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I like this idea, but (and I know barely anything about games) then I wonder that maybe the resources for lets say the final level of a game are not included, if you let it idle only on the first level, no?

snowpandaon Behemoth, bully, thief: how the English language is taking over the planet

What is katakana?

snowpandaon Spectrum internet is getting kicked out of New York

Time Warner Cable has been awful since Spectrum got a hold of it. I didn't have a problem for many years, now I can't even get a customer service rep on the line. I keep getting robocalls about my "upcoming bill". Rates have gone up. Amount of plans have decreased... The list goes on.

snowpandaon Is the Game Over for MoviePass?

>What’s concerning investors is that every additional subscriber for the company adds to the loss, since MoviePass pays the theater the full ticket amount.

How is this just now becoming a concern? Was that a secret before?

snowpandaon Address Verification and Full PGP Support

>they don't support open protocols including SMTP

>they could easily siphon off plaintext at the SMTP level

This doesn't make any sense.

snowpandaon Mailinator.com: Anatomy of a Spammy Campaign

>Anti Abuse API

Why does your company consider disposable email addresses abusive?

snowpandaon Parsing JSON is a Minefield

I totally agree. JSON to me is actually pretty straight forward, it's the parsers that interpret it differently.

snowpandaon OpenBazaar 2.0, powered by IPFS

Hey SamPatt, what are the top 3 products being sold on OpenBazaar? Also, does it accept Monero?

snowpandaon [dead]

This happened yesterday,.. here it is being launched:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=asHduzmYiEs

snowpandaon Is Facebook Really Scarier Than Google?

Or the fact that Google has a doodle for every single holiday people never heard about, but of course skipped the Easter doodle. Yeah very apolitical indeed /s

snowpandaon You probably don't want to run Firefox Nightly any more

What about Firefox Beta? Does anyone know?

snowpandaon Tempe Police Release Video of Uber Accident

>Why is the car driving at full speed if it can't see the road ahead?

This is the best question to ask.

Why? Because going through all the comments, there seem to be 2 trains of thought:

1) LIDAR should have seen it. (car's fault).

2) It's the pedestrian's fault.

Neither of these questions matter. Because the real question is like you said: if the car couldn't have seen it, then why drive at full (or actually above legal) speed?

snowpandaon YouTube’s fake views economy

The downvotes of your comment once again confirm how tolerant HN is of different opinions. The people downvoting you are the same people who call themselves progressive and open-minded. As long as they agree with it of course.

snowpandaon The tech behind catching the Austin serial bomber

It's a tech article, you're overreacting.

snowpandaon Blocklist Facebook domains

It's a ridiculous amount, looks like someone just created a pull request with 500+ more facebook domains.

snowpandaon Blocklist Facebook domains

Nice to see HackerNews create pull requests to make the list more up to date. I hope they get committed.

https://github.com/jmdugan/blocklists/pulls

snowpandaon Telegram told to give encryption keys to Russian authorities

Is it this one? https://youtube.com/watch?v=T17XQI_AYNo

snowpandaon More evidence essential oils 'make male breasts develop'

This is really interesting, thanks for sharing. Question: so are plants leeching it into the soil => our water supply? Or is it the plants that we're eating?

snowpandaon The more opioids doctors prescribe, the more money they make

You can look up your doctor here to see if they've "Received Drug or Device Company Money"

https://projects.propublica.org/docdollars/

snowpandaon Show HN: Chatlet – Simple Video Chat

Is this yours? Looks promising. What's your privacy policy?

snowpandaon Telegram Open Network

Ugh :( its like ~$400 minimum to participate.