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Ok, so they don’t call it a ’buy’ program. It’s a lending program, for free. With a deposit for full value so it becomes a purchase if you don’t return it in time. Same structure b…

> , is "man, capitalism is a mistake" Man, we need a better term for this criticism. The US right now is more harsh to live in than the US pre-Reagan, which was more harsh than man…

It’s rather neat, and recently hit 1.0. That game, Timberborn, shares some design elements with roller coaster tycoon. A block based 3d world they can be modified by the player. Un…

> Vertically they produce 77% compared to 90% of the tilted panels? In what graph is the lower number better? 77% of the ’normal orientation’ per year, but the graph and 131% value…

Iirc I thought they were a bit disingenuous. In theory the change in electric field will induce a small current in the other wire, and their magical science lamp turns on at any no…

Centralized moderation is a big thing. Usenet was a very open system, where iirc moderation sometimes happened per discussion group but otherwise everyone individually had to ignor…

> actually explain the "double" part in detail? $100 appears in your account. That’s one part. The other part depends on why. * you moved money from another account, the double is …

When describing a game that looks like it had a smallish team and graphics budget, ‘indie’ is a useful shorthand. It sets certain expectations. Certainly marketing and media (as ev…

That’s because it’s not a self-improving computer system. It’s just programming as it exists today for thousands of years.

No. If you listen to only a single artist for a month, your payment is still split the same way everyone else’s payment is, by total streamed numbers. It sounds better if they arti…

Unfortunately, games involving human reflexes or difficulty-to-see visual clues aren’t very fun against strangers who can run what they want on their devices. Because cheating. I d…

Sounds like the initial table has just one row and one column, containing the entire 16mb csv string.

> To the developers: You signed a contract, and now you expect to not have to live up to it? From what I can tell, it’s more like they have a short term contract they are happy wit…

Yes, both meanings exists in dictionaries. Fortunately usage has consolidated. In my experience a factoid is generally intended to be true in (American?) English, but untrue in Swe…

> The key question is /why/ air moves faster on one side, and once you get away from the misconception of same time, I've never heard an intuitive argument. Since the air follows a…

> quite circular In this case it’s 106m away from a perfect circle. Almost nothing compared to 20km, but a real thing.

> In this analogy, Coinbase is upset its heroin sales are illegal when a licensed pharmacist can sell a similar product. In this analogy Coinbase' story seems to be that they asked…

Levine is using a lot of hyperbole there. To me it looks like a clearly-defined line between text and real-time voice/video. What the user experiences, not the technical background…

If YouTube-dl let you bypass the paywall, that would make its main use closer to “obviously illegal”. If it only allows a paying user to make a local copy against the company’s wis…

> You're in this country and sending spam? We arrest you. Further laws around spam might help, but you don’t need the government to actually run anything for this.

> If the question always ended with "remember: Monty knows where the car is and will use this information", it would be more obvious. And perhaps also, “remember: Monty will always…

‘Eternal September’ possibly started as far back as 1993, so this particular nostalgia isn’t unique.

You seem to be saying, that bank owners can take big risks and make enough money that it’s worth it to occasionally lose all equity. But if we make sure depositors also lose money …

In Mario kart, the dollar -> ruby -> gold -> toad chain (from the OP) is designed to obfuscate the cost and get players to spend more money than if it was just dollar -> toad. Mult…

He’s technically only claiming that turning the company around was his job description when recruited. Is that this was a lie told to him.