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by boublepop 5y ago
This is also covered here by “People make games” https://youtu.be/vTMF6xEiAaY
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by boublepop 5y ago
You mean Roblox and the games the kids make on Roblox to make more pretend money in Roblox to use in the roulette market hoping to win it big? Yes, there’s a lot there to be worried about.
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by boublepop 5y ago
Sending kids out to deliver papers or work in burger restaurants is also a good experience for them, even if it’s unpaid. The reason child labor is illegal is not because we’re under the wrong assumption that work experience itself is bad f
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by boublepop 5y ago
Sounds like you’ve not read anything into the details at all. At face value, yes there could be nothing wrong with a game allowing kids to be creative and share what they build. But if LEGO started coming with lottery tickets in the kids se
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by boublepop 5y ago
Amazing, we might finally be able to solve the great university diploma verification problem. It’s really held back society that we haven’t been able to verify diplomas issued by centralized trusted institutions in a decentralized trustless
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by boublepop 5y ago
Sounds like a situation where there would be absolutely no doubt that the auction house would be liable for the error in a classical case. Also a case where the error would have been discovered or the transaction rolled back quickly perhaps
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by boublepop 5y ago
So reading between the lines, the commercial aspirations won out over the core ideals of the creator who is now being pushed out completely, likely with some form of compensation package to not make a big fuzz, so they can now dive headfirs
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by boublepop 5y ago
> The misuse of Autopilot, which can control steering, speed and braking, has occurred on numerous occasions It feels wrong to call it misuse when you’re literally using it the way Tesla has previously, is currently, and will continue to
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by boublepop 5y ago
So someone in the know. Is this a false speculative article hyping Bitcoin, and if so when will we see the Coria ponding hike before the predictable fall after the intel makes a release denying it. And how many short positions are going to
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by boublepop 5y ago
I really hate the biased terminology and implied accusations that always follow these articles. Imagine McDonalds getting similar coverage back in the early 90’ies with them talking about their “dangerous growth at all cost strategy” and ev
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by boublepop 5y ago
NFT isn’t art, its a digital receipt vaguely related to the ownership of something in some cases. If you buy the Mona Lisa and get a certificate of ownership with a reference to the painting, you would not say that this certificate was art.
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by boublepop 5y ago
What conflicts of interest does a CEO or the board of directors have from holding individual stocks? And why do you believe that to be as problematic as politicians holding stock in companies they are passing laws about?
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by boublepop 5y ago
Seems to contain some good links but also blatant marketing just carelessly regurgitating claims from product producers of unproven medical benefits. So calling this even just “mostly marketing free” is extremely dishonest. Movies that have
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by boublepop 5y ago
Certainly there is value in having an antagonistic press, but the “gotcha” here is a lie. Throughout the pandemic numbers have reported how many people where hospitalized with Covid. Because that is the important number to be concerned abo
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by boublepop 5y ago
While this is a “major” newspaper in the sense that it has a large readership, it’s also the Danish equivalent of the Sun. And they are know for chasing whatever they can to get a story and having no morals. Their editor in chief spent a ye
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by boublepop 5y ago
In y opinion that would be better served with ‘’.join( ‘hello’, ‘world’) No footgun potential, and as others have mentioned the “good usage” would often be bad simply because it ends up looking like a mistake even if it’s intentional.
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by boublepop 5y ago
Oddly enough no. I would have though that had been thought I to the design since it’s such a natural extension. But no, the CEO has TikTok’s playing Valorant, and he’s using a mouse and only the left side. Which also makes it slightly odd w
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by boublepop 5y ago
All of that has to to exclusively with techniques for improving speed when playing with the traditional controller. As soon as you can use another input device there is no need for that.
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by boublepop 5y ago
> It is also clear that digital photography from phones is far from an accurate representation of events. True, but if you exclude any evidence that is “far from an accurate representation of events” then we have no legal system left. Ey
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by boublepop 5y ago
> “If a $1000 PhD side project could kill millions of people, we must end viral [gain-of-function research], or it may end us.” This sentimental reminds me of a talk given by a government bomb expert where a naive student asked “why do w
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by boublepop 5y ago
- Apple will release the first gen of its VR/AR-headset. - Google will buy Tiktok - Meta/Facebook will release some VR solution that fail to gain traction - Roblox will face legal pressure due to its use of child labor and child g
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by boublepop 5y ago
I think it’s ok to select jurors based some basic abilities. I don’t know if this considered discrimination based on IQ in the US. But if a grown person has the mind of a 5year old or doesn’t know how to walk up stairs I think it’s fair to
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by boublepop 5y ago
Care to elaborate? I would expect most solids are filtered in the primary treatment, so what would be the issue with trying to filter micro-plastics in or after the secondary filtering?
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by boublepop 5y ago
You are conflating cause with diagnosis. And your conclusion is quite offensive to those living with depression, which is a well established diagnosis. You might want to consider rephrasing it, unless you really mean to imply that you belie
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by boublepop 5y ago
This is extremely typical, I once had a head of production raise big concerns and initiate a lot of activities because: “Half the production orders take longer than the estimated time to produce!” Like this was some huge problem in our comp
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by boublepop 5y ago
Its just confirmation bias in relationships. If a person really wanted to stay with their SO, they would be saying “omg, our personalities are so incompatible on paper, but we’re just so great together despite that” But since they want to l
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by boublepop 5y ago
Lomborg never denied man-made climate change. Though he certainly was a controvercial Voice in the debate. The reason was however that he challenged key predictions and strongly critized the proposed solutions as being cost ineffective. Bu
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by boublepop 5y ago
I highly recommend reading the hacker news guidelines. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html The most relevant part for you is: > Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you eve
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by boublepop 5y ago
The two job setup is just a brilliant way of exposing the fact that almost every tech worker is in a position where pay/effort is falling as pay increases. We all know there are 10x’s but you’ll never see anyone getting 10x the pay no
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by boublepop 5y ago
> shining a light on the way that apps like Instagram and YouTube use algorithms that pick and choose what content to show us (and not show us) in order to keep us scrolling and clicking, to sell more ads. These dangerous algorithms use

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