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Re:Starcraft: Ashfall on Monday October 19, 2026 @07:42PM (#50159481)
It ends up being a tiny portion of the game because it's hard to monetize.

The majority of the game will still be timer based buildings/armies (so you pay to speed up) and egregiously p2w pvp.

Re:Architecture Patterns with Python on Friday March 28, 2025 @01:21PM (#43507921)
may I ask how you're mocking Celery to test?

the two main methods I've seen are to run tasks eagerly, or test the underlying function and avoid test Celery .delay/etc at all

Re:To Delay Death, Lift Weights on Sunday March 17, 2024 @03:32PM (#39737274)
I think falling is the prime example. All 4 of my grandparents were relatively healthy, no heart issues, mild elevated blood sugar not even pre-diabetic. Once they reached 70s/80s, all of them eventually fell while walking around, became wheelchair-bound or hospitalized and died after.

I wish we had good population metrics on this.

Re:What to Do If Your Car Is Submerged in Water on Wednesday March 13, 2024 @02:05PM (#39695074)
o wow TIL, thanks for explaining that. Scary stuff to think about
Re:What to Do If Your Car Is Submerged in Water on Wednesday March 13, 2024 @11:36AM (#39692642)
Anyone know how feasible enough to require modern (powered-everything) cars have at least 1 window that has backup manual rolling for this scenario? or is it just too rare for the increased complexity?
Re:Chronic Stress Spreads Cancer on Saturday February 24, 2024 @11:26AM (#39492755)
my understanding from the article is that they're working specifically w/ breast cancer, so probably easier w/ females
Anyone work in emissions reporting have more insight into this? Scope 3 especially seems tough
Re:Median Household Income After Taxes Fell 8.8% in 2022 on Wednesday September 20, 2023 @09:00PM (#37592030)
well clearly the solution is www.houseguarantee.lol

Ask HN: Dev experience buying an existing website?

Anyone have experience buying an existing site from something like flippa and building it out from the developer side?I heard most of these are scams, but was wondering if there's good methods for finding a site worth spending dev time.Mental model (knowing very little) about the process is like house flippers that take existing run-down houses, renovating and re-selling for a markup.Except I'm...

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This whole thing is just so regressive. Every time I use my 2% back card, I know some less privileged folks paying cash gets shafted.

I wish everyone would use just debit cards over ccs, faster than trying to count out coins, less fees.

sure it is! it all went to fiat@, it's marked clearly in the excel spreadsheet and everything
way to figure out the efficient market hypothesis and why it could be wrong at such a young age!
Re:Chess is just poker now on Monday September 19, 2022 @01:49PM (#32901537)
This happens across many competitive games, where you can raise your Elo/MMR by playing gimmicky stuff instead of working on fundamentals. E.g. ling rush in Starcraft, 1-tricking in League, etc etc.

Sure you can score based on flexibility, but the people who work hard on staying competitive knows at heart all ratings are just an approximation anyways. Just work on fundamentals, get good, and don't sweat the numbers. Not a problem worth fixing imo.

Re:Ask HN: How did you start higher education after 40? on Sunday September 11, 2022 @09:12AM (#32799336)
Can you talk more about the transition? Did you start over w/ bachelors in biology? Are you taking classes online/on the side?

I'm in a very similar situation as you and want to jump into grad school, but it looks like that's not possible w/o undergraduate degree.

Re:Argentina's currency exchange black markets on Saturday September 10, 2022 @07:22PM (#32795377)
Good news! Mendoza province now accepts crypto for taxes:

https://cointelegraph.com/news/argentina-s-mendoza-province-...

Anyone know of promising cancer startups? Was listening to a podcast that mentioned pancreatic cancer mortality rates and it's basically a death sentence (stage 1 85%+, later 95%+)

I don't drink or smoke but would love to avoid cancers. Wife was working at a great one but it basically shutdown cause clinical trials are so expensive.

Has anyone tried this? How close is the taste to real/meat bacon?
Yeah but how's gourd production doing?
Re:The effects of sleep debt on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @10:55PM (#32091470)
can't you just drink decaf?

New RCE found for Dark Souls 3

There's a multiplayer mode (invasions?) that lets other players join your game. This RCE exploit can happen then.Elden Ring, from the same devs, also has this vuln: https://old.reddit.com/r/Eldenring/comments/s9wai2/it_is_now_possible_for_dark_souls_3_invaders_to/Apparently, there was an old exploit: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-34170This one is new and not "official"...

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those #s just the cash portion or total comp (rsu's included)?
I thought it wasn't just the sugar but the carbonated water negatively impacts digestion.

Do you ever get weird stomach aches?

Re:Regulators Shut Down Lending Platform (YC Alum) LendUp on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @05:49PM (#29656504)
these amounts (10, 50, 100, w/e) are being lent on a minute by minute basis and are paid back in a week:

https://www.kucoin.com/margin/lend/USDT

USD transaction cost might be too high if the technology doesn't exist

he declared bankruptcy
Re:I lasted three minutes at Amazon on Monday December 06, 2021 @10:02PM (#29468697)
I recently found out there's a setting you can "opt out" of new design. So it reverts UI for reddit.com to old.reddit.com, and all your links/redirects work w/o having to append `old`.
Re:Advent of Code 2021 on Sunday November 21, 2021 @01:59PM (#29298731)
way to sum up my coding career :D
Re:Crypto Wash Trading on Friday November 19, 2021 @02:32PM (#29281250)
There's some misunderstanding here. The paper is asserting that the volume is fraudulent, due to wash trading, not that the trades are fake.

In your toy scenario, I put 8 on the best bid, you put in 1 more, then I go on another account and hit the bid for 9 volume. 1 of that is legitimate volume, and 8 is fraudulent because I'm trading with myself (aka wash trading). Sure you get your fill, but the paper asserts that the stated volume is too high (in this case by 8).

Super unlikely, the main reason is at that point many people buy tickets and it becomes more and more likely the jackpot is split between multiple winners [0].

Actually the largest Powerball at $1.586 billion was split between 3 people [1]

[0] https://chance.amstat.org/2020/02/lottery-ticket/jackpots-ev... [1] https://apnews.com/article/archive-6d98eff765c9e2f4b68367131...

Re:Regulators should treat stablecoins like banks on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @03:02PM (#28146217)
I'm confused, how does that capital flight work exactly? Say I start w/ $1 million in RMB, how does Tether factor in here?

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