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Living standards remained constant while productivity went up?

Interesting. I have a multi color LED strip I'm looking at. Posting this on the internet from a smartphone in a far bigger house than a 1950s engineer, my car has worked for 12 years....

Here is a question, can we take this author seriously? Citations are nice, but it doesn't meet with reality.

Why is this author proposing living standards are the same?
> Create a new account and lose the legitimate ones you'd have regardless of this?

This. On the old account, tweet something like "I worked with a consultant who turned out to just sell fake followers. I want to leave those behind, so please follow my new account @foobar instead."
What's your take on dTal's assessment that libertarians are for no government at all?

If you have any evidence of advocacy for repression in any of Friedman's lifetime of his books, articles, or lectures, I'd like to see it.
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Something's seriously wrong with your browser/encoding.

It seems all apostrophes in your message are replaced by â€™ (a with hat, euro symbol, TM symbol).
> Jeff, the art problems of your games have nothing to do with low-res. Baba is You (or Downwell) are just as low-res, but manage to look good because they use fewer colors and choose them well.

I expect they're also less busy, and more stylised.

Looking at the Queen’s Wish's screenshot, it doesn't look lower resolution than Dungeons of Dredmor, just worse, the backgrounds are way too busy, the colors are inconsistent, too subdued so their kind-of meld into one another making things less legible, the lighting is odd, the level of details seems to vary from one sprite to another,…

Compare

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tV0QOWTjVOM/XV23pI64tQI/AAAAAAAAB...

to

http://i.imgur.com/tc3rt.png
> Do they even have a dedicate security team?

Let's remember that Valve is the oldest there is in a business they pretty much pioneered with Steam over 15 years ago.

As somebody who's had an account there since day 1, I'm still amazed by how tight they've managed to keep their ship for all these years, even tho plenty of people have been trying to break into that very worthwhile target for over a decade.

If I contrast that to my experiences with services like Uplay, and Origin, then those differences are like night&day, because with both my accounts on these services I had lot's of issues due to my accounts getting hijacked (probably trough support) several times.

In 15+ years of using Steam, this hasn't happened once to me, so whatever Valve is doing at that end, it seems to have worked well for them and their customers.

That's not meant to defend their stance on this particular issue, but imho it's also kinda dishonest to now frame Valve as a company where nobody cares about security.

If that'd be really the case then they would have gone out of business over a decade ago.
They were a great platform, but they aren't any longer.
I guess my comment was specific to the US, but pay in the medical field is vastly lower in Europe than in the US. Regardless, Europe is still subject to the biggest factor, which are demographic changes and they will have an impact on the availability of future benefits. I would say these past 20 years and maybe next 10 will have been the peak, and then there will be visible cuts in services or quality of services due to lack of people (and/or taxes) to service the debt.
This is unfortunately wrong.

Most people in China don't protest because:
1. they don't get enough benefit from protesting
2. they are happy

Most fellows on HN, respectfully, barely has any understanding on how CCP works internally.

Do they imagine that a bunch of Chinese officials form a party just to think about how to enslave/suppress people and inhale money everyday?

It's all about national interest, people are just pawn. On the HK matter:
CCP brainwashes Chinese by amplifying the violent aspect of the protest. Western media brainwashes westerners by understating the damage caused by protest and glorifying their actions.

At the end of day, none of this matters. Power is power. Someone will figure out how to "fix" HK's education system. Leaders of protest go to good US uni on scholarship and have a good life. Fugitives will still need to be handled somehow. Game of monopoly will continue.

Life will go on.
> Except ... that's very probably not the case ... (I'm looking at you economists).

I'm not sure I agree. From what I've seen, it's usually politicians that ignore unintended consequences and incentives that lead to poor outcomes. Not sure what that has to do with economists ... they don't run the country.
Yeah and because art has vastly different constraints from coding, wanting to swap out artists is just counterproductive.

Then again, the older I get, the more I think the same should apply to developers. You should never lock knowledge inside one person's head, but the idea that you can take over a project without its original creators doing a years long hand off is naive, and leads to all the expected pathologies.

I remember a new $250k CTO saying he was amazed our code didn't have abandoned parts nobody wanted to touch ... this is how professionals are supposed to work, not something they discover "late" in their career.
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Funny, I did the same thing. Describing the Icelandic preschool system is the best way I have to blow my UK friend's minds.

"No matter where you live, your child is in the catching area for a nearby preschool and is automatically enrolled there. And it's by no means a child storage facility; the primary focus is on teaching children through play and at least half the staff have a master's degree in preschool teaching. And they're fully fed. Also, it's practically free."
If one doesn't care about art, why not just use ascii art? I quite like the style of Nethack or Cogmind. If he cares about art (which he claims to), why not just make it look good and consistent? No one is expecting AAA type art and there are tons of indie developers who make beautiful games with beautiful art and it wasn't that expensive. I've never played any of his games but looking at the screenshots, they put me off. They look like all the art was found online on free asset stores. It all looks inconsistent and uses too many colors and tries to be too realistic. It looks gross I would have hard time playing the games.

It seems like all his games could be using ascii art instead, and honestly, they probably would look a lot better.
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Does it matter if it's wrong? In mathematics it's a pretty standard, if not written, convention that for example the top left corner of a matrix has the position (1, 1) and not (0, 0). If I read an equation and saw an "a3" in it I can safely assume that there exists an a1 and an a2, all three of which are constants of some sort. I can safely assume that there does not exist an a0, because this just isn't the convention. And furthermore, when I do encounter a 0 subscript (e.g, v0), it is implicitly a special value referencing some reference value or the original starting value. This is different than if I were to see a 1 subscript, such as v1. For example, the equations

f = v0 + x

f = v1 + x

Those are the same equations right? Sure, but when I see v1 I'm not really sure what it is or could be, vs if I saw v0 I can assume it may be the initial velocity when I can look up.
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I think that the situations are far more nuanced than the article suggests. A couple of specific scenarios come to mind:

In a workplace, helping coworkers gain greater competence is a given only to the extent that the person asking for help has actually done some research before asking their question. However, there are coworkers who are basically lazy and expect others to pick up their slack. These are often rather crafty and make their managers think better of them than their coworkers. Like Wally of the Dilbert strips.

On forums, e.g. StackOverflow, the noise generated by lazy askers makes it hard to find relevant answers. Perhaps there could be a newbie's corner to which questions could be relegated. Personally, I don't see the point of answering poorly researched questions even with a "RTFM".

When Googling, I often get frustrated by the mass of newbie questions and the resulting nasty answers. There doesn't seem to be any way to specify "guru class Q&A".

Compared to many forum sites, I actually find SO and its siblings to be far more useful. Perhaps it is the reputation system that helps identify the stronger contributors.
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I haven't noticed the "anything about a newborn/small child must be 100% positive" in my group of friends, especially my work colleagues. I've been pretty straight forward about how hard the whole thing has been, especially adding a second child to the mix before the first one was 2 yo. I wouldn't recommend having a second child to anyone unless they really, really wanted it. It's hard af. Logarithmically harder than one.
This just reads like incentive to work longer hours for fewer days.
There is real no reason to, hydrogen and helium lift approximate the same.

But yes, a vacuum lifts approximately 10% better than hydrogen.

So whatever the structure is, if filled with hydrogen or helium it'd work similar.

If you have some sort of mesh holding in a vacuum it's hard to see it's average density being less than hydrogen or helium or even air at the end of the day.

Point is, everything is possible now. A void wouldn't value add.
That is a very simplistic view of the issue.

Just as society places much higher expectation that mothers will take care the child, society also places a much higher expectation that fathers will continue to go to work. Fathers with interrupted 5hrs of combined sleep are expected to do the exact same workload and work performance as they did had when they got uninterrupted 8 or 9hrs of sleep.

Talking about who got "hit hardest" is kind of pointless. Society expectation on fathers and mothers are formed from restricted gender roles. There are both women and men that feel extremely restricted from this. There is no objective "worse" fate to be either forced to go to work when you want to take care of the kids, or forced to take care of the kids when you want to go to work.
I really do wonder how long it will take everybody to realize that Google is the ultimate computer virus.
That would be my guess too. Another guess would be that for him visuals have simply never been a thing that was all that important – otherwise he would have tried to learn a thing or two about this important part of games on his journey.

The thing people need to realize is that in compound arts like games, films, theatre every part is important. You can do a film with poor lighting if every other aspect is great and there is a reason why the poor lighting adds to the film as a whole. But you can't make films for 25 years and decide sound isn't all that important – unless you want to look like a complete amateur.

Visuals are an important part of games and independent of the style (photo realism, toon, purely ascii, ...) a game is much more interesting to pick up and play when you feel somebody actually cared about what they put in front of your eyeballs.

If you see a trailer of a film, filmed on a shaky phone with bad light and indistinguishable dialoge, you might decide to never watch it, even if it would've been the most interesting and moving story of all times. But that would've been the fault of the film maker, because they failed to convince you why you need to watch this film despite the technical flaws.

That means you need to see the thing as a whole, only then you can decide which role each part ought to play.
> People who grew up with Nintendo and Sega really like pixel art.

As one of those people, I really don't like pixel art at all.

Today's pixel art looks nothing like games did back in the day. The simple reason is that those Nintendo and Sega games weren't played on 27" 4k LCD monitors or 65" OLED TV's but on on the barely 14" CRT in my bedroom. We didn't have huge pixely sprites, they were small and blurry. It had a way softer look than todays pixel art does.

To me, the whole pixel art craze looks like false nostalgia. People longing back to something that never existed that way.

this image demonstrates it nicely: http://i.imgur.com/lQFPG14.png
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Which company? Whenever I offered to work 60% of the time for 50% of the money I was flat out rejected.
Neat, I just learned what the Y combinator actually is!
Probably because “20 minutes from central London” is too short even for high-speed trains to reach any cheap farmland.

That’s like... Croydon distance from London Bridge?
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Once, when I was using inDesign, I unlearned this behavior. Saving would take about 10 seconds.

3 hours later...

Now, I save whenever I am happy with a single edit.
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I think there’s also something to be said for simple art that forces you to use your imagination. Especially in the role playing genre.

One of my favorite games of all time was Legends of Kesmai[1] - a graphical multi-user dungeon that even for its time in the dial-up AOL days had horribly outdated and simplistic graphics. Something about those basic graphics just got my imagination going in a way that no other game has, and I found myself completely immersed exploring that world.

So for me there is a lot of appeal in the Spiderweb graphical style.

[1]https://s.blogcdn.com/massively.joystiq.com/media/2012/03/ke...
It is very hard to empathetic when under pressure to get difficult stuff done by a deadline and some lazy person wastes your time by asking questions that they could have looked up instead of being a distraction.
"Recycling is harder than doing your taxes"

Living in a country where the majority, including me doesnt have to deal with their taxes, I cant help thinking maybe that's the solution. Whether the onus is put on manufacturers to make things trivially recyclable, or on recyclers to sort of a big bag of mixed waste, or some combination I don't know. Does seem silly for everyone to have to become domain experts in recycling though.
Mandate 4 day weeks and see if salaries go down. I would guess not as companies still need to keep their workforce.
Sure, productivity is rising. But how much are healthcare and education costs rising? And how does that compare to this rise in productivity?

Until those two pieces get solved, productivity gains don't matter since everyone needs to produce/earn more to just get those basic needs fulfilled.
Actually LLVM Bitcode can be made portable, that is what Apple does in their store apps for watchOS.
Yes I agree. I almost feel bad for disagreeing with someone who obviously put so much love in his games and rightfully stands behind them, but I cannot shake off the feeling that there is a huge potential for improvement there that does not involve hiring additional people, more expensive artists, etc.

Just investing some of his own time reading up on the fundamentals of art, visual language, perception, color theory, could vastly improve his judgement. I try to build games for fun and learning, and I consciously avoid anything that goes beyond my (non-existing) knowledge about creating 'professional' game art. In my case I resort to abstract graphics or introduce very strict voluntary contraints (like: only 8x8 sprites), ie: similar to what games like Baba is You or boxboxboy are doing. If I were to ever shoot for a game that required 'professional game art' I would definitely invest time to get better at it before even considering to start the project.

It's a bit like the programming side of things. Don't try to build your own engine for your game if you barely know any programming, for example.
I live in a country I where yeah it’s common enough (let assume for good workers not borderline ones) but we’re not paid as highly as the US, so supporting a family on a 4 day senior dev salary is a push unless you end got a paid off house.
Yeah, I was a bit generalizing in my comment and could've phrased it better. What I meant to say was that I don't understand how so many Chinese people reconcile the idea that the CCP enjoys nation wide support with the perspective that democracy and checks an balances would make China worse. If everything's awesome and just what the people want the CCP would just get legitimacy not just domestically but also in the International community.
It is an interesting idea. But I'm more comfortable with stuff staying local, unless I explicitly put it online.
Perhaps if we were not handing over most of the productivity gains of society to CEOs, the rest of us would not need to work so many hours. https://www.epi.org/publication/ceo-compensation-2018/
The interesting thing is that wages have remained stagnant as productivity has increased dramatically. Which means that our labor has been valued less over time. What needs to happen is that the work week shortens while the minimum wage increases in kind. Top execs need to be comfortable making less, as they are the only ones profiting off these productivity increases.
What is productivity?
I've had the same thought. My pet theory is that digestion is actually a much more exhausting process then we give it credit for, and all the chemical changes happening while you absorb nutrients have a toll on mental energy. Food availability and modern 3 big meals a day culture means we never really have any time when we are not digesting.

After trying fasting, when I see a snake with a full belly sleeping in the grass like it's dead it makes total sense to me. That's what digestion feels like.
Its always fascinated me how the US Army is involved in civilian engineering projects. I remember when I was in DC back in 2012 after the earthquake damaged the Washington needle, the US Army engineers had all their branding up around the repair site. Or when I was just outside of Seattle, the engineers were managing forest land and putting a new road in.

In the UK I don't think the REME or Royal Corps of Engineers have ever done or managed civilian projects.

Anyone able to explain why, is it a federal government thing?
Simple - it is marketing bullshit to lionize renting out shared workspaces. It has precedence like the use of "blast processing".
I think many people would work less if they could afford to. But we're not getting paid for all this extra productivity[1].

[1]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2016/10/03/us-wages...
In my experience the hardest part is proving that your cyber security company adds value to your customers. It feels like companies finally understand the value proposition after many years of negligence.
> make one person very very happy

Didn't you just describe North Korea?
Sure they can but Directors and DOP will favour a Raw file format, e.g. ARRIRAW or R3D over ProRes. Disclaimer: I work in the industry and I'm in touch with most of the camera vendors either directly or indirectly and with a lot of people using them too. I'm also a user.
he could triple his esthetic by switching to a 3d engine and low poly models.

maybe toon shaded.
How is this tech related?
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Exactly. Stating that an adoption is same as having a child of your own, is going against all empirical evidence that a person has great emotional changes upon finding out about your own biological relation to someone. Maybe it is entirely psychological, but idea of a biological relation affects a person a great deal.

I think most of the confusion here is coming from the idea that psychology can't be related to biology. However, I firmly believe that biology is the base of the psychology and you cannot alter psychology without altering the biology itself.
Weather is the enemy of airships: three of the four large helium-filled US airships were brought down by structural damage from bad weather. Forecasting is now good enough that bad weather can probably be avoided, but airships are not fast enough to be routed around developing or fast-moving storms, so regions of unsettled weather might be off-limits for days at at time.
>You may be correct, you may not. I wonder if people said the same thing right up to the end of segregation, and other things. But that doesn't matter: might does not make right. Our predictions don't matter, our individual stances do.

Getting rid of segregation has a strong moral foundation and backing... keeping colonial roots in control of HK, not so much.
> that said, what makes these game look at least weird is the combination of very retro tiles (say, 1994is, master of magic level) with late retro higher def sprites (say, 1998ish?, baldur's gate level)

They look way higher res than BG to me, more early or pseudo-3D sprites, they're reminiscent of Van Buren's sprites.
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Personally I think that in the coming decades we'll find out that something that made our life "easier" also brought us higher cancer rates, autism, diabetes etc etc. Life is a trade-off, but as time goes we'll have to choose the lesser evil. Oh, and I am not rushing to buy early studies...time will tell.
"Hours later, her friends walked in on her Lyft driver allegedly raping her in her bedroom. “

if they somehow got to her bedroom it doesnt sound like something Lyft should bear responsibility for
Well for starters, looking at the charts in the link 30 hours is still much more productive than the 40hr 1975 worker.

As a programmer I'm not doing focused programming for any more than 30 hours a week anyway
He could first pay an artist to create a style guide like this: https://66.media.tumblr.com/f055b014e1db777c9ebd54579691cda0...

Then swapping out artists will be easier and the game will look more consistent.
If you want to show some code examples of list comprehensions, I'd be glad to show the equivalent without list-comprehensions in JS (which had a rejected proposal for list-comphensions https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/5eottt/why_the_..., no regret though), so we can compare the readability
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