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indy··on Dropbox announces 20% global workforce reduction
Isn't firing the weak employees the correct long term strategy? Especially with regards to ensuring that the remaining employees stay employed
indy··on Amusing Ourselves to Death (2014)
Dopamine is one hell of a drug.
indy··on Playstation 5 Pro
It's an abbreviation of "proctology"
indy··on Love them or hate them, this couple reign in Russian literature
Cool! I've got both and consider Katz a better writer of English. His prose is just more enjoyable to read and flows much better than P&V's rather too literal translations
indy··on Love them or hate them, this couple reign in Russian literature
A more critical version of Pevear and Volokhonsky's work appears here: https://www.commentary.org/articles/gary-morson/the-pevearsi...

Personally I'd highly recommend reading Michael R. Katz's translation of The Brothers Karamazov instead.

indy··on The Epic Games Store Launches on iOS and Android
If you're on Android try installing the F-Droid app store, lots of open source apps are available on it (and Droid-ify is a good looking client for F-Droid if you want an app store UI with Material design)
indy··on The Puzzle of How Large-Scale Order Emerges in Complex Systems
The Second Law of Thermodynamics
indy··on Apple tries to rein in Hollywood spending after years of losses
Not available for my Pixel 8 which is hardly a niche device.
indy··on Crocotile3D low poly modelling tool
Boy, this makes me feel old. When I was a kid the only way to learn 3d software was to pirate one of the commercial offerings like 3D Studio Max or SoftImage
indy··on Epoch Times CFO charged in $67M crypto money laundering plot
Agreed, but someone in say Argentina or Nigeria will use crypto as that is more attainable.
indy··on Epoch Times CFO charged in $67M crypto money laundering plot
1. Sending money to dangerous people like Julian Assange.

2. Sending money to relatives in the third world

3. Keeping your savings when the currency of your nation is going through hyperinflation

indy··on Veo
As someone who doesn't live in the US this year's Google IO feels like I'm outside looking in at all the cool kids who get to play with the latest toys.
indy··on Toni Morrison's Rejection Letters
I was biased to have negative opinions of many books simply because I was 'forced to read them in school'.

It was only many years later when I chose to read them that I could appreciate their quality.

indy··on Edgar, build a Dyson swarm
Web tech magic
indy··on The Future of the Monetary System [pdf]
No, I'm a different person, not sure how I can prove that to you though?
indy··on The Future of the Monetary System [pdf]
Unfortunately the people on HackerNews tend to be hostile towards Bitcoin so you probably shouldn't expect a very constructive set of comments here.

(learning to ignore these people was the most financially rewarding thing I've done in my life)

indy··on Gemini won't return C++ coding help if you're under 18 "to preserve your safety"
If you want to enforce an ideology upon the public just cloak it with terms like "safety" and "diversity"
indy··on A writer skewered the Formula One scene, then her article vanished
It's a combination of both, the Red Bull has been the most aerodynamically sophisticated car on the grid for a couple of seasons now, but then again I don't think many drivers would have been as successful as Max was last season
indy··on Yuzu emulator developers settle Nintendo lawsuit, pay $2.4M in damages
I'm not pretending that Nintendo is the justice system, although I will admit that the US legal system does confuse me!

The point was that if you have deeper pockets than your opponent then you're able to leverage the legal system to make life hard and stressful for them.

Nintendo has deep pockets and the will to go after anyone it considers a threat to its business model.

indy··on Yuzu emulator developers settle Nintendo lawsuit, pay $2.4M in damages
"and for what?", the what is to send a message to everyone not to screw around with Nintendo. Whether that's morally right is another question.
indy··on How video games use lookup tables
Love that video, his passion for the art form really comes through.
indy··on How video games use lookup tables
Mark J. Ferrari was incredible at utilising palette cycling: http://www.effectgames.com/demos/canvascycle/
indy··on Google CEO calls Gemini completely unacceptable, vows to make structural changes
The mask slipped when you wrote that last sentence.
indy··on Google's Gemini Headaches Spur $90B Selloff
why the sarcasm tag? laying off some Google engineers (and a lot of Google managers, ethicists, trust and safety employees, HR etc) would actually be good for both Google's share price and their products
indy··on Google to pause Gemini image generation of people after issues
That's an Asian person
indy··on Nolan Says Buy Oppenheimer on Blu-ray So No Evil Streaming Service Can Steal It
Wait until the film you want to watch no longer exists.

Instead you'll stream a version that meets the restrictions of the day. Perhaps the soundtrack has been changed due to licensing issues, or entire scenes have been deleted for being politically incorrect (according to whichever politics are in power when you watch the film)

indy··on Where do our atoms come from?
"To throw around some numbers: about 220 petagrams (gigatonnes) of carbon dioxide will be released into the atmosphere this year; around 3% from burning fossil fuels; 44% from the ocean surface; and 53% from the land"

Does the 3% from burning fossil fuels seem too low? I thought that this would make up the majority of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere every year

indy··on Ask HN: Would you stop eating meat after AI unlocks communication with animals?
No
indy··on OpenAI just replaced its core values with completely different ones
I use Kiwi Browser, it's based on Chrome but allows you to install extensions like uBlock
indy··on Ben Fry resigns from the Processing Foundation
It's a reference to Norm Macdonald
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