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by johnzim 7y ago
Absolutely. I think litter is entirely a cultural/social issue. It might be a little trite but I sometimes think the Eastern approach of Shame is more effective than the Western approach of Guilt in curbing small social transgressions.
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by johnzim 7y ago
Ah yes, I had forgotten about that stuff. A bunch of it was before my time and I only knew about it from other players' stories. Thank you for posting it! Even with so much of that removed, UO always had the feeling of a living breathi
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by johnzim 7y ago
To be fair, Ultima Online’s economy was tanked by the innovation of bard/tamers and the Trammel ruleset introduced in Renaissance. Massively increasing the supply by having it possible for players to trivialise the ransacking of dungeo
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by johnzim 7y ago
In the early 90s many countries started opening up pathways for HK citizens fearing this - there was a lot of talk of "Brain Drain" in HK. Canada in particular did a great job of encouraging emigration. These days it's a litt
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by johnzim 7y ago
Very clever. That said, there’s plenty of HKers who were happy to be govt stooges who speak Cantonese and can write English.
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by johnzim 7y ago
Slack also grew out of the team that made Glitch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glitch_(video_game) That core team therefore had a lot of frontend web dev experience. It made sense that they'd stick to their streng
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by johnzim 7y ago
Good point, I'd seen the Margret Hamilton image quite a few times since it started circulating but nothing of Saydean Zedlin. I was glad to learn about her thanks to your comment http://www.astronomy.com/news/2019&
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by johnzim 7y ago
It is not a necessary precondition for its founding or instantiation. It is hard to conclude however, from the body of evidence we have, that it is anything less than necessary for its continued functioning. edit: spelling
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by johnzim 7y ago
Indeed. For something to be unlawful you must have a society beholden to the rule of law, which the PRC is most definitely not.
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by johnzim 7y ago
I'd also recommend Apollo if you're on iOS and are happy using an App to get your reddit fix. Fast, reliable and well designed. I really enjoy using it. https://apolloapp.io
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by johnzim 7y ago
Every time I consider the simplicity of computing in the early 90s (when I was a kid) I have a pang of nostalgia. We've made some wonderful things together as an industry but the author reminded me of something poignant in his last par
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by johnzim 7y ago
Implementing A* recently I was shocked at how beautifully simple and elegant it was. What a tremendous gift to bequeath. We truly stand on the shoulders of giants. RIP Mr Nillson.
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by johnzim 7y ago
No! Without question one of the finest computer scientists I have ever met. Fearlessly independent and willing to try anything and everything. Edit: the thing I loved most about him was that he was brilliant but also kind. A living breathi
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by johnzim 7y ago
The Eurozone was never intended to do the damage it has done to PIGS economies but it has. What is worse, is that it has unquestionably been of benefit to Germany, which has one of the strongest hands in shaping the future of the EU. If a m
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by johnzim 8y ago
Yup the PRC's approach so far has been to force the rest of the world of kowtow, company by company, to their ridiculous petulant insecurities and autocratic fascism. That way they get the best of both worlds - a connection to a wide w
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by johnzim 8y ago
Not that I'm especially surprised but the concept of subsidiarity isn't worth much these days is it?
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by johnzim 8y ago
The irony is quite delicious.
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by johnzim 8y ago
Cooperative Multitasking may have been a massive hack but boy was it ever responsive when you selected a menu back in System 7
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by johnzim 8y ago
Less good for average HKers though...
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by johnzim 8y ago
CCP propaganda is strong - that's why. Look at the language used "return" - people still think HK was leased. It wasn't - the New Territories were. People don't care about HK people. I wish they did but no one does.
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by johnzim 8y ago
Hah! I literally JUST had to implement this last week. Wish I'd had this resource then!
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by johnzim 8y ago
Love it! I had to go back and listen to one of my favorite midi tracks - the Ultima online Buccaneer's Den theme. Using this sound font there are some really major improvements. Not that the original instrumentation that shipped with m
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by johnzim 8y ago
I taught kids programming in an after school program for 4 years. Scratch was the tool that explained a lot of concepts best (and allowed those students who had trouble, still feel like they achieved something meaningful in the course) I to
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by johnzim 8y ago
The Music Industry did this to itself - because it disliked the amount of power the iTunes music store had, it decided to allow Spotify's frankly obscene business idea to float. Well, one of those partners earned them lots of money and
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by johnzim 8y ago
Oh cool!
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by johnzim 8y ago
Geez I think I just found a broken link - his link under the family section for his daughter Heidi links to http://summonedcreature.com which is a comic illustrated by his daughter Geneva instead. Geneva's own link is broke
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by johnzim 8y ago
Good decision on their part. As laughable as some technical branding sometimes seems, it usually serves a decent purpose in helping people upgrade infrastructure.
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by johnzim 8y ago
Sad to see him go. TempleOS update discussions were always a really interesting read on this site and others.
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by johnzim 8y ago
Actually there was a very significant amount of money ploughed into researching that exact topic in the PRC. With significant and predictable sadness when the results didn't go their (the CCP and Chinese nationalists) way. A google sea
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by johnzim 8y ago
What a great project!

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