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by someone7x 7y ago
You say the business model is moving to F2P but that is only part of the story. In the complete opposite direction we have Kickstarter et al. Now perhaps the “get filthy rich” business model is only sustainable by freemium addiction (they p
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by someone7x 7y ago
> In every situation, the most natural strategy is to maximize personal gains. The iterated prisoner's dilemma begs to differ. There are many many situations where cooperation is both natural and optimal.
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by someone7x 7y ago
Based on a 1960s albino warrior mage (Elric of Melnibone) which is based on a 1920s albino pulp villain (Monsieur Zenith) who is really just based on Holmes' Moriarty. The Witcher's DNA is very interesting.
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by someone7x 7y ago
"Some people also fail to realize that there will always be poor people." Replace "poor people" with heretics and you sound as self-rationalizing as an inquisitor.
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by someone7x 7y ago
Reminds me of the motte and bailey fallacy. The bailey is personal dislike and the motte is protecting animals/children.
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by someone7x 7y ago
Given the context of living on the street, what is easy in accessing farmland? Lack of experience and capital quickly come to mind as challenges. The more I think about it, the more I want to say that everything is hard in accessing farmlan
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by someone7x 7y ago
> So a profit motive will always beat out a non-market based approach, which isn’t really news Call me a dreamer, but I wonder if that would remain true in a UBI-style environment?
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by someone7x 7y ago
> I like writing “if err != nil { … }” That idiom was my biggest turn off in learning Go. I would be 100x happier with "if not err {...}"
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by someone7x 7y ago
> The area is organized under state law as a community development district. As a result, voting is restricted to local landowners. wow, how is that constitutional?
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by someone7x 7y ago
Permaculture is like A Pattern Language, but for useful plants instead of buildings. I like the first principles approach it takes.
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by someone7x 7y ago
The more I've learned about gardening the less fun I find the abstraction of gardening games. I think it's mainly about how important soil health is for growing plants and how poorly this concept seems to be modeled in games.
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by someone7x 7y ago
Square Foot Gardening is a great introduction; an retired aerospace engineer finds the world of gardening full of contradictions and myths. He boils it all down to fundamentals that are easy to apply.
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by someone7x 8y ago
> It's the experienced developers that try to gold plate to avoid the issues that they had in the last project Literally learning from the past and applying it to the present is “gold plating”? I’m stunned.
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by someone7x 8y ago
People who see me work invariably ask: Why do you use bing? And I invariably answer, in my best Idiocracy: 'Cause they pay me every time I do!
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by someone7x 8y ago
> a common wrongdoing I’m not aware of any other term that captures a practice that is both commonplace and wrong. This is good and I’m adding it to my lexicon. Thanks!
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by someone7x 8y ago
SMUD... now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time. Not one person I knew chose PG&E instead of SMUD. The Yolo County stuff makes me sick, just like banning municipal wi-fi.
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by someone7x 8y ago
Reminds of that guy in The Crucible that gets crushed with rocks for refusing to take part in the witch trial.
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by someone7x 8y ago
You make a false choice between "congresspeople and their friends" and "someone shrewd enough to be making $10m/yr" Not all congresspeople are corrupt and not all those making $10m/yr are shrewd. These are clas
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by someone7x 8y ago
Reminds me of the "You're just a tracer!" scene from Chasing Amy.
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by someone7x 8y ago
I keep hoping Brave will be a success in this regard; their browser has a wallet built in for micro-paying the sites one visits: https://brave.com/faq-rewards/#what-is-brave-rewards
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by someone7x 8y ago
That's an uncomfortable number of laws against African-style braiding. Is licensure the new oppression meta?
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by someone7x 8y ago
I think you misunderstand me. It’s not that it’s a veneer, it’s that the veneer is tolerated despite resulting in voter suppression. Voter suppression should be a universal bad in a democracy no? It’s not only bad when done for racist ends.
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by someone7x 8y ago
> They were making the argument and affirming that they were discriminating based on political affiliation, in an attempt to show they were not discriminating based on race. It was a conscious legal strategy to admit this. Wow. Can&#x27
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by someone7x 8y ago
> and when it comes to accessibility questions, the chief concern isn't necessarily whether everyone uses it. I wish more developers had your perspective. My Dad uses Windows' high contrast mode. It's less that "lite
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by someone7x 8y ago
> Since Apple has historically focused on executing extant ideas well... > I disagree, when apple released the iphone, they changed the face of what smart phones would ultimately become. It looks like you're actually agreeing:
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by someone7x 8y ago
There's a popular book called "Factfulness" that explores the dynamic you're describing: the world is generally getting better and the media is institutionally incapable of reporting it (because they thrive on sensation
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by someone7x 8y ago
Comments like this are why I come here. I can only add an anecdote to this: I read a book where a planet would blink out of existence occasionally, but long went undiscovered because all the high tech scanners and computers kept throwing ou
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by someone7x 8y ago
> BMI just hits the tare button on what it means to be broke > It doesn't level the playing field, it just elevates it. Raising the lower bounds of poverty sounds like a good outcome!
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by someone7x 8y ago
Exactly this. Pennies not being accepted in so many use cases requiring exact change is just ridiculous.
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by someone7x 9y ago
And there are competing humanitarian reasons for giving it. The sadness is that our laws choose the institution over the individual.

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