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"Dead man walking" is one of the worst feelings ever.

Settlers of Catan has a few "dead man walking" situations, but they're somewhat rare.... Especially because the optimal strategy in Catan is to trade with players weaker than you. So all "dead men walking" get boosted by the stronger players. The 1st place player never wants to trade with the 2nd place player, or vice versa.

"Ticket to Ride" has more dead-man walking situations, where you know you've messed up but nothing can be done until the game is over. And because the game is elimination free, you feel like a jerk to leave before the game is over.

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The goal is to find a game that strikes the balance. Keep everyone playing, but make everyone feel like their contributions (even if they're behind) are noteworthy.

Carcassonne is probably the best.
I am confused with this article. google does this with every browser not just edge.
Here is the crux of the article, beginning with the father of the inventor, Elizabeth Magie:

"Travelling around America in the 1870s, George had witnessed persistent destitution amid growing wealth, and he believed it was largely the inequity of land ownership that bound these two forces – poverty and progress – together. So instead of following Twain by encouraging his fellow citizens to buy land, he called on the state to tax it. On what grounds? Because much of land’s value comes not from what is built on the plot but from nature’s gift of water or minerals that might lie beneath its surface, or from the communally created value of its surroundings: nearby roads and railways; a thriving economy, a safe neighbourhood; good local schools and hospitals. And he argued that the tax receipts should be invested on behalf of all.

Determined to prove the merit of George’s proposal, Magie invented and in 1904 patented what she called the Landlord’s Game. Laid out on the board as a circuit (which was a novelty at the time), it was populated with streets and landmarks for sale. The key innovation of her game, however, lay in the two sets of rules that she wrote for playing it.

Under the ‘Prosperity’ set of rules, every player gained each time someone acquired a new property (designed to reflect George’s policy of taxing the value of land), and the game was won (by all!) when the player who had started out with the least money had doubled it. Under the ‘Monopolist’ set of rules, in contrast, players got ahead by acquiring properties and collecting rent from all those who were unfortunate enough to land there – and whoever managed to bankrupt the rest emerged as the sole winner (sound a little familiar?)"
Not sure it's totally accurate to include Salesforce in this type of metric, as that announcement seemed quite different (Marc Benioff is still CEO).

However, it is quite interesting that so many timed all at the same (and it seems Bob Iger is the only one most people know/care about).
I just drove from Seattle to Albuquerque, through vast tracts of empty land. Land is politically, not physically scarce. That's even true right around major metropoli, let alone the hinterlands. And even that doesn't count unused potential square footage along the vertical axis. The truly constraining axis isn't x, y or z, but NIMBY.
Dask, while great, doesn't solve this problem at all. You still need some way to load the data.

And for that Dask supports Zarr, and HDF5, and pre-existing arrays (where mmap() comes in), and a few other formats: https://docs.dask.org/en/latest/array-creation.html#
A more realistic solution would be to have one player start with half of the bank and already owning most of the properties. Two other players start with the regular starting cash. Everybody else starts with nothing. Then they must praise the first player for being such a stunning businessman if he wins.
by history I meant before this era (say post-ww2 .. today)
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You could also replace "bats" by "humans" in your sentence ;)
> I love people who call capitalism evil while doing so on computers and phones that exist because of it, while surrounded by products, from their clothes to their desk, furniture, construction materials, cars and more that are the product of the system.

This is a bad-faith argument - you're allowed to protest a system that you are forced to participate in. Our current system does not offer any clothes, furniture, homes (all necessities!) that were not produced by it

> We have friends from nearly every real Socialist nation in the world. They can’t believe people like Sanders and Warren are not being laughed out of politics in the US.

I'm guessing most of those people, like Bloomberg, oppose the leftist regimes because they have lost something to them - all the anti-leftist posts from Venezuela/China/Cuba/etc. that I've seen were from the 0.1% of their respective countries.
The thing about IOTA is that it's just a reflection of the entire economy which is founded on coercion, manipulation and deception; our economy has transcended reality and reason; particularly the tech sector.

There is nothing behind it but the lie is so strong and there are so many people peddling it that the market starts to believe its own lie.

It's funny how quickly some capitalists will discard cryptocurrencies as worthless junk while simultaneously preaching the doctrine of "efficient markets" and not realizing the simple fact that "real markets" and "cryptocurrency markets" both exist in the same universe and are acted upon by the same market forces.
Getting people to stop eating bats would get us 95% of the benefit for 5% the effort.
That's from 2018, did it go into effect?
Bug: data center is vulnerable to rapid, unplanned disassembly via kinetic impactor event

Severity: Extremely High

Priority: Extremely Low
No, something like that is fine. I am just trying to convey that there is a huge industry around fixing these problems very incrementally. ohdear.app today, then DataDog... all because they can't just run Prometheus and Alertmanager.

This isn't how I like it, but I totally see the use case. Caddy is a part of that use case and is probably the reason it exists. I think that's fine!

(Edit: ohdear is really neat though, I think people might want that no matter what. You have to serve your status page from somewhere, might as well get some cert checks thrown in for free!)
Did you ever down-truncate it? Did your backup program take forever to crunch through non-existent 4TB (and take as much space to restore?)

Atomic access wise, that’s fine as long as you don’t map it through a network file system if any sort; also, $DIETY help you recover a consistent state if the power goes out or you kernel panic

Mmap is awesome, I use it all the time. But writing into mmaps robustly is hard. Best example to learn from I am familiar with is symas LMDB source code.
> That's not real wealth though. The houses and hotels are the actual capital improvements.

That doesn't make Monopoly any more zero-sum. You're not generally limited by the supply of hotels. If I build a hotel where there were four houses before, the total capital stock has increased, not stayed constant.
Speaking as someone with Asperger's who considers himself both a good programmer and capable of navigating / leading cross-functional prioritization discussions, and who likes knowing the context behind his work: maybe you should re-evaluate your assumptions about neuroatypical people.

(...and if you're indeed in a position where you're responsible for hiring decisions or performance reviews: strike "maybe" from the preceding sentence.)
This is the whole Picketty et al "r > g" question, and I believe economists disagree on what the real numbers are.
+1. I once did a fun presentation on why Monopoly sucks. This was the top issue and the main reason why I don't play it anymore.

People play games to have fun. Eliminating them from a game is the worst thing you can do as a game designer, because its the only guaranteed way of them not having fun. This is the same issue that Mafia/Werewolf suffers from.

There's a nice blog post from the designer of Guillotine[1], where he mentions how one of the cards in the game (which stops players from playing any action cards) was "the biggest mistake I ever made as a game designer in my life".

Can't find the presentation anymore, but the other issues in Monopoly:

- Runaway leader (leading players get luckier)

- Starting few rolls can end up deciding too much of the game.

- Chances of landing in various properties is skewed enough to be a game-breaker (Primarily Transports and Orange) if not everyone is aware of it.

- Too much dependence on luck, overall.

[1]: https://danielsolisblog.blogspot.com/2015/07/one-thing-to-av...
This reminds me of the article talking about the four different kinds of documentation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21289832

I found that four-way distinction to be quite useful.
Usually people don't pass up the chance to buy property though. It's not that there's a house rule against the auction, it just never comes up unless you have someone who is already losing badly that lands on a space that has somehow not already been snapped up.
Here's something I've never understood, although I suspect the question is an open one even among medical professionals:

Given that inflammation is an immune response, is it the inflammation itself that's bad, or the underlying condition? If we only treated inflammation symptoms without curing any of the underlying diseases, would there be a significant improvement in outcomes? Or would they be worse because you'd be interfering with the body's response?
That's very much like most of the crypto projects/subs work. Lot of people with no technical understanding, completely disconnected from reality, probably owning substantial amounts of coins.

Honourable mentions to subs like /r/lisk or /r/arkecosystem
but they can't be ALL bad.
In all honesty, just because it's common or routine, it can still be torture.
Sure, but here is a key line from the Wikipedia article you reference: "Most human diseases originated in other animals; however, only diseases that routinely involve non-human to human transmission, such as rabies, are considered direct zoonosis"

You aren't going to catch the current coronavirus from your dog.
> We're talking Google here: they have a hard enough time coordinating internally when they're openly trying.

Yet for some reason each oops only resulted in Google's favor. It's like slipping on banana peel and doing a perfect backflip. Every time.
I don't know how you could conclude they did not fuck up when they imprisoned doctors who blew the whistle on the outbreak.

That's not to say other countries will fare much better. But China had by far the best chance at containment, and they blew it. And the rest of the world has to deal with the fallout.
Actually in the past GOG brought them more money than their own games, so the fact that it's not profitable isn't good.
It's all about negotiating better property trades. The dice have little to do with it.
In monopoly you're forced to pay, in reality you have choice to who you want to pay.
that would be 28M, not 280M (Which is still a huge number, obviously)
There's already scientific research on whether it is engineered or not and the evidence so far is a strong no.

http://virological.org/t/the-proximal-origin-of-sars-cov-2/3...
This reads 95% like a personal statement for some university program - I was very surprised to see Matt Stone’s name at the end.
There has been research done showing the virus load is the same between asymptomatic and symptomatic carriers.
I feel that is an overzealous interpretation. The whole crux of his work was that rent was unlike capital and labor and very subject to exploitation. He very much believed in markets and accumulation of capital. You can collectively own natural resources and still have a vibrant free trade economy.
I am not advocating against this sort of technology at all.

I am against it being a product sold exclusively and secretly to enterprises and governments. The sort of entities who are not informing Apple and Google about vulnerabilities but instead using them for unethical and criminal means.
Never was. Nicotine gum and oils were available for a long long time, same with chewable and insufflable tobacco.
8000? Is that a typo?
Based on recent personal experience, I expect the number of fake vacancies in software to be around 50%, if not more.
But we don’t sue Yankee Candle or the company that makes tea candles whenever someone falls asleep with those fires going. I don’t accept the jump in logic people used that caused the tobacco companies to need to fight these cases.

A person is holding something flammable without the respect it deserves. The human desperation to place blame needs to be restrained better.
I think the officer was wrong telling you it was mandatory to move your car. You cannot disable the offending car (e.g. calmping it would be illegal), but there is no obligation to arrange your private property in such a way that they could exit it.

He was probably confused by the rule that you are not allowed to block an exit ("uitrit") of someones driveway of proprety by parking in their way. But that rule does not apply if you're parking on your own private property.
Right. That is what I’m saying. You are taking my comment as a general statement rather than a response to the article. The article is about the lack of companies making a product from the research.
The idea that google web apps are frequently released, and the fact that there is high latency between identification of a defect and it being fixed 100% in production, are not conflicting facts.

Disclosure: xoogler with my name carved in stone outside Mozilla HQ.
What is technical debt (and why should I care)?
Not sure what you're referring to because there is no "union" method/function. There is currently no non-symbolic built-in way to combine dictionaries in an expression.

You may be interested to read PEP 584's list of examples of all the real-world code the existence of this operator makes clearer:

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0584/#examples
> Case in point: some mathematicians argued for a while if abs (absolute value) is a function. Some argued that it's not, because you need two formulas to define it. When somebody pointed out that (for real numbers) it's just "sqrt(x^2)", the first ones agreed.

Isn't that a circular definition, though? sqrt(x²) = ±x, which isn't a function since there are two values in the domain for each value in the range (other than zero). The version they're equating with abs(x) is the absolute value of the square root, or abs(x) = abs(sqrt(x²)), which is true but wouldn't help prove that abs(x) is a function.

Of course, the underlying problem was the premise that a function must be defined by exactly one formula.
One of the best articles I've seen on writing documentation is "What Nobody Tells You About Documentation" [0]. It divides docs into four categories: Tutorials, How-To Guides, Discussions, and References.

I'm currently working on a major rewrite of the Redux core docs [1], and I've been taking notes on that post and various other docs writing resources [2] so I can apply them to the rewrite.

[0] https://www.divio.com/blog/documentation/

[1] https://github.com/reduxjs/redux/issues/3592

[2] https://github.com/reduxjs/redux/issues/3609
It is zero sum, because no intentional action can increase wealth. Only the gradual, chance-based progression of new money into the game.

In contrast, if I take out a loan and build a successful business, my intentional actions (successful business) lead to greater money supply than if I had failed at business.

Does that make sense, or am I missing something? I'll admit, the creation of new wealth/money is very mysterious. How to know when it is growing the pie?
> if you have money saved up and excellent credit you sit on the cash and wait for a crash

Ah, market timing. You realize this is contrary to mainstream investing advice, right?

> During the crash you purchases houses, apartment buildings

I forgot, the American dream is to own someone else's house. The only way to get rich to be a land lord anymore. Plenty of people get burned playing this game as well, and the advice doesn't work in every market.

> I know people who bought manufacturing equipment during 2008 crash for scrap value.

Oh, so not you?

> such an ignorant opinion

Is it ignorant just because you disagree with it? Look around yourself. How many people are driving a Mercedes or BMW? How many people are wearing designer clothes and jewelry? How many people have an iPhone when a $150 android will do just fine?

Most people I know will never save money. They'll never have a new car, they'll never have a 4000sqft home. They're 100% going to be on government assistance in old age. They should enjoy themselves now, go bankrupt as often as legally possible.
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How else should land be distributed if not via free market capitalism? Land is a scarce resource that people want. Either some person/corporation owns it or the government does. Its easy to see models where the government owns all the property as this exists in many places around the world such as Nigeria, China, and North Korea.
> I don't really care what you call it, but Bernie's plans amount to nationalizing as much economic activity as possible,

If Sanders' proposals amount to nationalizing as much economic activity as possible, you have a lack of appreciation for what is possible.
Severity is subjective: those users who are not affected by a bug find it to have low severity (possibly zero). Those who are affected by it, and have no workaround find it a showstopper (high severity).

The consequences add to the severity. Not being able to save a document versus having your identity stolen versus an aircraft crashing are different severities. Severity fields that have four or five values can be difficult to use due to the orders of magnitude differences in consequences.

Since severity is experienced differently by different users, if only a single severity field is attached to a bug, it is somewhat tricky to use. A guiding principle should be that the bug reporter should imagine the circumstances of the "worst-case user": the user who is most likely impacted by the bug, with the worst consequences, and set the severity accordingly. It can feel wrong to do this, though, when it seems that such a user is purely imaginary; there is no actual user who is affected in that way or to that extent.

Priority is nearly the same thing as severity, but from the perspective of the user being the project itself. A bug has high priority if the project is severely affected. Priority usually drives what gets fixed now, versus later.

The project cares about the users, so if a large number of users experience a high severity, that bug will likely be treated with priority. The project may also care about the largest users who bring in the most business, and other things like pride in its good reputation. It might give more priority to a bug that is more embarrassing. Or it might give priority to a bug that is more widely publicized, such that there is attention on the project's handling of it. A bug that creates a blocking situation in the project's own development will typically be treated as high priority, even if it hasn't been released to any users.
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Capitalism is about making profit. There will be people who feel nice and want to buy this, but it's really not a reliable business model.
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> enormous amount of power over how an outbreak spreads

Given what we're seeing in other countries, that seems doubtful.

And based on the science we're hearing, it sounds like the most that can be hoped for is spreading the epidemic out over time some, which might allow resources like hospital beds to be better utilized.
They won't help you at all. All they do is creating false sense of safety. Viruses are too small and will go through the mask anyway. Also they may protect half of your face against your hands but they won't protect other half, say, against rubbing your eyes.

They may help you to minimize the spread if you are already sick, sneezing and coughing. Droplets are big enough to be stopped by mask. This is actually the reason why surgeons are wearing masks in the first place - not to contaminate the patient.

Unless we are talking about something more advanced. Like above mentioned N95.
Stealing these components would be a very shitty thing to do, but I'm wondering as to how the authors can protect their CSS library from piracy? (esp. considering the 249$ asking price). Legal action?

I'm considering open sourcing a software product I'm working on, but it could mean that I'll be bending over backwards to monetize it, as people can just run straight from source.
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You seem to be describing the difference between a User Guide and a Reference Manual. Both are needed.
There are US based researches on it already, and the evidence so far is it's not engineered. Your observations don't include all relevant facts, hence the conclusion can still be wrong. Like scientists in 18th century had all kind of weird ideas based on the facts they observed about the world. In today's world, for most of us, especially non experts on the fields, what really matters is all the facts out there that we don't know (or chose to ignore).

http://virological.org/t/the-proximal-origin-of-sars-cov-2/3...
You might as well ask why ancient cesspools are historically valuable and best left alone for archaeologists to work on, while we still clean garbage off the streets.

It's because they're old and rare. A pile of modern garbage? Not interesting. A pile of Roman garbage? That's an archaeological site.
You're never going to get a useful answer to a question like this. If the market is efficient, which is a good default assumption, it's already factored in a weighted average of possible outcomes.

Anybody who can reliably spot inefficiencies in the market is too busy making ridiculous amounts of money to respond on HN.
I think you're grossly over simplifying "the system" that created all of those things. We don't live in either a "capitalist" or "socialist" system. It's a blend. If you read Adam Smith and Karl Marx you'll see we have many elements of both.
The difference between “freely gave up right for slightly better price” and “coerced into giving up right by extreme surcharge or mandatory agreement” is unfortunately extremely hard to make, which is why laws often explicitly exclude the possibility. GDPR or two-year guarantees are European examples, but US law definitely has lots of them, as well. I’m pretty sure you cannot exclude product liability via contract, for example.

But having worked in online retail of physical goods, I’m getting the impression that most people believe there are many abusing these rights and it having a large impact on prices. In that case, you’ll be happy to learn that very few people fit that description, in my experience, and companies can usually just ban them.

The difference is more along product categories than customers: clothing gets returned, sex toys or batteries don’t.
Make it a multiple page process, without preview, and/or use something like css scale transform on the preview widget to make it smaller and fit the screen, but true to size css wise)
Personally I could tell in that screenshot but it’s obviously not ideal.

FYI Annually has two l’s.
`add` is just another manipulation on guido's part. `sum` is the name of the concept.
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