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Trauma, like war veterans have when the sustain severe injury in battle? Or is this the trauma of someone not agreeing with your opinion? I do not understand the precise nature of the trauma.
A few questions:

Is this compatible with existng solutions like Mastodon?

And why just images? Why not videos/documents/music or even events?

How long will the images be available? Who is paying for storage?

How does the technology compare to IPFS?
By directly connecting the controller to the service via WiFi it removes any potential issues with the device having to act as a proxy for the controller input. For their dedicated Stadia set top box it isn't a big deal (as they will control the hardware) but when used with phones, third party STBs and such it can be problematic. Google will have no control over the WiFi hardware in all these devices and many cheaper WiFi chipsets are buggy in a multi-device setup.

Adding WiFi to the controller removes all those potential issues and allows them to tweak things to be as good as they can be for latency, power consumption, range, etc. (at least in theory anyway).
There are times when companies really do need to experiment with their pricing model because they are bringing something new to the market and the early rates which were subsidized through venture capital no longer work.

A good example of a company doing this and finding it's footing is classpass. The initial plans were quite the value to consumers, but also many studios that were part of ClassPass felt the extra burden without really getting much revenue. So they needed to update their pricing and they made some hard decisions and saw that users fell into two camps. Those that barely went, and those that went a lot so they ended up with a new pricing structure which raised rates to consumers, caused a huge public outcry, but ultimately allowed the company to settle into a good footing.

Here Patreon seems to definitely be raising rates as a response to the VC dollars raised and the need to continue to grow their revenue. The challenge for them was that when the initially raised, their valuation was far outrunning their actual revenue. While the platform had many users, the actual revenue that ended up in their company after paying creators didn't justify the valuation or anything close to it.

So now they have to raise rates a second time, after going through this process in late 2017. At the time there was a huge out cry publicly and the company stated that they would not make such large moves without consulting with their creators first, but obviously with something like this unless a ton of creators are publicly saying, wow this is great, exactly what I needed, it means going to the creators wouldn't work as they don't need these new plans.

Certainly getting on the VC train is a huge decision and one that ties your business to ever increasing returns and a scale that is challenging for many companies to meet.

They could have raised a smaller round, from more long term investors, that weren't only interested in the VC cycle, given themselves some extra cash, built out features, and continued to support their community, but obviously they chose a different route.

Very likely that if this doesn't go well there will be another large announcement in a 12-18 month window.
It must have set them back months, if not years. Strange culture where unionization is viewed as a worse alternative than letting go of the majority of your technical know-how.
> Management has the right at a workplace to make any decisions, whether someone in non-management sees fit.

What?

There is no constitutional right for management to make decisions. Management are people with certain forms of influence over the company; workers are other people with other forms of influence over the company.

The only way in which there's a "right" is "might makes right" - that management, when they want to make a decision, can force that decision to happen, and workers can't. The point of a union is to change this calculus. If the workers say, do what we want or we'll leave, there's no question of whether they have the "right" to say that. They have the power. The question is whether it's socially acceptable for workers to say they have that power.
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It's not hostile, it's professional. I advocate for my interests, you advocate for your interests, and we negotiate to find out a compromise that works for both of us. During this process, I do not worry about your interests (that's your job), and you do not worry about mine. We trust each other to take responsibility for our own interests and proceed accordingly.

I can understand why this would seem hostile to someone who isn't acculturated to it, but I don't find it hostile at all. I find it _honest_. The other side isn't pretending to care about me, and they aren't making hamfisted attempts to look out for my interests in ways that I don't like but they think I do (or should).
Just asking out loud, if you were a developer that was experimenting with building apps and you accidentally violate some Play store terms of service, would Google removing your app be a permanent black mark or how can you show that you were acting on good faith?
I fully agree that it's an inferior good, and I still don't think multiplayer games will be much of a thing. But I do think that even pretty involved action titles (they tested with an Assassin's Creed title) will be okay. Not great, and I'd get mad at them, but I'm also a really demanding user. Most folks kinda aren't.
I think the high quality 5k screen is still the bulk of the cost. There's nothing else like it on the market except for LG's, and that's ~$1300USD.

The high DPI monitor market is practically dead (for now) so there's no pressure forcing prices down.
- Is there something on your Github?

- Looking at the first few repos, does the code looks good? Is it copy/pasted, generated, a template, or your own code? Can I understand quickly what it does (README/docs)? Is there tests? Bonus for having external contributors/stars/forks/some collaboration going on.

- Looking at how you interact with other open source projects (e.g. issues/pull requests/contributions). Do you provide valuable information? Can you communicate clearly what was the issue/what you are solving/how?

In my case it's mainly to weed out all the bootcamp-generated Github accounts, the "testing languages/frameworks" accounts with no meaningful code and the people trying to game the system (contribution graph, etc.).

Obviously not everybody has a public/active Github project, but it's better not to mention it if it's not good.
Nope, Switch piracy exists thanks to Nvidia
God help you if you ever need support from a human being at google.
What is the housing crisis in Sacramento? I only ever read about the Bay Area and occasionally Southland.
I'm not sure this is true. Short of actually colluding with the other agent, I don't think there's anything the buyer's agent can do that would be worthwhile to bring a lawsuit over.
Also, everyone I subscribe to on YouTube who is doing it as their full time gig is supporting themselves... on Patreon.
He died six hours later. You're really playing fast and loose with documented facts in this discussion. Were you there?
One down, 49 to go, I guess. (probably there are a few other states where they're illegal, but it's far from all of them)

EDIT: and there's still the "if you write a novel in your free time on your own hardware we can try to claim it if we feel like it" clauses that are so common.
It's a very important mechanism to have even if you have 2 employees. Being able to collectively bargain empowers workers at companies at any size, and mitigates retaliation that could happen to individual workers who attempt to bring up grievances.
Most US unions have been heavily neutered and de-politicized, and rarely have the ability to force management to change course. Outside the US, its not uncommon for unions to own a good share of the company, holding board seats which let it affect who manages the company, and in some cases with the business becoming entirely worker owned.
In my experience, 2.4 GHz is congested. An entire room of wireless controllers at 2.4GHz (ex: Super Smash Bros. Setups with Wiimotes) would cause these "dropped packet" issues, even with local WiFi / Wireless. 2.4GHz shares Bluetooth, 802.11n, and many other protocols.

If this were an entire room of WiFi controllers hitting the same WiFi frequencies all at the same time, it could have been a local problem.

All in all, we can't read too much into the demo-conditions. There are too many variables at play here.
And there are way more actors than acting jobs.

Yet they have the SAG-AFTRA union which had a strike to force better working conditions from games companies.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016–17_video_game_voice_act...
Some banks partner with services that allow you to send money to a phone number or email address, but the experience isn't great. For example, I once offered to reimburse a friend for travel expenses using such a service. He agreed, forgetting that he had previously interacted with that service using a now closed bank account, which the service still associated with his email address. My payment was routed to the phantom bank account and took 45 days to be returned.
A big difference would be that OnLive had space in 5 colo datacenters in the US. Google has 19 full datacenters around the world and are building more. Plus, google has their own very large fiber network from different POP's and ISP's around the world. The fiber backbone gives them lower, and more predictable latency, compared to multiple upstream ISP's with different connections, issues, etc.
You have mischaracterized the motivation of most homeowners. Have you ever actually talked to many? The loudest, most influential NIMBYs have lived in the area since before the first Internet boom and plan to die in their current homes. They don't care about housing as in investment, and in fact complain about rising real estate values because it drives up their property taxes (albeit slowly due to Proposition 13).

What they actually care about is quality of life. Their perception is that higher residential density means more traffic, parking issues, noise, crime, pollution, school overcrowding, etc. If you want to get them on board with higher density then you'll have to find a win/win solution which addresses their concerns. Maligning their motives will accomplish nothing.
If that's round trip latency. Then input latency will be 8ms right? Input action to Frame update latencies are reliably 12-13ms+ with a local console routing through a TV.

So if they can do something fancy with rendering frames to the network to sync with your monitor. We might see a minimal increase in actual overall latency.
the pasture equates to environment, the cows are industry [...]

That's your problem right there. You're treating the cows as somehow separate from the environment. For this example, let's consider the pasture as an island so that you have nowhere else to go. The actual externality of cows eating grass is poop, which fertilizes the soil to some degree but can poison it in excess. Overgrazing is not an externality as such; it's depletion, and then all your cows die and so do you. Maybe you get to eat a few of the cows while you wait for more grass to grow but after they're gone you won't be able to live on the grass. The benefits of temporarily having more cows than you can sustainably graze is an illusion, because you can't eat them all as soon as the grass runs out. You too are part of the ecosystem.

(Ok, in the real world you have other land available, trade, and so on. But that just distributes the problem over a large population and area, postponing the point where carrying capacity becomes an issue. And more often than not, profits are retained by one party while pollution is dumped on another whose suffering the profiteer has no desire to alleviate. In this example that particular cheat code is not operational.)

There are two reasons this might happen: external forcing of the ecosystem (drought, being hit by a meteor etc.), or letting your herd expand faster than the pasture can grow new grass, which is essentially borrowing time from the future and dying when you've done so. The uncertain risk of external forcing inclines us to hedge against its possibility by accumulating excess, but since the known and increasing risk of feedback can't be directly compared with the uncertain external risk people tend to 'rationalize it' by making irrational appeals to possibility rather than probability. The most obvious example of this today is people who object to any and all environmental regulation by dismissing predictions of environmental problems as too vague while simultaneously insisting that mitigating them will definitely lead to economic catastrophe, even though weather and climate modeling is considerably more rigorous than economic modeling and the extremely harsh and obvious value and life destruction of environmental disasters.

More pollution is necessarily worse. You can hedge it in the short term, but in the long term you mitigate it or you die - and while in the long run, we are all dead, dying faster than you need to is maladaptive. Running the system too fast increases entropy and that is a one-way ticket.
> The other costs (power, people, etc.) are amortized over Google's array of services.

Power doesn't really amortize, and neither does heat.

And capacity still had to increase for this. They didn't just find random GPUs under the table they forgot about, and now that they have a massive fleet of GPUs it's not suddenly going to start handling dremel queries.

This all still costs money. A shitload of it. Someone is going to pay that bill. More ads in YouTube won't really fund gaming sessions. So will this be ad breaks in the game? No way that's cost-effective for the resources used. Straight-subscription model? This seems most likely, but how much and how will you get people to pay for it?
>Why not take power that is available to you?

I see your point but at the same time this can create an adversarial dynamic between managers and junior employees, which is toxic even if junior employees get what they want.

>Management certainly exercises every bit of power that they are able to.

I'm a manager and my proudest moments have been those of restraint, not force. Regardless of whether or not unions can and should be formed, organizations with employees feeling compelled to unionize should be hiring better managers.
It is, it's a checkbox at the bottom left of the "Customize" panel.
> I see folks outside the Bay asking why shouldn't they get paid the same as Bay area folks, when they want to remote from somewhere that has 1/3rd the cost of living.

Well, why shouldn't they? It's not like the company magically has more money available when they hire a non-remote employee, is it?
That's not irony. Irony is when something happens that is explicitly not expected to happen.
It's two weeks of classes and a test.

85% of realtors drop out of the industry within 18 months. My impression is that this is because "becoming a realtor" is very easy.

A counterpoint might be that it's because being a _good_ realtor is hard, and I believe that that is true to some extent. But that means you aren't _really_ paying someone "for having passed a test saying that he/she is capable of representing you in accordance with the law", because the licensing burden is really small. For instance, it's much smaller than the licensing burden you need to start cutting peoples hair.
> Seems no worse than an employer doing the same, directly or via interest groups.

Well, in one scenario it's their money being spent. In the other, it's yours. You don't draw a pretty clear distinction there?
Even the best hardware right in front of you can still currently cause a bad user experience for latency-sensitive games. All it can take is one player with high latency or an unreliable connection, and it can detract from the enjoyability of a game.

And games already have latency from input devices, inputs registering, the game calculating the next frame, the monitor displaying it, and the user perceiving what has happened on screen. Every millisecond of network delay gets sandwiched between all of those.
Previously I've expressed my skepticism of US unions that rely heavily on seniority to determine pay and opportunity and work out very... overarching type deals that leave little room for personal advancement or even change beyond the prescribed path. The senior folks who have their seniority and refuse to change / don't have to is a real thing.

I've heard European trade unions are more flexible and are as far as technical aspects allow for more more individual progress outside of say a union / employer agreement.

To be clear, this is just what I've heard about European unions. I've had no personal experience with them.
I've been in a union before. The work ethic wasn't good. They had seminars on how to work less and push back against complaints. They directed the members to engage in behavior that was best for the union while bad for the workers and the company. The union itself is a big business, what would they think of unionizing the union? Unions allow substandard work for equal pay. That tends to hold back the major opportunities for individual success.
But wouldn't that require people to know what they're putting on their web site?
So someone who collects millions of dollars a month through Patreon should pay the same amount as someone who collects a couple hundred dollars? I don't see that as fair either.

I guess they could charge per-transaction, but then again, that would penalize creators who have a lot of low cost patrons. They would also have to nickel and dime on any extra features they offer.
Yeah, that's fair, but is likely a corner case. How often do you see a finitely sized resource that doesn't get returned with a Content-Length response header? If push came to shove, a browser could simply stop reading & close the connection after consuming a certain number of bytes. GIFs are sequential things anyway, aren't they? I don't remember that detail.
Being able to have geojson is gist is amazing, you can quickly show any data-related maps.

And I don't use it, but Jupyter notebooks are supported too.

Also they are people using it to version laws/texts in general.

And bonus: you can use it to store arbitrary data even though it's not recommended/could be against ToS.
I agree that it will all hinge on what kinds of latencies we see. If Google can produce the same kinds of latencies it does to 8.8.8.8, it's definitely got a shot. Mobile's an even bigger challenge, but I've seen wire-competitive latencies from 5G, so I think there's hope there too.

This does, however, leave VR high and dry. Wonder if they have any ideas about that angle.
Unions are voted on by workers at each workplace (and can be ejected and replaced) in most countries, sounds like Brazil had something similar to the mandatory, toothless union that China enforces on larger businesses like Walmart.
> aren't tech staff reasonably to well paid

Some are. You're probably imagining some Python engineer who is making $140k and can work normal hours, drink craft beer and take advantage of "unlimited time off" policies and such.

Think about operations staff who are doing mission critical work, like discovering and removing spam clusters. People like that often make an hourly wage, often are expected to pick up extra volume as a company grows, and are often the target of layoffs and wage controls because they are considered "variable cost" not "overhead".

Also think about people doing traditionally woman's jobs, like customer support or office support. These people make or break customer relationships, make or break team dynamics, or set the bar for content quality. But senior people on those teams often make less than junior engineers right out of school, because companies can exploit the popular idea that these kinds of workers are just less important.

Even coders, especially in production-based industries like video games or special effects, can work under semi-abusive conditions. Many of these firms dramatically staff up and down cyclically which gives employees little bargaining power.
This is a Computer Science test, not a Software Engineering test. I think it's even worse as a test for the latter.

I don't really agree that these questions test debugging skill. In real life if I read a bit of confusing code and get tricked, I will usually know immediately thanks to my IDE, compiler, automated tests, debugger, or behavior of the program. On this test if I get tricked, I just lose points.

In my experience most debugging presents as trial-and-error (a terrible test-taking strategy) or seeing a bug and reasoning at a high level which component of the software is responsible and gradually narrowing it down. Carefully reading through lines of code is usually the last step, unless I've got an especially elusive bug.

> And the variable naming quip... are you serious? One of the worst mistakes you can make when trying to read code for understanding is to rely on documentation layers like comments and variable names. Those things lie. Read the code.

I'm not sure what sorts of code you're reading but this opinion seems extreme. Do you really just wholly ignore comments and variable names? I have encountered inaccurate examples of both but I have never thought to distrust them by default. As far as I recall this has not caused me serious issues while debugging.
AFAIK there are no good vegan sources of vitamin B12 except vegan vitamin B12 supplements.

All experts recommend vitamin B12 supplements for vegans, vegetarians and older people.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4042564/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17959839

https://www.b12-vitamin.com/algae/

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_B12_deficiency:

> Vitamin B12 deficiency in the US and the UK is estimated to occur in about 6 percent of those under the age of 60, and 20 percent of those over the age of 60.[1] In Latin America rates are estimated at 40 percent and they may be as high as 80 per cent in parts of Africa and Asia.[1]
Kyle Rankin gave a (very good) keynote at FOSDEM 2019 about this topic, harkening back to the Unix wars, Sun etc. He has some really nice one-liners. Video is available here:

https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/cloud_is_another_sun/
You do best when your colleagues do the best, for sure. Do you think the union is going to help or hurt when you have underperforming or disruptive colleagues?
They are a monopoly in the sense that pretty much every one of the 20-ish people I support on Patreon has said something along the lines of "Patreon's recent actions make me want to switch to an alternative, but there isn't one, so my only choice is to hunker down and pray they don't keep doing more things to chase away all the people who are generously giving me money."

Also, note that when they express a desire to migrate to another similar service, they know full well that such a migration would involve losing a significant fraction of their patrons who don't go with them for a range of reasons. So in a very real sense, they are willing to pay to move off of Patreon, if only they could find somewhere to move to.
I'm most excited for Linux gaming as a byproduct!
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Windows licensing mechanism prevents this scenario
Unionizing is still good because at the end of the day you can be fired for any reason.
Unionization has nothing to do with wages reflecting skills or living costs. Also, your anti-entitlement rant, ironically, gives off a strong scent of entitlement.