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by madrox 4y ago
I believe that ship has sailed and the culture has changed. Simply removing Activision's influence won't put things back the way they were. Perhaps bringing back some of the original leaders might.
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by madrox 4y ago
We're already seeing this in FPS games. The way advanced aim assist cheats work are so subtle these days that even pros watching replays have a difficult time saying for sure if the person is cheating or just good. I agree, the reason
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by madrox 4y ago
This is a challenge across all esports and not just cycling. In other esports, competition may be online, but hardware is usually provided by the organizer and overseen in locations where refs can ensure nothing is being done to machines to
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by madrox 4y ago
This was my struggle with social media as it evolved. I watched it go from a predominantly techie novelty to how everyone communicated. I'd say I became more anxious and self-doubting as a result, but in some ways that's an improv
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by madrox 4y ago
Someone on HN once described this as the "toaster fucker problem" and I've thought about it this way ever since: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25667362
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by madrox 4y ago
I got an undergraduate degree in statistics, and what we were taught was that there are lots of valid ways to sample but how you sample affects how you can generalize the results . Since this is a college survey and not an FDA trial, it&#x
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by madrox 4y ago
"Othering" is probably one of the basest of cognitive biases. Even animals have it. At some point we need to be able to selectively empathize in order to remain sane.
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by madrox 4y ago
I agree. In a utilitarian sense, we are in a better world with less suffering and higher mortality (at least for humans). The problem with utilitarian justifications is that they are usually raised by people for whom it costs nothing and ga
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by madrox 4y ago
I think it’s easy to justify. I’m likely alive today based on medicines and procedures perfected on animals. I do not besmirch that. I’m saying I could not be that person who performed these surgeries and look at myself in the mirror when t
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by madrox 4y ago
It is important to eliminate cruelty when we can. The difficulty comes from the notion of "necessary cruelty." If animal testing will save lives, we can probably agree it's a worthy sacrifice, but I somehow don't suspect
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by madrox 4y ago
Consuming a steak is quite easy because there is a mental disconnect between this abstract red shape called a new york strip and the thinking, feeling animal it came from. When I was younger, the disassociation was so great it didn't o
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by madrox 4y ago
The older I get, the harder it gets to stomach animal testing or even animal consumption. I don't mean that this is overly cruel to animals, because nature itself is cruel. However, I could not be someone who did this work because I ca
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by madrox 4y ago
Arguably AI is about creating stupidity at scale
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by madrox 4y ago
This isn't a matter of smart vs dumb. If the sillier startup ideas of the last 20 years have taught me anything it's that entrepreneurs are really down to try anything, and all it takes is one mistake of the wrong kind.
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by madrox 4y ago
I've heard hormone therapy can help that. My father in law did it at fifty and he said it made him feel a lot younger.
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by madrox 4y ago
This feels like the judicial equivalent of a product manager asking an engineer why hasn't the feature been shipped yet. Everyone's been talking about the PRD for over a week!
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by madrox 4y ago
I, too, am 41. For the last five years, I've noticed that my mental performance has become more sensitive to physical changes. I had a particularly bad day with my memory one day when I woke up an hour earlier than I normally do. Anoth
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by madrox 4y ago
I wonder if there's space for a kind of "open source government contract bidder" where a coalition of open source volunteers could bid on government contracts that are about serving the public good. If they were about doing i
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by madrox 4y ago
I would have thought this kind of deal would have been struck at some point when people still thought of the internet as "novel" or a "fad" and therefore didn't scrutinize the situation too closely but no, this deal
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by madrox 4y ago
At this point in the "30% is unfair" game, I'm fascinated by the general reaction by the crowd. In every high profile case, it comes down to which company you have more affinity for. I watched a lot of the gaming community si
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by madrox 4y ago
Apple wants a 30% on fees, not the good itself. This is consistent with the rest of their policies. Arguably that still isn't ok, but this is not an encroachment.
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by madrox 4y ago
We're talking about cynicism and not criticism, correct? In my experience, cynicism is unproductive at best and anti-productive at worst. Criticism, of course, is valuable and healthy. Cynicism is a good and healthy thing to share with
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by madrox 4y ago
I'm so sorry for your loss.
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by madrox 4y ago
This is, of course, the counterargument to eradication, which is what leads me to muse on it
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by madrox 4y ago
This is not my field and my understanding of it is limited to high school science, but a picture being painted for me as a naive consumer of scientific news is that we're seeing evidence that viruses are playing a role in evolution. We
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by madrox 4y ago
I actually built this as a startup two years ago. There's quite a few "prediction market" website out there which can be both for karma and real money. We tried to combine predictions with social media to allow users to build
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by madrox 4y ago
As someone with some knowledge, I can share that it's moslty true. Bob has a knack for managing people...especially people on the creative side of the industry who are notoriously sensitive to feeling managed. It's why so many peo
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by madrox 4y ago
Disney has experimented with VR since the inception, and there’s reasons they haven’t made a play. There’s no home market, and the costs and throughput of doing it in the park don’t have the economics.
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by madrox 4y ago
I'm less shocked by this than I thought I would be. Chapek was a weird choice to begin with, and the way Iger transitioned out was very unlike him. I've always suspected there was a reason for it we never heard about. My personal
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by madrox 4y ago
These are the features that, in my opinion, should drive the next generation of innovation. We don't need VR or blockchain as much as we need to go the last mile on the promise to connect everyone everywhere to give them the services

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