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by jbob2000 6y ago
Have you looked around you lately? What about the unintended consequences of... all of human technology and civilization? Please, get rid of the mosquitos! I don’t want to have to douse myself in chemicals just to go for a hike or enjoy a w
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by jbob2000 6y ago
This is really just circumventing the problem. As an end user, I don't want my money to be split up in to all of these random pools that private companies have control over.
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by jbob2000 6y ago
We didn't make the music for money's sake either, it was a happy surprise to wake up the next morning to find that many members of our community liked it enough to buy it (it's pretty clear that it can be streamed and downloa
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by jbob2000 6y ago
My partner and I recorded a Christmas album in our basement and put it on Bandcamp for "pay what you want including $0". We made over $400, but as of today, it's only been downloaded/streamed 500 times. I'm sure if
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by jbob2000 6y ago
Computers used to be a "commodity of commodities". The motherboard was made by one manufacturer, the memory was made by another one, the CPU by a different one, etc. etc. Unless a competitor controls and owns their supply chain li
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by jbob2000 6y ago
When I saw Parasite as the number 1 item, I remembered my experience trying to watch it; I couldn't find a legit way to watch it using the existing services I pay for, so I downloaded it. The rest of the items on this list look like th
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by jbob2000 6y ago
To entice people to his organization. He brings people to the palace, shows them the life of a king for a few days, and sends them home feeling warm and fuzzy about joining. No doubt the bedrooms have cameras in them to capture the blackmai
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by jbob2000 6y ago
It would take a large stroke of global authoritarian action to get what you want. There are 2 stores because that's about what the market can support right now. Any more and you divide the development base too thin, companies cut budge
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by jbob2000 6y ago
Yes, especially since many families take on special diets as part of autism therapy.
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by jbob2000 6y ago
> The srcset attribute is well-established. on new browsers > Every [new] platform supports AVC1 now, even Firefox.
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by jbob2000 6y ago
The browser standards are behind. The img tag is wonky considering the various screen sizes and bandwidth variability today. Loading fonts is sketchy and weird. Anything to do with video is terrible. Anything to do with networking is terrib
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by jbob2000 6y ago
I'll look for the article to link here (which I probably initially read on HN) but it was a blog post that described a developer's experience slogging through Nintendo docs and working with Nintendo and it being very slow and diff
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by jbob2000 6y ago
It's not good for a platform developer to be the only one making killer games. This is a lack of diversity that is a weakness. The titles you mention are the only good franchises on Switch, third party titles have not had the same succ
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by jbob2000 6y ago
Nintendo would hopefully become higher quality under Microsoft, that's what they'd get out of it. Microsoft has shown they can culture a good developer ecosystem, Nintendo is awful for third party developers. Nintendo also struggl
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by jbob2000 6y ago
I don’t think Microsoft will make the same mistake again by pursuing a touch UI on the desktop. Windows 8 and the Metro UI was a huge waste of time and effort that really harmed Microsoft. What I think they are pursuing is how to monetize W
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by jbob2000 6y ago
Sounds like whale-catching mobile games on a much bigger scale; Create a fake world with a bunch of fake restrictions, line up a bunch of bored computer nerds, get them to feel superior over one another by demonstrating their wealth with th
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by jbob2000 6y ago
My only criticism of Skylines is that it’s not a game, it’s just an art board for painting cities that move. There aren’t enough meaningful challenges to building your city, the reward for playing comes from making something aesthetically a
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by jbob2000 6y ago
I looked at the shared.com website, it seems like it’s just a content farm for marketing affiliations. They were probably banned for being a source of spam, even if the dashboard says “green” (maybe there are ways to systematically game thi
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by jbob2000 6y ago
This just makes sure you’re using correctly licensed libraries, it’s punishment for honest people. I can circumvent this system by taking the snippet I need or just wholesale copying the library and changing around a few variables.
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by jbob2000 6y ago
Given that most software made today is a conflation of frameworks, libraries, cloud services, and yes, code snippets, it seems really trite to worry about the copyright issues from copy and pasting a couple lines from a publically accessibl
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by jbob2000 6y ago
Money is just paper. It’s the system behind it that gives it meaning. The banking system is not amoral, it does not want you to use its money for illegal activities. Cryptocurrency has no morals, the system behind the money is all machine.
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by jbob2000 6y ago
The only use-case for crypto is that it fills in the gaps in demand that the global banking system creates. There are a lot of people who are left out or kicked out of the banking system, but they still need financial services, so the deman
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by jbob2000 6y ago
I wouldn't even call this a game prototype, it's just someone playing around with unreal engine.
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by jbob2000 6y ago
It’s like refactoring a codebase without understanding the problems behind the current implementation, and then acting surprised when the code is just as ugly.
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by jbob2000 6y ago
Microsoft will buy Facebook within the decade, calling it now. Oculus is a great addition to xbox, and they have the technical stewardship to maintain the social network's hegemony. Then, they can work it in to Office 365 and offer an
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by jbob2000 6y ago
It’s some weird perversion of our systems that an entire class of people are able to pump a company’s books in private and then dump them on the market for pension funds and retail investors (aka working people) to pick up the debts. This V
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by jbob2000 6y ago
Correct, but nobody builds bank vault doors for their bathroom. That’s my point here. This article is about how law enforcement can break down bank vault doors and everyone here is like “this makes my bathroom door irrelevant”. Your bathroo
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by jbob2000 6y ago
Anne Frank had to hide in an attic to get away from those in power who wanted her dead. Wondering how encryption helps when the gestapo simply goes door to door?
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by jbob2000 6y ago
But that’s my point. If the circumstances change such that the people in power want you dead, they don’t need your hard drives. They’ll just kill you.
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by jbob2000 6y ago
If someone wants you gone and has the power to make you gone, whatever encryption you have is irrelevant. Just do enough to protect yourself from automated or low skill attacks. I’m kind of curious though... what are you storing that would

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