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by noirbot 4y ago
I'm not actually sure they would have made him go through with it vs. just pay some large fine to Twitter if he was insistent on wanting to get out. The issue is the road to get to that point would have run through a LOT of discovery a
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by noirbot 4y ago
There's definitely some chargers, but the issue ends up being that you need a lot more chargers per mile than you do gas stations in rural areas, assuming you don't have a robust planning/reservation system. You can easily
543.
by noirbot 4y ago
I totally agree with you - I don't really like this as a matter of policy. It's one thing to have Paypal close your account and just decline to work with you. That seems fair enough in an open economy. Fining people for something
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by noirbot 4y ago
> inhibits the only practical means we have for peaceful social change. > there will be backlash against things like this, and it's not going to be pretty. Both of those are certainly, to me, a "polite" implication that
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by noirbot 4y ago
That would be my fallback, yes, but that's also a pretty large risk of theft or loss if you get unlucky. Not to mention the added time involved in sending it thousands of miles by mail.
546.
by noirbot 4y ago
And yet, when I just went to close my Paypal account, I remembered my final use for it was helping out a friend in need who sometimes needed money to cover their bills. They barely have a functioning bank in their town, they're definit
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by noirbot 4y ago
I can think this is a bad move by Paypal and also think OP's implicit "and thus people working at Paypal should now be harmed for this" as being an insane escalation.
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by noirbot 4y ago
Yes, but also, if you were taking payments over Paypal, good luck getting people to transfer fiat to ETH or BTC to send to you. I'd rather gamble that Paypal cares enough to look into my HN posts than trying to talk my friends into ope
549.
by noirbot 4y ago
Isn't Venmo literally the same company as Paypal?
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by noirbot 4y ago
> need to speak English to function in US society (at least in most parts, I guess). But the data doesn't seem to point to this, at least any more than other countries. More households, almost definitely by absolute numbers but also
551.
by noirbot 4y ago
I'm not sure that's exactly the right read in a way that is important here. Sure, if you buy a game on Steam or EGS, you're still kinda just "renting" it since if they go away, you can't play the game because o
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by noirbot 4y ago
And yet it mostly launched with games that I could play on my 5-year old $200 GPU that I probably couldn't even sell for scrap at this point. People really overestimate how much of a GPU you need to play a lot of these games. Sure, i
553.
by noirbot 4y ago
Do you have a source for that? Most of the demographic charts I've seen for the "developed world" are a fair bit more homogeneous, though a lot of that seems to also be that European census numbers are much less in depth abou
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by noirbot 4y ago
There's also other factors - almost all other countries are a lot more culturally, racially, and religiously homogeneous than the US. Obviously a lot of that is upstream from the resultant culture, but it still makes comparison hard. I
555.
by noirbot 4y ago
Sure, but what I'm saying is that "lot of gamers" in my experience is the type to flame Stadia without playing or buying it anyway. I highly doubt the overlap of the population of /v/ and Stadia owners was that larg
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by noirbot 4y ago
Honest curiosity, has that actually been proven in EU court? The sort of "licensing as a service" that Stadia did doesn't seem that different from the business models of something like Audible, or even iTunes in the DRM era.
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by noirbot 4y ago
Not the same sort of scale. The technology part of it scaled fine, probably because Google invested the money and dev hours into making sure it did. The product itself didn't scale for a host of other reasons, but none of them had to d
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by noirbot 4y ago
Is it leaked? I was under the impression this was stuff that came out in discovery for the current lawsuit. Either way, at Muck/Dorsey's level, you have to assume that anything you're just sending as a normal text on a device
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by noirbot 4y ago
I literally know someone who went to work on the Stadia team 2 years before it was announced because working on it was essentially his dream job. It doesn't have to be "genius" to be interesting to work on with the scale and
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by noirbot 4y ago
But if it wasn't that much money, then it wasn't that many people who would be upset about not getting a refund, which for a company with the cashflow that Google has feels like not worth not pissing off.
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by noirbot 4y ago
Perhaps, but I wonder if that class of gamers you're talking about is the target/actual audience for Stadia. The folks I knew who had/used Stadia were a lot more casual and non-traditional gamers, since why would you pay fo
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by noirbot 4y ago
I'd be shocked if their contracts/EULA wasn't structured to avoid risk of suit around something like this. Shutting down a live service feels pretty defensible as not a crime or tort, and they could almost definitely fight th
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by noirbot 4y ago
I dunno, Google has never really seemed to care about consumer anger and lawsuits. Like I said, it's a welcome change, and I'll be happy if they keep up this new pro-consumer attitude, but this feels a lot more like a weird one-of
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by noirbot 4y ago
Does it though? It doesn't seem to be in keeping with how the rest of Google functions with their general lack of care, customer service, or recourse on anything. It also don't paper over the fact that they killed a service that,
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by noirbot 4y ago
I'm really curious the calculation here. That's a lot of money, and I'm certainly glad they're doing it, but feels both out of character for Google, and I'm surprised they have the budget allocated to just "doi
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by noirbot 4y ago
Is that true? I feel like the drumbeat I constantly have heard for the last 10 years is that the trades pay really well and are easier to get into. Most of the electricians I know are definitely not "lower class". That said, they&
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by noirbot 4y ago
Yea, hibernate/suspend issues are by far the biggest problem I have with Linux on laptops. Years of being in the mac ecosystem where you can just close the lid and it'll barely have lost battery over weeks of being idle spoile
568.
by noirbot 4y ago
Meanwhile, my Framework Laptop that the Fedora OS team is specifically developing for has had busted microphone drivers for months. It's all a little random on how well different internal components decide to play nice.
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by noirbot 4y ago
I dunno, I feel like if I walked outside and there was just a bag of cash out there, I'd be pretty hesitant to touch it. People generally don't just "lose" large amounts of cash, and may want it back. This is almost lite
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by noirbot 4y ago
The issue is less "how did this happen" and more that I've been reporting these obvious spam emails as spam for literally months and I still get copies of the exact same email in my inbox the next day. I'm used to gett

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