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by swivelmaster 4y ago
Something similar happened to me - I had a car stolen (a block from the Fremont, CA police department, no less), and when it was found a month later it was full of stolen goods. I found bolt cutters, several garage door/gate openers, a
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by swivelmaster 4y ago
Incredible analogy! I love it!
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I watched bits and pieces of this because my wife was into it, and it was absolutely infuriating. The catfisher went to increasingly ludicrous lengths to hide the sham, including getting their cousin to take a photo holding a piece of paper
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by swivelmaster 4y ago
This is not the greatest romance scam in the world. No, this is just a tribute.
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by swivelmaster 4y ago
That's not a member of the band, that's a session musician. Not the same thing.
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by swivelmaster 4y ago
It was a separate company founded by EA's founder, Trip Hawkins. Not an EA product.
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by swivelmaster 4y ago
The history of technology over hundreds of years is a history of convergence to centralization that can only be disrupted by new technologies that will also converge to centralization. You're probably right that the current incumbents
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by swivelmaster 4y ago
The direction of the story was railroaded in the original, but the player's flexibility in how they approached each mission was definitely not. HBomberguy did a whole video about how DXHR failed to achieve the same level of freedom of
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by swivelmaster 4y ago
People can't control how many followers they have, so this would be gameable by encouraging people to follow competitors just to waste their money.
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by swivelmaster 4y ago
What does he expect to get? His very own echo chamber. He’s not satisfied surrounding himself with sycophants in person, he has to do it online as well.
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by swivelmaster 4y ago
Straw man alert
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by swivelmaster 4y ago
Class minorities? You mean the super rich?
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by swivelmaster 4y ago
I appreciate the reference to the 'proving too much' fallacy which tbh I haven't seen mentioned before. I think there's a misperception (in most responses) that I'm bringing up the paradox as a complete justificatio
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by swivelmaster 4y ago
This isn't the only way to measure it, and IMO not appropriate right now. The real problem is the balance of political opinion taken as a whole; The percentage of the population that holds what one might call far-right fascist views se
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by swivelmaster 4y ago
Yes, exactly, thank you. Framing every mention of the paradox of intolerance as some kind of slippery slope to totalitarianism isn't constructive or realistic, and basically misses the point of it being called a paradox in the first pl
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by swivelmaster 4y ago
If the argument could be valid the way I’m using it, then the rest of your comment is just playing devil’s advocate. That’s not very constructive (and kind of a slippery slope fallacy of an argument)
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by swivelmaster 4y ago
Yes it’s more complicated, obviously, but OP was implying that any censorship at all equates to hypocritical intolerance, which is a simplistic absolutist position.
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by swivelmaster 4y ago
Just gonna put this here for no reason… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
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by swivelmaster 4y ago
“They” really doing a lot of work for you there… Do you honestly believe this or are you just trying as hard as humanly possible to make a pedantic point for the sake of argument?
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by swivelmaster 4y ago
This is dangerously lazy comedy writing, I’ll give it that. When it does take a turn though, it appears that they really do believe that Biden supporters are literally murdering Trump voters in the streets. Or they want their readers to bel
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by swivelmaster 4y ago
Citation needed
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by swivelmaster 4y ago
"everyone gets a fair chance on the basis of the work they actually produce" This is already not the case and the article very clearly highlights this, if you had bothered to read it.
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by swivelmaster 4y ago
I think the article makes a valid point in kind of a silly way, which is to hold up five or six of the absolute worst outliers of the industry to make a point about inequality. Are they a useful reference point to represent the problem? Yes
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by swivelmaster 4y ago
I've found that with sea salt, olive oil, garlic, and an air fryer, just about any vegetable can be made hot and delicious in 15 minutes or less.
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by swivelmaster 4y ago
As an example, GTA V is the fastest entertainment product to reach a billion dollars in lifetime revenue. That was shortly after it launched, and it's been out for YEARS now. The ROI on that game (plus GTA Online) is staggering.
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by swivelmaster 4y ago
Initial development cost of LoL was, I believe, $12-$15m - not very much. The amount they've poured into it since then, of course, is astronomical.
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by swivelmaster 4y ago
Good.
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by swivelmaster 4y ago
I've been in a situation like this before. Lots of good advice here. I ran eng for a product that supported an entire company for a while, and the company was eventually acquired. I don't want to repeat stuff from all the comments
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by swivelmaster 4y ago
I did something similar but then I had to press my hand on his back or butt so he felt like he was still being held, then count to 100 and release it as slowly as possible. Babies are ridiculous.
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by swivelmaster 4y ago
I did something like this back when I worked at a fast-growing startup that was eventually acquired. I built shiny new features, sure, but I also reviewed every line of code from before I joined, found major problems, refactored them and do

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