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- Comment on It is theoretically possible to constantly travel so that it is perpetually daytime wherever you are 1 day ago:
yet night comes for you
- Comment on America Has Become a Digital Narco-State - Paul Krugman 2 days ago:
It's not just about digital privacy. It never talks about data privacy. It's about consumer protection and social media's nature being harmful. The only European law violations mentioned are anti-scamming + "𝕏 refuses to make its public data available to researchers". It's also explicitly in favor of KOSA, which lets the FTC ban anything it wants from children's eyes online. It's quite implied that the article supports banning social media for youth.
- Comment on America Has Become a Digital Narco-State - Paul Krugman 2 days ago:
Is comparing social media to a dangerous drug over the top? Not according to the U.S. Surgeon General’s office, which in 2023 released an advisory titled “Social Media and Youth Mental Health” (download it now before RFK Jr. suppresses it!), which summarized extensive evidence of mental health damage to children and adolescents who consume excessive amounts of social media.
Okay, that comparison's still wayyyy over-the-top.
- Comment on Midnight is a stupid time for the clock to roll over to the next day 4 days ago:
"early morning of the 3rd" and "before dawn of the 3rd" definitely would not become 00:00—8:00 of the 2nd, and that's all that matters imo for the practical utility of delineating borders between days in the first place
- Comment on Midnight is a stupid time for the clock to roll over to the next day 5 days ago:
i've never seen someone who takes that as "before dawn"
- Comment on 5 days ago:
@kyonshi as long as it conforms with the subreddit rules
- Comment on Why aren't tall people also wider? 1 week ago:
shooting from the hip
they's gone wide 🚨🚨
- Comment on Quentin Tarantino probably got into movie making after misunderstanding what film footage meant. 2 weeks ago:
flim flammage.
- Comment on at what point in life it's too late to go back to school? 2 weeks ago:
community college is flexible
- Comment on Evidence That Humans Now Speak in a Chatbot-Influenced Dialect Is Getting Stronger 3 weeks ago:
You are not insulated from the effects just because you don’t use it. If you use the internet, chances are you’ve read bot output.
- Comment on Had to look this up 1 month ago:
They teach it in the European History course and schools in the UK teach it. I find it quite plausible that mandatory education does not teach something with no relation to the USA.
- Comment on The MP944 was the ‘real’ world’s first microprocessor, but it was top secret for nearly 30 years — F-14 Tomcat's chip lived in the shadow of the Intel 4004, but was eight times faster 1 month ago:
your mom
/j
- Comment on In light of recent events, I'm really starting to wonder about Reddit, /u/MaxwellHill, and Aaron... 1 month ago:
is there any reason to suspect foul play with Swartz? his life was upended through facing the lawfare of "$1 million in fines, 35 years in prison, asset forfeiture, restitution, and supervised release" he could only get rid of by effectively renouncing his beliefs.
- Comment on Long-time iOS user considering switch to Android - Need advice on $1000 flagships 2 months ago:
the inclusion of nothing phone in the lineup makes me unsure what op is looking for so i just assumed they was looking for general phone recommendations lol
- Comment on Long-time iOS user considering switch to Android - Need advice on $1000 flagships 2 months ago:
the xiaomi 17 pro is getting a lot of hype for its display on the back, and this is the company well known for emulating an apple feel quite well on android... and being Chinese
- Comment on Long-time iOS user considering switch to Android - Need advice on $1000 flagships 2 months ago:
nothing phone: are you aware that the nothing phone 3 got rid of the glyph interface?
- Comment on Long-time iOS user considering switch to Android - Need advice on $1000 flagships 2 months ago:
i'm surprised that the fediverse manifestation here has not recommended the fairphone yet
- Comment on Windows zero-day actively exploited to spy on European diplomats 2 months ago:
I'm sorry, who the heck made the PRC stars white‽
- Comment on Banners coming to Mbin 1.8.5 2 months ago:
an example is provided in the PR’s before/after
- Comment on Banners coming to Mbin 1.8.5 2 months ago:
no, the barber is what you currently see on Lenny above a community’s feed
- Comment on Banners coming to Mbin 1.8.5 2 months ago:
to display the banner that moderators want for their community/magazine (i just call it a commag)?
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- Comment on Nintendo's Creature Capture Patent Dealt Blow Amid Palworld Lawsuit 2 months ago:
- Comment on Nintendo's Creature Capture Patent Dealt Blow Amid Palworld Lawsuit 2 months ago:
As part of their ongoing lawsuit, Nintendo is claiming PalWorld has violated those... now invalid patents, so Nintendo's overall case against PalWorld is now significantly more weak.
That directly contradicts your quote:
Since the application isn't cited in the Palworld patent lawsuit directly, its rejection won't have a direct impact on the ongoing case. However, as explained by Games Fray's analyst Florian Mueller, the newly rejected application is a "key building block" in Nintendo's strategy to capture a wide range of creature-capture system implementations. It is the child of patent JP7493117 and the parent of JP7545191, both of which are cited in Nintendo's complaint.
IANAL, but IIRC atl in US law "child patent" just means it adds new claims to the parent patents' technology, so this just invalidates the parts that Nintendo did not use in its lawsuit.
- Comment on 'Valve does not get anywhere near enough criticism': DayZ creator Dean Hall says the 'gambling mechanics' of Valve's monetization strategy 'have absolutely no place' in videogames 2 months ago:
You're right.
In Western regions (North America and Europe) around 2009, the video game industry saw the success of Zynga and other large publishers of social-network games that offered the games for free on sites like Facebook but included microtransactions to accelerate one's progress in the game, providing that publishers could depend on revenue from post-sale transactions rather than initial sale.[23] One of the first games to introduce loot box-like mechanics was FIFA 09, made by Electronic Arts (EA), in March 2009 which allowed players to create a team of association football players from in-game card packs they opened using in-game currency earned through regular playing of the game or via microtransactions.[26] Another early game with loot box mechanics was Team Fortress 2 in September 2010, when Valve added the ability to earn random "crates" to be opened with purchased keys.[13] Valve's Robin Walker stated that the intent was to create "network effects" that would draw more players to the game, so that there would be more players to obtain revenue from the keys to unlock crates.[23] Valve later transitioned to a free-to-play model, reporting an increase in player count of over 12 times after the transition,[25] and hired Yanis Varoufakis to research virtual economies.[27] Over the next few years many MMOs and multiplayer online battle arena games (MOBAs) also transitioned to a free-to-play business model to help grow out their player base, many adding loot-box monetisation in the process,[25][28] with the first two being both Star Trek Online[29] and The Lord of the Rings Online[citation needed] in December 2011.
- Comment on 'Valve does not get anywhere near enough criticism': DayZ creator Dean Hall says the 'gambling mechanics' of Valve's monetization strategy 'have absolutely no place' in videogames 2 months ago:
I think it's more bad because they were the first one to introduce all those predatory mechanics
- Comment on 'Valve does not get anywhere near enough criticism': DayZ creator Dean Hall says the 'gambling mechanics' of Valve's monetization strategy 'have absolutely no place' in videogames 2 months ago:
The subscription is €5 a month
- Comment on Does having to hold down a comment to open a downvote prompt make it less likely for you to downvote? 2 months ago:
I don't think this was a suggestion, just a showerthought based on existing mobile app behavior
- Comment on Richest American to FAFO? 2 months ago:
I don't think he was that rich... surely there's richer Americans who opposed even richer Americans and got knocked down, like at least Aaron Swartz.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
you're outright lying/trolling about the conclusion