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by lcw 4y ago
Yeah I feel you. I don't think I was whataboutism-ing. The parent comment said PoE is fine because it's just cosmetics in game that you can buy. I guess I should have said you could spend thousands of dollars on PoE on cosmetics,
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by lcw 4y ago
What point are you making? I'm making a point that you can spend $100k on cosmetics in Roblox or Fortnite, and people do spend thousands of dollars over time almost unknowingly. I assume you would think this is bad right? If manipulati
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by lcw 4y ago
This take seems off to me specifically in you last paragraph. Whether it is MTX in the form of cosmetics or p2w mechanics both are predatory to people with addictions to games and kids. I feel like people are upset about p2w mechanics in th
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by lcw 4y ago
I would take that a step further, and say more like Tribes 1 with modern graphic. I feel like the modding community was out of control in a good way on Tribes 1. Flying around with unlimited jetpack and a automatic sniper rifle in Ultra Ren
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by lcw 4y ago
I agree with you. I think you are picking up on the fact that interest rates have been so low for so long, and people are looking for returns that they are just speculating/gambling. It's commonplace to find unicorns or popular br
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by lcw 4y ago
I agree with your first point. I actually figured that we were in agreement here. I was just saying the phrasing of your comment is what triggered the clarifying questions, because I had the same clarifying questions when I first read your
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by lcw 4y ago
The way you phrased your opposition made it sound like you think that shareholders care if a company has positive net income. However, the whole point of this discussion is that shareholders have no vested interest in the financials of the
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by lcw 5y ago
I agree that they are novel and interesting to learn, but practically speaking, the person's point, is they are over hyped, and honestly since most use cases popping up aren't decentralized or are decentralized, but being regulate
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by lcw 5y ago
The military is not that much different from the private sector. The first few ranks are as you say, but after that you can be fast tracked by nepotism, and cronyism.
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by lcw 5y ago
I agree. I'm working with a metrics system that takes just over 1 million metrics a second and it has a similar run rate to ~38k a month.
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by lcw 5y ago
I don't understand the nuance of what you are saying. Focusing on the political issues is inherently political. One of the most common phrases you hear from a politician is "let's get back to talking about the issues." Y
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by lcw 5y ago
If you are an international company you have to discuss these things. You literally have to discuss them for legal risk reasons, but us for cultural reasons. For instance, if you are a US company do you honor Crimea as a Russian territory..
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by lcw 8y ago
Right I get that in both cases the business can't operate, but if you take an example of a modern web application and a ddos with an ounce of sophistication it can be hard to quickly understand what is happening. So your autoscaling ra
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by lcw 8y ago
If you have to hire 10x more staff then usual and have them sit around.
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by lcw 8y ago
I saw this documentary also, but personally I thought the defense was seriously flawed. A sit in costs the business money by preventing them from making money, but ddos'ing not only cost money because people can't use the site but
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by lcw 9y ago
I think the sounds effects blew out my speakers in my headphones... well at least my ear drum. I was not prepared, and I was listening to music loudly ;-) . Warning to all to turn your sound down before playing.
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by lcw 9y ago
What would legislation look like for DDoS on an ISP level? You make DDoS mitigation sound easy, but most of what I would call successful attacks are from traffic that looks real at the ISP level and are relatively low bandwidth. Attackers a
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by lcw 10y ago
I wonder why EA, Blizzard or the likes hasn't set up a site where you can vote on idea's for games like Lego Ideas has done for making lego sets. That's basically what's happening here except people are putting their mon
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by lcw 10y ago
I don't think aesthetics play very much if any role in being a effective front end developer. Look at Craigslist the thing is terribly ugly and dated but still widely used and functional. The aesthetics look like someone with no taste
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by lcw 10y ago
>"we have no free will" I preface this by saying I haven't thought about this much or know much about the subject, but I would argue that a stochastic simulation model would generate what we consider "free will".
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by lcw 10y ago
It's funny I feel the same way. For instance, there has been a huge movement in EComm web applications to make checkouts more of a wizard flow. I always liked it when everything was on one page and I could just tab through forms, and n
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by lcw 10y ago
If your affiliate account doesn't get shut down I would love to know how you got through the process. I did a similar thing, and they shut it down every time someone made a purchase because I wasn't providing "original conten
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by lcw 10y ago
Define great. Obviously they only benefit, as you kind of noted, people with disposable income. I mean you aren't dropping money into an HSA if you are living paycheck to paycheck. Do you really think we should have health programs tha
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by lcw 10y ago
I agree it doesn't have strong opinions and every developer has a different flavor of writing it making it difficult to code review without a ton of personal opinion type comments. That said it is a fun language because of how flexible
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by lcw 10y ago
Although PUT is not necessary using it for idempotent calls like it was designed to do actually helps developers using the API understand the intent of the call better. They don't have to worry about undesired consequences/side ef
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by lcw 10y ago
Well yes if it's systemic, I agree, but if it's committed by a few bad actors then I think it is difficult for anyone not involved to tell how bad it is. If I was on Susan's team and my manager was the only perpetrator and he
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by lcw 10y ago
I agree that something drastic has to happen to show goodwill to Uber's current employees, but I think what you are asking for, practically speaking, is for them to shutdown. I don't know what the best option is, but shaking up ma
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by lcw 10y ago
The EU case that's spinning up seems interesting in relation to product tying. It seems like they are going to get them for some minor stuff around email installation on Android and some pretty egregious advertising decisions. If Googl
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by lcw 10y ago
How would you go about applying antitrust laws to companies like facebook, google, uber, and airbnb? I think this would be a difficult fight because they all can claim serious competition. For instance, probably your best case could be agai
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by lcw 10y ago
Yea I was thinking the bandwidth limitations would be on the CPU because of data decryption... your points are valid though even with that. It's not a great example. I still think that varying degrees of security are fine with these ty

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