"Would you buy a meal if the restaurant refused to tell you the ingredients? Would you buy a car if you weren’t allowed to look under the hood?"
Ok, but I'm not buying the website, just using it.
Why Lichess will always be free
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#292Earlier quoted context omitted.
HN is most US based, that’s one of the richest countries on earth where their citizens suffering from epilepsy wear bracelets to warn others not to call an ambulance.
??? So is someone calls an ambulance and they provide you a service without you being conscious, you are liable to pay? What on Earth?
Yep, welcome to the US. Bonus points for the fact ambulance rides usually cost thousands of dollars and aren't covered by most insurance plans.
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#293If Lichess is a French Charitable Association, why do its (very clear) terms say that we agree to follow the laws of England and Wales? https://lichess.org/terms-of-service This seems rather an odd arrangement. Does anyone have any insight here?
Because English contract law has a reputation for reliability, thanks to the common law doctrine of stare decisis, which binds courts to decide the same way as previous cases with the same facts were decided (modulo appeals courts). French law, by contrast, gives much more freedom to judges to decide each case individually, which sounds nice in theory, but in practice just creates legal uncertainty for everyone involved.
As to why English law, and not, say, New York or New South Wales law, well: England is only 21 miles from France.
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#294Earlier quoted context omitted.
> We, men, are not cut out like this, exchanging of goods in a peaceful manner I'm not sure what you're doing, but I've quite literally never exchanged goods in any other way but peacefully. I'd venture to say well over 99% of transactions done by either gender are peaceful in nature.
Well not to wander off topic too much, but someone has to wonder, wall street which is male dominated, is it really doing economics, or maybe they are doing a form of war, a modern warfare? A rhetorical question, i don't have the answer, somebody else may has it. If it is so women will restart the economy by themselves, in some way, by creating a digital coin, embryocoin maybe. Chesscoin would be fun i guess too, but…
crypto is male dominated as well so if wallstreet is war and crypto is peace - I'm not sure where you're pulling gender out as the interesting difference there.
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#295In a simple 2x2x2 matrix of * product aimed at specific audience / general audience * product is "one big idea" / a lot of little ideas * product requires long term engagement / short term engagement Only "specific audience" / "one big idea" / "long term engagement" can expect to - indeed, must - thrive on patronage. The 7 other boxes are beholden to their users' fickleness.
Wikipedia would seem to be general audience / big idea / short-term but survives on patronage.
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#296Earlier quoted context omitted.
What you're describing is a "proof of work" system, such as gridcoin. Men and women are not intrinsically different in the way you imply they are. That is culturally constructed.
I didn't know about gridcoin. Thanks for that. However when i play chess the moment i smell that my opponent is female i immediately start playing more aggressively, and my opponent starts backs down. The statistics of the top chess players do prove me right. I have tried it myself many times. Against female players i don't try to play the objectively best move like usual, i consciously try to make the female player…
That sounds like a personal problem, and not really gender related. You should ask yourself why you're having difficulties treating people the same especially in a game.
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#297Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well not to wander off topic too much, but someone has to wonder, wall street which is male dominated, is it really doing economics, or maybe they are doing a form of war, a modern warfare? A rhetorical question, i don't have the answer, somebody else may has it. If it is so women will restart the economy by themselves, in some way, by creating a digital coin, embryocoin maybe. Chesscoin would be fun i guess too, but…
crypto is male dominated as well so if wallstreet is war and crypto is peace - I'm not sure where you're pulling gender out as the interesting difference there.
My point is that if we make a chesscoin for analyzing chess games, and embryocoin for analyzing the dna of embryos, the second one will prevail because women are more dedicated to that purpose than men are to anything else. That's all.
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#298This is glorious: https://lichess.org/features. Love the side by side comparison :).
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#299I love Lichess (13k+ games and counting). It is a worthy alternative to chess.com model . There should be room for both.(chessbase.com, ICC, FICS are lesser alternatives now) That said this low pressure model only works when you are a lean shop(single developer proficient in Scala) AND have millions of users. Running a lean shop might be an admirable goal but millions of users is not for every project. There are thou…
"(chessbase.com, ICC, FICS are lesser alternatives now)" I'd say that the main competitor of the two is now Chess24. It follows the subscription/premium model, taking it even further than Chess.com. Eg. the latter doesn't require you to be a paid user just to export a pgn of your own game - but Chess24 does.
I meant the *former. Chess.com gives you access to the game record at least (even if its analysis functions are limited for free users). Chess24 doesn't
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#300Earlier quoted context omitted.
crypto is male dominated as well so if wallstreet is war and crypto is peace - I'm not sure where you're pulling gender out as the interesting difference there.
My point is that if we make a chesscoin for analyzing chess games, and embryocoin for analyzing the dna of embryos, the second one will prevail because women are more dedicated to that purpose than men are to anything else. That's all.
What data are you aware of that suggests women are more interested in analyzing DNA than men? I've worked on genomics projects and while I've not looked at industry data, my experience was that it was heavily male dominated.
I simply don't see the reason gender in this context is even interesting, much less worthy of making assertions based on gender.