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More details are available here:

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2019-hands...

They have benchmarks and go into detail on how well it runs. I found this interesting:

> "[It's] a complete port," Google's Phil Harrison told me. "[Ubisoft] built the game completely for Stadia and they're actually doing a talk at GDC about how they got their game up and running."

> In our earlier analysis, our impression was of a game that very, very closely mirrored the PC version running at 1080p resolution, with some elements upgraded beyond the console quality threshold defined by Xbox One X.

> "Correct, but they started from their main line on the consoles, it's not that they took the PC version and ported," Stadia VP Majd Bakar explains. "You can see that as the UI changes according to the controller you connect. I wouldn't call it a console port, I'd recommend going to the talk. It's going to be run jointly between Google and the team that did the work for Project Stream and they will talk about how they did it and the work stream they followed."
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>after a few years of this, it became clear he wasn't even the same person anymore

I mean, is anyone really the same person after a few years? Especially someone you knew in high school?
Here's an interesting question: The NLRB says you can't fire someone for union organizing, but does it say you can't refuse to hire someone for union organizing?
The German model is explicitly illegal in the US. I cannot explain why, but I saw a guy on reddit once break down why German unions are great, US unions are terrible, and why the US can never have German unions
It'll never happen so long as there are "gamers" who want to work in the industry they "love", unfortunately.
Sure it does, we just don't have much experience on how. I expect the next Microsoft will be OSS
The Labour party (the official Opposition party, and the previous ruling party) has very strong links to trade unions in the UK. The current ruling party, the Conservatives, introduced new law in this area:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_Union_Act_2016
Maybe the course he was doing was not for him but didn't have the guts or confidence to move on, psychedelics really open you up, and at the end of the day if he is happy, he is winning at life. Regardless of career aspirations etc.
I really never felt that way in the US.

I think the negative type stuff makes the news, but I don't think that reflects the system over all.

US unions in my experience don't so much give people say in my experience, they just make for a sort of formalize a system into an adversarial type one with union and company.

For the most part I've enjoyed working for my employers and would rather manage that relationship on my own and not have someone else run it for me.

There are situations where folks might not feel that way too I'm sure.
We were all fired in late January. I was the only worker to go on record with my real name before finding another job. I had several offers in February an was sitting at a new desk for a job that paid about $10k more by mid-March. Those who had had less experience prior to the job we were fired from had a harder time getting re-employed.

Software employers are not yet collaborating to avoid unions, as employers associations in other sectors have historically. There is not yet an organized blacklist for outspoken activists.

Unions are certified by card check or secret ballot. In either case, no future employer will ever know whether you supported unionization in a former job. You will always have plausible deniability, and its illegal to ask outright.
Are you sure about that?

https://github.com/simias/gb-rs/blob/master/Cargo.toml#L29
No. You're describing a closed shop, and closed shops are illegal in the USA.

They _could_ require that _after_ joining Kickstarter either join the union or pay equivalent dues.
Because they get to use their money and power and seep wealth out of things they had no part in creating.

It's disgusting.
> Many squatters are ideologically driven and improve the neighbourhoods they're squatting in.

Says who ? Not that I don't believe you or that I believe it's false but are there more than one account of that happening ?
I think what you are saying has a lot to do with particular meeting culture(s) and dynamics, rather than anything specific about the medium.

Many people would be stunned by the idea that a written followup (e.g. minutes) would represent a novelty - or for that matter circulating context beforehand (e.g. an agenda) with time to ask clarifying questions offline would be, either.
Unpopular opinions ahead:

As far as I can tell, "globalism" is the biggest cause of inequality. It's not about QE or easy monetary policy. It's about the fact that I don't have to pay a guy next door high wages to have something done. I can pay someone in a developing nation 10x less to do the same thing. Doing this at scale is what got us in to this mess.

Some argue that globalism was inevitable, others that there is some shadowy group pushing an agenda. But whatever you believe, one outcome of globalization (and there are positives as well) but one negative outcome is income inequality.

What bugs me about this article is that these people think they can solve inequality with MORE globalism ("global" taxes, regulating international companies etc). I don't think doubling down on it is going to fix anything.

You know how you fix capitalism? You break apart the huge companies. You incentivize smaller companies (with progressive corporate income taxes and other things). Competition will yield lower prices and more innovation.
The optimist in me says this is exciting, but the pessimist in me says Google will just end up cancelling it in ~2 years.
Make some backup copies of those roms now, I guess.
don't want to lose it in favor of accommodating others - which is a very rational viewpoint. As such I don't think it is fair to paint it as 'disconnected from reality'.

When one's "wanting things to be chill" is interfering with society's transferring the reins to the next generation, it is 'disconnected from reality'.
Fair and equatable distribution wouldn't factor into any consideration for Companies paying developers and cloud hosting companies to run their businesses.

IMO the best way would be for all OSS developers to come together and agree on a standard "OSS-like" license which is basically "OSS and free for everyone else except cloud hosters", if enough OSS developers do this it will force the major cloud vendors to implement a system to revenue share back to the creators of OSS their hosting.

I'm puzzled why Redis Labs, Elastic, Confluent and Mongo DB aren't already coming together to use the same standardized license as there's strength in numbers - instead they're each individually releasing their commercial efforts under their own individually branded license.
>You build AirBnb for X... so what?

I can't stand this template anymore. There's probably a natural cycle/rise-and-fall for these things.

1) Problem identified, "how do i quickly and efficiently describe the purpose of what we're doing"

2) "[existing popular company everyone knows] for [different market that it can be applied to]" is passed on to others to solve that problem. Phrase becomes popular, more people start using it.

3) Everyone starts using it, phrase becomes overused.

4) People begin questioning whether it still has the same meaning or if it's changed contexts since it was originally suggested.

5) People despise hearing it.

I'm right around step 4 there at the moment, heading towards 5. All I keep thinking is "so you're using the same phrase everyone uses, yet you're telling me you're revolutionary, and groundbreaking."

I get that it's just one phrase, and I'm starting to make assumptions here, but I think at some point it becomes more formulaic. And it's hard for me to believe you're hacking, innovating, and revolutionizing when you're following a formula. It's just more "I'm in-the-club" language now.
Would be neat if this supported Clojure syntax.
The only case I ever saw of a company buying Apple hardware in bulk, the decision had zero to do with specs or productivity, and all to do with wanting to project an image of success.
FTL was a Kickstarted game from devs with zero pedigree (to my knowledge) and it was also a indie hit. While I agree Into The Breach owes some success to the devs being established now, but I don't think you negate my point about this being a time where games of all types can thrive.
Speed to product, risk, and access to talent(via other people's code) matters much more than cost, for most software business.
I don't understand the arguments being made above.

Pay-per-hour would lead to shorter, more thoughtful games, rather than long grindy ones.

Similarly, monthly subscription where you get access to a list of games actually helps indie games. Being able to jump into an indie game you already own within seconds, compared to having to buy and install a small game you've never heard of before.
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I think in that case the value of unionization might not be in the present but instead guarding against future problems that the union would seek to fight against. It is much easier to proactively organize, and then keep those problems out, then to try to organize and fight after they already are present.
> but I don't think the major cloud providers have much of an uncrossable moat

Billions of dollars and years of constructions to just start trying to enter the market, where you will fail because your offerings are relatively pathetic on multiple fronts.
> Lag was still a rare thing during my experience

Anything more specific than that, i.e. lag would occur every 10 mins on avg?
I think your numbers are good. Brings up a point I've seen about the difference between renewable power systems and fossil fuel based ones. Apologists for the latter will often try and impose the same reliability standards on renewables as fossil fuel systems, the day storage requirement. Then they declare renewable economically unworkable.

The fallacy is fossil fuel systems are susceptible to supply disruptions. So they need to store 7 days worth of fuel to keep the thermal plants running. Less than that and they could potentially run out of fuel.

Renewable's never run low on fuel due to war, accidents, and hurricanes like oil and gas does. Capacity issues (dark and stormy) is solved by long distance interties not local storage.
The biggest problem I saw with the High-Speed Rail plan wasn't the outrageous cost, but rather that it was a plan to spend 60+ billion dollars to solve the wrong problem. The state should have been working on some plan to give high-speed access from the SF Bay, where property is really expensive, into the Central Valley where it's really cheap.

Not many people need to travel the 400 miles between LA and SF at 220 miles an hour. On the other hand, if you can travel 60 miles or so from San Francisco (or the mid-peninsula or even San Jose) at 120 miles an hour, that's a big deal, because that opens up a bunch of low-cost real estate for local workers.
Unfortunately, this is the way things go. If you are going to build a business on top of something offered by Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, etc, you will never rest easy because you should know your app can be killed at any time for any reason, right or wrong.

These companies are omnipotent and untouchable. They have these automated systems in place because they have determined them to be the most cost effective way of dealing with these issues. Even if there are specific cases that seem ridiculous, or clearly harmful to the company itself, in aggregate this is the system that works for them.

I learned this very early. For example, while in high school I had a (very) small business buying things locally and reselling on ebay. Despite having 100% positive feedback, a scam artist one day claimed to Paypal that I shipped him a brick when it was supposed to be a cell phone. The scammer had a brand new account with no feedback at all, and I had no previous issues, but Paypal decided to trust the scam artist over me with over 5 years of positive feedback. I refused to pay back the negative balance that Paypal claimed I owed them, and lost access to my account for over 15 years. During that time, I started a successful e-commerce business doing annual revenue of $5-10 million. I'd have used Paypal to process all customer payments had my account not been banned. Instead I integrated with Stripe, and Paypal lost out on upwards of $500,000 in processing fees (and counting).

But still, Paypal succeeds, and does not care.

Another example - I was an investor in a small dating app a few years ago that was doing quite well. Despite successful ad campaigns on Google, and in Apple's app store, Facebook just decided to one day block the advertising account, permanently and without reason. Despite vast effort (spanning multiple years!) to at least figure out why we were banned, no explanation was ever offered, and the app eventually was starved out due to inability to access a prime advertising channel that our larger competitors were able to access.

There is simply no way around this kind of thing. My advice is to never build a business that relies on one of these platforms - use the web to your advantage, don't get stuck behind someone else's walled garden. Try to make apps only ancillary to your business, not the main component. Be able to diversify advertising channels. Own your core competency - don't let someone else steal it overnight.

And finally the reason for the throwaway account, I believe there are rogue employees at these companies who can just shut down accounts for personal vendettas, bribery schemes, or just the lulz. We suspect that's what happened to us at facebook. So I do not want to jeopardize any current businesses I am running or investing in that is personally tied to me.
Moreover, is a free software developer elsewhere in the world, supplying a free operating system, compiler, web server, ... to these workers considered a honorary member of the union?
FIRE is quite dependent on steady economic conditions (decent rate of return on investments with low capital loss, non destructive inflation rates), and for many they are trading their prime earning years placing this bet that it will continue indefinitely.

I wish them luck. historically over the time periods that they are potentially talking about (40-50 yrs), that is a risky bet.
Software developers are a far cry from auto workers or even teachers. Its interesting to see the differences between early SV startups 10-15 years ago that would brag about the benefits of working for them and now. Things like ping pong tables, free dry cleaning, and daycare would be things people would go out of their way for years ago.

Can someone explain what the Kickstarter employee's hope to gain? “promote our collective values: inclusion and solidarity, transparency and accountability; a seat at the table,” sounds very left wing in an already left wing company in a left wing area.
Most indie games are short. If money is allocated to content producers based on play time, I would bet that most would earn less than a typical indie game purchase price per user.

That’s just speculation mind you. Things like Stardew Valley would probably do even better.
The way I heard it best explained is no one would try to start a union if it made them less money.

Better pay and benefits - my maximum out of pocket was lower than most deductibles. Democratizes the workplace - really helps keep management in check. You get real job security - firing is much less arbitrary with a steward fighting for you.

However, if people aren't active in union elections, bargaining etc. it can get really stale really fast
Instagram does not make you sign up to browse.

https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/ycombinator/

This seems to be the url to browse tags on pixelfed.social:

https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/ycombinator

Unfortunately it wants you to sign in.
IMHO it was all downhill once VLAN use became the default and viewed as equally secure as physically disparate networks.

We used to physically isolate security domains across the board. Everything is virtualized now, which makes it a whole lot less visible when boundaries are being violated, where it used to be obvious.
At least you have a vote in the union, unlike when your employer decides to use the products of your labor to lobby for policies or support parties you find abhorrent.
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It was approximately $20k per person and the difference between the wages they earned after being fired and the wages they would have earned had they not been fired. Some of my coworkers did end up getting substantial amounts of backpay.

But your point stands: this is a weak remedy, and completely out of line with international norms.
Yes, I'd love to go to India, seems so vibrant and colourful! Thanks for the suggestion
Firefox for Android allows for extensions and hence an adblocker, so you might want to check that out too if you're on Android :)
Instances launched from EBS snapshot (or EBS-backed AMI) are lazily loaded from S3, which probably explains slow performance, if you are doing lots of I/O operations (in my experience Windows is more I/O heavy, especially on boot).

From Amazon documentation[1]:

However, storage blocks on volumes that were restored from snapshots must be initialized (pulled down from Amazon S3 and written to the volume) before you can access the block. This preliminary action takes time and can cause a significant increase in the latency of an I/O operation the first time each block is accessed.

[1]: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ebs-init...
You get that return but also face a huge income tax payment unless you invest right into another home hence driving prices up more. Convincing someone to give away hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxes isn't easy.
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I'd rather see both sides take a flat fee + a higher percentage of the difference from some benchmark. Say, $2,000 + 20% * (Zillow's estimated value - sale price) for the buyer's agent. I have no strong opinion on whether the second addend should be floored at $0 or not.
Due to a supreme court case you can opt out of having your union dues used to support the political machinations of your union.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2015/08/26/not-just-in...
Yeah, if you know where to look, they left clues about using MI25 hardware. (I haven't been an employee for years, this all unfolded afterwards and, ironically, it is just one search away.)

I'm sure they got bulk/promotional pricing from AMD, plus they're very good at both running hardware with low overhead and packing it efficiently.
You aren’t forced to pay the political levy in the UK, you can opt in/out.
You only seem interested in discussing gender to bring up the ghost of genetic predispositions. But if you want to twist the study in that way, you'll have to first say that you think that whites are genetically superior to non-white in the world of computer science. After all, doesn't the study show the gap is even greater for nationality?

Just come out and say it, instead of having this proxy argument over gender.

If it isn't clear: this study can not be used to draw conclusions about racial or gender predispositions. This can only be used to show the status of education on this particular test and for people graduating right now. It doesn't control for how those people got there. If you want to twist it in some other way, that's your prerogative, but you're doing shoddy science.
The answer is more aggressively copyleft licensing (AGPL, and others).

If APIs are copyrightable that's a very unfortunate thing, but it would also make it possible to protect FOSS IP much more aggressively. Mongo wouldn't be getting destroyed by Amazon, for example.
Yup, I’ve upgraded two Apple laptops already with NVMe adapters and Samsung SSDs.

https://www.amazon.com/Sintech-Adapter-Upgrade-2013-2016-201...
It will be interesting to see what this does for developer salaries at Kickstarter. If, as a top performer, I get penalized by joining the union then obviously Kickstarter looks less attractive to me. For unions in our industry to work they are going to have to be very explicit about how they are going to raise developer salaries.
Great response! RE: machine learning. Where would you say you are now in terms of expertise? Have you churned out some personal projects? Are you working on it professionally?
We bought our house with a realtor who found and walked us through listings. Ultimately, we found the house we ended up buying. Our buying agent was helpful and did a good job but the questions she answered and information she gave was available online.

We sold our house without a realtor and had no real issues. Buying agents tended to stray from our listing and most would communicate with us first to make sure we would "pay their fee". Most also tried to sell us on their agency.

Overall, I probably won't use a realtor again. The value for my price point was not worth the %.
Well, I guess my priors need a bit of tuning; they picked up from the pervasiveness of the advertising that this must be a funded propaganda push, but I assumed it would be from the Chinese government, not someone rather bitterly opposed to them.

(This is not an *-ist comment; that governments promote their cultures in other countries to create "soft power" is an established fact. I for one would love in many ways to live in a world where all our conflicts were solved with such soft power, rather than the harder kind.)
I don’t think this is true. It assumes people are economically rational and trying to optimize fun per dollar. But people already should be valuing their time and yet they don’t. If developers must now guarantee players not just try their game but play it for x hours to make a profit, I don’t think they will be pushing for shorter better games.
>And when all the clients and the server are sitting in the same DC?

But what do you do when they don't? This can happen in multiplayer games with low population or during "bad times".

You might have less trouble because latency is more predictable, but you still need the whole rewind stuff.
Point taken, and having seen published phone numbers for various specialty IRS attorneys I did actually think about making a quip to that effect. Furthermore, the IRC itself is more understandable than Google's (et al) "AI"-dartboards.

But the comparison is still appropriate due to the sheer gravity of both situations. If your issue hadn't been worked out over the phone (say it required more subjective interpretation), you likely would have hired someone. Nobody wants to get walked on by an 800lb gorilla.
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Yes, under section 8(a)(3) of the National Labor Relations act. The NLRB publishes a helpful guide to your rights: https://www.nlrb.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/basic-p...
And if you set DuckDuckGo or Qwant or a different search engine that supports !bangs as your default search engine, you can use those in your address bar - so no need to configure !yt, !w, !s etc manually.
If science can't prove that we're not existing inside a simulation, or whether we have multiverses, how could we prove or disprove the existence of God?

Even if as most atheists agree the Bible is a fallacy, that still doesn't prove there isn't a God, or multiple Gods. Nor does it even prove our own existence. It just proves our abilities to contemplate and interpret the laws of the physics we appear bound inside this universe.

The only rules we can discover and prove are the ones that constrain the environment we are confined to. Anything outside this environment is opaque to us, which may include a God... or not.
For what it's worth, there shouldn't be any less signal in these batches than earlier ones. The acceptance rate this batch was the lowest ever. It's just that startups are now global and in every industry.

This is more like your favorite author writing books on a lot more subjects, than just putting out a longer more rambling book.