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If there's one game that should have an infinite number of tests, it's this one.

Having used instacart (through Costco) and walmart grocery delivery almost exclusively for the past 10 months.. I'm more amazed at how cheap it is, and I'm a bit worried that employees are not getting paid enough.

Costco is probably the more 'reasonable' one. They mark up the products probably 5-10%. So this one I feel that the delivery people are probably being paid ok.. although my nearest costco is 16 miles away (about 25min).. so it kind of feels like a steal to be able to get delivery from them for what feels like not a whole lot more.

Walmart is closer, but there are no markups.. and I pay whatever $10/mo for free delivery from them. Order multiple times a month.

I'm honestly not sure I'm going to go back to the stores as often even when things are normal.

One might say, if we are the only life to enjoy the solar system (in any reasonable proximity), then does it really matter?

The find the whole narrative of dehumanising Trump supporters to be sick.

And I find you comparing BLM movement to Trump's supporters "election fraud" bullshit to be absolutely sickening.

Exactly. I'm glad you finally understand.

Are you suggesting 'tolerant' people should tolerate something like, racism? You are a logical moron if you try to make that argument. You know exactly what you are doing, and it's stupid.

when they detect he’s going to say something they don’t like.

Give me a break. You act like they have been cutting out on him for years. It's only been recently this year when he literally lying and calling covid a hoax, telling people to do dangerous things like gather for his rallies during a pandemic / actively saying not to wear masks, and finally this election bullshit.

The networks have gone above and beyond his bs for years- there is a time to take a stand and the last few months have proven that.

That's just called a blog. The value of social media for politicians is the "social" part.

Actually no, the "value" in Twitter for politicians is

* Short succinct messages - people don't want to read a book from their politician for every issue. If it's important and does need more, then they tweet the image of more text or whatever. But most of the time a simple headline does suffice. Otherwise twitter wouldn't be where it is.

* The tweet can be linked from anywhere else on the internet, and everyone "knows" what it should look like and can basically distinguish reality from fake stuff

* Like the above, it's uniform and simple. Someone else commented to me that each politician has access to a website or something. Did anyone else know this? I sure didn't, yet I've seen a billion links to twitter for politicians.

* It would be really sad to learn that politicans are reading replies to their tweets. I don't know how they could get anything else done. Have you ever scanned through a twitter thread from any one of trump's tweets? There is nothing of value, and it's so invaluable that I bet you everyone in the world would be better off with read-only tweets from politicians!

Does anybody have a solution to the bigger underlying question of de-platforming and censorship on online platforms?

Well as far as politics is concerned.. the US Government (and other governments) should make their own twitter like platforms which every active representative has an account, and ANYTHING (barring pure illegal) can be posted.

It doesn't even need to have an actual user base, it can just be somewhere to go to see what your politician is thinking.

In terms of the average person? There is no solution for one that is owned by a corporation. An offshoot of the above is the government could make a social media site that is covered under "free speech that the government cannot take away" and anything not blatantly illegal can be posted/said. I would not advocate for this though.. I think we have plenty of options.

But the one for politicians only is something that should be seriously considered.

I mean, they were going to ban him on January 20, 2021 at 12pm no matter what. The last few days just escalated the timeframe.

Flash: well.. I could have done this too if you didn't ghost me

Do you feel the same way about not being able to play Nintendo games on a Playstation or an Xbox?

Yeah, because me trying to text an Apple phone from a non-apple phone is the same thing as trying to play a nintendo game on an xbox. Fuck off dude.

I pay for the walled garden.

Good for you. If non-Apple people didn't need to communicate with Apple people, there is no issue. But that's not how things work obviously.

Apple is INTENTIONALLY making it difficult for non-Apple people to work with Apple people. My mom is 100% apple, and she literally has problems receiving texts from non-apple phones. She wants me to buy apple products just to make it easier to talk with her!

If you don't see what they are doing you are just plugging your ears and going "lalalala"

That's a bs argument. The FIRST problem is it ONLY running on one ecosystem. The SECOND problem is that it's still dependent on X (which is ALWAYS going to be a problem unless you are making a blockchain messaging service)

Stop ignoring the first one.

Apple isn’t selling my data to advertisers

Yeah, they are instead setting up a walled garden of fuck you. I'm not sure how you can argue it's any better. It's a different class of issues for sure, but it's still bullshit. They intentionally make communication more complicated with non-Apple devices so everyone will buy their expensive hardware.

You know what's funny here? You seem to be actively defending their decision and putting it in the vein of "well they sell hardware so they are going to do anything they can to get you to use their hardware!!". And that's supposed to make it OK? Fuck that logic.

As other people have mentioned, if iMessage would have opened up to other platforms it would probably be what everyone uses and would be GOOD FOR EVERYONE. But instead, they wall it to their shit. My mom constantly tells me she doesn't get my text messages from android to her 100% apple ecosystem. I can't do anything about it. It doesn't make any sense, but it's on Apple. They probably even leave these "unfixed issues" to get everyone to move to imessage just so they will buy their hardware.

Fuck Apple for their decision on this. Stop defending it. It's a horrible decision.

Why does Facebook owe anyone a voice?

If you want a 'voice' then the GOVERNMENT should make a social media platform in which NO ONE at all can be censured. Because your silly free speech argument doesn't have anything to do with private companies, although you already knew that, but conveniently ignore it.

If Trump decides to start posting on HN, does HN owe him a voice?

You are the one making slippery slope arguments, not the other way around.

Whatever you need to tell yourself to sleep at night.

Even Bill Barr just came out

Former Attorney General William Barr said Thursday that President Donald Trump inciting a violent insurrection on Capitol Hill the previous day was a "betrayal of his office and supporters."

https://www.businessinsider.com/former-ag-barr-trump-betraye...

But go ahead and hide behind "well he never ACTUALLY said it!!"

More like religion of greed.

Struggling for me as well.. reddit is as well. But I'm finding other sites are just fine.

Bitcoin becomes less volatile over time

Bitcoin was less volatile than AMZN or AAPL in 2020 (3-month realised volatility)

Not sure what you are smoking. Bitcoin literally just went between about 27k and 34k today. That's about a 20% swing.

Ethereum had a 60% swing.

Not volatile at all! Nope, nope, nope not at all.

So, I hear what you are saying. But, on the other hand, I have been using 2 non-ECC desktops for a workstation/server for the past ~6 years.. and I would be hard pressed to come up with a single situation where either of the machines randomly crashed or applications did anything 'unexpected' (to my knowledge, of course).

My point is, when you say there is a "96% chance of having an error in THREE DAYS", one would EXPECT to be having issues like.. all the time? So I'm not disagreeing with you, but with the amount of non-ECC machines all over the world and how insanely stable modern machines are, it still seems like a very low risk.

Now of course I agree that if you want to take every precaution, go ECC, but simple observation prove that this "problem" can't be as bad as the numbers are saying.

I think that's an insightful way to put things. While getting a chance to do some science with my kids during this crazy time, I was forced to put things into words and (relatively) simple terms for things that I always felt I was lacking knowledge, because of a similar type of teaching as you described. But as I began teaching some simple concepts, I for some reason had a better understand than I ever have, and was able to put them into very simple terms.

I feel like so many teachers are on autopilot with various topics that they don't know how to explain the most simple part of a concept, and instead make it infinitely more complicated and it seems magical.

What kind of "feedback" do you get from the mussels in a polluted environment? Is it death or something more interesting?

So your premise is if we had done absolutely nothing we would be better off? That doesn't make any sense. If that were true, when lockdowns stopped the deaths would have stopped or rapidly slowed down, but they certainly haven't.

Can you imagine how bad everything would have been without the initial lockdown? Fucking hell, think of a city like New York if NOTHING WAS DONE.

Subsequent lockdowns would NOT have been needed if people would have listened to basic fucking things like: wear a mask, try not to go out unless you really need to, and keep some distance. But no, people are just selfish as hell and it's making it worst for the rest of us. Doesn't help that you have some certain politicians who actively made people resist doing basic things to help out.

Why does everyone have to look at everything as an "investment"? I bought a house because I wanted my family to grow up in a house that suits us. We all need a place to live. Really tired of everything being looked at from an investment sort of view... people are OBSESSED with maximizing everything and enjoying nothing.

I guess HN will have to go as well, all the misleading articles and posts on here.

Are you converting 50% of everything you make into Bitcoin?

Of course you aren't. Only people with stupid money would be making such stupid decisions.

What a stupid fucking title

Technically speaking, Okung is still being paid in fiat. Behind the scenes, however, is Lightning Network magic: Strike receives a direct deposit from his team, the Carolina Panthers, and then swaps dollars for bitcoin.

No sane person thought it would be a total disruption- that's absurd.

But the fact is it brings an entirely new genre of games that can simply cannot be played on a keyboard/mouse/joystick & monitor.

However you seem like someone who enjoys pretending like VR is a little fad and doesn't offer anything new to the game space- so whatever.