nekcihc

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by nekcihc 5y ago
Yes. The same is about these mobile game clones - the ones that will be better than original(on something), will last longer. The bigger issue is that mobile market is way faster and attention span of newer generation is also shorter, so ev
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by nekcihc 5y ago
Not a fan of Wordle type games, but seeing ads of Wordle, I would say that they are on their top wave and have even been mentioned in TV and the only thing that is left for them is going down - all the way down - their downfall has started
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by nekcihc 5y ago
Mobile market has created wide access that was not something available to game devs in past - that's why there were game publishers. The speed of gaining market also is significantly faster. So, when devs complain about market speed sl
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by nekcihc 5y ago
As someone who is making food at home and do not visit restaurants(because I have seen other side - how the food is made), I can only see Cronut as a brand development and advertisment of a donut(which is terrible food IMO). People in NYC a
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by nekcihc 5y ago
Without cloning there would not be anything what we have today and no indie developers as well. DOOM clones was a thing of past. There were many of them. Then Diablo clones - Sacred was one of them I liked. Torchlight or Path of Exile shoul
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by nekcihc 5y ago
>>I think Japan was on the verge of surrender anyway, just some careful wording and additional pressure from the Soviet Union's military might would have done it. It can not be perceived as a sane argument, after Allies had to de
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by nekcihc 5y ago
>>We have presented evidence and arguments that huh?, or more precisely a short questioning interjection with the function of other-initiation of repair, is a universal word likely to be attested in similar form in all natural spoken
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by nekcihc 5y ago
Anyway, there seems to be assumption, that those 92,8% are also streamers. They are not - they are mainly watching others. So, to take a closer look on Twitch monetization, there has to be data only about streamers, that excludes watcher ac
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by nekcihc 5y ago
Your subjective opinion does not account losses, that US had when they were fighting against Japanese - outside of Japan - only fighting over very tiny islands. So, in the end they saved ~1 million US soldiers, because fight on mainland(als
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by nekcihc 5y ago
I suppose, that in terms of Twitch monetization we can talk only about revenue from: 1. subscriptions it takes only 250 tier 1 subscribers to reach that 15 000$/year, if we take into account, that twitch is taking 50% from charges 2. a
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by nekcihc 5y ago
>>I agree that this is a thing, of course. But it makes for very low quality discussion, since non-toxic users will just let the toxicity fester instead of engaging to mitigate it. I do not make rules of reddit(I feel that the discuss
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by nekcihc 5y ago
>>Downvote is a disagree button as it is "perceived as such" Not because people are stupid and have one-dimensional thinking, but for the reasons, that textual information does not provide enough additional information, I al
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by nekcihc 5y ago
I've reread what GP was posted and he was banned for reason: personal attack, because he did say, that comment is stupid. For exactly the same reason you can get banned, if you use nuanced sarcasm or actually if you are touching anythi
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by nekcihc 5y ago
I was refering to ability to manipulate local files from Firefox, that existed 6 - maybe 8 years ago - long long time ago, when this filesystem API did not exist.
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by nekcihc 5y ago
>>The downvote is not a disagree button! Downvote is a disagree button as it is perceived as such and that is an issue. Same functionality is in NH - it just has a higher treshold when you can use it, but not really that different in
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by nekcihc 5y ago
I remember some time ago Firefox denied all the local access as a security issue - despite all the dialogs that asked for rights. Had to find some other ways to access simple txt file - via link.
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by nekcihc 5y ago
This looks even more on topic of where humanity is going(humans seems to be in transition to that alien world): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eden_(Lem_novel)
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by nekcihc 5y ago
Definitely, Yes.
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by nekcihc 5y ago
To me NH is strictly a source for technological/programming news. I do not comment on them, because I do not care what others(or bots) think, but my interest is about learning from that topic as much as possible, without noise. Anythin
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by nekcihc 5y ago
It explains more, than what I have discovered. And sadly that makes NH another "shit place"(no offence to moderators), where bots can thrive and where I have no intention to invest(and care) and where for me HN is just another nic
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by nekcihc 5y ago
Well, it is very natural to human behaviour and it can be controlled by making illusion, that majority think that way. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timur_Kuran#Private_Truths,_Pu... Another issue is what is going on i
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by nekcihc 5y ago
>>I find it really unserious the people comparing this to like, bringing back velociraptors and t-rex Every joke has some truth in it: we have a chicken - a very viable candidate to back-bred dino. Well, either that or we can have a g
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by nekcihc 5y ago
>>This is not the treatment approach and is not remotely feasible. This is from article: "They then prevent people from drinking the contaminated water and use pesticides to disinfect it." Basically they contaminate water wi
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by nekcihc 5y ago
I for one do not wish to have any such worm in my body, but eradication of whole species(in other words - genocide) raises some moral questions and also some other issues that have to be dealth in near future. Apparently, in this case human
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by nekcihc 5y ago
I believe, that China has no territorial claims on Chinas biggest economical partner US, but China has historical claims on territory of Russia. In a long game, China is waiting for Russia to become weak(just like Russia attacked Ukraine wh
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by nekcihc 5y ago
So called "separatists" are also part of Russian forces. With all the rotations of separatist commanders from Russian "ex-military" over years, I would not call them separatists at all.
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by nekcihc 5y ago
You are here, so it is fortunate for you. Or unfortunate, compared to those who are dead. It all depends what angle is chosen. >>Too often, Native claims to land are argued with, invalidated, or dismissed as far as “we’re all from som
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by nekcihc 5y ago
>>"Na-Diné" Only it is Na-Dene(because it is constructed word - just like Google, Meta, Apple, and Giigle, Mita, Ipple could be names of different companies - and in the case of article to something else, that is only in the
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by nekcihc 5y ago
Aleuts were not continuously(from times of Beringia) living on those islands. Aleuts are very closely linked to Inuits and the understanding about Inuits is that they started to expand 3000 years ago. One of the initial drives to that 3000
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by nekcihc 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_J._Steele#COVID-19 In 2020, Steele, along with researcher N. Chandra Wickramasinghe and others, claimed in ten research papers that COVID-19 originated from a meteor spotted as a br

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