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New comment by kissickas in "Googlebook"

kissickas — Wed, 13 May 2026 04:52:59 +0000

They refunded me all the money I spent on the Stadia + games and unlocked the video game controllers so I can use them with other systems... my only regret is that I didn't buy more

New comment by kissickas in "Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters"

kissickas — Tue, 05 May 2026 20:26:08 +0000

Which do you find best? I am using Claude Code but hit the 5-hour limits easily, and burn through the weekly allowance in 3-4 days... and I'm not even using it for work

New comment by kissickas in "Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters"

kissickas — Tue, 05 May 2026 20:24:35 +0000

I only see plans for $8, $20, and $250/month... which one are you using exactly?

https://gemini.google/subscriptions/

New comment by kissickas in "‘No Other Land’ consultant Awdah Hathaleen killed by Israeli settler"

kissickas — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 17:19:14 +0000

I'm sorry, what is Awdah Hathaleen's connection to Hamas?

New comment by kissickas in "Reddit's favorite products in one place"

kissickas — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 15:39:32 +0000

No X1 Carbon on the laptops page? That's surprising... or just interesting (if it's wrong)

(I see the Yoga there, but it's a pretty different product)

New comment by kissickas in "Raw Text Club"

kissickas — Sat, 18 Jun 2022 12:20:12 +0000

Heads up, "ahead of it's time" should be "ahead of its time"

Cool tool!

New comment by kissickas in "10% of households pay more than 80% of taxes on alcohol and cigarettes"

kissickas — Tue, 26 Oct 2021 17:47:17 +0000

> Total sin tax burdens are poorly explained by demographics (including income).

While two most-taxed clusters may be low-income, the researchers found a poor correlation between income and sin tax burden overall.

More detail from the paper:

> The second takeaway is that saying “sin taxes are regressive” or “sin taxes are progressive” largely misses the point. There is much more variation among households within income groups than across them in purchases of sin goods (Figure 3). Even among the lowest-income groups, the majority of households pay negligible amounts of sin taxes, and there are heavy smokers and heavy drinkers at all levels of education and income.

New comment by kissickas in "Netflix's new player breaks the ability to modify the seeking of a playing video"

kissickas — Sun, 17 Oct 2021 14:35:26 +0000

Ironic from a website that requires me to allow javascript to run before I can read a text-and-image blog post.

New comment by kissickas in "Firefox Browser: best for a free web"

kissickas — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 02:30:29 +0000

Caught my attention too so I looked it up. Looks like a great list of goals to me.

> Reveal who is paying for advertisements, how much they are paying and who is being targeted.

> Commit to meaningful transparency of platform algorithms so we know how and what content is being amplified, to whom, and the associated impact.

> Turn on by default the tools to amplify factual voices over disinformation.

> Work with independent researchers to facilitate in-depth studies of the platforms’ impact on people and our societies, and what we can do to improve things.

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/we-need-more-than-deplat...

New comment by kissickas in "Ohio GOP ends attempt to ban municipal broadband after protest from residents"

kissickas — Tue, 29 Jun 2021 22:38:35 +0000

This is an amendment to a bill.

New comment by kissickas in "A from-scratch tour of Bitcoin in Python"

kissickas — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 01:15:42 +0000

Is Tether now backed by a reasonable amount of real dollars? I'm surprised to see it being used in such a serious application after years of hearing how it was a scam.

edit: looked it up, still looks like a total scam. I hope El Salvador is able to get through this without getting screwed and I guess I'll assume Strike (first time I've heard of it) is just as shady until I hear otherwise:

https://coingeek.com/crypto-crime-cartel-tether-using-its-st...

New comment by kissickas in "Tesla Makes More Money Trading Bitcoin Than Selling Cars"

kissickas — Thu, 13 May 2021 15:28:05 +0000

Neither of those things have units on them, so that's obviously not the comparison they were trying to draw. The way I see the comment, labor is more valuable to society than putting up capital is, so the government should incentivize labor by raising the capital gains tax.

New comment by kissickas in "Higher quality audio makes people sound smarter"

kissickas — Thu, 15 Apr 2021 14:27:11 +0000

Thinkpad X1 Carbon, although I'm not sure what the touchscreen support actually looks like (I bought the Windows version of the machine and installed my own Linux distro)

New comment by kissickas in "Bitwarden Send - A trusted way to securely share information with anyone"

kissickas — Fri, 12 Mar 2021 16:44:24 +0000

You're right, edited. Thanks!

New comment by kissickas in "Bitwarden Send - A trusted way to securely share information with anyone"

kissickas — Fri, 12 Mar 2021 15:53:35 +0000

The claim isn't that Telegram's encryption is worse, it's that Telegram's closed-source backend is unauditable.

Your other points are a great example of FUD.

edit: changed clients to backend

New comment by kissickas in "Google News Showcase Launches in Australia"

kissickas — Fri, 05 Feb 2021 00:12:19 +0000

I looked up every newspaper in the list, and I don't see any evident connections to Murdoch (which I found surprising). Am I wrong?

New comment by kissickas in "Google’s approach to replacing the cookie is drawing antitrust scrutiny"

kissickas — Thu, 04 Feb 2021 03:09:20 +0000

You're ignoring the living, moving context that is the adtech industry. It's one with a much higher ratio of middlemen:customers than needed, representatives of whom appear in this article.

New comment by kissickas in "The Dubai Lamp: The “World’s Most Efficient” LED Light Bulb"

kissickas — Mon, 18 Jan 2021 15:48:09 +0000

One underreported angle of the blockade of Qatar was the fact that Qatar continued to supply the UAE with natural gas throughout the several-year affair.

> It pumps around 2 Bcm of gas per day to the UAE.

http://www.gasprocessingnews.com/news/qatar-has-no-plan-to-s...

New comment by kissickas in "I believe US could see rolling series of “Ireland events” over next 2 months"

kissickas — Wed, 13 Jan 2021 19:44:17 +0000

It says 2020 instead of 2021.

New comment by kissickas in "CD Projekt Red is under investigation"

kissickas — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 20:26:05 +0000

You're playing on literally the most playable platform there is (the game is even less buggy on Stadia than on latest-gen consoles).