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by zipwitch 7y ago
When reading online reviews anywhere, it's always fun to see what fraction of 1-star reviews are "this sucks and/or readily fails at what its supposed to do" versus "I'm using this wrong".
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by zipwitch 7y ago
Everyone is commenting on privacy, but isn't the main use for VPNs (at least in the US) to avoid the consequences of digital piracy?
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I'm in my 40s. My childhood was closer to WWII than to the present day.
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by zipwitch 7y ago
"We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten." - Bill Gates, in The Road Ahead , 1996
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by zipwitch 7y ago
It may be obvious to those of us with an interest in etymology, but when the phrase came up in my tabletop gaming group (ages 18-50), they were unanimous (save for myself) that the meaning was "the fast and the dead". I had to r
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by zipwitch 7y ago
One thing I've noticed myself doing is that when I (increasingly rarely) stumble across a good, high-useful-information density website on anything I have even a passing interest in (typically either some sort of obscure fora, or a p
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by zipwitch 7y ago
The Dayton Ohio shooter earlier this year was killed by police officers 32 seconds after he opened fire. He killed nine people in those 32 seconds. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Dayton_shooting
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by zipwitch 7y ago
Scientific American recently had an article on how wealth concentration is inevitable, without active mechanisms to continually counter it: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-inequality-ine...
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by zipwitch 7y ago
For me, I think that no matter what terms are used, the important point is that we don't automatically give "our" oligarchs, or Very High Net Worth Individuals, some sort of free pass on ethics simply because they aren't
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by zipwitch 7y ago
It wasn't just Activision-Blizzard banning Blitzchung and confiscating his prize money. The official Hearthstone account on Weibo also parroted the Chinese government party line, "We will, as always, resolutely safeguard the count
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by zipwitch 7y ago
Here's a 2018 article specifically on tv-watching time over years: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/05/when-... For comparison, here's a 2004 paper on how teens spent their t
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by zipwitch 7y ago
>Prosecutors dismissed the idea that many legitimate businesses used Liberty Reserve. After the takedown, they noted, users were encouraged to contact the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Manhattan if they wanted their money back. According to
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Lensmen.
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by zipwitch 7y ago
One piece of data is that there's an inverse correlation between CEO pay and company performance: https://cooleypubco.com/2016/07/25/new-study-shows-inverse-c...
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by zipwitch 7y ago
Open protests at Blizzcon will do an immense amount of financial damage to Blizzard-Activision. At an absolute minimum, they will reduce the return from a massive publicity exercise. Likely outcomes include damaging future sales of anythin
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by zipwitch 7y ago
Corporations are allowed to exist by the public (via the representatives of their collective will, i.e. government) under the belief that doing so will, overall, result in a net benefit to the public. Making a profit or increasing shareho
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by zipwitch 7y ago
Gamers in the rest of the world can all do our part to make sure Blizzard is wrong.
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by zipwitch 7y ago
No. The Asia Pacific region is 14% of their business. That certainly includes China, but it isn't all China. https://www.statista.com/statistics/269665/activison-blizzar...
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by zipwitch 7y ago
Was Brown predicting a rise in Celsius or Fahrenheit? The article doesn't say. (And we are up by ~1.5 degrees Fahrenheit.)
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by zipwitch 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mock_strawberry They fooled me once. I picked and ate one, noticed it didn't taste right almost immediately. Once you look more closely, the fruit is quite obviously different in shap
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by zipwitch 7y ago
Sears biggest problem is that the now-former CEO had been looting it for years. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-sears-lawsuit/sears-sues-...
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by zipwitch 7y ago
Journalist Marcy Wheeler already did a nice takedown of everything wrong with this piece from Taibbi. One example: "Those abuses, the ones he's outraged about? With very few exceptions, they all happened in 2017, under Trump. Ther
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by zipwitch 7y ago
Mars is getting contaminated in the near future, whether we find life on it or not. Whether we collectively want it to be or not. Given the ever-decreasing cost of launches into space, the increasing access to small satellites, I think susp
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by zipwitch 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle
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Or very small amounts of mass and a whole lot of time.
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There are non-Blizzard alternatives to most (if not all) of Blizzard's offerings. Magic: The Gathering Online instead of Hearthstone. League of Legends or other MOBAs instead of Overwatch. SW:TOR, Shroud of the Avatar, or even Destin
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by zipwitch 7y ago
Yeah. China won't ultimately care whatever we do, but Blizzard can me made to feel it. Their own annual gaming convention is coming up in less than a month, and hopefully this will backfire on them badly.
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Inevitable future: space colonization beyond Earth with microbes first(academic.oup.com)
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by zipwitch 7y ago
Do you want a hot shower after your long day? Touch here to transfer $1 to the malware that just hijacked your plumbing. Try to remove it, and it will do $5000 in damage. A professional home IT security fix will run $1000 and take 3 days,
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There's a relevant Latin quote from the era of the Punic Wars (if I recall correctly), Qui vincit non est victor nisi victus fatebur - "The victor is not victorious if the vanquished does not consider himself so."

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