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The founders got their start selling pirated software, but CD Projekt itself started as a legit importer and localiser. Their initial success was due to knowing that they needed to compete with pirates on quality and convenience because piracy was so prevalent in Poland.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD_Projekt#Founding

Lets not forget that Valve was one of the early adopters of loot boxes with Counter Strike and TF2.

Anecdotally, the plan isn't very popular with those who live in the area.

> Especially in IT

Especially in what?

I think big artists need to start doing what some large sporting events do and sell a significant proportion of tickets on a ballot system. Instead of being first come first served, anyone who registered to buy a ticket (possibly paying a deposit to disincentivize duplicate entries) would go in the draw for the opportunity to buy a ticket, preventing things turning into an auction benefiting those who have the fastest bots.

Elon is a wartime CEO in the same way that Putin is a wartime president.

>unless we consider the labels the people it was supposed to protect

You've hit the nail on the head there. The same record companies that got up to very dodgy copy protection schemes [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootk...

As long as it doesn't have the robotic text-to-speech that seems to be on every TikTok video.

I guess the headline means aftermath as in consequences (or aftermath of _declaration of_ war)

So you didn't get as rich as you could have and might not get to retire at 30, go live your life. A friend of mine and I both applied for a HFT firm out of university, he got in and I didn't, but based on how he described it over about 18 months working there, my greatest regret would have been taking that job, it sounded like a dismal place to work (with platinum handcuffs).

Why is that tweet is just a screenshot of another tweet?

You lose out on the network effect with this solution.

If someone gets to pick who's allowed onto a network, then they won't bother using it. Maybe your friends will join since they are allowed to add _their_ friends, but those friends of friends wouldn't bother because most of their friends can't join, meaning your friends won't bother either unless they really want to talk to you specifically.

It would work for groups where most people know each other, but there are already options for that that allow users to be in groups that aren't all owned by the same person e.g. Discord, Signal, Facebook.

Due to costs?

It would be interesting to see similar data for other large cities which posters on HN have been predicting/reporting mass exoduses from such as the Bay Area.

Apple has been doing this for a while and it hasn't had much effect outside devices which run their software: 

Even if it were possible to accurately attribute revenue to particular contributions, I could see this compensation model leading to short term thinking. For example a contribution may generate a lot of revenue now, but could end up costing more when a security hole causes you to lose all your customers data. And who will fix bugs that don't directly contribute to revenue? Or work on behind the scenes code which isn't directly monetizable? Maybe this could work as a factor in a bonus that is a small portion of total compensation, but as a driver of total compensation there are far too many issues.

My company was a fairly early adopter of Teams. I remember there being a user feedback forum that was such an optimistic place. Fixing notifications was one of the highest voted issues and the MS rep promised work was being done on it, but it never got fixed before we finally accepted the increased cost and moved to Slack.

I guess they mean without writing VBA code.

Didn't EAC drop native support for Linux when they were acquired by Epic Games?

The gap between off and on-license prices (i.e. supermarket versus bar) will differ depending on country as well. As anecdata, I found that in the UK, buying beer from a supermarket tended to be more expensive than my home country of New Zealand, but buying beer in a pub was usually cheaper. I guess in New Zealand we charge a much higher alcohol tax to on-licenses rather than off-licenses.

Pretty sure Americans buy their beer in ounces. 330ml is very popular in New Zealand and the UK.

Can you do this without Javascript?

Users lose out as well when they end up with products like Microsoft Teams.

NZ currently requires a negative test if you are coming from the UK or US as well as 14 day quarantine for arrivals from anywhere (with more tests). You can also only return if you are a NZ citizen or permanent resident or you get some kind of special dispensation (notable recipients of these include film crews and America's Cup sailors).

I don't know if this is still the case, but for a while the easiest way to get the best deal from Dominoes was to search Google for Pizza Hut with your adblocker turned off.

Seems like a pretty blatant antiturst violation if this is happening consistently.

Whether ad targeting works or not, Cambridge Analytica did show that Facebook was willing to abuse the data people are trusting them with.

A lot of people mention Telegram, as far as I can tell, it's a worse Signal. What advantages does it have over Signal?

Fortunately I don't live in a place where WhatsApp is completely pervasive. I personally had luck saying "if you want to contact me use Signal, iMessage or at the very least SMS" and when people asked why, I would cite Cambridge Analytica.

One of my favourite features of Citymapper when I lived in London was how they would let you filter routes by trains that had air conditioning for the complete hideousness that was summer 2019. Another interesting one I noticed was that they would increase the size of the "navigate home" button after a certain time of day.