omegaham

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by omegaham 8y ago
I've ascended more than a dozen times in 3.4.3. 3.6.0 is hard thanks to Elbereth being significantly nerfed. I've ascended a few times, but it was much more luck-based due to the early game being much harder. 3.6.1 should be sig
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by omegaham 9y ago
Yeah, it was when the Grand Exchange locked in market rates - you couldn't trade at any price outside 10% of the established price. At the same time, ClanChat was introduced, allowing enormous groups of strangers to coordinate their ac
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by omegaham 9y ago
The most interesting part of RS was that the more raw the product, the more it was worth - you could get more XP out of it. And before the Grand Exchange, buying in bulk cost more than buying small amounts, because buying large amounts of
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by omegaham 9y ago
On the bright side, the idiots who join these groups hoping to scam others tend to lose their shirts as well. The person orchestrating the pump-and-dump scheme bought the currency at $X per coin in question long before, and he's using
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by omegaham 9y ago
"I'm voluntarily contributing a small piece to a body of work that I love and want to see more of." I suppose that can be construed as a warm fuzzy feeling.
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by omegaham 9y ago
Because the university affiliation turns minor league football / basketball into national television and gets people to spend millions of dollars on tickets and merchandise. No one watches the NBA D-league, but they're happy to wa
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by omegaham 9y ago
I'm sure that there are situations where this is good to consider, but real life isn't a Criminal Minds episode where the lady's slowly getting lowered into the Pit of Misery while the police frantically try to get there in t
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by omegaham 9y ago
I'll anecdotally confirm this. As much as people love shitting on the awkwardness of nerds, most people get it together enough to find love by age 25. People learn enough social niceties to get by, even if they never become the life of
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by omegaham 9y ago
But the Internet accomplishes that. The fact that it also accomplishes everything else is a bonus. BTC doesn't do its original job, and the current value on it, aside from idiots looking for a get-rich-quick scheme, seems to be that
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by omegaham 9y ago
All I can say with stuff like this is "The more the better."
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by omegaham 9y ago
Yep. My dog will chase things, but he wouldn't know what to do with a prey animal if he caught one. He's good at attacking the food bowl, and that's about it.
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by omegaham 9y ago
It reminds me of disses in old rap songs. Eminem yelling at Lynne Cheney[1]. "Who? Oh yeah, she had some kind of thing about rap lyrics 15 years ago." The dispute is long since forgotten, but the bickering is still there, and it&#
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by omegaham 9y ago
This isn't quite right. To stick with the casino example, a large number of Bitcoin speculators are "letting it ride." They've won a bunch of times, and they continue to bet more and more money. Your example only works i
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by omegaham 9y ago
The difference is that addicts are actively malicious to their family members and broader society. Depressed people and diabetics are hurting themselves either through action or inaction, but I've never been threatened by a diabetic
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by omegaham 9y ago
But Circhton was an author, while Gell-Mann was a physicist. We associate scientists with a lot more rigor than authors.
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by omegaham 9y ago
From his talk: > I refer to it by this name because I once discussed it with Murray Gell-Mann, and by dropping a famous name I imply greater importance to myself, and to the effect, than it would otherwise have.
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by omegaham 9y ago
I see this as fundamentally different, mostly because it is far easier to repo a car and auction it off than it is to foreclose on a house and sell it to someone else. Another thing is that no one is wildly pricing cars; the fact that lots
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by omegaham 9y ago
Another thing is that having large-scale successful projects make Rust a more likely language for other people to choose when creating a new project themsleves. "It's a neat language, but no one has used it to make anything that i
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by omegaham 9y ago
Let's look at Person A vs Person B. Person A is a football player and makes $1 million in salary per year. This is all taxed progressively, meaning that Uncle Sam takes off 39.6% of most of his income. As a result, he pays close to $40
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by omegaham 9y ago
I know that this depends on the workplace culture, but I've gone the other way on stuff like this because apologizing makes certain people smell vulnerability and never let it go. I'm happy to explain what happened, and I'm h
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by omegaham 9y ago
Community college alum here, currently going into my senior year at a 4-year university. CC CS classes were clown-shoes. The math and physics classes were excellent, but the CS classes were not on par with the expectations that most 4-yea
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by omegaham 9y ago
/r/portland exists in an unending state of butthurt, but your town may be different!
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by omegaham 9y ago
Especially since there will always be another group of investors that are currently on Step 1. If Reddit's experience starts sucking once they try to monetize, there will be no shortage of people who are going to offer a superior (i.e.
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by omegaham 9y ago
i.reddit.com is bare-bones and buggy, but it's fast .
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by omegaham 9y ago
When comparing price to customer service, price wins every time. We can say all we please that we want great customer service, but we vote with our wallets, and our wallets say "Save $5 per trip to interact with the trained monkeys.&qu
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by omegaham 9y ago
I did most of this year's programming coursework on a garbage HP laptop from 2008. It's not fast , but it's good enough to run Firefox / vi / Eclipse on Lubuntu. In fact, it's not the computer at all that&#x27
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by omegaham 9y ago
Obviously, we're leaving LibertarianLand for a moment, but the law generally makes it impossible to split up a parcel of land in such a way that one of the lots will be landlocked. If that lot is going to be landlocked, they must cre
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by omegaham 9y ago
Even in the uber technerd sphere, a huge amount of the services that we take for granted are done by large companies. For example, Steam is the entire reason why gaming is becoming viable on Linux. Sure, a lot of work (by large companies) h
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by omegaham 9y ago
And even with incarceration, there are opportunities for rehabilitation. When my SO was working at the county jail, they had "weekend time" for first-time offenders who managed to get themselves some time. You report every Friday
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by omegaham 9y ago
My favorite picture of this is Rob Gronkowski as a 12-year-old[1]. Getting into the NFL requires hard work, but it's not sufficient; without the genetic athleticism, you aren't getting in. [1] https://sportsofboston.com

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