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Comment · 2 months ago
Sadly nobody is hedging against the dollar
Comment · 2 months ago
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.
Comment · 2 months ago
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.

Comment · 2 months ago
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.
Comment · 2 months ago
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.
Comment · 2 months ago
Reddit has been akin to Facebook since around 2022.
Comment · 2 months ago
Google doesn't have complete discretion. On Samsung phones, Samsung's discretion overrides Google's. On Xiaomi phones, Xiaomi's discretion overrides Google's.
Comment · 2 months ago
The simple workaround to most of these walls is to create an account with your email address and phone number.
Comment · 2 months ago
How do you know what standard he is holding Apple to? This thread is about Google and Apple was not mentioned.
Comment · 2 months ago
Put an APK file download on your website, but it won't help discoverability.
Comment · 2 months ago
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.
Comment · 2 months ago
MUD1 is from 1978
Comment · 2 months ago
I was wondering how tileman gimmick accounts seemed to be forcing their pathfinding to unlocked tiles. That would explain it.
Comment · 2 months ago
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.

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