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> Although some scientists equate the term "humans" with all members of the genus Homo, in common usage it generally refers to Homo sapiens, the only extant member.

iopqon The Making of Dune II

> But unless you own a ’90s era PC, an Amiga or a 16-bit console, your chances of playing Dune II in its original glory are slim, which is a shame.

someone never heard of dosbox

iopqon How many bathrooms have Neanderthals in the tile?

[citation needed]

it's humanoid remains, but not modern human

iopqon Generation Z is unprecedentedly rich

https://home.treasury.gov/news/featured-stories/the-purchasi...

apparently, Americans can afford more things now than ever in history

iopqon Generation Z is unprecedentedly rich

Anecdotally, I didn't have a car until I got my first job. Not everyone has parents that can just buy them a car.

iopqon DMCA Notice Targeting 'Bypass Paywalls Clean' Isn't the Thing to Get Angry About

Or else what? I didn't accept anything when I went to youtube.com

Can you force me to keep to an agreement I didn't agree to?

iopqon DMCA Notice Targeting 'Bypass Paywalls Clean' Isn't the Thing to Get Angry About

It doesn't have to be youtube.com

plenty of sites get hacked and hackers phish their users, it's very real

iopqon DMCA Notice Targeting 'Bypass Paywalls Clean' Isn't the Thing to Get Angry About

I didn't sign a contract, so any exchange youtube perceives from my visit is their own hallucination because I didn't agree to their terms.

iopqon DMCA Notice Targeting 'Bypass Paywalls Clean' Isn't the Thing to Get Angry About

I don't know if I want to see the content or not until I request the page.

What if I go on youtube, but some scammer replaced it with a page that says "your computer is hacked, send BTC to enable youtube, go to scamwebsite.com". My safe browsing add-on should be able to block the content of scamwebsite.com, or even block this message completely if the maintainers act more quickly than youtube

To argue "you visited youtube.com and the scammer has the right to show you the scam message" is not logical, so why should "you visited youtube.com and Google has the right to show you advertisements" hold? You only argued from the act of visiting the website and it costing someone money. It costs the scammer money to serve the requests from billions of people hitting the website, that doesn't change from the perspective of your argument.

iopqon 1.18k drawings of plant root systems

It's actually much easier

When people say in English one hundred thousand one thousand and ten, you will need to visualize the digits

101,010

But in Chinese you say 10 * 10^4, 1 * 10^3, 0, 1 * 10

the zero helps you write a zero after the second one without making a mistake

iopqon 1.18k drawings of plant root systems

interestingly, in Chinese you would say 1k1h8 when pronouncing the numbers

iopqon 1.18k drawings of plant root systems

nobody adds the decimal digit to integers, though

1180 can be 4 significant digits if the count is precise

iopqon Avoid blundering: 80% of a winning strategy

Just hit the ball back, simple as

iopqon Avoid blundering: 80% of a winning strategy

Yes, but PayPal was growing off the back of eBay, CyberCash never became entrenched to get the first mover's advantage

> The company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on March 11, 2001. VeriSign acquired the Cybercash assets (except for ICVerify) and name a couple of months later. On November 21, 2005 PayPal (already an eBay company) acquired VeriSign's payment services, including Cybercash.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CyberCash

so in a way, PayPal ate a lot of the other payment processors

iopqon Avoid blundering: 80% of a winning strategy

That's not applicable to chess. Some blunders are deep and neither player sees mate in 10.

The computer immediately sees mate in 10 and calls the last move a blunder. The opponent misses the mate in 10 and moves elsewhere, the computer puts it as a blunder.

Both players blundered without even seeing a clear win, and it would take them an hour of analysis to see the exact sequence and prove there's no way to escape it even though there are a hundred variations

iopqon Avoid blundering: 80% of a winning strategy

That's you, when I play aggressive chess the OTHER side makes blunders. It will show up as "the other player made a mistake so you won" and as an unforced error

of course it's unforced, if we all played perfectly there would be no game to play, but the aggression is what showed their bad tactical play

iopqon Avoid blundering: 80% of a winning strategy

Unless your first mover advantage lets you just stay there for decades. See: PayPal

they have only now been dethroned as the default credit card processor despite being awful to work with when I tried to integrate their API circa 2010

iopqon Avoid blundering: 80% of a winning strategy

Avoid blundering?

To do that, you need to learn opening strategy, endgame strategy, tactics, etc.

This isn't helpful

iopqon Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison

For example, payday loans are explicit in saying they will charge you a percentage of your payday for a 14 day loan. But if you do the math, it's about 1000% interest annually

It's not a crime either, but it's predatory

iopqon Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison

for people with credit over 800 the default rate must be extremely low

otherwise I wouldn't have this credit rating and the bank wouldn't trust me with over $100,000 credit limit combined over all of my credit cards

the reason I agree to this rate is because I never pay it, I loan from my broker instead where I pay like a few bips over LIBOR

iopqon Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison

They are smart enough to make all their grifts "fees" and "interest rates"

For example, charging 17% on a credit card bill when the interest rate is 5.25%

and that's on excellent credit like mine where I haven't missed a payment in almost 20 years

iopqon Doom Captcha (2021)

wolfram alpha can do it for you

iopqon Doom Captcha (2021)

I couldn't get it started for a while because I clicked start to start like it says on the tin