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by telchior 4y ago
I think there's a story in the news today about Taco Bell doing the same thing. More relevant to tech -- Automattic, Klaviyo and probably a lot of other companies require people in certain positions to do customer service rotations. In
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by telchior 4y ago
Do they really have any presence? I spend almost all of my time internationally and basically never see AmEx. Had a Discover card years ago when I began traveling but got rid of it because its presence was spotty in the US and nonexistent e
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by telchior 4y ago
Are those the only crimes that involve jail time you can think of? We spent half a century sending people to jail for years or decades for possessing a bit of marijuana. You can be sent to jail for non-payment of speeding fines, or fishing
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by telchior 4y ago
I love A Fire Upon the Deep much more, myself. Sure, the characters aren't quite as good, but in epic scifi I don't think that matters so much. The idea of the Beyond and Transcend is just so compelling, and it's comforting
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by telchior 4y ago
It's interesting that so many replies here point out John Romero. I wonder if it's a generational thing -- people old enough to remember the hype of Ion Storm, but not quite old enough to remember the period before that. No, it wa
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by telchior 4y ago
I think if a culture finds out that doing a particular thing benefits it greatly, and that it cannot be punished for doing that thing... it will do that thing. This idea of "cultural differences in the idea of stealing" is a bit s
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How did the porting process go? For scripts, models, etc -- were you able to use any automation? What platform did you use for the Steam release?
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Cigarettes contain a pharmacy's worth of chemicals. I've read that their addictiveness may come from the combination of MAOI inhibitors + nicotine, or some other combination.
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Sure, that sounds like a great thing to focus on, but in this particular thread that's specifically about ShotSpotter it mainly serves to change the subject.
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Yeah, I know nothing about Chicago so I'm not challenging anyone's anecdotal experience. Just pointing out that ShotSpotter, as a source, is potentially pretty awful. Another thing I didn't point out in my comment is that Sho
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by telchior 4y ago
You're assuming the "gunshot alerts" are actually gunshots, though. As noted, the sensors will identify other sounds as gunshots, and the company won't reveal its methodology so... do you live in a neighborhood with 50k
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by telchior 4y ago
Most people who end up needing a lot of painkillers end up choosing one favorite. For my migraines it's ibuprofen, my dad swears by celebrex, some people prefer naproxen sodium, etc. The frustrating thing when traveling is that a ton o
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by telchior 4y ago
What does consensus mean, exactly? It doesn't sound like Aβ-56 had full buy-in; the article mentions people complaining about an "amyloid mafia" and half of all funding still going to alternate research, so clearly there were
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by telchior 4y ago
"Buddhists" represents many sects, and many more individuals who aren't beholden to anyone. The majority of these assuredly don't believe anyone can fly, enlightened or not. Scientology is a rigidly hierarchical, authori
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by telchior 4y ago
I'm an American who has lived in the UK. I can report back that we're definitely not the ones who invented the term "eating beige".
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by telchior 4y ago
Isn't "hot and brown" a mainstay of British cuisine in general?
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by telchior 4y ago
Starbucks' roasters are extremely proud of their techniques, too. They're all mysterious and secretive about how they do it, or at least one of their VPs was when I talked to him about it a decade ago. I think they're aware t
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by telchior 4y ago
To me this looks like typical ad industry consolidation. It's part of the eternal circle of advertising: when a new ad format shows up (radio, TV, web, mobile, etc) a zillion little companies pop up. Twenty years later there are just a
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by telchior 4y ago
I know, the way I said it was poorly worded. It was a first in the minds of the planners and builders for, among other reasons, the approval process, the engineering conditions they built it under (a compressed air tunnel was required to ke
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by telchior 4y ago
Not just carpet, but padded wool seats -- those were replaced with padded water-repellant vinyl a decade ago, which sounds like a long time until you realize that it had cloth seats for 40 years before that. Absorbent wool was, as you might
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by telchior 4y ago
In my mind, premium is significantly better than open-ended free to play monetization. Subscriptions have been used for kids platforms before (e.g. Club Penguin), so it's not some new emergent evil. Roblox incentivizing games to treat
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by telchior 4y ago
Yep, you're talking about the games I had in mind when I said some games are beginning to lay the groundwork. Notably, Bee Swarm Simulator was made by a grown-ass man who had (IIRC) mobile dev experience before going to Roblox. And wit
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by telchior 4y ago
Well, prepare to be surprised, I guess. A big chunk of revenue doesn't come from whales (for almost all games, I can't speak for all but know a fair amount about the average platform success story). That's because of the hist
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by telchior 4y ago
Correction here -- Roblox largely does not have whales. Most of the long-time successful games just rely on quantity of players (with logged gameplays reaching into the billions). That may change / be changing but among Roblox devs you
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by telchior 4y ago
But if FromSoft cared to moderate the messages they could; there are a limited number of combinations that can be made. FromSoft instead encourages the behavior (e.g. by always having a few dead NPCs hanging over a railing with the butt fac
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by telchior 4y ago
It's probably some blend of you not being in that domain + intentional vagueness. I used to write about omnichannel marketing, so I love that you gave that example. As the "explainer", I spent a lot of time trying to figure o
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by telchior 4y ago
I wonder what a version of this article that's backed by any data at all would look like. The failure rate of venture funded startups has always been around 3 out of 4 -- or if you include walking dead companies as failures, maybe 9 ou
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That's a pretty funny strategy. Considering how smart my date was, I'm sure she was also aware enough to know the whole "kids now" thing might scare me off and said it anyway, in line with whatever her dating game theory
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I'm not sure if I'm reading the previous comment and this one correctly, but it sounds like you're up front with your dates about what you want -- the monogamy, kids, etc. And that could work well, but... it also might not. I
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by telchior 4y ago
This seems like playing with semantics. You could say safety isn't a priority, or that it's the highest priority, depending on what you define as "safety". It's actually interesting that discussions about why people

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