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Nicksil··on Google Promises Unlimited Storage; Cancels; Tells Journalist Life's Work Deleted
>237 TB for free?

What are you talking about?

>Burke said he paid Google “a lot of money for a long time” for an “unlimited” cloud storage account.

Nicksil··on Google Promises Unlimited Storage; Cancels; Tells Journalist Life's Work Deleted
>as if the payments for data storage in the past would entitle him to store the data indefinitely into the future as well.

Why do you think he thought this?

Nicksil··on Google Promises Unlimited Storage; Cancels; Tells Journalist Life's Work Deleted
>The 'victim' here clearly knows they are taking advantage of a situation.

Why do you think this?

Nicksil··on Google Promises Unlimited Storage; Cancels; Tells Journalist Life's Work Deleted
>the individual clearly knew they were taking advantage of a system

Why do you think this?

Nicksil··on Google Promises Unlimited Storage; Cancels; Tells Journalist Life's Work Deleted
>Title is straight up lies.

Enlighten us

Nicksil··on Google Promises Unlimited Storage; Cancels; Tells Journalist Life's Work Deleted
>"a lot of money" and "a long time" are subjective.

You've missed the point. It's the fact that this guy did pay for the services.

Nicksil··on Google Promises Unlimited Storage; Cancels; Tells Journalist Life's Work Deleted
>If he were paying for the consumed storage as a standard Drive customer, this wouldn’t be happening.

>Burke said he paid Google “a lot of money for a long time”

Nicksil··on Some Pirate Sites Received More Visitors After Being Blocked
>I guess it’s no surprise many of these parasites are taking their ideology to retail. Millions of dollars of goods are stolen yearly, and this is why we can’t have nice things. Why pay when you can take for free?

lol, what a silly comment. We have plenty of nice things.

Nicksil··on Even Google CEO Sundar Pichai doesn't understand Google's privacy controls
>why is it that somehow, the CEO is expected to be an expert in everything that the company outputs?

Who's expecting the CEO to be an expert?

Nicksil··on Roundup herbicide ingredient connected to epidemic chronic kidney disease
>Is fluoride in drinking water toxic? I thought they added it on purpose to help our teeth or something

No, not toxic; you are correct.

Nicksil··on [dead]
The guy's upset about the school not silencing student groups voicing their opposition of Israel. Seems like the school is better off without him.
Nicksil··on Among the Cabin Fanatics of Mississippi’s Giant Houseparty
>Why is it confusing that people talk about racism, when it flies free at the fair?

I don't understand your argument. I didn't mention anything concerning talking about racism; it was their racist comments I was referring to.

Nicksil··on Among the Cabin Fanatics of Mississippi’s Giant Houseparty
What's going on with your blatantly racist comments throughout this thread? Are you trying to be a jerk and/or get banned or is this your usual behavior? It doesn't seem to be which makes me curious to learn what has provoked this diatribe.
Nicksil··on Trump Lawyer Sports Gamer Laptop at $250M Fraud Trial
A really slow news day it seems.
Nicksil··on Firefox refuses to allow developers to disable picture in picture on videos
I can't tell if some of those comments are serious or not...

I agree with the Firefox folks here: the browser is the user's agent. Being the web developer's canvas comes after.

Nicksil··on Ask HN: What causes HN post relative age vs. timestamp discrepancy?
Perhaps due to the merging of threads moderators do for various reasons?
Nicksil··on Ask HN: Why No HTTPS on Paulgraham.com?
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Nicksil··on How do I make a computer
Build an 8-bit computer from scratch: https://eater.net/8bit
Nicksil··on Windows 11 collects an awful lot of telemetry about your PC
>Unless I'm blind, the article doesn't contain any actual evidence of telemetry being sent – just a list of domains contacted, and speculation on what their purpose might be.

>

>I don't doubt that Windows collects and transmits telemetry data (hell, text editors do that nowadays), but if an analysis of that exists, it is not in this article.

Crikey mate; second paragraph, first sentence.

Nicksil··on S.F. says incidents by Cruise, Waymo driverless taxis are ‘skyrocketing.’
You still work for Google?
Nicksil··on The .zip TLD sucks
What was your concern with .dev?
Nicksil··on 1Password to Add Telemetry
This is very simple: Present a one-time prompt asking to opt-in.

Explain to me how my admittedly naive solution fails to deliver for all consenting parties.

Nicksil··on Analyzing the websites that are used to train AI chatbots
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33567202
Nicksil··on Samsung considers moving to Bing as default search engine
>DDG uses Bing under the hood

Bing is just one of many sources DuckDuckGo utilizes

https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/so...

Nicksil··on Ask HN: What's your residential Internet speed and cost?
481.43 Mbps / 23.64 Mbps @ $99.99/mo

Spectrum

:/

Nicksil··on Germany Quits Nuclear Power, Ending a Decades-Long Struggle
>You should also take in consideration, that nuclear waste is dangerous over a very long period of time. So a couple hundred now might turn into millions until the waste is no longer dangerous.

Take into consideration the burning of fossil fuels over a very long period of time. Billions.

Nicksil··on Germany Quits Nuclear Power, Ending a Decades-Long Struggle
>I'm not saying nuclear is worse than fossil fuels, just that we don't know the future impact of waste with such a long half-life.

No, we've got a pretty good idea.

>So I don't think it's demonstrably cleaner "in every way".

It is, objectively.

Nicksil··on Germany Quits Nuclear Power, Ending a Decades-Long Struggle
Indeed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_nuclear_waste_warnin...
Nicksil··on Germany Quits Nuclear Power, Ending a Decades-Long Struggle
>Actually not every way though.. nuclear waste has to go somewhere.

I don't understand your argument; of course waste must go somewhere. Nuclear power, with its waste, is still cleaner than fossil fuels in every way.

Nicksil··on Valve Restricts Accounts of 2500 Users Who Marked a Negative Game Review Useful
>just means they can't write reviews

So, restricted.

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