hn_acker

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by hn_acker 3y ago
> The amount of mental gymnastics on display here (not to mention bloodthirstiness) to not acknowledge that the new terms are genuinely a huge improvement and likely palatable to the majority of game actual developers in crazy. A huge im
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by hn_acker 3y ago
I like the way you put it because to me it holds the connotation that the company which threw away the trust is so massive that its gravity (usefulness, lack of good alternatives, network effects, enterprise stubbornness, mere exposure [1]
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by hn_acker 3y ago
> So you don't like Unity because of everything happen and how they threated game developers. And for that reason you want to refuse to pay those game developers? Your framing is wrong. If I really want to buy a game but choose not
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by hn_acker 3y ago
If we assume for the sake of argument that a particular customer would knowingly buy a computer from an OEM who pre-installed Netscape on it, then the OEM is the user of the computer before the end user buys it. Why should Microsoft be allo
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by hn_acker 3y ago
Actually, that brings up a potential problem for me because sometimes I do click the eyeball icon to show my password to myself. This attack might be too slow as long as I hide the password within 30 seconds, but future versions of the atta
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by hn_acker 3y ago
Would you mind explaining specifically how the FCC's intention to add net neutrality rules again (actually Chairwoman Rosenworcel's intention, and dubious in mettle [1]) would give the government "control over information&quo
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by hn_acker 3y ago
Net neutrality is gone, so why is the internet mostly the same (to people with money to spare for higher bandwidth tiers which are just as overpriced as the lower tiers)? Because STATES (Washington, Oregon, and California) passed net neutra
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by hn_acker 3y ago
As shameful as it is, I really believed you at first. I had to remind myself that I could go to Canada and charge my devices with the right power plug type without changing anything on my devices. Friendly FYI to travelers: make sure you ch
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by hn_acker 3y ago
A single person can have different standards for different situations. Your plane crash example is not about guilt, it's directly about life and death. The threat of being wrong about Russell Brand's alleged sexual assault is quit
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by hn_acker 3y ago
> Unless you disagreed with its politics. In which case you were suspended, or shadowbanned. I would appreciate an example about what kinds of political posts Twitter banned. Pre-Elon Twitter did suspend Republicans more than Democrats,
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by hn_acker 3y ago
> DoS should be legalized IMO... If a company cannot mitigate a DoS or DDoS attack and stay profitable, it's their own fault. Their fault for not designing their software properly and their fault for accumulating too many enemies. G
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by hn_acker 3y ago
> The problem with ChatGPT / Bard which does this censoring, it is a path forward to ideological automated indoctrination. Ask Bard how many sex the dog species has (a placental mammal species) and it will give you BS about sex bein