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empress went dark after being exposed by a scene group as "voksi, the bulgarian". no one knows, but it did coincide with that.

Voksi was a popular cracker and among the first to face against Denuvo in the early days. He got himself arrested because apparently his opsec was so nonexistent he used to lurk in steam using his real name and upload cracking tutorials on youtube.

Nobody knows what happened after, or whether he reached a deal with Denuvo or anything else. But Empress did arrive some time after he got arrested, so it could be speculated. He has denied it himself however, on multiple occasions, but even if he is Empress it's obviously something you won't expect him to admit after all that's happened.


there has been one recently that led to the dumping of games on xbox one and série and the beginning of emulation projects

$450 when corrected for inflation.


In 1945 they had the gold standard at $35/oz so $27.50 would have been 0.7857 oz of gold currently worth $2540.


Is this a reasonable metric though? No one was buying books in 1945 with gold.


Gold is considered to have relatively consistent value over time.

Median home price in 1940 Boston area was $3,600 or 180oz gold. Today the median home price is 215oz of gold in the same area (or $670,000). In terms of gold, house prices are up 20%. In terms of dollars, 18000%.

A new car still costs around 13oz of gold.

Real inflation of fiat is easy to obscure for political reasons. That’s much harder to do with the market value of gold.


> Gold is considered to have relatively consistent value over time.

Not really. It has fluctuated a lot. You can pick starting and ending points a few years apart and come up with very different results relative to actual inflation.

> A new car still costs around 13oz of gold.

Now take this idea and average it across a large number of different items and you arrive at inflation statistics, which are better than using 1 commodity or 1 purchasable item as a benchmark.


> Now take this idea and average it across a large number of different items and you arrive at inflation statistics

If only it was as simple: you will need to introduce weights between different items, and account to the change of those weights too. Also gold isn't just commodity, it's monetary commodity.

If you use official inflation dollars you get 1$ 1940 ~= 23$ 2025. You can see how magnitude wrong it is for housing or cars in the example above.

Here's food prices from 1940 diner: > A 25-cent platter, 5-cent hotdog, and 10-cent hamburger. Also doesn't really work with official inflation dollars either. And again works much better with gold prices.


Median household income in the 1940’s seems to be something like $2,600. Using your inflation figure that is ~$59800 in today’s dollars.

2024 there seems to be an estimated ~$75,000 median household income.

Housing and cars are also apples and oranges seeing that the average family size and sq footage for even 50’s homes is completely different than today. Today fewer people are living in significantly larger spaces than was normal back then.


Good points.

For houses I think I expect to get better product for same “real” dollars, like with cars or TV. But given somewhat limited supply of houses this can be wrong assumption.

As for income tbh I read it more like real income fell a lot, rather than a proof that inflated dollars reflect reality well. I.e i think if income inequality didn’t grow as much as it did 2024 median household income would have been much higher which would have increased different between inflation figure from real one further.


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This is what passes for "intellectual contributions" for Hackernews. Notice there is zero dang's preaching about the values of HN to posts like these. He reserves his warnings for things that are popular but also goes against his fascist administration. This site is chock full of outright bigotry but it's acceptable as long as you present it politely.


Outside of the humour involved, what is your precise complaint?

You do realise that, especially in the US, almost everyone is fat, yes? That there is an epidemic of this?

And that it is getting worse.

As a general rule, many people considered lean today, would be considered fat 100 years ago.

This is the joke, and also the truth. And amusingly if you visit these smaller, older houses, you will actually find narrower internal doors, stairs and halls in many of them.

Even bedrooms are smaller, and were meant for smaller beds.

Thus humorous thought then lends to the idea, is the lair's size and dimensions a contributor to size? We know environment can cause genetic expression, after all.

The comment is what you make of it.

You've taken offence for some reason. Why?


The key word is relatively. Compared to cash or index investing gold has been far more consistent, while cash has devalued loads even after adjusting for the government indexes, and stocks have gone up loads in real terms assuming you did something passive and reinvested dividends.

The reason it's been fairly constant is that over the long term the cost is driven by the cost of mining it and costs of say getting an acre of land, digging up earth and processing it remains somewhat comparable to the cost of getting an acre of land and building a house.

Cash depreciates because voters say we need more wages and it's easier for governments to print money than make everyone richer in real terms. They can try to generate the illusion of richer in real terms by fiddling the inflation stats, say focusing on a basket of vegetables and not medical costs or beachfront property,

Stocks go up because companies make profits and reinvest.


Using core, required assets actually makes more sense considering recurring purchases tend to change over time.


>Not really. It has fluctuated a lot. You can pick starting and ending points a few years apart and come up with very different results relative to actual inflation.

I think he's talking about really long periods of time. It's true that gold is an extremely volatile investment, whose price can seemingly quadruple or be cut in four at any time. But if you look over periods where the price of gold increased by more than 20x, this becomes a lot less important when you try to estimate things like the average rate of inflation. If you work with a ten-year moving average of the price of gold the problem is also reduced. Gold is the only metal whose sulfide is unstable under standard conditions (101.3/293.15).

In other fields, this is called a "low-pass filter".


Gold was a standard for a reason


Yeah people like shiny rocks. Luckily we switched to a more stable system after the great depression. Although with this major tarrifs war who knows maybe Trump will decide to really collapse us economy and switch to the gold syatem


> A new car still costs around 13oz of gold.

A car or house built in 2025 is very different object than one built in 1945.

Consistent commodities like coal, rice, or silver make better points of comparison, but each give wildly different values for inflation just as gold does. Inflation doesn’t mean anything specific on very long timescales because the underlying economy fundamentally changes.

There’s really nothing suggesting gold is a more fundamental measure of value than silver which was far more commonly traded. IMO the reason people focus on gold today is its more consistent use in video games as a currency rather than say platinum. There’s just never been enough gold to use as a common medium of exchange between individuals, but in virtual worlds that’s a non issue.


Houses built in 1945 are still on the market for comparable prices to those built in 2025


Nope land is comparable, subtract that out and you’ll see a huge difference as you literally can’t legally build a house that shitty in most areas. These things were typically ~750 SF and had terrible insulation via single pane windows etc.

Survivorship bias means most of the lowest quality housing stock either didn’t survive or was significantly upgraded, but that’s irrelevant when talking about what was being built.


Naw. Just look at the plots over the last hundred years. Lately, it's become just as financialized at bitcoin or any of the other "stores of value".

https://www.5yearcharts.com/historical-gold-price-chart-how-...


> A new car still costs around 13oz of gold

But a new car today is vastly different from a 1940s car, so different that it's nonsensical to use it to compare purchasing power of gold.


It's all about utility. So it does not really matter how better or worse cars are over time


What is a 'car'? I don't know what a car is. Sorry. Is it a used Ford Bronco for $2000 or a Ferrari Purasongue for $450,000?

They have basically the same utility. What is a car?


That is a very interesting utility function


If you need to go 50 km away from where you live what functions the car has is irrelevant besides getting you there at the end of the day.


Sure, but modern cars are in fact much, much better at this.

New cars aren't necessarily a lot better than cars built 20 years ago, but compared to anything built before EFI they are vastly more reliable. And then you could also talk about radial tires if you are comparing to the 1940s.

While you are fiddling with your carb and fixing 2 flat tires, I'm cruising along with a misfiring cylinder and a nail causing a slow leak.


Median home prices have risen. Home prices have gotten out of control due to limits on supply that's one of the main factors of inflation. Cars today are very different then cars back then and come with more features. The dollar is what we use for currency and the measurement of inflation is well defined (even if there can be good faith argument of which inflation works better especially when comparing long term) meanwhile gold is just shiny rocks


In 1945, private ownership of gold was illegal. Being contraband, its value was pretty static.

The ban was only lifted once we adopted fiat currency, and it became not particularly useful for trade.


> Gold is considered to have relatively consistent value over time.

Uh... Gold has doubled in the last two years. Fast forward past the trade war and it'll likely crash again. Gold is far, far more volatile than currencies. More even than securities, and frankly even most commodities are more stable.


My grocery bill has doubled over roughly the same time period.


"Groceries" likewise make extremely poor metrics for "consistent value". Also "grocery bill" sounds like you're trying to sneak in an argument about inflation, and not value (gold inflates too!).

Also, too, no it hasn't, not remotely. Don't hyperbolize, it cheapens the discourse. Food CPI is about 1-2% higher than general CPI right now. (Or maybe you moved from CDMX to San Jose or something, likewise not a statement about value).


> In terms of gold, house prices are up 20%

Except that the gold price fluctuated by 50% within the last 30 years: https://goldprice.org/gold-price-history.html


It's a better metric than the estimate of the dollar inflation. Gold standard was in use until 1971


If I were selling books in Europe in 1945, I’d much prefer gold to Reichsmarks.


desilvering of coins was in the 1965 coin act.

So if they paid in dimes/quarters/ half dollars /dollars, they were paying in silver


All cash was convertible to gold at a fixed rate, so more or less they were


In 1945, US GDP per capita was almost $1600. Using your conversion factors, that would be almost $150k today. The actual number is something like $85k. I don't think Americans are that much poorer today than they were 80 years ago.


You’re starting to get into the theories of how they hide true inflation


Poe's law strikes again. Is this supposed to be a parody of goldbugs or do you seriously think Americans were that much richer in 1945? Without a wink we don't know


i’m american, what’s the price in big macs?


Four myocardial infarctions.


1945 is the year 5 AMC (After McDonalds)


How is GDP per capita a useful measure in the presence of almost-trillionaires?

Depending on which city they sleep in, Bezos or Musk make all local citizens multimillionaires. Per capita. Statistically.


Henry Ford had about 200Billiin adjusted for inflation around that time. Not quite as high as a couple of guys today but not that far off


This is very true. One should look at some select percentiles instead, IMHO.


In 1945 US citizens were banned from owning gold so the exchange rate was not really tethered to the common value of the dollar.


Gold is volatile. Two years ago it would have been half that.


Metagenomics can do hard diagnoses. We achieved the first truly confirmed diagnosis of neurohistoplasmosis in our region using that technique.


It could be very useful for Oncohematology patients. Cultures take a long time, relatively, for them, who often are severely immunosuppressed due to treatment.


sad day for people who care about modding


This is the second time (we know of) BeamNG.drive being exploited due to bad security practices - the first time, disabling ASLR [0], leading to Disney being hacked, this time, disabling CEF sandboxing. It is weird to see them go out of their way to disable conventional security features on their product.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41063489


I'd imagine by the time your program's security is critically reliant on ASLR and process-level sandboxing, you're already in deep trouble, since any given minor update may turn existing holes into viable exploits. It will only slow down the rate of attacks at best.

The lesson I'd take here is "don't embed a web browser to run untrusted code unless you can keep it up to date 24/7". Hence the popularity of Lua interfaces for mods. Or even the alternative JS engines built for such purposes.


>It is weird to see them go out of their way to disable conventional security features on their product

Honestly with most developers I know, unless they also have a strong security background, it's not weird or surprising at all. Security features (almost?) never make debugging easier. When confronted with a failure that presents challenges devs will disable things that limit access or otherwise randomize the output in order to catch the problem and then 'hopefully' come tighten it back up when they are done. Unfortunately the second part rarely happens unless you have security auditors follow you around.


That is why then there are folks like me, complaining in code reviews, or adding configurations into the CI/CD pipeline.

However it is indeed a quixotic battle in some scenarios, regarding security best practices.


I had forced ASLR on in windows for a while... You'd be surprised how much stuff breaks with that. Almost feels like more is broken than not. Just to name a few: MinGW (including git for windows), Unity, Whatever installer Framework Signal and some others use, some Anti-Cheats


One could be using the safest programming language in the world, if the culture doesn't get the point, it doesn't matter how safe it can be.


The system is provably fully encrypted after a restart.


Why is this flagged?


I think the question of why it works triggers some kind of stroke in some people like when a child swears and the only rational interpretation says something about the environment that they don't want to hear.


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