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Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32660447

I'm in the same situation as you were. Has there been a price drop? It seems there wasn't one in my region...

> The Factorio price in Russia has long been £7.70 (₽520). However, on July 14, the price rose suddenly to £147.99 (₽10,000). This price increase came without any notice or acknowledgement from Wube Software.

Interestingly, they have recently (maybe on the same day?) also increased the price in the UK from £21.00 to £25.00, and also without any notice or acknowledgement... [1]

I find this surprising, coming from a company that takes particular pride in not running sales, and where their rationale for this is that they don't want different people to pay different prices for the same game [2, as I commented on another HN discussion here]

[1] https://steamdb.info/app/427520/ [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30469755

"Vale tudo" can also be translated as "Everything Goes/Everything Allowed". It's also a brazilian martial art

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vale_Tudo

A bit of a stretch, but I remarked upon #ACE71C (acetic), which is an oily, vinegary green

I'm not sure about a deliberate ruse. In my experience, that level of forward planning is rare in big companies.

What is clear to me is that hybrid is the worst of both worlds: Incurring the many costs of having to come to the office, only to find that such and such colleague is at home, and there is little to zero added value to your presence there.

So from that, it follows naturally that many companies will slippery-slope into full time in the office, aducing that it is an advantage over hybrid.

More to your point, the book “Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone” by Rajiv Chandrasekaran is a scathing indictment on this system, and how incompetent apparatchiks were chosen over less politically connected entities, and how this had a direct hand in the result of the occupation. Strongly recommended!

Do you think this was a factor when they decided to call bytes (data information unit) "octets" instead?

Not at all, thanks for considering it :)

Maybe a "[1975]" tag is in order, to better indicate that it doesn't refer to current events?

This was a delightfully thorough thread. Thank you!

This thread caused me to look up why they don't do sales. I was a bit frustrated at first; but I must say, after reading their rationale, that now I'm kinda convinced.

To quote one of the Factorio mods/staff:

> It isn't about visibility or sales, its about respecting the players who have already purchased the game. We don't want to reward the people who hold off on buying the game, the game is a price we find reasonable, and this is the deal. If you think it is priced too high, then it is your choice to not purchase, and we hope that with enough time, and extra development, we will be able to convince you of its value.

Sources:

https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?p=159626#p159626

https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-140

https://www.reddit.com/r/factorio/comments/8stbnl/psa_factor...

That's next on my list now. Thank you!

Based on this comment alone, I can tell you would enjoy "The moon is a harsh mistress" by Robert Heinlein. Recommended if you haven't read it already!

It should be noted that this is also the case in the UK today.

I have the same pet peeve. It irks me that Patreon takes pride in not accepting one-off payments.

> I’ve been working from home for the past 18 months now and at present there’s no indication from my employer that I’ll be going back to full time work any time soon.

First of all, lucky you! I have been WFH since the whole kerfuffle started, but now and then there are noises about making us go back to the very contagious place.

What works for me is to keep it small, incremental and consistent, as per "Atomic habits" by James Clear[0].

I researched exercises for different muscles using MuscleWiki, a Show HN from a few years ago [1], then used a private Github repository (basically a .txt list) to hold my "daily commitment", ie. the exercises and reps I commit to doing every day (or rather Mon-Fri, as I rest weekends).

It started tiny, something to the tune of 5 abs. But, if I meet my commitment for a whole week, then I allow myself to increase it (ie. add a new exercise with 5 reps to the list, or pick an existing exercise and increase its reps by 5).

To me, it has finally cracked the consistency issue, and I'm at a stage where I can notice my shape getting better.

[0] https://jamesclear.com/atomic-habits [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25854523 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11202522

Edited to add: The best thing about it is that it doesn't need a lot of specialized equipment or space. I use a free-ish corner of my home office for floor exercises, and bought a couple of dumbbells, and that's about it.

I have seen this "exception to the exception" before.

> When "u" makes the same sound as the "y" in "you," or "o" makes the same sound as "w" in "won," then a is used. The word-initial "y" sound ("unicorn") is a glide [j] phonetically, which has consonantal properties; consequently, it is treated as a consonant, requiring "a."

- a union - a united front - a unicorn

Source: https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/grammar/articles_...

Genuine follow-up question, do you read many Amazon-bought kindle ebooks on your kindle? If so, how do you load them to your reader? Do you download them somehow and then use Calibre?

Asking because in my case, something like 95% of the ebooks I read are bought in the Kindle Store, and then downloaded OTA to the reader.

Friendly reminder that salaries in the US are substantially bigger than in the UK/Europe.

For context, making GBP175000/year or over would put you in the 99th percentile for the UK.

Source: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/percentile-points-f...

In terms of other recommendations, I can bring up "The design of everyday things", by Donald Norman. If I'm not mistaken, it's the book that popularized the concept of "affordances" in design.

Too little, too late in my opinion. I've long gone to a client that loads the timeline chronologically.

What's the case against Apollo? I use it and it seems to provide everything I need.

Because Electronic Voting is generally considered too attack-prone to be trusted.

Relevant Tom Scott video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkH2r-sNjQs

@dang , we currently have two posts in the front page addressing broadly the same story, this one and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28452628

Perhaps it's worth linking them or adding a comment to that effect?

> what is it with mountains that makes some men go macho..

I remember reading a hypothesis on this phenomenon in Steven Pinker's "The better angels of our nature". If memory serves, it was because mountain societies, like that of the appalachians, tended to be naturally more honor-based. So keeping one's family's reputation was very important. This resulted in more conservative societies.

I'm definitely not making justice to the argument, but I found it interesting. Can recommend the book for a delve on this.

There's some videos where it seems to reproduce in the mobile version of Google Maps. See:

https://www.portaldecadiz.com/provinciacadiz/63098-video-est...

> If we exclude the humans, the wolf is the animal that had saved more human lives in the history

Would you mind elaborating on this point? In what way has the wolf saved uncountable human lives? I've only ever seen it portrayed as a human and livestock predator.

EDIT: I've been reading up on the matter. Historically, the wolf has been associated with disease control, as they tend to remove the weakest, sickest members of a given herd from the genetic pool.

Absolutely agree. If an app stops working just to show a message like "your App is out of date, download the latest version to continue", it's an instant one-star review from me.

Start by reading a word a day!