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Genshin has 50-60 million monthly average users. That works out to something like $40 per player per year on average. Most players are F2P or just buy the $10 battle passes, rather than spending hundreds of dollars on the gatcha system.
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In case you weren't aware: > The name "homeownership rate" can be misleading. As defined by the US Census Bureau, it is the percentage of homes that are occupied by the owner. It is not the percentage of adults that own th
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Isn't the obvious solution to require prospective immigrants to demonstrate sufficient English skills prior to immigration? Specific niches like agriculture that do not require advanced language skills can use temporary work visas.
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What do you view as more efficient than reading? In my experience, reading information is easily 3-5x faster than audio or video, even when using 1.25x or 1.5x playback.
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The NSA has their own museum, has anyone emailed them to ask about this? https://www.nsa.gov/museum/ They seem more likely to be able to deal with such a tricky request.
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Yeah, we are more like masons. We have useful skills that enable building impressive things, but at the end of the day we are building someone else's cathedral.
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It uses ACLs and access groups. So a malicious app should not be able to access keychain items for other apps. Sure, it might be possible to get the key out of process memory, but that raises the bar significantly for an attacker. Most info
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Yup, continuing the trend in this release: > The change in total nonfarm payroll employment for April was revised down by 57,000, from +165,000 to +108,000, and the change for May was revised down by 54,000, from +272,000 to +218,000. Wi
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From the guidelines: > Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'
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As described in the article, all that happened were subpoenas for documents. That's the very first step in any investigation. Those documents have shed significant light on the relationship between the SIO and government agencies [0]:
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The allegation is described in the article: > SIO and its researchers have been sued three times by conservative groups alleging that its researchers colluded illegally with the federal government to censor speech, forcing Stanford to sp
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> Two of SIO’s major initiatives — the peer-reviewed Journal of Online Trust and Safety and its Trust and Safety Research Conference — will also continue. (The journal is funded through a separate grant from the Omidyar Network.) "T
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Is this supposed to be concerning? Most research groups publish a list of their staff online, including graduate students and undergrads. They contribute to and get credited in published work and attend conferences. If you're going to
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There will be no Pony for SD3 with the current licensing, per the creator: https://civitai.com/articles/5671/towards-pony-diffusion-v7-... Loras are easy to train on consumer hardware, but a fine-tune like Pony ta
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Many of the most popular finetuned models are sponsored by paid image generation services, which provide either funding or GPU time for training. Those generation services won't be able to use SD3 under the current licensing, so there
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Valve likely played a role in normalizing lootboxes in Western markets, but they definitely didn't invent the idea. MapleStory was doing lootboxes years earlier, and EA's Fifa was doing P2W lootboxes prior to TF2. Their model of c
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Consider the indirect risks as well: - A significant fraction of your workforce are reservists who might disappear for months with little notice. - Potential trade disruption due to Israel's highly controversial actions in Gaza (eg. Tu
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Ah, right. An early Gen Xer, my mistake. Still, you were part of a generation that actually benefited from sexist norms and policies. Have you considered resigning your position to make room for a more deserving diverse candidate? After all
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Viewing things through a "battle of the genders" lens like that is toxic. The men getting screwed over today are completely different individuals than the men who benefited from unfair policies or norms in previous generations. Yo
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> That white men in particular have a hard time dealing with a more level playing field is pathetic. All men want is a level playing field. Colleges have been discriminating against white and Asian men for decades. SCOTUS finally slapped
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The land is the asset, the bet is generally that the land will appreciate faster than the house will depreciate. This has generally been true in large metro areas and regional hubs, as net migration to those areas has been positive. That ch
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An account that you can only have in 73 countries, while the game was originally sold in ~190. The PSN ToS is pretty awful, but what got a lot of attention was Sony just retroactively making the game unplayable for over half the globe. Yes,
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What, with mild sarcasm? The description of the tool is hilarious. I just legitimately don't see the appeal. I installed a CoD aimbot way back when, and it just ruined the experience. There is no challenge or satisfaction in winning wh
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> Aimmy was designed for Gamers who are at a severe disadvantage over normal gamers. > This includes but is not limited to: > - Gamers who are mentally challenged Hope it was worth your dignity. Seriously though, the whole point of
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McDonalds might be premium compared to a roadside food stall, but it's on the low end of the spectrum in first world countries. Anywhere I have traveled, McDonald's was just the emergency option if you just really needed food that
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The signed assertion includes the clientDataJSON, which contains the origin of the relying party. Assuming the server properly validates that assertion, it should prevent the use of a phished assertion by a third party. https://d
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Agreed, they unfortunately seem to have gone the vendor lock-in route. The big players don't have export utilities for passkeys, despite it being technically feasible and pretty straightforward to implement. That's a pretty major
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It cuts out the necessity for a password manager browser extension to handle stuff like autofill, password generation, etc. Those extensions have had fairly significant vulnerabilities in the past. So you're reducing the attack surface
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The TL;DR version in my opinion is that passkeys are quite similar to a SSH key pair, like one you'd use on GitHub. Basically you generate a key pair, the server stores the public key, and the client stores the private key. When you wa
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The key takeaways: > There were more than 1 million international students here in 2023, up 245 percent from a decade earlier and 60 percent since 2019. Canada, a country of 40 million, had roughly the same number of international studen

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