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by hertzrat 6y ago
Imagine if products prior to the 90s or outside software had these sorts of “agreements.” Every store in a mall would have them and every piece of fruit in a grocery store would require you to agree to arbitration clauses and privacy polici
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Exactly. The most common ways to interact with a game world are the simplest and most visual: push button = physically do something, and the target physically reacts also. Subtlety and abstraction is harder to pull off, and hence, riskier f
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by hertzrat 6y ago
I strongly recommend down and out in London and Paris as well. He decides to live as realistically similar to a poor person for a while in a gonzo-like journalism experiment with a lot of interesting scenes and observations
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Does anybody really want to be “the person who criticizes his or her managers,” in an official on-the-books capacity, in a context where your job is already being threatened?
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The main reason games are violent is that you are usually presenting the player with a challenge to be overcome. That challenge has to be simple and visual. The simplest way to do this is with a fight - it’s why my game will have combat for
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by hertzrat 6y ago
My last job basically forbade my working on anything on my own time, and claimed to own all ip I produced during my employment at any time during that employment. If I wrote a love letter to my wife, they would have owned it. It was a great
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by hertzrat 6y ago
If almost the entirety of the money ends up, in the medium run, in the hands of a few wealthy people who want to invest, it explains the lack of inflation for everything but investments
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> Why bother, who cares what other people say? Your boss might not understand “Who should we give the promotion to?” “How about Joe, he’s been killing it this quarter” “That guy talks to himself. I’m worrying about him killing ME next qu
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by hertzrat 6y ago
The quality of a translation makes a dramatic difference in the reading experience. I have 4 or more copies of the art of war, each with different translators. Dante’s inferno, the Illiad, Dostoyevsky, Beowulf, Confucius: some translations
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How’s the privacy on a fairphone? The same as regular android?
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This is horrific...
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Some people close to me are anxiously on EI right now waiting and hoping their theatres will will survive the next year or two. Money is always tight at most theatres and they depend pretty heavily on donations to balance their books. Peopl
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by hertzrat 6y ago
I think most of the time this sort of tactic is used with an audience in mind, so presumably we would want to convince the audience. Does calling out “that’s just a bulverism fallacy!” really work?
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Simple question: will it take less energy to do the conversion than you get out the other end? Will the process itself generate less carbon than the existing process? All these “net zero” claims never mention how the rest of the system is a
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The main thing is that people do this because it works fairly well. Nobody ever says how to counter them. Arguably, not even professional persuaders like politicians haven’t figured it out, because the most common response during elections
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The article cites a scientific study, but the essence of science is falsifiable claims and evidence. It’s not that the conclusion or method seems wrong, but I don’t think science is the right term
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What’s the evidence they misled customers? Internal documents?
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DooM 1993. I’ve played it on and off for decades, but it had been a while. After playing Doom 2016 I got curious how the original would stand up. With gzdoom, it was one of the best games I’ve played in recent years, better than Doom 2016.
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Beowulf, translated by Seamus Healy. I can’t read the other translations at all but that book is incredible with his wording. It’s a dark story of warriors, glory, monsters, tiny kingdoms carved out by champions, and gives a rare look at ho
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by hertzrat 6y ago
If Facebook ads are as ineffective as people say, what have people done that did work? The only thing I know for sure is that word of mouth can make an outstanding product spread quickly, but you still need to get your first 100 users somew
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by hertzrat 6y ago
The “videos engage better than text” idea has been dominant for a few years now. It’s based on a Facebook statement?
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Like I said, almost all art is fantasy then, and almost all science fiction isn’t scientific enough to qualify. And all stories have drama too, so we might as well clump almost everything into a “dramatic fantasy” bucket in that case. The g
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These are not fantasy UIs, they are science fiction UIs. There is a massive lack of good swords and wizards fantasy movies and shows. The networks, just to fill out a list, are clumping fantasy in with science fiction and super hero movies.
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Details aside, I do think we are in the midst of a cultural trend where nihilism and relativism are taking hold. I used to be more of a relativist myself, but those ideas are hard to reconcile with an engineering degree. In engineering, you
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I never found signal lacking in any way, except that occasionally push notifications don’t get through. When people say signal is lacking in features, what do they mean? Simplicity is appealing too
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Is matrix as private as signal? How do you go about finding a good server? How do you know if you picked a good one? Which app do you use? Matrix would be more popular if the getting started flow was more clear on these sorts of questions.
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What do you dislike about telegrams encryption? The only private messaging app Im really familiar with signal
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Apparently, these providers had the same owner and were actively advertising their services on “cybercrime forums,” which I didn’t realize were common or advertised on
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Speaking of games, I made a decent percent of one recently. It was 4 months of programming character controllers and an ability system, plus 3 weeks of content creation. It came together for a game jam submission (with permission to use the
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Depends. Imagine doing so and having him or her be marked for life over a parents overreaction. Kid could end up on every no fly list in the world overnight and never fly their whole lives. The parents surely worry about these things, espec

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