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Awesome, they have a very popular game. Someone who beats it with a computer program should not be negotiating with them for the release of the software. Especially with the nontri…

If they want to avoid ruining entertainment value, they should make a game that is not so easily solved by a computer program. They deliberately avoided mechanics that introduce co…

Play Path of Exile. It's a much better game than Diablo 3. Whether or not Rares or Uniques are best in slot items is a matter of designers taste when it comes to Action RPGs. You c…

Wut? Cabs pull over, look at you, and drive off if you aren't the right skin color. It happens all the time. They assume black people live in poor or dangerous or remote neighborho…

This is such a killer point and neatly sums it up. This is also why I think basic income would be so great for a startup CEO. If there is a sensible government system for guarantee…

Yeah that is one perspective for sure. To be clear, I'm not arguing that it is justified or moral. Whatever you think about 'right' or 'wrong', you have to realize that a person wh…

Explain the downvote?

It's pretty reasonable to expect a store would think of tracking a customer's path through the store. Websites do that all the time. In addition, if we find a good way to provide i…

I think what's really great about our system is that (at least for the privileged who can work in startups) its really easy to put your money where your mouth is. If you are a skil…

What cost effective alternatives are there to public schooling in the U.S.? Is it possible or feasible to home school your kid with success?

Your propensity for violence is likely the least impressive thing about you.

Exercise. Meditate. Cook. Listen to music. I never found the ability to rationalize a task I dislike. Instead, I find joy elsewhere and try to preserve that feeling as I tackle the…

Do you think ease of cloning is the correct metric to optimize? Put another way, if a game developer thinks this: "This would be a really fun game! But it would be too easy to clon…

Visual design is important in games. Novel game mechanics are important in games. In this case, I think the mechanics were the difficult thing to create. And the mechanics took mon…

Here is a clip for a classic hip hop song by 3rd Bass that is relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYp28tEAVvs&t=1m58s . The verse starts: "Black cat is bad luck, bad guys wea…

Shame is a pretty poor incentive or disincentive for anything. It actively prevents connections between people.

internet abstract, borders reality. got it.

Ah no. As I stated in the post, in the second sentence: "Git is not hard" Question: Why the heck is Git so hard? Answer: Git is not hard. The article is a false premise.

Betteridge's law of headlines states: "Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." You have to modify the law a bit with this article but you get so…

just search for all the comments by rwaldron and have a good time

Rolling a weed cigarette with tobacco produces something called a 'spliff' in the U.S. It's common in the U.S. in New York and California.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stayfocusd/laankej... Set the timer to something like 15 minutes. HN and reddit are wastes of time.

If the point is that colonialism isn't the only variable that exists, then we are all on the same page. That was explicitly stated in the thread. India was colonized and India has …

"butthurt" is the pain you feel in your anus after being anally raped. If you scroll down on that knowyourmeme page that you linked, you will see a set of memes in the "Buttfrustra…

You should found a company and then not hire that guy but then write a blog post about how you would totally fire that guy.