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deathcalibur

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    Hey everyone, I gave this presentation on Learning Agents earlier this year and I'm really pleased with how it turned out. Would love your feedback. If you found the presentation i…

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    Comment #31145492

    I read a lot of this as it was being written and found it to be extremely helpful and oddly had a lot of “this was written for me” moments.

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    Comment #30831725

    I’m confused about the hate towards Valve since they have created the steam marketplace where you can sell and buy in-game items, to literally address one of the main points of thi…

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    Comment #29420280

    This happens with teams of humans as well. Without a formal leader, teams will naturally have one (or more) leaders emerge. The ideal team doesn’t need leadership and consists of m…

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    Comment #29420112

    There’s not even evidence for reincarnation “on Earth” in the Bible anyways so not sure what the OP is going on about. I do think it is a useful exercise to imagine yourself in the…

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    Comment #29152352

    I’m guessing Three Mile Island + Chernobyl. Maybe start here https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-nuclear_movement_in_the...

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    Comment #27320284

    I don't believe giving money to poor people will make them lazier, nor do I believe we should give free money to rich people. Ultimately, they want to give money to people that nee…

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    Comment #27320173

    Isn't this mainly a game theory problem? If you don't force a minimum wage, then competitors will undercut each other. As much as we like to believe WE would go to the "more ethica…

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    Comment #27320143

    Oh I totally agree in this particular instance nothing good came from this "bailout". I'm merely trying to say I understand why small businesses need bailouts in addition to their …

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    Comment #27320107

    The problem isn't really people quitting actually because like you said, that could be good. It's more like the business can't pay to stay open because there aren't enough customer…

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    Comment #27319888

    I'm not saying you're wrong when I say consider the following: if every individual had a bunch of free money and decided to not work, then the next day they drive to the store and …

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    Comment #26428794

    Usually the qualities that matter most cannot be quantified (un)fortunately... One way to combat this is to have the interviewing team consist of people with different backgrounds.…

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    Another way to spin this thought that sounds less "evil" is that you can guilt trip people over good behaviors in order to entrench the good behavior. This sounds likely to fuck pe…

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    Comment #24241137

    I find this to be the most disturbing part. I have done a substantial amount of game development myself on the side, it's how I got into programming originally ~15 years ago. I say…

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    Comment #23729426

    This could work both ways. Workers have more options for employment meaning they can jump to a higher paying job without having to uproot their life.

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    Comment #18123918

    Thanks for all your hard work Jeremy. In Cleveland, we are running a study group with about 30 people on the 2018 version of the course. Because of logistics, we aren't planning on…

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    Comment #10318113

    There was a modern legal deck which used this card and birthing pod (now banned) and actually won a decent number of mtgo events: http://archive.wizards.com/Magic/magazine/Article.…