Hacker News: riscy

New comment by riscy in "Over 36,500 killed in Iran's deadliest massacre, documents reveal"

riscy — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 00:33:01 +0000

Part of the motivation for these protests was the inflation making it hard to afford everyday living. Not working means even less money.

New comment by riscy in "Over 36,500 killed in Iran's deadliest massacre, documents reveal"

riscy — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 00:28:14 +0000

Israel has killed more than double that in Gaza, and that’s only what’s been confirmed as many bodies are under rubble and millions are left living in tents: https://aje.io/5b4h1e

New comment by riscy in "Starlink is currently experiencing a service outage. Our team is investigating"

riscy — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 20:01:05 +0000

Any failure that causes a loss of control or communication with the satellites, especially as a result of attack or software update rolled out to many of them that contains a latent bug.

New comment by riscy in "Cancer DNA is detectable in blood years before diagnosis"

riscy — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 21:50:41 +0000

How do you convince those pre-diabetic people to use a GLP-1? There was quite a bit of backlash about the one-time injection COVID vaccine when it was mandated.

New comment by riscy in "Apple says it will add 20k jobs, spend $500B, produce AI servers in US"

riscy — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 19:23:52 +0000

For a simple version bump, I feel like brew is fine. Or do you have other tooling updates in mind?

New comment by riscy in "Luck Be a Landlord Might Be Banned from Google Play"

riscy — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 21:21:47 +0000

You should go to the casinos yourself and find out! As someone who's made it to late game Luck Be a Landlord, you will feel right at home!

New comment by riscy in "Luck Be a Landlord Might Be Banned from Google Play"

riscy — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 20:05:43 +0000

> I'm not trying to be mean here, but it feels like you have no idea how a slot machine works...

It has every aspect of the slot machines I was playing just 2 weekends ago at casinos in Reno, but without credits being deducted from my balance per spin. Instead, in this game, you must pay lump sums from your credit balance to the Landlord after N spins. It's thinly disguised gambling with fake credits, but with a "Gamble now, pay later" twist.

EDIT: my mistake, it appears from the video you also pay one credit per spin, in addition to the rent.

New comment by riscy in "Luck Be a Landlord Might Be Banned from Google Play"

riscy — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 19:42:28 +0000

>The cost per spin is the thing that makes it gambling.

The "landlord" aka casino is constantly requiring that you pay `X credits within N spins` or else it's game over. That is just moving when the subtraction of player's credits happens from every spin to every few spins. It's effectively X/N credits per spin, per "rent" notice. That's a core game mechanic.

You realize you're trying to argue that this is appropriate for children, where the whole game is they pretend to be a gambling addict trying to make their ever-increasing rent payments (which children don't have) by taking spins at a video slot machine.

New comment by riscy in "Luck Be a Landlord Might Be Banned from Google Play"

riscy — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 18:42:17 +0000

> Walmart is selling one right now

The ESRB and Walmart are OK with kids playing a casino gambling simulator, but that doesn’t mean Google or Apple should be too.

For a parent who looks at their kid playing on their phone with a Vegas-style video slot machine on the screen, complete with a "Spin" button, it appears to be gambling. At a minimum, it’s normalizing real-life casino gambling motifs for their child. Some may find that objectionable for children, and it appears the tech companies agree.

If you can't see that this is 99% of a video slot machine game, just without any cost per spin and 8-bit graphics, then maybe you should visit a casino: https://youtu.be/Vaw2g0tQo58?feature=shared&t=102

New comment by riscy in "Luck Be a Landlord Might Be Banned from Google Play"

riscy — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 15:37:43 +0000

That’s why replica guns are _required_ to have bright orange tips on the barrel: so other people (like police) know it’s not real.

If this game is centered around a Vegas-style slot machine aesthetic & animation, people will think it’s gambling.

New comment by riscy in "Apple Releases iCloud Passwords Add-On for Firefox"

riscy — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 21:13:17 +0000

There is iCloud for Windows: https://support.apple.com/guide/icloud-windows/what-is-iclou...

New comment by riscy in "Mazda's $10 Subscription for Remote Start Sparks Backlash"

riscy — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 21:17:49 +0000

US tariffs were put in to prevent Chinese cars from competing here too.

New comment by riscy in "Beirut airport bans pagers, walkie-talkies on all flights"

riscy — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 06:17:12 +0000

Yes, Hezbollah is a political party and militia rolled into one that uses terrorism achieve their goals. But there are no good guys here.

Likud is a terrorist organization that killed thousands of Palestinians through the IDF. Not to mention Frenchmen, Americans, and Arabs. Their forces recently bombed schools, refugee centers, and other "safe" zones in Gaza. They've fired indiscriminately at reporters and humanitarian aid groups. The party's espoused policy is against statehood for Palestinians and instead encourage settlement of their territory, even through violence.

New comment by riscy in "Beirut airport bans pagers, walkie-talkies on all flights"

riscy — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 23:49:54 +0000

Hezbollah is a political party that holds seats in Lebanon’s parliament. It’s bizarre to paint them with a broad brush.

New comment by riscy in "Beirut airport bans pagers, walkie-talkies on all flights"

riscy — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 23:13:46 +0000

The difference is that Western media only refers to the detonation of boobytrapped devices that have injured thousands of civilians as an “intelligence operation” rather than a terror attack.

New comment by riscy in "Swift 6"

riscy — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 22:37:58 +0000

Can you explain how result builders are half-baked?

They’ve been used for more than SwiftUI by now. The Regex support since 5.7 uses them: https://www.hackingwithswift.com/swift/5.7/regexes

New comment by riscy in "Microsoft confirms that Windows 11 Recall AI is not optional"

riscy — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 16:46:37 +0000

It’s not about size. Maximizing profit without losing too many customers is a major focus of business education.

New comment by riscy in "AirTags key to discovery of Houston's plastic recycling deception"

riscy — Sun, 01 Sep 2024 02:38:06 +0000

The plethora of crappy, bootleg cables with USB-C connectors that are single purpose (power only, low-speed data only, etc) has created plenty of e-waste, in addition to confusion. I don’t see how this is an improvement over the licensing model, where you know every cable works the same.

New comment by riscy in "Google loses antitrust suit over search deals on phones"

riscy — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 06:26:31 +0000

Are Chrome plugins capable enough to sustain a paid store model? I thought they were becoming more restricted to stifle ad blockers.

New comment by riscy in "World markets shaken over fears of U.S. recession as sell-offs deepen"

riscy — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 19:37:44 +0000

One missed jobs report is a convenient reason, but I don't think that's it. Investors were upset the Fed didn't cut rates just before that report dropped, so they're doing a collective sell-off to force the Fed's hand.