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by srfvtgb 4y ago
The founders got their start selling pirated software, but CD Projekt itself started as a legit importer and localiser. Their initial success was due to knowing that they needed to compete with pirates on quality and convenience because pir
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by srfvtgb 4y ago
Lets not forget that Valve was one of the early adopters of loot boxes with Counter Strike and TF2.
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by srfvtgb 4y ago
Anecdotally, the plan isn't very popular with those who live in the area.
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by srfvtgb 4y ago
> Especially in IT Especially in what?
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by srfvtgb 4y ago
I think big artists need to start doing what some large sporting events do and sell a significant proportion of tickets on a ballot system. Instead of being first come first served, anyone who registered to buy a ticket (possibly paying a d
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by srfvtgb 4y ago
Elon is a wartime CEO in the same way that Putin is a wartime president.
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by srfvtgb 4y ago
>unless we consider the labels the people it was supposed to protect You've hit the nail on the head there. The same record companies that got up to very dodgy copy protection schemes [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
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by srfvtgb 4y ago
As long as it doesn't have the robotic text-to-speech that seems to be on every TikTok video.
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by srfvtgb 4y ago
I guess the headline means aftermath as in consequences (or aftermath of _declaration of_ war)
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by srfvtgb 4y ago
So you didn't get as rich as you could have and might not get to retire at 30, go live your life. A friend of mine and I both applied for a HFT firm out of university, he got in and I didn't, but based on how he described it over
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by srfvtgb 5y ago
Why is that tweet is just a screenshot of another tweet?
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by srfvtgb 5y ago
You lose out on the network effect with this solution. If someone gets to pick who's allowed onto a network, then they won't bother using it. Maybe your friends will join since they are allowed to add _their_ friends, but those fr
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by srfvtgb 5y ago
Due to costs?
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by srfvtgb 5y ago
It would be interesting to see similar data for other large cities which posters on HN have been predicting/reporting mass exoduses from such as the Bay Area.
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Fears London and Paris would die due to Covid are unfounded, finds survey(theguardian.com)
2 points by srfvtgb 5y ago|2 comments
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by srfvtgb 5y ago
Apple has been doing this for a while and it hasn't had much effect outside devices which run their software: 
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by srfvtgb 5y ago
Even if it were possible to accurately attribute revenue to particular contributions, I could see this compensation model leading to short term thinking. For example a contribution may generate a lot of revenue now, but could end up costing
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by srfvtgb 5y ago
My company was a fairly early adopter of Teams. I remember there being a user feedback forum that was such an optimistic place. Fixing notifications was one of the highest voted issues and the MS rep promised work was being done on it, but
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by srfvtgb 5y ago
I guess they mean without writing VBA code.
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by srfvtgb 5y ago
Didn't EAC drop native support for Linux when they were acquired by Epic Games?
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by srfvtgb 6y ago
The gap between off and on-license prices (i.e. supermarket versus bar) will differ depending on country as well. As anecdata, I found that in the UK, buying beer from a supermarket tended to be more expensive than my home country of New Ze
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by srfvtgb 6y ago
Pretty sure Americans buy their beer in ounces. 330ml is very popular in New Zealand and the UK.
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by srfvtgb 6y ago
Can you do this without Javascript?
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by srfvtgb 6y ago
Users lose out as well when they end up with products like Microsoft Teams.
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by srfvtgb 6y ago
NZ currently requires a negative test if you are coming from the UK or US as well as 14 day quarantine for arrivals from anywhere (with more tests). You can also only return if you are a NZ citizen or permanent resident or you get some kind
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by srfvtgb 6y ago
I don't know if this is still the case, but for a while the easiest way to get the best deal from Dominoes was to search Google for Pizza Hut with your adblocker turned off.
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by srfvtgb 6y ago
Seems like a pretty blatant antiturst violation if this is happening consistently.
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by srfvtgb 6y ago
Whether ad targeting works or not, Cambridge Analytica did show that Facebook was willing to abuse the data people are trusting them with.
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by srfvtgb 6y ago
A lot of people mention Telegram, as far as I can tell, it's a worse Signal. What advantages does it have over Signal?
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by srfvtgb 6y ago
Fortunately I don't live in a place where WhatsApp is completely pervasive. I personally had luck saying "if you want to contact me use Signal, iMessage or at the very least SMS" and when people asked why, I would cite Cambri

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