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Not sure why me mentioning GTA became the core of your reply, that was the least important part. Any game that makes people en-masse spend $30k to play must be extremely addictive. > I think that real life is the ultimate game of this ki
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> It's a pity If there's a game that all of a sudden makes people enjoy it that much that they'd spend $30k on it as the rule not the exception, I'll be very worried that those people will retreat in the game from rea
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> But is it actually that good? If you ask me, no computer game is "$30k good". But the post in the submission made you wonder and I bet that was the purpose. Promotion and "no such thing as bad publicity".
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It's the typical extremely biased mobile game (Frostpunk clone in this case), where the imbalance can only be fixed by spending a lot of money. It's counterintuitive but the article almost reads like a promotion piece. The game is
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> I have never heard of a bank that has a hard requirement of a mobile app My banks all require their own individual apps for authentication and authorization. I can use the website but to log in and authorize any transactions I need the
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> Given State of World, my take on it is there's far more hedonism and irresponsibility in having kids. Compared to what? We're living in some of the best times humanity as a whole ever had. Deciding en-masse to not have kids i
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This is a matter of personal preference of course. But the way you phrased it, "a whole life in full freedom" tells me you think it's either all or nothing. If you can't enjoy the full freedom in the last years of your
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> access my bank from a web browser Unless you get SMS or some normal TOTP app as 2FA, using the web page usually requires the bank's proprietary app to authorize. So you circle back to the the same issue.
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Well you aren’t wrong but the attitude isn’t helping. It is my feed as far as it explains to you that it’s not about disabling something for others. It isn’t my feed as far as who actually controls it is concerned.
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I want to remove them from my own feed. I want the button that says "hide" or "show fewer shorts" to actually work and ideally hide them forever. I have to play whack-a-mole on the different devices and browsers to try
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You can't halve a Planck length so you're limited to ~1.6×10^−35.
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These are probably the longest lasting option we have right now, and is far more eco-friendly than the closest alternatives, plastics or concrete.
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On #3, Meta could have done it for Android and I don't think they did. Actually if Android is a god estimation of how it looks like with 3rd party stores, it won't be super disruptive. Unless the iOS market is so lucrative it will
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> Every dollar the company earns afterwards also increases their bank account by $1.00. Wouldn’t this be true also if YC owned 100% of the company? On the other hand from that point on, from every dollar the company is worth YC gets 7%
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Probably the same way they’d view the young tech startup billionaire. They’d understand they’re just seeing snapshots of an industry they don’t fully know so they’d avoid generalizing to “all young tech workers are billionaires”. Why you’d
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> Fresh, clean water is astonishingly cheap Because you can find it in "concentrated" form (think entropy), all in an aquifer or a river, and these are everywhere. But these dry up because of our usage and the climate, and when
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> the company’s engineers left Formula 1 to work on scooters “because we think electric scooters are the most important vehicle innovation of this century.” Oh, they left F1 to develop another exciting, high performance vehicle that will
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Add to the list almost all high end (dance) clubs, the kind that sell you the $50 bottle of champagne for $5000, "cleaning" thousands for every easily justifiable and anonymous bottle sale with close to 0 effort. Actually, any bus
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If a government finds a sector or company to have strategic importance they will not let it die. The rest is free-market absolutism that never comes to be. I believe today more than ever the US considers Intel to be of strategic importance.
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Isn't handwriting just the activity of writing by hand as opposed to typing a keyboard? Whether it's cursive or block/print, as long as it's written by hand it still has benefits. Many studies link handwriting to bette
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Intel has something Samsung doesn't. It's a US company operating mostly on US soil so the US government has a vested interest to keep this strategic asset going for as long as possible.
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Yes but you are talking about the threshold of existence, and the cell is alive as soon as it starts existing. For a virus you also have the threshold of "application", when the viral code is applied to something alive. Before tha
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> so it could never be brought back to life in an environment where nothing is already alive I always thought of a virus as purely a "modifier", not having the characteristics of "life" independently. If this was a ga
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I'm wondering, if the return is that the employees get 20 minutes extra free time per day, is that a good, quantifiable return? Would anyone consider as a "return" anything that you can't put on your balance sheet?
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Yes and no. Today the site should be held responsible. But if a law like this is passed then the site must be held responsible. This is what makes all the difference. P.S. Today a site owner is not responsible if an ad is malware, they
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If the user is legally obligated to allow the ad on their device then the site owner must be legally accountable for what the ad does, for example if it's malware. No passing this on to the ad-network. Their code, their copyright, thei
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> There’s some nuance to understand about targeting flows and precision strikes There's a lot of "nuance". From understanding that these systems will always "need" to target and strike, and they'll always fi
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Sam Altman stood up to Elon Musk after years of X trolling(arstechnica.com)
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> At least the pivots before that point kind of made sense. But was this even a real pivot? They "rented" out their name to a company with an already failed crypto coin project, who thought they'll make it if they use a bi
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The same way you do in monoculturalism, so that's a meaningless distinction. If the families did not impart these values to children from a young age, the "owner" of a space advertises and enforces the rules. In this particul

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