kipchak

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by kipchak 7y ago
At some point I think practically speaking people are broken beyond repair, at least compared to the amount of good you could do for other people with the same amount of resources.
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by kipchak 7y ago
Mirrorless cameras seem to be fleeing uphill towards larger sensors, with the Sony A7s and Fuji medium formats.
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by kipchak 7y ago
Out of curiosity do you have any particular examples other than the coffee lawsuit?
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by kipchak 7y ago
Warren v. District of Columbia is a good example of that not always being the case.
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by kipchak 7y ago
Our governments have limited power by design.
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by kipchak 7y ago
I'm no expert but I think they're still fairly commonly used in China. There's a rather popular small cheap 40w laser engraver (3020) sold on sites like Alibaba designed for stamp making that's become fairly popular else
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by kipchak 7y ago
Mortal Kobat's niche is largely people who really like the over the top gore for whatever reason, in the same way some people are horror movie gore fans. MK is also one of the few Western fighting games left which have a different play
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by kipchak 8y ago
Steam's hardware survey is probably the best measure available, and puts W10 at 68% and W7 at 27%. https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Softw...
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by kipchak 8y ago
Regarding Skype, it's acquisition has been argued to have been more in order to allow for NSA interception of VoIP traffic than it making business sense, though the truth behind that statement is highly debatable.
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by kipchak 8y ago
Looking at the iPhone SE, I wonder if it's relatively low profit and retail cost had a role to play in it's death. If I was Apple having that customer buy a 7 instead seems like a better deal for me.
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by kipchak 8y ago
To be fair wouldn't it be two in this case? One for the projection expecting sales to be down, and another for the projection being 10% higher than it should have been.
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by kipchak 8y ago
I think CAFEs silence on trucks is partially why small 3rd rows have become more popular on crossovers. If there's a third row it qualifies as a truck versus a car or wagon, I believe the same is true of features like 4WD or sufficient
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by kipchak 8y ago
Modern games need to appeal to an increasingly large number of people as their scope and budget increases, their breadth has to increase to appeal to larger numbers of people in order to be more accessible. Smaller games can more easily aff
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by kipchak 8y ago
While I think you're right that the Xbox One's Always Online features were mostly just mistimed, (and marketed) in addition to a Totem aspect physical disks are also a way to keep a game longer than however long the service's
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by kipchak 8y ago
In the default iMessage for iOS return inserts a new line and the > button sends.
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by kipchak 8y ago
This sounds similar to the work of Jonathan Haidt. https://www.ted.com/talks/jonathan_haidt_on_the_moral_mind?l...
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by kipchak 8y ago
>Ideally advertising would be a way of leading all buyers of mousetraps to the best mousetrap. Instead it is a way for the lesser mousetrap manufacturers/ the lazy/ the actively evil to foist inferior products on people via emo
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by kipchak 8y ago
It seems like it would be a great case study for someone interested in social psychology or Social Norms Theory or something similar. I remember when I first came across the site 13 year old me being worried if I posted something too stupid
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by kipchak 8y ago
For what it's worth the increase in traffic from 2010 onward was largely mobile users, with desktop users staying around 50M, while total users grew to a peak of about 133m at the start of 2018.
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by kipchak 8y ago
To use more charitable marketing speak Apple definitely strongly uses a second mover advantage, maybe with some secret sauce thrown in.
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by kipchak 8y ago
I remember this being used early on in WoW; in order to keep people from playing too long XP earned decreased over time. After complains it was changed to a boost for time spent logged out which was much more popular.
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by kipchak 8y ago
>Most people don't have enough skin in the game to be willing to accept that cost. This reminds me somewhat of the argument over voting rights during the founding of the Constitution, ultimately being left up to the States. The argu
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by kipchak 8y ago
The Kano kits come to mind in spirit, Though it's more of a guided cushier approach than just getting into basic. The basic idea is a Pi and it's accessories that you "build yourself" and then some optional add ons like
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by kipchak 8y ago
Looking back I wonder if iTunes might have been the secret sauce for the iPad to work, rather than the iPod itself.
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by kipchak 8y ago
Faceraiders was great! It's a shame it didn't seem to go much of anywhere though for later games, it's a shame it and the Vita's more odd features didn't get more use.
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by kipchak 8y ago
One way to try and get around that issue may be to compare cultures with high Gender Equality Index scores or some similar metric versus those with lower scores but otherwise similar. Presumably the closer to parity those years before unive
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by kipchak 8y ago
Referencing D. Schmitts article referenced in the BBC article, he's quoted as saying >"that using someone's sex to work out what you think their personality will be like is "like surgically operating with an axe"
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by kipchak 8y ago
Not exactly a scientific analogy, but it reminds me of rolling for stats in D&D or similar, where points in one area usually mean less points available for other areas. It also seems like there's variance in the amount of "poi
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by kipchak 8y ago
A concern I've heard brought up is if games are no longer supported on a new version of Windows, but steam and steamworks DRM is no longer able to run on an old version of Windows that the game is compatible with. Sometimes games like
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by kipchak 8y ago
I believe the bokeh is all software similar to the HTC One M8. The only consumer camera I know of that captures multiple DOF is the now defunct Lyrto's, which Jobs reportedly had an interest in for the iPhone.

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