crystalis

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by crystalis 14y ago
I'll take mudslinging and rumor-mongering over harmful subsidies to e.g., corn.
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by crystalis 14y ago
Companies need to understand that they should seek revenue before customers and vanity metrics.
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Retroactive music fees in Canada(ctv.ca)
2 points by crystalis 14y ago|0 comments
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by crystalis 14y ago
"It was officially adopted as a United States military bolt-action rifle on June 21, 1905, and saw service in World War I. It was officially replaced as the standard infantry rifle by the faster-firing, semi-automatic 8 round M1 Garand, sta
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by crystalis 14y ago
Few people truly understand the semantics of a language, but everyone knows why indexing from 1 is bad.
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by crystalis 14y ago
It's nice how you've written him off entirely because he likes one thing and not another! You completely disregard the possibility that some people are only ever fully engaged and in the moment when their mind is on and they are performing
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by crystalis 14y ago
It seems to fit better with "winner take all" instead of "first-mover advantage"
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by crystalis 14y ago
Oh yeah he asserted that question so hard. unf.
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by crystalis 15y ago
The Dyson ones I've seen have only ever shot cold air on my hands and pushed my hands against both sides of the dryer. Maybe they've been horribly misconfigured at all 3+ places I've seen them at, but in my experience they've just been less
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by crystalis 15y ago
I don't think they allow, expect, or calculate an unbounded positive as t->infinity. I don't expect we'll get caught in a local minimum - we've done a decent job breaking out of them when the individuals involved haven't had nearly as m
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by crystalis 15y ago
The article talks about extending suffering , not life. Few people who think they will live forever expect to do so wheezing with every breath. Shakespeare's sonnets are artfully composed, and I'd say we've done a decent job of keeping the
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by crystalis 15y ago
I'm a hypothetical poor person, so I must feed myself on cheap subsidized carbohydrates, which leave me feeling hungry, or eat an amount that sates me after working one to two normal jobs and taking care of zero to more children, which conv
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by crystalis 15y ago
It might be clearer if you just said the first lifetime $500k will cost you $60k in taxes and your next $500k would cost you $75k in taxes.
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by crystalis 15y ago
http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=17350
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by crystalis 15y ago
A hypothetical situation where this works out: Torrent site serves up 1000 pirated DVDs, making $20 in the process. Only 1 out of those 1000 pirates would pay the $10 required to buy a DVD [1]. Assuming as little as 2 cents of consumer valu
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by crystalis 15y ago
The article's "At the end of one sprint, a QA dude was complaining about the drop rate of a specific item being absurdly insane, and therefore UnFun. I looked at the code, and tweaked some values, gave it back to QA guy, and fun was restore
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by crystalis 15y ago
Kept adventure gaming alive? There have been plenty of great adventure games since 2001, but this article was mostly about life support... (It's also always worth mentioning the continuing interactive fiction, the precursor for adventure ga
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by crystalis 15y ago
So are buildings.
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Such emotional energy from one little post(rachelbythebay.com)
8 points by crystalis 15y ago|1 comments
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by crystalis 15y ago
If there aren't enough startups solving problems, there's room in the portfolio for a few "$BCs".
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by crystalis 15y ago
On some level, yes, but companies don't magic employees into existence. It doesn't matter too much if the Go language comes out of Dogpile or Pets.com instead of Google, does it? I can definitely see that Google is more likely to foment tra
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by crystalis 15y ago
But what Valve is doing is an improvement over the status quo, and social games are a regression from the status quo. TF2, by and large, didn't get worse by letting more people play it for less money - lots of value was created, and Valve i
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by crystalis 15y ago
There's a meaningful distinction between 'pay to play' "can't wait" farmville, 'pay to play' random drop, tradeable, gameplay-available goods a la tf2, 'pay to play' cosmetics a la tf2 hats and hon skins, and 'pay to play' in-game advantage
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by crystalis 15y ago
"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."
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by crystalis 15y ago
Do the 10% of applicants you want somehow not fall under sales or development?
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by crystalis 15y ago
One of the benefits of being on a team is that you just need one guy to know how to do all of that and everyone gets the benefit.
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by crystalis 15y ago
Perhaps some modifications to /bestcomments would ameliorate the need for visible comment scores as a consumption guide. A tiny star or somesuch that linked to the /bestcomments page would seem to fit natural use pretty well.
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by crystalis 15y ago
Meta-comment follows: Would you have replied if comment scores were displayed?
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by crystalis 15y ago
You should consider the timescale and degree as well. A billion generations of AI will pass in the relative blink of an eye, allow for no response, and in almost every failure case will irrevocably destroy everything humans value. GMO happe
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by crystalis 15y ago
The internet sales tax honor system is more of an oner system. You have to go out of your way to do all the bookkeeping yourself to reward unwarranted rent-seeking.

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