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by hx8 3mo ago
Exactly. The inflation rate is about 3%, so the people at Xbox worked very hard all year to have about the same value they put into it.
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by hx8 3mo ago
I own a decent library of retro games, sized in the hundreds. Part of my intake process is to rip my games onto a digital format. Owning the physical media, and acquiring the backup legally, gives me a strong legal foothold for creating bac
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by hx8 3mo ago
I would recommend looking at a wide variety of sources of information. Some YouTube channels, GamersNexus being one, focus heavily on spinning a gloomy narrative. By wide variety of information channels, I don't mean a different YouT
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by hx8 3mo ago
If PR value gets panels installed faster than they otherwise would be who cares. The most important thing is we install as much solar as possible as quickly as possible, because we're killing ourselves fighting wars for other energy s
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by hx8 3mo ago
It's just good utilization of marketing budget.
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by hx8 3mo ago
1. An Xbox Live/Playstation Plus is required for any online multiplayer functionality. 2. DRM Free still matters with multiplayer games. Minecraft is a perfect example, where you can run your own client/server and play with peopl
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by hx8 3mo ago
Consumer protection is a type of regulation, but if you can brand a rule as "Consumer protection" it will poll better than "regulation" because that's how marketing works.
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by hx8 3mo ago
1. That was 20 years ago. I wonder how it would pencil out now. 2. Yeah it was kind of dumb to put the panels into a high wear environment like a road. 3. What matters more is which projects pencil out the best. There are too many to choo
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by hx8 3mo ago
Zuckerberg was always excellent at knowing how to capture the attention of the internet....
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by hx8 3mo ago
I don't see this as "regulation". I see this as extending the same consumer protections that existed in the era of analog physical media to the digital age.
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by hx8 3mo ago
Yes. Look at the market research. It's growing specifically fast in Asia, but there is also strong growth with North America. Having a PC to check your email, order off amazon, and download recipes is dying. Buying a PC and using it
42.
by hx8 3mo ago
I'm optimistic about PC gaming because if Steam begins acting as an evil gatekeeper then game developers can adopt other avenues to deliver the games to their players. It's an open platform. People are using Steam now because it
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by hx8 3mo ago
I'm pessimistic about physical media yes. That's a legacy technology at this point.
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by hx8 3mo ago
I think it's a fair comparison. Steam can change their behavior to become much more user hostile at any point, and hold our triple digit steam libraries hostage.
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by hx8 3mo ago
A per-play revenue share is not uncommon in some markets, especially for games with frequent updates or more complicated network features.
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by hx8 3mo ago
Absolutely this. Fifteen years ago World of Warcraft was at its peak. You had 12 million people paying a monthly fee, plus buying the occasional expansion pack. No other gaming company had seen reoccurring revenue numbers like that before
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by hx8 3mo ago
It's solar, of course the unit economics are going to pencil out positive in the majority of climates and energy markets. The real question is "why should we put them here instead of somewhere else." I wonder if the benefits
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by hx8 3mo ago
I don't understand why Open Knowledge Format improves interoperability, which is the main claim for its value. These LLMs are obviously advanced enough to navigate other MD file organization schemas like Obisidan, or other text files
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by hx8 3mo ago
Wouldn't they also be potential causes that lead to worse heath outcomes that were not measured in the study?
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by hx8 3mo ago
Bellevue has a few advantages over Seattle. Seattle imposes a city level payroll tax that isn't in Bellevue, and there are other tax implications. Seattle's minimum wage is higher. Seattle has a more visible drug/homeless
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by hx8 3mo ago
A full sized target would have about 80k skus. A small independent book store might have 25k skus stocked. A Sephora would stock 20k different skus. I think people are underestimating the variety of products that are available.
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by hx8 3mo ago
This is the ideal situation, and common in most west cost dense areas, but not true for every dense mixed use area. Specifically it's common in low-income high-density housing to not have sufficient super market coverage.
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by hx8 3mo ago
I picked 250k sku because I think that is really close to maximum sku density, based on my experience designing planograms for certain retailers known for sku density. This maximum number of skews leans heavily towards spending space on re
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by hx8 3mo ago
I think this is the point I was trying to make, but didn't make as clearly as I wanted. Sure I could buy two or three different types of keyboards within walking distance, but none of them used my favorite mechanical switches. I was c
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by hx8 3mo ago
I don't see how Costco prevents you from making rational decisions. If anything the incredibly plain atmosphere (wide open spaces, no flashing lights, no loud music) feels much more calm than the typical retail experience. My average
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by hx8 3mo ago
As someone that has lived in a walkable neighborhood with a lot of shopping let me tell you, it doesn't solve the problem. Realistically you aren't going to reach more than 250k skus within a 20 minute walk of your home, and proba
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by hx8 3mo ago
Codex is more generous with their subscribers because they are second place, and have to climb the reputation ladder. I suspect if OpenAI was in Anthropic's market position they too would have tighter sub limits, gate-keep where their
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by hx8 4mo ago
If you're primarily serving enterprise then the $250/mo foot in the door price makes sense. No reason to make too aggressive of a play for the small market/mid market.
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by hx8 4mo ago
Seems to be targeted at quickly reducing infa cost for small-human teams with high-compute costs. I can see some value, but it's something I'd want to review quarterly instead of per-commit. I might feel different if I was reall
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by hx8 4mo ago
I haven't checked the numbers, but wouldn't reducing the global oil supply have a direct and positive impact on carbon emissions?

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