hsndmoose | 4 years ago | on: Show HN: A more social, Amazon-free alternative to Goodreads
Lmk if you want contributors, I was looking at building something like this as well.
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hsndmoose | 4 years ago | on: Adaptive social networks promote the wisdom of crowds
Yes thank you. Between this and your other comment to me in this thread I think you've really gotten to the heart of it. I appreciate you putting into concise words what was rumbling around in my head when I first asked the question.
hsndmoose | 4 years ago | on: Adaptive social networks promote the wisdom of crowds
I cannot. It's a philosophical question of what is truth. I don't know if it is possible for a human to obtain 100% objective truth about something.
hsndmoose | 4 years ago | on: Adaptive social networks promote the wisdom of crowds
Would this not require quantifying real, objective truth? How does one compute truth without relying on human input? (Which instead trends towards truthiness/the "feeling" of whether something is true.)
I am not being dismissive, I genuinely would like to know.
hsndmoose | 4 years ago | on: All Hail King Pokémon
Even "pretty bad" condition Beta is still worth a pretty penny. Lots of people just want to have complete sets, or play "1994" League which allows only cards from that era. There will definitely be a market if you do indeed have Beta :)
hsndmoose | 4 years ago | on: All Hail King Pokémon
> Interestingly, unopened packs seem to fetch a fair amount, certainly more than their “expected value”
Yeah it's a phenomenon seen in a few different CCG markets actually. Roughly 2 years after a set's release the Sealed box price and the EV start to drift apart.
hsndmoose | 4 years ago | on: All Hail King Pokémon
https://www.mtgstocks.com/lists
IMO you'd get a lot of mileage from the "Reserved List" or "Vintage Staples" but site is decent for a general price lookup as well.
Feel free to shoot follow-up questions. There are a few cards that went from trash to treasure since you've been out of the game. Lion's Eye Diamond probably the most extreme example, but basically anything on the Reserved List has gone insane in the past few years.
hsndmoose | 5 years ago | on: Swarms of soldier crabs can implement logical gates (2012)
I think it's actually in the first book! The Three Body Problem.
hsndmoose | 5 years ago | on: Simplifying Board Games
Anecdotal: The on-ramp to Gloomhaven is quite smooth, compared even to many "simpler" games. It feels like there is an MVP-design of a game initially introduced and then as you play more features and complexity are added.
I highly recommend it, even as a solitaire game. There is a digital version on Steam as well, which approximates the mechanics and gameplay well.
hsndmoose | 6 years ago | on: Show HN: StoryTime – Create stories about your code instead of documentation
Yeah watching a section of code over time was what I thought this was going to be initially. That sounds really useful for sharing the story of "how we got here" to new devs.
hsndmoose | 7 years ago | on: Standardizing WASI: A system interface to run WebAssembly outside the web
Adding a podcast Lin was on, detailed just how much work goes into creating Code Cartoons. It's pretty amazing and highly appreciated.
hsndmoose | 7 years ago | on: Rant – An all-purpose procedural text engine
Download link on website busted for me. Hugged to death? Getting BlobNotFound.
hsndmoose | 7 years ago | on: Is “data scientist” the new “programmer”?
It's scary how much this comment applies to my current job. Literally just spent today discussing with entire engineering org how to steer away from this behavior.
hsndmoose | 7 years ago | on: Direct Coupling of the Higgs Boson to the Top Quark Observed
Yeah I thought about it for a bit and realized my question was pretty dumb if you understand that a basic underpinning of The Standard Model is that you can't exceed the speed of light.
It's what I get for my drive-by commenting :)
hsndmoose | 7 years ago | on: Direct Coupling of the Higgs Boson to the Top Quark Observed
Just trying to unpack your statement. Are you saying we're trapped because the standard model doesn't allow for FTL travel? (This is my assumption based on context)
I'm way outside my wheelhouse here for knowing what the standard model allows so please bear with me.
hsndmoose | 8 years ago | on: Cinemark announces $8.99/mo. subscription to fill more seats, take on MoviePass
Can only really speak for Alamo Drafthouse, but yes to all. Reserve seating ahead of time, order food/drinks off a menu at your seat + sometimes movie-specific menu items.
They do a lot of classic movie showings on various days, there are Signature Series events https://drafthouse.com/austin/series that fit more to a theme, Terror Tuesdays, Afternoon Tea, etc. Master Pancake is also incredibly popular which is a live comedy showing of a movie.
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