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Roblox takes their 75% cut out of each sale then if you ever manage to accumulate the 100,000 Robux needed to cash out ($1000 worth for what Roblox sells it for) you only get $350. They're double dipping their cut. You should really watch the video it lays out the case very well.

If it's meant to be educational it shouldn't be marketing itself as a way to make money or charging kids to promote their app. It would have better ways to surface new applications instead of only showing the top N that already have to have over a thousand users.
> CICO works for young people with a normal metabolism.

I assume by "young" you mean age 60 or under.

> The study, of 6,400 people, from eight days old up to age 95, in 29 countries, suggests the metabolism remains "rock solid" throughout mid-life.

> It peaks at the age of one, is stable from 20 to 60 and then inexorably declines.

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-58186710

Unless you have an actual medical condition, no, there's not an excuse for being fat before 60, you just eat too much. Look at how people eat nowadays and you'll see that it's the same for everybody else: ridiculous over-consumption. Eat less and you'd lose weight like any other normal person (without a medical condition)
I agree the perpetrators are to blame for violence and the poverty/abuse to blame for victims' inability to obtain redress. But the legal system has a role to play in ensuring noncoercion and empowering workers, which it's currently failing at.

That said, OP's claims on the concealed religious motivation and the negative effects of current sex work policies on consenting workers are essentially true.[1]

The president of the Adult Performance Artist Guild has written about the negative consequences of MasterCard's restrictive policies for performers ("I have received numerous reports of workers being removed and having no way to pay the bills because their income was taken away").[2]

Unfortunately sex work research shows that closing sites like Backpage does reduce the capabilities of sex workers: "the financial situation of the vast majority of research participants has deteriorated, as has their ability to access community and screen clients".[3]

Groups seeking to eliminate sex work often present misleading information and advocate policies that make sex work harder but not safer. There are policies that can improve safety and consent without harming consenting sex workers, but those policies need to be created with context and measurable consequences in mind, not sensationalism.

[1] https://newrepublic.com/article/160488/nick-kristof-holy-war...

[2] https://www.thedailybeast.com/porn-world-we-are-sick-of-mast...

[3] https://antitraffickingreview.org/index.php/atrjournal/artic...
Wow, can you say who you blew the whistle on? And where I can find a whistle like that? ;)

Seems like being somebody who blew the whistle would act as a pretty good filtering mechanism too. You probably don't get many invitations to hang out and party with Matt Gaetz...
Sure. I also don't think 11 year olds should be working in coal mines or farm fields either.
And how do you propose we define real up to date cost?
I believe you have correctly identified sensationalism.
I appreciate all that, but at least with the example of SQLLite, that's a decision by the developers, not because of an external influence (presumably). My issue here is that a government has decided that a specific country is not allowed to participate in open source; yes, Redhat implemented it, but they did so out of fear of retribution from the US government and because their understanding is that the US government required it. Maintainers controlling what gets into the project is not the same as a foreign entity not at all contributing/participating in a project declaring who can and cannot participate.

>It really is. The Linux kernel has itself thwarted what appeared to be an attempt by U.S. intelligence services to inject vulnerabilities into the kernel source code. Now the fact that the U.S. government was itself the threat may make worries about Iran doing the same seem rather silly, but in this case I think the fact that Fedora source code is used by the DoD makes sense.

I think this is tangential though to what I'm saying. It's not about whether or not attacks like this __are possible__, it's that there's absolutely no reason that a contributor from a specific region is any more of a threat than any other. Nothing stops Iran or any other sanctioned country from getting US based VMs + crypto and slipping/sneaking in some code. It's not about if a specific country makes a backdoor, it's "is there a backdoor at all?" Any secret backdoor snuck in for sale by an interested party is just as usable by a given government as one made by Iran.

For me, it just falls flat as a real security analysis; heck, I imagine a sick irony where a US created back-door inserted by one agency ends up being used to leak data from another agency. A backdoor is a backdoor.
If you live in a place like the Bay Area/NYC where cities/local zoning boards are preventing almost and and all new construction then in all likelihood your home price will continue to appreciate throughout your lifetime.

Supply and demand. There are way more people that want to live in these places than houses available. And we keep making new people every year.
Yeah I told my parents when I started making six figures and the only thing that changed was now my dad doesn’t pay for all my food when I’m visiting.
A lot of people seem to be missing the point - Roblox is motivated to make money from kids. In pursuit of making money they are likely to ignore harms associated to their business model.

Yes, this is how business works, but this is also why child labor laws exist. Roblox is treading a fine line between game development for fun and game development for work.
There are a lot of factors that prevent that. #1 being fear. Fear of change, fear of the unknown(what will the new job bring), fear of failure (what if they fire me at the new place), fear of competition (what if I am not as good as others) etc.

I am in a state where I am encouraging someone else to move away from their toxic workplace and they still don't do it because they are too afraid and not very confident of their own capabilities (even though they are very talented and financially very secure). Imagine how difficult it would be if you have other barriers on top of the mental one.
I considered linking to that instead, but the Verge piece buries the lede that Jobs signed off on an iOS sideloading workflow in 2008.
The amunas are channels that slow the movement of water from mountain streams to farmers; "the diverted water spends between two weeks to eight months underground, with an average delay of 45 days".

As far as I can tell, they are used to retain water from the wet season into the dry season. How is that advantageous over using water storage at or near the endpoints? Perhaps ancient farmers didn't the ability to create underground storage, but how are amunas preferable now?

I imagine there's a good answer, but if it's in the article I overlooked it.
A huge part of .NET's value proposition is that you can do things that aren't possible inside the browser sandbox, and it's nice to be able to build UIs on top of that.

I don't care if my UI ultimately gets rendered by a browser engine, but as things currently stand UIs that were relatively easy to build in WinForms/WPF/UWP are a bit of a pain with Blazor and friends.

(and yes, I'm aware of F# and SAFE but every time I try to get started with F# I run into too many tooling issues)
I think the huge number of ESAs are a symptom of the problems our country is having with mental health. So many people are suffering from untreated or poorly controlled mood and personality disorders. Dogs in the grocery store are a cheap therapy that some people need because that is literally all they can afford.

On the other hand it's frustrating to see dogs in the supermarket licking stuff and snagging cookies off the bottom shelf of the supermarket. What's worse is when owners then put it back leaving me wondering if I'm getting dog slobber with my package of oatmeal cookies. Not to mention barking and lunging dogs sometimes make aisles impassable.

Luckily it's gotten a lot more rare lately. I think people quickly realize that taking poorly trained animals out in public just makes their lives harder.
> Capitalism is predicated on the idea of perpetual and infinite growth

See Japan? They're doing fine without growth.
The Rules of Co-Opetition
At the federal level I think the care is chiefly about re-election. At the state level I see a mix of people who are involved out of a sense of civic duty, and people who have designs on moving up and acquiring more power.

If politicians represented fewer constituents I think they'd be forced to care more about their constituents, if only because each individual voter wields more power. I certainly think that I have more power to influence my local politicians than I do my state representatives (let alone my federal representatives). My local politicians also live more proximate to me, and share more in the physical problems of the region. My US Senators live in my state, and that's about all they have in common with me.
This reads like a scam - steal their own cars back in the middle of the night from people they know are not local in order to double-dip. Also, charging various "you lost our car" fees for anyone that doesn't go through the hours of trouble OP did.
Right, makes sense. I'd never BYOD to work unless I had a spare throwaway device specifically for that. But as long as you maintain a separate personal device that you never touch work stuff on -- and hell, never bring it inside the office -- they shouldn't have the right to data on that.
Hot take. In what context is "conquering" occupied land "right"? Maybe you mean context of being the conquerers vs the context of being conquered?
Founders, Builders, Operators and Superpowers
Stop Being a Good Person
They did. I got a Belgian Malinois and a concealed carry permit.
Why is activating a pre-paid sim card a "sensitive service"?
I don’t think you understood the parent post’s point. Most people don’t buy a house based on the sale price, they buy based on what their monthly payment will be. Historically low interest rates mean that people can afford a lot higher price house than they could in 2008. That’s obviously not the whole story, but it is a big factor in what’s going on.
And further, why wouldn't they want Iran to have the ability to drop a nuke and "save millions of lives" if they ever ended up in a similar situation?
I would suggest that giving religious institutions tax-free status in the US is a form of subsidy. That’s why it’s such a problem when they begin to preach in a partisan manner.
I would say that most Identify Theft issues will be resolved if you are forced to do a 5 min video verification call. I can show my ID (DL, Real ID etc) just like I can do in person. It may add a little bit of hassle but I would trade that for peace of mind that some random person cannot steal my identity that easy just because they know my DOB, SSN etc and can fill out an online form etc. The video call can easily weed out the scammers especially because a lot of ID thefts happen where a young person is stealing an older person's identity or vice versa or it is a different Gender etc.
It looks worse when that $1k becomes $350 because Roblox cashes out Robux at a 65% discount for itself after taking nearly 75% of every transaction.
> ‘I have not donated money to anyone or any organization. I also do not believe in loaning money to friends and relatives, no matter what’

Smart man. He did the right thing and I would gladly do the same in exchange for that kind of money any day of the week. Ironically, the idealists who don't understand the risks of letting people know how much money you have are also the ones who will suffer the most when they hear people's sob stories about why they need $X or why things are so hard from them; so they have even more reason not to publicize their wealth.
Right, but most buyers finance with a mortgage.

The affordability is determined by monthly payments, which are a function of home price and interest rates. If home prices are up but interest rates are way, way down (which is currently the case) it can be possible that houses are still more affordable.

You have to consider home costs as down payment + monthly mortgage payment (+ taxes if you're getting specific) to understand affordability.
On-die GPUs you get for free with the proc are more powerful than 2000s GPUs. Hell, CPUs are so much faster now you can do the same effects as a 2000s GPU in software.
Natural selection also applies to cultural beliefs and behaviors, albeit in a "selfish gene" sort of way that propagates the beliefs and behaviors rather than the practitioners thereof. For instance, universalist religions like Christianity and Islam have supplanted traditional ethnic religions.

Anyway, there's definitely something about the culture of contemporary developed countries that's not adaptive, but I'm not sure it's belief in evolution itself.
How does forcing two commits to two repos help this example in any way? You still need the testing to catch backwards compatibility and that can be done in a monorepo. It can arguably be done better because you have a more direct link to the downstream code.
> Wouldn't they think that you are a selfish doosh

I never cease to be amazed at how terrified people commonly are of trivial confrontation and worthless opinions.

A life spent placating other people to live by their low value opinions, will be a life very poorly lived. Rather than spending the effort on fretting about their low value opinions, that effort should go into mentally reducing the incorrect value being placed on said opinions.

People twist themselves into grotesque knots living under the unreasonable expectations of others, even living under the fantay projection opinions of those people (thoughts/opinions they don't even know to be the case, just things they fear may be the case), even when they quietly don't care about the person/s.

The sister in this story for example, she can go right fuck off. This guy wins $55m and is terrified of his own shadow, can't even deal with the sister (who he doesn't like at all, has zero interest in speaking to) he's afraid will demand that he donate half his wealth to her church. It's unbelievable behavior.
This is such a poetic read

The man who saved Kyoto from the atomic bomb
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-33755182

> "The scientists on the Target Committee also preferred Kyoto because it was home to many universities and they thought the people there would be able to understand that an atomic bomb was not just another weapon - that it was almost a turning point in human history," he adds.
Since 2008 really.

I guess you could say quantitative easing was not unprecedented in human history, but it was unprecedented in the USA.
What you describe is true of many successes I find. Lots of people look at it as if you got some unfair or lucky break. Maybe that is true for the lottery, but for things like good grades, good job, wealth, or even access to leisure time (for example having time to exercise), many get defensive instead of being happy for the success. I've done it to, to some extent it's human nature, but it's something to try and avoid.
If you're talking about building on the ice sheet, building on ice is very difficult, the snow is constantly drifting and requires a lot of maintenance (lifting or moving buildings every few years, etc.). And only the 109th national guard operates ski-equipped C-130's that can bring supplies. Smaller planes can come (Baslers or Twin Otters) but those can't carry nearly as much. They used to have a traverse from the air force base at Thule but they stopped due to difficulty getting on the ice sheet from there.

On the coast it would be more reasonable to build a city, though the topography is rough and getting enough food would be expensive. The only place I've been on the coast is Kangerlussuaq (the main commercial airport for Greenland, and also a base for the 109th ANG which is how I got to Greenland and to Summit). You can explore on street view what it looks like: https://www.google.com/maps/@67.0035567,-50.6859212,3a,75y,3... . It actually has the largest road network in Greenland and a seaport. But... there isn't that much room to build if you wanted to and I think that's more or less the story everywhere in Greenland. For example, ere is Nuuk, the capital and largest city: https://www.google.com/maps/@64.1770542,-51.7239805,3a,75y,4...

Not great terrain for city building...
it is selection bias -- the people with miserable and oppressive systems do not report it in detail, in English, on YNews right?

second, many systems of law treat individuals quite differently.. many systems that are not repeated in detail, on YNews, do not give much choice to an individual by design
So, to be perfectly clear, the main reason for studying rationality as you explain it, is the belief that many individuals are not skilled at determining whether their beliefs about the observable world are right or wrong (as in your umbrella example), and that this is something they would benefit from working on?
I've met Paul Allen, and I've always felt kind of sorry for him. I suspect he never had any real friends after he got rich. He did have a lot of "friends" who liked to party on his yacht.
I fully support vaccination, but you have no legal right to be protected from infection. It appears nowhere in the US Constitution. And while the vaccines are very effective at preventing death they are only marginally effective at preventing contagion.

The reality is that SARS-CoV-2 is now endemic in the worldwide human population. So you're almost certainly going to get infected eventually regardless of what others do.
I bet MasterCard and the others have profited from literally everything on your list. They are too big not to have.
Not sure why this is getting down voted. Most people who have money problems have them because of their own behaviors. I agree giving money to someone who is bad with money doesn't really help them it only wastes your money.
It's kinda crazy that people think you can only get this by being rich. Why don't we just eliminate the market in housing and make it super cheap to live? We have more houses than people.
Thanks for sharing! The co-ownership model has been around for a while, but usually has been limited to friends & family. Really great feedback on some of the challenges you've faced.

- Rentals: this is property dependent. Some of our homes are located in communities that have explicit rules regarding short term rentals. For homes not governed by these rules, the owners are free to vote on whether they'd like to allow renting the home when it is not used. We leave it up to the owners for the exact reason you highlighted above - renting can lead to higher maintenance costs and other issues. Proceeds from the rental go to the owner putting their time up for rent. The income is first used to defray an owner's monthly costs, and the rest is given directly to them.

- Costs: Property costs are split amongst co-owners based on their ownership stake in the home with no markup. This tends to keep costs fairly low for each owner, but in the event an owner does not pay their portion they are in violation of the contract and subject to forfeiture of their share. Again, the fees for these homes in mexico are reasonable compared to the US and the costs are made clear and transparent to the buyer at the time of purchase.

- investments: routine maintenance is handled by Ancana using the reserve fund. For other upgrades, the owners put it up to a vote. Depending on the size of investment, there are different vote thresholds that need to be met to move forward.

- buying/trading: currently we make it easy for co-owners of the same property to trade scheduled visits. We do have plans on opening this up for all Ancana properties, but it is not something we have built out yet. Stay tuned!

- selling: An owner is free to sell at any point after owning the home for 1 year. We are happy to assist in this process and list the fraction for sale to our network of qualified leads. But if an owner prefers to use their own agent or sell it through their own network, that is great too. Once a buyer is found, we take care of the vetting and legal process for transferring ownership.

- Similar to other real estate, your ownership of an Ancana property can be passed on to beneficiaries. In this case the new owner(s) are still bound by the original investment trust and responsible for payments. We don't limit ownership in a fraction to a single person, so it is up to the new parties to decide how they want to handle ownership and using the property
I watch technical sales do this all the time — the project needs a migration from X to Y, so they simply draw a line between the two.

And of course, that little line becomes 90% of the project timeline, and everybody’s baffled.

That line is willing to carry an infinite amount of work.
What if they're not? It seems like the type of thing that requires individual judgement instead of a flat rule.
I tried it in the 90s, it was awesome. The graphics were more than good enough for a really cool experience. Much better than the first smartphones, comparatively speaking.

Smartphones caught on like wildfire and were quickly used for loads of different things, by millions of people. Now after less than 20 years billions of people use them hours a day.

VR is only used by 100,000s according to you, after 30 years. And almost only for gaming. The thing is that it’s not even mainstream among gamers, which I don’t get. I don’t play games but it just seems strange, the VR experience is so much cooler.

The technology now is very advanced, and cheap, and you could imagine lots of use cases but almost nobody uses it.
The presentation said something like they planned for it to be "open" or something. I believe that was the first the dev team had heard of it.

People have guess that patents prevented it from actually being an open standard. Coincidentally, some of those patents expired in the last year or two and the last should expire this year. But I kind of guess the window has passed for it becoming open.
Sort of orthogonal, but a perhaps culturally telling anecdote: a few months ago I was actively looking for a new job, and got a cold email from a technical recruiter from Roblox (via linkedin). I was curious, so set up a time to call, he asked for me to submit my cv (which is 90% things you could see on my linkedin, but sure, whatever) through a upload page on some recruiting site of their. Within minutes of submitting the cv, I got a rejection email from them, even though I had already scheduled the call. I figured it was an error, but nope, crickets when the time for the call came around.
Did you mean to respond to a different post? Yours doesn't seem to address what the post you responded to was saying.
They need a stable-coin.
I love pop and recommend it frequently. Great work.
Yes, why wouldn't I? I brush at least 2-3 a day, with flossing, after every meal. I've never understood people who can't afford 6 minutes a day to properly care for one of the most important parts of our bodies (ie teeth).
Which, admittedly, is a real loss.
And until such a time, he can at least give his parents the gift of not asking them for money.
Any chance they died because they walked into a carbon dioxide accumulation?

CO2 is heavier than air and can accumulate in natural hollows. I've read about game animals suffocating rapidly when they walk through CO2-filled hollows, but can't immediately find a link. Natural CO2 emission does kill trees [1].

[1] https://pubs.usgs.gov/dds/dds-81/Intro/MonitoringData/CO2/CO...
Those should only differ by a factor of 2 [the collision rate for an image is the number of collisions it has divided by the number of other images, so the average collision rate is the total collisions divided by n(n-1) vs. n(n-1)/2 pairs] which isn't particularly relevant at this scale