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by mwfunk 7y ago
I don't know of any other industries that have normalized masochistic crunch to anywhere near the degree that most of the game industry has, and I've worked in some pretty freaking crunchy sausage factories. The game industry real
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by mwfunk 7y ago
It's hard to say. It's never going to be a win/win for them, and unfairly cutting someone off would be terrible publicity for them. I'd imagine they're totally inconsistent about these things and don't spend ha
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by mwfunk 7y ago
I'm certain age has nothing to do with it. The only thing that determines someone's opinion here is how much they care about accurate AV reproduction, and that's not driven by age, only passion for the content.
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by mwfunk 7y ago
I agree with you. Those sites were closer to home and less alien to Americans, and thus might get more scrutiny and judgement. That's got to be a factor. But I've got to think avoiding bad publicity and negative headlines is the #
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by mwfunk 7y ago
In the Old Testament, Moloch was another tribe's god, and so was a competitor to Yahweh (the Jewish/Christian/Muslim god). The OT doesn't actually say there aren't other gods, but rather that you should only worship
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by mwfunk 7y ago
Probably it's closer to home- those sites fuel domestic terrorism, whereas the Taliban do not. Also public pressure and public attention. They're probably incredibly hesitant to take anything down, but if something becomes front p
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by mwfunk 7y ago
Agreed. I'm not 100% sure about the winner-take-all aspect, but to make a serious AR product you essentially have to do all the work required to make a serious VR product, then add a whole lot of inherently fragile complexity on top of
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by mwfunk 7y ago
Nobody’s telling anyone to do anything. The problem people are talking about is that this setting looks like absolute garbage and it’s inexplicably turned on by default on almost all TVs these days. The only people who think otherwise are p
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by mwfunk 7y ago
This kind of thing fascinates me. Another example is the various names we have for types of cars- coupes, sedans, even more obscure ones like 'shooting brake'. These were names for types of horse-drawn carriages, and cars inherite
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by mwfunk 7y ago
The degree to which this tries to push a narrative rather than just presenting facts and reasoning makes me question its credibility, but I’m trying to be open to it. I just get the vibe that the author sees himself as living in a novel in
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by mwfunk 7y ago
It's not a joke, it's just a name, so humor has nothing to do with it. The problem is that it's a weird choice of name. If someone named it "Hitler" or "Damnation" or "PoopEmoji" it would also be
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by mwfunk 7y ago
It makes them tons of money, their problem is that other things make even more money. Sadly their organizational structure is such that walking and gum-chewing is almost impossible for them, so even colossally profitable and beloved product
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by mwfunk 7y ago
Same. Not quite 25 years, but 20+. I've worked with assholes who thought they were the top performers, but I've never worked with top performers who were assholes. It's part of what makes them assholes- to them, it's jus
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by mwfunk 7y ago
I forget, what does ARM stand for again? :)
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by mwfunk 7y ago
It's not about making rich people feel better about themselves. In the case of restaurants at least, in the US servers are often paid below minimum wage, because the employer claims that the bulk of their employees' wages come fro
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by mwfunk 7y ago
Grow too fast and not judiciously. Expand rapidly, making assumptions about expenses and operations and revenue. Then a few months later, there were unexpected expenses, operations aren't going as smoothly as anticipated, and revenue i
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by mwfunk 7y ago
This is good advice, but the question here is who's the outlier. I had the same reaction and I'm pretty sure just about everyone I know would too. Or perhaps the point I'm missing is that everyone should assume that everyone,
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by mwfunk 7y ago
That's how it works when different teams within a company have an ideal balance of power. When everything's correctly balanced, the right people make the right decisions, and help to correct each other's wrong decisions. I be
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by mwfunk 7y ago
Because if they wanted offshore developers that they never met to do the work, they would have paid offshore developers that they never met to do the work. They wouldn't have spent their own time and money seeking out job candidates an
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by mwfunk 7y ago
Usually when I see people put stickers on laptops it's just for stuff they like or things they think looks cool. Maybe sometimes that ends up being a company they like for whatever reason. It's the same reasoning someone would use
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by mwfunk 7y ago
I followed the link expecting to find a huge page full of confusing lists of confusing things, but instead found a very small, concise page of very concise release notes containing links to information about the handful of security/etc
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by mwfunk 7y ago
If it has an open source license, it is 100% truly "free and open source". That's a good thing, not a bad thing! There's nothing magic about foundations or volunteer organizations that make some things more open sourcey
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by mwfunk 7y ago
I think they were just railing against the notion of self-contained libraries and frameworks that are capable of being used by developers in binary form. I'm guessing a hobbyist who cares infinitely more about maximizing their own ment
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by mwfunk 7y ago
Agreed. Basically, not being able to both run Steam and continue being one of the best game development studios in the industry, which they surely were 20 years ago. I understand that they're going to naturally follow the money and put
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by mwfunk 7y ago
Thank you, you're correct! TIL. I thought the i8 was an EV, I had no idea it was just another hybrid. I'm sure it's an engineering marvel, and it's really pretty IMO, but not being a pure EV makes it significantly less a
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by mwfunk 7y ago
Just to be clear, I do think the i3 and cars like them have a place in the market, and kudos to BMW for getting outside of its comfort zone and shipping something new that has found an audience. However, if I were running BMW (and it's
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by mwfunk 7y ago
As others have pointed out, BMW has been in the EV market for years now with the i3 and i8. I think where they dropped the ball is that they seemingly didn't want to cannibalize sales of their other vehicles. The i8 is extremely niche
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by mwfunk 7y ago
For some people, I think it's actually exciting for them to think about how independent they are and how nobody can spy on them or trick them out of money because they consider themselves to be so worldly and knowledgeable about such t
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by mwfunk 7y ago
Well, that's certainly what the people telling you what they want you to believe want you to believe. People have been saying that all my life, and it wasn't any more true in the '70s for the Moral/Silent/whatever M
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by mwfunk 7y ago
I'm not saying people should blindly trust "the science". I'm just saying the far bigger danger these days is people who blindly distrust science, and think that people like Alex Jones are somehow keeping it real and fun

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