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by duwease 2y ago
This is exactly the reason QAnon took off. It evolved from ARG-ish games without the goal of being persuasive about real-world things. But a participant back then realized how people enjoyed figuring out the 'puzzle', and how to
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by duwease 3y ago
But why is it OK if you dismiss someone's lived experience AND a few studies in favor of what is only your lived experience? Given the demographics of the site and people's explicitly stated experiences, it seems plenty of the peo
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by duwease 7y ago
I want to bring a note of positivity here -- while most comments seem to be poking holes in the concept, all also seem to acknowledge the need for such a service to be successful. This is a domain that I've also put a lot of thought in
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by duwease 8y ago
Yeah, I've never quite understood the value proposition of that fee myself. Between that and the gatekeeping that happens to become an agent, it seems like it's a bit inflated and held up by tradition. At least the iBuyers like O
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by duwease 8y ago
It must be some subset of expressions (or I must have set mine up wrong), because anything that calls a function (vs a simple conditional statement) appears to throw an error for me indicating that it cannot execute.
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by duwease 8y ago
It's really useful to have access to an eval() function when paused in a debugger. That alone makes this useful -- it'd be great to have IDE's like Goland take advantage of this to provide this functionality.
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by duwease 8y ago
The way I read it is that they are using 'luck' and 'risk' in the colloquial sense, where 'risk' equates with 'danger' and 'luck' equates with 'good fortune'. Basically they are sa
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by duwease 8y ago
Luckily for his point there are the other hundreds of millions of reliable cars on the spectrum between a broken one and a premium one!
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by duwease 8y ago
I don't think this is new. 20 years ago, I loved game programming.. I even chose a game dev library in C++ as my senior (college) project. But my obsession also led me to read all I could about the industry, and the stories were the
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by duwease 8y ago
You're in my state then. There is the one guy that's.. somewhat centrist, but he's pretty well back in the polling. SO now I'm figuring out what's the lesser of 3 evils that are competitively polling. We really
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by duwease 8y ago
Exactly. I think there's a huge flaw in even the toned-down version of that that both sexes buy into -- making a dating profile (or just their public personality) as generically appealing as possible. Yes, highlighting your travel an
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by duwease 8y ago
Pied Piper has got some serious competition!
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by duwease 8y ago
Used to play a MUD called 'After Hours' from 95-97. It was not 'adult-oriented', as the name would imply, although that may be why my teenaged self chose it in the first place. Good times back in those days when I coul
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by duwease 9y ago
Nintendo is still the go-to for couch co-op, especially with players of varying skill levels. Between the flagship and indie games, their brand is still very much based around family and friends playing together.
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by duwease 9y ago
There's absolutely a glut of throwback adventure games on Steam nowadays. Take a look!
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by duwease 9y ago
Depends on the game. Nintendo has some great family games I've enjoyed with the little one, and it's a good opportunity to present him with problems, have him think about what to do, try it, fail, and fight through the frustratio
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by duwease 9y ago
VR is very much here and functional.. I've been playing a few hours a week for the last year. There are certainly less AAA games than the main platforms (which is expected due to the economics of having <5% of the install base), bu
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by duwease 9y ago
Wait, so following suit would then lower prices in the US and pass on the costs to the rest of the world? ..Sold!
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by duwease 9y ago
Seriously. I'd like to share this, but with that picture attached it limits my ability.
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by duwease 10y ago
IMO, the change has to come from the grant financiers, and a case can be made that they get a greater more bang for their buck by adding requirements such as pre-registration, open data publishing (so long as they don't want to keep th
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by duwease 11y ago
They're still releasing some solid stuff -- but from what I understand there were some political dust-ups regarding which institutions got their priorities implemented first, which led to people dropping out, which led to a lack of mom
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by duwease 12y ago
Those graphs don't show a prediction of an x% increase for a particular decade, however. It seems you're interpreting them as literal average temperature predictions for a decade, when they represent where a linear regression lin
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by duwease 12y ago
I'm not sure how a Google search for a series of loosely related graphs addresses either of my arguments. I assume you are thinking that their existence refutes them somehow, but I don't see anything on the first page that contrad
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by duwease 12y ago
The argument that climate scientists claim x% of warming every decade is a straw man.. that is not a claim they have made and then failed at. They have claimed longer-term warming with short-term fluctuations (considering that carbon emiss
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by duwease 12y ago
That's valuable work in my eyes.. a little effort helps a lot when returning to the code (or having someone else use it) later. Bad naming even causes unnecessary confusion once I'm immersed in the code base.. the fifth time or s
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by duwease 12y ago
Not nearly as much as you might think. Check out "Bad Pharma" by Ben Goldacre. It's a treatment of the statistical and legal tricks used by drug companies to overstate the efficacy of new drugs, without breaking any actual F
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by duwease 12y ago
I think it's just the headline that's misleading, the abstract says quite clearly: "Moreover, machine learning algorithms classified individuals as autistic or control with 97% accuracy from their fMRI neurocognitive markers.
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by duwease 12y ago
Has Amazon named this algorithm yet? I'd like to nominate "Proper English Diction And Nomenclature Tracker".
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by duwease 12y ago
Row 5 has an uneven number of blue and red blocks.
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by duwease 12y ago
It's legal because no major industry has turned their lobbying efforts on outlawing it yet. There's no clear philosophical line between gambling and, say, investing.. there's just (decreasingly) moral crusaders and (increasi

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