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Kinglink

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  • Reddit: Return Of The Junk Stock IPO

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  • If you really haven't... you need to. Better yet read the book. It should be required reading in America to see how the financial institutions fucked over America in 2008 and most of them got away with it or got the government to pay for it's mismanagement, while a LOT of people got saddled with absolutely awful loans because all that mattered was creating and selling new debt.

  • Reddit: Return Of The Junk Stock IPO

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  • "Forbes" is not the Forbes you are referring to. It's a blogging platform that shows the forbes name and claims they're "Contributors" but isn't actually "Forbes Magazine" which is what investors actually trust.

    Basically this is just some shitbag pretending to be classy by hiding behind someone who sold him that space. There's a ton of shit Video Game "Articles" on the site too, same story(masquerade), same value (low) , same respectability (none)

  • Reddit: Return Of The Junk Stock IPO

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  • Apps can pay in a ridiculous deal that no app would be able to support. So you either be a pay app that no one downloads, or a free app that gets killed the second it gets too big (And that number was low)

  • Reddit: Return Of The Junk Stock IPO

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  • I don't know the right price point, but 1 dollar a month probably would have worked for most people. It just wasn't enough because they probably can make more than 1 by spoon feeding you ads now.

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  • The goal of Apollo was to make a good app. The goal of the official reddit app is to show you ads and siphon money off you.

    Spot fucking on.

    Ever have a good app? Something you like using but it's by a corporation but that's ok, because it's a good app and does what you want? And then they start adding more features to it, and it slows down, and it's more annoying and it keeps offering services you don't want, and it changes and it morphs and it becomes a shit app.

    Hell I've watched Whisk become something I liked using to something worthless now it's Samsung food... Switched to using CopyMeThat which actually also gets me recipes from sites that you can't just read the recipes from, and that's ALL it does (well recipe book/shopping cart/meal planning, which is what it's designed for.)

    I'm just sick of "How do we make more money" instead of just being an app that does what it says. Gaming is going down the same hole, sadly.

  • Avast fined $16.5 million for ‘privacy’ software that actually sold users’ browsing data

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  • Jesus Christ.

    Remember when Google's Motto was "Don't be Evil" It was supposed to be a jab at Microsoft, but it feels like every year tech companies find news ways to just be fucking evil.

    PS. Google kind of fails to live up to that motto too, I don't even know if it's still an official motto.

  • Here’s how the makers of the “Suyu” Switch emulator plan to avoid getting sued

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  • "I've done it too many times to repeat it again" Really?

    Isn't that kind of beneath you? That's the type of shit someone would say on a playground.

    Besides which the full complaint doesn't appear to be available anywhere, but what has been shown has not said what you're claiming.

    However other people might have more knowledge about this situation than you seem to, besides which other pieces that have been revealed since the original complaint have shown it's not just about the ability to circumvention technology. So you know.. maybe read more, or stop acting like you have all the answers when you don't?

    On the other hand consider if it was exactly what you say it is, why isn't Cemu and Ryujinx getting their own version of the note... hint: it's not just about the circumvention...

  • Why does the film press talk so much about box office income?

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  • Excellent point that's absolutely true. It means "Marketing worked" (at least early on)

  • Microsoft Will Be Debating Right Now Whether Xbox Consoles Have a Future, Says Peter Moore

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  • I bought a Alienware Alpha for around 500 bucks, it was a great investment and lasted me a decent amount of time.

    Kind of sad that idea and the idea of a steambox died because it made it possible to have a great experience on a budge. STill my 1000 dollar computer is holding up after 8 years or so, I feel like people overvalue FPS performance to the point they over spend on PC hardware.

  • Microsoft Will Be Debating Right Now Whether Xbox Consoles Have a Future, Says Peter Moore

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  • That feels out of place. We already have those, any computer laptop phone and many tvs already do that. I don't see a reason for them to make their own device... After all Chromecasts and Fire sticks exist. But you might be right.

  • Boeing whistleblower found dead in US

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  • I agree, I just was making a joke. It's a conspiracy until you realize it's a fact. MK-ULTRA, Government spying on you (which time? ) , Big tobacco hiding that cigerettes cause cancer, Stacks of ET games are buried in New Mexico, even dark stories like the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiments were all conspiracy theories at one time. Sadly they all turned out to be true.

  • Here’s how the makers of the “Suyu” Switch emulator plan to avoid getting sued

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  • This appears incorrect. Multiple emulators have ways to circumvent the copyright protection mechanism. None of them are being hit. Dolphin legit has the keys in their package. It's why Steam didn't platform them, but Nintendo knows and Dolphin is not changing. It would be literally the cost of the letter to get Dolphin to change. Nintendo hasn't even sent that letter.

    What Yuzu did wrong was outside of "anti circumvention rules" that you seem afraid of.

  • Here’s how the makers of the “Suyu” Switch emulator plan to avoid getting sued

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  • Ehhh.. it's ok if there's money involved but they definitely pushed it too far. However even if there was no money involved Yuzu made actions that shut them down.

    Smart if you can self fund, but at the end of the day there's a lot of costs that people ignore when it comes to emulation or things in the space. Working with a group called Retroachievements.org (small plug) and they accept donations for server costs but that's it. Signed up for 1 dollar on Patreon and wanted to give them 10. They refused, which is a good sign.

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  • It's no longer a conspiracy when it's proven true.

  • Nvidia is sued by authors over AI use of copyrighted works

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  • the authors said the takedown reflects Nvidia's having "admitted" it trained NeMo on the dataset

    Oooh so they're fucked.

    THOUGH... let's say I bought a book, why am I not allowed to learn from that book, and write in a similar style to that book. I am? Well why can't I train an AI to use that book and have it write in a similar style? I'm not sold on "I must give you permission to use my book to train an AI." Maybe if I agreed to those terms BEFORE buying the book, but it seems odd that someone can bar me from doing that AFTER buying the book. And just because "we never thought about that" isn't really a good excuse to change the rights for someone who bought the book.

    Though if anything this basically proves the old adage. "Don't tell anyone what's in your AI's training data"

  • Microsoft Will Be Debating Right Now Whether Xbox Consoles Have a Future, Says Peter Moore

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  • I'm not even saying "Xbox is dead" I'm saying "Xbox won't run a unique OS". Even if there is a "Xbox approved version" it's just a game optimized for the specific hardware that the Xbox console will have (and maybe ship with a somewhat specialized container too). I doubt you'll see Steam on this hypothetical system, but it's still possible.

  • Weight Lifting: How are you supposed to know the weights of unlabled things?

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  • Using the same bar every time, it's the same weight, you don't need to know what's on it. Olympic bars (and most bars) are 45, so I just use that. It doesn't on the smith machine because there's a counter weight on it (to stabilize it)

    But let me give you another idea. WHO CARES? Yeah I know we all like to track progress when weight lifting, but at the end of the day did you lift the weight and bring it back down? Did you do it multiple times? Did you do it to exhaustion? Great, you'll grow. If you truly care then ask "When I used that same machine could I do it with more weight? Could I do more reps with the same weight? The machine itself doesn't change so just use that specific type of machine as the metric.

    I've found weight machines are NOT comparable to Free Weights, Which are not comparable to even smith Machines.. So ultimately... Compare apples to apples.

    Another example? I would consider a Chest fly to a chest fly from a different manufacturer... THOUGH I've seen a few times when this is just bullshit. I also think Calf raise machines are just phony weight at times. (Though remember when doing Calf raises, and Calf Raises sitting, your entire body weight is now missing) ... Which can be true for many machines.....

    So ultimately compare apples to apples... AKA compare a machine (or a machine type) to that same machine type, and try not to confuse "Free weights" with "machine weights" because there is a correlation but it's not worth figuring out.

  • Weight Lifting: How are you supposed to know the weights of unlabled things?

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  • Now lift it up 11 more times. You've done a set... do it four more times, move on to the next object.

    (I think OP is more talking about thinks you can't bring to a scale)

  • Why does the film press talk so much about box office income?

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  • I think it's simply because people want to feel like they're in "the biz" So rather than talking about how good something is, they talk about how much money it makes, how many people did something, what's the revenue. It also is a bit hard to quantify "A good movie" but it's SIMPLE to quantify a "popular" or "revenue generating" movie (At least in terms of revenue). So rather than discussing the movie itself we now discuss "how popular it is". Kind of sucks in my opinion because all it means is "Other people like it". It's like the social media of news stories. Then again you don't want to like something that isn't popular, do you?

    But I mean it probably comes down to "Variety did it so it was the news of the industry, and then others did it and didn't notice a change in readership (or saw a positive change) and so they did it more.