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by padobson 11y ago
I don't know, but if you find some, let me know so I can give them my money.
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by padobson 11y ago
If we follow this rabbit hole too far, we'll end up trying to answer questions like "What is a game?" and "What is art?" But what you're describing is what I want. I want more immersion, I want the focus to be
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by padobson 11y ago
This sort of brings us to a philosophical problem of determining where game design ends and writing begins, sort of how movies have often had difficulty delineating between the responsibilities of a writer, director, and producer. The actor
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by padobson 11y ago
The novel parallel is a great one. Novels, like games, are not passive art or entertainment. The reader has to keep turning the page, moving left-to-right through the world the author has created. I can certainly agree with you that writing
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by padobson 11y ago
Interaction design is a craft, and gaming is the subcategory of interaction design that most often ventures into the world of art. But the thing that most constrains the artform is this "little brother" mindset. Instead of waiting
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by padobson 11y ago
Lol. Seriously though, it's tough to get to 1500 without the tortilla.
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by padobson 11y ago
Yes, on steroids.
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by padobson 11y ago
I'm starting to wonder if maybe Tim Cook is a better CEO than Steve Jobs. No one will ever have Jobs' combination of taste and presence, but I think these numbers are showing that spending as much time managing the supply chain an
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by padobson 12y ago
Does anyone have any opinions on how this could grow to replace traditional ISPs? What's the difference between a mesh network and just putting a big WiMax antenna up in my neighborhood and giving everyone free internet access?
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by padobson 12y ago
Now I'll be ready for my date with Sansa Stark!
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by padobson 12y ago
The sexiest case of regulatory capture I've ever seen.
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by padobson 12y ago
tl;dr loudmouth with a penchant for social media and oddball cowboy shirts made a lot of money investing in startups
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by padobson 12y ago
I'll retract my sentence at the beginning of question 1. What I meant was, greenhouse gas concentrations have been increasing since the beginning of the industrial revolution in 1750. I can cite this here: http://en.wikipedi
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by padobson 12y ago
From my fourth paragraph above: For as far back as we can measure (many millennia when using ice cores), atmospheric temperate has been stable along with CO2 concentrations (about 280ppm)
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by padobson 12y ago
Climate change is a really big deal. When we've had scientific movements of this magnitude, the face of the movement has always been a scientist (think Copernicus, Darwin, or Einstein). The face of climate change is jointly Al Gore and
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by padobson 12y ago
I have a number of questions that I've never been able to find satisfactory answers to, and if I got them I could be convinced. But first, let me say, that this may well be moot. I think solar energy is the way to go. I think the soone
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by padobson 12y ago
I've never been fully convinced of anthropomorphic climate change. There's just too much politics involved for me to be convinced of such relatively recent studies. That said, I'll convert all of my energy sources to PV cells
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by padobson 12y ago
I'd love to know how you have gone about getting the initial sublets on there. Was it scraping other sites like Zillow and Craigslist? I just posted one of my apartments expecting to be the only one in the area (I'm the only host
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by padobson 12y ago
Personal training, like hair cuts, is a non-tradable service. But, this is part of the value of personal training. You're not going to miss your work out if you lose a hundred bucks by not going. Also, there's value in motivatio
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by padobson 12y ago
Why store the UTC offset too, then? Couldn't you get that with the timezone? Then you've got the wall time for the meeting saved, and if you need to convert it to UTC for some reason, you could do it with the most current rules fo
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by padobson 12y ago
Not if those guys are laying fat stacks of sweet cheddar.
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by padobson 12y ago
Or at least "enough to play it straight"
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by padobson 12y ago
I'm not altogether certain that the paradigm of the video game console has shifted properly to keep up with the shifting intelligence of our screens. When Nintendo was first getting started in consoles, all screens were dumb. To make y
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by padobson 12y ago
It's interesting that the great limiter of conversation may be the fear of being objectively labeled "uninteresting" by your counterpart in the conversation. There was an aid in a lab at my school who would routinely berate s
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by padobson 12y ago
My definition of exploitation comes from Marx: Once Capitalists are able to pay the worker less than the value produced by the labor a surplus labor forms and this results in the capitalists' profit. This is what Marx meant by “surplu
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by padobson 12y ago
It's wrong to assume that the only result of taking an entrepreneurial risk is transcendent wealth 1/1,000,000 of the time or financial catastrophe the other 999,999.
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by padobson 12y ago
Well I was making $9/hr as a telemarketer 5 years ago. If you want to discuss via email, I'd be happy to explain how I went from being a little guy to a marginally bigger little guy. In the end, I'm simply advocating for the
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by padobson 12y ago
Access to capital is certainly another part of the equation that would have to be solved to build an economy around entrepreneurship. Would it be so terrible to give people the option between starting a business after high school and going
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by padobson 12y ago
I'd like to see a higher percentage of the work force taking the skills they already have, and seeking the profits themselves instead of sharing them with an employer. When a person leaves the workforce and becomes an entrepreneur who
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by padobson 12y ago
Ugh. I'm the little guy. Airbnb and Uber are the automation that enables my apartments to compete with the Holiday Inn and Marriott less than a mile away.

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