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csin··on Ask HN: What movies changed your perception of reality or life?
This one's a deep rabbit hole: https://.reddit.com/r/matrix/comments/11vfp8p/npwas_the_matr...

TLDR: The Wachowskis who wrote and directed the film, later became trans. There's a lot of closet trans themes hidden in the film (closet gays/lesbians can relate as well).

csin··on My cat alerted me to a DDoS attack
https://np.reddit.com/r/AnimalsBeingJerks/comments/cgkiif/i_...
csin··on Crime rings trafficking sand
You would have to transport it regardless. Whether it's crushed rock or sand.
csin··on To revive Portland, officials seek to ban public drug use
Jail and Admin manual is 383 pages long: https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/jail-adm...

Can you even come up with 383 annoying things you require your guests to comply with... let alone 383 PAGES.

csin··on The Carrot Problem
Or you are liable to go broke thinking your site can make money with only the "lovely strategies" without the "dark patterns".
csin··on Killing Community
I mean it's pretty telling of which demographics gets weeded out... when rebuttal stats, casually leave out race and sexuality %'s.
csin··on Killing Community
Is that what you took away from reading that post? To me it sounds like the blogger is using "ruined" in a sarcastic way.
csin··on Killing Community
"In 4chan a literal nazi, a drag queen, a bona-fide pedophile and a luddite can exchange opinions..."

This is overly romantic. I just visited /g/. Less than 1 min in, I see "nigger" and "faggot".

I'm sure there are blacks, gays and drag queens that see value in 4chan and are desensitized to those words. But, I'd estimate 99% of the population is white men/boys with antisocial tendencies.

Which is fine. There's nothing wrong with like minded people building a village. But let's not pretend the culture of the site, doesn't instantly weed out a huge chunk of multiple demographics.

csin··on What broke Sweden? Real estate bust exposes big divide
Temporary Foreign Worker: https://www.canada.ca/en/employment-social-development/progr...
csin··on FTX balance sheet, revealed
https://www.theonion.com/crypto-confidence-soars-after-ceo-d...
csin··on Problems at Roblox
May I ask. As someone without children. Why not just educate your daughter on the topic of pedophiles? With that awareness, she can play whatever she wants.
csin··on The rising human cost of sports betting
Free credit: Most sportsbooks give you signup bonus/free money. The caveat is that you have to make enough bets to unlock the free money. Hence drawing customers to bet more.

3k wagered: They were betting 3 thousand dollars everyday.

Limited to pennies on the dollar: Most likely a hyperbole. Most sportsbooks will eventually limit your betsizes to say $40 maximum bet on said event.

csin··on The rising human cost of sports betting
Most sportsbooks do eventually limit the bets sizes for consistent winners. But if word gets out, all you do is ban winning bettors and take on losing bettors. No one would want to play with you, and your business suffers. So it's a balancing act.

This is why the popular sportsbooks still allow big bets for reputation's sake.

csin··on Video game developers at Activision Blizzard say they'll walk out Wednesday
It's a common trope in standup comedy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKLTsqyzqmc
csin··on Pitch doctoring should be the biggest scandal in sports
Know nothing about baseball. What I can gather from the article:

"Pitchers head in there before games to swipe tongue depressors, which they use to apply their sticky stuff to wherever they choose to hide it, then return afterward to grab rubbing alcohol to dissolve the residue."

"Once baseballs are out of play, they are supposed to be thrown into the home dugout, where they can be collected by MLB for analysis. Some teams, observers note, have tried tossing especially sticky balls into the visitors’ dugout."

csin··on Firefox 86.0
This is a game changer for sports bettors.

Me personally, will probably stick to one video playing in the background. It's more for ambient noise. On days when there are 4 nba games going on simutaneously, I'm far too busy fiddling with my spreadsheet/nba feed to be actually watching the game.

csin··on The largest study to date on the genetic basis of sexuality (2019)
Friends don't exactly grow on trees.

My best friend died in his 20's. So, I have a cynical view on friendship.

It's very time intensive to find new friends and filter out the one's that don't make the cut. Not to mention the awkwardness that comes with breaking up with the one's that don't make the cut.

csin··on Why does the government let a company like Herbalife stay in business?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betting_on_Zero
csin··on Browser Extensions I Can't Live Without
I think they have already? In the old days, you just click once to install a mouse gesture addon.

Now you have to dig into the settings. And give it permission before it could work. At first I found that annoying. But upon reflection. I guess it's a necessary evil.

Edit: I misread the parent comment.

csin··on A wild bug: 1970s Intel 8271 disc chip ate my data
Forgive me for being pedantic. The agent's name in Mission Impossibles is Ethan Hunt.
csin··on Chinese companies say they can’t afford to pay workers now
China hasn't been a "Communist" country since the 80's. When Deng Xiaoping took over after Mao's death.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deng_Xiaoping

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_economic_reform

The word "Communism" is irrelevant for economists. China is still refer to as that for the sake of historical significance.

csin··on Bumblebee decline points to mass extinction, according to study
Yea. I'm not sure what's gonna happen to wild flowers/vegetation after the wild bees die out though :(
csin··on Bumblebee decline points to mass extinction, according to study
Apparently honey bees are gonna be fine. Humans will keep them alive. It's the wild bees that show signs of mass extinction.

https://www.wired.com/2015/04/youre-worrying-wrong-bees/

csin··on A Cheating Scandal Rocking the Poker World
Joey can get technical at times. On top of that, he's more of a Pot Limit Omaha player, than Texas Holdem. So he tends to gloss over the nuances of Texas Holdem.

Doug Polk is more "user friendly" if you want to learn more about high level poker.

It's a 4 hour video. If you got any specific questions, shoot.

csin··on The Noah's Ark Problem (1998) [pdf]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovbF0D2wySI

People don't wanna be fcked.

csin··on A natural experiment study of the effects of imprisonment on violence
I wonder if you'll be singing a different tune, if you were born black...
csin··on Vodafone Found Hidden Backdoors in Huawei Equipment
Not be mention being fined in multiple countries for shady marketing practices!
csin··on The Business of Storytelling in the Age of the Algorithm
I've seen guys in a poker room use it as a fancy way of saying their "decision making strategy".
csin··on Uber Revenue Slows as Quarterly Loss Surges to $1.1B
You're not gona like this answer. They need capital because they are making loses year on year. Without the capital, they will be run out of money.
csin··on Facebook Morale Takes a Tumble Along with Stock Price
I think trading analogies is more healthier than the Ben-Shapiro-I-win-because-I-sound-smarter-than-you style of debate.

We can trade analogies. And figure out where Facebook should lie, on the spectrum of analogies.

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