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The most relevant example of this for the games industry is probably Steam’s refund policy. They allow you to refund a game if you bought it less than 2 weeks ago and have less tha…

> But why not just use the AI? Because you can still use the AI once you're seriously good. Perhaps because the jury is still out on whether one can become “seriously good” by usin…

Another feature of this is that if your primary PC crashes, which happens sometimes especially with some games, your stream doesn’t go down too. This is more important for streams …

I haven’t watched any scenes from Bluey before (though I have a newborn now so I suspect that will soon change), but I lived in southbank for a few years during uni, basically righ…

I don’t think this really has much to do with fidelity/clarity, so much as accuracy. One could have an extremely high fidelity visual of a bike that is incorrect and you wouldn’t s…

You simplify the tax code so that, like the vast majority of other developed nations, these situations do not apply. However that requires a centralization of power that is politic…

Notoriously difficult to find one with a landing strip inside, however.

I’m Australian and have been living in the US for the last 7 years, working for the same employer the whole time. I was originally on an E3 which was renewed twice, before transfer…

> I wonder how that latter price compares to the price in the US My guess is not favourably for the US. My wife was diagnosed with MS about a year before we moved to America and, s…

Which is bad, from a consumer protection perspective. The retailer should absolutely be on the hook. They are the ones with a working relationship with the manufacturer, and hence …

Not everything is zero sum. The important element is not whether or not it is mutually beneficial to the companies, but whether it is detrimental to some other party. Price fixing,…

The first town on the list is a place famous for building houses underground due to the heat on the surface being too extreme. It’s also in the middle of nowhere. The rest are coun…

Unlikely. The trades that caused KCG to collapse [1] were not reversed (~$400m in losses). Any firm worth their salt has risk systems in place to prevent runaway trading too, and t…

The beauty of open source is that the community will either figure out how to make it easier, or collectively decide it’s not worth the effort. We saw this with stable diffusion, a…

As the post points out, Python web frameworks have historically not prioritized improving the performance of serving static files, and that seems… fine? If we assume that all proje…

“It couldn’t have happened to a nicer person” and other variations are usually used in a facetious manner. Basically, it’s sarcasm. The people using this turn of phrase are effecti…

> I will want to win, but you can't win, you can only dominate It is common for EVE players to refer to quitting as "winning EVE". I won EVE around 7 years ago after falling 800-ho…

There is a lot of empty space in EVE, but there's also a lot of activity. The fact that your empty space can rapidly turn hostile forces you to take a certain approach to gameplay …

Perhaps this is a byproduct of the UI (which I totally agree is bad), but this is not true. `git reflog` contains a full history of all refs you’ve been on in chronological order. …

There are plenty of ways to describe the Australian federal government’s handling of Covid, but to use the term “concentration camps” is unnecessarily inflammatory and not a sentim…

I’m sorry but this is a dangerously inaccurate summary of Australia’s gun laws and how they are perceived socially. For starters, private gun owners are not actually allowed to use…

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31802600

> and the product looks somewhat like an off brand Nutella and doesn't smell as bad as it tastes... As an Australian, I found this part of your statement confusing, as (unlike Marm…

When you’re an interviewer and you’ve asked the same question enough (tens of time is plenty, really) you’ve seen it all and it’s really obvious when someone has seen the question …

I have 2600 hours in Rocket League. It's a fair bit for a "casual" player, but it's got nothing on pros (who are mostly up over 15k hours these days). I have some friends I play fa…