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Physical CCGs have always been on the nice side of a gray area, digital CCGs are worse, and most loot boxes are much worse. Some important differences (experience drawn from Magic: the Gathering CCG, Rocket League, Team Fortress 2, Hearthstone, Pokémon CCG, Hustle Castle, Merge Dragons, Call of Duty WW2, and a bunch more I don't remember off the top of my head; I play a lot of games):

Games with loot boxes will constantly push them: Throw a loot box in your face while you play or at the end of the match, urging you to pay to open them. What's inside? Maybe something cool? Don't you want to find out? They will also typically show that you have "(3) Unopened Boxes" in your account when you are in the menus. With a CCG, I can browse my collection, play games with friends, or even tournaments, without having to turn down constant sales pitches.

Games with loot boxes often remind you, while you play, that this and that player in your game or your friend X just opened a loot box now and got something cool.

Anything you want in a CCG can be traded or bought fairly from other players. Few loot box implementations allow this.

Any duplicates you get in a CCG can be re-sold, or given away. Few loot box implementations allow this.

Any cards you get from a CCG have a physical presence, so you can store them in a box in the basement and dig them out again years later to either play or sell. Most loot box games will be dead in 5 years.

Opening a loot box is instant gratification. One click and fireworks you have spent the money and it's opening. CCGs require either mail order or physically going to a store. The time delay between feeling the urge and getting the crackle kaboom whoosh (loot boxes opening is very showy) of opening the thing is days or hours versus split seconds.
Ever tried to cancel a gym membership?
> Whether a business is a failure or a success is 99% based on the relationships and contracts it forms. Typically, unskilled managers and executives will forge the deal FIRST, and then go get the expertise and skilled laborers after.

Maybe - forming the relationships and contracts and forging the deal - is a valuable skill too, and since I've been on a lot of interview panels - getting the skilled laborers and expertise to work for you is also another very valuable "skill".
I probably should have highlighted this better, but I was not talking about Minecraft in the second part of my comment. I was talking about Minetest:

https://www.minetest.net/

Which is essentially a game engine for creating Minecraft-like games. Minecraft itself grew historically and is not state of the art anymore.

Which especially shows in the pillar chunks that you mention. Their size is 16 x 16 x world-height, meaning that the world height can only be so big (256 blocks in the case of Minecraft).

Minetest has cubic chunks, 16x16x16, which allows for virtually infinite world height, but also for loading those chunks in a much smarter way than Minecraft has it (which basically just loads chunks in a circle around the player).

When you're in a cave, for example, you don't need 400 blocks in all directions to be loaded, you just need to see the next wall. Whereas when you're standing on a mountain, you do need to be able to see all of the chunks that make up the surface of the surrounding terrain, but you again don't need any blocks to be loaded below the surface.

And for that, I assume they use a raytracing approach. Periodically check what chunks are in line of sight for the player and make sure those are loaded. When on a mountain, that's a lot of chunks, when in a cave, it'll only be a few.

So, I'm not talking about whether they are rendered or not, I'm talking about them being loaded into RAM or not (which obviously does also result in them not being rendered when they're not loaded).
Is there a good way to use this from Webpack?

Edit: https://github.com/alangpierce/sucrase/blob/master/integrati...
Chase is awful too, their passwords aren't case sensitive! If you have an account you can try it right now, type in your password and change the case of a letter and it doesn't make a difference.
Everyone in the group has known each other since the late seventies, we just don't live in the same places anymore. It's just us and, except for a couple of deaths, the group hasn't changed size in a couple of decades. We haven't and wouldn't invite anyone else.
Not just your friends. I recently found out that two companies I've bought something from shared my data with facebook.
It's pretty obvious that both CCGs and loot boxes are forms of gambling. The question is what effects they're having and how they need to be regulated. Loot boxes have a lot more of the features that make gambling a problem, and children are less equipped to handle it. It's reasonable to regulate the benign thing differently from the harmful thing.
First they remove the awesome ability to post anonymous gists with the API. Now they remove this feature that seems like is much engrained in various workflows. Thanks github. :/
Perhaps try RC binary until the release is ready?

https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/windows/
Add on top that the good movies are rare and tons of garbage movies are in the list, the probabilities are hidden and there are no laws to make it fair so they can use who knows what algorithm to determine when you win.
I’ve been wondering whether this approach would be viable for a while now. Are there any systems that do this? I know solo’s Gloo reverses the flow using NATS but that’s all I’ve seen use this approach.
This is basically what OpenShift is. Highly recommended.
What you describe the Democrats doing with the ACA did not happen, as others have pointed out. But it did happen last year, when the GOP blocked any amendments or involvement from Democrats in their failed healthcare reform process.
It may not be to take more jobs, it may be to keep the one you have. Say it takes 14 hours and 45 minutes and you can only log 14 hours drive time. How do you get the job done when dispatch is promising you'll be there? Start driving before you log the start of your day, log breaks when really you've been peeing in a bottle, log some time to inspect your truck when you are stuck in traffic. A little here and there. You can also fudge when you slept and start so you can get rolling sooner. The pressure to do this is huge. If you won't, someone else will, so you do it to keep your job.

Bonus, if you are caught the company doesn't care, they will hire someone else, but it sticks with your record.
this just shows how lacking cnns quality is nowadays.

It most likely will become a lawsuit in the next days/weeks, yes. But just because an investigation got started doesnt necessarily mean that it'll end in an lawsuit. This is exactly was the original post was talking about. The investigator will contact the company, look at how the company processes the data and finally - if they're willfully ignoring gdpr - open an actual case.

more likely however is that the company already tried to comply and will just get a few reports of things they have to change/improve.

as google probably doesn't have interest in actually upholding gdpr, the investigators will probably soon-ish open an actual suit.
Invite only till at least autumn, and they have no English speaking support (it is for their Chinese only DCs.)

Google Alibaba China F1 or F2.

As for the offering, the idea is that end the clients will only have to deal with SDK and libs on instances, not raw RDMA or anything related to internal infrastructure. This is how much I am allowed to say besides the fact of its existence.

From their current experience, and that of other hosting providers, not many people who go with F1, F2, or other FPGA instance actually do reap any benefit, and some drop mid-way. That's why they want to get more people using them pass the "toying with it stage." The "Herokuification" (god, Heroku sounds beyond hilarious in Russian) is there to let people use the common APIs while getting benefit from FPGA performance, without dealing with things outside of average webdev area of expertise.
Which versions I mean.

Surely people aren't support IE6 for example?
This is why we should have fixed the problem and instituted single-payer healthcare.

If you keep letting insurers insert themselves into a process where they are not needed, they're going to find a way around whatever rules you make to drain common people of as much money as possible. Better to just remove them from the process.
How can UBI exist without statism?
I have the same experience every time I "select a default app for this action." Without fail, I'll get the same pop-up next time I want to perform that action (any action). I just stopped checking the box.
Overwatch is also a bad (good) example because the developers have a policy where only cosmetic items are available through the loot boxes, while all gameplay features are free for everyone.

Many other loot box games offer items that increase player power or change gameplay in loot boxes. For example, the prerelease version of Star Wars Battlefront 2 (2017) had a backlash because of items such as "Deal 30% more damage with ship blasters." Other games may have items such as "Deal 20% more damage, but reduce health by 30%" which open up additional strategic options.
Asteroids:

- create whatever level g you want

- create whatever day-night cycle you want

- create whatever atmosphere and temperature range you want

- create as much surface area as you want, potentially millions of Earth's worth

- no need to terraform: build the habitat you want from the start

- solar power continuously available

- wide variety of mineral deposits available

- plenty of water available
I've seen alternative that tries to stay free (https://www.everypocket.com/), but as I have no personal experience with YNAB, I can't tell how different it is or how many functions are missing. I still use Excel sheet
I'm a pretty avid fan of colonizing other bodies in the solar system (Mars, Moon, etc).

That said, I don't know _anyone_ who would advocate for colonizing Mars is a better solution that tweaking what we already have. It's a different solution addressing a different problem.

We should _absolutely_ be improving and addressing the problems that we have on Earth. I 100% agree with that. I don't see how that precludes us from _also_ starting the process of colonizing another planet.
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Oh god no. This would kill programming productivity. Why people like these complicated programming languages? Seriously...
Actually, my point was not that Kubernetes (and other "technologies" like it) is complicated, but that people tend to make it a be all and end all without actually understanding how it works under the hood. You're right about one thing: I've seen plenty of people proposing Kubernetes (or Docker Swarm or whatever) for simple systems that clearly don't need it.
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My personal advice in this cases is: try to be familiar with (at least) the abstraction layers below and above you.

Are you a storage expert? Do not ignore how storage hardware is designed (even on a historical perspective) and frequently think about the system calls it is your responsibility to implement.

Are you developing a sidecar proxy? Be fluent in low level network programming, and be aware of the interface you are offering to the application.

Are you a manager? Focus on your own manager and objectives, but do not forget to empathically look at your team members.
Voluntary redistribution of wealth by a cryptocurrency.

Look at groupcurrency.org
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Not if all the experienced drivers retire and there isn't enough young ones to fill their seats. Raising wages would help, but it still takes time to get people up to speed. Do you want the new guy in a hazmat tanker next to you on the freeway?
Thanks, didn't know about part and theme - and again, I'm not sure if I like it. For example angular puts [innerHTML] into a shadow container - let's assume we are talking about arbitrary localized text from a cms, heavily sanitized, with basic html elements allowed only. With both deep and apply going the way of the dodo, I'm not sure when will we have part and theme support, but heck, this again, just like css variables, need an effort on the 3rd party's side (to add part descriptors and chain prefixers - gosh, those prefixers sure smell bemish), which may or may not happen.

All I need is a fail safe way of modifying style inside shadow containers without the 3rd party adding support for it (right now we are modifying an angular material based site, because, you know, before the release the most important thing is that how these elements animate or how their drop shadow look), fail safe meaning that it should not be possible to accidentally overwrite stuff inside shadows (like generic link styling).

But probably it's a conflict of interest... everyone wants perfectly contained elements (because css is scary) but wants to retain maximum customizability without modifying the upstream package, plus we don't want shadow contained css to be duplicated. Not sure if there's a good solution for that.
Is it true turning a terrible system over to the US government is going to solve fraud, waste and a abuse?
Abused or indirectly used?
absolutely shell. Perl acts as glue between multiple processes very nicely. $foo = `foo_command`; is great. Opening named pipes. Python is more awkward because it's less like shell.
I don't know what to think when I meet engineers who know how to setup an ELB on AWS but don't quite understand what a socket is...

I keep meeting people who list say Postgres as a skill and when probed they admit they just clicked a button in Amazon RDS and that’s all they know about it. At some point it crosses the line into outright deception. This is the other side of the coin on why interviewing is so broken too.
I'm not sure where to begin but let me just tell you that things will be better in time. Usually the first few days, weeks will be so hard. You can vent out everything, speak your heart's content, etc. it's okay. It'll be better in time.
I don't see how this is related to whether or not CCGs or loot boxes are gambling.

- "heavily advertised" is not necessarily a feature of gambling
- Being able to easily resell reminds me of poker chips.
- The longevity of the prize is not a requirement for gambling.
- CCG could be instant gratification too. Time delay is not a feature of gambling.
I doubt the usefullness of orbitDb. Ipfs-nodes only store and distribute content which they have accessed before. When you have a database with user-based data, noone except yourself will distribute it. This means you could have the same distribution with plain webrtc instead of height-ping ipfs.
Wow, I can't believe FB was using my data to sell me ads!

I don't know about others, but that naive reaction is definitely not the reaction I have. Selling me ads is acceptable. But using my data without telling me how are you going to use it is considered hostile to me. And, I believe, using aggregate data to research on crowd is dangerous and harmful to the society, even it's anonymous. My personal data is probably only worth a few dimes to them, but aggregate data is not that cheap. Those companies use PII and non-PII to do researches without telling people that they are being researched or how they are being researched or why they are doing it. It's like poeple are lab rats.

No one should have such power without testee's consent. But opt-out empowered them. And the ability to gain insights (with such procedure) on different crowds witch leads to the ability to manipulate the general public makes me nervous.

I don't expect stuff on the internet to be free of charge, but people don't want to pay with money doesn't justify the current business model. You know what is worse? People paid, yet their data is still being collected and used, only less ads.

If what I said is unreasonable or non-sense, please feel free to downvote me, but also please share your thoughts to me. I'd love to change my mind since it's getting really hard to surf the internet these days with my current mindset. It's not the internet I love any more.
Right, Overwatch is a relatively tame example where it starts to feel potentially manipulative. I forgot about the Battlefront scandal, that's a bit more obviously bad. Again here, the presence of random boosts isn't inherently a bad thing, but making them purchasable is already questionable ("pay to win") and putting them in real-money loot boxes is certainly sketchy ("pay to win but only sometimes")
One major reason OpenStack is a messy project today is the amount of companies involved in thr foundation early on. It was a big problem when RedHat vs HP vs Rackspace vs XYZ.
Contrast this to Yarn’s response, also this holiday weekend, to an outage incidentally caused by the NPM team. https://github.com/yarnpkg/yarn/issues/5885#issuecomment-392... Professional, responsive, not afraid of blowback from accepting feedback and “+1” posts. Is there any reason to lock the post besides bruised ego and overwhelming phone notifications? Neither of those is justifiable when you’re emitting teapot errors because you implemented a spec wrong. This feels very indicative of a toxic, amateur culture, and perhaps we’ve let it operate our package infrastructure for too long.
Transparency works if you have a choice.

Outside of libertarian lala-land, most U.S. citizens are limited to three, two, or oftentimes, just one healthcare insurer. Also, most U.S. citizens will pay anything to not die.
I'm assuming that in a logistic chain the last mile bit can and should be done by local companies.
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I personally would say it's only gambling if there is a trading system so that you might trade for money (even if it's outside the official platform).
Because SMS is used in password-recovery workflows, meaning it isn't a second factor at all - it's a single, easily-breakable factor.
Being able to go all the way down the software stack makes it much, much easier to keep said stack honest. Debugging is often a desperate attempt at establishing ground truth. Without a low-level understanding, you're always a the mercy of your tools, and how they have decided to curate the information they're feeding you. Even the most well-meaning curation can be so frustratingly deceiving as to incite violence, and god help you if something you're interacting with has a smug sense of knowing what's best for you.

There have been a number of cases where I've had to rely on the ability to debug binaries directly at -O3, or to resort to Wireshark to get the dose of reality needed to challenge my [our] flawed mental model. If I hadn't been able to do those things, I'd probably still be there, pondering those defects, if not in body [due to declaring outright failure], at least in spirit.
They look everywhere, I think its a case of survivor bias where we only see when they succeed (via published bugs). We don't hear about the thousands of times that they failed to find anything.
One approach is to think of a class of bug (like SQL injection, command injection, XSRF, ...), and look for that class of bugs in a large number of software products.

Another is to focus on components that are of high impact because they are used everywhere: standard UNIX tools, compilers, shells, OpenSSL and friends, BIOS, CPUs, common network controllers, disk firmware etc. and analyze them for anything you can think of, run a fuzzer on them etc.
95% of ELE events on earth .. wouldn't necessarily destroy earth forever... most likely it'd just be rough going for a few decades or even a couple hundred years, so if you can build 'backup colonies' in space and humanity can survive just long enough for the earth to be hospitable again, then we can come back and re-populate and destroy it all over again. :)
This has been said elsewhere, but for your benefit, you can't steal anything with a 51% attack, it just allows you to defraud others by double-spending coins you already control (and do other less-directly-profitable things like "unconfirming" transactions when the blockchain reorganizes).

Of course, you could also just nuke the entire network by not confirming any transactions. But you can't steal from people directly.
No one here, but I am assuming they have number/List of things they go through and if they encounter something strange they dig deeper.
Instant for me.
The same arguments could apply to physical card packs (e.g. MtG cards) sold at tabletop gaming stores. Yet nobody seems to mind there?
Yep, looks like you found the plugin! Note that if you're using Webpack 4, you won't need webpack-object-rest-spread-plugin anymore, since it uses the newest Acorn, which should handle object rest/spread syntax without needing a plugin.

Annoyingly, Webpack still spends a lot of time parsing the JS files with its own parser, so you cut down on the transpile time but still need to do a relatively slow parse of all files. I've thought about making Webpack (or similar) use a fast parser like the one Sucrase uses, although it certainly seems like it would be a lot of work.
I think from a scientific standpoint the more we learn through trying to terraform Mars, the more use we could get out of it centuries from now when we do embark to the stars and colonize a much better planet, one that might not need much terraforming at all really, maybe seeding some familiar life forms from earth and eco-systems at most.

Eventually, we should become a space-faring civilization if it is actually possible (big IF) there.
That's China doing the blocking... You're saying I should have to perform custom work for a legal case that I'm not under jurisdiction of.
I've seen plenty of people proposing Kubernetes (or Docker Swarm or whatever) for simple systems that clearly don't need it.

That may be deliberate resume-padding. Same as most Hadoop implementations.
Disclaimer: I have been working as a security researcher for +5 years (web and mobile apps).

I personally use tools that report all the activity that a software produces, most of that is TCP or UDP connections. Among the tools that I use are WireShark, Burp Suite and mitmproxy. I also keep myself updated with techniques used by other researchers in other areas by collaborating on different forums and networking events. I also have several hundred honeypots distributed around the planet powered by OSSEC to collect and analyze bad traffic.

Less than 3 years ago I switched to do vulnerability research on mobile and desktop software and a whole new world opened in front of me. Debugging HTTP connections is one of the most common tasks and there are plenty of tools available out there, I have a small set of tools to do network sniffing and analyzing. Going deeper into the software, I frequently do black-box penetration testing (which basically means, I don't have access to the source code) and so tools like IDA, Hopper Disassembler, Binary Ninja, Cutter are first hand in my toolset.

> How do people there [Google Zero] decide upon a course of research?

• Someone tips you some information about suspicious activity,

• You are using the software as a regular user and notice something weird,

• You are interested to know how a software works and diving into it reveals secrets,

• One of your honeypots and/or network sniffers alerts you about unwanted connections,

• The author of that software requests you to do some penetration testing for an audit,

• Someone found a small problem in the software and you dive into to try to find more,

• And more commonly, you are bored and want to pass the time doing something more boring :D
That's like saying "gambling is gambling, roulette is roulette"...