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by zeroname 8y ago
> The absence of a legal prohibition doesn't mean something is ethical Nobody claimed otherwise. Legality is not the point. > ... it can mean that the perceived incidental costs of policing it outweighs the benefits. That's
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by zeroname 8y ago
> It does not follow. Similar: even in "employment-at-will" jurisdictions, where you can fire anyone at any time without giving justifications, you are not allowed to fire someone for a slew of protected reasons, such as becomi
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by zeroname 8y ago
Poor comparison. Let's not forget that it's legal for people with hereditary diseases to procreate, would you compare that with "poisoning the water supply"? Furthermore, here are some legal ways to crudely "engin
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by zeroname 8y ago
> - it is not actually defensible to abort fetuses based on sex. If it's ethically defensible to abort fetuses for no particular reason (i.e. general legalized abortion) then it follows that abortion for any particular reason is eth
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by zeroname 8y ago
If it's ethically defensible to abort a child based on its sex (or for any other non-medical reason), it should be ethically defensible to mess with its genome. I, for one, welcome our new Chinese designer baby overlords.
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by zeroname 8y ago
It would still be stupid to buy in at the top of the market if you assume it's going to tank - which is far more likely now.
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by zeroname 8y ago
That would assume everybody can interpret the information correctly and make an unemotional decision regarding their investments. In reality, everyone wants the party to go on indefinitely.
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by zeroname 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window
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by zeroname 8y ago
> I don't think that's right but that's how the system works these days. That's not how "the system" works, that's what the investment climate is like at this point in the business cycle. Money is cheap
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by zeroname 8y ago
> The author doesn’t cite growth rates, customer acquisition costs of lifetime value of the customer and without that it’s not clear they know what they’re talking about. If CAC << LTV and you have a high growth rate and your cost
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by zeroname 8y ago
> You only need to read their blogs to see how it’s hurting the “good” indie developers. I don't think so. The odds are that if they failed with sales on their indie game, instead of admitting that there a thousand developers just
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by zeroname 8y ago
I don't get your historic analogy. Yes, you could make a game that rivaled the games of the big guys, all on your own. However, there's no way you could've gotten your game into the major sales outlets without a publisher. Th
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by zeroname 8y ago
> See for yourself: > https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2018/#salary Like I said, you need to factor out those unsuccessful developers that don't make any money. This is self-reported data is of
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by zeroname 8y ago
I have never seen any of these on "my" Steam. It's not part of my shopping experience in any way. I know they exist because Jim Sterling sometimes makes funny videos about them, but I can't fathom how they make a signifi
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by zeroname 8y ago
It's not just lack of marketing, it's the fact that there are now far more games, but gamers have neither more money nor time to compensate. There are too many game developers, it's as simple as that. Too many millennials don
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by zeroname 8y ago
If you look into it you will find that you can buy many indie games directly from the developer and still get a Steam key. If you don't want that Valve charges "too much" from indies, then you should be proactive and join oth
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by zeroname 8y ago
> Already game developers are the lowest paid workers in the IT industry That is not true if you factor out all the people developing games independently on their own dime, against better financial advice. To counteract that, there just
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by zeroname 8y ago
> No, it was PS3s. Here is an article about it from the time: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2006/12/6406/ It doesn't say they had to sell at a loss, just that they didn't get the ridiculous
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by zeroname 8y ago
Exactly. The existence of arbitrage doesn't "defy" the law of one price, it is its entire foundation. What a bold display of economic illiteracy. Next up: English major at NPR discovers the economic secret to free lunch.
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by zeroname 8y ago
> In the USA they used to have paid toilets but got rid of them because it was called discrimination against the poor. Meanwhile, in "socialist" Europe, paid toilets are the norm. Then again, wild urination isn't a sex off
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by zeroname 8y ago
"Besides its economic threat, the advance of AI seems to pose a cultural threat: if physical systems can do what we do without thought to give meaning to their achievements, the conscious human mind will be displaced from its unique r
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by zeroname 8y ago
> Not for a while, I think. We only had two bombs at the time. IIRC it would have taken months (weeks?) to build another. It wasn't that far off: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_a...
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by zeroname 8y ago
> This point in particular comes up a lot , but there is scant actual evidence for it. There is scant evidence for this (honest question)? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Downfall#Operation_K... > Contemp
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by zeroname 8y ago
> Dozens of emails / notifications, people pinging / bothering you on multiple platforms, multiple emails, etc. Two options: 1. Stop supporting the package, mark it as deprecated, ignore/delete the spam 2. Hand over projec
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by zeroname 8y ago
It's obviously not true that the US can do as it pleases, it can't afford to go to war whenever it wants, its army is really expensive. Also, virtually of the foreign interventions done by the US in the last decades have been fail
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by zeroname 8y ago
The real reason is that no other major country has a white vest either. Look at this list, the USA barely ever shows up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_and_anthropogenic...
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by zeroname 8y ago
> What surprised me most how many citizens didn't feel that its use was inhuman. It's all about context. At that point in history, the Japanese forces had already murdered millions of non-Japanese. Furthermore, firebombing camp
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by zeroname 8y ago
> Again, you are effectively arguing that it would be ethical for a doctor to try to experimentally create a glow-in-the-dark baby if asked to by the mother. No, I am not arguing that. That's an embarrassingly absurd conclusion to d
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by zeroname 8y ago
> Easy for people who have zero packages and no pressure to say. If you have this "no warranty, no responsibility" attitude then how can you have pressure to maintain anything? How does that translate into pressure to hand off
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by zeroname 8y ago
> Meritocracy is an outdated discriminatory practice. Of course merit is judged subjectively (like anything else), but what exactly is the alternative? In particular, I don't find anything actionable in that manifesto in regards to

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