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>But exclusives is the only way to fight the Stockholm Syndrome people seem to have with Steam.

Stockholm syndrome?

Epic competed for developers on a more competitive split, but have done little to entice users; their platform didn't have even the barest of (edit:) feature* parity with Steam at launch (or even today), and rather than, say, fund new titles for their platform, they've largely paid for existing or in production titles to not appear on their competitor.

They're competing based on attacking their competitor (and/or users of their competitor's platform) rather than by bolstering the merits of their own platform.

It's a shallow distinction but a fair one for consumers to make. "We have helped create this thing for our users" is different than "We paid to prevent their users from having a thing."
FWIW, when I've been buying ads, Google not only has customer service, the customer service is damn good. I guess that's why it's called customer service.
oh come on, it uninstalls itself after it has collected enough data.

(sarcasm)

[i thought it uninstalled itself after a few months]
It would be great to make this legal again today. With the current fuel restrictions, you couldn't use it a lot or you'd run out of fuel, so you'd have to save it for when you really needed it. Anything that allows a bit more driver-controlled variability between the cars would make for better racing.
> Luckily the law isn't an algorithm. Medicine is not perfectly packaged and shrink-wrapped, but a law can be written saying there must be a material basis for a difference in price.
Let's keep in mind where we are today, which is that price is entirely arbitrary and capricious, and they are allowed to do that.

Thats what insurance companies do. Basically their entire work is assigning different value to different care, based on quality metrics, on differential costs for different services, patient populations, etc.

But insurance companies can't see how much are you willing to charge as a provider, thus the provider and the insurance are very much adversarial.

> EMR coding already provides the basis for establishing a non-discriminatory pricing regime

EMR is probably the main reason why upcoding has become a wide-industry practice. EMR allows you to think in how to maximize insurance values which is not the same as medical value, or patient experience. It is also not true that EMR's convolute with pricing matrix's, each insurance has a different negotiated price for different procedures. This happens for a multitude of reasons, and they are all crappy but real.

> CVS is selling the same drug, from the same distributor, to different customers at wildly different prices (before an insurance contribution) based on some sort of shell game.

Yes, but thats not a price problem, its a principal-agent problem. Insurance should not be covering regular medical services and procedures. It should be used for highly expensive-out of control actuarially sound events. But competition for clients has made it the way it is now since the 1950's.
The way to solve that is High Deductible Plans. HDP people really price-shop and put pressure on providers to talk about cash pricing and caps.
Are you going to provide some content to the discussion, or do you just keep talking?
Name me a single reason, why you think that all sources which list the German electricity production - to make it clear, that means the amount of electricity put into the grid - at 40% reneweable sources is wrong. Don't claim you said it somewhere, give it here, as a single clear statement.
It's so heavily regulated that professional racing is no longer an engineering challenge.

Faster and more powerful cars can and are produced, but are barred for reasons of safety and, as the article demonstrates, mere choice of the governing body.
Do astronauts have better hearts? Was this studied in the twins experiement we saw a while ago?
TypeScript is my favourite programming language but I don’t see it replacing JavaScript. I think it’s good to have options.

Deno is looking quite promising as a native TypeScript engine for the backend.
It's a part of due process. One underlying principle or right would be along the lines of Presumption of innocence. There are all sorts of non-obvious shenanigans which the authorities can pull, otherwise, which given the authorities the unchecked power to pressure or harass individuals. Obviously, that is against individual human rights.
Steam allows you to sell your game and provide players with steam keys from your own website without taking any cut. So that 30% cut that steam takes gets diluted quite a bit.

Epic does not allow for that level of distribution. It also doesn’t seem like they will.

Your argument about walled gardens also falls apart as soon as you realize that Epic is pushing for exclusivity.
I've also been thinking about something like this modeled something like a mutual fund. I actually don't think people have an issue with the ads as much as they have an issue with the lack of transparency & control over the information that's "leaked" by interacting with the ads. The approach I've been tinkering with is:

- User data is held in a trust with independent trustees (like a mutual fund complex) who oversee and set limits on how the platform company uses the data for advertising.

- Users can "withdrawal" their data at any time.

- Instead of micro-targeting individual users advertisements would be sold to groups (like a mutual fund) based on anonymized data from the users who choose to join that group.

- Users could "invest" in a particular group by joining groups that reflect their interests and creating content/posts in those groups. Daily up votes would represent the creators "share" of the advertising proceeds to that group (like dividends) so good content is rewarded.

- Development/maintenance would be paid by a flat % of advertising revenue taken off the top before the "profits" are distributed to "shareholders."
> I think you're just letting your imagination run wild on how things work and why that makes sense.

If value were not being created fast enough, then people wouldn’t be able to payoff the loans. The loans are made either to enable value creation (business loans) or to fund a purchase and the loan taker agrees to funnel their value creation (salary) back into it.

> No I can't. If I make a loan to myself, there is no new money to circulate. If a bank makes a loan on fractional reserves it is new money than can circulate and that can itself be the basis for new money creation.

Obviously I meant to someone else. Though perhaps this one is too hand wavey to be useful
>Most of the rest comes from family farms growing rice, maize, manioc root (like sweet potato) and plantains (similar to banana)

these aren't refined, but they arguably aren't the healthiest for you
However, it would apply if the residents were renting the land.
California’s population growth is the slowest in recorded history
But if you eat just proteins and fat, the fat is not stored (see e.g. keto diet)

How can this be explained?
Agreed, but the scenario we’re discussing is a US company sourcing parts from a Chinese company. The PRC’s stiff penalties don’t protect the consumer in this scenario.
>> a handful of skilled programmers can create something worth X1000 their income.

What you're trying to say here is that 'only a handful of programmers have been at the right place at the right time to earn the position that gives them enough equity worth x1000 the income of others'.

There are many talented developers out there.

Trying to say that an average developer from India has the same chances of getting involved with a highly-financed startup at it's early stages as an average developer from Silicon Valley is just misguided at least.
You're mad that an interface shows a warning when the data isn't known to be accurate? What do you propose would be better?
>I think you'd find Epic is much closer to that than you might imagine.

How does that bootleather taste, anyway?
I block "Google Analytics" trackers. It makes me wonder how useful they really are.
I've been using Linux since 1993, FreeBSD since 1995. systemd has a weird, "non-unixy" feel to it. It does too much. Yeah, the fast bootup times are nice.
Really, I thought it was

OEM: Let's make more money.
OEM: We can sell out our users while claiming we aren't.
(Gotta love all the non-lawyers arguing with a corporate lawyer over corporate law.)

If people could be criminally charged "in absentia", then Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, etc would be convicted of things while they were in hiding.

I think a better analogy is that they don't convict dead people of crimes. There's nothing to be gained from that.
I have not had any difficulty finding a "tribe" as an adult in a big city.

Intramural sports, meetup groups, work, bars, gyms, etc. all work very well.
It's odd how powerful MS is in this equation, and how the don't step in and add some sanity.

It's possible to have pre-loaded software without ruining everything.
I thought I read that all wheel drive systems often have something like this today. The expensive ones can control the power ratio to the outside wheels coming from the differential, while some of the cheap ones just apply the brakes.

This is just a manual precursor to those systems. No?
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Yes I don't think that the government needs to plant vulnerabilities to get backdoors into people's machines. Finding vulnerabilities is not that difficult. The more moving parts you have and the more complex the code is, the more likely it is that there are vulnerabilities in the software.
Well hello supply chain problems!
Shouldn't this have triggered a signature error?
A bank vault manager stole $4.3M from his bank
From the article:

> “Their job, more than anything else, was to focus on divine communication. For these monks, the meditating mind wasn’t supposed to be at ease. It was supposed to be energised. Their favourite words for describing concentration stemmed from the Latin tenere, to hold tight to something. The ideal was a mens intentus, a mind that was always and actively reaching out to its target.”

> Even the monastic renunciation of worldly goods and relationships supported concentration: the fewer things going on your life, they reasoned, the fewer things to distract you while trying to think about God.

What seems to be popular mainstream advice:

> "If you notice yourself thinking, let it pass by and bring attention back to the breath."

A fairly typical article in my experience:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/how-to-stop-thinking-during-m...

> How to Stop Thinking During Meditation: 10 Tips to Calm in 10 Minutes

> Have you tried meditation only to get frustrated because you can't stop thinking or worrying? Maybe you worry so much that you feel more stressed after meditation than when you began! If you struggle with constant thoughts during meditation, don't give up yet! These tips are simple but powerful to get your mind calm and clear.

In the first example, it sounds to me like thinking is a goal, something to be pursued.

In the second example(s), it sounds to me like thinking is an undesirable state, something to be avoided.
Yeah, comparing with Americans seems designed to overstate the effect. If you instead compared with e.g. some European country where the obesity rate is much lower, it would yield a better idea how the two diets compare if the caloric intake was about the same in both cases.
In the post-nuclear-holocaust wasteland where only cockroaches survive, the cockroaches will use IRC to rebuild.
Claiming that boot time doesn't matter to servers is a good argument? Quoting Karl Rove is a good argument? Lennart Poettering is a trojan horse? How can this sway anyone?
>spits in the eye

I really wish the gaming community in general would cool it with the aggressive hyperbole. In no way is a developer being acquired equivalent to someone spitting in your eye.
It is to make the best product they can and avoid pitfalls of supporting millions of existing distros. If you had put in a lot of effort in making the hardware, would you just say to your buyer: "just download and install any linux os" and deal with the endless user problems that will, as a rule, appear? No, you provide the best system you can so everything works as smoothly as possible so the users are happy and do not call support or (god forbid) return the goods.
Given this is an RCE, and affects so many machines, does anyone else think it's unreasonable that it took Dell 5 months to fix this?

Aside from anything else, it would have been terrible publicity for Dell if an exploit for this vulnerability was used in a large malware campaign - I just don't get why they would wait so long to fix it.
Ha, didn't mean to point the finger at you. I just rarely notice it spelled with two words outside of official-ish communications where I assume people have been instructed on the spelling. But some Googling suggests it's not as rare as I thought.
It's not uncommon to see gamers entitled to a comical degree.

$20 for years of play time and server resource consumption. Thumbs down!

2,000 hours played? Thumbs down! (see Steam reviews for many examples of this)

Ridiculous.
Years and years ago I traveled to Japan.

It seemed like a very safe place. I had heard about crime in Japan, and the year before had (allegedly) less than 100 murders for the entire country, which puts the murder rate far, far below the rest of the world.

And these days when I read about how criminal justice works there... well, I'm glad I'm not as naive as I used to be.
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Here's a relevant opinion from Newt Gingrich on the matter of perception of violence vs. actual trends

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnhJWusyj4I
The idea that rights are the sole domain of individuals and that groups (whether constituted as states or otherwise) have powers, but not rights (powers which are legitimate only so far as they extend from and do not contradict individual rights), is fundamental to classical liberalism, not a belief unique to those “sympathetic to ancap philosophy”.
The vast majority of disposable coffee cups have a plastic inner lining. This makes them impractical to recyclable, as the plastic lining must be separated from the paper shell. They're still theoretically recyclable and so can carry that label, but it's overwhelmingly unlikely that your local waste system has the capacity to recycle them.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-43739043
i feel very much this gets close to the issue. (for me at least)

if agile is supposed to empower the team to self-improve and self-organize, then being placed into a top-down hierarchy where the upper levels are always in charge anyways is a contradiction in itself and is a huge cause of disappointment that it’s “not working”...

well of course it’s not working if i it’s being imposed by “the top” and for their own reasons... right from the start it’s not team-centered, so there you go.
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5 minutes for 7 people? Something is wrong with your math, you might get the meeting over with in 5 minutes on the best day, but it won't have been very valuable or informative.

How exactly are you supposed to make three whole statements per person and also leave room for helpful reactions and questions... in an average of 14 seconds per person-statement and response?

That might be how long it takes if nobody has anything to say in response, but it won't be the average, more like the floor.

Either we're not talking about the same thing, or your dev team are moonlighting as auctioneers.
> Most of history is dominated by such "might makes right" thinking, and much of human history is dark. It's universal inherent human rights which are the outlier, and which have contributed to the outlier of prosperity and individual human well being we have in the US today.

I did not advocate for this, I simply said it was a reality. It is sad but true. I would ask: why is your set of "universal human rights" true? Who defines it? I would argue that the UN has attempted to define a number of bogus rights that are not intrinsic (indeed, America has in the past protested against some of these; see the holier-than-though stance the UN takes on home-schooling).

> I'm not arguing. Merely informing.

I asked because I wasn't sure what you were arguing by stating which nations were most democratic in that area. Could you clarify?

> everyone should be able to express their opinion

I think most agree on the principle, but courts claim they may restrict time, place and manner. Who draws the line, and where?

> Individual human rights are intrinsically good. This tends to result in Democracy

Yes. Liberty is a good thing. The problem is that not every one's culture has the same degree of liberty. Many languages do not even have the same word for liberty that America does; I believe it is Egypt that has it as a word meaning something granted from above rather than an intrinsic thing given by God.

My point is simply that democracy may never exist everywhere. Quite frankly, it is not perfect. Had America maintained some of her more republican policies (less centralization; state-appointed senators; etc.), we may have had reduced political polarization. Democracy is very difficult at scale.
Absolutely it counts, and it was enjoyable.

However, if you want to break your game after I purchased it and change the rules of how that license works and dont expect me to possibly change my mind about my decision, think again.

All the money I spent buying decryptors and getting wins/losses/placements and having an account where I could easily tell where all my friends are playing in one place also counts.

When its likely that EGS will get features that I wont (even though I funded the original building of all this) it grinds my gears - the vague announcement from a corporate aquihire is a klaxon shouting about the changes that are in the pipeline.

If Psy wants to say "hey, we'd be glad to move all your stuff over without a hassle" I actually wouldn't really be miffed, but that's not what they came to us with.
Pepsi is suing four Indian farmers for growing the potato used to make Lay’s
A naive regex would just as easily have exactly the same issue, e.g. "^http:"
Well, they are heroes, they deserve more than a beverage. Some kind of medal at least.
Alas their experiment concluded without significant difference between the treatment and non-treatment zones. Basically the guy (and holistic grazing) is a quack(ery). :/

https://www.truthordrought.com/holistic-grazing-myths

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holistic_management_(agricultu...
AMD is a sponsor of coreboot according to https://www.coreboot.org/Sponsors

Personally, I think the fundamental issue relates to IP. If the hardware design is made transparent by amazing and freely available documentation you invite infringement claims, particularly from IP trolls. (Threats from competitors are probably more existential, though, at least for large companies.) Often time companies will say that their products contain third-party IP that they cannot disclose, but that's just a roundabout way of saying neither the company nor its suppliers want the hassle.

There are other reasons, too. For example, if you can't consistently provide such documentation it can make you look worse than if you had never bothered as it makes you appear unreliable. But I think the IP issue is what makes it a simple decision, notwithstanding whether the threats are actually substantial.
do not understand the not understanding that businesses seem to exist to monetize every possible aspect of their existence.
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If you're in an area where the postman (or any delivery service) sucks, online shopping becomes a hassle.
Same. Currently locked out of my own account due to hackers and support has been a bit painful to deal with.
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I agree, I think its a good thing Steam is receiving competition. They have stagnated for a long time with high fees, bad customer service and a bloated drm-filled application.
I certainly didn't blame the west. I personally think it has done more good than harm in the long term. My only point was that not all cultures take to democracy in the same way.
Well thanks for that knee-jerk reaction instead of having any idea of how much time and money I have put into the game. I'd probably be considered a whale by Psy.