username90

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by username90 5y ago
But the introduction of that LFG tool (more specifically the raid finder) also coincides with the start of wow bleeding subscribers, and they haven't recovered since and instead just kept bleeding. I don't think there is any evide
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by username90 5y ago
No, most people don't have access to casinos. Likely they would spend it on other luxury goods like bar visits, clothes they don't need or more games. Its just a way for games to extract more money from the market without providin
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by username90 5y ago
Coding is the hard part if you are bad at coding but good at maths and algorithms. Writing accurate code for solving a hard problem in under 30 minutes requires you to be really good at coding.
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by username90 5y ago
Yes, but I'd argue that the path you took was a very suboptimal path to reach the same understanding since you almost surely didn't reach it. So now you'd have to redo almost everything in order to reach the same goal making
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by username90 5y ago
They have mapped out the synapse structure, there is no evidence that synapse structure is enough to actually run the brain. If you can run that brain and show it is an accurate representation of a flea brain then you'd have something,
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by username90 5y ago
They already have paid channel membership and member only videos.
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by username90 5y ago
Linus Torvalds is evidence that a good PM/IT manager is worth a lot. There aren't a lot of people that can make or lead a team to make world class products, but the number of marketing mangers who are exceptional enough to have si
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by username90 5y ago
> P2W Cashshop That is branded as a convenience feature though, it is very convenient to buy a maxlevel character or buy gold.
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by username90 5y ago
You don't need sensors, you just need a virtual room. > We totally do emulate organisms on that scale. The There is no evidence those emulations actually emulates those organisms. They just built a neural net in the same structure a
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by username90 5y ago
That is how people learn how to pass tests instead of learning the material. Passing tests is important in college, but if you want to learn on your own it doesn't matter.
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by username90 5y ago
The main thing people lost here is hope. Before they were angry with Blizzard products but hope remained that the next game, the next expansion or the next patch would fix things. But now hope is lost, the community views this event as the
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by username90 5y ago
> For WoW, as an example, it's inarguable that it's the biggest MMO of all time with a super active playerbase, even now. That isn't clear at all that, right now is very different from a month ago. Final fantasy 14 could p
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by username90 5y ago
The crazy shit people believe from corporate media isn't called crazy since so many believe them. And the reason so many believe them is because all corporate media spreads it. Also I am significantly more afraid of crazy shit that peo
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by username90 5y ago
Censorship based on how much money different groups spend and gets outraged is not very democratic compared to censorship based on democratic votes. And censorship based on democratic votes is seen as bad, what big corps do now is even wors
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by username90 5y ago
Start that argument once we can model insect brains. Mouse brains aren't even on the horizon of what we can do.
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by username90 5y ago
General intelligence requires it to solve real problems in the real world. It isn't about emulating humans, but emulating anything resembling an intelligent being we are aware of. It would be totally exceptional if we could properly em
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by username90 5y ago
The discussion is about issues in the bay area. They contribute a huge amount to the tax base there, so saying they don't pay taxes isn't fruitful to this discussion. If those taxes isn't enough to handle issues in the bay ar
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by username90 5y ago
It is across the entire world, it wouldn't be used in the bay area. They already pay taxes properly for all the workers and buildings they have in the bay area, if that isn't enough then they ought to raise those taxes since they
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by username90 5y ago
Numbers implies you can do mathematical operations on them that makes sense. So how would you quantify "good" or "bad"? You can't unless you also answer what "good" + "bad" should be. In psycholo
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by username90 5y ago
They never promised that the output would be error free, having output with errors is still useful for many applications. And the issues you are talking about got fixed as soon as it was discovered and since then Google has made sure to alw
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by username90 5y ago
Human thinking includes building new models/filters for understanding the world, not just applying old ones. And that isn't used for learning, we do it all the time when solving any kind of challenging problem or even for simple p
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by username90 5y ago
They aren't very similar errors, ML solutions are equally accurate as humans in at a glance performance but longer and humans clearly wins. I'd say that the system is similar to humans in some ways, but humans have a system above
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by username90 5y ago
10 billion a year in global tax avoidance for those tech companies combined doesn't sound like a lot considering their revenue is around 600 billion a year. Also consider that all the workers are also tax payers and they want the compa
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by username90 5y ago
I don't think it has to serve a purpose other than power projection for the rich owners. I'd say that owning all media is the best bang for your buck if you want to to convert money to power.
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by username90 5y ago
They don't even compete to solve the problem, they compete for funding. People who are better at politics gets more funding, so adding more people could even be net negative with them draining up all the funding from those who do the a
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by username90 5y ago
Iphone users aren't allowed to install Chrome. They want chrome, but all they get is a shitty chrome skin on Safari. It does trick a lot of people into thinking that they actually have chrome though.
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by username90 5y ago
But removing javascript from browsers will just make more walled gardens. Browsers are not walled gardens, unless your OS prevents you from installing other browsers (see iphones...). It doesn't matter what you say you support if the c
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by username90 5y ago
If it wasn't deliberate they would let you install Chrome instead of forcing you to use Safari with a chrome skin. And why do they have Safari with a chrome skin? Because then most gullible users thinks they can actually use chrome and
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by username90 5y ago
> I wish it was, perhaps may be by numbers i.e. websites vs native software but if we take mobile ecosystem, native applications rule and many of the web pages are just landing pages for those mobile apps. Largely because iphone doesn&#x
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by username90 5y ago
That measure is wrong, it was designed to make USA look better. Read this part about the measure, it misses government subsidised healthcare etc: > Household final consumption expenditure (HFCE) is not an exhaustive measure of the goods

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