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As someone with both AAA and game jam experience, you just put my vague misgiving about the AAA process right into words. This is exactly it. At least my game jam teams have always…

> Maybe with laser cutters there's a new market for wooden construction toys. At least in my very limited experience, merely the cost of quality wood makes it an expensive material…

I think we're agreeing. > But even there, what you need is a persistent identifier with which to build a reputation, not a government tracking number The persistent identifier is a…

> worth compromising the design of a network That depends on what the design of the network is. In my mind Freenet is too free for reasons discussed in sibling comments (but in sho…

> You are not going to solve a hard math problem with average IQ no matter how much persistence you throw at it. I'm inclined to disagree, but there's an important piece here that …

Sorry, I meant it as an example specifically of this (similar to the Hobbits "outsourcing" their defense): > There's not a lot places in the real history of the real world where a …

Iceland is one example. They have a coast guard but no standing military. On the other hand, their independence is formally guaranteed by the US (and maybe others, I don't remember…

I'll take a stab at it, since I'm one of those privacy advocates (and also prone to making sweeping statements like this). Let's say Alice and Bob are doing life and emailing each …

Although a different context, I always find the writeups of cybersecurity CTFs that go through the "What I was thinking, what surprises I encountered, how I pivoted" process both m…

I've never heard of a musical group or artist who can make a sustainable living on just a local scene (although maybe that's rather the point, since they stayed local to wherever t…

He also designed the Netrunner rules that Android: Netrunner was based on, and that had such a committed community that when Wizards pulled the license from FFG, the fans just kept…

Just a point here, you're talking about MTG Arena, which is the new online game. There's a much older game still called MTG Online which preserves the gambling aspect, where you bu…

I tend to think the answer is to go back to villages, albeit digital ones. Authentication only enforces that an account is accessed by the correct "user", but particularly in socia…

I disagree that open platforms are always susceptible to EEE. In my mind, their openness (or more precisely, the true openness of their protocol(s)) prevents that. Sure, there's a …

Something I'm coming to realize is even independent of the whole "engagement" thing, media in general (that also goes for movies, TV, video games, etc) are manipulating our brains …

Imagine engaging users with a desirable experience they look forward to returning to vs trying to force content on them that they resort to third parties to deflect. Way back ~2006…

Been tinkering with my personal site again for no particular reason. 1. Looked at what it would take to turn it into a sort of "pubnix" for some friends 2. ...which got me looking …

> companies might start learning that in 10 years or so after they've replaced a few generations of programmers, nobody knows how anything works, and suddenly software quality star…

I've tended to hold that view as well, but a fellow circled-A enthusiast of my acquaintance pointed out that a challenge may arise when it comes time to enforce the will of the sma…

Correct (at least insofar as that's the assertion I'm making).

> Party politics were a mistake Agreed, but I don't see practically how to avoid them in a democracy/republic, even if you started from a totally clean slate and could unilaterally…

That's super correlation vs causation, but also the explanation there seems straightforward to me: regardless of what IQ is or if it even exists, if you produce a standardized test…

The crazy imaginative class selection in ToME (special shoutout to the chronomancer) easily makes it my go-to roguelike, but I do find I have trouble really feeling what the impact…

> Why don't Christians want to enter "christian unions" and cede control over the word "marriage" to the state as a legal construct? Because many Christians to varying degrees don'…

> Unless someone has a really new idea how you can make a defensible, healthy 'public townsquare' ... I think this change is that idea. The thing about a 'public townsquare' is tha…