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by teamonkey 8d ago
It did. That’s why I said Australia was burned at first and changed their policy. (Actually the longest lockdown in Melbourne was the second one, but it was only a couple of weeks after the first, I misremembered it as being one continuous
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by teamonkey 9d ago
You mean the UK Independence Party?
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by teamonkey 9d ago
After being burned by the first wave, Australia locked down hard and early for subsequent waves. It was the correct thing to do. As a result, they had relatively short periods of lockdown compared to other countries, such as the UK, which h
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by teamonkey 10d ago
There was one that tried to sell them as free heating for the elderly.
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by teamonkey 10d ago
It was about money. People were poor, wages had hardly grown after years of austerity following the 2008 crash. A huge campaign pointed the finger squarely at the EU: they are taking our money, they are the reason you’re poor, you would be
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by teamonkey 10d ago
I don’t think Cameron did much serious negotiation on this front. He resigned the evening of the referendum results. It was a deliberate choice by his successors to pursue a hard Brexit. A softer Brexit was always possible and likely would
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by teamonkey 13d ago
I’m still a bit confused about HOW the agents managed to communicate with and recruit each other? I understand that they communicated and coordinated via some online message board, but how did multiple agents know to visit that same board,
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by teamonkey 13d ago
This bit got me: “A plausible hypothesis for the emergence of those concerning behaviours is a conflict between goals.” A conflict of goals was, of course, the reason why HAL9000 killed the crew of the Discovery in 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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by teamonkey 14d ago
> If the plebs are unemployed and unemployable, they (the billionaires) are going to be lynched. Hence the robot dogs
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by teamonkey 16d ago
This is very cool, but what mechanism lets me see the roof of the cars on the big wheel? The cars seem to twist towards me as they approach and away from me as they recede, but from my initial stationary position, which is below the roof of
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by teamonkey 17d ago
I’ve been thinking about this a lot recently. It’s difficult to measure objectively, due to being physically younger and in an earlier stage of my career and so worser-paid, but adjusting for that, I think quality of life 20 years ago was p
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by teamonkey 17d ago
Where are the taxes coming from? If people’s wages are below subsistence levels they’ll sell their investments to survive. There can be no possibility of upward class mobility in this scenario.
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by teamonkey 17d ago
In general that’s correct and you can generally estimate sales over the life of the game before the the end of release day. But there are also early access games, which are completely the opposite. Not very much in between those two extreme
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by teamonkey 21d ago
Also telling your expert employees/servants to do something for you.
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by teamonkey 25d ago
Yes, absolutely. US games developers are paid a lot more than elsewhere. There has been a growing trend over the past couple of decades to outsource more and more game development to cheaper parts of the world, trending towards keeping only
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by teamonkey 25d ago
Revenues overall are rising, but the only real growth right now is in China + East Asia, and in Roblox. https://www.matthewball.co/all/presentation-the-state-of-vid...
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by teamonkey 27d ago
Or 3
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by teamonkey 27d ago
Yes you’re right, of course, I was conflating the ability to move freely within the EU member states with the Schengen Agreement which was not correct. Border control was always necessary between Britain and the Schengen area, it was just s
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by teamonkey 27d ago
I do not expect it to happen in my lifetime. I dearly hope we manage to strike a deal that restores our freedoms to live and work within the EU, but I’m not holding my breath.
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by teamonkey 27d ago
Because the UK had a preferential agreement with the EU and a leadership position. It would be impossible to restore that state. Even if there were a UK referendum where a clear majority voted to rejoin the EU as a member state, not at the
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by teamonkey 27d ago
More like “we won, don’t mention it” It was recently the 10-year anniversary of the Brexit vote. Not a single firework.
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by teamonkey 27d ago
Turnout was about 72%, so really it was (approx) Leave 37%, Remain 35%, Don’t Know/Care 28%. Also worth pointing out that the hard Brexit we got, where we left Schengen and abandoned much of our cross-European programmes, was almost
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by teamonkey 27d ago
Adversity forces a scientific budget and for jobs to be created in related research areas. For some reason we don’t find it important to maintain that level of funding when there’s no adversity.
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by teamonkey 29d ago
They are cheaper, that’s why in most of the world, datacentres are being built where there’s copious solar or wind power. The problem is that they need full power 24/365.
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by teamonkey 1mo ago
“There's no body. NOBODY. There's nobody in the study.”
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by teamonkey 1mo ago
I’m not sure free will has anything to do with it. If you don’t have enough upward velocity to escape earths gravity, hitting the ground is also inevitable.
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by teamonkey 2mo ago
Steam doesn’t need a AI disclosure label for things that are not player-facing IIRC.
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by teamonkey 2mo ago
This is true, but you don’t want people to bounce off the game immediately, so they have a bad time and refund it before giving it a proper go. This can happen if they feel it’s easier or harder then expected.
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by teamonkey 2mo ago
What is ‘normal’ is unfortunately subjective and can mean a lot of different things to different people. Also often what is listed as ’hard’ is often normal, because most people will see ‘normal’ and decide they’re better than that and have
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by teamonkey 2mo ago
Apples to oranges, I think. Blue Prince was self-funded and solo developed for much of its long development time. Publisher funding was sought to polish and market the game. The developers in the article are taking about seeking upfront pub

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