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JWLong··on How Eve Players Pulled Off the Biggest Betrayal in Its History
1) No. I don't play any more. I do, however, play Dota and CS:GO, on occasion. 2) I lived in wormhole space. You're describing null bloc fights. 3) You're describing null bloc fights, again. We would get multiple fights per day. More than we could reasonably take, really. 4) The thrill in Eve, for me, is that is takes skill to pull off anything noteworthy. It's like a 4X version of Dark Souls, with the multi-person coordination requirements of a MilSim.
JWLong··on How Eve Players Pulled Off the Biggest Betrayal in Its History
The text added is, of course, a joke, but the image is real:

https://i.redditmedia.com/E44ciq7vb9r1t9sAzo3giCym74vSloIyK7...

This is Judge posing for a picture with Aryth's alliance leader, The Mittani, at Fanfest.

Every major alliance leader has been to the pubcrawl that CCP puts together, for each fanfest. 99% of attendees pay their own way.

JWLong··on How Eve Players Pulled Off the Biggest Betrayal in Its History
CSM positions do not appear to have been abused. Not sure where you're getting this information. The fact that Judge was a CSM member is almost tangential to the whole story.
JWLong··on How Eve Players Pulled Off the Biggest Betrayal in Its History
The trouble with trying to play any of those games, after having played Eve, is that none of them measure up. :/

Longinius Spear once quoted Ernest Hemmingway, in a presentation at Eve: Vegas, "There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ddR7W4LmR8

JWLong··on How Eve Players Pulled Off the Biggest Betrayal in Its History
I have had a metric fuckton of fun, in my four year career. I've rarely dealt with politics, and only used a spreadsheet, once (so far). Mostly, I just get drunk on a Friday night, with buddies, and we go blow shit up.
JWLong··on How Eve Players Pulled Off the Biggest Betrayal in Its History
https://crossingzebras.com/ is a decent source
JWLong··on Read This Before You Build Uber for X
1) You seem to have gotten your legal advice from Badger, and not Saul.

https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/crime-courts/2017/05/07/bill...

Forcing the narc to snort coke is not a viable means of weeding them out.

2) In places where it is illegal to buy, you have to provide anonymity for the buyers. Looks like you're already making plans to do just that. Good for you. You're now no longer capable of keeping your contractors safe.

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My advice to you: Commit one crime at a time. Even Uber managed to do that. :P

JWLong··on Read This Before You Build Uber for X
Yes, they're identifying real world problems, but they're not solving it. You can't simultaneously have anonymity, while providing security for sex workers. These are both stated goals, across their various outlets.
JWLong··on Read This Before You Build Uber for X
It's not. :/

https://pinkapp.io/ (nsfw)

JWLong··on Read This Before You Build Uber for X
First I hoped this was a troll (being American). Then I hoped that it was Australian. Then I saw where you compared yourself to Silk Road. Now I just hope you have lawyers. :)
JWLong··on Foxconn to Build $10B Factory in U.S
Maybe if we all pitched in a couple bucks, we could buy Mr. Trump a copy of Factorio.
JWLong··on Bike manufacturer sees huge reduction in delivery damage by printing TV on box
Absolutely, but I was speaking to the experience of the loaders.

Edit: Sorry, I should have made that clearer in my previous comment.

JWLong··on Bike manufacturer sees huge reduction in delivery damage by printing TV on box
The bikes that the average truck-loader comes in contact with cost $120.
JWLong··on Scientists caught off-guard by record temperatures linked to climate change
You're more than welcome to continue to be fascinated... and ineffective. Sometimes you need to come down from your moral highground to meet the enemy.
JWLong··on Spain Runs Out of Workers with Almost 5M Unemployed
I found a neat hack for making sure that employees don't leave me like yesterday's lunch: pay above market rate.
JWLong··on Uber and Lyft Are Adding Jobs, Not Just Stealing Them
ftfy

> As a consumer, in $my_economic_model, you don't get to opt out of regulation "because you want to".

JWLong··on The basic income is a dangerous idea
"'People will spend my money in unoptimal ways because they didn't earn it' — now you understand my problem with taxes"
JWLong··on What if the problem of poverty is that it’s profitable to other people?
I also wonder how it would go, if it were cashless. Our problem is always that we run out of cash, at some point.
JWLong··on Ontario announces that it will begin a basic income trial in 2016
The fact that his retort is sarcastic, does not mean that he does not have a point. His point is that someone will be subsidizing his existence, and pointing out that nobody would want to do it, if they were faced with that reality, directly.
JWLong··on Ontario announces that it will begin a basic income trial in 2016
Doesn't help that when it comes to Libertarians, some of them are Irish.

~"If two libertarians ever find themselves in agreement on a particular issue, they know that one of them has sold out."

JWLong··on Why YourMechanic (YC W12) Chose to Grow Slowly
The diagnostic equipment needed to diagnose issues with the car's computer is really small. http://www.amazon.com/Foxwell-Diagnostic-Analysis-Scanner-Re...

Disposal is handled by taking the waste fluids to your favorite parts store.

JWLong··on Tokyo police are using drones with nets to catch other drones
... and a little (quite) dangerous.
JWLong··on Ask HN: What will self driving cars do to real estate?
Nice find! Pretty much what I was looking for.

There may be a bit of overlap with self-driving ICE cars, though. I'm wondering if that would be more difficult to handle.

Either way, I had been looking for this story, ever since people started talking about modern self-driving cars. Don't know how it slipped through.

JWLong··on Ask HN: What will self driving cars do to real estate?
Until self-_fueling_ cars are a thing, all of your points, which are predicated on "never stop moving" are moot.
JWLong··on John Nash Has Died
"There's no such thing! Our bodies break down, sometimes when we're 90, sometimes before we're even born, but it always happens and there's never any dignity in it! I don't care if you can walk, see, wipe your own ass... it's always ugly - ALWAYS! You can live with dignity; you can't die with it!" — House
JWLong··on Hacker Claims Feds Hit Him with 44 Felonies When He Refused to Be an FBI Spy
Most of the US has laws that define B&E like the CFAA defines hacking.

"unlawful entry" is usually the common denominator.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burglary

JWLong··on Marijuana Law Mayhem Splits U.S. In Two as Travelers Get Busted
You caught where he said, '... though states rights have been weakened over time..."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Minimum_Drinking_Age_...

"The National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984 (23 U.S.C. § 158) was passed on July 17, 1984 by the United States Congress. It punished every state that allowed persons below 21 years to purchase and publicly possess alcoholic beverages by reducing its annual federal highway apportionment by ten percent."

JWLong··on The Post Office Should Just Become a Bank
The free market is perfectly willing to address this. It will do so by offering them less than minimum wage, once it is allowed to do so. Until then, "free market" is a misnomer.
JWLong··on A Public Shaming of E-Commerce site Durated
Which is why it's weird that his name is on the whois information for durated.co
JWLong··on A Public Shaming of E-Commerce site Durated
Varies from country to country.

I am very much not a lawyer... and more importantly, not familiar with european law on the subject.

Here in the U.S. though, it's a defense. But that still wouldn't change the "man about to be sued" bit.

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