want to work for them. Once (a long time ago) I tried to upload my resume to apply for a job. The web page started asking me very basic
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by georgeecollins 4mo ago
Tell me you have never bought a house in the US without telling me you have never bought a house in the US.
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by georgeecollins 4mo ago
I think by making a comparison between today 1900 I wasn't expecting to get on the slot car track of all the bad economic policy of the last couple generations. I agree with you completely about the rent seeking, the protection of the
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by georgeecollins 4mo ago
Or the way I would think about it is (I think this was a Krushchev quote): You don't convince people there is no imaginary river, you convince people that you built an imaginary bridge across the imaginary river. So you are never going
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by georgeecollins 4mo ago
TIL! Thank you. Let’s try: George Collins believes that people can satisfy their material needs by working only a few hours. People usually want more. But at many times and within many social movements— religious, political, artistic— pe
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by georgeecollins 4mo ago
> Everyone wants more John Maynard Keynes thought people might eventually work only a few hours per month because the growth in productivity would allow only a few hours of work to cover consumption. He did not imagine that people would
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by georgeecollins 4mo ago
Eli Lilly may have a different point of view on that!
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by georgeecollins 5mo ago
I have had jobs with good 401ks and terrible ones. The terrible ones usually have some bond/ saving option. When you leave the job you stick the money in a full service brokerage IRA. The problem is when you are at the same job for

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