RWSen's comments

Exactly. There's a train route here in The Netherlands, from Den Bosch to Utrecht, where the train can coast the last 20 km. That's out of a 48 km trip, so almost half!

> Who do you think the existing mods are?

I am. I moderate my local city subreddit. All I do is remove surveys and point people seeking housing to the megathread.

(We're a university town, so lots of students seek people willing to fill in badly designed questionaires.)

Yes, the biggest subreddits will always have a number of power tripping mods. But the vast majority of subreddits have a stable mod team putting in a little daily effort to keep their online community organised. These are the people who will walk away if the removal of their preferred tools makes moderating harder. At least I know I will.

You're not wrong: reddit probably needs to raise their income, which means monetising their users more.

The biggest issue most vocal users (including many mods and developers of third party apps like Apollo) have, is that the prices are much higher then the expections reddit set beforehand and that everything was only communicated 30 days in advance.

If reddit wanted to keep third party apps, but have them pay for the users use of reddit, they could have implemented a transition plan. Or make it work another way. Or charge a realistic amount (you yourself state reddit's users are low value, but reddits is asking for $20 million per year in missed monetisation just for Apollo's users, which is very high value).

Instead, reddit seems to approach this aggressively, signalling through their actions that they intend to kill off all third party apps. That's what the the subs going dark are protesting against. Especially since reddit's own site and app are of significant lower quality.

ANother anecdote from The Netherlands: when we go out to drink we go by bike so everyone can drink! Worst case scenario: you bike there and walk back again. You can't take a car with you when you're walking.

Personally, while drunk, I lose the ability to walk straight before I lose the ability to bike.

> Every bug ever was a computer program that did exactly what the programmer told the computer to do [...]

Ironically, the first ever computer bug does not fit your claim [0].

[0]: https://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/september/9/

Foveal rendering is in a weird spot. The software seems to be there, but mostly only in academia. The hardware is almost nowhere to be found, because it is another expense. People prefer spending that extra money on a better computer, since that improves every VR experience, not just the possibility of (part of) future experiences.

FVR needs a hook: what can it do that "dumb" VR headsets don't?

The handle designed by Walter Gropius is the first image of the article for me, even before the introduction. Direct link: https://apollo.imgix.net/content/uploads/2020/06/GettyImages...

For The Netherlands: https://www.reddit.com/r/geldzaken

Here in the Netherlands during winter, bike paths are cleared/salted before most residential streets. That together with the sheer amount of bicycles keeps all mayor bike paths clear enough, though it does get slippery.

Because the water would need to be separated from the sand grains. The "water" in the sand is very little: it's more akin to damp sand we're talking about, or in the "wettest" case mud.

Drying that would require a lot of area, effort, and sun, or some type of oven. Any method of making sand drier costs orders of magnitutde more than the sand itself.

This seems easy to address: when the game is first started with a review key, show a pop-up informing the player that this is a review key with certain limits.

This way, the player immediately knows he has bought an improper key, and can address this with the store it was bought. A journalist would not mind such a pop-up.

If the game stops working without warning after a few months, angry reactions are to be expected.

It's the equivalent of working as a contractor. The main benefit is that you pay less taxes into the social welfare system, primarily a ZZP'er doesn't have to pay into a pension fund. The government tries to make being a ZZP'er advantageous, as it is perceived as being great for the economy.