gundmc

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   by gundmc 5y ago

   Yeah it seems to be more permissive
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   by gundmc 5y ago

   Cancelling has made me more deliberate about my purchases, which I think has been a net positive. There's a reason why every retailer wants to decrease friction in purchases and sometimes that little bit of friction is a good thing for
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   Squabble.me – Multiplayer Wordle Royale(squabble.me)

   102 points by gundmc 5y ago|51 comments
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   by gundmc 5y ago

   I came in looking for fun ideas for the next cocktail party and found an interesting opinion piece. I particularly enjoyed this as someone who has worked in both aerospace and software engineering.
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   by gundmc 5y ago

   I think this has become less prevalent in Oil and Gas - it's my understanding that both BP and Chevron have gotten rid of this relatively recently.
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   by gundmc 5y ago

   An AlphaZero type AI for Civ is my absolute dream. A huge problem in these sorts of games is that developers have the computer players cheat to artificially raise the difficulty to compensate for the poor skill and decision making of the AI
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   by gundmc 5y ago

   Interesting, I hadn't heard of sponsorblock. Thanks!
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   by gundmc 5y ago

   How do adblockers help with native product placement? Or are you saying you might as well not pay for premium if you'll still have to deal with the product placement anyway?
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   by gundmc 5y ago

   > But answering them isn't much better, because it takes a huge amount of time and energy. I can appreciate the asymmetry in the effort necessary to create allegations vs refute them. That makes sense. Thanks for taking the time to
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    by gundmc 5y ago

    Apologies for the confusion - what piqued my curiosity was a response you had further down in the thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30074537 Specifically: > The software downweights any story that has bee
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    by gundmc 5y ago

    I think both your and the parent's comments can both be accurate at the same time.
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    by gundmc 5y ago

    Thanks for the information, dang. It's interesting that mods have so much discretion in keeping things on the front page or bumping them off the front page. Is there a transparency report you make available that shows cases when these
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    by gundmc 5y ago

    > plural sphinxes or sphinges Looks like either is correct, but I learned a new word!
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    by gundmc 5y ago

    Same exact thing applies to duck duck go.
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    by gundmc 5y ago

    Discussed 3 days ago as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30038144
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    by gundmc 5y ago

    > article describing in great detail the conditions and circumstances where the behavior exists I don't think they understand what "random" means.
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    by gundmc 5y ago

    What "housing deductions and childcare costs" does Google provide? A web search didn't turn up much and this doesn't sound like a standard benefit.
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    by gundmc 5y ago

    I think this is a big part of it. Unions at FAANG companies these days seem to be more a vehicle for social activists than winning rights for employees. If you don't agree with the goals of the union organizers, there doesn't seem
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    by gundmc 5y ago

    I think it was a lawsuit settlement from Getty Images.
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    by gundmc 5y ago

    > Might be correct but it was rising exponentially until Google started using dirty tactics again What "dirty tactics" are you referring to that negatively impacted DDG's growth?
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    by gundmc 5y ago

    You didn't disclose this is your own website and you have been pasting this link in every single comment you make.
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    by gundmc 5y ago

    > This is Google Earth and Maps. They're free to users, but make Google billions on ads Citation needed. Google only recently started showing ads in Maps and there is no way it's near billions at this point.
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    by gundmc 5y ago

    For their "instant answers". The link results are basically bing.
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    by gundmc 5y ago

    Maybe that's a UK regulation? I just tried navigating the maze of a customer service site from the US again and can't find any apparent way to contact a human. Edit: I should clarify that I mean Amazon retail. I don't use AWS
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    by gundmc 5y ago

    Really? The last several times I've tried to contact support I have only been able to "chat" with some limited functionality chatbot that was clearly narrowly programmed for a few use cases. No option to reach a human by phon
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    by gundmc 5y ago

    > Although multiple antiviral and host target activities have been reported for ivermectin in SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19, it is still unclear if any of these activities will play a role in the prevention and treatment of the disease. The co
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    by gundmc 5y ago

    The problem with this approach is that the group most likely to pay to remove ads is also the same group that is most attractive to advertisers. So your pool of users to whom you serve ads is less attractive overall. That means you need to
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    by gundmc 5y ago

    Rare to see power issues at a modern data center cause downtime. All of those racks should have UPS and batteries to sustain during an outage until the automatic transfer switch can fail over to a redundant system or generator. Would be int
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    by gundmc 5y ago

    Nice work! Thanks for the tip!
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    by gundmc 5y ago

    Yeah, I have small hands and it's uncomfortable to use the cluster while WASD gaming if I don't tent it upwards.