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by slg 3y ago
Yes, this information or a link to where to find this information should ideally be in the readme. If it requires you "own" a copy of the official version to be purchased from Steam or GOG, what benefit does this version add on to
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by slg 3y ago
Maybe check your own reading comprehension levels. I was criticizing you.
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by slg 3y ago
Charging customers full price, including a monthly subscription, for a product that he admits is "not where it needs to be — full stop" seems more techno-dystopian than techno-utopian to me.
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by slg 3y ago
You have the wrong read of what I said. To summarize the situation: MKBHD: This is "The Worst Product I Have Ever Reviewed…For Now". Vassallo: It is "distasteful, almost unethical" to criticize a product like that. Me:
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by slg 3y ago
MKBHD also has a response video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QztFpzKsdeA
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by slg 3y ago
>The only argument against MKBHD could be the YouTube title he chose. I clicked through to that Vassallo guy's twitter and that is exactly the argument he is making. He isn't defending the product, which he admitted he has nev
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by slg 3y ago
>I recently found out that helmets do nothing to prevent concussion regardless of the sport. Saying they "do nothing" isn't completely true, at least based off more recent designs, but it is generally true that helmets are
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by slg 3y ago
They didn't get $60k for a student film as that is the final budget on the movie. They got a tiny fraction of that to make a short student film. It ended up being so good that they were able to use it as a proof of concept to secure
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by slg 3y ago
The point is that games already rely on ongoing support. I admit my analogy isn't perfect, but I was trying to work off your analogy which completely ignores why these games break. It isn't directly because the developer went ba
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by slg 3y ago
>Sure, there will be some edge cases where it really is impossible to disentangle from a live, profitable other game - but I would wager the vast majority of games could be covered with very low effort. I don't think we should be ma
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by slg 3y ago
That is a silly analogy. Fridges don't have an ongoing costs to the manufacturer. To be the equivalent of games, the fridge would have to come with an implicit promise that the manufacturer will pay for the electricity use of the fri
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by slg 3y ago
What does the server infrastructure actually look like for these games? "Just release server binaries" kinda implies there is a simple .exe file that an average user can run to host their own server. In today's age of cloud
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by slg 3y ago
> the entire ballot initiative process is actually a mistake It is also arguably un-American. I thought the whole idea of having a representative government was so the common citizen didn't have to deal with the tedium of actually
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by slg 3y ago
>As a result, I highly doubt we'll get anything as advanced as Half-Life: Alyx on the platform. How many years of VR gaming on how many other devices have produced how many Half-Life: Alyxs? And even Alyx was basically a vanity expe
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by slg 3y ago
It would also open up a trivial hole to exploit this. Lots of creative work, especially written work, is not done as work for hire. That would expand more the more you disincentivize that categorization.
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by slg 3y ago
It is a little more complicated than you describe because copyright doesn't just apply to published or finished work. That means you are effectively advocating for the end of privacy. For example, it is pretty common for famous or eve
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by slg 3y ago
> especially once you account for the distribution and logistics overhead on large, heavy, service-hungry products. Wasn't that supposed to be the key differentiator of Bowflex and the whole "flexing bows" approach? Their
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by slg 3y ago
No they aren't. Rewind uses ChatGPT so data is sent off your local device[1]. I understand the actual screen recordings don't leave your machine, but that just creates a catch-22 of what does. Either the text based summaries of
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by slg 3y ago
>Isolated, encrypted and local of course. And what is the likelihood of that "of course" portion actually happening? What is the business model that makes that route more profitable compared to the current model all the leader
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by slg 3y ago
It is always interesting the way that different social media will absorb content from other platforms. Like Twitter is text based and Instagram is photo based, so we can screenshots of tweets on Instagram. Apparently HN's version is l
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by slg 3y ago
>Or, how can you know when your stereotype should not actually inform your decision? The social justice crowd provides no answers here: they claim that all stereotypes are as malicious as they are false, and this causes cognitive dissona
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by slg 3y ago
Nothing you said here is incorrect, but it doesn't eliminate the possibility of discrimination. In my experience, it makes discrimination even more likely when the discriminated class is smaller due to other nondiscriminatory reasons.
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by slg 3y ago
This should serve as a reminder to everyone that thinks Apple cares about any pro-consumer issues like privacy. No company anywhere close to this size cares about anything other than money. Apple cares about privacy because it is a differ
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by slg 3y ago
This is the same type of math that Tesla uses to suggest that their Autopilot is safer than humans, but the problem with this approach is that not all miles driven are equal. I guarantee that the injury rate per mile is much higher on the r
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by slg 3y ago
>I'm not pro-autonomous vehicles. Maybe not, but you are clearly coming from an anti-anti-autonomous vehicle stance. That likely plays into why you are downplaying this collision despite admitting "we don't know" bas
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by slg 3y ago
You are just proving my point. You are pro-autonomous vehicle so you are interpreting the few facts we know in way that benefits your side of the debate. Referencing the cyclist not being seriously hurt is the most obvious example. It doesn
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by slg 3y ago
Let's be honest, anyone making any type of conclusion based off the information in the article is just giving in to their biases. None of us know enough to actually have any serious opinion on this specific collision.
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by slg 3y ago
Then why would you buy a $5 YouTube client?
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by slg 3y ago
Seriously, what percentage of people who just spent at least $3,500 on the hardware would quibble over an extra $5 when it comes to as essential a native app as Youtube?
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by slg 3y ago
You clearly missed my point entirely. I'm not a fanboy saying Apple's products are the best. I even specifically said their success is "due to their marketing prowess and the strength of their brand just as much as their tec

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