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by SXX 4y ago
The point is that Steam itself is DRM. Even if game itself can work standalone you can't install or update it without Steam client. This is the difference between Steam and GOG.
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by SXX 4y ago
EGS also dont have any proper user reviews to begin with. Its by design since Epic Games dont want even give players option to affect game sales. For instance compare how terrible broken The Last of Us Part 1 looks on Steam and EGS: > h
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by SXX 4y ago
And in CK you can actually sacrifice a child for some gains.
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by SXX 4y ago
But you'll forever stay in a history as a guy who did it.
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by SXX 4y ago
I guess you wanted to say reCAPTCHA specifically. Captchas existed for decade before it.
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by SXX 4y ago
W-8BEN has nothing to do about dealing with US companies or government. If you open investment account to buy any US stock, index funds or a some other US-based financial instruments you have to fill W-8BEN. Otherwise you might be charged 3
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by SXX 4y ago
Outside of US most famous document produced by fed would be W-8BEN. Basically anyone who ever opened investment account know about it.
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by SXX 4y ago
While it's true this is simply incomparable with having different skin color and face. Also a lot of people who fled from Ukraine only speak Russian and have about the same accent in English. Of course they also sometimes get some hate
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by SXX 4y ago
It's really sad what people like you have to overcome. Fortunately this is not the case for majority immigrants from Russia even though it's multinational country. Very few people in west would ever be able to tell if a person in
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by SXX 4y ago
I have a Russian passport and I've been to Kiev in December 2021. It was just a few months before war has started and talks about possible war was all around the news for months already. Had no problem crossing Ukraine border control.
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by SXX 4y ago
Do you really think it's important what he did 20 years ago? Half of Russia population don't pay taxes and occasionally have no money to cover their utility bills. Most people outside of Moscow only earn $300-500 / month. Als
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by SXX 4y ago
As Russian who left the country on February 25th 2022 I can strongly recommend following substack for those who curios about economical and political situation inside the country: https://ironcurtain.substack.com/ Author is
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by SXX 4y ago
For once because no one welcome people with Russian passport regardless of fact that you're against the war. It's possible to get humanitarian visa to a few EU few countries, but it's very difficult unless you're already
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by SXX 4y ago
War is not COVID-19 with bunch of anti-vaxxers running around. Twitter can't possible tell what is misinformation in a war.
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by SXX 4y ago
Every national state have propoganda.
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by SXX 4y ago
Would it also be okay if Twitter would turn down the volume of some of political topics in US or in whatever country you live in? Might be instead it should let you decide what topics are you interested in?
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by SXX 4y ago
Would you mind providing some source on Ukraine officials? If Ukraine will stop fighting their independence and the country is over. They'll never join EU or NATO. There will be no investments to rebuild. People who left will never ret
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by SXX 4y ago
If only it was technically possible to make a button like "Show me less on topic of X". Too bad platform like Twitter had to make some tough decision for it's users since they can't be trusted to decide what to read on t
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by SXX 4y ago
Let's be honest nobody gave a damn about Ukraine or any of any of occupied territories before 24th February 2022. Though we can't know if it was added in 2022 before of after Elon actually took control over company.
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by SXX 4y ago
While what you say is true I didn't do it intentionally. I just used GitHub search to find that line and posted it here without paying much attention.
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by SXX 4y ago
Both violence and hate tweets have it's own categories. Also all other filters on the list have very unambiguous names. It is UkraineCrisisTopic and not UkraineCrisisMisinfo. PS: All filter names: DoNotAmplify, CoordinatedHarmfulActivi
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by SXX 4y ago
If someone curious here is the line on GitHub: https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/blob/7f90d0ca342b92... UPD: here is link to main branch without specific commit. Line is still there, it's not some
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by SXX 4y ago
Healthcare is free in UK of course and this is hug compared to US situation, but I do have a few older friends who moved to EU simply because there are countries with as good healthcare and much less waiting.
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by SXX 4y ago
It's just guess, but it very much possible Apple simply can't publish any documentation because even they use a lot of 3rd-party IP under NDA. Also publishing documentation officially make patents attack easier. I not into defendi
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Asahi Linux M1 GPU drivers can now run Windows games via Steam Proton(youtube.com)
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by SXX 4y ago
No one ever went to GDC for technical presentations. It was always about networking and no amount of online events can replace face-to-face meetings when it's comes to business. Yeah you can reach a lot of people through friends of fri
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by SXX 4y ago
Yes, you can work as lone indie dev, but only if you have savings to sustain you for 2-3 years or if you can live on ramen. For every successful indie game there are thousands of games that never been completed or failed on release. With sm
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by SXX 4y ago
Dear valued user, Thank you for reaching out to ChatGPT, your trusty AI language model. I understand that you're feeling a little bit overwhelmed by the ads that you've been seeing, and you'd like me to stop showing them to y
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by SXX 4y ago
It's exactly what I usually doing. ThinkPad X220i with 16GB RAM in 2011. Macbook Air M1 with 16GB RAM in 2020. In both cases it was the most RAM I could get.
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by SXX 4y ago
Automattic with 2000+ people working for them and they want a word with you. And GitLab... and few other companies that are popular on HN.

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