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In my case, the games literally stay the same. I keep coming back to a handful of games. Master of Magic. Panzer General. XCOM2: Terror From the Deep. Railroad Tycoon, Railroad Tycoon 2. Sid Meirs' Alpha Centauri. Heroes of Might and Magic 2. The last game I've added to the rotation is FTL. I have next to no time for gaming, so I'm very happy to fire up DosBox or Wine and spend 20 minutes with an old favorite.

What all those games have in common is that I know them very well, it's easy to save at any point and come back later, and I can play them from my archive without looking for a physical disc.
OH MY GOODNESS, I WANT THIS!

I have toyed with ditching my MS Natural 4000 for a real ThinkPad Keyboard because I want the TrackPoint!

This should allow me to keep the MS Natural 4000 and mod it with the TrackPoint!

LOVE THIS!
Apples P/E ratio is 12 to 20 that’s not a growth stock. In the start of 2008 when it hit 40 that was growth territory. But it’s fallen as low as 9 in 2013.

And that’s ignoring the 180 billion or so in assets on a 684.07B market cap. The only way those numbers are rational is if people are expecting sales to tank.
This is just modularity in the broader information-related development handling. People tend to get political about things that make their involvement comfortable and/or when it's not them who are to deal with the pesky consequences. I strongly suspect that that must have been the cause for how giants like Google¹ or Facebook² ended up with monorepos. It is developers' workout or letting them be with their cake; kick the problem down the road and hope to acquire in time the resources necessary to throw at it later.

¹² "Don't be evil" (with developers, among others) and "move fast and break things" most definitely asks for cutting a few corners here and there.
Given what I remember what we knew at the time, having Iran arm the Muslims in a civil war to defend themselves against ethnic cleansing was the best option short of what continuing what had been done before - intercede with NATO to broker a ceasefire. This was pretty well documented in the daily news versus the manufactured testimony to justify Gulf War 1/2.
Communism (and socialism for that matter) is not compatible with free access to information as only gullible people are able to support it (For lack of knowing otherwise). No surprise here. Same is going to be implement in other places like EU, Norway etc.
If there's an ABI for drivers, then all phones can promise (more) OS updates with less work.
In the struggle the Donkey fell over the bridge, and his fore-feet being tied together he was drowned. “That will teach you,” said an old man who had followed them: “PLEASE ALL, AND YOU WILL PLEASE NONE.” https://www.bartleby.com/17/1/62.html
> “it takes about 1-2 months to no longer really see the homeless”.

I used to live a couple hours south of SF. Once I went to a conference at Mosconi Center that started early, and got a big shock just driving there a bit after dawn. Right off of the freeway there was a tent city on concrete sidewalks. The filth and poverty were overwhelming to me. I felt like a slack jawed hick, not realizing that this kind of mass naked misery was so nearby. I saw the oft mentioned shit and needles and condoms strewn everywhere. On foot I made the mistake of meeting a homeless guy's eyes, who then chased me while screaming threats for two blocks.

And this was around '95, and the consensus is that it's gotten a lot worse. That people can ignore that after a couple of months of exposure is a testament to human plasticity. I imagine that if it were fresh to everyone every day people would have to either flee or actually do something about it. It's hard to imagine what an individual could do that would be effective.

If only there were a tech solution for reversing the invisibility. Articles like this can help a little but they're probably easier to ignore than the homeless themselves.
I’ve entirely focused on what the OP said using extensive direct quotes. Your reply invalid.
They are cities. San Mateo is a city. San Jose is a city. Hayward is a city. Redwood City is... a city. Union City is... a city. Oakland isn't just a city, it's the eighth most populated city in the whole of California!
> For a CAD$80 game, that wasn't a good investment.

It cost you $2.66/hr for entertainment, that sounds like a great investment.

> Isn't this a better value than ME:A?

Not necessarily. One required active mental participation, one was passive. The big question is what value did you get out of each one?
I'll never forget when I was discussing building a gaming PC at work only to hear "aren't you a little too old for that?"

I had no answer for that.
It unfortunately reinforces the belief that "those who cannot do, teach".
People tend to forget that if you contribute 10% of your salary to a retirement account, that 10% in CA is massively bigger than the same 10% anywhere else. Even if you technically lose on cost of living, you can win with proper savings strategies.
As with most thing NYC transit it's a mix. It would have been a huge disruption to people travelling into the city doubling commute times. On the other hand not shutting down the line means very important repairs have to be jammed into nights and weekends. Some repairs just won't be possible within that time so it'll have to get fixed later when the damage may have worsened.
And access.
Software development is a relatively new job compared to others, but thinking about the politics of the bay area highlights to me how weak politically the "institution" of software / information technology is as a special interest group.

You can definitely think of a senator or congressmen who is "for the banks" or "for pharmaceuticals" even those who are "pro steel union" or "pro teachers union" but you really can't find any of note who promote an interest that can be specifically tied to what developers want. This is taking to account that developers are not a monolith and probably span a wide variety of political ideology, but I can't think of a single issue, whether or not it's in the majority opinion that is being advocated for in government.

San Francisco in general is an interesting beacon, the city itself is not that large, and I would expect that there are enough full time developers in the city who live there who can at least get someone on the city council, and yet.. it really does not seem to be the case that there is someone who you can readily point to as an advocate. Am I drastically mistaken? Would love to hear further perspectives from folks in the bay.

The most effective form of government is the one that is most local to you, when will developers put their weight on the scale?
I think identity trumps economics. People are willing to die for their identity, whereas it's harder to get people to die for some money when it's not a matter of survival. People would rather be proud and poor than getting by under what they've mentally envisioned as a yoke, instead of owning it.

Sure, economics is important. In global currency terms, the value of my home has declined substantially, I've lost a notional mid-5-figure amount expressed in EUR or USD terms. But if you're not internationally minded, if you don't visualize the possibility of yourself living outside of the UK, you're unlikely to consider it a real loss. It's a lot like how poor people can be self-limited by their self-conception, something you might have seen in teaching. (I grew up poor myself, it took some time to expand my horizons, and the process still isn't complete.)

If you live your life locally, why would you care if French cheese and Spanish ham gets more expensive? You probably think it'll be better for British producers. In fact you'd probably consider it just fine if the soft southerners have to pay more for their wine.

The big irony is that pro-Brexit regions have economies that are more dependent on the single market than pro-Remain London. Proving that's the case before Brexit, however, is hard - and if May's deal goes through, it'll go some way to softening the blow. So the decline will be even more imperceptible, until 20 years later, and finally you notice how shabby everything back home is when you come back from your Continental holiday.
I wonder if they could just run it during rush hour on weekdays, which would open up the middle of the day and nighttime for more work.
Stars are also not confined to an integral grid. Surely if the trees in the orchard were not so confined, they would cover the entire field of view.
floating point was designed for scientific and numerical/math applications (written by people with numerical analysis skills), not money. There are decimal data types which are much better for money management.
I couldn't be bothered to sit through all 30 minutes of this video but it seems to be misrepresenting basic facts about the current monetary system (while claiming that it's somehow hidden from "the people" even though you can read about it on Wikipedia). It also presents opinions as facts (for instance that money should be a store of value).

More importantly as far as I can tell it also completely fails to present the reasoning behind inflation and fiat money, instead asserting that it's just all a big conspiracy to steal money from "the people". It's fundamentally dishonest and tries to push an agenda instead of educating the viewer.

IMO there are many things worthy of critique in our current economic system but these videos are really not helping your cause, whatever it might be.
Working with human blood introduces also a non negligible risk for the workers. You can't pick hepatitis from a zebra fish.
There are already technologies that can create oil from energy+water+air. The key component that can make it economically viable is an excess of energy. And that happens to be the main issue with solar and wind, we need some kind of energy storage solution to store the excess produced energy. Common solutions explored are batteries and hydro dams.

However, producing oil from the excess energy is also a form of energy storage. And Texas already has the infrastructure to refine and distribute oil. Since the produced oil would pull CO2 from the air, it would be effectively carbon neutral.

What if Texas blankets the state in solar and wind? They could continue to be a oil producer, but with the additional benefit of producing carbon neutral fuel. With a carbon tax, this fuel could become quickly price competitive with traditional "fossil" fuels (pulled from the ground). And even without a carbon tax, it's possible a significant percentage of the population would be willing to pay extra for carbon neutral fuel. Or another way would be for government to require a certain percentage (such as the current 10% ethanol, they could say 10% must be carbon neutral fuel source). There's a lot of possibilities and potential to much more quickly address climate change than waiting for EV cars to become the majority.
That's what happened, manufacturers who didn't use sweatshops couldn't offer the same low prices, and consumers went for the cheapest option.
Microsoft fought rich browser standards in favor of their own (ActiveX, Silverlight) and ultimately lost that battle.
Actually, the "back|forward" buttons on the 4000 could be used as the primary/secondary input devices too. Put the TrackPoint just below the "Zoom" switch.
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Well, let me know when you claim zero deductions on your tax return.
That is the goal, to not encroach on the nature that runs right up against the city. See the save the bay campaigns of the 70s and 80s.
the embryos are. so it's great for studying early development.
Don't kill my app
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I found this through the Voxatron [1] blog [2]. Looks like they support it now. I think a setup like that would really hype kids up to design and program.

[1] https://lexaloffle.com/voxatron.php
[2] https://lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=32743
It's crazier that it's paid for by the state government in Albany, with taxes collected from the entire state. The control is a side effect of that.
> I'm not British, but I don't see any evidence that people have re-evaluated it.

"In hindsight, do you think Britain was right or wrong to vote to leave the EU?" - Wrong overtook Right around July 2017, and has been ahead since, with a seemingly increasing margin [1]

forgot [1]

"Should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European Union, or leave the European Union? (Asked after the referendum)" - Again, in the same timeframe, Remain has consistently been ahead, and the margin generally seems to be growing [2]

I think there is evidence to suggest opinions are changing. Even if there isn't, a second referendum would confirm that the people still want to leave on these terms.

[1] https://whatukthinks.org/eu/questions/in-highsight-do-you-th...
[2] https://whatukthinks.org/eu/questions/should-the-united-king...
The loophole was closed, so I guess the lobbying either wasn't about that or wasn't effective.

And EU tax laws aren't determined in Washington.
Conservative in the sense of conserving, which doesn't always fit the right/left modality.

It's as Chesterton said, "The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected."
What a weird stage we’re in currently. The continued effort by the parent company to maintain basic updates and patch security holes in a delivered product is a differentiating feature. We’re literally considering whether a company is going to ghost it’s cumstomers as an optional thing.
CIA is a terror organization, it terrorizes other nations including its own citizens. They are clueless about intelligence.
Presumably Sony/MS pay the publishers to make the game exclusive to their console.
There is some hope at this point that he's right about the second part, too. It reads as mixed hope as quoted and that's about what we are seeing.

- Advances in wind and solar energy generation in 2018 have pushed those to being the cheapest and most efficient they've ever been. The economic case for wind/solar is now such that it is far cheaper than non-renewable alternatives, and with or without political drive in 2019 there's a chance that pure capitalist greed still pushes past some major thresholds in renewable energy portfolios versus the alternatives.

- Similarly, 2018 seems to have pushed us past several remaining electric vehicle adoption hurdles and promises that we'll really start to feel the affects of that in 2019 and 2020. (VW's electric fleet roll out / course correction due to the dieselgate fallout will particularly be something to watch this year.) Admittedly, without political drivers we're still likely to see an aging ICE long tail, but again this is mixed hope that we have the technology, now we just need to find the will. Here too there is mixed hope economically that costs and supply chains are going to be driven down on EVs enough (maybe not this year, but soon; again my eye is on what will happen with VW's fleet changes as headwind, and also the huge electric fleet leaps happening in China) that we may see some very interesting cases where EVs start to be drastically cheaper than ICE vehicles. The conditions are ripe for some interesting supply chain shakeups in cars over the next few years, possibly to the planet's benefit.

- 2018 saw some really interesting technical developments in meat substitutes (Impossible Foods in particular doing some really interesting stuff). I have no idea if there is political or economic hope that we'll see more adoption of such things in 2019 as a matter of course, but I do know that White Castle sells Impossible Sliders and that seems like a hopeful sign.

- News recently about "sponges" that can capture atmospheric Carbon without impacting atmospheric Nitrogen may mean we are closer to technology breakthroughs in carbon capture than we think. [1]

As only a hobbyist/armchair future historian, I can see room at least for mixed hope. I suppose mixed hope is better than nothing here.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/01/corkscrew-sponge-suc...
Lack of resources. If a tax reduction scheme costs 100 million dollars to set up, how many individuals would be able to use it? How many corporations?
> And many crypto-anarchists discovered that day that most people did not care about decentralization.

Your argument is like how left-liberals claim that poor Americans vote against their own self-interest by voting for Republican. No, they aren't voting against their own interest, they are voting for it, you just don't get what that is and in your mental model that's the case.

Specifically to your argument, can you pass an ideological Turing test of representing the opinion of people who supported the hard fork? In other words, sitting behind a computer, someone has to judge whether you are a true DAO hard fork supporter or not, and will they be able to correctly identify you.

The fact is, all software is mutable. All software (including Bitcoin) can go for changes (irrespective of the nature of those changes, which could even be, "hand over the write access of bitcoin network to federal govt").

So what is decentralization then if literally any piece of software can be changed if enough number of people go for it?
> I think the answer is EU reform

That's probably what the Cameron administration tried to do and failed. After he promused to hild the referendum and won tge majoriry, he probably hoped the outcome would be something like 48% leave and use that as a bargaining coin to negotiate with the EU. It didn't work because the Brtis voted to leave instead.
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Alternatively, the toolz package ( https://toolz.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ ) is a nice way of getting some additional functional programming capabilities while using the standard CPython interpreter.
Certainly you realize how silly this is:

If there was a simple consensus on what the "right" thing to do was, that would be the law.
> would you be willing to bet your entire car on a black box piece of code that seems reliable, because it worked most of the time in the past

For the average non-technical person, this is pretty much their relationship with all technology.

I don't think it's exclusive to tech either. I know lots of people that have absolutely no idea how the mechanical side of a car works, but they trust their lives to one at 100km/hr because it has worked generally pretty well in the past.
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Your fault for playing an EA game at launch.

You should have been alert to EA screwing up the Mass Effect franchise from all the garbage they pulled on Mass effect 3 (Weak ending, making Javik DLC when he was clearly a main character, etc.)

Waiting 30-60 days meant that the game was available for less than half that.
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> Decentralization doesn't mean it needs to be immutable.

It is also impossible to create immutable software.
In my huge comment in this thread I make the argument that games that don't try to pull you in are more appealing to older gamers.

I don't want business to try and addict me. I don't even want character progression or saves of any kind -- except your story progress.

I feel part of console games and a lot of handheld consoles -- and older-generation games like Half Life, Quake and Mortal Kombat -- get it right.

Nowadays most games try their damnest to latch onto our sunk cost fallacy brain vulnerabilities.
That's not true; every manufacturer, including apple, does this. The question is simply to what degree. Battery chargers need to decide upto which voltage level to charge, and at which voltage level to consider a cell depleted; and similarly need to decide at which temperature to throttle during discharge - and at least as importantly - during charging. And it's not like it's got to cost and arm and a leg; even small amounts of additional headroom can likely prevent problems like apple's.

Basically: you can throttle after the battery is damaged or before. And if you throttle beforehand, you need to throttle a lot less.

Finally, you imply this is costly - but don't forget that apple's phones are amongst the most costly out there, and similar sized batteries are found in devices a small fraction of the cost. Clearly the bill of materials for the battery isn't a going to be a big deal for apple, compare to those competitors, which also happened to ship higher quality batteries.
Active mental participation? Surely you should be getting paid for that!
Tangential.

I have always been a very imaginative and creative person, even as far back as my single digit years. Over the years many of the ideas that I mused privately have become reality a few years after. In my late teens I was convinced that I was leaking idea into the universe and someone else was capturing them, until I had a ceramic throne thought that asked me what if all the ideas I ever had were leaking from someone else.
Cheating on your spouse is not ethical but it is legal, would you argue for it to become illegal?

My point is that it is not a given that ethically dubious actions should be illegal. Furthermore, what is ethically wrong to some may not be so for others.
The housing crisis, high prices, and even homelessness is inevitable in such a great place (climate, nature, jobs). The corrupt political system and some people's attitude is just another indirect consequence. You can't fight the laws of supply and demand.
ahem no its called having higher moral standard than politicians supposedly Google boosted of this when their saying don't do evil has paramount

Either they abandon higher morals or decided to be in the same moral mud as Marck Z and facebook
That maybe used to be the case, but they've rallied behind him now. His approvability is 90% among people who identify as Republicans.

You still see occasional "wildcard" moments peek through, though like his (IMO wonderful) decision to withdraw from Syria, which managed to draw condemnation from everyone, Democrats and Republicans alike. But unfortunately, it seems it's all bluster as Trump is wont to do, and will likely not amount to much.
+1 to eliminate corporate taxes entirely. It's incredibly stupid to tax entities that creates jobs, products and services. Taxes only create unnecessary friction and strange side effects.

+1 to only have taxes at the individual level. Also, make tax a quadratic function instead of step function. Step function always leads to stupid / shady behaviors around the step points.

1. People should be motivated to work and rewarded for that.
2. Corporations should be motivated to provide goods and services.
3. Luck should be normalized