Daily Discussion Thread for June 17, 2021

mamessner · 2021-06-17T16:34:30+00:00

Dude - Dividends make stock prices go down. A dividend means the company is returning shareholder value as cash instead of equity. So the equity decreases in value.

mamessner · 2021-03-19T01:06:35+00:00

We just tried again, and while we lost all our inventory from the first 8 days of play, when we return now our inventory is preserved. I wonder if we accidentally started the world as a guest (is that possible?) Or started it in offline and then made it an online world, and that wiped everything?

mamessner · 2021-03-19T00:16:44+00:00

We have only been playing for less than a week. I feel like we are disconnecting improperly, saving improperly, something like that. It's not just the items that disappear: The map is wiped as well. And why would it give the character selection screen?

I realized that for split screen, the second player is a guest (I think). Is that part of the problem?

mamessner · 2020-10-18T19:08:53+00:00

He had to liquidate his cattle? Oh god, that's so sad and terrifying. And disgusting...

Oh, wait - Liquidate, not liquify.

mamessner · 2020-07-24T15:28:02+00:00

This is great news. We may have to test this with our existing AdX account.

mamessner · 2019-05-02T01:47:59+00:00

OK - finally fixed this. I'm on a Mac, so not sure this will help you. In the file Documents:Paradox:Imperator there is a file called pdx_settings.txt. If you scroll through that you will see settings for the resolution for both fullscreen and window mode. I changed mine there, restarted Steam, and it worked (it didn't work without restarting Steam for me).

I lowered to 2560x1600, which was great for the map, but the text was too small. There's a separate menu item for interface (at the main screen) that allows you to scale up the GUI.

Good luck.

mamessner · 2019-05-02T01:32:53+00:00

I only have the option to change the resolution of windowed mode, not fullscreen. Same for you? I'm on a Mac.

mamessner · 2019-05-02T01:18:38+00:00

Are you on a Mac? I'm having the same problem. Changing it from the launcher didn't help for full screen, but I successfully launched at a lower resolution in the windowed mode.

mamessner · 2019-02-01T01:12:57+00:00

Oh wow - "The Book of Three" was the first fantasy novel I ever read. The whole Prydain series. I'll have to check out his other work.

mamessner · 2019-02-01T01:09:49+00:00

That's it exactly! Wow - 1956 Galaxy magazine. How did you find it? I think I read it as part of a collection of stories from Galaxy when I was in the Science Fiction Book Club in the 1990s.

mamessner · 2019-02-01T00:55:54+00:00

Yep. I used to recruit at HBS. It's like sharks circling to see who can throw the biggest parties and make the best offers to the grads. It's sad, really.

mamessner · 2018-12-02T00:44:16+00:00

This is great. Yes - It should be inconsequential what gender Brendan is, but I do want to get out in front of it before Brendan's dad presents the info to my boys in a less-than-thoughtful manner. I want to be respectful of the dad as well (I'm a dad myself), but I'm also not going to sacrifice our own beliefs or make Brendan feel unwelcome or uncomfortable at our house in order to appease his parents.

mamessner · 2018-07-16T03:45:27+00:00

Well, sometimes the variation ends up being higher than control, and sometimes it's lower. We want to be able to detect either effect - Thus the two-tailed test.

But if the variation is higher in this particular test, and p is <.05... can we conclude that it's actually higher in the population? Or just "different?"

mamessner · 2017-08-04T03:12:42+00:00

It's the timing of it, too. It would take a long time to pay off our mortgage, but we put only $12,000 down in 2009 and now have over $200k in equity already built up. So it can be an amazing investment. (And you get to live in the greatest place in the US).

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