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- Comment on My hotel elevator has a toilet 2 weeks ago:
Any fat person that doesn’t want to be mocked can simply lose the weight.
This is simply not true for everyone. Sometimes they are medical reasons that make losing weight very difficult.
- Comment on The warning on PBS Nova is heartbreaking! 2 weeks ago:
That’s the devils pitch fork right?
- Comment on Coffeezilla does a third part of his CS:GO gambling expose...where he squarely puts the blame on Valve 3 weeks ago:
I don’t even think the business software side is that problematic for a lot of good use cases, it’s the general non user friendliness of wallets and having to guard your seed phrase properly and just general technical knowledge.
As soon as your concert ticket is an NFT people can risk losing their ticket, and people will lose tickets.
Making the ticket and scanning the ticket for entry isnt too difficult a problem.
- Comment on An excellent use of company time 3 weeks ago:
Hey boss, here’s $300 and I’ll use it whenever and as much as I want.
- Comment on Coffeezilla does a third part of his CS:GO gambling expose...where he squarely puts the blame on Valve 3 weeks ago:
They could (but didnt) do it with zero knowledge proofs as well. Then the website could go back and verify against the state site.
- Comment on Coffeezilla does a third part of his CS:GO gambling expose...where he squarely puts the blame on Valve 3 weeks ago:
They might get processed via the visa network, but the money is still leaving your bank account. Visa never really had it.
So now you gotta deal with visa and your bank to get something back that was stolen, and no, you aren’t ending up with the same protections. They aren’t as motivated as none of them are out the money.
If it was a credit transaction, the credit card company is out the money, and if you say it’s fraud and refuse to pay them, well now they are on the hook. They’re now motivated to determine if it was fraud or not as their money is on the line. Also, they now lose out on a potential customer that gives them high interest on debt if they dont undo it (because most people don’t pay off their credit cards). There’s no debt when it’s a debit card and transaction fees are smaller so they earn less from you.
- Comment on Coffeezilla does a third part of his CS:GO gambling expose...where he squarely puts the blame on Valve 3 weeks ago:
(NotOP) these things will usually use cryptographic signatures and if the app has been altered, it’d fail the check.
No clue what they are specifically doing though.
- Comment on Coffeezilla does a third part of his CS:GO gambling expose...where he squarely puts the blame on Valve 3 weeks ago:
It’s just that the usecase (NFTs) were terrible.
It’s the use case for digital images.
NFTs in general are still cool. Concert tickets, tokenzied stocks, land ownership, car ownership, digital keys, digital IDs, it’s endless what can be done with them, but it’s a long way until some of these things get adopted.
- Comment on Coffeezilla does a third part of his CS:GO gambling expose...where he squarely puts the blame on Valve 3 weeks ago:
It absolutely can be done with zero knowledge proofs, but it needs to be from an authoritative source.
It could prove you are over the age of 18 without having to divulge any other sensitive information, and be untrackable between sites.
They could add it to our drivers licenses or passports or whatever which would cover the authoritative part.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
We always scheduled meetings 30 minutes after latest start time which was 9.
As long as you made it to the meeting and did your full hours, no one cared.
- Comment on NBC News Does Entire Piece Trying To Link CEO Shooting To ‘Violent Video Game’ 4 weeks ago:
I actually did watch a bit of it, and while I love the idea of it, I can’t stand the length they make it due to the reality tv show.
It just drags on and on.
If they’d made them 30-40 minute episodes instead of an hour I might have liked it.
- Comment on Sony is now FromSoftware owner Kadokawa's largest shareholder 4 weeks ago:
My money is on 3 months after the first release of a FROM title on PC, sony will come in and force them to create a sony account with crazy DRM to play it.
- Comment on NBC News Does Entire Piece Trying To Link CEO Shooting To ‘Violent Video Game’ 4 weeks ago:
I love the game, that show sounds really fun!
- Comment on As the Canada "tax holiday" starts, Walmart increased the price of an item by the amount I would have saved 5 weeks ago:
Is it against the law if they legitimately don’t lower the price though as the above poster is being told to give as a reason, but we know isn’t true?
- Comment on NBC News Does Entire Piece Trying To Link CEO Shooting To ‘Violent Video Game’ 5 weeks ago:
Interesting, had no idea about its origin story.
Also… of course
In June 2006 a Rockingham school inquiry was launched after parents complained of the traumatic effects classroom Mafia was having on their fifth-grade children. Davidoff responded to the reports, saying that as a parent who had studied child psychology for 25 years, he felt that the game could “teach kids to distinguish right from wrong”, and that the positive message of being honest could overcome the negative effects of an “evil narrator” moderating the game as if it were a scary story.
- Comment on Good morning I choose violence. 5 weeks ago:
We can just skip straight to depose.
- Comment on NBC News Does Entire Piece Trying To Link CEO Shooting To ‘Violent Video Game’ 5 weeks ago:
Of all the games they try to demonize, they demonize a game type people have played at home for decades at parties, in person, with no computers.
Brilliant.
- Comment on Damn, "Thoughts and Prayers!" 1 month ago:
Today we mourn @el_abuelo as he was not able to get proper treatment. UHC had denied his claim for prayers, but it took months to even get that, and by the time they were ready to make a judgement on thoughts, he had passed away.
- Comment on Assassin's Creed Shadows Will Feature Denuvo & Account Linking + EULA also requires you to allow Ubisoft to "monitor" your RAM 1 month ago:
don’t give them any ideas
- Comment on Assassin's Creed Shadows Will Feature Denuvo & Account Linking + EULA also requires you to allow Ubisoft to "monitor" your RAM 1 month ago:
is this not about pirating if it’s a single player game?
- Comment on Realistically... How fucked is the US? 2 months ago:
In a new session isn’t there no speaker until one is elected with any rules?
Just don’t accept the rules and go into another cycle of endless votes for speaker.
- Comment on Business execs just said the quiet part out loud on RTO mandates — A quarter admit forcing staff back into the office was meant to make them quit 2 months ago:
It just means you could claim EI.
- Comment on Business execs just said the quiet part out loud on RTO mandates — A quarter admit forcing staff back into the office was meant to make them quit 2 months ago:
Time to negotiate a high severance in your job offer if they change their minds and make you return to office or quit.
- Comment on Why are people impressed with SpaceX? 2 months ago:
Jeff Bezos and his massive overcompensation of a dick rocket that can also land propulsively, but not worth discussing.
In case anyone doesn’t know why… it’s not an orbital rocket. It just goes up and down. Orbital is going up AND sideways very fast.
- Comment on Why are people impressed with SpaceX? 2 months ago:
I tried to explain to someone that SpaceX testing things to failure was part of their success, and gave an example like purposely leaving heat shield tiles off starship to see what happened, and they then came back saying that is exactly why they (and other people) hate SpaceX.
- Comment on Why are people impressed with SpaceX? 2 months ago:
I thought it was the boosters that were pointlessly reused and would have been cheaper to make new.
Are you sure it was also the shuttle itself?
- Comment on Steam Now Warns Consumers That They're Buying a License, Not a Game During a Purchase 3 months ago:
I mean that’s what the California law is.
If you buy it you own it, but we aren’t buying the games.
A law that says they have to let us buy it instead of license it would be nice though.
- Comment on Disney lost nearly a third of a billion dollars on two Marvel movies 3 months ago:
One thing I like about space fights is you’ll often see them use the 3 dimensions and that they aren’t just upright. But they really are upright to everything almost all of the time otherwise.
- Comment on I make games and this literally happened to me this morning 3 months ago:
They’re bigger so it’s hard to know, but it’s usually something like 2.9% + 10c a transaction.
At their scale though who knows
- Comment on I make games and this literally happened to me this morning 3 months ago:
They should almost just make it so even the free version of firebase has a $1 non refundable pre-payment so they can just whittle away at the pennies instead of getting charged processing/transaction fees on a $0.01 transaction.
I think people would pay $1 to enable the paid plans. If you’re going that far, you’re getting $1 of use out of it.