tsotha

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901.
by tsotha 12y ago
Absolutely true. I've purchased a few sequels over the years only to find somebody made the game in a different place with different people and turned my beloved franchise to crap.
902.
by tsotha 12y ago
I don't think the EA brand is worth much. It took a big hit to its reputation with the always-on DRM strategy, and it's widely regarded as a crappy place to work.
903.
by tsotha 12y ago
Who is going to pay for it, though? If Musk is then, okay, maybe. But if he's counting on Congress to pony up the cash it may never happen at all. Probably won't, in fact.
904.
by tsotha 12y ago
>Look at all the maneuvers SpaceX had to do to prove they were capable of docking with the ISS. They haven't even proven that yet. This version of Dragon can't dock - they just get within arm's reach (heh) of the statio
905.
by tsotha 12y ago
I think we can all read that as "not in my lifetime", though I may just be a pessimist.
906.
by tsotha 12y ago
It's hard to know where to place the blame for delays, though. They have to deal with multiple government bureaucracies, bumping, launch windows, and weather. Even if SpaceX executed perfectly every time there would still be schedule
907.
by tsotha 12y ago
If you're an ugly middle aged man and you're willing to date ugly middle aged women there's no need for a dating site. Women have lost most of their power in the dating market by that point.
908.
by tsotha 12y ago
Yes it is, particularly for women.
909.
by tsotha 12y ago
It's kind of a stretch to call Tinder a tech company. It's a hook up site, basically, and they want to charge less attractive people more money for the same reason fat people can't find stylish clothes - too many unattractiv
910.
by tsotha 12y ago
Seriously? That's just the kind of guy who will be summarily ignored, too. What a waste of twenty bucks.
911.
by tsotha 12y ago
It's free to the 99.99% of people who "have this great idea for a killer game" but never get beyond the first baby steps.
912.
by tsotha 12y ago
They're all like that. One of my favorite games keeps running out of memory because Unity 4 doesn't really work on 64 bit windows so they had to stay with 32 bit.
913.
by tsotha 12y ago
>...and even for felonies the arresting person must reasonably believe that the arrested party committed the felony, but the felony must also have actually occurred, otherwise the arresting person is liable for false arrest even with rea
914.
by tsotha 12y ago
In most US states anybody can make an arrest if they reasonably believe a felony has taken place, and can even make an arrest for misdemeanors that involve "breaches of the peace". As for carrying guns, WaPo might be interested
915.
by tsotha 12y ago
If I had a nickel for every stupid leftist quote falsely attributed to Thomas Jefferson on the internet, I'd never have to work again.
916.
by tsotha 12y ago
No. It's perfectly legal to discriminate against white and East Asian men, thanks to our Humpty Dumpty court system.
917.
by tsotha 12y ago
Damn, rats have a better health plan than I do.
918.
by tsotha 12y ago
>You are looking at it from the wrong side - selling software does not provide an income to anyone. Sure it does. It provides income to all the software company's shareholders, which they can then use to buy nuclear power.
919.
by tsotha 12y ago
Yeah, it's so obvious you have to wonder if Putin actually did it.
920.
by tsotha 12y ago
He had a minor part in Fringe , and if you watch it it's pretty clear he had advanced emphysema. I have to assume they did what they could to minimize how obvious it was, too. I was kind of surprised to see him last this long.
921.
by tsotha 12y ago
I don't see how you get there from here. If a product requires fixed costs there will be prices paid and profit even if marginal costs are negligible. That's the software industry in a nutshell.
922.
by tsotha 12y ago
States have to collect taxes somehow, and though Texas doesn't have a personal income tax, you pay through the nose in property taxes. And parts of Texas are very nice.
923.
by tsotha 12y ago
There's definitely a network effect. And abundance of tech jobs draw in and abundance of tech workers, which draws in companies (jobs) looking for workers, which draws in workers looking for jobs... That's why you see municipalit
924.
by tsotha 12y ago
On a software developer's salary there are a whole lot of cities in which you'll have to live like a student if you have a family.
925.
by tsotha 12y ago
This. Closing a real estate deal is like running the hurdles. Cash buyers are starting the race at the midpoint.
926.
by tsotha 12y ago
>In principle, government has the capability to be less stupid than the market. That may be true, but the US had a "strategic helium reserve" that we decided to sell off for no reason I can discern. I have more trust in peop
927.
by tsotha 12y ago
You might do it if you were sure you'd actually land on the tenure track and get tenure. That's far from assured, though. Seems like most people reach 35 or 40 before they're officially denied tenure, meaning you've
928.
by tsotha 12y ago
Nearly all the soft sciences, including economics.
929.
by tsotha 12y ago
Gender and race imbalances are much less important to me than ideological imbalances. What's the point of having different sexes and skin colors if they're all part of an echo chamber?
930.
by tsotha 12y ago
The tenure system really needs to go. The idea was to set up a system where it would be difficult to stifle dissent. But the structure of the system guarantees over time there won't be any dissent to stifle, because tenure committee

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