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megagpt3··on Dutch central bank moves share of gold from U.S., Canada to London
Sadly nobody is hedging against the dollar
megagpt3··on Dutch central bank moves share of gold from U.S., Canada to London
The elected official is held accountable if he doesn't do what the voters want. This one is doing what his voters want, so there's nothing to hold him accountable for.
megagpt3··on Dutch central bank moves share of gold from U.S., Canada to London
You have the right to not vote on the moral grounds that you hate every candidate. You also have the right to crap your pants because every toilet is too dirty. By not making a decision, a decision is made for you that's worse than all of the options you could have decided between. You have the right to act in a way that causes the worst outcome to happen and rationalize it somehow as being a good person, when acting differently would have caused a better outcome to happen but you rationalize that causing a better outcome would make you a bad person. Doesn't mean it's a good idea.

It's not even the trolley problem since the same person is tied across both tracks.

megagpt3··on Dutch central bank moves share of gold from U.S., Canada to London
Implications are on the treasury side. Without treasury buyers the US dollar collapses or hyperinflates or the US government is bankrupt or some other widespread system failure, in any case the entire US economy falls apart without treasury buyers. But these things move slowly.
megagpt3··on AnkiDroid: Google Play no longer allowing Open Collective donation link
Actually, the phone doesn't have play services if the vendor doesn't install play services. If the vendor installs play services then it has play services.
megagpt3··on AnkiDroid: Google Play no longer allowing Open Collective donation link
Reddit has been akin to Facebook since around 2022.
megagpt3··on AnkiDroid: Google Play no longer allowing Open Collective donation link
Google doesn't have complete discretion. On Samsung phones, Samsung's discretion overrides Google's. On Xiaomi phones, Xiaomi's discretion overrides Google's.
megagpt3··on AnkiDroid: Google Play no longer allowing Open Collective donation link
The simple workaround to most of these walls is to create an account with your email address and phone number.
megagpt3··on AnkiDroid: Google Play no longer allowing Open Collective donation link
How do you know what standard he is holding Apple to? This thread is about Google and Apple was not mentioned.
megagpt3··on AnkiDroid: Google Play no longer allowing Open Collective donation link
Put an APK file download on your website, but it won't help discoverability.
megagpt3··on 2004 RuneScape fit a multiplayer RPG into 56k dial-up
Why would they care about maintaining a reputation on a pseudonymous Hacker News account? They have tens of thousands of $, that's way better than not being known as a RWTer.
megagpt3··on 2004 RuneScape fit a multiplayer RPG into 56k dial-up
MUD1 is from 1978
megagpt3··on 2004 RuneScape fit a multiplayer RPG into 56k dial-up
I was wondering how tileman gimmick accounts seemed to be forcing their pathfinding to unlocked tiles. That would explain it.
megagpt3··on 2004 RuneScape fit a multiplayer RPG into 56k dial-up
Only if you're talking about the Gemstone Crab.

Which was added because people were already doing that on the normal crabs, but fighting over the spots. So they made a crab that any number of people can fight at the same time (combat is ordinarily one to one), and it always lives for ten minutes no matter how many people are fighting it or how hard.

megagpt3··on 2004 RuneScape fit a multiplayer RPG into 56k dial-up
Short of hardware-enforced secure boot chain TPM anticheat there will always be a way around it. It's cat-and-mouse, not a single permanent solution.
megagpt3··on Casey Muratori – The Root of the Root of All Evil – BSC 2026 [video]
Modern networks can transfer data more quickly than CPUs can process it. Starting at 100Gbps.
megagpt3··on Casey Muratori – The Root of the Root of All Evil – BSC 2026 [video]
Do you?
megagpt3··on Is it safe to call print in a Python signal handler?
But it did crash. Did we read the same article? He shows the output it prints when it crashes.
megagpt3··on Is it safe to call print in a Python signal handler?
He considers it safe if it's unlikely to crash? That's also true in C. Calling printf in a C signal handler is likely to work. So why does he consider it important in C but "not a practical consideration" in Python? It's more likely to crash in Python than in C because the signal handler takes longer to execute.
megagpt3··on Bug Blindness
If a website won't let you cancel, call your bank to force them to block the payment. This will cost the website $20 and a ding on their credit report. Be aware the website will ban you, so you'll need to make a new account.
megagpt3··on China is fueling America's data center rage
Agreed. The people with the 24/7 60dB hum or the black undrinkable tap water or the tripled electric bill or no electricity at all starting next year are surely just mad because China told them to be mad.