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Putting aside that these claims are presented without any evidence, “most” of 50% of the US population is a minimum of 82M people. ~31M have contracted COVID so far. That we’re goi…

In a hypothetical world where our competent president and his competent staff made an occasional error, it would be reasonable to give the benefit of the doubt. This is one of thre…

Don't blame him, blame the incompetent people he hired?

That's a good broad description of both. I loved their previous game TRS-100, but Opus Magnum didn't really do it for me for whatever reason. I'm completely hooked on Into the Brea…

The sites aren’t linking to a tweet, they’re embedding them. There’s a difference of intent between a plain old link to a tweet’s URL, and the full set of tags, scripts, and config…

Yeah, to be clear when I said “makes sense” I was referring to what allows for a functional ecosystem of Twitter, users, media, etc. and not a legal evaluation. IANAL and all that.…

The photographer didn’t post the image on Twitter, someone else who presumably didn’t have a license to do so did. The sites then embedded that other person’s tweet. If it had be t…

As far as whether or not Spotify is good to musicians, or takes too big of a cut, or distributes revenue fairly, I don't know. It's certainly possible that there's a better payment…

This is like complaining that the rates at the airport currency exchange are worse than in your FX trading account. Coinbase isn't a brokerage, it's more akin to a bank, and like a…

You are assuming the value of time spent on these activities is inherently positive. If you like cooking or cleaning or taking out the trash then by all means you should do those t…

For portability you should use /s, not \s. \s only works on Windows.

Yeah, I had the same thoughts when I was writing that. The key difference is that the current system is so convoluted that there is almost no meaningful market for consumers on the…

In theory though, the market should address that right? e.g. a version of this that's $10k a year but can handle 10x the volume because you triage patients with competent nurses an…

Yeah, I think that's pretty much the case. The first 320 bytes of the two PDFs released by Google result in the same SHA-1 state. Once you're at that point as long as you append id…

This was a good explanation of what's happening here from a previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13715761 The key is that essentially all of the data for both imag…

>Funny how all the proponents of a Universal 'Basic' Income aren't proposing instead to make every 'Basic' item 'Free'. >After all, if you believe their rhetoric, giving someone $5…

That would require the client to be compromised though right? My understanding is that the client is making the decision whether to retransmit with the new key. Now it's fair to qu…

I believe that you get a key change notification, but by default it doesn't require any sort of confirmation and will just continue to work with the new key.

I did read the article, and yes, his points are largely due to technological and environmental constraints. He presents a combination of current and past VR tech (with a healthy do…

I think that there is overoptimism in VR right now where the technology is going to progress slower than people think, there will be more difficult roadblocks than people think, an…

The coercion is to ensure that everyone at least tries something. I would bet that there is a significant percentage of people that would go in being unhappy about having to meet t…

I was thinking the same thing. Assuming it's technically feasible I don't see this as being a huge problem. If your site is important enough that you can't have any downtime due to…

We used to play a game like this at my last company using a 4'x6' foamboard map that someone had pulled out of the trash. We would stand far enough back that you couldn't read the …

I feel that at its core programming is about taking a conceptual idea (e.g. pac-man moving around a maze) and determining the unambiguous logic that describes it. The language used…