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Comment · 1 month ago
Congrats! I had lots of fun with the original! The new one looks great!
Comment · 4 years ago
I agree. What worked for me, was using chrome dev tools, then emulating a tablet so i could drag up/down to 'walk' and sideways to look around.
Comment · 6 years ago
I was thinking the same thing: The next step following this line of thinking would be trying to ban all torrent clients, because they CAN be used to download copyrighted material.

This is crazy.

Comment · 6 years ago
Great work and great guy. He will be missed. RIP Quino.
Comment · 6 years ago
Comment · 6 years ago
I believe he has the soul of a gamer. (heck, he ran a regular poker game at Harvard).

And when he was immersed into the money-making game, he was all in, willing to do anything to win.

But when you eventually beat the game, you don't get that thrilled anymore, there's no big challenge ahead. You can play for a while to see how far can you go, but it ends up being boring after a while.

So, I think he moved on to basically a real life version of reversal Plague Inc (instead of trying to infect everyone, he tries to beat a disease). This is a harder challenge in many ways, because he needs to deal with tons of geopolitics, international affairs, research and development, human behavior, etc.

If you see it from that perspective, you can still see that he is still a hard player, but this time, he is playing a game that can be beneficial for everybody, not just himself.

Comment · 6 years ago
Could be a question for leading roles, expecting to evaluate how much this person cares about keeping his troop content :)
Comment · 6 years ago
Well, it doesn't work for many countries that use DD/MM instead of MM/DD.
Comment · 6 years ago
It's interesting how my mind had some trouble processing some of those crater images, because I saw initially some of them as circular buttons, going up from the surface, instead of craters going down.

I had to stop looking, and look back several times before my mind could actually see some of those pictures correctly.

Comment · 6 years ago
If it's the same now as it was back when I last used it (more than 15 years ago), it should have a search box. You search within the app itself, it shows the results and you select the file you want to download. You don't need to use an external service.
Comment · 6 years ago
Argentina
Comment · 6 years ago
You probably won't see prices dropping, as many businesses are selling much less and they need to keep prices to cover the costs.
Comment · 6 years ago
I see the claims that this won't produce inflation with extreme scepticism.

And I say this, living in a country that has had something similar to a basic income for years, although not fully universal (universal for kids, and people below certain income line), the vast majority of people get it and ended up resulting in that around half the public budget goes to social expenses. Every year that bag gets bigger, deficit gets bigger and having more currency flowing, inflation gets bigger and bigger.

So, this income is increased and salaries get adjusted, and it ends up in a never-ending cycle of income trying to catch up with inflation.

It's very hard to get out of that situation once you are in it, because now people depend on this money, and the political cost to cut it is so enormous that nobody dares trying to do it. It would mean the end of their political careers.

Maybe Germany can show us that it can be done, it will be very interesting to see the results. But from what I've experienced, this is not as simple as many people think it is.

Comment · 6 years ago
There's a lot of investment and development going on in asat tech...

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