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Almost every single action signs me out. Creating a sub gives back an 'invalid' error message', which then signs me out.

Have clicked on less than 10 links and have already been exposed to bestiality images. This post in question has been up for half an hour, where is the moderation?

I'd say this is more of a feel good announcement than anything as it will have extremely little impact on the gaming industry. There are billions and billions of dollars to be made through MTX, major publishing companies do not care what small time studios have to say. The amount of people who actively stray away from MTX purchases are few in number compared to the people who spend money on in game purchases. You see small boycott attempts on subreddits for games all the time over MTX and they amount to nothing, there's just too many people that spend on cosmetics and in game boosts (when applicable) for game companies to back down from including them.

When done right, MTX options can be fun for players and profitable for the company. The problem is that they are rarely done right, as greed so often takes over. A good example is the last few Call of Duty games. They like to start the loot box system with cosmetics only and assure players that loot box only usable items will never happen. Only for them to be added months later as they realize how much money they can make from it. Sure controversy always ensues but who cares, these decision makers don't have a care in the world for people who complain, they raking in billions.

Seems like society is constantly pushing to remove all the ways in which kids used to live. Can't just wonder around and play on the sidewalks or the streets anymore with your friends, someone will call the police on you. Can't hang out in the woods, as those have mostly been torn down to make way for new neighborhoods, and the woods that do remain are typically private property. Unless you are lucky enough to live in a place that still has a good wooded area where there's no busy bodies, you are out of luck. Can't hang out at the mall, they will kick you out if you aren't accompanied by an adult. Can't hang out at your favorite local joints anymore, they'll kick you out. I was also among the last generations that really got to experience freedom and a playful world as a child, I can't imagine growing up in the world today.

The biggest problem are people who can't mind their business and people who have been conditioned to fear the world. The 24/7 fear cycle of news has drilled it into so many peoples minds that if you see someone anywhere on your street outside, they are there to murder, rob, mutilate, or otherwise commit crime.

I'd imagine this is to combat marketplaces like zerodium and the deep web. Traditionally grey hat hackers don't always go through bug bounty programs because the pay is awful compared to what you can get through less ethical sources. By flexing that much cash at bug hunters, they are potentially now offering even more than what you could get on the mentioned markets. The only reason people go underground to sell exploits is for the money. Take away that variable and suddenly there's no reason to sell exploits to bad actors, just sell them straight to the source at Apple and get a fat paycheck.

As someone in their early 20s who dabbles on Roblox with some frequency, this completely contradicts my own experience. Granted I only play games that show up in the popular games section on the homepage. I don't go out of my way to find the weird stuff. I suppose it is similar to the Elsagate stuff kids were getting into on Youtube, kids have a remarkable talent to go down rabbit holes you didn't know existed and find the disturbing content. Roblox also has a really bad problem with child/teen dating, so much so that they now have an in game report option specifically for dating behavior.

I imagine it is extremely difficult for the Roblox staff to moderate the disturbing content as they have their hands full around the clock. From people creating thousands of bot accounts to boost their games, security problems revolving around people getting their games/assets/money stolen, people constantly finding new ways to cheat in game, to the issues that you described. I'd also think that the people who engage in the behavior that you described are seasoned in what they do, knowing how to avoid the watchful eye of moderation and parents alike.

I've seen the advice of "contribute to an open source project then throw it on your resume" many times over the years. Usually it's geared towards people with minimal credentials who need something to make their resume look better. Granted this could not be the situation OP is in at all.

As much as people crap on Subway I don't think I've ever had a negative experience at one. I know they don't use fresh ingredients but I'm fine with that. They aren't that expensive and I enjoy the array of toppings they have, although I will always remain bitter that they took away that spicy pepper paste. If on any day I decide to go there, I'm not doing it to have a good time, I'm doing it get a quick bite to eat and fill up on. Although the fact that it's one of 2 close food places to me adds bias, I don't have to get on any main streets to access the plaza it's in.

As someone who used to frequent that website, I've no remorse for them. While it was a site for the buying and selling of OG accounts, it was ripe with people encouraging and partaking in the stealing/hacking of accounts. Some of the more savvy members made a living off of jacking accounts.

It's nothing more than an on going meme. However the Thomas the Tank Engine meme has survived and been thriving for many years now, much longer than most others of the same type do. Look back at the days of left for dead, people modded all types of characters like the telletubbies and even Hank from King of the Hill into the game. Thomas has a lot of lore and history surrounding it. Notably the "It was time for him to leave, for Thomas had now seen everything" meme. There really isn't a one sentence explanation for it, it's just a part of the meme culture surrounding these types of shows that is very tedious to explain. It's something you grow into, it would be very difficult to understand this if you had no idea or understanding of why these cultures exist.

Would it be possible to tell the recruiter/company something like "This is my current salary and I will not settle for less. So far you have hyped up this position as high paying. From this point forward if you offer me anything less than my current salary, the interview process will be ended and you will be billed for the time of mine you wasted"?

Even with the damning information in these documents, can anyone explain what possible consequences could result from them?

To your second point, I also experience this. Being completely serious, I use IG to just follow cute animal accounts, mostly birds and pigs. Every now and then some promiscuity gets included in my feed. If I dare click on one of those pictures, my feed changes and starts showing me every other wannabe model or pornstar on the app. I just want to see cute birds, not humans.

While I use google reviews more often than other review sites, I know it is a problem. A big chunk of the issues has to do with the whole "local guide" or whatever its called program. People are incentivized to leave reviews anywhere they can because it makes them seem prestigious, so they spam all the restaurants they've not been to or don't care for with negative reviews. This is also a rampant issue for tourist destinations, entertainment locations, local businesses, etc.

I typically use the reviews you get from Google. No review site is flawless, they all have fake or bogus comments. I just look for patterns. For example, I was recently debating on going to a recently opened Asian restaurant so I looked at the google reviews. A majority of the negative reviews pointed out the same flaws, that to go orders were often wrong, dine in food often came out cold/nasty, and the sole manager that handles day to day operations generally refused to help anyone that had an issue. It wasn't just "The manager sucks", it was detailed accounts of how horrible of a person this manager was and how she routinely screwed over customers. I decided not to go. There were some good reviews too, but knowing my luck I didn't want to chance having an issue and needing to deal with this manager.

HN has the advantage of having a steady stream of unique content from all different fields that gives way to unique comments and discussion. Since posts here don't get recycled on the front pages, once a topic is discussed, you won't see it pop up again.

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Facebook really has no draw to it anymore other than the convenience of messaging people that you don't have other lines of communication with. Going through my feed, it's 95% spam consisting of friends sharing stock pictures with spiritual quotes, self motivational quotes, etc. It's difficult to filter through that for some people you want to keep tabs on because they share annoying junk from 50 different sources, requiring me to manually block every single one to keep them off my feed. I didn't use it for several years and it had very few negatives. The only thing I missed out on was not reconnecting with old friends. FB is for the older crowds now, it's lost all appeal to the younger generations. Hell, I'd rather see myspace revived than have FB be popular again. At least myspace let you get creative.

Doesn't the US have people waiting outside the embassy 24/7 to snatch him if he ever tries to leave? Could have sworn I read that once.

As far as the high profile sites are concerned, civil discussion is dead.

Twitter is full of hatred. People who disagree with you will threaten you and try to publicly shame you. Someone takes something out of context, then shares it with hundreds/thousands of other like-minded people and attempts to get them all to target you.

Facebook is full of ignorance. Doesn't matter what you say, some ill informed person will speak over you and refute your points. FB is absolutely the worst for this. The public posts about controversial issues is loaded with ignorant people spouting nonsense over others.

Reddit is full of downvote and report abusers. If someone disagrees with you, they and their friends will downvote your comment until it collapses due to the negative vote threshold. The more extremist ones will report every single thing you say and attempt to get you banned.

These sites also have no recourse for abuse. Once you are banned, it is next to impossible to get it overturned.

Title came from the article, and it is rather poor. To summarize the article: 2 properties were searched in connection to a cheat called 'Infamous' that was taken down half a year ago. The cheat was supposedly made by the 5 people in question whos assets have been frozen.

While interesting, I don't think this will become a norm. This is an edge case where these people were pushing this monetized cheating program hard to a lot of people. You have to really disrupt a games online system to warrant targeted investigation like this. As a serious gamer, I wish cheating and cyber attacks were taken much more seriously, but companies don't have the means to investigate and pursue every single infraction.

Agreed. I expected the reasons for leaving to be way more controversial. Most of them are basically just "I left to do something else". Only 2 of the people in that article left due to conflict, all the others just left for other jobs or hobbies.

How else is he supposed to discuss it? Every single time that topic gets brought up in any medium, it gets immediately shut down and disregarded. It's always "This isn't the place to discuss this" or "This isn't the time to discuss this". The exact same thing that happened to the CERN scientist a few weeks ago. He brings up some valid points on gender but since he dared to speak his mind, he was ousted because some people were offended by it. I don't blame him one bit for doing it how he did, it certainly had a drastic effect once people got their hands on it.

As someone with intimate knowledge of console account buying and selling, I can elaborate some.

The main site used for buying stolen/jacked accounts is called ogusers. The screenshots in that article are of ogusers, I recognize the layout.

Most of the people who buy and sell accounts do it for profit and fame. Something among teens these days really drives them to want to be internet famous. Having a 1, 2, or 3 character account name garners attention to these people. 1 letter xbox accounts go for 10-20k. 1 letter social media accounts (twitter and IG mostly) go for anywhere from 10k upwards to 75k. A good amount of the 1 letter accounts on these platforms are bought or stolen, very few original creators own the accounts.

The problem is that people aren't content with getting an account by being the creator of the name. They want accounts by any means necessary. Some of these people do this for a living, they've devised their own secret techniques for gaming the system to get account information so they can game password resets and account retrievals. I know for PSN there is a tightly guarded way to pull the email account and name information from any account. For the most sought after accounts, attackers play the customer support reps like a fiddle. Say the right words and they will happily hand over sensitive information.

Even if you buy an account, there's no telling if you get to keep it. Microsoft has been really trying to crack down on this, and has banned hundreds of original accounts over this. I'm not how PSN handles it. IG has been trying to crack down as well. It is a sad state of affairs. Owning an original account isn't about creating it anymore, it's about how much you will spend to buy that name or who you know that can jack the account. Unfortunately, all these platforms are not setup to handle theft, fraud, and selling. If you lose an account, it is next to impossible in most cases to get it back.

In some cases you can get the account back by providing sensitive account info that only the original owner would know. However, the modern process of 'locking down' a stolen account includes flooding it with fake information to push back the original information past the point of being able to be used.

Good on this guy for speaking some truth, even if he faced flak for it all around. He had the statistics to prove it, and he was discredited. He had the anecdotal experience to back his story, and he was discredited. By daring to say that people should be admitted based on merit and not given free passes into the field based on gender, he was lambasted. There was no rebuttal, the only responses were basically 'I don't like what he said'.

Starting off, this article is extremely biased. I have not seen such anti-male journalism in some time. She is trying to portray pretty much all ASMR creators as victims for making innocent content and that just isn't true. Sure there are a lot of legit ASMR creators whos content is non-sexual and relaxing. However, there are way more sexual and pseudo-sexual ASMR channels that she leads you to believe.

Paypal isn't a bank and should not be used as such. They can suspend/freeze/ban you for any reason under the sun. Paypal has long been known to screw people over. Contrary to the article trying to portray that woman and LGBT people are under some mystical male abuse campaign from PP and YT, men are just as well caught in the net of problems both platforms cast.

Now these legit channels being targeted by report/flag campaigns is bad. There really isn't much recourse on either platform. Once you're punished, you have to go to hell and back to get unpunished. She is right in saying that these platforms are not built to handle edge cases like targeted harassment. She seems to think that sexuality shouldn't be a punishable offense on these platforms, which I think most people would disagree with. While this focuses on this specific case, this points to a broader problem that these platforms in the entirety are subject to abuse from organized groups. Yes ASMR creators were targeted here, but an organized push against most any group on these platforms could result in false bans/suspensions. I don't think this article belongs on HN. From a different source that is more unbiased yes, but this article is absurdly written.

Are you saying that syphilis was widespread among native Americans? Post aside, that is a fascinating fact.

Aren't most non-compete clauses just HR stunts? Every time I hear about some company trying to get employees to sign them, that's almost always followed up by a statement saying it would fall apart if it were taken to court.

TIL: Non-compete clauses are the devil and actively screw people over.

A company as big as Amazon doesn't make as much as it does by treating workers fairly. They are the modern day version of old industrial factories. They take down and out people who they know they can exploit and push them to their limits. I've seen a few places in the poorer section of states where most of the locals are forced to work in a small number of factories/plants. Even in these cases though, they are at least treated like humans. The atmosphere at some of these Amazon warehouses serves to dehumanize the workers. You are not a person, you are an object that is expected to obey very strict rules like a dog. The management at these warehouses is even worse, because it's often very abusive people who wind up in those positions.

Could they face repercussions over this? That is unsettling that they can remotely manipulate your phone without your permission.

I feel this way, but apply it to the whole country. A vast majority of people who grew up in the mid to late 90s act like cannabis was created by the devil himself. But why? I get that most people dislike it because it's been illegal all their life, so they look down on it. I like to use Red from that 70s show as a good example. Look how much he hated it, he hated it with his entire being. Why though? It never did anything to him, never affected him in a negative way, why does he have such an ingrained pure hatred for it? > I do not partake of cannabis. This is just a topic that interests me. Now I understand that the hatred for it in modern politics in large comes from a financial perspective. You get into the whole war on drugs, how it's a talking point for potential candidates, how the funding for it is padding pockets, etc. This hatred goes beyond that though, people despised weed way before it become a common symbol of degeneracy.

It's not just cannabis though. This whole ideology can be applied to many topics. Where older people grew up being taught to hate it, while younger generations seem to be more rational and open to understanding that these taboo subjects may not be as bad as society wants you think. Some other topics that fall into this category include abortion, female workers/pay, war.