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2311.
by setr 10y ago
I think there are a few problems with how the video game market functions; The first is off-pc, theres an explicit monopoly on each platform, and the producers amount to a grand total of 3. Second is the lack of control game producers have
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by setr 10y ago
Bitcoin is digitally manages money, ethereum digitally manages laws (in the form of autonomous contracts, in the form of code is law) and urbit digitally manages real estate (in the form of hierarchical address space). My understanding of U
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by setr 10y ago
Nitpick >Something cannot be "useless" and have a use. Even if a thing has one single use, it is not and cannot be called, "useless". Thats not true; if its only uses are themselves "useless", then the objec
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by setr 10y ago
The educated are themselves special interests, even if not paid by external sources And too close a following to the "educated" leads to the rise of your special interests; if it wasn't possible to turn the minds of many by u
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by setr 10y ago
For the new trends, its undefined, as it obviously hasn't happened yet (and any suggestion is simply speculation), but it is difficult to argue that there won't be one; whatever it is, the idea goes, it'll likely be missed. A
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by setr 10y ago
>There is not a single company in the world that didn't experience a lull after a high, but somehow Tim Cook is stupid for not bringing Apple to new highs every quarter. Well no, the usual complaint is that Cook is bringing Apple to
2317.
by setr 10y ago
Y'know, the correct solution would be that it came with one
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by setr 10y ago
No man's sky would have been a bad game by either development practice; it's failure primarily stems from a misunderstanding of game design The game was fundamentally shallow
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by setr 10y ago
Isn't that just another example of the author's point? Automation hasn't changed, the world around it has
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by setr 10y ago
Actually, if you look at the link for "Adam's Law of Slow-Moving Disasters", it states: The idea is that society always avoids global disasters that are slow-moving because we rise to the challenge even when it seems impossib
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by setr 10y ago
In the context of the analogy, it's probably better to read it as saving time to human-parse rather than the space required to send. (And it definitely takes less time to verbally state, even if the sentence is clearly longer; caching)
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by setr 10y ago
Probably a better term than inventing is "standardizing". The community as a single general entity, is constantly changing what they accept is the "standard stack". I don't get to have my safe goto stack of LAMP for
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by setr 10y ago
I have ~300 things between 40 or so folders in my chrome bookmarks atm, and about ~150 tabs that I need to get around to bookmarking. Main issue using the normal manager is that it's not actually that easy to parse my folders, and it&#
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by setr 10y ago
imo its not the rules of reality that specifically matter in a game; its that there are rules at all, and that they're interesting ones. Emulating reality is just an "easy" way to achieve that. Games are inherently a challeng
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by setr 10y ago
What it's more of is that your rate of pay-raise doesn't actually match the market-rate. You were hired presumably at market rate, and your pay has presumably gone up/down based on a percentage of that initial rate. Especiall
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by setr 10y ago
"Let’s take an example and say that some Problem A has triggered a need of change. As you are a good employee you have tried already to solve the problem (e.g. you asked for more money or you tried to change the process), you failed. N
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by setr 10y ago
Probably because the goal was different from read Ulysses. And I doubt most subject areas have the goal of reading proofs.
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by setr 12y ago
By developing the argument. The correct answer isn't nearly as important as forming a strong argument, at least in the process of learning, as a well written argument will naturally lead you towards the correct answer. Its the reason