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I definitely read that as D-Bus hell

Apparently _you’ve_ never heard of wizards!

I have this in my “East Germany” collection along with Good Bye Lenin! and Deutschland 83. Could probably use a few more entries.

[2022]

I’d imagine a lot more empirical evidence has been generated one way or the other in the intervening two years

But a good way to save pedestrians on the sidewalk

IANAD but I’d imagine with all the knee/hip/everything replacements, metal plates in heads, pins in wrists, pacemaker implants etc that it’s a manageable issue.

Ben Horowitz co-founded Andreesen Horowitz so you know, take whatever he says about his partner with a grain of salt

From reading upthread it sounds like performance impact is heavily dependent on the skill of the game development team, ie: if they pick the wrong things to hook during the in-game runtime checks performance can suffer greatly

We need less/more/same regulation, whichever one satisfies my desires at any given moment!

> The "anonymity and privacy inherent in the cryptocurrency system are what draw individuals, particularly those with illicit intentions, towards its use,"

1) people vastly overestimate how much “anonymity and privacy” cryptocurrency gives them (spoiler: far less than using paper money)

2) I’ve never liked this line of reasoning because it’s the same argument for why encryption should have government backdoors.

We already tried a temperance movement in America, it was…wildly unpopular and unenforceable to say the least.