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Comment Symbolic achievement (Score 1) 92

the most subscribers on YouTube is largely a symbolic achievement

This is an understatement, as the views from all videos from media company (with hundreds or thousands of content creators) isn't comparable to the views from content that is largely generated by a single person. It's like comparing one artists views to all views on VEVO channels.

Comment Re:Still... a good interview. (Score 1) 249

Oh, AC is that your Ars comment quoted in the summary? Thanks editors for including this heavily biased and assumptive text. What trash.

It's now obvious that everything Elon tweeted that manipulated the market was a lie. Funding was not secured, the price of $420 was not based in reality, and it was not just a vote away from happening. When you're being investigated by the SEC for a weed joke that you used to manipulate the market it's an idiotic idea to make it even more obvious you manipulated the market by smoking weed publicly broadcasted. People are pulling out of the market because Elon lies to manipulate shareholders and cost them billions and that has become even more obvious. Not because 'omg weed is bad.'"

Comment Re:Coundown until Steam is blocked starting at 3.. (Score 1) 44

I don't know, keeping the masses pacified by playing video games (violent as some might be) seems like a win/win. Also, anyone in the western hemisphere who plays PUBG is extremely aware of the popularity of the game among the Chinese. For whatever reason the Chinese (and Koreans to a lesser extent) seem to enjoy playing on North American servers, so you often end up with teammates who can't understand you or killed by a massive team of red-shirt wearing players in a solo game mode.

Comment Misleading quotation (Score 4, Informative) 91

The quotation in the summary and even a bit in the article are very misleading. The company seems to take full responsibility for the issue and are not passing blame. The line right after that quote is:

"We are regretful that this was not addressed immediately and adequately by our support team, when discovered. We have addressed this and made some internal changes."

They do however have a previous incident where the exact same thing happened, and in that case they apparently suggested it was because two completely unrelated users used the same user and password (which wasn't true).

Comment Re:If you don't like your job (Score 1) 153

He's contacted several media outlets already and none of them have run his story (yet). I guess if any of his claims had merit then we'll see something. Personally I'm leaning more towards personal greed - he tried to sell a story to the media, they didn't bite (except CNN apparently), so he found something that Tesla's enemies wanted instead.

Comment Re:More like... (Score 0) 43

I could do this even better by routing the output of a SNES directly through the NES console. I'd drill a 1-inch hole all the way through an original unmodified NES, and then run the A/V cables of an unmodified SNES (or even a SNES classic if I had the patience) through the hole and into my TV. There'd be no jitter and you'd get 100% perfect SNES output on the TV. Since it can be done far more quickly this way we'd have far more time to actually play the games, and would be exactly as useful as the article's experiment.

Comment Re:They should make them misdemeanors (Score 1) 343

if he'd put as much effort into studying as he did setting up this phishing attempt, he probably wouldn't have needed to change his grades

It's not surprising that he would put a huge amount of effort into something he found interesting and motivating, and was probably failing his other classes he hated (English class anyone?). I knew a guy in high school who had a seriously high IQ - he was the lead of the school team that does those trivia competitions and he would take a class's textbook home and read it for fun and ace the class tests. And he nearly failed every subject because he wouldn't do any of the assigned work which accounted for a significant portion of the marks.

Comment Re:Pick your battles (Score 3, Interesting) 196

I also think it has a positive effect on many restaurants (even if relatively small) to try and reduce fat and sugar in their food

In Canada we've had this for a while now, and this seems to ring true, especially with serving size. I go to Broadway's regularly and get a club sandwich with fries. It used to come on a plate where they'd put as many fries as would fit, but a couple years ago they started limiting the fries to a more reasonable fixed portion. This is likely because their menus now indicate the calorie size of a serving of fries, and "as many calories as can fit on your plate" doesn't sound very good.

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