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>Nintendo is not a healthy organization.

I disagree heavily.

The toy view the japanese executives take is radically different than american videogame companies, that allows them to have a cult like following.

Nintendo is also extraordinarily cash rich.

They don't need the western market, its just a bonus.

The switch was a system tailor made to the japanese aesthetic of not having large tvs, not caring about online games, and long commutes.
> I urge everyone to look at the actual proposed rules, and in particular the technical background and explanations.

They aren't even trying to make sensible, plausible justifications. For example, see paragraph 252, where they discuss paid prioritization.

They say ISPs need it because ISPs may not be able to figure out how to do usage based billing of their customers, so they need to be able to make sites like Netflix pay instead.
When will America wake up and realize that it is living with a government bought and paid for. It is an oligarchy, plain and simple. Screw the consumer, wanna repair something in America, I hope you have a degree in electrical engineering and are good at micro soldering. Are you sick, want healthcare, hah, good luck if you’re poor. Wanna lodge a complaint against somebody, file charges for a crime? First thing police will do is ask the address and then they’ll go...hmm, that’s the rich neighborhood, excuse me ma’am we need more evidence that a crime was actually committed, if it’s a poor neighborhood they’ll just go shoot somebody or lock them up for good. This is America, the Idiocracy for rent. I’m being sarcastic, but at this point, you know what, when I watch the news it seems quite true.
Ya, and if every person in American gave me just 1 penny, I'd be a multi-millionaire.
Instead of a coffee shop I would spend all my time on a building the best coffee vending machine. At least you control costs and test your margins.
Even when prototyping, exploring or doing one-offs?

I'd rather have the flexibility in those situations.
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Some things I've learned about school. I'm looking to apply to a masters program, so this might vary a little bit, but hopefully it's helpful:

* If you already have a bachelors, chances are getting further education doesn't make sense from an ROI/opportunity cost standpoint. That's ok though--there are other reasons to further your education. Just run some numbers and know what you're getting yourself into though.

* Community college can be an excellent value, especially for more introductory classes that have a pretty defined curriculum. Outside of that, quality seems to vary more and it's possible your credit won't transfer or satisfy the prerequisites to your program of choice. Unfortunately, most community colleges don't seem to have university-level courses beyond the basics. Leading to...

* Computer science programs have a lot of variation in terms of their curriculum, so it can be hard to piecemeal classes from different sources. At the masters level (which, if you have a bachelors already you might consider) most programs expect you to come in with something of a bachelors-ish level background in computer science, and if you don't, they'll have you take their curriculum. It seems like having professional experience helps in terms of consideration, but not in terms of coursework.

* There are a ton of online programs out there. For what I'm looking at though (MSCS), they work pretty similarly. You can take classes on a per-class basis, then apply to the program, and they'll accept some amount of units toward the degree (note that you can't apply units from your undergrad degree). I know this is the case with Stanford's SCPD program, and I believe it's also true of USC and Columbia.

* Online programs can be pretty expensive on a per-unit basis. Taking one class at a time helps with the sticker shock. Also, there are a lot of professional programs that take less time. Personally, I'm hoping to do a research project, so that won't work for me, but it might for you.

* You can also take classes on an "open" basis at a local university, which is nice for the odd class that is tangentially required that you don't want to pay a lot of money for. For example, I'm taking probability theory at SFSU right now.

A little about me: I'm currently taking classes in preparation to apply to a masters program. I have a BA in economics, but I've been developing software professionally since 2008. I'm currently doing the "Foundations in Computer" science courses through Stanford's SCPD program to provide a coherent core curriculum before applying to programs.
A toy is by definition only for children. The Switch is a video game system for all ages, so it’s not a toy … unless you think video games are only for children.
There's nothing of commercial value on the Moon (Helium-3 mining is entirely speculative) and the low gravity would probably make it unfit for human colonization even if the radiation and life support problems could be solved. So the only point of doing more manned missions to the Moon would be just to gain experience before going other places. (Geology research and other basic science could be accomplished far more cheaply with unmanned probes now.)
I'm not an expert by any means but I imagine that, if anything, there would be increased technical difficulty in the throttling/blocking solutions that they want to introduce since that requires more logic than just giving people access to the Internet. That being said, they more than likely have all the infrastructure for monitoring/blocking/throttling/etc in place already and are just waiting for a green light to turn things on.
GameCube and the WiiU?

Nintendo owns its survival on handhelds. Pokémon prints money since 1996.
The Running Man has the same idea (without the porn aspect).
women are sexier than men, so this is just anti-women.
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You’re forgetting that caffeine is a drug.
This is where hardware signing comes into play.
> Finally I put a lot of blame on the Murdoch/Fox propaganda machinery

They definitely started it, but CNN, MSNBC, etc are doing the exact same thing at this point. These days I just assume all news is government propaganda. The fact that Obama signed into law the legalization of propaganda against the American citizenry in 2013 need to be remembered. I voted for the guy, twice, but as soon as that happened I lost all respect for him, forever. His legacy is tarnished beyond recovery.
From a technical standpoint it’s far easier to be net neutral than throttle traffic which takes processing power, energy, and programmer time to do so. This is entirely about the ISPs making yet more money.
Thanks for the links!

I'm at a similar stage of gathering ideas. It seems that as software developers, we're at a unique point in history where an individual owning their own means of industrial-grade production is a possibility thanks to free software.

I come from a different angle as I was incredibly Liberal throughout my student years. But the working world shattered any illusions I had about achieving self-fulfillment as your typical software engineer.

You might be intrested in looking into Enspiral. They are a huge tech cooperative (~40 core members + ~100 associates) running out of New Zealand https://enspiral.com/ with some great ideas. They started out of individual freelancers grouping together to form an insurance fund and smooth out their incomes between contracts.

I've been thinking lately about how to initially build up a group's reputation and client pipeline. If you start with too many members without their own clients then I am not sure it would be sustainable. You could have initial capital investments from each member, but I'm less comfortable with that idea right now.

As for presenting, from time to time I will give web development workshops. I agree that presenting requires a disproportionate amount of time and energy but I find that it spices up my workload very nicely :)
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Most traditional Japanese companies were set up like this. The overseas branches are basically distribution companies who make a percentage of their revenue. They are just like any other reseller. Their only leverage is that they can make customization requests if the potential sales increase is there.

This mode has almost killed all Japanese CE companies because the rest of the global market did no longer buy in to the 'paternal' model.

Nintendo is one of the last Japanese companies working in such a mode. And because they always go against the mainstream, they may just be different enough to make it matter.
If this is problematic today, imagine how things will be in 20 years. It will be nightmarish.

You're on Facebook, you have a baby, you post photos of your child on Fb and he/she becomes an entity in Fb's database. Your child grows up and eventually creates his own Fb/whatsApp/Instagram/whatever account and the cycle continues with his own children. This is just the beginning, folks.
Out of your way, you say? Check out the irl section,please. More often than not you’ll find a female streaming with her tits out in top10. Quite often there’s 2 or 3 in top 10. The content they provide is just sitting around and look in the camera waiting for donations and having their breasts up in the camera.
Personally, I don’t care. But it’s not like those type of streamers are hard to find.
But they've discovered its cheaper to get their 'users' to do their work for them.

"What do you mean zero cost?! You're telling me the users are going to simply give us this data themselves?"
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A coup to do…what? What was the motive behind it? What evidence is there to back this up?
It looks like an interesting setup, but the requirement to provide email in order to view the syllabus is offputting.
This is what I've been thinking lately too. Crytocurrencies are likely to prove useful, but Bitcoin's limitations make it much less useful than it's competitors. It's big right now because it was the first one. That won't keep the value high forever.
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> I'm missing something here, what am I missing?

The ability to pass a Voigt-Kampf test, apparently.
> can you really keep blaming the people instead of the product?

Yes. Freedom of the press/media is an agreement that as adults we individuals are responsible for our own consumption.

Anything less is an extremely slippery slope usually leading to some form of official 'Ministry of Truth' which, in the current political regime, would be Fox.
Huh. I thought Apple completely killed Spotify. I personally had to switch because Artists started doing exclusives with Apple only and I really couldn't justify Spotify over Apple Music, even though I much preferred Spotify's experience. I've also noticed Apple's catalogue is much larger than Spotify's. Is Spotify getting better? I'd love to switch back.
Many books on raising kids already warn about the consequences of internet porn.
Try to find examples in real life. Am sure you will see what I mean after checking
It will bring the balance back to privacy.
>However, they're even not competing for the same audience.

I don't think that's exactly accurate. Presumably the major audience for both types of streamers is young boys/men.
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Its exacabating the problem of social division but I dont think its the root cause.

We simply have two nations with radically different belief systems in one nation.
I don't think it's social media itself. Social media merely amplifies who people are. How one handles this amplification determines the utility one derives from social media.

The HN crowd tends to be dismissive of social media (a lot of "get off my lawn types" around here), but I came from the world of BBSes, and to me social media is simply an evolution of what BBSes were. For years I tried to figure out how to reproduce the sense of community that BBSes brought about, but never found the right niche. Then I realized Facebook was actually a evolved version of a BBS.

I am friends on social media with complex people (who understand nuance) who tend to use social media carefully. They use it to share events, describe experiences (in pictures and words), and once in a while write insightful status messages. They usually don't have extreme views, and tend to debate issues in an even-handed way. I find being on social media with these folks to be enriching because I get to learn a thing or two.

If you follow the right folks on Twitter, you'll get to overhear a lot of conversations about the important issues in Python, R, or what have you, and gain a context that eludes most people who learn programming languages from books. Social media is good for that.

Less complex people tend to share on whatever they found on Reddit, their favorite political website or whatever trashy site that supports their preconceived notions. They tend not to write a lot of prose, and when they do it's not very well-thought out. Many of our older less tech-savvy relatives tend to fall into this category. We tolerate these people because we're related to them, but they are the ones who use social media in a somewhat unhelpful fashion. And before social media they found entertainment in forwarding fake news emails without verifying them on Snopes. But we mostly dismiss them because their believability factor is low anyway.

In the middle are the really dangerous folks, the really intelligent but extremely partisan folks. I won't name names, but if you follow certain celebrities in the AI world, they will often share partisan and unexamined articles that reveal their political bias. You would think the more intelligent someone is, the more of a critical thinker they would be, but it turns out that most people who are good at one thing aren't usually good at everything.
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Quite a worldview you have there.

Is there any actual evidence of a CIA coup in the US?
His selection of examples is telling. Curation is the message.
This is its own problem. I want one feature of package B but package B costs +$$$. I don't care about the other features package B also comes with (in other words, provide $0 of value to me), and the feature I want isn't worth $$$.

As a result, I don't buy package B, or even don't buy the car at all and go to another comparable model.

I had no opportunity to explain why I didn't buy package B to the manufacturer, so do they even realize they're missing out because of that? I'm sure I'm not the only one.
I like that idea. I wouldn't mind doing something totally different for a change.
Sometimes the gaps are interesting too. Sometimes someone takes of a few months to do their own startup but it crashes and burns spectacularly, e.g. founder blow ups.

People usually drop these out of their resume because they don't want to talk about it, but it's a very positive part of their character sometimes.

It might be better to ask them about it though, because they likely won't put it on LinkedIn either.
Just imagining life as an ISP in a network neutral world…

What do you need to have in place if someone alleges you are not neutral? Your accuser might present well collected evidence that Hulu performance to your customers is worse than Netflix's performance. You will then claim "but we didn't do it, it is just the luck of the draw on how we choose to buy interconnect bandwidth". Is that good enough to protect you? How can you prove you didn't choose the interconnects to screw Hulu?

So there is a burden. If there is no requirement, even if you never take money to slow down someone's competitor, you are relieved of this burden.
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Sure, but how many millions of young people watch or are addicted to porn and how many of their parents know or know how to stop them from doing it?
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Maybe some take a mortgage to short it?
He's right though. You can be a hypocrite and still be right.
Thats smart. So Pai is actually leftist protector of the weak.
Devil's advocate: a small portion of streamers use their sexuality to solicit large donations from individuals who cannot afford such donations. Sure you can't police it, but it kind of underpins the site when every popular game has multiple people using this strategy for personal profit. It's highly visible, everybody knows about it. Shouldn't it at least be talked about?
I was mistaken then. What I've read about it was somewhat incomplete from what people are saying here.

That said there is absolutely no need to be such a jerk about it.
I'm not sure I agree with this definition of a "toy"; to me is an item used primarily for "play" (or not exclusively for "work"/"productivity"). Play is most definitely not restricted to children.
> If you stick to browsing Twitch by game you almost never see them

I don't have a strong opinion of what should or shouldn't be allowed, but that statement is false.

For example, if you browse League of Legends in the evening, very often a couple of the top 24 thumbnails are girl streamers in sexy outfits who are not really focused on playing, and do provocative things when people sub / donate.
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People stop buying. That’s it. There is no underlying value. There is no floor to the price of a coin.
Think you might want to re-examine your logic there, my friend.

Just because something is for one group, doesn’t mean that it’s illegal for another group to use it.

Yeah, I think the Switch is for children. I think it’s designed to appeal to kids and be sold, primarily, to kids. I also think that a lot of adults appreciate it regardless because a good toy can appeal to more than just the young.

If you think adults can gain no value from a toy, you are definitely not living the happiest life you could live.
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They can up to a point, but when prices get too high, then it becomes attractive for other last-mile carriers to come in (like fixed wireless). So even an entrenched monopoly can't abuse its power too far.
Who are you missing? I have yet to notice anyone.
For decades, economists have pointed to 17th-century tulipmania as a warning about the perils of the free market. Writers and historians have reveled in the absurdity of the event. The incident even provides the backdrop for the new film Tulip Fever, based on a novel of the same name by Deborah Moggach.

The only problem: none of these stories are true.

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What world are you two living in? Splatoon and ARMS are new first-party IPs that are unique, fun, and very successful right now.
I've been wondering this too. Its price is obviously not supported by anything, but that was always the case. My bet is the price naturally starts to come down as someone with lots of bitcoins tries to cash out, then others panic trying to cash out as the price declines and the price rapidly crashes after that.
Three.

The third one believes both those two belief systems suck.

According to voting data, the third system has more believers than the others.
One more argument: When I turn on the Xbox and the PS4, all they seem to do is download gigabytes of updates that I missed over the last months. I don't play often, so that annoys me. The Switch does not do this. It turns on and off right away and the updates are always optionally executed and have already been downloaded.
I wouldn't be so quick to judge. All family time, and all families, are not equal.
But there is creativity. You don't have to go an extra mile though, but you can. My response is to this:

> If you aren't independently finding new problems to solve then you will be a weaker programmer than somebody who is constantly stepping up their game.
Someone hasn't heard of sex toys.
> This is why the failure rate of data science teams is over 90% right now.

It is unsupported in the article, but on its face, isn't a 90% failure rate about right for bleeding edge tech efforts?
Why not just the same way as any other bubble? People start selling in vast quantities, other people see the selling and panic, the currency devalues, and the selling snowballs until it's a small fraction of its former value.

The big questions are if that's ever going to happen, and if so, when?

Unless you've got a time machine or have cornered the market, though, I'm not sure how you could ever know.
We have a Wii-U. It's actually a very nice machine - if anyone wants a another way of playing Breath of the Wild, Mario Kart 8 and Splatoon I'd highly recommend it. It also has the virtual console, which plays lots of NES/SNES/N64 titles. The machine is also compatible with Wii games, and they look a lot better through the HDMI output.

The Wii-U's mistake was more of a marketing one. People didn't even realise the existence of the product. The gamepad looked like a new 3DS or something, and games didn't take advantage of the touchscreen - like games did for the 3DS.

The other thing that has propelled the Switch were other console companies intended restrictive DRM practices. The kind of market that loved the NES, SNES & Wii were families who just wanted to have a laugh playing games together, and don't take it too seriously.
Fair enough but that part of the magic is so beyond what a young kid can understand without all the context involved that it is magic that can't be decomposed. The elements involved are closed off to inspection.
Can someone explain to me why we would expect WebAssembly to be much different than Java Applets?

There are inevitably defects in the design and/or implementation which will open up browsers to gaping security vulnerabilities until they are found and fixed.
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I dont see what's exploitive on young males there. Older generations have had Playboys from the gas station and dad's VHS collection (or if they knew someone, their own), my generation had emule, Us porn sites and prepaid CCs, the new generation has patreon and camgirls.
I don't and will not put more than 10 years of experience on my resume no matter how old I get. My university study does not exist on my resume either. I am hoping this will help against discrimination.
Sure - think of it more as a thought experiment rather than a forecast and this from a professional trader that's been long since 2013. Either way, I thought I would share it, and we'll see which way it goes.
The movie JFK is basically a documentary (with many wrong details) and is the reason for the law that lead to these files being released.

You know how people say it would be impossible to cover up something so big? It would have to leak?

Well, it did. The CIA/Mafia/Cuban assassination connection is firmly established fact now. Among many other important facts use to be "conspiracy theories."

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As an aside. McDonald did exactly this by doing everything efficiently. They increased their margins by improving costs and having a niche product. Still wasn't easy.

See the movie The Founder. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4276820/