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I suspect decreasing tips also has a lot to do with tip exhaustion, I think it's becoming increasingly acceptable (at least in my circles) to hit the "custom" option and put in a smaller-that-suggested tip (or even nothing at all).

Are you making the argument that they should have a default API route? I don't think that's very common.

I think the moderation is almost all automated, Valve has was too few employees to do much manual moderation.

Totally agree Steam is a great platform, I just hope for more competition from other great platforms.

I disagree with the statement "The reason game developers are willing to give Valve 30% of their revenue is because the Steam marketplace is packed with super gamers who throw money at games they have no intention of playing."

I believe the actual reason is that Steam has a near monopoly on PC game distribution, and you'll get a lot of hate from consumers if you distribute on competing platforms (Epic) but not Steam.

Taking it a step further - 30% of revenue seems absurdly high for what Steam offers (see the app store for a similar racket), and I hope Valve faces much stiffer competition in the future so they're forced to bring down their cut.

I feel like this would fit the bell curve meme -

Novice dev writes simple code

Intermediate dev writes complex code

Expert dev writes simple code

I'll hold you to that in a couple months :)

Theranos survived for years after people first began raising the alarm... if you'd somehow figured out a way to make a large bet against it, there's a decent change the market would have remained irrational longer than you could have remained solvent unless you were very lucky with your timing.

Totally possible this time is different... but I'm more making the point that if I'd bet against Tesla each time it looked like they would tank, I'd be very broke.

At least historically, Tesla stock has shown a consistent ability to defy reality.

No pressure, but if you feel comfortable with it... would you share the specific contracts you bought? I'll be interested to see how it works out.

Tesla has proven to be very good at lying, moving goalposts, and insisting that this time [x] is right around the corner. I don't know what would be different this time. They might launch it with, like, 5 cars total, or have it be 100% teleoperated, or limit it to side roads.

They might require the passenger to sit in the drivers seat and take liability, or push it back a few more months, or only run it at 3AM when there is no traffic.

I don't think any of these would tank the stock price, since historically Tesla has gotten away with similar skulduggery. I learned the hard way many years ago to not bet against Tesla, and I don't see anything here that would override that lesson.

Fingers crossed for you though - I definitely think Tesla is irrationally priced, and there would be a certain justice in that overinflated valuation sinking down to reality.

I’m not sure if Postgres would have enough horizontal scaling to accommodate the insane volume of reads and writes. I would be super interested to be proven wrong though… anyone know of a cluster being run at that scale?

Opiates and amphetamines seem like they obviously have a different risk profile (and resultant societal impact) than nicotine or caffeine. Somewhat off topic, but I’ve always wondered if alcohol would still be legal if it wasn’t grandfathered in by, like, every single culture ever.

> Kamil Hamad disappeared and it is rumored that he received US$1 million, a fake passport and a visa to the US.

Given the chain of events detailed already sounds like it was ripped from a spy novel, I'm pretty skeptical of this claim.

How does it compare to uipath when it comes to orchestration? In my experience, a lot of the low code tools don’t make it easy to monitor automation health, validate outputs, and set retry policies… that’s an area where I’d kill to see a tool that improves on the incumbents.

Credit union deposit rates are usually tied to how much they need deposits, as opposed to what prime/sofr/fed are at. Credit unions whose lending isn’t keeping up with deposits (which is especially common in smaller CUs) will keep rates low to avoid paying a bunch of interest of funds that they can’t use productively.

Excel can open, modify and save CSVs, in my experience some users won’t even notice they’re not editing a native excel file.

Are lasers typically able to reflect off of surfaces that diffuse light (ie drywall)? I’m totally ignorant when it comes to laser safety, apologies if this is a stupid question .

The key is that for every Apple, there are a ton of companies we don’t even remember the names of that went out of business or otherwise did not beat the SP500.

Put another way - if you can reliably pick the next Apple before anyone else, you should go work in finance and make tons of money.

Is that a method anyone has ever used to distribute paid, multi-GB software (or ever will for that matter)? I’m pretty sure Kaspersky is fully closed source anyways. This argument seems really roundabout and ineffective.

The woman in the article was driving a car, so no?

I'm not arguing that speed plays a factor, but you should still wear a helmet.

I know two people who had brain damage (like, serious damage that persists years later) from low speed falls - one was literally standing still, and the fall sent them to the hospital for a week. The other one was low speed, just starting off after stopping at the bottom of an uphill section. Not sure the exact details of what happened, but same story - fall -> hospital -> permanent loss of cognitive abilities and some change to personality.

Totally agree that if a truck runs you over, helmet probably won't do much. But a helmet will totally be the difference between an embarassing fall with a few minor scrapes, and one of the most (negatively) impactful moments of your life.

Funding secured?

Who are all these people egressing gb/mo/customer? Does everyone except me work at Netflix?

That is fascinating, thank you!

Would this require a temperature gradient to function? My understanding is that a device that converts heat into power would violate thermodynamics.

I think the concept is somewhat fatally flawed, so I don’t really have any suggestions about how to improve it.

I totally get that I’m just throwing a bunch of problems at you without providing solutions, sorry I know that’s not very fun to deal with. It definitely shows through that you are doing this with good intentions!

I hope you figure out solid solutions to the issues… if in five years I’m playing on servers that use a version of your system to do a better job of keeping the cheaters/griefers off, I will definitely owe you one!

How do you tell the difference between someone being boosted by a cheater, and someone playing with their friend, who they don’t know is a cheater? I think the distinction to me is whether there is reasonable doubt. If a player has a VAC ban, sure, not much doubt there. But queuing with cheaters seems murkier! I’m not sure how you’d prove boosting by watching a replay, but I could be missing something.

I think a service like this is incredibly prone to false-positives and abuse, especially if you’re going to try to flag subjective things such as throwing or smurfing.

It also seems like it could be damaging, and I’m skeptical of this the “proof” in all of these proof-based accusations of boosting I’m seeing on the site. If I can find the steam ID of the owner of the site, I know who my first totally-proof-based report of boosting will be against!

The scroll bar appears to be missing from the article. In case the author is reading the comments: was this deliberate? If so, I'd be really interested to hear the thought process behind the design decision.

In my eyes, the fact the UUIDs (or specifically v4, as mentioned in the article) encode no information is an advantage. I don’t think encoding the creation date into the UUID is likely to be a huge security hole, but I can imagine some instances where you would want to keep that secret, or at least not have a good reason to publish it.

I would also argue, strongly, that if you are planning to use the datetime an account/event/item was generated, you should track it separately from the UUID, in a dedicated column.

This isn’t intended to refute the article - it was an interesting read and I definitely learned some stuff, but rather to provide an argument for why you might want to stick with v4.

What is the legal status of a US citizen selling a 0-day targeting an American company to the American government? Is it legal?