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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In world first, Russian chess player poisons rival’s board with mercury⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And cars have outpaced Olympic runners. Does that make the fastest humans ever “second place”?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Many such cases⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Never heard of iDEAL. Wikipedia says its a a Dutch system that was acquired by the “European payments initiative” last year. The EPI just became active as a payment system 1 month ago.

  This is VERY much still in development and not at all an established system in the EU.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grindr faces massive fine for allegedly sharing “sensitive” user data⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fines as a percentage of income is a good idea for individuals but I dont think it works for coorperations.

  A more reasonable approach is:

  • 100% of the money they earned/saved by comiting the crime
  • 100% of all damages caused to other people/cost to clean up results of the crime (includes the cost of investigation and prosecution)
  • a fine that represents the likelihood of getting caught. (If the crime earns me 1mil, the fine is 50mil but I only have a 1% chance to get caught, statistically I should commit the crime as many times as possible because I will end up wining in the end)
  • (optionally) a fine based on the crime. This one might be based on the size of the company. This is the “punishment” part. It probably should be payed by the individuals responsible and not the company.

  This third point is the important one. Cooperations comit crimes because they are reasonable monetary investments. If the expected fines are always higher than the expected earnings, crimes become a bad investment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I should be banned from using microwaves⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Are those seconds? As in is 100 = one minute or 100 seconds? Because 111sec ~= 2min 444sec ~= 7 1/2 min 999sec ~= 16 1/2 min

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Satisfactory Release Date Announcement (September 10)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There is abig difference between those two games though. With bg3 you got a limited part of a story driven game. You could never reach “endgame”. It was a horizontal demo. You get everything until a certain point.

  With satisfactory the early access was the fully playable game from beginning to end. It is vertical. And since then they have just added more things. They will very likely keep doing exactly what they are doing now after the release. In one year the game will have more content than it does now and in retrospect, deciding which version in time is 1.0 is arbitrary.

  BG3 will not get a 4th chapter in a year.

  And games have been tested long before early access and similar models existed. Just because Bethesda can’t test their games doesn’t mean everybody else is shit too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., allowing him to go free⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  While I agree on the facts I want to offer a slightly different (possible) conclusion: a organisation like wikileaks needs resources and supporters. If they are targeted by all the “good guy”-countries and the only one willing to support them is “evil guy” Russia, then they are not in a position to resist. They chose to compromise their integrity instead of just not existing.

  If the western world wants a whistleblower/leaks organisation that follows journalistic integrity and ethics, they need to fund it even if it leaks their own internal documents.