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by roc 14y ago
> "if Apple wants it to be." Therein lies the rub. Apple's had essentially nothing but false-starts toward serious support of traditional gaming. That iOS became and remains a gaming powerhouse is a happy accident that happened mor
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by roc 14y ago
The Constitution is a living document that provides the legal framework for testing the constitutionality of laws and a method for its amendment. It explicitly grants society, via representative government, the right to interpret, change a
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by roc 14y ago
I've seen the booth-babe role performed exactly as you've described, by dressed-down but attractive women at other conferences and trade shows. And, yes, I'm distinguishing from actual staff who do know the product/service/industry and ar
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by roc 14y ago
> "that's a whole different issue." If you're making a sober economic assessment of the cost of children, it's not a different issue, it's a typically-very-large cost that must be considered. You can argue the costs down from 'house n
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by roc 14y ago
I agree that it's a hard problem, but I think you're looking at the wrong one. The problematic assumption here is that a given woman was paid to be there. This was a reasonable assumption on the part of the other attendees, only because th
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by roc 14y ago
And yet by participating in this society you are directly supporting their ability to make such decisions, whether they side with or against you on a given issue. If you actively pursue one of the many methods available to effect change, yo
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by roc 14y ago
Representing that you have a potential cure or treatment when you have, by definition, no scientifically sound reason to believe that's correct isn't fraud? (If they had such a reason, they'd have no trouble getting clearance for human tr
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by roc 14y ago
> "Why shouldn't we live in a free society where the best within us can make a difference, and take humanity forward?" Our free society lived with the alternative . And they collectively decided "the right to be defrauded is a false
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by roc 14y ago
Health insurance for a family will far outstrip the costs of a Porsche and can give a supercar a run for its money. Hell, it can give a mortgage a run for its money.
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by roc 14y ago
The problem is that lay people have essentially no ability to distinguish between potential 'last shots'. And exemptions will invite snake-oil salesmen. It can be frustrating, but the rules weren't created in some blind bureaucratic power-g
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by roc 14y ago
You can get flagged for much less. (I believe the single transaction limit is more like 5k) But they can also flag smaller transactions that appear to fit 'structuring' patterns. So fairly small innocent transactions can and do get erroneo
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by roc 14y ago
They are not talking about hacking only military targets. But they are talking about State-sponsored attacks and State-directed retaliation. The study indicates that killing state-sponsored hackers is justified as an act against the
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by roc 14y ago
The problem with this line of argument is that while technically correct, it completely lacks the context that underpins the entire problem of discrimination against women. Men discriminating against women is a problem because of the eff
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by roc 14y ago
> "have been done in the past and only need polish." That's the truly hilarious part. If someone delivers a smartwatch that might work, it'll be derided as being "lesser" than the preceding products. [1] If they deliver something tha
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by roc 14y ago
> "You shouldn’t come back to hundreds or thousands of unread articles." ... "you shouldn’t subscribe to feeds that would generate that kind of unread volume." ... "you’re using it in a way that’s not good for you." These sorts of
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by roc 14y ago
The creator of Instapaper doesn't see the value-add of using an RSS reader to skim the postings of a high-volume site, for readability/usability reasons? That's a curious blind-spot.
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by roc 14y ago
It's all just incentives. The downsizing and outsourcing is driven by incentives to remove cost from the balance sheet. If there's no incentive to do so wisely, if there's no disincentive against doing so poorly, people will inevitably mak
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by roc 14y ago
The big US media outlets were all caught-out covering up for the US government, pushing propaganda and sitting on stories in the lead-up to an actual war. So if any government involvement opens the door to play every story off as governm
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by roc 14y ago
If Apple actually was using the practices listed: refurb parts, lower warranty coverage, etc. is it really a propaganda campaign? [1] Even evidence of a TV Show paying a celebrity to juice impact of their story is hardly evidence of gove
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by roc 14y ago
Depending on what joke you make and where you make it, this has always been the case. Whether these particulars qualify as such a situation is open to discussion. But it's not some new social phenomenon.
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by roc 14y ago
We had that. "Government cheese" was not always a metaphor. Neither were "food stamps". As it turns out: it's better to just give people cash and let them make their own determinations and let the free market and substitution do its thing,
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by roc 14y ago
Right, because no-one has ever disagreed on whether a game or game mechanic is good.
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by roc 14y ago
> "This is not a difficult concept" I'd have thought not, but you seem impervious to it. Your consensus includes people who disagree on what sucks. How in the world can you pretend their seeming agreement on a broad phrasing remotely
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by roc 14y ago
My pointing out Garriott's fallacy doesn't advance the conversation but your repeating it does? One last time: Garriott's statement is uselessly vague. If we ask people "do most designers suck" we will be lumping together the affirmative an
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by roc 14y ago
Did you miss the part where we don't all agree on what it is that actually sucks? When I say "most people think most things suck, but they don't agree on what sucks" - that applies to industry people too. And nothing about their being indu
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by roc 14y ago
He gets people nodding along by saying "most stuff sucks". But the absence of examples is intentional. Because while most people will nod along to "most stuff sucks", they do not all agree on what sucks. And that goes for music, games,
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by roc 14y ago
That would seem to be prior art for that element then, depending on the dates. Though now we'd have to dig into the rest of the elements. And apparently I'm getting downvoted for not being familiar with LiveJournal, so that's something som
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by roc 14y ago
That's a solid question. I don't know. I would be tempted to say that automated agents would obviously be prior art, but inventions that just automate long-standing physical workflows in a straightforward way (do it on a computer) have been
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by roc 14y ago
Friends is bi-directional, no? Or did LiveJournal have a way for me to be your friend without you being mine?
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by roc 14y ago
He's trading heavily on nostalgia and free press for his new game. Talking about Wright, Roberts and Molyneux is a way to stoke the nostalgia, and blanket blasting the industry with contentious quotes is just a way to get that free press.

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