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They were adding their own referral code to queries made in the search bar, not replacing or altering referral codes on websites. They apologized and reversed this after criticism back in 2020 (https://brave.com/blog/referral-codes-in-suggested-sites/).

Overall Brave is pretty good, they build in ad-blocking by default and their own ad service is opt-in. They also have Tor and IPFS support that does not exist in Chromium, and are maintaining Manifest V2 support.

What's so insane about buying Greenland? Offer the current population $2 million USD each if they vote to join, and it would only cost around $100 billion. That's a steal considering its strategic value.

It is pretty funny how the MegaLag video claimed it was hard to find discussion of this online, and cited a HN thread from over five years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21588663

I suppose it's easy for us to forget how an average person really doesn't think about how cookies and referral links work.

And of course, the main publisher of O9A extremist propaganda is a multi-decade FBI informant...

https://www.wired.com/story/the-dangerous-exploits-of-an-ext...

How about adding up the number of years he caused kids to be inappropriately sentences to juvenile detention for kickbacks, and then multiplying by 3x?

He's nowhere near as bad as Biden. The media downplayed Biden's senility until the disastrous debate made it impossible. Americans got to see both candidates talk without a teleprompter for a couple hours, and Trump was able to handle it easily, while Biden exhibited clear signs of mental decline.

Trump has a rambling oratory style, but that is more of a stylistic affection.

$50k on a four year contract. That extra $12.5k helps, but the total comp is still way below a civilian job that typically has better work life balance and better working conditions.

Genshin has 50-60 million monthly average users. That works out to something like $40 per player per year on average. Most players are F2P or just buy the $10 battle passes, rather than spending hundreds of dollars on the gatcha system.

In case you weren't aware:

> The name "homeownership rate" can be misleading. As defined by the US Census Bureau, it is the percentage of homes that are occupied by the owner. It is not the percentage of adults that own their own home. This latter percentage will be significantly lower than the homeownership rate.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeownership_in_the_United_...

Isn't the obvious solution to require prospective immigrants to demonstrate sufficient English skills prior to immigration? Specific niches like agriculture that do not require advanced language skills can use temporary work visas.

What do you view as more efficient than reading? In my experience, reading information is easily 3-5x faster than audio or video, even when using 1.25x or 1.5x playback.

The NSA has their own museum, has anyone emailed them to ask about this? https://www.nsa.gov/museum/

They seem more likely to be able to deal with such a tricky request.

Yeah, we are more like masons. We have useful skills that enable building impressive things, but at the end of the day we are building someone else's cathedral.

It uses ACLs and access groups. So a malicious app should not be able to access keychain items for other apps. Sure, it might be possible to get the key out of process memory, but that raises the bar significantly for an attacker. Most infostealer malware is pretty basic, and just looks for files A, B, C, etc.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/security/keychain_...

Yup, continuing the trend in this release:

> The change in total nonfarm payroll employment for April was revised down by 57,000, from +165,000 to +108,000, and the change for May was revised down by 54,000, from +272,000 to +218,000. With these revisions, employment in April and May combined is 111,000 lower than previously reported. (Monthly revisions result from additional reports received from businesses and government agencies since the last published estimates and from the recalculation of seasonal factors.)

From the guidelines:

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

Most people aren't here to read about the Russia/Ukraine conflict. You submit articles very frequently on the topic, so it's not surprising that some of them get flagged.

As described in the article, all that happened were subpoenas for documents. That's the very first step in any investigation. Those documents have shed significant light on the relationship between the SIO and government agencies [0]:

> Led by former CIA fellow Renee DiResta, the Virality Project functioned as an intermediary for government censorship. Ties between the US government and the academic research center were extremely close. DHS had “fellows” embedded at the Stanford Internet Observatory, while SIO had interns embedded at CISA, and former DHS staff contributed to the Virality Project’s final report.

> The Virality Project also had contact with the White House and the Office of the Surgeon General, described the CDC as a “partner” in its design documents, and the California Department of Public Health had a login to access the Jira content flagging system, as did CISA personnel.

It sure seems like SIO was acting as a government contractor/agent here, if it was providing services to the government in exchange for funding.

[0] - https://brownstone.org/articles/the-virality-projects-censor...

The allegation is described in the article:

> SIO and its researchers have been sued three times by conservative groups alleging that its researchers colluded illegally with the federal government to censor speech, forcing Stanford to spend millions of dollars to defend its staff and students.

This is the government investigating whether the government colluded with this private entity to take actions that violate the First Amendment. We have seen a lot of that lately, with government agencies leaning on private entities to avoid scrutiny and limit legal relief when it comes to 1A cases. Stanford's involvement is peripheral, the oversight is limited to their interactions with the government.

I suppose a liberty-minded individual would suggest that a private entity should not collude with the government, if it wants to avoid government oversight.

> Two of SIO’s major initiatives — the peer-reviewed Journal of Online Trust and Safety and its Trust and Safety Research Conference — will also continue. (The journal is funded through a separate grant from the Omidyar Network.)

"Trust and safety" - brought to you by a left-wing activist billionaire megadonor.

Is this supposed to be concerning? Most research groups publish a list of their staff online, including graduate students and undergrads. They contribute to and get credited in published work and attend conferences. If you're going to perform oversight of such a group, it has to include all the researchers, not just the people signing the grant paperwork.

There will be no Pony for SD3 with the current licensing, per the creator: https://civitai.com/articles/5671/towards-pony-diffusion-v7-...

Loras are easy to train on consumer hardware, but a fine-tune like Pony takes significantly more resources and a lot of work in terms of image tagging, curation, etc.

Many of the most popular finetuned models are sponsored by paid image generation services, which provide either funding or GPU time for training. Those generation services won't be able to use SD3 under the current licensing, so there will be no incentive for them to sponsor improvements.

Valve likely played a role in normalizing lootboxes in Western markets, but they definitely didn't invent the idea. MapleStory was doing lootboxes years earlier, and EA's Fifa was doing P2W lootboxes prior to TF2.

Their model of cosmetic-only lootboxes is also far less obnoxious than the P2W form that has taken over mobile gaming. Many mobile games today are designed to be as obnoxious as possible in the hopes that the player will crack open their wallet for a shortcut.

Consider the indirect risks as well:

- A significant fraction of your workforce are reservists who might disappear for months with little notice.

- Potential trade disruption due to Israel's highly controversial actions in Gaza (eg. Turkey halting all trade with Israel).

- Shipping disruption and increased cost due to Houthi attacks.

- Potential sanctions or BDS campaigns, like South Africa.

- Difficult to convince international employees to relocate to a conflict zone.

Ah, right. An early Gen Xer, my mistake. Still, you were part of a generation that actually benefited from sexist norms and policies. Have you considered resigning your position to make room for a more deserving diverse candidate? After all, it's quite possible that you only obtained your position because a woman was unfairly passed over.

Sarcasm aside, your performative self-flagellation gives me second-hand embarrassment. The DEI activists at your college will never like you, no matter how much you bash young white men.

Viewing things through a "battle of the genders" lens like that is toxic. The men getting screwed over today are completely different individuals than the men who benefited from unfair policies or norms in previous generations. You aren't getting revenge by retaliating against young men, just hurting innocent bystanders.

> That white men in particular have a hard time dealing with a more level playing field is pathetic.

All men want is a level playing field. Colleges have been discriminating against white and Asian men for decades. SCOTUS finally slapped them down, and colleges immediately started scheming to find ways to be covertly racist through proxies for race. Many colleges stopped using SAT scores, making admissions more subjective, and easier to influence with racial bias. Workplaces are doing the same thing, with DEI hiring goals that in effect mean "no white or Asian men".

Have you considered that your experience as a boomer is not representative of conditions for millennials and zoomers today?

The land is the asset, the bet is generally that the land will appreciate faster than the house will depreciate. This has generally been true in large metro areas and regional hubs, as net migration to those areas has been positive. That changed a bit during COVID with remote work, but most employers now seem to want at least partial physical presence.

An account that you can only have in 73 countries, while the game was originally sold in ~190. The PSN ToS is pretty awful, but what got a lot of attention was Sony just retroactively making the game unplayable for over half the globe. Yes, you can lie and give them a fake address, but in the ToS they can demand ID to prove your identity and location.

What, with mild sarcasm? The description of the tool is hilarious.

I just legitimately don't see the appeal. I installed a CoD aimbot way back when, and it just ruined the experience. There is no challenge or satisfaction in winning when it's the tool doing all the work.