sbagel

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by sbagel 4y ago
> WoW printing $7B per year in profit Do you have a source on this $7B a year profit figure? I've tried to find it and can't find anything even close to $7B revenue let alone profit going back to 1994.
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by sbagel 4y ago
Loot boxes/gacha games are the modern day cigarettes. Harmful, addictive, marketed to minors and very lucrative. Rest of the world needs to catch up to Belgium and Netherlands in banning these.
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by sbagel 4y ago
The profits being made from loot boxes targetting children are staggering and there are powerful well funded lobbyists working to keep it that way. For some context, FIFA the football governing made $766 million in 2021, EA FIFA Ultimate te
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by sbagel 5y ago
unless they've changed their policy on this you can email support and say you don't have a phone number and they'll re-active your account, has worked for me in the past.
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by sbagel 5y ago
100% and in many cases communities like HN are worse than sites like twitter because it has upvotes and downvotes which effectively drowns out and silences marginalized voices. You can't downvote or flag a twitter post preventing oth
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by sbagel 5y ago
Zero references of any users suspended or banned in your linked source. Posts were removed for 'Asserting Covid-19 Was Man-Made' which is very different from discussing the possibility and calling for further investigation. > F
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by sbagel 5y ago
Citation needed. Please direct me to any user or accounts banned or suspended for discussing the lab leak theory. You're the one rewriting history here.
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by sbagel 5y ago
The amount of wildly delusional oppression complex in this thread is staggering, HN has really gone downhill. On the media 'not taking it seriously' - because there was no evidence whatsoever outside of conjecture and it was bein
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by sbagel 5y ago
A large contingent of modern sports journalists are predatory in that they aim primarily to get an out of context outrage-bait quote or soundbyte to drive engagement with no concern whatsoever for resulting fallout or hate directed towards
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by sbagel 5y ago
Studying income inequality in the US by gender and age group while completely ignoring race feels wrong when it's such an impactful variable, especially considering it's getting worse over time. In 2016, the median net worth of no
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by sbagel 5y ago
Users getting so offended by this comment are hilarious. He didn't create this system, if you were in a similar position tasked to get attention for a client or business you could take the high road of not using proven social media tac
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by sbagel 5y ago
Agree with the 'needle eye' being smaller but > One could argue that a story that makes it to the front page today is much higher quality This assumes that quality of content is the driving factor in success on Hn or any social
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by sbagel 5y ago
Reminded of a great NPR podcast from years ago: a man with dark thoughts (about hurting his wife and child) goes to several therapists and is presented with wildly different often polar opposite techniques and approaches to helping him. On
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by sbagel 5y ago
These options do not disable executable logging. That information is still collected with all data collections options disabled.
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by sbagel 5y ago
Discord does not give users a choice to opt-out of their wildly invasive data collection methods including logging executables running on your system while the desktop client is open, not just games. This data alone is very valuable. Commen
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by sbagel 5y ago
the cookie debacle really illustrated how toothless and futile current regulatory attemps are, the industry simply side-stepped the intent of the legislation and that was the end of it. It seems the cookie notices are annoying by design to