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by madair 17y ago
He is the larger than life fictional character that we sarcastically refer to Chuck Norris as.
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by madair 17y ago
Definitions of right are not subjective. That's moral relativism. It's just hard to find what right, but the majority isn't necessarily right.
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by madair 17y ago
They signed up to play heroes vs villains. That's what they got. They wanted to farm experience points and socialize, but it was harder than they wanted it to be because someone else was following the rules and using their own skills to def
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by madair 17y ago
Yes, mostly FFXI
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by madair 17y ago
Thanks for the summary! And, ah yes, farming ! I think I love a player who disrupts that disgustingly boring cycle that ruins the interest in most online worlds. No wonder they hated him, he disrupted their farming!
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by madair 17y ago
It certainly seems like they had every opportunity to ban him, but chose not to, which implies that it's not quite as simple as the griefer explanation.
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by madair 17y ago
I read that whole thing, and I'll re-read it, but I really didn't hear at all that he was using glitches and bugs. In fact, the rules and rule-abiding were an important component of the study. Other users were using an area designed for fre
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by madair 17y ago
I'm with the professor on this one. If you can't play-act like a villain, or a villainous hero, in a game about heroes and villains, then what the hell is the fantasy world of gaming giving other than all the worst weaknesses and faults of
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by madair 17y ago
Industrial sabotage involving the theft of software written in Erlang which keeps Goldman Sachs quite literally one of the most powerful financial groups in the world. There are multiple neato headlines that could be written for this, I wou
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by madair 17y ago
All this helpful information from Valley insiders on how absolutely vital it is to be in Silicon Valley is starting to sound quite a bit like too much propaganda. I don't buy it. But then again, I'm not running a startup in the Valley or el
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by madair 17y ago
Excellent article, but the notion that we should believe that idiocy was at the heart of this seems quite wrong to me. At best, willful idiocy. It seems more likely to me to fall under the Wall Street koan, "You'll be gone, I'll be gone", r
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by madair 17y ago
I unfollow people who play games like that, drowning my twitter and facebook with stupid posts. I think a lot of people do.
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by madair 17y ago
It's healthy to be skeptical of all the news. Twitter just makes it more obvious.
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by madair 17y ago
It's called Solidarity.
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by madair 17y ago
That doesn't make it any less odious. In fact, that makes it MORE odious! You're proving my point. ;-)
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by madair 17y ago
Well, from all I'm hearing, it's not like iPhone is the get-rich-quick scheme that lots of devs were hoping for. I realize some people feel all hip with a iPhone in their pocket, but I don't think the devs really have enough reason to stick
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by madair 17y ago
Isn't making an NDA for a conference talk about publishing to the app store quite a big fat fuck you too? Seriously, how much more of this Apple-flagellation are you peeps gonna accept?!?? (Yes _flagellation_.)
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by madair 17y ago
I urge readers to consider the importance of civil disobedience in the face of overwhelming abuses of power by the Iranian government. I'm not advocating any one particular method, but his arguments are weak. Abusers of freedom may cry foul
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by madair 17y ago
Another article to end anonymity while being utterly blind to the problems of oppression that dominate the majority of the world's population. People of fame need to accept the trade-offs, particularly people who strive to become famous. So
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by madair 17y ago
They completely miss a couple huge segments of bloggers, those who write because they want to write regardless of audience, and those who write for a small social network such as family or friends. I believe they also make an unspoken presu
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by madair 17y ago
Another day, another negative blogging story in the NYT.
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by madair 17y ago
This seems more like an advertisement than an article. Make them worry real big that their experts or expertise just isn't good enough, then close with a paragraph about our training. Hmmmm. I like reading expert articles from people not
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by madair 17y ago
Most definitely not, I should have worded that better, I've edited it now.
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by madair 17y ago
An excellent example of both faux-deconstruction http://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~pvr/decon.html and intellectual impostors as described by Dawkins http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/dawkins.html , also seen on Hacker News :-D Seriously,
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by madair 17y ago
I was just there. The people I talked to about this feel that (a) politicians have talked up the crisis to such a shrill level for so long that trust has almost completely been lost and (b) cost cutting is a desired outcome, although I don'
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by madair 17y ago
The Economist is traditional a fairly conservative organization, it's hard to call their critique of Republicans knee-jerk.
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by madair 17y ago
Okay, so you're going to quibble over a questionable definition. Fine. Google censors themselves. [ADDED] And since the brigade on this seems determined to dull the impact of the statement that in order to achieve higher profits, Google has
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by madair 17y ago
Self-censor, or be blocked. They self-censored.
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by madair 17y ago
It's more profitable for Google to self-censor in China. So they do.
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by madair 17y ago
A typical set of fears of regulation. At least you clarify that you really meant what you said. The people who think the market will self-regulate remain convinced even in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, for instance the

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