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by ghostcluster 7y ago
Seems like this type of brain-dead simple feature -- frictionless joining of gameplay servers from a friends list -- would be something Mojang should consider adding to up their engagement. Minecraft is interesting because, according to Go
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by ghostcluster 7y ago
Lots of drama to this story, between the apparent sabotage from Oracle to the politics of the president not favoring AWS just for spite, to the Pentagon's acronym for its cloud move: JEDI. The article states that Microsoft does not yet
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by ghostcluster 7y ago
Despite the attention these cases get, the US murder rate is half what it was in 1980 https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/facts-and-research/murder-rates
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by ghostcluster 7y ago
There was a story here a few months ago that seems pertinent. > A Solution for Loneliness: Get out and volunteer, research suggests https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19971294
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by ghostcluster 7y ago
> People nowadays spend far more time at work than ever. Average hours worked has gone down steadily over the last two centuries: > 1830 69.1 hours per week > 1880 60.7 > 1929 50.6 > 1988 42.4 > As the twentieth centur
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by ghostcluster 7y ago
The problem with this is that the most expensive component of electric cars: the batteries, have a ridiculously short lifespan, and they become less and less powerful with every recharge
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by ghostcluster 7y ago
It's also a de facto ethnostate for the Han chinese. Foreigners cannot become citizens even if they marry a Chinese citizen. And the people they keep in their reeducation camps are stubborn ethnic minorities.
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by ghostcluster 7y ago
There should be more cheap single room occupancy apartments where the mentally ill can live with state support.
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by ghostcluster 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobin - the second paragraph talks about the guillotining of 17,000 political opponents. I apologize if my comment seemed too ideological, but I think it's fair to assert that they&
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by ghostcluster 8y ago
To name your magazine after the frenzied murderous excess of the French Revolution reminds me of how rabidly violent the far left is. And when we have so many examples of radical collectivism leading to mass suffering (much of humanity&#x27
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by ghostcluster 8y ago
High Sierra's Metal rewrite of windowserver still has serious bugs nearly a year after shipping, even on a brand new MacBook Pro. They managed to ship 10.13 with bugs like this that made it into the Ars Technica review: http:/&#x
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by ghostcluster 8y ago
It's a tactic to artificially reinforce the position of a propreitary API in the market (by killing support for its competitors)
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by ghostcluster 8y ago
Facebook had better more streamlined technology. Just like Google in the 1990s.
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by ghostcluster 8y ago
It seems it is a bigger chunk of the economy than Microsoft was in the 1990s Microsoft didn't take 30% of Windows based transactions. Can you imagine what would've happened if they had tried?
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by ghostcluster 8y ago
> Even if cut down, their business model remains the same. Selling users data to the highest bidder. How is this different than any other advertising company? Google does the exact same thing, and it's much bigger.
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by ghostcluster 8y ago
The majority of Facebook's users are outside of the US, and it is smaller than other big US tech companies ( https://ycharts.com/companies/GOOG/market_cap ). I'd rather see antitrust brought against a comp
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by ghostcluster 8y ago
It will mean a big problem for Europe as the level of outflow is likely set to accelerate over the coming decades. Who knows what the political consequences will be..
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by ghostcluster 8y ago
It's not just a US issue. Fertility drops below replacement rate all across the world in urban settings with modern economies, from Germany to Japan to China, even trending in sub saharan Africa https://www.ageing.ox.ac.uk&#
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by ghostcluster 8y ago
Like Pollan says, the magic mushroom and its psylocibin is a happy medium of the psychadelic effect. I had a trip years ago, and the insights and shift out of everyday thinking was so valuable that I still treasure the experience, and wou
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by ghostcluster 8y ago
There is also a lot of activism masquerading as science in the field of epigenetics, enough so that the journal Cell issued a warning about it: https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(14)00286-4
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by ghostcluster 8y ago
Dealers of Lighting is great, and is good as an audiobook as well.
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by ghostcluster 8y ago
Only 'neckbeards' had a problem with it? That's simply not true, and the links I provided are full of people explaining why Nintendo's execution was flawed.
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by ghostcluster 8y ago
70s and 80s ideas that couldn't be implemented at scale due to the lack of massively parallelized GPU architectures with trillions of transistors to simulate the neurel net layers. It was only in the mid-late 90s that simple handwritin
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by ghostcluster 8y ago
I'm not so sure when it comes to machine learning. Those techniquss represent such a fundamentally different approach to pattern recognition that it enables the tackling of whole classes of problems that couldn't previously be suf
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by ghostcluster 8y ago
I responded with apprehension and gave an example of a similar initiative that Nintendo has already shipped [0], which has been widely mocked, and I explained why these sorts of nagging notifications are a tricky balancing act (the product
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by ghostcluster 8y ago
I am inherently suspicious of these types of nanny-tech initiatives. Nintendo did something similar recently in many of their games — warning you that you've been playing for X amount of time, mayba take a break? — and it came off very
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by ghostcluster 8y ago
It reminded me of the kind of writing I would read from friends on LiveJournal.
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by ghostcluster 8y ago
"Sure, they lied to me, but I enjoyed the content" is not what I want from The New York Times. It harms their reputation to engage in those kinds of manipulation tactics. I am becoming less and less likely to click through to any
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by ghostcluster 8y ago
Advertised deceptively so as to engineer maximum clicks, something which I have no respect for, especially from an organization I used to hold in such high regard.
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by ghostcluster 8y ago
This seemed more, "I'm in my 40s and will write a few contemplative existential paragraphs about it" rather than any sort of how-to guide. I am reminded again that NYTimes editors are not above resorting to exploiting click

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