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by htag 4y ago
> That is cool for you, but I would argue you aren’t the “average consumer”. I think the "average" PC and Steamdeck player is interested in emulation, so it's a good segment of the market but not the largest. If a game wa
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by htag 4y ago
I think Game Pass is a big loss for consumers. * The player doesn't actually own anything. I routinely play games I purchased 5+ years ago, which is a fantastic long term entertainment investment. * The player doesn't have a dire
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by htag 4y ago
It's more like 10 or 15 games before your MMR is pretty accurate.
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by htag 4y ago
The patch was put on the Player Test Realm (PTR), which is almost like an open beta. I wouldn't say that it was "released", more like pushed to staging or open beta.
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by htag 4y ago
In general yes, because of security support. Moving from 7.4 -> 8.2 will be just as much refactoring as moving from 7.4->8.0->8.1->8.2. Security support is in general three years [0] so everything 7.X is now unsupported. Consid
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by htag 4y ago
If the population of students that respond after one survey request is different than the population of student that respond after two survey requests (or don't respond at all), then the original 90 responses aren't representative
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by htag 4y ago
> Namely, it's [javascript] been adopted as a way for a network server to send a program to your machine without your even noticing, so that this program, written by you don't know who, will run on your computer and do you don&
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by htag 4y ago
I would argue that The Big Five personality traits is just as reproducible but with a much higher construct validity than IQ. It measures a similar thing in a similar way, in that it's an abstract concept about human psychology (perso
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by htag 4y ago
> Children who score [IQ]145 or above would then be offered a life-long genius award. > They could start at, say $75,000 a year and go up by $25,000 increments every decade. The payments could expire if our geniuses decided to take pa
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by htag 4y ago
> Are geniuses having trouble solving the problem of acquiring a basic income? I have 100% meet very smart (genius debatable) people that have trouble solving the problem of acquiring a basic income, or have to over invest time in pursui
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by htag 4y ago
I hate to even put this in the ether, but someone could make a startup that integrates key management, property management, and gig-economy lawyers.
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by htag 4y ago
Incoming article titles: * I was locked out of my apartment because I left my charger cable at home. * My home unlock app keeps crashing. * My smartphone was stolen so I was homeless for a night while I waited for the Apple Store to open. *
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by htag 4y ago
SPAC redemptions are just investors asking for their money back so they can use it elsewhere. From the SPAC share owner's perspective this is the system working as intended. Redemptions lower the amount of money in the fund, which giv
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by htag 4y ago
> The pair of cancellations, which happened less than an hour apart Is this literally just two cancellations? I never put any money into a SPAC, but I suspect the shareholders are better off with their money returned than going into a b
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by htag 4y ago
Amazon specifically has you use their DNS server on a mobile device [0]. I imagine DNS allows them to get a confirmation of your identity when viewing ads served by Amazon on third party websites/apps. Their main page makes no mentio
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by htag 4y ago
Outliers happen all the time. The sort of "overconfidence" described in this article is really about outlier detection and being willing to take a risk on something being an outlier. I have some thoughts on outlier detection. *
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by htag 4y ago
The scale doesn't imply simple drunkness.
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by htag 4y ago
I doubt curfew would have been called if this was a technical accident or natural disaster.
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by htag 4y ago
I agree with most of what you said, but I think one line is out of touch. > And finally, even if the causation is correct, all it indicates is that needle exchange programs need to also provide drug testing capabilities so the presence o
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by htag 4y ago
Sure, children going to the most competitive universities will probably have began prep work before the age of 8. I would guess that "Did my parents go to an elite university?" has far more predicting power for who will enter an
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by htag 4y ago
The linked study is for children aged 8-12. How does a 12 year old "remove themselves from the running for STEM"? A six grader taking average math/science classes and getting average grades is on track for qualifying for a
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by htag 4y ago
Is anyone actually surprised that the city with the highest cost of living also spends more per-student than any other city.
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by htag 4y ago
The author makes no argument that educational outcomes would improve or costs would decrease with his plan, and brushes off such concerns as secondary. My priorities and the author's priorities for public schools are different. Furth
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by htag 4y ago
Company A issues 100 stocks and sells each one for $100. Company A has a $10,000 market cap. Investor X sells a share of Company A to Investor Y for $110. Company A now has a market cap $11,000 because each of their 100 shares are now val
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by htag 4y ago
Millennial here, so there might be some generational differences. One important element of working from an office is that there are other people there I need to talk to. If half of the people I am working with aren't in the office the