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by rndmize 6y ago
Changes that affect the story deeply are difficult to do, and often only appreciable with multiple play-throughs. Alpha Protocol wasn't good enough on the gameplay side for that to feel worth doing, and this often also comes at the cos
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by rndmize 7y ago
I saw one of the threads on reddit about this yesterday with the usual litany of privacy/security complaints and had a random idea - make it optional. Put people that decide to remove it in an alternate queue with server-side anti-chea
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by rndmize 7y ago
In recent days I've been starting to feel this idea of "digital natives" is a silly one. There's no such thing as a "reading native" or "math native" – these are skills and concepts we learn in school
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by rndmize 7y ago
The fighting between the parties hasn't been petty for years now. It's frequently a disagreement on basic factual information. Solving problems is something that can be done when everyone understands and agrees on what the problem
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by rndmize 7y ago
I'm fairly sure the quality of institutions in this day and age has almost nothing to do with participation trophies/equal ability propaganda, as this kind of thing rapidly gets torn to shreds as soon as one enters the job market.
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by rndmize 7y ago
I don't think there's any reason to feel silly. I grew up with parents that would take reasonable preparations for a variety of possible disasters - earthquakes and fires being the two of note for California. Cans of fish and frui
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by rndmize 7y ago
I was expecting a piece covering the growing gap between the traditional middle class, which seems to be falling, and the upper-middle class, which seems to be doing better in recent decades. Instead, what we have is a attempt to separate o
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by rndmize 7y ago
Ahead of most of this, you probably need to remove or heavily adjust Prop 13. The primary problem, as detailed in the article, is that homeowners have every incentive to be against new construction and no incentives to be for it. If propert
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by rndmize 7y ago
All of this just sounds like you're going at peak times. My parents tend to go on weekdays in the last half an hour before closing - Thursday is good to have fresh stuff for the weekend. I tend to go Saturday morning at opening - sampl
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by rndmize 7y ago
You're conflating two different sides of the industry (as is the parent comment.) A game dev studio is not expected to have monthly updates for any but the largest games. A store or platform, on the other hand, lives and dies by its co
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by rndmize 7y ago
It's a parody of another web series called "You Suck at Photoshop". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWn0lxRNqos
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by rndmize 7y ago
The CO2 exhaled by humans was already in the air when they inhaled. Conflating that with CO2 actively created from industrial processes is disingenuous at best.
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by rndmize 7y ago
> This directly contradicts what the NY Times wrote. It does not. FTA: > But the company ended its 2018 fiscal year having spent $240 million less on capital investments than it predicted it would in December 2017, shortly before the
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by rndmize 7y ago
I mean, does anyone actually think flying vehicles will ever seriously replace ground transport? Flying will always be more expensive energy-wise than rolling along the ground; it will always have more dangerous failure modes; it will alway
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by rndmize 7y ago
I have a tendency to spend some effort evaluate sources I'm unfamiliar with before I spend time reading their material in detail these days, largely to save time. As such, I glanced around the site and saw they had an article global wa
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by rndmize 7y ago
Pieces like this can be read in two ways: as an individual success, or as a societal failure. Making a walker for some poor disabled person can be seen as an individual success because a person in need was helped, and there were others gene
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by rndmize 7y ago
They're a twelve month old startup. In that time they've had the chance to see one career fair at a good school and a half a dozen batches of grads from a bootcamp.
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by rndmize 7y ago
The fastest and easiest way to colonize space is to advance cybernetics to being able to transfer a human brain into a machine one. At that point, you can custom-build any kind of machine body designed for pretty much any environment, savin
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by rndmize 7y ago
Sounds like they're running their autopilot software on some (all?) of the cars in the wild, where they can compare what the autopilot would do with the actions taken by the human driving the car, and use this to analyze/refine th
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by rndmize 7y ago
This article is very questionable. > When you adjust for inflation, the retail cost of video games has never been cheaper, and it’s been this way for some time. The $60 price point for a standard big-budget release has held steady for ne
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by rndmize 7y ago
What a joke. Another conservative politician calling for people to work together, for "real debate". I suppose the eight years of Republican stonewalling the Obama administration on literally everything, from legislation to judges
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by rndmize 7y ago
As usual when big tech talks housing, "Bay Area" actually means "Peninsula and west SJ". The other two-thirds of the Bay, bedroom communities and cheaper areas - who cares about those? Perhaps there's something abou
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America is deploying a new economic arsenal to assert its power(economist.com)
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Too much money and too few places to invest it(axios.com)
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by rndmize 7y ago
Man am I tired of hearing "the US is too big, too different, too whatever" when it comes to social policies. Social policies don't have to be implemented at a federal level. SF is doing it wrong? Fine. No one has to do things
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by rndmize 7y ago
> It really seems boot camps are in reality is a very expensive filtering system to separate those with some ability to teach themselves coding from those who can’t. One could say the same about college in general.
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by rndmize 7y ago
Variety of thoughts on this - We're governed by incompetents because we elect incompetents. We elect them because voting has become more of an emotional/cultural decision than a logical one. And this is largely because the big pro
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by rndmize 7y ago
This is some classic conservative dogma, here. Of course, though much of it has been demonstrated to be wrong for at least 40 years, people continue to repeat it. For the most current example, we can look at the recent tax cuts, which lower
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by rndmize 7y ago
Actually, fairly often, we do. I don't think we need to look any further than the paranoia around vaccinations to see that individuals often don't know what's good for themselves and others. There's any number of busines
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by rndmize 8y ago
> But somewhere in the bureaucratic hierarchy faceless city functionaries administer labyrinthine regulations that benefit the rich over the poor, the old over the young, the here over those to come, the past over the future. One would t

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