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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

As people said, you can backup your private keys to a flash drive. You can put them in a safe deposit box. You can give them to your lawyer or other fiduciary with a legal responsibility to act in your best interests (who also knows how to protect digital property if they keep digital copy). You could write it with lemon juice onto the back of the Declaration of Independence at the National Archives. You could have a laser thingie that displays it on a wall surgically implanted into your arm. Pretty much all the ways people protect gold or cash in the real world you can do with a piece of paper with your private key.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (12 children)

Well, if those licenses are entries on the blockchain, they could be transferred on the blockchain. You could sell your game used when you’re bored of playing it. You can’t play it after you sell it but someone else can. Publishers hate resale markets though, when people buy used games they don’t make any money. So they’ll probably never go for this.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 8 months ago

As someone from the USA, don’t you know how this works? Congress votes for stuff without worrying about how to pay for it all the time. When there are hard years, you issue more debt. When there are easy years, you issue less debt but still don’t really reign in debt because your constituents demand more stuff and less taxes.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

If we controlled the world government, then what are all these politicians who run on a platform of exposing the secret government that already controls the world going to do?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Spider Mastermind is a pushover, Cyberdemon is the best boss in Doom.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Why would being a good leader be easy?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 8 months ago (6 children)

I don’t know whether that would help as much as you think it will. I just got out of the military, and there are definitely certain people who started out taking a lot of shit from people just like you did at that rank, but their motivation to rank up was because they couldn’t wait to become the people giving people shit.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

Last year I could cast episodes of DS9 I get from Paramount+ through Amazon Prime to my parents’ TV. This year I can’t, likely as an anti-piracy measure. So I hooked my device up via HDMI. Still couldn’t watch it on the TV. You know what? I’m gonna go complain to them before I stop subscribing.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 8 months ago (14 children)

Usually when a customer talks to a customer service agent, that’s the only customer service agent they’re going to interact with that week. So they treat the customer service agent as though the converse is true, that they are the only customer the customer service agent will interact with that week, forgetting that they are actually the 10,000th.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago

The headline about the mayor of New York ordering the NYPD to shoot floodwater if it doesn’t disperse was funnier.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Compared to those pain points building a modern PC should be a breeze. CPUs go in Zero Insertion Force sockets so as long as you remember to lift the little lever you won’t bend any pins. People don’t even wear static discharge wrist bands anymore (all though it couldn’t hurt) or worry about shorting things out. And power connectors only fit one way unlike the AT power connector.

Speaking of breeze your only pain point might be making sure you have enough air circulation for cooling all that gear.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

1980: “God Cowboy Actor” guy won

2000: “Misunderestimated nuculer” guy won

2016: “Person woman man camera TV” guy won

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