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Tideflat··on The lottery is a tax, an inefficient, regressive, and exploitative tax
Yes, if you could get the rich to play.

To do so, just discount the tickets for poor people and raise the price for rich people.

Tideflat··on The xkcd survey
I almost typed 42, but instead I typed 12.<a long herd of digits>
Tideflat··on Can You Really Game Index Funds?
However, for a lazy or casual investor discovering the difference between the good managers and the lucky managers is very hard.
Tideflat··on A Pixel Artist Renounces Pixel Art
However, a medieval-style castle would still be cool if it was built in 2015.
Tideflat··on Floating city project
While there are significant problems, prirates are not one of the major problems, because unlike oil tankers and cargo ships, they have far more people and don't have a large cargo.
Tideflat··on Ask HN: How to talk smart?
On exception to the not saying "ummm" rule is when many other people want to speak and you need to say "umm" to keep from losing your slot.
Tideflat··on A multiplayer Tron-like game with curves
Do you really need ready switch? Couldn't you just start after a few seconds having greater than X players?
Tideflat··on [dead]
Be careful of the double-Y axis chart a fourth of the way down. The intersections of the lines and the relative steepness of the lines mean nothing, like all double-Y axis charts.
Tideflat··on Show HN: A random startup generator
"BadAnalyze is the last word in devious bads."

"When my friends need new bads there's only one word I tell them, BadAnalyze."

http://tiffzhang.com/startup/index.html?s=91597155402

Tideflat··on Y Combinator rejection reasons
I think it is just a clever way of linking to a collection of related articles.
Tideflat··on Velocity Raptor – an adventure in 2+1 dimensions
Thank you! Your method works.

With it I beat the game. The game really helped my understand special relativity in a "intuitive" way.

Tideflat··on Velocity Raptor – an adventure in 2+1 dimensions
I love the game but I don't understand the exact mechanics for when I unlock a gate. Do I just need to be near the key when it is the right colour? Because that doesn't seem to work all the time.
Tideflat··on Animated vector map
Sad. I was confused by "procedural" in the URL.
Tideflat··on Animated vector map
This is an awesome example of a procedural city generator. Care to share the algorithm?
Tideflat··on Gyroscope: A personal site powered by your life
In Linux Firefox the 3d rotations are aliased and ugly. Could you just give us a normal web page? This web site has all the problems of bad flash websites but built in JavaScript.
Tideflat··on Show HN: RealProblemHunt – Find problems to solve
I want an RSS feed, but I don't see an RSS feed.
Tideflat··on Deleting any Facebook album
Might not have been easy depending on how many other things he had to test before he found this error.
Tideflat··on Enough's enough: Contract teaching at a Canadian University
While employers paying for training may work in economies were there is a high level of worker loyalty, in Canada and the States, people change jobs frequently. Thus, the employer wouldn't get to keep the benefit of the training often, because the employee would leave to work for a employer who pays high wages because it didn't pay for the training.
Tideflat··on MineSweeper in ReactJS
I miss the auto-empty feature that MS Minesweepers has where any neighbouring 0 tiles to a 0 tile that is clicked on are uncovered.
Tideflat··on Lightbot: A simple programming game
As a hint: When you run out of space in a function, then just tack the still needed blocks to the end of every call of that function. It is a bad real-life programming pattern but works in this language.

(This language seems non-turning complete without conditionals.)

Tideflat··on Ask HN: Replace trial with a schedule a call form instead?
Beware that if you make it difficult to buy your product, people may just pass over your product for one that is easier to buy.

At least don't hide your price behind a phone number as that is terribly annoying.

Tideflat··on Cursors
Scoot your finger down the edge of the track pad (so that your finger is half on, half off) to go straight.
Tideflat··on Humble Mozilla Bundle
Maybe you could switch to qwerty while playing the game? Many operating systems have some way of quickly switching layouts for multilingual users.
Tideflat··on Show HN: Mojulo – Pixelated Math Rendering Sandbox Toy
Flames: http://maxbittker.github.io/Mojulo/#KC0zMCt5KygoKHNpbigoeC0x...
Tideflat··on Show HN: Mojulo – Pixelated Math Rendering Sandbox Toy
Here is a basic thobber:

  ((cos(time/2)+1)*x)+((cos((time-(3.141*2))/2)+1)*(100-x))
https://maxbittker.github.io/Mojulo/#KChjb3ModGltZS8yKSsxKSp...

Here is using the same trick to switch between two patterns:

  ((cos(time/50)+1)*(A*1000))+((cos((time-(3.141*50))/50)+1)*((x-50)^2+(y-50)^2))
https://maxbittker.github.io/Mojulo/#KChjb3ModGltZS81MCkrMSk...

Unfortunately, this trick doesn't work well with patterns with high values, and thus most animated patterns don't work.

It works like this:

  ((cos(time/p)+1)*q)+((cos((time-(3.141*p))/p)+1)*Q)
where: p is the speed of the switch (Higher is slower), q is pattern #1, and Q is pattern #2.

The cos(...)+1 part in both sections is in charge of timing. In the second part we subtract pi * p, which is half the period, from time to make it start at the half point of the cycle.

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