howrar

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Twenty percent of hard drives used for long-term music storage in the 90s have failed⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re currently having a conversation on an article about cold storage. The comment you replied to was about this article, and hence also about cold storage. It makes absolutely no sense to come into this conversation saying that they’re wrong about how cold storage works because your experience with hot storage doesn’t line up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If 1 million people sign a petition, a ban on rendering multiplayer games unplayable has a chance to become law in Europe⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Does it need to be simple? I think it’s pretty reasonable to just release what you have as is, then let the users figure out how to run it for themselves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is it apparently cool and fine for insurance companies to spend countless billions, trillions of our money constantly buying ad time?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If you consider only the mean, then of course you’re going to be better off without insurance on average. But most of us don’t care about the mean. We care about the variance. And when you buy insurance, you’re reducing the variance in your life in exchange for a lower mean. The problem with insurance isn’t insurance itself, but that often you pay and get nothing in return.