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ctrl-j commented on Twitch limiting uploads to 100 hours, deleting the rest starting April 19th twitter.com/twitchsupport... · Posted by u/aestetix

jsheard · 10 months ago

Isn't that exactly what they're doing? You have to draw the line for abuse somewhere, and they've drawn it at 100 hours.

ctrl-j · 10 months ago

There are playthroughs of single games that are more than 100 hours. Even if you're only playing "short" games, you're looking at 6-10 hours, which means you only give your audience a library of 10-15 vods? Average games are 20-40, so 5?

Vod viewing on twitch is also a pain, ads every 10 minutes, buggy playback, and vods don't play in order.

What's going to happen is anyone currently storing their playthroughs on twitch is now going to export to youtube. So I guess they want youtube to get the ad rev.

ctrl-j commented on Boeing's Dead Whistleblower Spoke the Truth thefp.com/p/boeings-dead-... · Posted by u/mhb

zer00eyz · 2 years ago

'The family says Barnett's health declined because of the stresses of taking a stand against his longtime employer.

"He was suffering from PTSD and anxiety attacks as a result of being subjected to the hostile work environment at Boeing," they said, "which we believe led to his death."'

FROM: https://www.npr.org/2024/03/12/1238033573/boeing-whistleblow...

Can we stop trying to make this some conspiracy. The man shot himself with is own gun (making him an unfortunate statistic). What articles like this do are give an unlikely narrative that Boeing can weasel out of.

They were shitty to him. The stress they caused drove the man to kill himself. Thats the story, dont buy this other sensational nonsense and give them a pass.

ctrl-j · 2 years ago

There's about two sentences in the article that say "it's suspicious, but nobody's going to look into it harder than they have."

The rest of it goes over how he was justified in being a whistleblower. The article is fine IMO.

ctrl-j commented on Nanoplastics in water – surprisingly large amounts discovered and its not good molecularspec.substack.co... · Posted by u/adomasm3

pdonis · 2 years ago

When you put the numbers in context, they are tiny.

For example, consider this comparison: when you take a pill of some drug, say an aspirin tablet, how much of the active ingredient (aspirin in this case) are in that pill? And how many bottles of water would you have to drink to put the same amount of nanoplastics (treating them as an "active ingredient") into your body?

Here's a back of the envelope calculation: suppose the concentration of nanoplastics is 10 nanograms per liter (about what is claimed in the article). A liter is about one (fairly large) bottle of water, so say 10 nanograms per bottle. A standard aspirin tablet has 325,000,000 nanograms (325 milligrams) of aspirin in it, or 32.5 million times as much active ingredient. So you would have to drink 32.5 million 1-liter bottles of water to expect the same general order of magnitude of "active ingredient" effects on your body as one aspirin tablet. If you drank one bottle of water per second, it would take you more than 10 years to drink that much water.

So I don't see any reason to forgo bottled water on these grounds. Certainly not in favor of tap water, which is much more subject to how careful your municipality's water purification process is (not to mention various possible sources of contamination in the water lines between the purification plant and the water tower and you).

ctrl-j · 2 years ago

The NIH has begun doing studies on the effects of nanoplastics, and it appears there is evidence for buildup in the liver [1]. If asprin had a long half-life in your body, you'd have a maximum lifetime dose. The reason it makes a good medicine is due to the fact that it has a positive effect and leaves your body in a timely manner.

A good example in this instance is Lead. Its bad to have lead in your water even in relatively small amounts, because the half-life of lead in your soft tissues is months, and in your bone is 20-30 years. If nanoplastics end up being similar, you could end up with liver damage, or other medical complications if your exposure is high.

[1] - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9610555/

ctrl-j commented on Pregnancies from rape occurring in abortion-ban states arstechnica.com/science/2... · Posted by u/hn_acker

spiderice · 2 years ago

> To estimate state-level rapes, they proportioned the rapes by states based on the FBI's 2022 crime data, which includes rapes. They then multiplied each state's rapes by the fraction of rapes likely to result in pregnancy. And finally, adjusted for the months between July 1, 2022 and January 1, 2024 that an abortion ban was in effect in each of the 14 states. Among the 14 states, the number of months in which a ban was in effect ranged from four to 18 months.

So they played around with numbers until they got a result they liked? Come on. This “study” is just rage bait.

ctrl-j · 2 years ago

Would you really call adjusting a statistical window "playing around with numbers"?

It doesn't look like they tried multiple parameters to get a result they liked, they just looked at the time frame that made sense.

ctrl-j commented on Comics I Loved in 2023 riteshbabu.net/2024/01/05... · Posted by u/npalli

Freak_NL · 2 years ago

> Privacy & Cookies: This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use. To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here: Cookie Policy.

The linked cookie policy is hosted on a different domain: https://automattic.com/cookies/, where riteshbabu.net is never mentioned again, and I am presented with a list of four websites (!) where I might be able to opt-out of tracking or whatever.

Not to single this website out specifically, but what a load of crap. It's all just so incredibly stupid and broken.

ctrl-j · 2 years ago

I noticed this as well. The site is small enough it's not likely to draw enough scrutiny to face repercussions, however there's zero chance this is enough to satisfy various data protection laws.

ctrl-j commented on “UnGoogley”? Worker says she was fired for questioning no holiday pay sfexaminer.com/news/fired... · Posted by u/jeffthechimp

knorker · 4 years ago

I know it's not unheard of, but i have never in my career been offered extra money for working holidays.

I think it's the right thing to do, both for the worker and for the business (don't want grumpy workers on the holidays), but yeah if you throw a tantrum (?) for not getting a perk, then that sounds ungoogley.

ctrl-j · 4 years ago

Every union job I've had holiday pay, and every white collar job has paid time off for holidays.

In my life the only jobs that skipped holiday pay were hypercapitalist organizations that didn't have a unionized workforce and didn't compensate people for their time humanely.

ctrl-j commented on Activision Blizzard Hires Notorious Union-Busting Firm WilmerHale promethean.news/news/acti... · Posted by u/dv_dt

ctrl-j · 4 years ago

Is your comment just anti-virtue signaling then?

Sometimes people just want to share their opinions, and they actually feel those feelings. Sometimes those feelings are about ethical issues.

ctrl-j commented on Activision Blizzard Hires Notorious Union-Busting Firm WilmerHale promethean.news/news/acti... · Posted by u/dv_dt

kelnos · 4 years ago

I don't really understand this attitude, or line of reasoning, or whatever you want to call it.

Sure, if a company does something that you find reprehensible, not giving them further money (or attention) is certainly a reasonable -- and honorable! -- thing to do.

But if you've already purchased a standalone[0], non-subscription product from that company, and that company doesn't gain any benefit from your further use of that product (or lose anything from you stopping use), I feel like you're only hurting yourself if you stop using it.

I will concede that if the act of playing one of these standalone games makes you think of the bad thing the company did and makes you angry/upset, I guess it makes sense to stop playing them. But unless the bad thing they did is something personally/viscerally important to you, it feels like that's a bit of an odd trigger.

[0] If the game is multiplayer, and connects to a company-run server, I guess you could make the argument that they benefit in some way from their active-users numbers being higher. I personally don't find that argument all that compelling, but everyone can of course decide where the cutoff of benefit is for them.

ctrl-j · 4 years ago

One of the things that companies rely on these days is engagement and playerbase. If you don't find that compelling, that's up to you, but Blizzard invests millions every year into maintaining their playerbase - so at least they find it compelling.

Just by being a part of the starcraft community, you are providing support to activision blizzard.

If we were talking about offline-only non-community driven content, sure... but this is a company that is almost entirely driven off of multiplayer games.

ctrl-j commented on RIP Google Music techcrunch.com/2020/11/11... · Posted by u/lxm

UncleMeat · 5 years ago

> Google doesn't care about you or what you think.

I find the Google/Startup dichotomy here fascinating. We are on hackernews, a site focused on startups. Pivoting dramatically, including throwing away your entire customer base for a different population, is considered an essential part of running a startup. But if a big company has a product that is obviously stagnating at a small userbase then the community demands that it be supported in perpetuity.

There is a pair of Cole Haan shoes I really like. I bought several of the same exact style over the years. It was eventually phased out. I can't buy it anymore. Is Cole Haan narcissistic for not offering me the shoe I want?

Is it narcissism, or good business?

ctrl-j · 5 years ago

I'll admit, I don't work in the startup space. However, it seems to me that Google doesn't really run their products like a startup generally does. It seems like adapting your product to your existing client base is usually better than launching a similar but different product while your current one is live. Once you've fragmented your user base then shuttering one of your products and (hoping?) that the users who didn't migrate will finally migrate to your new product... that seems like a lot of unnecessary risk? Or maybe that's just the startup game?

I feel like if startups ran their business like google runs their products, they'd fail pretty quickly. Am I off base here?

ctrl-j commented on Soylent isn’t Healthy (2017) nateliason.com/blog/soyle... · Posted by u/ecliptik

staplers · 5 years ago

As a product designer, it's easy to see through the trend of repackaging old products with new "minimal" branding. Soylent is PediaLyte or Ensure for millenials.

You see it in every industry now not just tech.

ctrl-j · 5 years ago

Uhhh.. PediaLyte and Ensure are vastly different products. Ensure is a weight gain meal replacement drink and PediaLyte is fancy gatorade.

Soylent is somewhere between Slimfast and Ensure. I'm not positive there's a quality calorically balanced meal replacement drink out there? Maybe there is, but whatever that is, Soylent is the branded version of that. Not PediaLyte or Ensure.