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Indeed. We're seeing science play out before our eyes but demanding that it happen more quickly than is possible.

I have discusses this a month ago, and people should still be very skeptical to take this drug because the effects are still not quite known.

You can set CI with a few clicks using Travis CI and creating a .travis.yml file in your repo:

language: node_js
node_js: node

before_script:
  - npm install -g typescript
  - npm install codecov -g

script:
  - yarn lint
  - yarn build
  - yarn test
  - yarn build-docs

after_success:
  - codecov

You can set CI with a few clicks using Travis CI and creating a .travis.yml file in your repo:

language: node_js
node_js: node

before_script:
  - npm install -g typescript
  - npm install codecov -g

script:
  - yarn lint
  - yarn build
  - yarn test
  - yarn build-docs

after_success:
  - codecov

Codecov lets you generate a score on your tests:

This can also be argued on the europeans and how they would steal the farms and steal the game to hunt.

This is another example on how the public can work to build something like this and get it done. We have things like this in todays system but China in this time was ahead of the game.

I would agree with this. I am not good at a variety of video games such as first person shooter games or Super Mario Brothers. However, I still enjoy playing the games. In super Mario Brothers, after your character dies you can still push buttons on the remote to make different sound effects. This is usually what I find myself doing whilst the rest of my friends are still collecting coins and racing the clock.

Ruberg argues that it is not empathy that we should be concerned with as a by-product of games, but "compassion", which balances better what can be achieved emotionally in the game context.

Here is a problem with empathy: it keeps its focus on normative individuals rather than the non-normative individuals who live the experience (and who can't just come and go).

Here is the statement of a common viewpoint about video games being antisocial (harmful) and a counter-argument (because they foster empathy this redeems video games). But Ruberg isn't content with just a push-back and finds some worrisome aspects to lauding video games as a source of "empathy" training.

Interesting outcome!

Again, restating Ruberg's thesis, in light of this new topic as outlined in the chapter.

Here's a game phenomenon that I wouldn't have associated with the topic of the chapter, but it makes perfect sense once Ruberg points it out.

This is an excellent insight about the difference in alarm between knowing that a game does something offenseive and playing the game and experiencing it.

I also wonder where "cheating" fits into this -- is the expectation that gamers should look outside the game to learn how to beat the game? Is that a kind of "self-education" that is seen positively, or is it a kind of "laziness" (riding on someone else's work) that is seen negatively? Does cheating make you a "bad" gamer, or is it part of being a "good" gamer? Or is it somehow neutral? If any of you have any thoughts, I'm curious as to how you think about it.

This is a good summing up of Ruberg's thesis.

Here's the key point to why Ruberg approaches the issue this way in this chapter.

I can definitely relate in the sense that if I am trying to maneuver through a game and I can't seem to make anything happen correctly and almost immediately get "punished" the idea of taking revenge by deliberately engineering my own destruction as the goal kind of flips off the designer, giving me back some control...which feels good!

I find this very funny...both what Ruberg is doing, but also the idea that others do this as well but we tend not to think it worth noting.

So maybe playing games in a "no fun" way can feel good (because of retaining your own agency), is I think one way to look at this.

Here Ruberg is doing something different in this chapter than in the first section (chapters 1-4). The exploration in this chapter is in the decisions that a player makes about how to play the game -- which may not be at all how the designer thinks (and the rules regulate) how it should be played. So insisting on making the game "behave differently" relates to Ruberg's concept of what "queering" means.

almost half of the beginning of this section employs a second person, disassociated narrative style then transitions into dialogue- almost like diaz' style

I feel like she is sad in this passage. She gets this gut feeling that something is wrong when she gets this phone call. However, she feels relieved but at the same time she also feels guilty. I think her guilt could be that she wants to have Val back in her life but not as a friend, as a partner because we know she is in a abusive relationship and she wants someone to truly love her for her. But she is too scared to open up because she doesn't want to get hurt again.

What we see here is the narrator staying in a relationship with someone she knows she should not be with anymore. After a hectic day driving back from the Harvard- Yale football game, a drive where they kept fighting and yelling with each other, the narrator decides not to sleep as soon as they get home. She says that if she sleeps then she will just forget what happened this day, so she stays up all night because she wants to remember; she wants to remember everything that the girlfriend told her, she wants to remember her calling her a “selfish bitch”, and she wants remember that she could have died because of her. Therefore, she doesn't want to push this memory in the back of her head because she wants to give herself a reason to leave. However, when she says “ and as though you’d slept, a new day begins again”, it is evident that she chose to forget everything about that drive back even though she did not sleep it off. This just comes to show how hard it is to leave toxic relationships, people just choose to stay because they do not have the power nor strength to leave. They would much rather stay and forget, than to leave and remember. Hence why the title of this chapter is called River Lethe. In Greek mythology, this was a river of forgetfulness, which implies that just like this river the narrator wants to forget that she is a verbally abusive woman.

lol

Expected payoff of a dice game:

Description: You have the option to throw a die up to three times. You will earn the face value of the die. You have the option to stop after each throw and walk away with the money earned. The earnings are not additive. What is the expected payoff of this game?

Rolling twice: $$\frac{1}{6}(6+5+4) + \frac{1}{2}3.5 = 4.25.$$

Rolling three times: $$\frac{1}{6}(6+5) + \frac{2}{3}4.25 = 4 + \frac{2}{3}$$

It's interesting to observe that

• 149 backers backed at this half-price level
• 656 backers backed at the full price

What I want to know is, did everyone who backed at full price realize there was the option to get the same reward for half the price? Anyway, that's awesome that they're willing to support this project at that level.

Mr. Collins seems insulted, but accepts the family's apologies and joins Mr. Bennet in a game of backgammon.

Disagree. It does once you master the "Inner Game" the way John Galway explains it. Competition then is your ally to find the best version of yourself. To do things you did not think you could because your opponent helped you bring this out of you. And so it is in Aikido and value of a good opponent.

all these quotes are good

having a similar point as me: a good gamification should be game more than work, like the video from gamker, the one about Ring Fit Adventure.

positive point toward gamification

so gamification != game?

found this on a Wikipedia page

High aptitude for trivia suggests a masculine personality.

This is like gang wars, a young man's game.

Interest in trivia suggests masculinity.

sounds more like a female timeline that I know

say that this is a historical innacuracy

this is just price discrimination by universities. So that means that rich people aren't inherently wiser, but that they are willing to play the game, because the game still produces benefits, though it may be due to the water breaks rather than the goals scored.

You can talk about different parts of the game, but don't spoil it.

The writer hints at the theme(s) of the game.

Background knowledge on the game developer.

She's making her case for why it's a heartbreakingly sweet game. Gives evidence of great character development that makes us care about the characters.

Explains what type of game it is.

I got the image of the "telephone" writing game form school. How new knowledge and narrative are made from unexpected connections provided by the previous writing.

I found this particularly interesting. This acknowledgement that the reception of social distancing instructions would be critical to their effectiveness..and the calculated attempt to inform and persuade people incrementally...the strategic communications here really mattered!

Great idea for a game with your kids to develop logical thinking in them

This aphorism really refers to the kind of predictive, pragmatic truths you cite science as claiming. (And indeed, false cultural belief is typically modeled as a liability, in the game theory.)

This is great because it uses images and it really depicts Kobe as a 'Girl Dad' and shows his passion for helping his daughter become the greatest.

Are all forms of self-expression just labor too?

Tiokhin, L., & Derex, M. (n.d.). Competition for novelty reduces information sampling in a research game—A registered report. Royal Society Open Science, 6(5), 180934. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.180934

Instead, billions are spent on beautiful school facades and achieving arbitrary quotas (low-leverage parameters).

block quote

If your business is running on Google Sheets, then it's time to step up the game!

They seemingly are planning to play entire seasons while other countries don't even know if their teams can play at all.

if you can find the right formula like making the game super hard you can feed into people addictiveness and thats all you really need to do in a game.

Some people love to be challenged if makes them feel they are superior if they can find the game easy or are successful in the game.

Transition into this paragraph could be more effective.

Prologue:

Federalism => competition between states => one (small) state, S. Dakota, abolishing long-standing laws that prevented usury => growth of trillion dollar credit card debt industry

See also Little South Dakota (pop. 833,000) holds $2.5 trillion in bank assets — more than any other state. Here's why. (The Atlantic, 2013):

• But when state leaders, desperate to attract outside businesses during the economic recession of the early 1980s, changed South Dakota's usury laws to eliminate the cap on interest rates and fees, Citibank came calling...The deal was breathtakingly quid pro quo, with then-Gov. Bill Janklow's chief-of-staff leaving to become president and CEO of Citibank South Dakota.

AND then the abolishing of laws against perpetuities

In 1983, he abolished the rule against perpetuities and, from that moment on, property placed in trust in South Dakota would stay there for ever. A rule created by English judges after centuries of consideration was erased by a law of just 19 words. Aristocracy was back in the game.

The Tax Justice Network (TJN) still ranks Switzerland as the most pernicious tax haven in the world in its Financial Secrecy Index, but the US is now in second place and climbing fast, having overtaken the Cayman Islands, Hong Kong and Luxembourg since Fatca was introduced. “While the United States has pioneered powerful ways to defend itself against foreign tax havens, it has not seriously addressed its own role in attracting illicit financial flows and supporting tax evasion,” said the TJN in the report accompanying the 2018 index. In just three years, the amount of money held via secretive structures in the US had increased by 14%, the TJN said.

Here is an example from one academic paper on South Dakotan trusts: after 200 years, $1m placed in trust and growing tax-free at an annual rate of 6% will have become $136bn. After 300 years, it will have grown to $50.4tn. That is more than twice the current size of the US economy, and this trust will last for ever, assuming that society doesn’t collapse altogether under the weight of this ever-swelling leach.

If the richest members of society are able to pass on their wealth tax-free to their heirs, in perpetuity, then they will keep getting richer than those of us who can’t. In fact, the tax rate for everyone else will probably have to rise, to make up for the shortfall caused by the wealthiest members of societies opting out, which will just make the problem worse. Eric Kades, the law professor at William & Mary Law School, thinks that South Dakota’s decision to abolish the rule against perpetuities for the short term benefit of its economy will prove to have been a long-term catastrophe. “In 50 or 100 years, it will turn out to have been an absolute disaster,” said Kades. “Now we’re going to have a bunch of wealthy families, and no one will be able to piss away that wealth, it will stay in the family for ever. This just locks in advantage.”

All effected by one man

And upheld by this 1978 SCOTUS case which allowed banks to export interest rates based on where they were "headquartered," — sound similar to the Irish tax dodge? (based on where the IP was owned)

"What if most rich assholes are made, not born?"

What if the cold-heartedness so often associated with the upper crust—let's call it Rich Asshole Syndrome—isn’t the result of having been raised by a parade of resentful nannies, too many sailing lessons, or repeated caviar overdoses, but the compounded disappointment of being lucky but still feeling unfulfilled? We’re told that those with the most toys are winning, that money represents points on the scoreboard of life. But what if that tired story is just another facet of a scam in which we’re all getting ripped off?

In New York, I’d developed psychological defenses against the desperation I saw in the streets. I told myself that there were social services for homeless people, that they would just use my money to buy drugs or booze, that they’d probably brought their situation on themselves. But none of that worked with these Indian kids. There were no shelters waiting to receive them. I saw them sleeping in the streets at night, huddled together for warmth, like puppies. They weren’t going to spend my money unwisely. They weren’t even asking for money. They were just staring at my food like the starving creatures they were.

The social distance separating rich and poor, like so many of the other distances that separate us from each other, only entered human experience after the advent of agriculture and the hierarchical civilizations that followed, which is why it’s so psychologically difficult to twist your soul into a shape that allows you to ignore starving children standing close enough to smell your plate of curry. You’ve got to silence the inner voice calling for justice and for fairness. But we silence this ancient, insistent voice at great cost to our own psychological well-being.

When volunteers in their studies placed the interests of others before their own, a primitive part of the brain normally associated with food or sex was activated. When researchers measured vagal tone (an indicator of feeling safe and calm) in 74 preschoolers, they found that children who’d donated tokens to help sick kids had much better readings than those who’d kept all their tokens for themselves. Jonas Miller, the lead investigator, said that the findings suggested “we might be wired from a young age to derive a sense of safety from providing care for others.”

Psychologists Dacher Keltner and Paul Piff monitored intersections with four-way stop signs and found that people in expensive cars were four times more likely to cut in front of other drivers, compared to folks in more modest vehicles. When the researchers posed as pedestrians waiting to cross a street, all the drivers in cheap cars respected their right of way, while those in expensive cars drove right on by 46.2 percent of the time, even when they’d made eye contact with the pedestrians waiting to cross. Other studies by the same team showed that wealthier subjects were more likely to cheat at an array of tasks and games. For example, Keltner reported that wealthier subjects were far more likely to claim they’d won a computer game—even though the game was rigged so that winning was impossible. Wealthy subjects were more likely to lie in negotiations and excuse unethical behavior at work, like lying to clients in order to make more money. When Keltner and Piff left a jar of candy in the entrance to their lab with a sign saying whatever was left over would be given to kids at a nearby school, they found that wealthier people stole more candy from the babies.

Books such as Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go to Work and The Psychopath Test argue that many traits characteristic of psychopaths are celebrated in business: ruthlessness, a convenient absence of social conscience, a single-minded focus on “success.” But while psychopaths may be ideally suited to some of the most lucrative professions, I’m arguing something different here. It’s not just that heartless people are more likely to become rich. I’m saying that being rich tends to corrode whatever heart you’ve got left. I’m suggesting, in other words, that it’s likely the wealthy subjects who participated in Muscatell’s study learned to be less unsettled by the photos of sick kids by the experience of being rich—much as I learned to ignore starving children in Rajastan so I could comfortably continue my vacation.

“What we’ve been finding across dozens of studies and thousands of participants across this country,” said Piff, “is that as a person’s levels of wealth increase, their feelings of compassion and empathy go down, and their feelings of entitlement, of deservingness, and their ideology of self-interest increases.”

Institutions seeking to justify a fundamentally anti-human economic system constantly rebroadcast the message that winning the money game will bring satisfaction and happiness. But we’ve got around 300,000 years of ancestral experience telling us it just isn’t so. Selfishness may be essential to civilization, but that only raises the question of whether a civilization so out of step with our evolved nature makes sense for the human beings within it.

Irony and unintended consequences, awesome article

The battle between the authorities and drug traffickers is now more of an arms race than a game of cat and mouse. The global war on drugs has enriched organized crime around the globe; efforts to curb the drug business, at huge financial cost, have merely ended with more drug routes, more drugs, and more deaths. It’s no wonder drug trafficking is the lifeblood of organized crime, and that the market in drug trafficking now has an estimated annual global value of between $426 and $652 billion.

Peter Andreas, a professor of international studies at Brown University and the author of Border Games: Policing the U.S.-Mexico Divide, put it more simply: “The future is synthetic.” Andreas said this will have all sorts of repercussions for border controls. “It is already extraordinarily difficult to interdict a portable, durable, and profitable product such as heroin or cocaine. But even more concentrated and potent synthetic drugs make reliance on border interdiction as a cornerstone of drug control even more irrational. Focusing more on demand than on supply becomes more urgent than ever.”

The U.N. has warned that the global rise of methamphetamine—the world’s most prevalent illegal synthetic drug—has been “unprecedented” and “remarkable,” with global seizure quantities growing more than six times since 2008. Why? Meth is highly addictive, for one thing. But it’s also a whole lot easier to build an illicit lab than to start up a coca plantation.

The U.S. government has identified China as the “principal source” not only for the fentanyl that has created the U.S. overdose crisis, but also for the precursor chemicals used by Mexican gangs to make methamphetamine. The same goes for the meth labs in the Golden Triangle, which are all equipped with Chinese precursor chemicals, which end up going back to China in the form of finished meth. China is also a key source of fake prescription pills, and is where most of the world’s new psychoactive substances are produced.

And as these kingpins find new ways to skip border interdiction, American authorities find themselves largely unable to respond. The U.S. has no extradition agreement with China, and the U.S. does not have sway over Beijing like it had over the Colombian government’s attempts to tackle its major cocaine traffickers. The U.S. cannot send troops and military hardware to China to fight drug traffickers. And the more Trump rubs China the wrong way, the less likely it will assist in clamping down on people like Hong Kong Zaron. In the new drug trade, sucking up to China could prove more fruitful in stemming drugs coming into America than building a Mexican wall.

The world’s second biggest economy—a nation that, ironically, was forced to import British opium or be bombed by gunboats during the Opium Wars in the mid 19th century—could soon become the world’s biggest illegal drug exporter.

Analysis in the RAND report found that for illicit drug suppliers, “fentanyl’s potency and price make it an economically attractive alternative to heroin.” It said that, according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, “one kilogram of fentanyl, after being pressed into pills, could generate between $10 and $20 million in retail sales. After factoring in the minimal $3,500 per kilogram of product purchased online from China, dealers are attracted to the drug’s profitability. In comparison, heroin wholesales at $50,000 to $80,000 per kilogram and is a fraction of the potency, generating a profit of perhaps $200,000.”

“It’s a bit of a nightmare how operationally simple it is for a single individual to be able to introduce so much fentanyl into the market using China and the internet,” tweeted Bryce Pardo, an associate policy researcher at the RAND Corporation. “At this rate with several years of declining life expectancy in the U.S. it’s not unreasonable to categorize this as a mass poisoning.”

An insight into how social networks work

Let's begin with two principles: (1)People are status-seeking monkeys, (2) People seek out the most efficient path to maximizing social capital.

Why do some large social networks suddenly fade away, or lose out to new tiny networks? What ties many of these explanations together is social capital theory. Classic network effects theory [that a network’s utility increases with the number of users who use it] still holds, I’m not discarding it. Instead, let's append some social capital theory. Together, those form the two axes on which I like to analyze social network health. When modeling how successful social networks create a status game worth playing, a useful metaphor is one of the trendiest technologies: cryptocurrency.

How is a new social network analogous to an ICO?

(1) Each new social network issues a new form of social capital, a token.

(2) You must show proof of work to earn the token.

(3) Over time it becomes harder and harder to mine new tokens on each social network, creating built-in scarcity.

(4) Many people, especially older folks, scoff at both social networks and cryptocurrencies.

Perhaps you've read a long and thoughtful response by a random person on Quora or Reddit, or watched YouTube vloggers publishing night after night, or heard about popular Vine stars living in houses together, helping each other shoot and edit 6-second videos. While you can outsource Bitcoin mining to a computer, people still mine for social capital on social networks largely through their own blood, sweat, and tears.

Almost every social network of note had an early signature proof of work hurdle. For Facebook it was posting some witty text-based status update. For Instagram, it was posting an interesting square photo. For Vine, an entertaining 6-second video. For Twitter, it was writing an amusing bit of text of 140 characters or fewer. Pinterest? Pinning a compelling photo. You can likely derive the proof of work for other networks like Quora and Reddit and Twitch and so on. Successful social networks don't pose trick questions at the start, it’s usually clear what they want from you.

If you've ever joined one of these social networks early enough, you know that, on a relative basis, getting ahead of others in terms of social capital (followers, likes, etc.) is easier in the early days. Some people who were featured on recommended follower lists in the early days of Twitter have follower counts in the 7-figures, just as early masters of Musical.ly and Vine were accumulated massive and compounding follower counts. The more people who follow you, the more followers you gain because of leaderboards and recommended follower algorithms and other such common discovery mechanisms.

Young people, with their much higher usage rate on social media, are the most sensitive and attuned demographic to the payback period and ROI on their social media labor. So, for example, young people tend not to like Twitter but do enjoy Instagram.

It's not that Twitter doesn't dole out the occasional viral supernova; every so often someone composes a tweet that goes over 1K and then 10K likes or retweets (Twitter should allow people to buy a framed print of said tweet with a silver or gold 1K club or 10K club designation to supplement its monetization). But it’s not common, and most tweets are barely seen by anyone at all. Pair that with the fact that young people's bias towards and skill advantage in visual mediums over textual ones and it's not surprising Instagram is their social battleground of preference (video games might be the most lucrative battleground for the young if you broaden your definition of social networks, and that's entirely reasonable, though that arena skews male).

The gradient of your network's social capital ROI can often govern your market share among different demographics. Young girls flocked to Musical.ly in its early days because they were uniquely good at the lip synch dance routine videos that were its bread and butter. In this age of neverending notifications, heavy social media users are hyper aware of differing status ROI among the apps they use.

TikTok is an interesting new player in social media because its default feed, For You, relies on a machine learning algorithm to determine what each user sees; the feed of content from by creators you follow, in contrast, is hidden one pane over. If you are new to TikTok and have just uploaded a great video, the selection algorithm promises to distribute your post much more quickly than if you were on sharing it on a network that relies on the size of your following, which most people have to build up over a long period of time. Conversely, if you come up with one great video but the rest of your work is mediocre, you can't count on continued distribution on TikTok since your followers live mostly in a feed driven by the TikTok algorithm, not their follow graph.

Why copying proof of work is lousy strategy for status-driven networks… Most clones have and will fail. The reason that matching the basic proof of work hurdle of an Status as a Service incumbent fails is that it generally duplicates the status game that already exists. By definition, if the proof of work is the same, you're not really creating a new status ladder game, and so there isn't a real compelling reason to switch when the new network really has no one in it.

I once wrote about social networks that the network's the thing; that is, the composition of the graph once a social network reaches scale is its most unique quality. Copying some network's feature often isn’t sufficient if you can’t also copy its graph, but if you can apply the feature to some unique graph that you earned some other way, it can be a defensible advantage. Nothing illustrates this better than Facebook's attempts to win back the young from Snapchat by copying some of the network's ephemeral messaging features, or Facebook's attempt to copy TikTok with Lasso, or, well Facebook's attempt to duplicate just about every social app with any traction anywhere. The problem with copying Snapchat is that, well, the reason young people left Facebook for Snapchat was in large part because their parents had invaded Facebook. You don't leave a party with your classmates to go back to one your parents are throwing just because your dad brings in a keg and offer to play beer pong.

I think the Stories format is a genuine innovation on the social modesty problem of social networks. That is, all but the most egregious showoffs feel squeamish about publishing too much to their followers. Stories, by putting the onus on the viewer to pull that content, allows everyone to publish away guilt-free, without regard for the craft that regular posts demand in the ever escalating game that is life publishing. In a world where algorithmic feeds break up your sequence of posts, Stories also allow gifted creators to create sequential narratives. In the annals of tech, and perhaps the world, the event that created the greatest social capital boom in history was the launch of Facebook's News Feed. Before News Feed, if you were on, say MySpace, or even on a Facebook before News Feed launched, you had to browse around to find all the activity in your network. Only a demographic of a particular age will recall having to click from one profile to another on MySpace while stalking one’s friends. It almost seems comical in hindsight, that we'd impose such a heavy UI burden on social media users. Can you imagine if, to see all the new photos posted in your Instagram network, you had to click through each profile one by one to see if they’d posted any new photos? I feel like my parents talking about how they had to walk miles to grade school through winter snow wearing moccasins of tree bark when I complain about the undue burden of social media browsing before the News Feed, but it truly was a monumental pain in the ass.

By merging all updates from all the accounts you followed into a single continuous surface and having that serve as the default screen, Facebook News Feed simultaneously increased the efficiency of distribution of new posts and pitted all such posts against each other in what was effectively a single giant attention arena, complete with live updating scoreboards on each post. It was as if the panopticon inverted itself overnight, as if a giant spotlight turned on and suddenly all of us performing on Facebook for approval realized we were all in the same auditorium, on one large, connected infinite stage, singing karaoke to the same audience at the same time.

It's difficult to overstate what a momentous sea change it was for hundreds of millions, and eventually billions, of humans who had grown up competing for status in small tribes, to suddenly be dropped into a talent show competing against EVERY PERSON THEY HAD EVER MET.

Incidentally, teens and twenty-somethings, more so than the middle-aged and elderly, tend to juggle more identities. In middle and high school, kids have to maintain an identity among classmates at school, then another identity at home with family. Twenty-somethings craft one identity among coworkers during the day, then another among their friends outside of work. Often those spheres have differing status games, and there is some penalty to merging those identities. Anyone who has ever sent a text meant for their schoolmates to their parents, or emailed a boss or coworker something meant for their happy hour crew knows the treacherous nature of context collapse.

Add to that this younger generation's preference for and facility with visual communication and it's clearly why the preferred social network of the young is Instagram and the preferred messenger Snapchat, both preferable to Facebook. Instagram because of the ease of creating multiple accounts to match one's portfolio of identities, Snapchat for its best in class ease of visual messaging privately to particular recipients. The expiration of content, whether explicitly executed on Instagram (you can easily kill off a meme account after you've outgrown it, for example), or automatically handled on a service like Snapchat, is a must-have feature for those for whom multiple identity management is a fact of life.

Many types of social capital have qualities which render them fragile. Status relies on coordinated consensus to define the scarcity that determines its value. Consensus can shift in an instant. Recall the friend in Swingers, who, at every crowded LA party, quips, "This place is dead anyway." Or recall the wise words of noted sociologist Groucho Marx: "I don't care to belong to any club that will have me as a member."

The Groucho Marx effect doesn't take effect immediately. In the beginning, a status hierarchy requires lower status people to join so that the higher status people have a sense of just how far above the masses they reside. It's silly to order bottle service at Hakkasan in Las Vegas if no one is sitting on the opposite side of the velvet ropes; a leaderboard with just a single high score is meaningless.

Snapchat— Snapchat opens to a camera. If you want to text someone, it's extra work to swipe to the left pane to reach the text messaging screen. Remember Snapchat's original Best Friends list? I'm going to guess many of my readers don't, because, as noted earlier, old people probably didn't play that status game, if they'd even figured out how to use Snapchat by that point. This was just about as pure a status game feature as could be engineered for teens. Not only did it show the top three people you Snapped with most frequently, you could look at who the top three best friends were for any of your contacts. Essentially, it made the hierarchy of everyone's “friendships” public, making the popularity scoreboard explicit.

As with aggregate follower counts and likes, the Best Friends list was a mechanism for people to accumulate a very specific form of social capital. From a platform perspective, however, there's a big problem with this feature: each user could only have one best friend. It put an artificial ceiling on the amount of social capital one could compete for and accumulate. In a clever move to unbound social capital accumulation and to turn a zero-sum game into a positive sum game, broadening the number of users working hard or engaging, Snapchat deprecated the very popular Best Friends list and replaced it with streaks.

Social Arbitrage— Because social networks often attract different audiences, and because the configuration of graphs even when there are overlapping users often differ, opportunities exist to arbitrage social capital across apps. A prominent user of this tactic was @thefatjewish, the popular Instagram account (his real name was Josh Ostrovsky). He accumulated millions of followers on Instagram in large part by taking other people's jokes from Twitter and other social networks and then posting them as his own on Instagram. Not only did he rack up followers and likes by the millions, he even got signed with CAA! When he got called on it, he claimed it wasn't what he was about. He said, "Again, Instagram is just part of a larger thing I do. I have an army of interns working out of the back of a nail salon in Queens. We have so much stuff going on: I'm writing a book, I've got rosé. I need them to bathe me. I've got so many other things that I need them to do. It just didn't seem like something that was extremely dire." Which is really a long, bizarre way of saying, you caught me. Let he who does not have an army of interns bathing them throw the first stone.

Walmart can be thought of as a bounded search for the optimal selection, inventory, and pricing of SKUs that a local market could support. It was bound, or constrained, by the characteristics of the local economy, and so each Walmart location was a direct reflection of the local market dynamics. The immensely difficult job of the local management team was to predict and implement the optimal mix that could theoretically have been found if every possible permutation were tested by the local economy. Undershooting or overshooting – that is, having too few or many SKUs, or too little or much inventory – would be a costly mistake. By the same token, higher-level managers were responsible for estimating the optimal size and location of the building itself, and for choosing the best associates to manage it, and so on. Each level of management, then, was tasked with managing their own level of the algorithm.

Bezos, in other words, wanted to build an unbounded Walmart. By removing the constraint of geography – and therefore the local economy – and by adding search functionality, the new formula became simpler: the more SKUs it added, the more items would be discovered by customers; the more items that customers discovered, the more items they would buy. In this world of infinite shelf space, it wasn’t the quality of the selection that mattered – it was pure quantity. And with this insight, Amazon did not need to be nearly as good – let alone better – than Walmart at Walmart’s masterful game of vendor and SKU selection. Amazon just needed to be faster at aggregating SKUs – and therefore faster at onboarding vendors.

To make sense of what started to happen after Amazon rolled out Marketplace, you have to understand that things get really weird when you run an unbounded search at internet-scale. When you remove “normal” constraints imposed by the physical world, the scale can get so massive that all of the normal approaches start to break down.

So, what is Amazon? It started as an unbound Walmart, an algorithm for running an unbound search for global optima in the world of physical products. It became a platform for adapting that algorithm to any opportunity for customer-centric value creation that it encountered. If it devises a way to keep its incentive structures intact as it exposes itself through its ever-expanding external interfaces, it – or its various split-off subsidiaries – will dominate the economy for a generation. And if not, it’ll be just another company that seemed unstoppable until it wasn’t.

“The most important thing is that we are not a news business. We are more like a search business or a social media platform,” Zhang said in a 2017 interview, adding that he employs no editors or reporters. “We are doing very innovative work. We are not a copycat of a U.S. company, both in product and technology.”

The story of how Bytedance became a goliath begins with news site Jinri Toutiao but is tied more closely to a series of smart acquisitions and strategic expansions that propelled the company into mobile video and even beyond China. By nurturing a raft of successful apps, it’s gathered a force of hundreds of millions of users and now poses a threat to China’s largest internet operators. The company has evolved into a multi-faceted empire spanning video service Tik Tok -- known as Douyin locally -- and a plethora of platforms for everything from jokes to celebrity gossip.

“The predominant issue in China’s internet is that the growth in users and the time each user spends online has slowed dramatically. It is becoming a zero-sum game, and costs for acquiring users and winning their time are increasing,” said Jerry Liu, an analyst with UBS. “What Bytedance has created is a group of apps that are very good at attracting users and retaining their time, in part, leveraging the traffic from Jinri Toutiao.”

What Zhang perceived in 2012 was that Chinese mobile users struggled to find information they cared about on many apps. That’s partly because of the country’s draconian screening of information. Zhang thought he could do better than incumbents such as Baidu, which enjoyed a near-monopoly on search. The latter conflated advertising with search results, a botch that would later haunt the company via a series of medical scandals.

Neopets” was the wireframe for a community of girls that continuously expanded its expressive reach. Not bound by the limitations of a traditional open-world game built on a console system, “Neopets” began a collaborative building exercise for those that played it. Even in the aspects of play that were regulated by “Neopets” developers, users provided input: A player could publish reported and researched stories or opinion pieces in the in-game newspaper, The Neopian Times, or build out shops that filled Neopia’s marketplace. Players gathered in forums and in guilds – partly responsible for the “Neopets” DIY media scene – to forge relationships and share experiences. Communities of storytellers, artists, reporters, designers, and poets emerged, alongside an economy that fed off its collaborators.

Garcia and other girls like her, including Madison Kanna, now a software engineer, looked outside “Neopets'” set system to earn Neopoints, capitalizing on the skills that drew them to the site. “I would build profiles for people with HTML and CSS and exchange that for goods and supplies,” Kanna says. “Just going on and knowing I could create anything I wanted was huge.” Both women taught themselves as girls to design and code websites for their “Neopets,” and, in turn, started “businesses” designed to use those skills. “I designed my profile page, my shop,” Garcia says. “I coded everything. And what came out of that was my first tutorial site where I was teaching people – other girls, mostly – to code. I had a ‘staff member’ when I was 14, also writing tutorials. That’s what I was doing in my spare time.”

Spontaneity is the big thing you'll miss

Forget the calendar invite. Just jump into a conversation. That’s the idea powering a fresh batch of social startups poised to take advantage of our cleared schedules amidst quarantine. But they could also change the way we work and socialize long after COVID-19 by bringing the free-flowing, ad-hoc communication of parties and open office plans online. While “Live” has become synonymous with performative streaming, these new apps instead spread the limelight across several users as well as the task, game, or discussion at hand.

Oh cool, this feels important!

I think Auden is trying to say that the government lead the country into war without much thought for their people. Auden calls the war a "game" like the government is playing pieces on a board to gain the most power. While the whole country is affected by the negative factors of war, governors are continuing to play their "game". Unfortunately, citizens don't have the power to stop wars from happening.

redis support more data structure memcached is k-v

memCached is not highly available, beause lack of replication support like redis

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This annotation showed how the Madman was reacting towards his fellow community and how he a sense of paranoia with everyone including a doctor which only wants to help their patient. He obviously sees his paranoia just for the fact that he acknowledge the fact that the doctor might actually be a doctor trying to help and not harm. But at the end of the sentence he stated "He'd still be a cannibal just the same". This shows that he is still convinced everyone in the town is a cannibal and no will ever change their ways. He was lead to believe that everyone is a cannibal because he did not conform to societies rules and this made him an outcast. This quote exposes the ubiquity of such cannibalism and how everyone is an accomplice in the game of eating and being eaten.

As I read this I simply thought to myself that this is nothing but the truth without technology I dont know what the world would be like. My generation was born into a tech world so all we know is technology like Iphones IPad laptops and game systems our world would be a whole lot different if these things didn't exist. I feel as if we wouldn't be as smart as a country if we didn't have it though that would only show how far behind we are as a whole. Its important for us to study ethics in technology because if we didn't know the ethics behind it nothing would make sense. This relates to idea that dash said about technology is used to create not to consume because technology opened doors for us in today's society.

Morality is "an organ." He says the same thing about language, (I think takes that phrase from Chomsky.) It's not that such an approach is necessarily entirely wrong, but seems too narrow, and subtly pushes the reader (in this case the general reader of NYT Magazine) to accept a whole set of assumptions before the game has really begun.

Pinker writes that this new field is "unmasking" the sixth sense, aka our moral sense. He could say evo psych researchers are making "arguments," and one way of thinking about morality is that it shares some similarities with physical senses, although the analogy is obviously partial at best. "Real" academics "unmask," revealing the pre-existing truth of an underlying human nature that we can identify through brain scans and lab work. The way he argues is very similar to Chomsly (as linguist) and echoes Chomskyan theory.

Pinker describes a fascinating, rich new area of research. But he moves quickly to "naturalize" key terms and claims, trying to move a lot outside argument before he begins. If we accept this initial framing (or don't notice it) then much of the rest follows.

Morality is "an organ." He says the same thing about language, (I think takes that phrase from Chomsky.) It's not that such an approach is necessarily entirely wrong, but seems too narrow, and subtly pushes the reader (in this case the general reader of NYT Magazine) to accept a whole set of assumptions before the game has really begun.

compares social media to the thrills of a game, where the objective is to have the most, such as monopoly. Without the currency objective, the game is meaningless.

so traditional roles of normal science prohibit advancement and production of new theories and extraordinary science?

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This is also an interesting comment to make, because of how to season left off I think that right now all teams are in critical positions, especially at the top of the rankings, and meaningful games are going to be the ones right before playoffs, not just the playoffs itself.

This is a very valid argument, but i also think that asking for an addition month training camp is a lot and since the NBA is worried about financial liability they are just pushing it back because you can't necessarily make money until teams resume play.

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Yes and no, I think. People are generally fiercely sensitive to bullshit. "Seduce" implies deception, but here the author is talking about building rapport which happens when trust is established. Rapport will not be built if the interviewer appears to be seducing, if anything then the interviewee may play the same game and respond minimally or evasively.

Plenty of crossover with my article: "When we see learning as an infinite game, we open greater possibilities for students to act adjacent, tangential to, beyond explicit directives in pursuit of goals nevertheless relevant to our learning community — perhaps vitally so."

Ergodic process: flipping a coin Non-ergodic process: russian roulette

The difference is that in one, the process can go on indefinitely, while in the other, as soon as you hit the bullet, the game stops, affecting statistics and probability calculations

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Data science interviews lack a clarity of scope

This by necessity transforms the colleague relationship into something very different. I wonder how best to maintain this intimacy with work personalities that don't particularly gel together well. Do we need to love the people we work with in scholarly and activist circles?

When I really think about it, I more often than not will come up with the best ideas when I'm not working on the project. Either something in my daily life will suddenly inspire new ideas or something will occur that I notice correlates with my studies.

This again follows the idea of the author admiting that the changes would not kill the game but it would still have long term effects on the nature of the game showing he is being fair to both sides

Just yesterday, my mom accidentally gave away some of her personal information on Facebook through a game. This shows that they haven't done too much to protect user data.

In other words--consider making your first mention of your thesis an open thesis statement

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First, your story has a cool concept, it gave me some Black Panther vibes. I like the way the characters interact, it’s seamless and it does not seem forced. It was creatively done, and I like how you tied football into it, it’s a good way to make yourself part of the story you are telling. Apart from some minor punctuation errors, it is written well and tells an engaging story. I noticed that when you referred to Galen from the perspective of his parents, you wrote “Son,” I’m not sure but I think it is supposed to be lowercase because it is not his name. I think it’s different when you referred to his parents, but I could be wrong. Also, I am not sure how Galen has younger siblings if his father was abducted before Galen was born, this could be an opportunity to change the story or edit it by saying that they prepared for a situation like this, etc.<br> I like that you had elements to the story that are able to catch the attention of readers and makes them ask questions about the plot line. However, I would like to have a little bit more of an expansion on what happens after Galen’s father went home. Early in the story (after Galen arrives at Lyssa’s house), you laid out a plan about what was going to happen, and I made it so that the reader knows exactly what is coming. I think that the story could be made more exciting and it would add an element of not surprise but critical thinking for readers to be able to try to figure out what happens next. Additionally, the evenings seem repetitive and I think the story would be livelier with some different things happening during those evening hours. Perhaps a little more conversation or a card game. I liked that the story ended happily and resolved the conflict. I also felt like the scene in the beginning when Cybernetics was explained was done quickly and the character acknowledges such fact. I think the reader would have more context if we knew more about the Cybernetics building and what they do. Just fleshed out a little maybe. Furthermore, I found the introduction of the story to be excellent, it definitely caught my attention and it seems so real when you read it. I think if you use that same energy and put it into the end of the short story, you’ll leave an audience wanting to read more. Another idea is giving a glimpse of what a sequel would be like.

This would be a good point to then transition into talking about how you have observed behaviors on the court that require more investigation. Otherwise, this and the rest of the paragraph about being on the bench should probably be cut.

It's like beta testing in game development

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I am concerned that you you have quoted a source without the appropriate punctuation--quotation marks

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This sounds a bit naive to me. Who would buy those set-top boxes and game consoles? And do not only consider the United States' and European markets. Wouldn't the large content providers have to adapt to how the web works if they want to reach a broader audience?

глюкнуло у меня что-то, часть текста убрала нужную :( должно быть: ...малвари (ее составили 9Game, Feral, Vmall, Xiaomi и Zhushou).

Comparison between prized dogs from dog fighting and NFL players. Only difference is a person in good mind and body chooses to be a football player and accepts the consequences and risk of the sport and because of their athletic grace and ability are heftily rewarded.

Theres definite risk in the game of football.

The voices in this excerpt appears to be between two women. The beginning of “The Game of Chess” describes in vivid detail the vast and sophisticated room of a women that’s confined in exile. It’s not clear if this woman, who I believe is named Lil, is awaiting her husband to return from serving in the army because the time sequence of this section isn't natural, particularly in the latter half when the second women says, “When Lil’s husband got demobbed, I said—”. This quote makes me speculate that the second women is flashing back to a point in time she held an actual conversation with Lil. Moreover, the second woman’s reply to Lil in this excerpt, “Those are pearls that were his eyes” makes me believe that the husband, Albert, might be dead.

This excerpt reveals on behalf of Lil a frustrated desire to connect with somebody. She halfwittedly inquires twice on the noise that the wind is doing. And the second women’s zombie-like reply of “nothing” is another motif in this excerpt. It’s as if nobody wants to talk to Lil; Lil is quite the buzzkill even though she is on some meds herself, the irony.

The first motif that I noticed in this part of II. A Game of Chess was that of wet/dry. The passage I've highlighted opens with "The hot water at ten. And if it rains, a closed car at four". I don't know exactly how bathing worked back then, but I'm sure people still preferred hot water, so Eliot is setting up people who are looking forward to hot water and hoping for no rain. People could wait for the rain and bathe themselves in it, instead of waiting for the hot water. I see a connection here between un/natural time, too. The people want to be clean for sure by ten; they won't wait for nature to pick a time to provide water. Nature provides people with what they need, but not always a way to form these things to suit themselves. I'm thinking toilet paper, loin cloths, fire, etc. People manipulate nature, including its timing, to create comfort and order.

The thing about the teeth could be connected to to zombies, as well as desire frustrated. Lil needs new teeth because our bodies only give us one set, which can (and often does) decay before the rest of our bodies. This decay -a dead or dying thing residing within a living person- reminds me of zombies. Somewhere in the corpse that is a zombie something lives. Not unlike how in the body of a living person something dead (fake teeth) can live. That she wants and needs new teeth because at age 31 a person is expected to still have them is an example of her desires being frustrated.

3 Motifs in a game of chess

Voices: in this excerpt we see a voice a man or it could be a women too because we see the speaker observing this women who is sitting fragrantly on this chair, almost as she addresses this woman as she was divine. The type of a voice that seems like he is I really had to tease arch this one up and find out what Eliot was trying to convey here and the two voices that we are introduced in here is from the context in Shakespeare’s tragedy Antony and Cleopatra where Enobarbus, a characters of the play, describes Cleopatra's royal barge as it appeared when she first pursued Marc Antony. The gilded setting could be a palace, a temple, or just a bedroom. The room appears to be richly decorated by objects found in Virgil, Ovid, and Milton. The woman is inside an enclosed space, like the Sybil trapped in a jar in the Epigraph. She is rich, idle, and useless, just like Marie in “The Burial of the Dead.” The voices in here in this specific poem aren’t the character form Shakespeare’s tragedy, but I think Eliot chooses this because the women in this poem is like Cleopatra.

Text As Plagiarism/remix: one of the ways this principle applies is that Eliot uses the lines from Shakespeare’s Anthony and Cleopatra. Also I went more into about the title of the poem and Eliot The title is taken from two plays by Thomas Middleton, wherein the idea of a game of chess is an exercise in seduction.

un/natural time: in the first stanza this motif appears or a signifier of a time of war or pre-war. One of the reason of being why it indicates a time of war or a going into a time of war is that maybe the the reference or representation to ‘throne’ could be attempting to pinpoint to Europe, or England, more specifically, but even without the remits of place, the idea is of pre-war Europe, the seductive and vicious Old World that American writers harped on about in their works.

connection to genotype=>phenotype, hyperneat, DNA, transformers

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okay--but a transition might be needed?

We have a problem here. You seem to be quoting without using quotation marks--which would be plagiarism, right? Even though you rightly cite the source you seem to be paraphrasing when you are in fact quoting. Here is the original: "The goal of the presented study was to examine whether strategic video game play (i.e., role playing and strategy games) predicted self-reported problem solving skills among a sample of 1,492 adolescents (50.8 % female), over the four high school years."

I will continue to read unless I see another instance of plagiarsm.

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This child understands the danger of the situation, the Cold War, and has full knowledge of the utter lack of power over the situation. "Pretending" is often something adults will do to make a situation a game, or to soften the edges of a harsh reality. This child's insight that the desk, the infrastructure of life as they know it, none of it will protect them, demonstrating a loss of childhood innocence due to the bitter cruelties of war.

On the one hand, their work of victimization provides an opportunity to be heard by the larger audiences. On the other hand, it is likely to rationalize potential interventions of the “invisible enemy” which has already been trying to sustain its humanitarian discourse. So, to what extent is victimization a useful tactic for the migrants?

I suggest is adding more description about Skyrim to help people visualize it...

What is Skyrim? It is a role playing game created by Bethesda Game Studios that takes place in Skyrim on the continent Tamriel. It has beautiful mountains and forests, but is also torn apart by civil war between the Stormcloak Rebellion and the Imperial Legion. The player develops a character from countless races and works to improve their attributes through fighting, magic, and stealth. Because Skyrim is set in a vast fantasy world it is often heavily modded. Mods are modifications to a game.

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that is, the body and its transgressions

Are these a game bird species?

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are you looking into creating games?

even though i stop playing games i still see my cousin playing and communicating to people when he plays on line

good description and explanation

This reminds me a bit of the distinction Zeynep Tufecki made between psychological and sociological storytelling in Game of Thrones

1. long history of statehood= ruler has more power, enough to fend off europeans and internal opposition
2. state building causing fiscal bargaining game- not a strong effect outside europe 3.outside europe, analysis shows early statehood is not conducive to democracy

I wonder if Browne would signal this out as a mental health issue? Or is Alice just a child at play? -Giuseppe Rastelli

Probably my most favorite aspect of being a teacher is that I have the opportunity to explore, learn, or deepen my thoughts on topics as children bounce their thoughts back and forth with me.

excitement, curiosity, playfulness, respect = teachers need to display these!

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I remember the wait times that came with pokemon go

Considering that computational thinking is such a beneficial problem-solving skill that can be applied to virtually all subject areas and future career fields, I do think that schools should start to offer coding as a type of "foreign language" option. Whether or not students enter tech fields such as game design or website construction as a result of exposure to a coding course, they will at least practice critical thinking skills and develop their foresight.

This is a total guessing game, but let’s play. First, it depends on who Biden chooses. Then it depends on the results of the election – not just who wins, but the margin. If Biden wins in a blowout, there’s as good a chance as any in our lifetimes that a third party forms w/ Never-Trumpers, genuine conservatives and others who run screaming from the wreckage of the Republican party once finally free of Trump’s yoke. This could lead to a formidable conservative candidate and Haley has to be at the top of that list. If the margin is close, the Republican party remains as is, continues alienating everyone left of Limbaugh, and you have to go w/ Biden’s Veep. If Trump wins (Biden implodes or simply can’t gain any traction doing videos from his basement), then it’s whoever the Dems nominate next from a wide-open field.

Endgame/Infinity War is also bloodless by design. Is fading away into nothingness less traumatic than being blown apart into bloody bits?