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I believe it does if you scroll down. Even tells you which way to look to minimize it!

This is the first time I’ve heard someone criticize the “selling cosmetics” business model. I assume you feel the same about R6, TF2 and CSGO, naturally. Since selling skins is una…

If I’m understanding correctly, it was already quasi-legal through a loophole, but formally legalizing it made the loophole much trickier to use? That does sound frustrating. I hop…

That’s a really clever idea, I would definitely pay for that in the right circumstances. Now that I think about it - could you just pour some sort of biodegradable broad-spectrum h…

This article reminds me of Chesterton Fence - the author is complaining about something, without ever experiencing why it exists.

That’s a fair point, but I think the issue is that the other players don’t want to play with you unless you’re running the anti cheat. Some games do have servers with anti cheat di…

Comments like these seem likely to discourage authors from making more interesting posts about niche topics they specialize in, without actually moving the needle on stuff the comm…

IMO, needing to clear out an entire table is an indicator that something has gone wrong with your design. Don't get me wrong, I've definitely done it before, but it's in the same b…

#3 is insane, if for no other reason than the VC is signaling that he’s likely going to try and do the same thing to you some day… even if you were totally willing to screw over yo…

That actually doesn’t seem that toxic. Doesn’t seem like a carcinogen either. Obviously still bad, but at least we’re not talking about something on the tier of phenol or benzene h…

Unfortunately I suspect this idea is somewhat dead-on-arrival… anti-renewable people will fight it for obvious reasons, while environmentalists will fight it due to concerns over s…

Once you’ve got root, you don’t need to exploit compromised code to do whatever you want.

This was a lot lower-tech than I was expecting. Very cool!

Wow, that’s ~13 mph, basically a full-on sprint for a mere mortal. Absolutely insane.

I quite liked this article. That said, I think it misses the two big advantages of denormalized (one big table) data - It’s much easier for people to use, especially non-technical …

The author really lucked out that the government employee was not actually malicious. I can think of a good few ways she could have made life much more difficult for the author, ev…

Lumen, Nanite, Substrate, Metahumans, and Chaos Physics all come to mind as major innovations driven by Epic. Nanite specifically has pretty much no alternatives. Additionally, the…

The author is trying very hard to look like they are not trying at all.

One comment I found interesting basically argued that if the billionaires are so scared of over the top wealth taxes, they should be pushing/lobbying for more reasonable wealth tax…

I don’t think that’s a fair take - his argument is primarily that the ballot measure is fundamentally flawed, and likely put forward in bad faith by a group who’s CEO literally adm…