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Ok, so they don’t call it a ’buy’ program.
It’s a lending program, for free. With a deposit for full value so it becomes a purchase if you don’t return it in time. Same structure but the phrasing matters.
Cool idea.
, is "man, capitalism is a mistake"
Man, we need a better term for this criticism.
The US right now is more harsh to live in than the US pre-Reagan, which was more harsh than many countries with a strong welfare state, but all of them are capitalistic.
It’s rather neat, and recently hit 1.0.
That game, Timberborn, shares some design elements with roller coaster tycoon.
A block based 3d world they can be modified by the player.
Units walking around on player defined paths, with their mood influenced by pretty bushes.
But there are no obvious performance considerations like in the article.
Vertically they produce 77% compared to 90% of the tilted panels? In what graph is the lower number better?
77% of the ’normal orientation’ per year, but the graph and 131% value is for a day in winter (January 15 this year). At least that’s my read.
Iirc I thought they were a bit disingenuous.
In theory the change in electric field will induce a small current in the other wire, and their magical science lamp turns on at any non-zero electricity. Whether the wires are connected or not at the far end doesn’t matter.
They never clarified how strong the other current would be.
Centralized moderation is a big thing.
Usenet was a very open system, where iirc moderation sometimes happened per discussion group but otherwise everyone individually had to ignore bad actors (add to killfile). It scaled badly with more people and spammers. Arguably it started going downhill 30 years ago. Found a decade old discussion:
actually explain the "double" part in detail?
$100 appears in your account. That’s one part. The other part depends on why.
* you moved money from another account, the double is -100 in that account.
* you sold stuff, +100 in income.
* you borrowed some money, +100 in ‘debt’.
In a physical book each of these categories would have a left and right column, and each transaction has numbers in one left and one right column. Or in many columns but the sums of left vs right columns must be the same.
When describing a game that looks like it had a smallish team and graphics budget, ‘indie’ is a useful shorthand. It sets certain expectations.
Certainly marketing and media (as evidenced by the article) find this useful, but I think many consumers also are more interested in the game than in the creators. So it makes sense that this language shift happens.
But yes it certainly misses the theoretical point of a category like that.
And would be nice if it was replaced with a technically correct word. ‘Indie-like’?
That’s because it’s not a self-improving computer system. It’s just programming as it exists today for thousands of years.
No. If you listen to only a single artist for a month, your payment is still split the same way everyone else’s payment is, by total streamed numbers.
It sounds better if they artist got your entire monthly payment (after payment processors and Spotify’s fee), but probably a nightmare for accountants.
Unfortunately, games involving human reflexes or difficulty-to-see visual clues aren’t very fun against strangers who can run what they want on their devices. Because cheating.
I don’t think a good solution exists except to keep those games to locked down consoles only.
But maybe a more transparent appeals process could help, even if it gets expensive.
Sounds like the initial table has just one row and one column, containing the entire 16mb csv string.
To the developers: You signed a contract, and now you expect to not have to live up to it?
From what I can tell, it’s more like they have a short term contract they are happy with, but their business model requires them to be able to extend it. They can avoid the new fees ‘simply’ by not letting any user download their Unity games after Jan 1.
But yeah, using free software would avoid this.
Yes, both meanings exists in dictionaries.
Fortunately usage has consolidated. In my experience a factoid is generally intended to be true in (American?) English, but untrue in Swedish.
The key question is /why/ air moves faster on one side, and once you get away from the misconception of same time, I've never heard an intuitive argument.
Since the air follows a curved surface instead of straight ahead, you could perhaps apply your intuition for centrifugal force. Momentum sort of pulls the air away from the surface.
I’m not even sure this explanation is wrong.
quite circular
In this case it’s 106m away from a perfect circle. Almost nothing compared to 20km, but a real thing.
In this analogy, Coinbase is upset its heroin sales are illegal when a licensed pharmacist can sell a similar product.
In this analogy Coinbase' story seems to be that they asked how to apply to become a licensed pharmacist, but never got an answer. While the SEC suggests they never tried.
This gets confusing when the crime is phrased as unregistered heroin sales.
Levine is using a lot of hyperbole there.
To me it looks like a clearly-defined line between text and real-time voice/video. What the user experiences, not the technical background.
Ie it would have been perfectly fine for google to ban text chats, and just use calls/meetings; even with the same software. As inefficient and unpleasant as it would be.
If YouTube-dl let you bypass the paywall, that would make its main use closer to “obviously illegal”.
If it only allows a paying user to make a local copy against the company’s wishes, we would have about the same situation as today. And maybe also a lot of banned YouTube/google accounts when detected.
You're in this country and sending spam? We arrest you.
Further laws around spam might help, but you don’t need the government to actually run anything for this.
If the question always ended with "remember: Monty knows where the car is and will use this information", it would be more obvious.
And perhaps also, “remember: Monty will always open a door, and the contestant knows it”.
Makes me wonder if there were similar shows where the host can choose not to open a door.
‘Eternal September’ possibly started as far back as 1993, so this particular nostalgia isn’t unique.
You seem to be saying, that bank owners can take big risks and make enough money that it’s worth it to occasionally lose all equity. But if we make sure depositors also lose money from this, you think depositors will be more careful - they’ll demand higher interest or choose banks with a lower risk profile?
I don’t think that is practical at all. Not enough of people are going to be doing their due diligence on bank risk profiles, 20 years later.
Making excessive risk illegal through regulations seems more practical, but maybe your point was also that these failed.
In Mario kart, the dollar -> ruby -> gold -> toad chain (from the OP) is designed to obfuscate the cost and get players to spend more money than if it was just dollar -> toad.
Multiple currencies (that can be indirectly bought for dollars) is thus a symptom of a game designed to remove my money.
You seemed to be suggesting that we should not be skeptical of this, because similar game design elements can be used for other reasons.
He’s technically only claiming that turning the company around was his job description when recruited. Is that this was a lie told to him.
That’s a really good fit, seems chat AIs would be really good at it.
Next we’ll have a game where that’s the only interface for this information, and enemy spies makes it lie to you.
None of those say that the destination server is forced to import anything.
This part specifically mentions the controller you originally gave data to, but says nothing about whom you now want to import it to:
without hindrance from the controller to which the personal data have been provided
From your source it’s pretty’s exact, for the US.
Twice a day, every day of the year, weather balloons are released simultaneously from almost 900 locations worldwide! This includes 92 released by the National Weather Service in the US and its territories.
Running it until the battery drains say 30% probably gives more useful data than once. And much less harmless.
Yes, but then you are stealing mail. Which is bad. For a relatively small payoff.