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mtnGoat commented on VPN use surges in UK as new online safety rules kick in   ft.com/content/356674b0-9... · Posted by u/mmarian
Fraaaank · 5 months ago
What's stopping lawmakers to require VPN providers to verify the age of their users?
mtnGoat · 5 months ago
Enforcement, one countries laws don’t apply in another. Which is kind of why the age verification thing won’t work… There will always be some jurisdiction that’ll ignore things for profit.
mtnGoat commented on How to Catch a Wily Poacher in a Sting: A Thermal Robotic Deer   wsj.com/us-news/how-to-ca... · Posted by u/Element_
jaredhallen · 5 months ago
Seems pretty bold to drive through someone's gate to poach.
mtnGoat · 5 months ago
The road was technically public and crossed his land, but was a dead end.
mtnGoat commented on How to Catch a Wily Poacher in a Sting: A Thermal Robotic Deer   wsj.com/us-news/how-to-ca... · Posted by u/Element_
mtnGoat · 5 months ago
There was an old farmer in my town that had a steel deer decoy on a hill up the road from his house, poachers would shoot it, not knowing he would hear the sound, shut his gate then call law enforcement on them as there was no other way out.

I always appreciated the cleverness of this.

mtnGoat commented on Steam, Itch.io are pulling ‘porn’ games. Critics say it's a slippery slope   wired.com/story/steam-itc... · Posted by u/6d6b73
ramesh31 · 5 months ago
>Why haven’t game stores just spin off separate store front for porn content? It is basically free, since they already have the infrasructure.

Because the payment processing is unreliable and prohibitively expensive. For all the whining about "moral pearl clutching", the reality is that adult oriented businesses deal with massively higher rates of fraud and charge-backs. Visa and Mastercard couldn't care less about the ethical issues, it's simply a risk calculation for their business.

mtnGoat · 5 months ago
Actually they don’t, visa heavily restricts those business and the amount of chargebacks they are allowed to have, other industries have much higher rates of chargeback.

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mtnGoat commented on OpenAI reaches agreement to buy Windsurf for $3B   bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/swyx
mtnGoat · 7 months ago
I think this is way over priced, could they not build their own with significantly less resource outlay?

But I guess I’m not really the guy that buys billion dollar things, so I probably don’t know how to evaluate them.

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mtnGoat commented on I decided to pay off a school’s lunch debt   huffpost.com/entry/utah-s... · Posted by u/dredmorbius
veunes · 7 months ago
It's honestly heartbreaking - not just what you went through, but how normalized it was. That kind of survival mode shouldn't be part of any kid's school experience
mtnGoat · 7 months ago
It sticks with you for a while and creates interesting views on things throughout life.
mtnGoat commented on I decided to pay off a school’s lunch debt   huffpost.com/entry/utah-s... · Posted by u/dredmorbius
pc86 · 7 months ago
I think every child should get a hot, nutritious breakfast and lunch at school at taxpayer expense. But I'm also [edit] s/smart/reasonable enough to know that people who disagree with that aren't "subhuman."

There is no "basic test of humanity" and pretending their is is tribalistic bullshit so you can feel superior to other people who disagree with you.

It's digusting.

mtnGoat · 7 months ago
You are entitled to your opinion, despite throwing an insult in to point out an insult. lol, nice hypocrisy. ;)
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