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myhf
6y ago
heh
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myhf
6y ago
It's not cited properly, but that is a reference to Herb Simon's original description of the "attention economy."
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6y ago
It takes work to implement an ingame premium currency. The only reason to perform that work is because some business person thinks they have discovered a new way to claim that what they are doing "isn't gambling."
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myhf
6y ago
V-bucks should be banned completely, along with all other illegal gambling.
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myhf
6y ago
And of course the Steam Link app, which does everything a game streaming service does except collect subscription fees.
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myhf
6y ago
If "some startup's bottom line" depends on nonconsensual surveillance then they have ample warning to find a more sustainable business model.
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myhf
6y ago
Try searching for a "shirt without zebras"
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myhf
7y ago
Facebook's business model is to "move fast" (to outmaneuvre the competition) and "break things" (to disrupt the incumbents). It's clearly intended as a desirable imperative.
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myhf
7y ago
It won't go very far in replacing income, but it could push a lot of people from a high risk category into a low risk category. "Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen [pounds] nineteen [shillings] and six [pence
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myhf
7y ago
If you use a Dvorak keyboard layout, you will be immune to sl, without having to set any alias.
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7y ago
If you are operating within the scope of a single country, eliminating all cases within that country would not be a stopping rule.
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7y ago
Most public bathrooms also have automatic doors (if you wait long enough)
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7y ago
RoboCup Junior OnStage is a good example of integrating dance with computers. You can program sensors to detect triggers from humans and respond by moving props into place. There's a lot of freedom to choose what type of sensors, compu
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myhf
7y ago
> a competent sleep specialist You mean there are sleep specialists who can do more than schedule a sleep study and then say that it was inconclusive because you couldn't fall asleep during the study?
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myhf
7y ago
No printf. Less keywords than Java. Lame.
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7y ago
How do you handle opening ports to a ROS publisher inside a Docker container, when you don't know the port numbers in advance?
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7y ago
> Spending 80% of your income on housing is just poor budgeting no matter how you look at it. 77% of take-home pay is closer to 40% of income. It's only a little higher than sustainable levels. When housing costs grow 5-10% per year
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7y ago
In some countries, one "billion" means 1,000,000,000,000 instead of 1,000,000,000, so there it would be exactly 1000x more powerful than in the UK.
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myhf
7y ago
Yes. They also act as splitters.
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7y ago
This still seems like a better option than Stadia or GeForce Now, because it should support all PC games (including store-exclusive titles like Satisfactory, Untitled Goose Game, and The Outer Worlds).
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7y ago
There is an option for "off" or "on (when the credits start)" but not "when the music finishes" or "when the video finishes".
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7y ago
It's not zero-sum. It can change the velocity of circulation money, which impacts economic activity in predictable ways.
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7y ago
You learn to derive some satisfaction from feeding it inaccurate labels.
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7y ago
If a periodically reposted idea undergoes slight variations with each repost, does it experience conscious thought?
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myhf
7y ago
The 4th dimension is not orthogonal to the others, so maybe the true cardinality is closer to 12 than 16.
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7y ago
There's an option to disable all touches without greying anything out, but I agree that it's too cumbersome to use.
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Refusing to allow that content as paid ads doesn't make the content go away. It just makes people game the system to get views instead of paying for views. Then the moderation problem would be even harder.
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I used to update my memes and references every few months, but since Windows 10 came out I haven't needed to reinstall my memebase as often so I am still running some old memes.
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7y ago
Normal API use is to read information about the people directly interacting with a post or an app, for the purpose of facilitating that interaction. Cambridge Analytica used posts to get API access to all users (and friends-of-friends) who
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7y ago
Being explicit about node-types is useful if you are converting those names directly into tagNames. But then you just end up reinventing HAML/Pug.
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