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Comment Re:If you paid for the bleeding edge (Score 1) 45

There's something to this, but not much, because games typically have graphics settings that you can use to get the performance you want at the resolution you want by turning off features. So yes, target the upper end of the hardware, but also make it possible to play on lesser systems.

Comment Re:Having a laugh? (Score 1) 44

If we want shorter workweeks in America, the means to obtain it is not new tech, but new legislation.

Or we could just let workers and employers sort it out.

That could make sense, if you completely ignore facts and history.

If we reduce the per-employee overhead, that would make employers (on the margin) more willing to have shorter hour employees

That's a good argument for single-payer health care.

Comment Re:Similar issues on iOS app store (Score 1) 36

My IT team regularly has to help iPhone users install the Microsoft authenticator app for MFA as part of adding them to our email system.

Stop doing BYOD, preload apps on the phones issued to users, and you won't have this problem.

No fucking way I'm allowing my employer access to my personal phone. Luckily mine is smart enough to issue phones.

Comment Re:Well... it IS September... (Score 1) 28

I remember attempts to moderate on Usenet, and it really didn't work. It was too decentralized, there was insufficient central authority to enforce or to delegate to moderators, and then the volume of garbage got so bad that it simply wasn't worth it anymore.

Moderation on USENET works fine. Moderated newsgroups require post approval. The only problem there is post volume, but every newsgroup doesn't have to be for everyone.

However, a better plan would have been to give users the tools to filter out the trolls with a web of trust moderation system based on PGP signatures, which could have been added to any newsreader.

Comment Re: apple profits from scams (Score 1) 36

Our app is used by many thousands of people, so I know it's not a lack of familiarity.

Apple has more money than God, so if they are not staffing enough to handle reports of fraud pertaining to extremely highly used apps, there can be only one reason, and it is enjoying the profits related to allowing that fraud.

Comment Re:Having a laugh? (Score 4, Insightful) 44

We can have shorter work weeks right now. Technological advances have enabled that long ago. The reason we don't have shortened workweeks has absolutely nothing to do with how productive tech has made workers, and everything to do with employers wanting long workweeks.

To most employers, the phrase "short workweek" means "I pay the same but get less out of my people, meanwhile my competitors pay the same but get more from their people." It is simply not rational for them to go for that.

If we want shorter workweeks in America, the means to obtain it is not new tech, but new legislation.

Comment apple profits from scams (Score 1) 36

Recently got a work email saying that the Apple app store is carrying a fraudulent version of our app which costs money including having a subscription fee while ours is free. I would assume the scam app also steals PII. Apple isn't responding to requests to remove it though it's clearly fraudulent (it's even using a version of the same name) which can only be because they get a cut of the fees.

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