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New comment by emsy in "Exit Tax: Leave Germany before your business gets big"

emsy — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 07:01:17 +0000

Ah yes, the Reichsfluchtsteuer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reich_Flight_Tax

New comment by emsy in "One diet soda a day increases type 2 diabetes risk by 38%"

emsy — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 08:49:25 +0000

"I have never seen a thin person drinking Diet Coke." - President Donald Trump

Steam removes games due to pressure from payment processors

emsy — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 05:46:15 +0000

Article URL: https://automaton-media.com/en/news/steam-rules-updated-to-prohibit-content-that-violates-rules-set-forth-by-payment-processors-and-banks/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44590081

Points: 2

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New comment by emsy in "The new literalism plaguing today’s movies"

emsy — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 05:36:02 +0000

The T-Rex bit is not a joke, the line is said seriously. Also, watch Jurassic Park. Good movie.

New comment by emsy in "The Demoralization is just Beginning"

emsy — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 12:18:00 +0000

It’s true for Germany. There recently was a case of a podcaster whose acquaintances were tapped and was apprehended while walking with his 1yo for posting memes. An AfD politician was fined 6000€ for posting crime statistics. A man had his house searched for sharing a meme of calling a politician something along the lines of „idiot“. There’s also the 60 minutes interview where prosecutors brag about confiscating devices for posting memes.

From what I hear from acquaintances and social media, the UK is even worse.

New comment by emsy in "We don't need startups, we need Digital-Mittelstand"

emsy — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 10:03:51 +0000

It makes as much sense as regulating nuclear weapons when you have none.

New comment by emsy in "Show HN: A portable hash map in C"

emsy — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 10:06:47 +0000

You can't target ancient compilers.

New comment by emsy in "X Algorithm Feeds Users Political Content Whether They Want It or Not"

emsy — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 17:43:35 +0000

I have an account I exclusively use to follow users of a certain topic. I don’t really get political content, even when using the for you tab. That being said I’d love for there to be an option to ditch political content on my main account.

New comment by emsy in "Desktop Windowing on Android Tablets"

emsy — Sun, 22 Sep 2024 21:04:39 +0000

Imagine the iPad with an actual OS. Unfathomable.

New comment by emsy in "Thoughts and Observations in the Wake of Apple's 'It's Glowtime' Keynote"

emsy — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 20:23:00 +0000

I love the fat nano. I was said when its battery died. I love my iPhone Mini (besides iOS being a bit too dumbed down still). Apple should make more hardware for niches.

New comment by emsy in "Apple WWDC Event Will Show Whether It Can Be a Force in AI Industry"

emsy — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 05:59:23 +0000

I’m increasingly bearish on Apple. I have the impression that they basically make toys for adult these days (no, not that kind of toys). My initial amazement for the Vision was immediately dampened by the fact that it was released by Apple and realizing they get to decide what I’m allowed to run on it (you know, like on a kids device). I’m sure their AI will follow the same pattern: locked down and neutered to the effect of being a gimmick.

New comment by emsy in "Could I use the iPad as my only computer?"

emsy — Tue, 28 May 2024 19:42:56 +0000

I agree, but this is a new problem for Apple. The iPhone was famously introduced as a cannibalizing product.

New comment by emsy in "Could I use the iPad as my only computer?"

emsy — Tue, 28 May 2024 19:37:12 +0000

My wife is on her third Surface because she can work on them. Meanwhile her iPad is used for YouTube and Netflix. The surface is a bad tablet but a great computer. I think the iPad has potential to be the tablet computer and it doesn’t need a dual boot into MacOS to achieve it, but the current app model with files as second class citizens, no real background processing and no child processes is just too restrictive for most professional workflows. In the end most apps need to export their result to a real computer, which means the iPad is not a real computer.

New comment by emsy in "Could I use the iPad as my only computer?"

emsy — Tue, 28 May 2024 15:35:03 +0000

The iPad is the „you’re holding it wrong“ philosophy applied to the whole OS. The problem is Apple is unable to make tradeoffs, which is exemplified by the lack of a calculator app because „you can’t just take the iPhone calculator and resize it for the iPad“ (yes you can and it’s better than not having a calculator so at all).

New comment by emsy in "Giant batteries are transforming the way the U.S. uses electricity"

emsy — Tue, 07 May 2024 19:13:01 +0000

I wonder how much return to work (as opposed to working from home) contributes to this.

New comment by emsy in "Could a video game developer win the Nobel Prize for Literature?"

emsy — Sat, 20 Apr 2024 10:54:31 +0000

Visual novels are like choose your own adventure books with pictures. Are those books games? Is it useful to classify them as such?

New comment by emsy in "A first look at Europe's alternative iPhone app stores"

emsy — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 07:33:35 +0000

The one week limitation is so mind bogglingly stupid, it’s something only Apple could come up with.

New comment by emsy in "Neuralink patient controls games by thinking during interview"

emsy — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 23:03:15 +0000

As soon as you can stimulate tactile impressions it's over. You can put on your VR Headset and be in a completely different world. Eventually the interface for eyes and ears will improve, but tactility would be a huge step towards being in a completely virtual world.

New comment by emsy in "An observational study of programming and cannabis intoxication"

emsy — Sat, 02 Mar 2024 20:52:19 +0000

From personal experience, logic skills are significantly impaired, but when I’m stuck on a problem and high I can think of „out of the box“ solutions more easily that I later implement.

New comment by emsy in "Apple reverses course: app must pay 30% App Store fee on tips sent to teachers"

emsy — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 06:35:27 +0000

You can make the same mistakes you warn others about actually (and the App Store is not the only offender in this regard).