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by matthewrobertso 5y ago
I ran into this last week on my nvidia shield. Here's a summary of the workaround I found (apologies for not having the specific package names offhand): 1. Install a new launcher from play store (I found one called "Basic Launcher
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by matthewrobertso 6y ago
Your argument strikes me as tautological in that you've created a hypothetical sad situation and are arguing that because it is sad we should change our behavior. I think it's probably worthwhile to think about if the situation c
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by matthewrobertso 6y ago
I think for most indie developers piracy is free word of mouth advertising, similar to the shareware model. Hopefully when their work is widely pirated developers can turn the attention into sales. I agree it would be very tragic if people
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by matthewrobertso 6y ago
Releasing a game on a console is an involved process with many steps and hoops to jump through. It is much easier to release a game on PC. I haven't looked into the statistics but it is my understanding that the large majority indie ga
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by matthewrobertso 6y ago
Incidentally, around 20 years ago I purchased a copy of Bleem! at a Fry's electronics and some games to play on it (playstation was still a current-gen console at the time). I would not have purchased nor played the games if I had not
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by matthewrobertso 6y ago
I think the dishonesty comes in when the progress bar uses time as an input instead of observable events. It's fine and good to modify your api to return better progress information as long as that doesn't cause the operation to t
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by matthewrobertso 6y ago
I definitely agree that showing a progress bar makes a slow operation feel faster, I've seen this work many times. I think I disagree about the constant speed vs stuttering progress bar example though - Progress bars which progress smo
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by matthewrobertso 6y ago
I'm in the process of doing something similar. If you are as incensed as I am you might want to consider leaving a small amount of money < 1 USD in your account and opening an unused credit card with them.
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by matthewrobertso 6y ago
What if the price goes up further? It's already rebounded 50% from the short ladder/blatant robinhood manipulation. Why put yourself on the hook for something during a black swan event?
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by matthewrobertso 6y ago
>Why wouldn't you short GME after the price has risen so high? Because the stock is already over 100% short and an army of retail investors is purchasing it
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by matthewrobertso 6y ago
Because nothing happened when wall street bankrupted the country by gambling and needed to be bailed out in 2008, and then paid themselves huge bonuses.
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by matthewrobertso 6y ago
You are not responding to my investigation of your issues and just asserting your initial argument again. You have not demonstrated content injection beyond some BAT related tipping feature. All of the controversies you have pointed to are
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by matthewrobertso 6y ago
That you had to google these and didn't know them offhand made me skeptical, but I'll attempt to summarize the articles to see what the criticisms are: 1. https://securityboulevard.com/2019/02/brave-brows
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by matthewrobertso 6y ago
Can you link some other examples then? You keep using the affiliate link one but it doesn't seem very convincing to me. My takeaway from the comments on this post has been that some people really don't like brave but are either un
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by matthewrobertso 6y ago
[1] is the exact same link linked to by OP and is not convincingly an issue [2] is about an opt-in system that is easily disabled if accidentally opted into
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by matthewrobertso 6y ago
The article you linked doesn't support your assertions and the linked explanation tweet from their CEO seems pretty reasonable: https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/1269317625915400192 I don't see how
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by matthewrobertso 6y ago
You've linked the same article on nearly every thread on this post, why is changing affiliate links for cryptocurrency important?
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by matthewrobertso 6y ago
If my bank steals my money, I have my own documentation about my account and can take them to court. Airline crashes are regularly in the news when they occur and are easily verifiable. My doctor has a licensing board and such to report to.
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by matthewrobertso 6y ago
How would a reasonable person, unaffiliated with the newspaper, differentiate the two types of inaccuracy? There is no way to tell if a lie originated with two anonymous sources or with a reporter with an agenda. The "trust but verify&
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by matthewrobertso 6y ago
All I was arguing is that it is reasonable to be skeptical of articles posted in the new york times that are only confirmed by anonymous sources. As such a story is unverifiable/there is no chain of trust, believing the story involves
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by matthewrobertso 6y ago
I agree, neither the allegation that the nyt fabricates its anonymous sources nor the allegations made through those anonymous sources should be believed (nor should they be believed to be absolutely false). Alternatively, anonymous sources
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by matthewrobertso 6y ago
If the NYT was fabricating their anonymous tips, like parent suggested, why would they publish outside anonymous tips? The fact that they don't publish every anonymous source doesn't mean that all of their anonymous sources have t
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by matthewrobertso 6y ago
I don't watch Maddow regularly nor do I see MSNBC's promotion of her show. The only episode I've watched in the past few years was the one where she claimed she had Trump's tax returns and would be showing them on the s
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by matthewrobertso 6y ago
So if the new york times comes out tomorrow and says it has found evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Iran and the country goes to war, will you believe them? It does not matter if the nyt is usually factful. If they can be subverted
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by matthewrobertso 6y ago
This is very a reasonable stance, consuming many sources is necessary to understand what sides of an issue may exist. And news organizations may accidentally report incorrect information (hopefully they swiftly retract it when they learn di
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by matthewrobertso 6y ago
Given 18 years and 500,000 dead, the NYT has killed roughly 28,000 people per year for the past 18 years. Next year this number will drop to around 26,000 people per year, and the following year 25,000 people per year. In 2043, assuming no
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by matthewrobertso 6y ago
Moderation and extreme-ness exist on a continuum. Being not sufficiently extreme is being too moderate by definition.
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by matthewrobertso 6y ago
Rachel Maddow is a direct equivalent. https://deadline.com/2020/05/rachel-maddow-one-america-news-...
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by matthewrobertso 6y ago
Was the new york times factful in its reporting on iraq in 2003? And if they later investigated themselves and found that they published information that was not true, would that cancel the war pushed on us by the military industrial comple
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by matthewrobertso 6y ago
I have the same problem with Verizon (except I am no longer a customer with them). I've even gone to a Verizon store and asked the manager about it (sometime in 2017). They did not have any procedures in place for this and I still rece

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