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by zemo 5y ago
> I can tell you have never owned an apartment or a house. I own my home and I pay property taxes, nice try though. > Comrade, I am speaking about "how it works" not "what would be really nice if..." faced with &qu
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by zemo 5y ago
> people are not entitled to shelter in any place of their choosing I don't think that's a useful framing, because it's again putting the framing in terms of market dynamics in a vacuum. People don't pick where they&#
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by zemo 5y ago
> one way to drive prices in your city down is to have some even that renders it undesirable (..., defund the police ...) there are so many problems with your post but the assumption that defunding the police is necessarily going to caus
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by zemo 5y ago
sure he says that but what they’re doing is the opposite. They’re not releasing standards, they’re not making the equivalent of a cgi-bin server that lets me run my own simulation that someone can transit to from someone else’s simulation,
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by zemo 5y ago
> Can anyone here convince me [position] generally no, because this framing starts the conversation from a standpoint that you have a position, and it's the other person's responsibility to change your position, instead of your
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by zemo 5y ago
tech products seem to always fall into one of two camps: - made by an evil society-destroying corporation - sold out forever
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by zemo 5y ago
probably a lot of these in there: words with an edit distance of 1 from a real word where the "fake word" is too close to be interesting. one I found was "subdivison", which I thought just said "subdivision":
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by zemo 5y ago
no, I agree with mrobot and I'm only commenting because you're framing my argument oddly and suggesting that I wouldn't agree with mrobot. I think your commentary is tautological reasoning that says the US Government's u
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by zemo 5y ago
so it sounds like American companies helping the US government spy on Americans is OK, American companies helping the US government spy on people in other countries is OK, American companies helping foreign governments spy on their own peop
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by zemo 5y ago
if by everyone you mean the author then I agree
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by zemo 5y ago
while I like the topic and think this is an interesting lens, this study seems to start from the position that navigation can be understood to be a geometry problem alone, but uses sample data from the real world, which is not an abstract e
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by zemo 5y ago
yeah that's sorta what Kevin Lynch's book "The Image of the City" is about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Image_of_the_City very influential book
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by zemo 5y ago
gold farming is against the TOS and a bannable offense in many games though.
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by zemo 5y ago
There's not much content on HN about game servers, and as a game server engineer, I was curious to see a discussion amongst engineers about these outage notes by Blizzard.
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Diablo II: Resurrected Outages: An Explanation(us.forums.blizzard.com)
5 points by zemo 5y ago|3 comments
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by zemo 5y ago
The entire reason that high fructose corn syrup is so prevalent in low-cost foods is that it's cheaper than sugar, especially in the US because of corn subsidies. Find literally any evidence that HFCS is more expensive per-calorie than
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by zemo 5y ago
I know you think this is some sort of neutral comment about personal choice, but it isn't. Millions of underserved people all over the world live in Food Deserts ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_desert ), places
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by zemo 5y ago
I'm bothered by this comment. PICO-8 is one of the most vibrant communities in existence for beginners making games. Thousands of people have made thousands of games with this software. The price point to purchase is extremely cheap, s
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by zemo 5y ago
https://castle.xyz/ is sorta that concept, but could also be described as "hypercard meets instagram"
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by zemo 5y ago
> Manual changes in our staging environment corrupted test data fixtures there's a lot here. Manual changes in your staging environment shouldn't affect your tests, because your tests should be isolated from other environments.
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Chris Gilliard: I don’t think you can have an anti-racist tech company at scale(fastcompany.com)
3 points by zemo 5y ago|0 comments
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by zemo 5y ago
Google and the other cloud companies' strategy is mostly all the same: they want to charge rent on every computer application possible. What has started to change in popular perception is the image of the cloud providers having all of
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by zemo 5y ago
the idea that people who play games other than the games you play are "not really interested in games" is bizarre gatekeeping.
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by zemo 5y ago
> video games don't have a functional purpose any greater than beautiful design some games do, some games don't. Different games have different goals.
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by zemo 5y ago
> they have an air “pure consumerism” It's not clear what you're saying here. What is "pure consumerism"? Are you suggesting that aesthetics is bad? It's a stylish object. People enjoy stylish objects. > the g
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by zemo 5y ago
> is this games? yes
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by zemo 5y ago
their original dev signup applications described the SDK as supporting C and Lua. Pulp appears to be targetting the non-programmer gamedev scene, like Bitsy and GB Studio do currently. It looks a lot like Bitsy. They seem pretty separate. &
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by zemo 5y ago
it's for people that want to play games on a little yellow brick with a black-and-white screen and a hand crank.
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by zemo 5y ago
it looks fun
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by zemo 5y ago
I seriously doubt he has any equity, he worked there for four months; most equity contracts have a one-year cliff.

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