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by SXX 6mo ago
I'm in no way Apple fan, but M5 air with 512GB SSD and 32GB RAM costs $1500. Compared to M1 and 256GB and 16GB at $1200. Adjusted for inflation it pretty much the same.
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by SXX 6mo ago
Running anything on Apple Silicon is result of Asahi Linux effort.
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by SXX 6mo ago
No idea about 60,000, but it's not impossible to make whole orbits unusable by launching piles of small junk. Its will ruin it for everyone, but Russia or China is certainly able to do that.
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by SXX 6mo ago
Publisher gives you development budget because most games arent made by one person and you need money. At least $50,000 - $150,000 for a small PC games. Then publisher takes 70-90% before recoup and 50% afte of what remain after VAT, refund
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by SXX 6mo ago
I am not holding that against them whatsoever. I just not count this as one of their good deeds for industry because it was done under regulatory pressure.
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by SXX 6mo ago
They are, but they only implemented proper refunds after being pushed by Australia.
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by SXX 6mo ago
> They don't take flat 30% for almost a decade now Yes Valve is very generous. They take MORE from developers who make LESS money. I sure bottom 98% of developers never sell above $10,000,000 to decrease cut from 30% to 25%. Very fe
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by SXX 6mo ago
In Soviet times in Russia there been rhyme: Тащи с завода каждый гвоздь - ты здесь хозяин а не гость. Which is literally translates as: Take every nail from the factory post, You aren't a visitor, you are the host! A
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by SXX 6mo ago
I am from Russia even though not living there for last 4 years. And I able to compare because I have a lot of friends in Russia. Censorship and VPN blocks are bad there. I've also been to Shanghai recently and there I can just use HK r
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by SXX 6mo ago
Because neither is privacy friendly and open country. It's just amount of money and effort Russia puts into blocking VPNs, proxies and encrypted communication is well beyond China. If you travel to China bypassing all the censorship is
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by SXX 6mo ago
I'm not from US, but China is certainly subsidize a lot of its manufacturers to capture global markets while not giving access to it's local market to western companies. US is able to produce cars on its soil and there is no reaso
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by SXX 6mo ago
Chinas level of internet filtration and censorship nowhere near Iran or Russia. You just buy tourist eSIM and you're golden in China and literally everyone who wants do it. Chinese government don't care about small percent of popu
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by SXX 6mo ago
Location: South East Asia Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: [yes yes yes, but need visas] Technologies: Unity + C#, Java + Spring, PHP + Laravel, C++, Godot, Linux, Git, LLM Email: hire@arseniyshestakov.com Linkedin: https:&#x
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by SXX 6mo ago
Conflict is not good, but wake up call that EU need means to defend itself will help long term. You cant outsource army to defend your borders.
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by SXX 6mo ago
And this is a good for EU. In past decades EU lost energy independence and good part of nuclear because croocked politicians that took dictatorships money while feeding same dictator with oil and gas money. At the same time EU had no proper
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by SXX 6mo ago
Institutional longevity is what differs developed countries from failed or failing states. Whole point of having institutions is to make sure rules dont change every 4, 6 or 8 years. Some amazing new administration can come up with tons of
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by SXX 6mo ago
If you run local Deepseek, quant or distill its answer just fine on this prompt " What happened on 4 june 1989 on Tianamen Square?". Even on my phone via Edge Gallery Deepseek to Qwen 1.5B distill able to answer it. It's mess
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by SXX 6mo ago
People who say Gemini is bad at long contexts are so wrong. You can put whole 50,000 - 70,000 LOC codebase into Gemini 3.1 Pro context making it 800,000+ tokens, give it detailed task and ask for whole changed files back and it will execute
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by SXX 6mo ago
Chinese AI companies want investors too. Nobody would believe they can compete with western companies unless they release something you can run on your own hardware. After all historically both statistics and research that comes out of Chin
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by SXX 6mo ago
I was born in Russia and lived there good chunk of my life. I agree it's not that simple and it took two decades to turn the country into whatever it became now. When country is already turned into authoritarian military regime there i
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Hy-World 2.0: Model for Reconstructing, Generating, and Simulating 3D Worlds(github.com)
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by SXX 7mo ago
This is not about capitalism. They will lose money on it long term and they know it otherwise they'll done it long ago. This is move to moderated censored platform under regulatory "protect the children" pressurre and hysteri
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by SXX 7mo ago
People here in comments seem to not read past the title that editorized, but in a wrong way. This is basically only requirement to make games available for players under 16 so its certnly done under regulatory pressure because no way on ea
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by SXX 7mo ago
You are right, but this is not the first investigation. Also there is massive difference between being rich, or even a super rich and literally hidding $50B under your bedsheet on USB stick. No one expects that putting a gun to even a super
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by SXX 7mo ago
This is what you get when majority of country is ignoring politics, dont participate in electiom process, dont fight for their rights, etc.
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by SXX 7mo ago
You really dont get it? Because real billionares have the money and you dont. Journalists just told everyone you are billionare, but you're just average SWE on $120k / year and absolutely no money for hiring small army of guards.
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by SXX 7mo ago
Imagine mafia knocking on your door and putting a gun to your head because some journalist figured out you are secret billionare. Not cool?
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by SXX 7mo ago
After events of last 4 years in Russia you can probably be killed there for $100 or for a wrong look. Lots of trigger happy ex-convict veterans with PTSD are around. For now they are busy killing their wives and relatives, but eventually th
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by SXX 7mo ago
This. Imagine being targeted by actual government agencies of russia, north korea and iran who wouldn't mind to take some of your bitcoins.
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by SXX 7mo ago
It's not even hundreds of millions. It's tens of billions of dollars if we suppose someone actually have access to these wallets. Bitcoins across old unused wallets worth $30B to $80B depend of how you count it.

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