> it looks like a copycat of a popular flash game, the author’s name is atypical
That popular flash game is the game of this author.
> I am Tukkun, an indie game developer making games since 2008. My most significant work is a PC Flash game I made back in 2009 called Anti-Idle: The Game, uploaded to the website Kongregate.
That’s so clever. Nothing stands as particularly revolutionary but the author brilliantly solved all the problems to deliver the final product. They are only a undergraduate student as well, they have a bright future ahead.
Thank you! I still don't understand the relationship between "year 6" and undergraduate, or where does it say "year 6". I'm honestly wondering as I don't know anything about Japan
Nothing to do with undergrad/PhD - I was just commenting on the way the date was written (2024-03-21 in Chinese/big-endian format, 21.03.2024 in European/small-endian format, 03/21/2024 in the muddled US format):
At the bottom of the document, it says "令和 6 年 3 月 21 日“, where the first two characters denote the Reiwa era which started in 2019 (=year 1 of the Reiwa era). 2024 then is year 6 of that era. And that's just what the next two characters denote: "6 年" = year 6. "3 月" is month 3 (the character symbolises a moon), and "21 日" is day 21 (the character symbolises a sun).
Many people complain about that number (not necessarily on hackernews, but there are some comments like that already) without realizing that most of that value is based on the stock price and not cash. Depending on how the IPO fares this $193M value can turn into $1M or $1B+ (both extremes and very unlikely to happen).
He got around $1.1M in cash.
> According to an SEC filing, Huffman got a salary of $341,346 in 2023 and a $792,000 “incentive” bonus. In February, Huffman’s salary was raised to $550,000 with the bulk of his $193 million compensation package tied to stock.
The same applies to all public company CEOs. They all get paid mostly in stock.
Ultimately it's the other shareholders paying these compensation packages. They may sometimes be well deserved, but discussing and criticizing them is fair too.
Sometimes courts do strike down excesses. Elon Musk's $55 billion package was voided by a Delaware court because the Tesla board didn't follow proper procedure. (I.e. not because he didn't create shareholder value — he absolutely did! — but because the process was flawed.)
Stock compensation is arguably way more valuable than cash compensation unless you're leading a sinking ship, taxation is much better and you get more power/votes in the company.
But when the victims are willing and enthusiastic participants, who would complain bitterly if they were barred from contributing their free labor, what are you supposed to do?
Their free labor is compensated by something else, probably status or power, obviously, so it's not clear that anyone is being taken advantage of.
This common argument seems like a misunderstanding of how Reddit works. Mods aren't unpaid workers for Reddit, but rather, mods get access to a free platform to create a community on the condition that it follows the rules. That's the compensation. In contrast, one of the forums I'm active on just did a donation run to keep their servers running for another year.
We have one on central Arizona that never needs to shut down due to heat and definitely does not rely on sea water for cooling. So no, they don’t need to shut down when it gets too hot if they are designed for the heat.
> In the US, the sole desert-based nuclear facility, the Palo Verde plant in Arizona, relies on municipal wastewater rather than rivers or seas, though the facility has struggled with rising costs as more industries compete for limited supplies.
Because French were cheapening out on cooling towers and water returning back to river would be too hot. It is not problem of fission in general. It is just construction defect of those types of plants.
It’s highly ironic that fossil fuels might be creating a problem that cripples nuclear fission going forward. That being said, I’m hoping we manage to scale up direct energy transfer and bypass the need for turbines.
That's 4 quintillion.