It’s about fashion designs. Your buzzwords have about as much relevance here as they usually do in any startup pitch - which is to say, absolutely none.

Right, I was just misunderstanding your statement, then. Thanks for the interesting read!

Interesting! Just a question, are you saying that the Germans were holding back during their bombing runs of London? I’m no history expert, but that doesn’t sound right to me, and if it is, I’d love to know more about it.

I suppose there’s also little reason to siege cities nowadays, given that city walls for defense are no longer a thing.

While I agree with your opinion, you could certainly have been a lot less of a jerk when saying it

Honest question, how does this mesh with sieges of cities in earlier periods of history? When cities would surrender because of sieges. What are the differences?

There’s like 2 FAQs linked by OP, you could have looked at them…

https://www.stopkillinggames.com/faq

If votes became truly public

There’s no ‘if’, they already are.

what would stop a malicious user from automating crawling the fediverse to get a list of every up and down vote a targeted user has ever made?

The same thing currently stopping them: nothing but time and effort.

Admins can currently do this, I assume given enough time and intent? Yuck.

No, anybody can currently do this.

That’s the issue with decentralisation. The info is out there. It’s that or trust a megacorp with it.

ITT: Lots of people who have no idea how the tech works and couldn’t be bothered reading the comments before posting

Welcome to English Idioms 101

It matters when all 3 of them are mortgaged and the mortgages are now more than their actual value.

(Before you blame the buyers for being dumb, realise that due to cultural context and other factors, pretty much the entire middle class is in this sort of situation).

Well this is talking about Diablo ONE, so…

Those rumours have been around for years, every time he drops out of public view for a while

One problem steam doesn’t have is with fake accounts. They can be reasonably sure which accounts are legit and ignore votes from the more questionable ones

300 is the obviously low, official govt estimate. The protestors estimate between 1k - 2k deaths.

Probably not an unreasonable fear at the moment?

One of their former own, who is now trying to drum up publicity to sell his book.

Yeah, imagine different people having different opinions than you!

Man, I remember the days when IceFrog was this new name that had appeared out of nowhere to revive 5.84c.

They’re not working on the half life series because there’s no way they’ll ever live up to the hype that’s built up. Best to let sleeping dogs lie.