adamc

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901.
by adamc 5y ago
Came to say exactly that. It is abusive, particularly of younger players.
902.
by adamc 5y ago
As someone who has been through a long, complex migration... very interesting company idea! Kudos.
903.
by adamc 5y ago
https://qz.com/2023032/how-much-energy-does-bitcoin-use/ Thanks for making me look at this. We should ban cryptocurrencies.
904.
by adamc 5y ago
I don't love the firebombing, but think it was stupid of the Hague to criticize actions taken after said country attacked others. Wars you start you do not get sympathy for.
905.
by adamc 5y ago
The war we ended was WWII.
906.
by adamc 5y ago
"Decision fatigue" is an apt phrase. Reminds me of Joel Spolsky's old essay on classic Windows help asking what kind of help db install I wanted ("compact", etc.) -- to which no normal user ever had an answer. Don&#
907.
by adamc 5y ago
Yeah. The country that ended a long and terrible war. Fake moral high ground is aggravating.
908.
by adamc 5y ago
Also, the potential for attracting Congressional attention.
909.
by adamc 5y ago
I agree, but the law does have to consider the very different risk profile some customers present. As has been pointed out, adult businesses have to deal with shame and a lot of fraudulent chargebacks. The reality is that they are much more
910.
by adamc 5y ago
Yeah, this is a fair point. I think it would make sense to require them to offer services, but let them charge a rate that allows them to make similar margins as on other business.
911.
by adamc 5y ago
You're assuming the government won't just ban it entirely.
912.
by adamc 5y ago
But also a business opportunity for someone, with high margins.
913.
by adamc 5y ago
Might be an age issue. When you get older, small font sizes are problematic. It's rude of sites to use them, IMO.
914.
by adamc 5y ago
Yes. Take notes, then send them back via email or some other mechanism that can be discovered later.
915.
by adamc 5y ago
Thank you for articulating my (limited) experience. It was a very leaky abstraction. I remember thinking "If this is it, Python wins."
916.
by adamc 5y ago
Evidence rather than opinion would be helpful. This is all opinion.
917.
by adamc 5y ago
Which is a reminder: If you are going to do unethical things, make sure you can prove that your bosses ordered it. Otherwise, in addition to being a rat, you will likely twist in the wind.
918.
by adamc 5y ago
Thanks for the link. I'm grateful for the verge link too, though, because the NYT paywall reduces the effect of sharing NYT links. (I'm an NYT subscriber, but lots of people aren't.)
919.
by adamc 5y ago
Do we have any examples where such an initiative, starting at the government level, has worked?
920.
by adamc 5y ago
For those of us with older eyes, I am skeptical -- the screen is pretty small for the amount of detail PC games often want to display.
921.
by adamc 5y ago
Yes, but that is a very low bar.
922.
by adamc 5y ago
My ex-wife (who was with me for decades) tagged me as an existentialist early on, and I guess it was true. I don't really understand how we can see the universe another way, without lying to ourselves: bad things happen, and nothing is
923.
by adamc 5y ago
Yes. It's mostly bait to try to get people to create accounts they can mine.
924.
by adamc 5y ago
No more Nvidia shield recommendations, that's for sure. The execs who made this decision should be punished. They won't be. But I think this has convinced me to move my mail and give up on Google.
925.
by adamc 5y ago
This terrifies me.
926.
by adamc 5y ago
If you compare the results of having a government to chaos, they create a LOT of wealth.
927.
by adamc 6y ago
This is a good thing. Even though my shop has mostly moved on from Java (to Python and other things), we still run plenty of software that depends on it. I wonder how badly Oracle's attempt to monetize Java is going.
928.
by adamc 6y ago
Bloomberg is an expensive paywall. Unhelpful.
929.
by adamc 6y ago
Makes me think of the song "Eminence Front".
930.
by adamc 6y ago
My father, who used to testify at various hearings (he was a physicist) used to make this argument. I think it kind of misses a key point: People would much rather deal with N deaths a year than deal with a range with an average of N - k, b

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