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You should look up “Just keep talking and nobody explodes” which works out quite fantastic social VR Game. One person has a headset and can see a bomb with different contraptions that needs to be solved to defuse it, the other team members have instructions on how to defuse the contraptions but can’t see the bomb. It’s also a great exercise in effective communication.

Hi, I’d like a ticket for the new transformers movie, but id there are any explosions I want my money back.

Sure that’s just negotiation, but in that case I’d argue just as well that the costumer is being unresonable because he has expectations of the experience that simply don’t align with what is being offered. And if the establishment decides not to take your business because of the unusual request, which is wierdly dependent on how things play out I would not hold it against them.

As for not wanting clues, you can just tell them not to provide them and they wont. No need for the weird conditional payment option. You’re taking away a timeslot no matter what and costing them money, if you want to do that you need to pay, wanting special conditions on that payment is “rather harsh”.

What are your favorite or most exotic gimicks? Like additional rooms hidden behind mirrors, or blacklight revealed writings on the walls?

I’m always curious to find out what new things people are creating, but due to the nature of the game it’s quite hard to find “reviews” of escape rooms and I mostly just talk superficially with others about where they’ve gone and how they liked them.

> and make it clear that if they do give hints (no matter how bad we do) they won't get paid.

That sounds a bit harsh. The escape rooms I have been at all made it clear that the objective is to finish as fast as possible but if you get stuck on things and it seems unlikely you’ll make it on the hour they will give you clues. It’s just part of the deal, you will almost always finish, and “winning” vs losing is a question of how fast you finish.

This doesn’t apply to competitive rooms of cause. Where I actually don’t know how they handle clues as that has never been an issue for my groups in those room.

Quick question. If I start a business that used public streets as storagespace. Am I in the clear as long as I put GPS trackers in the boxes?

So? You sell your exploits to another dev at a fraction of the bounty, other devs so the same for you. It’s not like that puts up any real obstacle.

If you park a car at a random spot it will get towed. Are there really scooter parking spots put up by the city, and are bird paying parking fees?

They state: “At the core, the Streaming and Cloud Gaming Restrictions terms are still the same as before. We received feedback that the language was ambiguous, so we updated our Terms of Service to be clear on our distribution and streaming restrictions.”

Which I highly doubt. But IANAL. It just seems silly that it went “your in breach of our conditions!” “No we aren’t” “Yes you are (also we just now changed them”.

So Unity alerted them that where in breach, they had an ongoing discussion in which unity finally came to the conclusion that they where in fact not in breach... and then they changed the conditions and punished them. Is that how that is to be understood? I mean otherwise why alert them if being in breach before the license change, or why no punish them under the old license but change it first and then punish them?

I under stand the feel-good driving force behind this. But isn’t this essentially just a protection racket baring pet stores from competing against dog breeders?

So now the game for developers is to include intentional but sufficiently abscure bugs that they can harvest money off down the line.

You also have people who completely truthfully make a killing, not tricks no dishonesty. The thing is if you have people betting not up and down on the same thing and betting big, then somebody has to win, and more often then not the winners will post their story, leading to a biased image of a group that wins more than it loses.

Number 9 and 1 are mutually exclusive. If you decrease requirements to increase availability of potential hires you decrease sallery.

Programmers overestimate how complex coding to solve problems actually is. Look at data science, you have tons of people with years worth of domain specific knowledge picking up enough python/ML on a weekend course to outperform those with PhDs in computerscience. And sure those people won’t be able to write their own implementation of lisp in C, but they don’t have to, that’s not as valuable. I feel like we have English lit majors complaining that programmers can’t write books because “they didn’t study literature for 8 years” and we all know that to just be ridiculesly off. Yet here we have software developers saying that highschoolers can’t program because they didn’t spend 8 years studying algorthms and cryptography.

“Even highly trained software engineers can barely get security correct. What makes this journalist think somebody with a few years of high school programming can do any better?”

Why would they have to be better? You just made very point here. Some high schooler with a boot camp can do just as well as many “highly trained software engineers”.

He goes to the cops who ignore him, because they feel they have better things to do then prevent What enda up being at least two murders.... then later the bad guy buys some SEO and they raid the white-hats place because they think he’s running the site..... the site he handed over to them already... the site they didn’t care about. These cops don’t just seem incompetent, they seem downright moronic.

I feel like the act of writing down things on paper is becoming way to buzzwordified. Personally I just write notes, todos, calendars etc down on a college notepad, no need for all sorts of supplies or fancy notebook, and no need to subscribe to any one religion of how to do it.

Find some paper, find a pen, write stuff down. Keep it simple.

They could purchase the rights along with the tatoo, but in most cases likely haven’t.

You are suggesting that since it’s legal for me to share a fanphoto of myself and Mike Tyson, then by extension I should be allowed to use his likeness in a 3D model in a computer game. If rights did really get passed on that loosely, then celebrities would have no way of monetizing their own brand.

The first shots of the next world way where fired decades ago. Nobody saw them light up the sky, for they where delivered by paper. No one read the news, for the catualtiea would not fall until several decades later.

There are programmers who don’t count from zero. And even programmers who count from zero but don’t do so consistantly as soon as they implement even the simplest personal indexation.

Seems weird that you expect him to pay more when you Donny know how much he payed in the first place...

My hut feeling is that he’s trying to craft a narrative where he is not exposed as deliberately faking this, in order to save himself. From his silenence towards those trying to figure our what happened, it feels like he might have intended the fakes but not thought he would be caught. This also nicely explains the many original questions of why he would not preocecute the thieves. It was because he knew they where not actual thieves.

Democracy is not just an application of “wisdom of large crowd” it’s also about giving the power to effect back to those who are affected. A dictatorship is not preferably even if the specific dictator can be shown to make better decisions than a democracy.

Oracle has a false sense of security because they’ve managed to become the default choice for many huge companies. Most of those companies are looking at AWS and Azure as replacements now. Does Oracle even offer cloud, personal cloud or Paas/Iaas solutions? I don’t know, we never bothered to even reach out to ask them. We don’t know where we are going, just that it’s away from Oracle.

> are unlikely to have significant ripple effects across the system.

Was said about the mortgages too.

A government backed crypto currency is essentially just a different type of digital currency. If petro is more stable than bolivar, i would think people would prefer it, as long as conversions are simple.

You can do free websearches on google.com, that doesn’t mean nobody gets paid.

I would really like to see each of the generated faces next to the 3-4 closest neighbors in the training set. I have a feeling that their claim would be seriusly diluted by such a comparison. Likely the end result is extremely close to the inputs.

Why is everyone acting like robinhood stole people’s money or destroyed people’s lives? They wanted to make a product that would have been incredible value for costumers, got yelled at by the existing market and are now retooling to see if they can still put it out another way. No one has been hurt and they are just pushing forwards to get this out.

You guys make it sound like they sold people’s private info to undercut the democratic process or killed innoscent people by putting untested self driving cars on the road.