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RedCardRef··on Ask HN: If I buy a physical book why is the eBook not free?
What I meant to say is that this is one of ways to do multiplatform ownership(in theory)!
RedCardRef··on Ask HN: If I buy a physical book why is the eBook not free?
Games are technically F2P, but the in-app purchases and progress are synced across platforms by the publisher.

Something like fortnite, once you purchase the battlepass/skin on one platform they are linked to the account and available across all the other platforms the game is available on.

This model essentially poses big challenges with physical media and game preservation. Puts the user at the mercy of the publisher.

IIRC Ubisoft pulled the plug on "The Crew" which is online only at the moment and is scheduled for deprication March of this year!

With regards to physical media, I think the game can skip the licence check on the account itself for the base game if it was launched from a disc/cartridge.

RedCardRef··on Show HN: Inko Cat – Lego Blocks to Build Your Productivity Space
Looks like it has been resolved now. Was able to join the waitlist. Thanks for keeping an eye out!
RedCardRef··on Show HN: Inko Cat – Lego Blocks to Build Your Productivity Space
Unable to join the waitlist. I am not able to proceed after selecting my google account.
RedCardRef··on Amazon Prime Video starts showing ads in January unless you pay $2.99/month xtra
The native android TV app is very bad. I just launch the app on my phone/tablet and cast it to my TV/Chromecast. I did not see any ads when I was casting. I am not entirely sure how things are on the apple side of the ecosystem.
RedCardRef··on Probe says Hans Niemann didn't cheat against Magnus Carlsen
"Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence"
RedCardRef··on UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit alleges
In my previous role, I worked on something similar to this. We built a model to predict which claims(CMS 1500) would be denied by the carrier(Insurance Provider) before they were submitted and allowing the hospital staff to adjust the Diagnosis/Procedure codes and validate the combination. The client had 20% denials, our model brought that denial rate down to 10%.

We wanted to compare the performance of our model with commercial third party offerings and we enrolled into an early beta for a similar offering from ChangeHealthcare one of the big players in the healthcare industry, their model was wildly off(<50% accuracy), we thought we were missing something and went back and forth with their team, turns out they didnt know what they were doing, they just slapped AI on the API and tried to see if anyone would actually use it. That model never saw the light of day. After studying the data model and seeing the number of variables involved I would be skeptical of prediction models retaled to insurance in the healthcare industry.

RedCardRef··on Google Podcasts, which is an actual thing, to shut down next year
My preferred podcast app, discovery is bad(atleast in my country), but other than that overall it has been a great app!

They even added dark mode couple of days later after I left feedback! Kudos to them!

RedCardRef··on Ask HN: How do you organize your data and maintain digital hygiene?
Ummm.. hate to play the devil's advocate here, I am sure you must have 2FA setup and all, but in the off chance that you loose access to your google account(for the sake of argument lets say for an "alleged" violation of ToS).

How do you plan to regain access?

RedCardRef··on Teaching Students How to Cheat During the Pandemic
This exact same thing happens in Naruto E25(not shippuden!)
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