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by padobson 3y ago
Now when I come across ‘competitive nerds’ I’m extra cautious to not appear to be too threatening to their assent to alpha nerd status I agree with this approach. Being highly competent and also un-ambitious has allowed me to build a very
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by padobson 3y ago
25-30 years ago, there was a game studio called 2am Games that made a series of strategy-type Java games that allowed online multiplayer. All the games were monetized with ad clicks. Click on an add, get 15 more minutes of play time. Their
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by padobson 3y ago
The core usefulness of OOP is usability. This is the reason I find it useful. To me, OOP is as much about your organization as it is about the best way to load, transform, present, edit, and store data. I think the culture of some compani
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by padobson 3y ago
I'm definitely curating as I scan my library. The first thing I look for is the potential for insight due to a host-guest paring that I may not have seen before - or that I have and it was pretty good last time. If it's a news-dri
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by padobson 3y ago
I bought a copy of Hamlet with copious footnotes a year ago, and I really enjoyed reading it - but I found the language too taxing for leisure reading. I'd return to my work and find my mental energy had been drained! I can certainly s
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by padobson 3y ago
I took 3 years off once and kept to myself and loved it. Were you stoned the whole time? I only ask because if you're loving what you're doing, then there's usually some modus operandi or Summum bonum driving you. A really
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by padobson 3y ago
Didn't think I'd see camels going through needle eyes on HN today, but here we are!
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by padobson 3y ago
I'm with you here. I have a personal rule that the first information into my head each day comes from the Bible, which for all the criticism it gets is ultimately a story of hope in the face of many disasters. It's been a huge boo
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by padobson 3y ago
Certainly those late 90s budgets all kept government expenditures below 20% of GDP. You could also try to raise taxes without stifling growth (and thus reducing revenues), but that's an even harder technical problem to pair with a simi
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by padobson 3y ago
I read Gleick's The Information[0] a few years ago and was riveted. Do you have any suggestions for further reading if I wanted to take a hobbyist interest? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Information:_A_Histo
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by padobson 3y ago
There was a surplus from 1998-2001[0], so in living memory of most people reading this. It's worth mentioning this happened under a Democratic president and Republican congress, not far from what we have now. [0] https://fred
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by padobson 3y ago
For the curious, here's the debt limit bill that passed the Republican-led House of Representatives at the end of April, HR 2811: https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/2811
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by padobson 3y ago
Is there a mechanism for empowering a polity to protect minors from certain things the polity deems they're not ready for that doesn't rely on arbitrary rules?
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by padobson 3y ago
This is my answer. How do you know you've learned something? If you're learning how to build something, you know you've learned it when you can build it. Fiction is a little tougher, but I've found conversations with my
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by padobson 3y ago
of course one with deliberate and heavy homoerotic overtones Is it? Or was platonic affection more socially acceptable at the time? I don't have an answer, but I've seen solid arguments in lit crit circles for both.
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by padobson 3y ago
This makes sense. Prices are literally encoding information - first the demand for the item being priced and then the cost of supplying the item. The price of beef is signaling a lot of phenomena including consumer tastes, weather, costs fo
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by padobson 4y ago
Yes, absolutely correct. I'd say the Showtime Lakers are the poster child for fast pace in the 80s. This is why I included the number of teams. PPG has fluctuated across eras, but total points has gone up over time.[0] Talent dilution
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by padobson 4y ago
Not sure how deep you intended this joke to go, but the NBA had 23 franchises in 1980 [0] that scored 108 points per game[1]. Now there are 30 franchises scoring 114 points per game. If you look at the points per game stats, scoring dipped
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by padobson 4y ago
This. It was all I could think about while reading the piece. The US Navy is capable of making the seas safe, but under current political conditions I don't even see THAT happening forever. To make this work, the air force would almost
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by padobson 4y ago
Massive airships flying 90/km an hours are LESS susceptible to blockades than cargo ships? I think I'll need a little more explanation than that. Seems like a shoulder-mounted rocket launcher would be more than enough to bring one
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by padobson 4y ago
I would bet the factors that lead to following John Carmack highly correlate with the factors that lead to opening an HN account.
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by padobson 4y ago
Have you spoken to anyone at Steam or GOG or the like and just asked them for a list of Indie games that don't sell? Obviously, one reason they don't sell is that they're bad games, but if you can filter those out, then you&#
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by padobson 4y ago
+1 for getting away from the screen. I've stopped buying eBooks for exactly this reason. A glass of wine or bourbon and a book with a soft lamp is a much better way to power down at the end of the day then doom scrolling or vegetating
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by padobson 4y ago
I identify with this. I heard somewhere that certain high performing folks only need five hours of sleep a night. I tried this for a week and it was a disaster. Damage to work. Damage to relatonships, etc. But it did lead me to a years long
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by padobson 4y ago
I like that the title implies that Gunpei Yokoi[0] is God. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunpei_Yokoi
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by padobson 4y ago
It's also worth mentioning that in order to increase your status in any of these networks, you're going to have to serve the central nodes in some way. So if you're trying to grow your social media following, eventually you&#
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by padobson 4y ago
I could be wrong, but I don't think cloud-driven graphics processing is dying. The knowledge gained by the dev team making it work will serve them well going forward, in addition to the marketing considerations being discussed.
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by padobson 4y ago
I think it's unlikely I'll read a wiser comment on the internet today.
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Heisenbug(en.wikipedia.org)
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by padobson 4y ago
>I guarantee a black market would emerge immediately FTFY But seriously, this experiment is already playing out in NYC[0]. Every marginal % you tax a product, you push some number of consumers into the black market. At some point, the bl

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