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by ric2b 2y ago
Real time chess is a similar example of making a known game more dynamic and completely changing which positions are seen as strong or weak.
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by ric2b 2y ago
As if Trump cares about precedent. It makes no difference.
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by ric2b 2y ago
It is censorship but it's not widespread or a violation of the first amendment.
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by ric2b 2y ago
I only know of Wukong, are there other ones worth checking out?
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by ric2b 2y ago
TikTok wasn't being supressed and Communist doesn't originate from China.
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by ric2b 2y ago
Could also have a minimum duration (for example 3 years) where you pay even if you go over the original loan amount. That would mean people that get great paying jobs right out of college would pay more than they even borrowed, but it would
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by ric2b 2y ago
Apple users tend to be people that don't value customization as much as users on other platforms and mostly stick with the defaults or whatever Apple solution is already provided. That makes it so Safari has a huge advantage over Firef
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by ric2b 2y ago
Google doesn't fund Mozilla because it is in the browser market, it does it so it can keep the search engine dominance. Google also pays Apple for the same reason. Now it would probably be paying the Chrome company as well.
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by ric2b 2y ago
It might not make as much money as live service but it might work like halo cars for the auto industry, giving them lots of press and attention and higher status as a game developer.
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by ric2b 2y ago
Russian democracy did die with a grand take-over event, the 1993 coup, with literal tanks shooting at government buildings. I'm shocked that you would use Russia as an example of a slowly dying democracy.
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by ric2b 2y ago
If by industry you mean exclusively the already giant tech companies.
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by ric2b 2y ago
What priviledges are those?
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by ric2b 2y ago
Inventors could just license their inventions, no need to produce themselves or transfer them.
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by ric2b 2y ago
But isn't the burden of proof, and thus most of the litigation costs, on the patent troll? The court can't just assume that you're violating their patent because they say so, they have to prove it to a reasonable level, right
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by ric2b 2y ago
Except it doesn't apply to patent trolls at all. They don't go after big companies, they mostly go after small ones that they don't expect to fight back, and they mostly use broad and vague patents that shouldn't even ha
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by ric2b 2y ago
Signal clients are open source.
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by ric2b 2y ago
IPFS is a network that solves your coordination problem, compared to torrents it allows you to decide which chunks you want to store and it will even de-duplicate automatically across different "torrents" that happen to include t
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by ric2b 2y ago
Tesla's have been hacked multiple times in the past as well.
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by ric2b 2y ago
Let's be real, GPS is much more accurate than whatever boundary for the national park that someone might come up with, where the park starts is really ambiguos unless there's a physical man made divisor like a fence.
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by ric2b 2y ago
That lasted less than a year, I don't think it even registered as part of the culture or tradition.
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by ric2b 2y ago
Firefox can definitely download very large files with no problem, JS doesn't even need to be involved, downloading a file is ancient browser functionality. The server sends an application/octet-stream response and a few other head
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by ric2b 2y ago
Steam isn't an unimpeachable monopoly, their competition is just so much worse.
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by ric2b 2y ago
Russia is not a superpower if it can't even have air superiority on its own land and struggles to push beyond 150km from its own border, it's just a very nuclear armed nation thanks to the Soviet days. As for the NATO enlargement
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by ric2b 2y ago
Many of them should be treated to non-violent home theft, adjusted for the value of the fraud. Defrauded people out of 10M? That's about as much or more than 1000 home thefts, which would probably land you in prison for life.
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by ric2b 2y ago
Plex and GPM never distributed pirated content, they just allowed users to host or upload their own content. Every social media allows image uploads and no one thinks about that but images online are constantly breaking copyright law.
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by ric2b 2y ago
If that were the definition then any software you can install on your computer would be open source. It makes open source lose nearly all meaning. Just say "open weights", not "open source".
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by ric2b 2y ago
Mastodon doesn't feel any slower to me than Twitter, maybe I got lucky, according to you?
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by ric2b 2y ago
There's a better joke, Crowdstrike sponsors the Mercedes Formula 1 team and in 1955 Mercedes was involved in the worst motorsport accident ever, killing over 80 people watching from the stands when parts of the cars flew off and... str
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by ric2b 2y ago
What evidence are you referring to? Was there a company that was breached for taking a few days or weeks to update crowdstrike?
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by ric2b 2y ago
I have a GUI/Desktop on Linux, not sure what you're referring to?

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