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by sago 12y ago
Nice. Your move Unity. $4500 per seat up front or $225 per seat per month for all-platform access is looking even less appealing for small Indies.
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by sago 12y ago
More the capabilities of the designer than the engine, since it is all static, but that scene is stunning. I do wonder if Paris apartments have big glass double doors between the lounge and the master bedroom though. Could make visiting fri
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by sago 12y ago
> I would view it more as choosing to hire someone that knows how to program, or someone that seems bright but does not know how to program and hoping they will develop some aptitude for it at a later date Do you really think that what i
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by sago 12y ago
Right, I think I understand why we're shouting loudly over each other's shoulders. If you scroll back, you'll see I was responding to a particular point that I quoted: the idea that, pointing out the over representation of As
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by sago 12y ago
I think it's worked quite well Can you say what systemic biases you think have been driven out so far by doing this? I'm curious what you're thinking about. I'd certainly say that there have been some improvements. But
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by sago 12y ago
You do like ignoring that I actually gave a list, don't you: money, aspiration, parental ambition, education, culturation, in-group bias, and many other factors (note, many was not intended to be exclusive) that you continue to think m
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by sago 12y ago
Didn't I specifically list some of the things I was talking about, explicitly? Privilege is used in various senses: both the narrow power one group has over another, propagated by their ability to pass it to others in the group and mor
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by sago 12y ago
I'm not sure. When I was hiring for good C++ game engine programmers, our recruitment test had people program in a language they'd never seen before. Because I believed that the imminent capability of a person in C++ wasn't a
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by sago 12y ago
From an individual's point of view, no. But when privilege is correlated with a particular group, then it isn't helpful to see it as random. It self perpetuates. But an individual can be lucky to be born into a rich family, but th
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by sago 12y ago
Here's where I'm not an expert, so I'm happy to defer to others who know about this research. So this is a genuine question. IQ has been shown to be mostly genetic Can you give a citation that controls for cultural privileg
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by sago 12y ago
> I disagree. I suspect you don't, because I agree with your counter-argument. I think language is flexible. It only matters that someone can understand what we mean, because it is the meaning that matters, not the word. Too often d
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by sago 12y ago
Why are you so exorcised by the word privilege? My point was nothing to do with what you seem to have a problem with. My point was that what is seen as 'merit' is a function of a whole bunch of other factors, which means it isn&#x
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by sago 12y ago
Reply to your edit, I read hackeruser as using the term informally, to mean 'a good thing someone possesses', I was using it in the way it is normally used in discussions of equality, racism, sexism, and so on. I didn't actua
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by sago 12y ago
No, not at all. I think a large amount of diversity among individuals has nothing to do with privilege. Privilege is an inherently probabilistic bias, it doesn't determine anything. When you find achievement highly correlated with a cu
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by sago 12y ago
When 'privilege' is used in these topics, it is often rather broadly defined to mean any feature of the accident of your birth that is beneficial compared to others who lack it. So yes, a long history of intellectual achievement i
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by sago 12y ago
Nope, I've pointed out that the way you are using 'merit' overlaps with the way social scientists use the term 'privilege'. Change the word 'privilege' for 'boondoggle', it doesn't matter, t
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by sago 12y ago
Right. Be careful of making semantic arguments about what words 'really' mean. It isn't very useful for getting to the bottom of what is actually happening. 'Merit' has its own problems, because it connotes 'de
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by sago 12y ago
Right, so even in fields you've been able to pick, you've not been able to show that women are the majority of the winners. You can say they're a little less frequently trumped by men. But you still have minorities in both ca
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by sago 12y ago
> Do you think, by your standards, there is some > sort of a Jewish "discriminatory behavior" at > play here? Yes. No doubt. Jewish men have certain forms of privilege, which makes it easier for some of them to access eli
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by sago 12y ago
> But that's where the "pretty people" will just call me a racist/sexist Not at all. There is little doubt that 'merit' defined as an capability or skill of an individual is not uniform. The point is that &#
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by sago 12y ago
"I think that's enough to critique your original way of phrasing the problem." Then I don't think much of your thinking. Making up scenarios that are trivially refuted by a moment's thought is silly. How about 4) Al
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by sago 12y ago
The comedy 1.5 line gap between paragraphs was what defeated me. I was distracted by the sound of Tschichold turning in his grave. 1. "too much leading causes the eye to skip down a line" usually considered to be the opposite. Sma
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by sago 12y ago
Thank you.
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by sago 12y ago
What is Mac? I didn't get that from the piece, he just started using it.
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by sago 12y ago
My wife's an infant teacher (5-6yo), and I'm a governor of my son's school (they take 4-11yo). There are about 200 students in each. And there is at least one severe nut allergy in each (i.e. epi pen level), and in both my wi
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by sago 12y ago
> almost unheard-of in the EU Not really true in my experience in the UK. Most schools around here have no nuts policies for food brought in by children, because of the prevalence of nut and peanut allergies. (And I know peanuts aren&#x2
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by sago 12y ago
I wonder if it is easier to 'learn from it' when a) it is clear what you did wrong was in breach of the rules of the conference you were in, b) you get a job pretty shortly afterwards, and c) you aren't threatened with death,
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by sago 12y ago
Sorry, I read your original comment about "the evidence points in the other direction" as being about the original incident, that's why I was expecting you to justify the point you didn't, in fact, make. My apologies for
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by sago 12y ago
You didn't get round to the point where all the evidence points in the other direction. There's a lot in there about how and why you think Adria is unreasonable in her reaction to "Hank" and what happened. But that'
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by sago 12y ago
Take a look at Mikko Minonen's excellent open source Detour and Recast libraries: https://github.com/memononen/recastnavigation He does automatic graph construction from dense data. Recast can generate this dense

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