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Comment Re:meh (Score 1) 148

Second, switch over to RTS games... and there the only way to give the AI any challenge is to stack the deck in its favor... whether its StarCraft or Supreme Commander or Wargame: Red Dragon. Or in a 4X game like Masters of Orion etc... we've yet to see an AI even really challenge a human being without giving it scripts to follow and extra resources to use.

Lots of extra resources, and a broken fog of war. And the easy/medium/hard on some games changes the damage/health of units.

Comment Re:Best money Tom Steyer ever spent (Score 1) 437

Ah, so you are calling me a liar because my observations of fact don't match your opinions. Your opinions don't trump reality. And I was there.

And I think you are a liar. I think you do believe me, but refuse to let facts form your fact-less opinion. You have no reason to not believe me, and have never been able to prove anything I said was ever a lie, so you believe me, but refuse to accept the facts you have no reason to doubt, because your self-worth is linked to your world-view. And you refuse to think about or consider anything that might affect that. Independent thought scares you, so you never practice it.

Comment Re:Nothing important. (Score 1) 203

It's not "several" years. It's one. The immune system needs a little age to be ready for it. After the shot, take them everywhere. They aren't nearly as noisy at 6-months as they are at 1+ (so long as you feed them and such).

And there's 1-10% (or more) of the population who has had their shots, and doesn't have immunity. Those are the people that are really the affected. There's nothing they can do. At least with babies, you can protect them, isolate them, but adults with immune problems or just didn't develop immunity often don't know they are unprotected, and if they did, would die even quicker if they choose to quit their job and stay home (and starve).

Comment Re:Instilling values more important (Score 1) 698

Paypal is a scam company now. It wasnâ(TM)t really a scam company when it was originally founded. It broke new ground in paying for stuff on the web when the web was in its infancy. It was also had to deal with massive scams coming from the other direction, faux customers.

Bitcoin companies seem to be having a much worse problem with being scams than Paypal did, at least until it was sold off by the founders to EBay at which point, yes it turned in to an obnoxious, kind of a scam company.

It should also be noted 9/11, the Patriot act and the 2008 crash all happened in there which made Paypal increasingly obnoxious in reaction to crushing Federal scrutiny of and intrusion in to financial transactions.

Comment Re:Instilling values more important (Score 3, Interesting) 698

Point her to the Elon Musk TED talk. When asked how he did so many amazing things, one of his more insightful comments was he learned physics, and he learned how to approach things from the bottom up the way a physicist would. If you learn something at a fundamental level you can do amazing and new things. If you learn stuff, shallowly, from the top down, you often end up copying others which is both less amazing and less valuable.

Also has pretty good lessons for all the wanna be startup founders in Silicon Vally who are doing Uber of . . . or AirBNB of . . ., me too companies.

He also covers doing big, hard things for the benefit of humanity part pretty well.

Comment Free her (Score 1) 698

Everyone is wrong. Einstein was wrong thousands of times, you just don't hear about them now, as only the right stuff got attention. Don't focus on doing, focus on trying and learning from it. Just because an "adult" (or other authority figure) says something is true, doesn't mean it is. Challenge. Think for yourself. Your first test: Am I right?

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