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by drucik 11mo ago
On the other hand I am not sure that most people would be playing the same game for 20+ years - I played CS religiously during my school years, but at some point, even if you keep playing games, you just want something else
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by drucik 3y ago
The thing is, if I want my Star Trek, I want my Star Trek, not some substitute…
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by drucik 3y ago
After sales support, as in spare parts and maintenance, is a big part of income for manufacturers of heavy equipment, as such machines run for a loong time given parts and maintenance. To me they really did not want to lose on 'subscri
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Pegasus Spyware Samples Decompiled and Recompiled(github.com)
3 points by drucik 5y ago|0 comments
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by drucik 5y ago
Article seems to be spot on - it's good to remind people about it once in a while. When I was a kid I jumped into a semi-empty pool, where depth was more or less equal to my total height. Bad judgment on my part. I couldn't swim s
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by drucik 7y ago
A statement like Randy Marsh made - “F—— the Chinese government” - seems like a candidate for a redemption ;) Edit:formatting
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by drucik 7y ago
> Am I the only one that thinks Blizzard is in the right No, I think there’s quite a number of people being used to the whole world doing censoring on behalf of China. Status quo is comfy. “It’s been like this for long, nobody is getting
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by drucik 7y ago
“One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.” seems appropriate here...
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by drucik 7y ago
Everyone has an opinion, but it doesn’t make a word meaningless. Of course there is some grey area, but if “men are not women” is the best example you can think of, I’m pretty sure most of law-educated people will quickly agree where the li
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by drucik 7y ago
It’s a different category of action, but the app comes down to the same. It marks locations, right? Or I suppose moving points. Or am I misunderstanding something?
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by drucik 7y ago
I thought so too, but I stumbled upon SC2 with it’s war chests, and I like the idea of paying 25$ and getting the whole set of skins* instead of loot boxes. * - I suppose there’s a little less content. And old sets are ridiculously expensi
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by drucik 7y ago
Oxford defines as follows: “abusive or threatening speech or writing that expresses prejudice against a particular group, especially on the basis of race, religion, or sexual orientation.” And it seems to be a general definition, I think so
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by drucik 7y ago
If you are pricing it at cost plus, yeah, it can be worth near-ish the cost of production. Not things with assosciated costs like rnd, but think some of spare parts, for example.
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by drucik 7y ago
If the less powerful costs the same to make and is just crippled full version, then for me it’s not ethical and calling it a choice is a farce. Btw obviously I’m not talking about software. Im not talking about pricing things with no margin
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by drucik 7y ago
One thing is trading features for money, the other is artificially crippling the product just so you can release a cheaper version. For what, to justify unreasonably high price for complete version? The second part sounds kinda like “They d
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by drucik 7y ago
This is not an error in my argument. You just do not understand what I mean by “customer-friendly(ethical)”.
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by drucik 7y ago
Because giving something more to the customer would not cost them anything. There used to be this belief that things are worth as much as the cost to produce them + some margin for the maker. And things were made so they will benefit their
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by drucik 7y ago
The fact that degree is the same means that energetically 1 degree C is equal to 1K. So when doing scientific calculations, for example to calculate energy needed to change the temp by X, they are the same. The fact that the scale is based
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by drucik 7y ago
In my experience audits done by big 4 are worth nothing. Irregularities are raised, and handled, unofficially, so when the report comes, everything is fine, everything’s legit. That’s what you get when auditing companies also do consulting.
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by drucik 7y ago
I suspect it just assumes that the temparature increase of 2 degrees while make it easier to grow food and overall live in some countries, while screw up already hot countries, but I'm not sure that's how climate change is going t
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by drucik 7y ago
> The game publishers who continue to pay to use Denuvo indicate otherwise. In a hit-or-miss industry like video games, publishers are not in the habit of being stupid with their money. I could say that the game publishers who continue t
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by drucik 7y ago
Well, when the game is designed around microtransactions free to play means more free to pay, as playing without paying is not enjoyable at all. Look at EAs mobile offerings.
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by drucik 7y ago
If one is a fan of football, and video games, buying FIFA every year isn't that baffling. I actually do it every year - till 2009 it was new PES every year, and since 2010 it was FIFA every year (as fifa got greatly improved on that ye
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by drucik 7y ago
No, it is an economics term describing a type of market, as an opposution to regulated one, as often sugar industry is, for example. Maybe you mean the fact that there are regulations and therefore no one has a free market? If that's s
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by drucik 8y ago
I think ban from an app store for a platform is something more like “if someone commits a crime using your vehicle, you might lose your driving permit”.
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by drucik 8y ago
From my understanding user will have to consent both to personal and tracking data separately. So yes, users will agree to sharing the personal data - (name, age, gender etc), as this is essential for the service, in this case social networ
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by drucik 8y ago
Maybe I'm just naive European, but I'd say that allowing companies to lobby the government does not turn out that great for 'the people'
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by drucik 9y ago
Tbf fixing compatibility with a very old API might become important _because_ of PR backlash.
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by drucik 9y ago
KK, thx for clarification. I'll allow myself to not edit the original post, but I promise I'll stop bashing Facebook and Google in my head.
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by drucik 9y ago
Or maybe Standard Oil was a forefather of modern capitalism? Maybe that was a pure form of it? I'd say the idea that the state does not intervene in the market is heartwarming, but if the state doesn't protect it's people the

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