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by maest 4y ago
This does not somehow make it okay to introduce more suffering for this particular mode of transportaion.
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by maest 4y ago
I initially thought his car was carrying a rapper called Lil X, but I think it's actually talking about his child?
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by maest 4y ago
I don't think there is an universally agreed standard of which games are worth starting with. Different people like different things. However, I did find some success browsing the ShutUpAndSitDown recommended list: https://w
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by maest 4y ago
Skull is definitely in my top 5 games. Love the simplicity. If you like games which distill the notion of bluffing, you should also try Perudo. Very similar to Skull, but it uses dice.
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by maest 4y ago
For a different set of games that I haven't seen so far in this thread: 1. Secret Hitler (or maybe Avalon, which is the strategically marginally richer, but harder to pick up, cousin of Secret Hitler). It's a highly adversarial, i
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by maest 4y ago
> I like that you can strategize and compete without directly getting in each other's way. You may be aware of this - this genre is called Eurogame https://boardgamegeek.com/wiki/page/Eurogame It's th
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by maest 4y ago
> A dangerous criminal with an arrest warrant While you can make an argument about using deadly force against those types of actors (although, personally, I don't think the answer is clear cut), most concerns I've seen were aro
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by maest 4y ago
> If the price is right That is doing a lot of the work. In particular, you need to be able to predict what interest rates will be doing in the future.
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by maest 4y ago
In the US, this trend largely started with the airline deregula act in 1978. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airline_deregulation#Post-dere... It's been a constant trend towards a. cheaper flights b. worse quality f
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by maest 4y ago
You may have misread "weeks" as "months".
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by maest 4y ago
I think the difference comes down to a few things: * the existence of behaviour score together with a functional report system, which I don't think was a thing in HoN. I'm at 10k behaviour score (max) and there are generally no ga
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by maest 4y ago
If it makes you feel any better, I don't think technical issues were the reason HoN failed. For context, I have played a lot of DotA2 and HoN (5.2k hours in DotA2, probably 1k hours in HoN). This is anecdotal, but I was never really bo
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by maest 4y ago
There are multiple types of paradoxes: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox#Quine's_classificati... This would fall under "veridical paradox" - true statement which most people would expect to be fals
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by maest 4y ago
I would've assumed the left one was the correct version, as it has more weight on the bottom. For most humans, it feels natural to have negative space/light colours above (air, sky etc) and content/dark colours at the bottom
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by maest 4y ago
You're still paying for the cost of fraud, so it's not really someone else's problem.
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by maest 4y ago
Honest question (as in, I'm not insinuating what I expect the answer to be): do you think you'd be less efficient or more efficient if you triaged the day's tasks at your desk?
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by maest 4y ago
I sometimes like to turn headlines like this on their head. e.g. this can also be read as "1/3 of kids in Assen are prevented from biking to school by design"
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by maest 4y ago
Any idea what framework (if any) this is written in?
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by maest 4y ago
Reminds me of John Wanamaker's quip re marketing: "Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is, I don't know which half."
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by maest 4y ago
One surprising thing (at least for me) that I don't see anyone talking about in the comments is: I had no idea Alex Jones had that much money. That's 1 billion dollars in damages.
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by maest 4y ago
> The fact that Facebook fully controls the software and hardware platform is just a huge additional turnoff. I'm actually quite optimistic: I don't see a reason why Meta will be the only player in VR. I don't think long t
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by maest 4y ago
> If the Quest Pro could replace my triple monitors, $1500 is a bargain. It's basically a laptop with 3 monitors that appear out of thin air whenever you want. Amazing. It won't. The form factor is still too clunky and you will
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by maest 4y ago
The price tag does feel too rich (but then again it's not aimed at retail). Thing is, the leap from Quest 2 to Quest Pro feels comparable to the leap between consecutive console generations (e.g. PS4-PS5) - it's iterative improvem
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by maest 4y ago
Page doesn't seem to load for me on Firefox - seeing a bunch of CORS errors in the console.
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by maest 4y ago
Started training for boxing. Knowing there are direct painful consequences for diminishing my physical capabilities naturally made me severely cut down on drinking.
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by maest 4y ago
> English is the simplest Latin based language. It's not a Latin-based language (French, Italian, Spanish etc are Latin-based languages). It's not clear how you measure simplicity, but, in terms of phonetics, English is quite t
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by maest 4y ago
The discussion you posted is not nearly as bad as you make it sound. It's basically someone realising one of the clauses in their deed is worded perhaps a bit too broadly and are worried if it will be enforced. As a result, they are as
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by maest 4y ago
> Didn't Roadside Picnic become Tarkovsky's Stalker? Indeed, it did -- it also spawned the "S.T.A.L.K.E.R." game series, which really nails down the derelict industrial soviet aesthetic.
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by maest 4y ago
That doesn't solve the GP's complaint. Defaults are powerful.
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by maest 4y ago
The other way I think about Veblen goods is that when you're purchasing an e.g. Balenciaga shirt, you're paying for 2 things: 1. the shirt 2. you're giving money to Balenciaga to go out there and tell people how great owners

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