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by ryathal 3y ago
That search engine would return the same 10 sites for any search.
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by ryathal 3y ago
I doubt their manual review actually does much of anything. There are already tons of "games" that don't actually function that are just pre-built engine assets shoved together.
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by ryathal 3y ago
It's still not an absurdly profitable venture even if you drop head count to 300-500 which is likely a reasonable number. A lot of people could have good careers in that smaller reddit, but it's not a multi-billion dollar unicorn.
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by ryathal 3y ago
Students have little incentive, but the point is to have some measure of teacher success. The tests can also identify kids that may need intervention, which is some incentive to kids that don't need it to still do well on the test.
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by ryathal 3y ago
RIF had a revenue sharing agreement that was canceled years ago with no attempt to replace it with something reasonable.
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by ryathal 3y ago
I'd say the notable drop in quality and activity in open subs that aren't protesting is a good indicator that there is some truth to that assertion.
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by ryathal 3y ago
There's a handful of apps that exist for phones, I use Jerboa at the moment. It's easy enough to get a feed of all subscribed communities, but subscribing is a bit of a pain every way I've tried, and most communities aren&#x2
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by ryathal 3y ago
I don't think federation is a good solution without a way to also centralize those communities. Discoverability and overlapping communities leads to way too much balkanization.
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by ryathal 3y ago
If you don't need the shape there are muffin/egg trays you can use to simply crack eggs into and have 0 issue with shells.
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by ryathal 3y ago
BTC is consumed when someone forgets their password.
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by ryathal 3y ago
The successful companies get bought out by the giants after the make something popular eg. Mojang and Minecraft.
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by ryathal 3y ago
No one does Uber for busses because it would be way too expensive. Fares don't even come close to covering the cost of running busses. If a company wasn't just burning money VC money, they would have to charge at least taxi rates
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by ryathal 3y ago
having worked in government the amount of time wasted to ensure that money wasn't wasted is itself quite wasteful.
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by ryathal 3y ago
Going longer than two weeks for a sprint just makes the lies happen at different place. There are approximately 0 teams that can accurately state all the work they will need to do four weeks in advance, even two is a stretch. Planning and r
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by ryathal 3y ago
In the US this varies widely by state, My state requires non-married fathers to take additional legal action in signing an additional document declaring parentage before they are allowed on a birth certificate in the first place.
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by ryathal 3y ago
The investor class is desperate for a recession and it's just not happening so they keep laying off people until they can make it happen.
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by ryathal 3y ago
The words and meanings of songs have never been important so long as the tune was good. Yankee Doodle was essentially a dis track, but Americans liked the tune, so it was adopted as a patriotic song anyway. Stadiums of homophobes will happi
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by ryathal 3y ago
So many shows are unavailable or different because of ridiculous licensing rules around music. Scrubs has several different versions of music, The Drew Carey Show is basically impossible to find because of music. If Congress wanted to ever
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by ryathal 4y ago
Wild Bison aren't eating seaweed in the great plains. Cows in the plains spend their majority of their life eating the same grasses that the bison ate, then they spend a few months on a corn diet.
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by ryathal 4y ago
If the officers were shot and killed then others would just hunt down and murder the innocent bystander that did the shooting, and probably hurt a few more for good measure. Any threat real or imagined against police is not tolerated in the
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by ryathal 4y ago
This situation is also exactly what the rather famous Ben Franklin Quote was about.
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by ryathal 4y ago
Edits provide reputation when accepted and on SO specifically are about the only reliable way for new users to get reputation. Answering new questions that don't get closed is difficult, anything "easy" is mobbed by people an
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by ryathal 4y ago
The edit thing is a self imposed problem because the site gamification for established Stack* sites mandates that people edit questions to get enough reputation for basic site functionality. Actually asking or answering a question is far to
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by ryathal 4y ago
This is something I hope actually gets added, more formal potentially deprecated flags that can be added to questions. Given the attitudes of meta when I actually cared, I doubt it ever will happen.
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by ryathal 4y ago
Shorter trains would also mean less severe derailments. Shorter trains also mean that trains are in risky areas for less time, less time decelerating and accelerating, so derailment could be far less than double. Shorter trains would also m
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by ryathal 4y ago
The top-level pay looks nice until you factor in 60+ hour weeks and no regular weekends. There is also a chance you get a day off in another city away from your family in a city with little to nothing to do besides stay at a hotel. Even day
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by ryathal 4y ago
Fortunately, sanity prevailed after the underwear bombing failed.
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by ryathal 4y ago
Sony has a US based company, also anyone that tries to do business in the US is going to be subject to regulation of the US. Same story for EU.
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by ryathal 4y ago
It's not just Microsoft vs Sony. It's also that game publishers are already highly concentrated. Activision-Blizzard is one of the bigger independent companies out there and losing them to Microsoft would be bad for industry wide
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by ryathal 4y ago
AoE4 is a refinement of AoE2. Frostgiant is planning to release a beta of the Starcraft spiritual successor next summer. Immortal: Gates of Pyre is in alpha

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