Hacker News: throwaway2048

New comment by throwaway2048 in "Valve is testing ARM64 support for popular games"

throwaway2048 — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 05:44:08 +0000

all valve games are linux native, as are lots of steam releases

New comment by throwaway2048 in "Square where Julius Caesar was killed opens to the public in Rome"

throwaway2048 — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 14:31:55 +0000

Imperator (in English Emperor) was a title specifically invented by Augustus to avoid the title king. It might be roughly translated as "Commander", in a military sense.

New comment by throwaway2048 in "Ask HN: Why Is Everything Declining?"

throwaway2048 — Sat, 28 Jan 2023 22:30:24 +0000

At a certain point this kind of stuff becomes unfalsifiable, but the steady erosion of hard won worker rights and laws, as well as wages still fits in pretty nicely with his theories about end stage capitalism.

He certainly did not foresee the rise of the welfare state, but that doesn't mean the end of capitalism is going to be much different, its pretty easy to see how things are following the same trajectory in the end.

New comment by throwaway2048 in "“Copycat” layoffs won’t help tech companies or their employees"

throwaway2048 — Sun, 22 Jan 2023 22:36:57 +0000

the best thing about them is you can constantly schedule large stock sales, and just cancel the ones that don't favour you.

Look ma, no inside information.

New comment by throwaway2048 in "Amazon is no longer allowing downloading Kindle Unlimited titles via USB"

throwaway2048 — Mon, 16 Jan 2023 05:44:06 +0000

It needs to be cracked first, which hasn't happened yet.

New comment by throwaway2048 in "Qualcomm says ARM to prohibit proximity of CPU and 3rd-party modules in one chip"

throwaway2048 — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 16:35:07 +0000

because ARM was founded as a joint venture that included Apple, its extremely likely they have special terms.

New comment by throwaway2048 in "Adventures with Verizon FiOS IPv6"

throwaway2048 — Sun, 03 Jul 2022 04:40:28 +0000

DNS is generally looked up once, on ruleset initalization, there is no way a firewall is going to look up DNS every single time a rule is referenced. Since DNS here is changing constantly, this is unhelpful.

New comment by throwaway2048 in "“The joy of sharing has been driven from me“"

throwaway2048 — Fri, 01 Jul 2022 19:12:03 +0000

Dropbox has nothing to do with open source communities, nor is HN an open source community.

New comment by throwaway2048 in "How Hong Kong became a police state"

throwaway2048 — Fri, 01 Jul 2022 18:54:58 +0000

Not sure we agree on a shared reality if you think even literally every single person in Hong Kong owning a gun is going to much of anything stop the CCP.

New comment by throwaway2048 in "“The joy of sharing has been driven from me“"

throwaway2048 — Fri, 01 Jul 2022 18:09:36 +0000

What does dropbox have to do with "open source communities"

New comment by throwaway2048 in "FBI: Stolen PII and deepfakes used to apply for remote tech jobs"

throwaway2048 — Tue, 28 Jun 2022 19:37:04 +0000

Who says they can't do the job? It would be easy for a tech-knowledgeable scammer to interview at 100 companies, collect 100 pay-cheques and then dissapear.

New comment by throwaway2048 in "Valve’s Steam Deck makes a brilliant case against walled gardens"

throwaway2048 — Wed, 22 Jun 2022 00:55:13 +0000

Valve is a privately held company (owned by its employees) that makes ridiculous amounts of money, has no real incentive to sell, and Gabe Newell has publicly stated many times in the past that Valve selling out is extremely unlikely, and some kind of hostile takeover is virtually impossible.

Newell said that there was a better chance that Valve would “disintegrate,” its independent-minded workers scattering, than that it would ever be sold.

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/09/technology/valve-a-video-...

The difference here between Valve and most all of the infamous tech buyouts of history is Valve has no VCs looking to cash out who get final say, or public investors looking to maximize returns.

New comment by throwaway2048 in "Bolt has a cool web interface and they really don't want you to use it"

throwaway2048 — Sun, 19 Jun 2022 12:57:01 +0000

I'm about 90% sure that reddit is going to pull a twitter and kill off API access so apps like Apollo no longer function.

New comment by throwaway2048 in "Bitcoin’s nosedive through the $20k mark is a Minsky Moment for crypto"

throwaway2048 — Sun, 19 Jun 2022 02:51:41 +0000

Considering how many multi billion dollar corporations, investments and entire market sectors have been blown out by easily proven, easily deduced fraud that somehow ends up lasting years, or even decades before blowing up, I place less faith in "the best weighing machine ever devised" than you I think.

New comment by throwaway2048 in "A religious sect landed Google in a lawsuit"

throwaway2048 — Fri, 17 Jun 2022 02:13:26 +0000

I very much doubt companies are going to pay for your lawyers to sue them with.

New comment by throwaway2048 in "Despite best efforts .NET is still not an open platform"

throwaway2048 — Thu, 16 Jun 2022 10:47:18 +0000

I somehow doubt that Microsoft has any pressing need to return profits from the python LSP

New comment by throwaway2048 in "End-of-life smartphone? Penguins at PostmarketOS aim to revive it"

throwaway2048 — Wed, 15 Jun 2022 22:58:38 +0000

Qualcomm effectively has a near-monopoly on the concept of a cellular radio, especially on the high end, so they really don't have to bend for anyone, even a little.

New comment by throwaway2048 in "FTC acts against private equity firm’s acquisition of veterinary clinics"

throwaway2048 — Mon, 13 Jun 2022 20:02:26 +0000

HN is not a free speech platform, nobody, not the users or the moderators, is obligated to give stories exposure.

New comment by throwaway2048 in "Temporary pause of Bitcoin withdrawals on Binance"

throwaway2048 — Mon, 13 Jun 2022 18:38:50 +0000

no automatic blockchain contract can provide you with USD

New comment by throwaway2048 in "Twitter plans to comply with Musk’s demands for data"

throwaway2048 — Fri, 10 Jun 2022 09:19:37 +0000

Was that before or after he hired a PI to investigate said person to see if he could find any dirt to defame him further, after continuing to double down on the pedophile accusations, further calling him a child rapist, and marrying a 12 year old.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/elon-musk-hired...

Doesn't sound like a one off lightly lobbed, 1 in 50000 fluke to me.