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by madrox 4y ago
As you say, these are social networks, and your ability to connect with other people playing the game opens all kinds of avenues for attacks and harassment as social networks. No one wants to put up with misanthropes just to play their favo
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by madrox 4y ago
The toxicity of random matchmaking has gotten out of hand. Whenever I decide to dive into a game of Overwatch, I'm rolling the dice on whether any of my five teammates will be misanthropes, and the odds are quite high these days. I sho
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by madrox 4y ago
I would not, and I think characterizing it as "dystopian digital surveillance" is disingenuous. Operators of free to play games only have so many mechanisms to make bans matter, and people behave differently if they know there are
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by madrox 4y ago
You're right. History has shown the best quality product doesn't always win if there's a "just okay" solution laying around that's more accessible. VHS and Windows both come to mind.
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by madrox 4y ago
I'm getting ~15 FPS on this demo, which is roughly the same FPS I got on my potato PC when Doom 3 launched. Really brings me back. I'm used to seeing Doom running on all kinds of platforms, but it's inspiring and humbling to
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by madrox 4y ago
I hope we eventually see a truce between developers and server emulators. Emulation really adds something to communities, and in a world where we're losing the public moderation war, private servers seem more and more like the solution
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by madrox 4y ago
About 12 years ago, I attended a barcamp (blast from the past) where someone gave an SEO talk about how to hack search and adwords to provide no value but capture eyeballs and trick people into clicking on things to make money. I recall man
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by madrox 4y ago
Not only will you get your recipes, you'll get to hear part of the author's life story before every ingredient!
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by madrox 4y ago
In my experience, some people perform better when operating feels performative. I don't think it's something anyone comes by naturally, though.
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by madrox 4y ago
Listening to these old arguments are interesting, because it comes during a time where there wasn't mass disillusionment about American democracy, and the people arguing for no age restriction didn't take into account how disillus
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by madrox 4y ago
I'm surprised and somewhat doubtful the process for online vs offline is materially different. I wonder if some of the reluctance/delay on single player is to keep the data miners at bay. The moment loot and drop rates go into a l
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by madrox 4y ago
My mother’s retired life is consumed by doing everything she can to stay independent for as long as possible. Ubers are nice, but she’s hoping self driving cars become truly possible before she has to give up her license. That’ll be a huge
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by madrox 4y ago
I think OP is agreeing with you
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by madrox 4y ago
Often in these situations, there are a few reasons. Monetization of users isn't always as good as the MAU would make it seem, or those users have significant overlap with Snap and don't represent a net gain to the company. This is
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by madrox 4y ago
The man himself! Thanks for chiming in.
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by madrox 4y ago
The specific idea, way back then, was DiSo [1]. Believe it or not, privacy wasn't the concern back then. The real problem was UX. Setting up and maintaining this stuff was Hard, and the network effect mattered a lot more in getting ado
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by madrox 4y ago
Stephenson has an incredible style that I appreciate more with every book I read because he has some regard for what you're probably thinking while reading it. Some of his books are incredibly easy to read. Some, like Quicksilver, are
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by madrox 4y ago
That's a detail I didn't know about. I guess it will remain to be seen. I still assert it won't stimulate the economy unless debts are completely repaid, but I am open to being wrong.
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by madrox 4y ago
The one sentence of this article I zoom in on is that this increases the money supply over time. Well...yes it does, but that's not bad. The question is how much, who is getting that extra supply, and how is that changing things? I hav
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by madrox 4y ago
This was obvious to me in 2014, when I was part of the earliest discussions at Disney for building a streaming service. It was obvious to everyone working in the space. As we started discussing partnerships with various providers to help di
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by madrox 4y ago
I once had an idea for a project where I would roughly attempt to translate personal information into a value amount. For example, how much is it worth to companies to know your gender, on average? You could probably figure this out with so
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by madrox 4y ago
If a different person were doing it, I think that'd be fair, but Carmack has a track record of quality engineering and quality product. I don't think you can blame Quest on him given the way he chose to exit.
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by madrox 4y ago
I got the same impression, and maybe it still is. You can still raise money for a retirement project if the goal of the money is to hire a staff. VC money isn't solely for young 20-something founders who want to live their job.
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by madrox 4y ago
I feel like there is a litany of the internet: "that which can be collected will be." That's been true since the beginning. What continues to surprise me is that people think only "bad guys" do it. This is why we co
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by madrox 4y ago
I'm more interested in the question of by what right do we demand others to endorse candidates and be publicly political? Jordan provided that response out of pressure for an explanation for why he didn't endorse anyone. It's
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by madrox 4y ago
My reasoning was that, across all Facebook-owned properties, they have ~7 billion MAU. All their top competitors combined are roughly half that. [1] This is all illustrative, of course. My salient point is that monopolies are only really he
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by madrox 4y ago
Looking at the tweets in question linked from that article [1], many of those are statements of blowing up airports or making death/rape threats. I, for one, appreciate the idea that making death threats online have consequences. Often
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by madrox 4y ago
I'm just grateful it's a duopoly and not a monopoly. Can you imagine how much worse the situation would be if one company soft-owned the entire space the way Facebook does with social media?
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by madrox 4y ago
While I tend to agree, this can break accessibility. The official WAI-ARIA authoring practices recommend Control+M. https://www.w3.org/WAI/ARIA/apg/ There should likely be an explicit override of accessibilit
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by madrox 4y ago
They absolutely should, but I would not be shocked if they weren't

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