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  • Still not updating until you let me keep my taskbar where it is.

  • Not if you customized it in win10. I dock mine along the left edge of the screen. They removed that ability.

  • What blockchain doesn't have high transaction costs once it scales up to large usage? Fundamentally blockchains are about hyper-redundant indestructable storage with expensive costs for writing to that storage to prevent flooding it with garbage. The most mature and sophisticated blockchain that doesn't involve burning down a forest to solve sudokus is the Ethereum network, which is probably the one to point to when we're talking about a large blockchain, and that's one that uses the subcurrency of "gas" to model paying for recording into that ledger.

    Are there any blockchains that could handle transaction volumes on the scale of a game-store like Gog or Epic (much less Steam) without putting non-trivial prices on writing the transactions to the ledger?

  • Yes, but crypto keys recorded with an owner in a public ledger, so there's a clear single owner.

  • Problem there is the gas cost of blockchain is too high. Recording transactions on chain is expensive. It might be worthwhile for full game transfers, but for cosmetics? I doubt that.

  • Yes. I'm quite tired of hearing "it's not our fault that toys full of lead were sold on our storefront and stored, fulfilled, and shipped from our warehouse in boxes bearing our logo! When we said that we 'recommend' the product, we meant, like, algorithmically, not for realsies. We had nothing to do with these products! It's all XGZDoo, a company we kicked off the store. And now would you like to buy any products from XGZDee, our latest new seller?".

  • My solution: stop holding public consultations.

    We are a nation of laws, not squeaky wheels.

  • I know Harris argues against Google automating enforcement, but like Google does have an index of all of the text on the Internet including knowledge of when the Google Bot first saw that text, as well as auto-generated transcripts of the videos on Youtube, right?

  • Lenovo's ones win for bang-for-your-buck. Not great for gaming or the like but for simple reading comics and watching videos you can't beat the price for a big device like that.

  • Uh, that's practically all software and games these days.

  • They're gonna get minivanned again. You can't pick somebody with her record of NIMBYism while running one of Ontario's biggest cities when there's a housing crisis going on.

  • I hope so. Theyve already got scary implications for creative parts of the economy.

    That said, we're in the Cambrian explosion of the tech. As it plateaus, the next step will be enhanced tooling and convenience around it. Better inputs than just text, better, more applications in new spaces, etc.

  • For ones where they give you a code for a non-MS service (eg LoL or Overwatch tokens) couldn't you bot-farm this and then literally just sell the redemption code?

  • I mean I've bought 2 Overwatch passes using those points. I couldn't justify paying cash for skins to myself, but MS rewards points I could rationalize. But I basically fire up Edge/Bing to collect the points and then go back to Firefox & DDG. It was obviously not sustainable for them.

  • In captivity a gray wolf can reach 70 kg and live to 15 years old.

    There is no reason for large domestic dogs to be short lived except the horrible things that inbreeding has done to them.

  • The Prius Prime isn't too different, in that it's also a compact PHEV although the battery range is a bit shorter.

  • Do they have licenses for any of this stuff? I mean, Id/Bethesda still sells Doom 1, you can't really call these "abandonware" by the normal definition. They're just "really old".