Hacker News: select1https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=select1Hacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Wed, 19 Aug 2026 17:53:43 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by select1 in "Meta's blockbuster trial draws parallels to big tobacco"]]>No one is breaking into cars to pay for Facebook, but they absolutely are with regards to heroin.

]]>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 03:37:04 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49356411select1https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49356411https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49356411<![CDATA[New comment by select1 in "Meta's blockbuster trial draws parallels to big tobacco"]]>I draw the line at physical compulsion, but everyone is different.

]]>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 03:36:31 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49356403select1https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49356403https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49356403<![CDATA[New comment by select1 in "Meta's blockbuster trial draws parallels to big tobacco"]]>"By the early 1960s, however, Philip Morris scientists had discovered that ammonia could also be used to increase the free nicotine in cigarette smoke, providing a more powerful nicotine kick than the milder low-pH tobaccos traditionally used in American-blend cigarettes."

They referred to it as 'crack nicotine' internally. It was an entire, giant scandal. They made a movie about it.

This product that kills the users of it with remarkably high rates and has effectively no positive use is fundamentally different from light and sound.

]]>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 03:36:07 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49356400select1https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49356400https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49356400<![CDATA[New comment by select1 in "Meta's blockbuster trial draws parallels to big tobacco"]]>Physical compulsion is a pretty big difference.

]]>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 03:22:57 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49356272select1https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49356272https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49356272<![CDATA[New comment by select1 in "Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full"]]>The ownership check you are referring to is a local check. There is another check (involving EncryptedAppTickets) which is not local, but far fewer games use that.

CEG is long dead/was broken immediately in a pragmatic, automatable way.

]]>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 04:26:12 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49341240select1https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49341240https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49341240<![CDATA[New comment by select1 in "AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)"]]>When it's a problem, you should both expect to be unemployed fairly rapidly. Progress isn't going to stop solely because you want to pick 'excessively long comments' as a hill to die on.

]]>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 04:19:20 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49341204select1https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49341204https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49341204<![CDATA[New comment by select1 in "AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)"]]>And he has bosses. And are they okay with some whatever being an obstacle to work getting done? Probably not.

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