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> Why are so many game players so entitled and unfriendly?

Probably because they are the biggest group out there. Games are now bigger than movies, after all. The bigger the group, the more likely it is to contain a well-populated minority of viciously hateful people, a bit like "the bigger the country, the more likely it is that it will contain a sizeable group of hardcore nazis".
Anyone who is self-aware and thus would be interested answer your question, would have worked on removing these habits and thus not have the answer.

I can answer what my worst habit was previously: watching TV. TV shows and video games are designed to be very compelling (read: addictive), and removing TV and games completely from life has given me so much time back.
I’m surprised an algorithm would be allowed to block someone who spends so much money on Google apps and movies
Same on iOS; the camera will recognize QR codes and offer to open.
They were insane from the start interpreting shizoposting chan bullshit
as god-given revelation. The content of Q posts was exceptionally vague and poorly constructed word salad. It was spread purely
by people hanging on wild interpretations of anonymous chan posts,
because the posts themselves were gibberish-like resembling markov chains(or was a neural network?) trained on political/conspiracy content.
This isn't how markets work. Your argument is basically equivalent to the old "my vote doesn't count" line, but yet still different people get elected over time.

It's not about whether you or I buy a used petrol car over a new EV; it's about whether you & I buy a used petrol car over a new EV.

Emphasis on the environmental efficiency of new products in general over the environmental impact of buying new in the first place is a topic that's well worth highlighting.
Who is going to sell at a huge discount and why?
I am glad to hear I am not the only one - these old posts would appear over a course of months sometimes. I used an automation tool to delete eveything and then I went and manually clicked through the Activity log and deleted everything I could. I did several of these rounds to clear everything.
What's stopping the next Google from doing the same? Providing poor justification for bans and removal from platforms is by no means limited to the big companies - it's endemic throughout tech - we just hear about Google and Facebook more because they're higher visibility and are considered more essential.
> * Legal stuff (eg. some algorithm detected child porn in his account, is an employee legally allowed to look at it to confirm the algorithm was correct? no.)

If you had experience with this, you would know that you just described the polar opposite of how that process works in the United States. Federal law requires human verification as part of the mandatory NCMEC reporting process. If you’re employed by Google and have that impression of how it works it means the green badges doing the work aren’t known to you, which isn’t a huge shock since TVCs are barely one step above disposable barcode at Google.

Source: I’ve forensically verified enough child exploitation in the course of tech employment to make me thoroughly and irredeemably despise humanity as a species. (Fighting insurance to pay for therapy I now need, against their will, was fun too.)
> Maybe just roundtripping your pdf through djvu or postscript would be sufficient?

But PDF is a subset of Postscript, so the roundtrip seems to be the identity transformation ….
Fiat currency is fundamentally more speculative IMO because the value is more based on government trust that something not man-made.
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They were probably too smart to buy into the obvious scam when it cost pennies.
Yep. GME, SPACs, creative accounting, prices disconnected from earnings.

There are so many signs now that we’re living through a bubble, and it may get much worse before it implodes.
Slack is the one that clicked for me as well. I used it with some friends just to try it out. Then at work our small team used the free version, without anyone's permission, just to play around and see how we liked it. Turns out another team did the same thing and we decided to merge the workspaces. Then some upper level people got wind, saw it was going well, and soon after the entire 200 person company was on it. Not saying our team was responsible for the purchase, but it clearly helped Slack gain a foothold as "a tool we use".
Smelting aluminum from ore requires a lot of electricity, more so than any other common metal. It's sufficiently high that the dominant factor in the price of aluminum is the cost of electricity used to produce it (and not the cost of the ore or transporting ore and finished product), so smelting aluminum is a relatively easy way to export electricity.
Well either you sell it someday or it doesn't have any useful value.

Also this logic only applies if you assume there's no crash down the line.
I am not aware of any evidence.
These layer 2 solutions lead to centralization and make some nodes more important than others. The fact that most cryptocurrency enthusiasts tend to brush this under the carpet shows that it's more about getting rich than some ideological fight against the banks. Cryptocurrency developers are slowly but surely reinventing the banking system, just less efficient and less regulated.

Then there's the question of whether a deflationary currency can even work in the first place.
What is the logic behind claiming A indicates B here? All sorts of profit-seeking enterprises are unlikely to succeed. Venture capital in general is often about making big bets with high failure rates. Speaking more broadly, new for-profit businesses typically fail in general - "According to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, about 20% of U.S. small businesses fail within the first year. By the end of their fifth year, roughly 50% have faltered. After 10 years, only around a third of businesses have survived" according to one source.

If profit really weren't Elon's primary objective, he would have started charities, co-ops or at least B Corporations (ignoring that those are basically a scam)
The Pipewire author is the guy who basically made GStreamer good by overhauling its core logic back in the day - he really knows what he is doing. I fully expect that Pipewire will make audio on Linux really good (latency of Jack, consumer audio feature set of Pulseaudio, reliability of GStreamer) when it's done.
And I am curious which one of these is flexible enough to be construed as a truth.
Typically the foam is only in the middle of the concrete slab, so there are still a few inches of attachment all around all the edges with contact. There is rebar in those edges too.
Hacker News how to get karma?
honest question: why would tesla, a responsible company, gamble so much money on a "product" which is literally worthless?
(is it because so much of their income is generated from selling credits?)
These are great tools but are there any nice iOS apps to quickly take a photo of a physical book page , and with OCR produce a text page that I can highlight, and send highlights to Roam (which I use a lot).

Some books are much better experienced in physical form, e.g I would hate to read Rian Hughes’ XX on a kindle :)
Big miners who would otherwise need to sell it for USDT. Instead they get Elon to create an American shell company for them to get their money out of China or wherever.
I think you are a bit too pessimistic about it. Bitcoin mining is location invariant and its cost are mainly driven by energy costs, can we agree on that? We should also agree that in certain (many) locations renewable energy sources are the cheapest ones.
Based on this you can also see it as an alternative store of value / money that also subsidises renewable energy demand. This drives development of new technologies and efficiency improvements due to economies of scale. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could buy solar panels as cheap as the rasperry pi foundation is able to source its arm processor (where the cheapness is also coming from an orthogonal use case with scale effects)?
Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Ecuador, El Salvador, Zimbabwe.

Then there are some areas like Costa Rica where it is a quasi-local currency.
My kid's school and my apartment building sends out updates on Facebook. Its kinda sad there is nothing else that majority of people can use to listen on (other than email).
Since hackers can see climate change in action and don't think its smart to burn to a lot of energy for something which hasn't proven shit over its existence and still hasn't solved a real world problem.

Besides buying drugs anonymosly through tor.
That wouldn't make any difference. The hard part isn't the recipe for producing it, the hard part is making all the equipment to produce it - all along the entire supply chain.
"pedo guy" was the thing that broke the camel's back for me.

When you have millions of followers and billions of airtime on you, it's absolutely inexcusable to call a random guy a pedo.

When he did that my view of him went from a "fake it till you make it" type, to a dishonest and malicious person.
It doesn't have to strictly be the truth.
That’s hilariously uninformed - nlp is the biggest counter example but you also have neural nets working in domains like RF signal processing, drug discovery all the way to video games - none of these applications are using just traditional stats.
Oh people!

Since when medieval people invented Jets before the tech for Jet comes out!!

Sounds like Scam!
Dominant colors extraction method for large images based on fuzzy C-means
Wonder if this is just an example of how their particular "distributed, eventually consistent" platform operates due to CAP tradeoffs?
The issue is there is so much money to be made in a bubble if you can just get out right at the end -- that unfortunately encourages these things. It is hard to wait on the sidelines while everyone else gets rich -- no doubt there are fortunes to be made in the lead up to the end of the bubble.
I'm looking forward to his take on Tesla/Bitcoin
He mentions having purchased thousands of dollars of apps on the play store. You're not wrong about nonpaying customers being the product, it's just not relevant to this story.
Around the time Tether became the crypto fed and everyone just shrugged. It’s a scam. Maybe it always was.
This is not about privacy but access restriction (wifi in public hotspot limited to e.g. 30mins). And there it is still a very inexpensive solution i guess.
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> Abandoning Google services will not work

That depends on the definition of "working". Will it change Google's practices? No, but it will ensure I don't have to endure them anymore, hence "it will work" for me just fine.
The people who bought at <$20,000 are already in 100% profit so a great time to take some off the table if a crash were to come. (Which I think will happen)
I reported a bunch as spam, but it probably netted me some negative reputation by their AI though.
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This is insightful and it explains pretty much everything.

One thing that doesn't make sense is that there are many acounts (but a small percentage of the total) that do make google money individually. Accounts that own popular apps, for example. Accounts that control Google Cloud accounts, for another. There is absolutely no reason those accounts should be auto-banned with zero human interaction, even upon appeal.
The pistol grip really isn't the big advance it's pitched to be, and lets be honest; banning it does nothing in the case of someone who has cracked enough to decide a large number of people are going to die today. It happened to be a feature of a design that won a military contract, therefore the tooling to produce that design was developed, therefore that tooling was put to work to make more due to economies of scale therefore people take the opportunity to post-rationalize tge ubiquity of the pistol grip as being some artificial killing power multiplier rather than just " hey, we can already make these so why not lecerage tge feature to make cheaper guns?" It's more an economic efficiency than anything else.
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Our biggest environmental footprints as individuals are heating and cooling. Having an electric car is nothing compared to it.
Take one intercontinental flight and again, having a fossil fuel car for a year does not exceed the emissions of that flight.

http://www.withouthotair.com/

Legitimizing Bitcoin has nothing to do with the environment in the large scale of things.

It's like saying that you need to optimize fast functions instead of slow ones.
Regardless of what's happening internally, I've come to the realization that Google has become the prototypical dystopian corporation. Yes, perhaps not the only one, and perhaps I should have come to this realization just sooner, but there it is.

Taking the long view, the apparent culture of "just don't give a sh*" isn't going to work for the human race, not in the long run.
Yes most likely we will have a yearly vaccine or cocktail of vaccines for covid. Not sure if it will be mRNA specifically but most likely it will be.

The flu shot for example isn't an mRNA vaccine but rather the strain they think will be dominate.

Regardless, we will be wearing masks and social distancing for a long time (years) to come.
You do illustrate exactly why no one should ever buy a Tesla in bitcoin, because it isn't currency, it is more of an asset like Gold. So why does Elon say that people will buy Tesla's in BTC then?
"Legitimizing Bitcoin more than offsets the environmental benefits of electric vehicles."

Not in Iceland.
aren't most startups unlikely to succeed?
Are there any alternative to the Bitcoin?
Nim compiles to C and it's been largely well received by HN (from what I've read anyway).
Prediction: US Fed Bank will issue its own crypto for internal circulation
And we will likely have crypto backed UBI.
Sooo you believe that when our current system fails, you will still be able to sell and buy bitcoins?

Like when our current currency is no longer usefull, suddenly people will use bitcoins?

How will anyone start to care about bitcoin if you can't really trade it for a currency normal people acutally use?
You say "actually" but you seem to be agreeing with me.

The first byte of my bad MAC is '01'. This not even because the LSB is set, making it a multicast address which is bad.
Somehow I’ve never had a Facebook account this entire time, is there anything I’ve been missing with it? I keep seeing posts like this, but I haven’t really understood what makes quitting it so hard.
Capital preservation during war is often a rifle and a shovel, and I think the author glossed over those bits.
If he succeeds with SpaceX, I don't care if he's a lunatic. We must have a frontier.

Also: The last round of space innovation was funded by two nuclear armed superpowers competing to show off while simultaneously threatening each other with a war of planetary annihilation. Before that the first rocket capable of reaching space was funded by Hitler. Going from blood soaked warlords to nutty manic billionaires is moral progress.
This is nice in that as more work arises more back pressure appears on one's calendar.
Access to higher “””quality””” drugs and women.
Removing the media as an independent voice increases the power of the voices left. Meaning, one less force to counterbalance corporate power.

Same reason Trump hammered on the media — one less voice to speak against him.
Ministry of the Interior hired scientists to justify corona measures (Germany)
New species of whale discovered off southern US coast
I can only comment on our exact situation, where the response times were as I mentioned them, exactly. I've not experienced that, but I guess it's worth shooting a question to support (though, expect several days on the free plan)
Many smaller devs have pivoted to leverage alternative platforms like Itch, Epic Games Store, Game Pass, etc alongside Steam for monetization, and some have ditched Steam entirely based on complaints with Valve's developer relations and pricing. Valve seems unlikely to ever make any concessions to win back the hearts of smaller developers, but they did panic once Epic Games Store and other storefronts started capturing exclusives for large titles by offering big studios a reduced cut (20-25% in some cases) to keep them around.

Another way to look at this: Valve's treatment of developers (not nearly as bad as Google, to be clear) is mostly tolerated because of Steam's inertia and market share. Google is acting like Stadia has inertia and market share when it has neither.
It can be gamed. But if the average value of a fake account is $100 and you set the threshold to be $200 it is no longer profitable.

Of course this still isn't a perfect metric. But it seems that banning people with accounts that have spend thousands of dollars and been active for many years should probably be avoided and this will significantly help that.

I mean if the account has spent >$50 you can probably afford a human review at the very least.
I disagree, people like to dump on Coinbase but I think it is the undisputed leader when it comes to reliability and sound business practices. Kraken is so unreliable there were weeks at a time where I couldn’t login, ultimately closed my account. Binance has a legal liability problem from their genesis as a law flouting business.
This is more likely the case then some conspiracy against users.
but as repeated every time this comes up, the government trust is enough, because I can pay my taxes with it, which you can't do with my trust.
You don't need a project structure. You literally just need a file called deps.edn with a {} inside it.
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Video is really not allowed in the TOS for Cloudflare Workers either, see this discussion about the topic:

https://community.cloudflare.com/t/cloudflare-workers-live-v...
Or TSLA short sellers do 51% attack.
Thats kinda what the PayPal support told me when I asked why half of my in-store payments via Google Pay get rejected.

Most were payments of about 2€ in the same store next to work.

Whatever I dont use it anymore
Ask HN: Why so many big companies become greedy when they grow?
What happens to "I started company to solve interesting problem" or "I want make world better place"? Why so much greed to bend rule and create monopoly. Look at Google , Look at Facebook - wanted to solve interesting problem. I assume founders were people like us - normal family- what happened to them? Why so much "money-money more money" at any cost mindset and society at large suffer. Why not moderate way of doing business without sucking common people dry? I am puzzled and sad. Let me know your thought. thanks.
I was, of course, thinking of that. Nevertheless, everything is securities fraud but not everyone is the encarnation of securities fraud.
Lol. Not that I think it will ever happen, but the purchase of a car is perhaps the one transaction that might actually work in bitcoin. It is huge one-time purchase that isn't really time dependent. Neither party would mind if it took a few days to process.
You should blame Governments of the world, for holding interest rates at lower levels than the inflation rate.

eg. the USA inflation rate is 2%, whereas the interest rate is 0%.

Its inevitable that savings will flow out of fiat and into all kinds of other assets. This is the entire purpose of low interest rates - to inflate the value of assets held by retirees, pensioners, and the ultra-wealthy.

Bitcoin is unique because the supply cannot be expanded (beyond what is scheduled as rewards for miners) - unlike gold, shares, living spaces. Its also significantly more liquid and easier to transact than any of those assets because it is digital and global.
To answer your question, you might for a second want to consider that your ideas about Bitcoin are incorrect.
They are also unusable if your country's power grid/Internet access gets taken out by the enemy.
The issue with Tesla & Elon Musk is that he has a powerful reality distortion ability just like Steve Jobs did. He wills things to happen by force of personality and by believing it so, he convinces others to join him in making these things reality, which then becomes reality. He makes things become true by claiming them to be real before they are.

This is not normal and rare to be so talented in that aspect.

Hard to predict success/failure or bet against when you have someone like this.
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> Highly likely a used petrol car will be bought by someone even if not by you personally

Well when the government gives people $3 billion to smash their used vehicles (C.A.R.S in 2009)rather than keeping them in the used market, it does tend to cause more new vehicle purchases.

I'm not disagreeing with your point that people will eventually buy a new car if used ones aren't available, but if every vehicle was kept on the road for 25+ years, it would lower demand for new vehicles.
MS software for the mac is pretty decent - Excel alone is likely worth it to any org. Linux users can access the web versions, which are now pretty powerful. And if you are a Slack user you can move to Teams (which is now fairly good) and drop that subscription.

I hate to say this, but MS really have their act together on "office in the web age".
Thinking about this from an implementation perspective, I don't see how it would help any metrics and there's probably better explanations for what's going on then a purposeful dark pattern.
> It's like saying that you need to optimize fast functions instead of slow ones.

I really like this analogy
Overview of the Open Source Vulkan Driver for Raspberry Pi 4
You think humans are better at spotting abuse? Mods on Reddit demonstrate that such systems can be worse.
I've had quite an odd idea this past year as video conferencing has taken off massively both for public figures and private individuals.

....what if you had a malicious video conferencing service that was free to all?

Because it's free it gains mass adoption,the service can target a person it is interested in and can then record all audio and video footage.

Then using this captured data train a real-time puppet.

You could then intercept any call that person is on and 'take over' and push your own agenda, or call people up and do the same, pretending to be that person.

With something like that it would add more value in ongoing OTP ways of verifying a person is who they say they are.
It is called a "figure of speech".
Yet. When people fab ASICs for crypto, it's only a step away from building a power plant.
I always wondered what happend to the rapidshare/megaupload space that existed if that’s what you mean by “free file sharing websites”. Curious where people moved to/what are the major indexes now?
That’s true to a degree for cyclists but depends on which discipline and what their objectives are.

A time trialist or sprinter would be much less concerned about upper body weight than a pure climber.

Even when he was as shedding weight for the Tour, Wiggins was was still doing dead lifts (with a low weight) and other upper body exercises because having a strong core is very useful.
Most new companies are unlikely to succeed.
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Only if your side wins. It's also unclear how to do that sometimes. For example, Post-911 you could invest in companies that make munitions, airport scanners, etc. But it turned out that companies like Google and real estate ended up being the best value.

In the end, it's difficult to know what to do. If you're living in a warzone, protecting you and your family is the priority. Beyond that, real property and commodity assets are the thing to have. Everything else depends on the situation.
No, it might not for (hopefully) obvious reasons.