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Ghost Recon Breakpoint is a good example of lots of difficulty settings. You can turn off some annoying parts of the game, set enemy tactical difficulty, disable some survival aspe…

You can even die from a water overdose, so you can certainly die from an umami overdose. For example, imagine a person who ingests 100 kg of umami - I'd bet every penny I have that…

According to the Darknet Diaries podcast episode "Superbox", some of these devices are sold via multi-level marketing schemes, which would explain why there are random individuals …

It may be the case that these devices are front-ends for pirated content that's hosted in various places. They're not streaming it from Netflix servers. It's content similar to tha…

And if they miss even one of those 45, EU enforcers burn their business to the ground. Oops, now it's 46. No, 47.

The article mentions that stolen credit cards are being used to buy some of the tokens. Also credit card chargebacks (pay for tokens with CC, resell tokens, then do a chargeback.)

Using stolen credit cards, or chargebacks, to buy something, and then resell that thing, for profit. "Why is this practice considered unethical?" Next week: Shoplifting batteries a…

Probably an instance of the "Thing :-| Thing in Japan 8-)" meme.

Maybe not everyone, but certainly lots of unethical people would do it, and there are lots of those. They'd post unbearably smug posts on LinkedIn about it too, calling everyone a …

Right. And also, when you have paid $240k for that degree, don't write endless screeds complaining that the degree was a "scam" and that it's someone else's fault that you're not e…

The fact that audiophools reject blind A-B tests should tell you everything you need to know.

"Now, Mr. Olive...." "DOCTOR Olive! I didn't spend 6 years in evil audiophool school to be called Mister, thank you very much."

"the absolute worst shopping experience I can think of" Indeed: * Short opening hours * checking the membership card at the entrance * cell phone salesmen inside * item locations c…

Let's recall that YC used to be run by Sam Altman of all people, which confirms what you are saying.

There's a pretty big difference between AirPods and AirPods Pro. The former just sort of loosely sit in the outer part of your ear. The latter form a pretty good seal in your ear c…

I remember having hundreds of pirated C64 and Amiga games. When starting a new game, we'd press every single key on the keyboard and try to figure out what, if anything, that key d…

When I worked at Microsoft (years ago), some employees had Surface laptops. They frequently had issues where the laptop just wasn't working right and required rebooting, at the sta…

If someone is a passenger (and the only person) inside a Waymo taxi, and the car runs someone over, it would not make any sense to hold the Waymo passenger responsible for that. If…

There's an organization of volunteers who walk the streambed during spawning season and mark nests with colored tape on nearby branches. I assume while they're doing that, they als…

There is similar work going on to restore fish passage underneath I-90 near Issaquah, Washington. Although in that case, the part of the streams that's currently inaccessible is le…

The "provisional employment" idea sounds good at first, until you think about how it would actually work in practice. You have 100 applicants for 1 position. Which one do you provi…

Not first. Seventh. The successful manned moon landings so far: 1. United States of America 2. United States of America 3. United States of America 4. United States of America 5. U…

I agree, it seems very low-effort on Commodore's part to license this lowest-common-denominator BASIC with no support for graphics and sound other than POKE. Super lame, but they g…

I have some lights on mechanical timers so the living room has a minimal amount of light in the evening, and they turn off automatically at midnight. That's useful to me, and it wa…

If you're not tokenmaxxing, you're getting tokenmogged on the AI leaderboard, and your next review ain't gonna be pretty.