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Complexity of a game increases complexity of all elements, engine development, testing, asset creation, narrative design.

It takes roughly 1,000 people 7+ years to make a "new IP" game, or the same number of people 3-5 years for a decent sequel.

Check the number of people credited in a game from 20 years ago and compare it to the latest AAA's, it's an order of magnitude or two different.

GTA1 took 50 people to make[0]

The Division took 1,083 to make[1]

Yet the price of games has not increased in real terms in that time. (although, yes, the sales have increased, but not enough)

[0]: https://www.giantbomb.com/grand-theft-auto/3030-13567/credit...

[1]: https://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/tom-clancys-the-divis...
theres a lot of reasons for someone to look at both what and how trump is approaching this, and rationally come away less-than-enthused:

1. Poor execution & personnel at odds with each other leaking play-by-play details has led to a lot of market fluctuation and difficulty for the market to price in the "real world". Anyone exposed to this gets a first hand look at the monetary cost of this.
2. Real impacts of the tariffs felt by american manufacturing & farmers as well as american consumers. If trump wanted an extended trade war he should have been much more upfront with people & prepared to cushion it. You say it's "some tariffs" but this minimizes real household struggles.
3. General impacts of "losing the people". He's a highly polarizing leader; anywhere from beat street to wall street to pennsylvania ave, people who don't get along with others will find it very difficult to be trusted on any given issue even when they're right. This is a near-constant in life, some people manage to be a net-benefit with that attitude but it's usually by leaning on other crutches like being highly gifted. Trump isn't that person.
There are a number of business models that are compatible with open source. But the question here isn't whether to open source your own software or not. The issue is whether it's a good idea to build on somebody else's proprietary stack.

It's in the long term interest of any business not to rely on the goodwill of some other business. This goes for Microsoft as much as for Google, Apple, Amazon, etc.
No, it was three very specific words in order that, if you typed them here, would result in you being investigated.
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> So basically China's stance is, we cannot change our laws so our bad trading practices must remain in place?

China's, or better said Liu He's, stance is "we will not do anything if it has chance to blew into Xi Jinping's face"

Xi brandished how he tames "capitalist tigers" by wholly appropriating the credit for the trade deal. Now he is being made to look stupid with a single twiter post.

It is likely he will not touch the talks personally out of fear for more embarrassment

Liu He might be only a fourth vice premier in line, but only one Xi has personal ties to.
Punished by the legal system absolutely. Banned by court order yes.
Technically it's an 'easter egg'. [1] It's hard to think that the phrase is accidental (see upper left corner). If you want to poke fun at the other phrases in the list, be my guest, but you're not disproving the ugly and intentional nature of the political message in that easter egg.

[1] https://i.redd.it/nldbz62by4s21.jpg

Edit: forgive the annotations on the image. It's what I found on reddit when I looked around for a source on what GP was talking about.
Add to that the fact that the NYT won’t let me read the story because my browser is in private mode, but regularly runs features about the Chinese surveillance state.
Would this mean that the future of long distance energy transmission will be underground HVDC? And we'll see the slow deprecation (over time) of overhead HVAC transmission lines through right of ways?
My project has been having fake ads bought on Google to serve malware for a year now and Google doesn't seem to care. At best they might take down one ad, but there are always more.
The children can complain about their situation. The parents should not complain about the children's situation because the parents actively chose to put their children in that situation.

The rules are bad. The children are in a bad situation. The parents don't get to pretend they didn't contribute to that situation.
It isn’t costing consumers much. I run a company that was affected by the tariffs. If we had kept manufacturing in China, cost of goods sold (COGS) would have gone up by 25%. But COGS are only 50% of the price customers pay for our products. So the price increase to our customers would have only been 12.5%. But we didn’t keep our manufacturing in China, we moved it to Taiwan and Vietnam. As a result, our COGS went up by roughly 8% (prices are higher at our new factories), which works out to a 4% increase in prices to our customers. And our products have an unusually high COGS relative to most things consumers would buy at, say, Walmart. So the real impact of the tariffs to the prices most consumers are paying is in the very low single digits, percentage wise. Not really a big deal. Mostly the tariffs are/were very inconvenient for US business that manufactured in China.
See the variable "org-clock-idle-time". This is Emacs, so of course there is an option.

I'm not sure if I would use org-clock unless I were already programming in Emacs, but since that's mostly what I'm doing, it works great to keep track of contracting time.
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China is playing the old game, negotiation and negotiation and negotiation, never intend to make any change. They can even make promise to make changes after long long long negotiations and never do anything. And then when someone finally decide to do something about it, they will ask for a new round of negotiation and negotiation and negotiation.

Xi will stay in power may be in next 20 years, and he knows US will have general election in every 4 years. Trump gets the idea: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/11261065400150712...
No offense, but you sound like Verizon charging Netflix for what users are pulling down.
> "My concern about NuScale is that they believe so deeply that their reactor is safe and doesn't need to meet the same criteria as the larger reactors, that it's pushing for lots of exemptions and exceptions," says Edwin Lyman, acting director of the Nuclear Safety Project at the Union of Concerned Scientists

Bit of a red flag there...

Edit:

The article further states:
> "Licensing this design is challenging. It's so different from existing plants that regulations must be changed to accommodate it. That worries some watchdogs and critics."

Let's not shoot the messenger here.

If they are regulatory requirements that clearly do not apply to this technology because, e.g. it does not use the regulated parts or technology then fine. But that should be very thoroughly scrutinised and no exception should be granted on the basis that it is safe on paper.

Many requirements are very expensive to meet so I would understand that a private startup tries to minimise the burden. But I think nuclear safety comes first.
> Rust is designed to interoperate well with C++, which is useful within Firefox.

Mild nitpick, but from my understanding Rust interoperates well with C but is quite a pain to interoperate with C++. At least calling C++ libraries from Rust is painful, the other way around can be easy in the same way that calling C code is easy from C++.
Unfortunately, that's the cost of courting a massive market backed by an authoritarian regime. Personally, I don't agree with it, but Capitalism isn't inherently moral.

China has such a massive trade presence globally that companies are willing to abandon domestic values to make them happy. The media certainly aren't the only party guilty of this (tech & military companies selling surveillance technology, etc.)

It's easy to blame everything on the media because they market themselves as the purveyors of transparency and democracy in our society. But they're just businesses too, and businesses sacrifice ethics all the time to stay alive.

As Ice-T once said: "Don't hate the player, hate the game."
Which is exactly the context they were in in the show: a NSA agent watching out for dangerous people online.
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Oh they lost that with the "Assassinate Trump" wink wink moment.
I suspect Xi wants this dispute to continue for internal Chinese reasons. The tariffs impact different sectors and regions in China differently. It may be continued tariffs are reducing overcapacity in a manner that allows Xi to save face internally. It could be the tarrifs are breaking the back of powerful exporting provinces (eg. Jiagnsu) and helping Xi consolidate power. It may also be the case that things need to get much worse in China economically before Xi has a strong enough argument to persuade the Chinese military (a powerful economic force itself) to embrace a deal. Finally, the success of the Belt&Road strategy requires a shift from US/Western export to vast investment elsewhere; and it may be the case these tariffs provide the Chinese private sector a strong incentive to open new markets and long-haul decrease reliance on the US. Its complicated. I suspect a deal will be reached in 2-4 months.
It's pretty amusing that their use of arbitration to prevent class actions is now being used against them. The nice thing about a class action from the company's perspective is that they only have to deal with one court case against a class being represented by a plaintiff as opposed to cases from every single member of the class. Sending all the members of the class through arbitration one-by-one ends up costing far more than the class action would have.

I think we'll see forced arbitration go away if more classes band together and go through arbitration one-by-one.
Clearly they have nothing to hide.
1) Respect for my role from upper management. This one is huge for me. I have a friend working as an engineer in a company where engineers aren't considered impact players (i.e. aren't perceived as revenue generating, even if the perception isn't 100% true). She is paid well and her boss loves her. But her boss's boss and everyone from there on up have the attitude that engineers "just don't get it" and she's miserable there, because her work can't have as much impact without upper management buy-in. This is a cultural thing and varies highly even between companies in the same industry. For example, there are hedge funds where good engineers are rock stars and there are hedge funds where they are looked at as support staff. In that industry, your importance to the company is often reflected in your pay, but pay aside, where do you think that the engineers are happiest?

2) Some people reading this aren't going to like it, but: Coworkers and/or bosses who have kids, or at least are sympathetic to the fact that I do. This one is really only applicable once you have kids yourself, but if you are in a startup where everyone is young and childless (or old and childless), it'll be hard for them to understand the myriad number of things that come up with children. You need to take your kid to the doctor, you need to stay home because the nanny is sick. I can make up the time, but sometimes it means missing important work or things that can't be rescheduled. The excuses add up and I've met many people who aren't sympathetic to them. And I even understand where they are coming from. But as a parent, I value a company where people are respectful of this.

3) An even keeled boss. You can be a nice person or you can be an asshole. But as long as you are consistent, I can figure out how to deal with you. But if one day you are Dr. Jekyll and the next day Mr. Hyde, then I'll always be afraid to approach you.

4) Good health insurance (in the USA). Our system of having health insurance tied to employment is stupid. But it is what it is, and if you aren't getting good health insurance from work, it can be a fortune to pay for it out of pocket.
Knotweed is like the hydra of myth.

I've been trying to fight it in my landlord's backyard by cutting down every single shoot as soon as they come up. And they keep coming.
That's true, but I think the point was that it's more like your parents knew how long the backlog was, moved somewhere, had a child, failed to do that simple arithmetic (aka hyperbolic discounting; when a thing is so far in the future that we fail to take it into account), and then you didn't get to stay once you were too old.
You're referring to a psychological effect, he's referring to an autonomic. It's the same way the you don't tend to notice your heart rate increase and decrease as you move around unless it's major.
Welcome to HN.
Funny that G+ was still ignored despite this effort.
I remember in high school, there were certain classes in which I always got really tired. Eventually I realized they were the classes with the most students stuffed in the smallest rooms. The worst offender, for example, was health class (ironic in hindsight, I suppose), which took the place of phys. ed. for one quarter and therefore had to fit an entire gym worth of students into a single classroom.
"Sorry boss, please fire me and ask one of the 200 other employees here to use that system with built-in tracking to make a newsletter for this clothing brand."
Incorrect. The tariffs are costing Chinese businesses and the government greatly. There is some other benefit to this that isn't explained by negotiation tactics. Although I cannot rule out a total misread of Trump by China, due to poor analysis, intelligence or misinformation.
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Exhaled breath is about 3.8% or 38000ppm so (20000) that's really high! I'm not too surprised since the turnover rate through a few small holes with a relatively large volume is bad. Reducing the facial volume would help a lot as each breath would expel more CO2 as a fractional percentage.

It seems that any sort of face covering or even significant exercise could raise your ambient CO2 level well above 1000ppm.

I'm a bit surprised that levels 38-60x below our exhalation % (and it's not lack of O2, because you use up less than 10%/breath) has such a significant effect. The one thing that may drive it is that the efficiency of lung ab/desorption goes roughly as the square of concentration so a 2% change in CO2 concentration might be enough to have an effect on O2 and blood pH.
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Both you and the person you responded to (Crinus) are right. I’ll share some context.

On Windows, Flash was fast but on OS X (as it was called then), Flash performance was atrocious. In fact, this was one of the major reasons why Steve Jobs felt compelled to pen his famous “Flash” article [0], because after getting Apple’s engineers to work directly with Adobe’s engineers, they couldn’t quite get Flash to be performant on the Apple desktop. Jobs added that the single biggest culprit of stability issues reported by customers on Macs was: Flash [0]. I remember this part vividly because my MacBook had never crashed on me until I had Flash in use during a browsing session. The other time this happened was from another Adobe product: Adobe AIR, which I believe uses the Flash engine internally.

Apple worked directly with Adobe because investing the engineering resources needed to make Flash performant and stable didn’t make economic sense for them, but even after this, they couldn’t get it to be stable as desired. Job’s thinking was if you cannot do this on desktops, how on earth will you manage on a resource-constrained device like the iPhone?

[0] https://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/
We are ending up being to stupid to solve climate issues
It's a bit telling when a media giant like CBS can't strike a happy medium by you know - both not censoring it in the US and censoring it in china - instead, choosing to censor the whole thing outright on the entire platform.
It's almost like all these American companies are moving en masse to do business in China with the sole purpose of increasing profits every single quarter, irrespective of (and arguably, now encouraging) the numerous, controversial human rights and ethics violations that China is known for.
>but when it comes to US happenings, good and bad, they want and have complete freedom of press and speech

They've been engaging in mass censorship of right-leaning figures due to the nebulous excuse of "supporting hate".
Yes, diversity at least in country of origin or as you might say passport.
imho it is sad that this is even a thing. Nitpicking about milk? Is this the parents fault? State? Cost of food?
And ignore the 1% failure rate for commercial nuclear power plants.
And the clean up costs.
And the waste storage costs.
And the decommissioning costs.

Nuclear doesn't make sense. Economically and ecologically.
I really am loving this show, and I thought the "censored by CBS" was some sort of joke. The animated shorts they mix into the show are great fun. The good wife had interesting takes on tech issues of the day and The Good Fight has really taken the format into some interesting political directions.
I wonder if this means the desktop version of PUBG is also banned in China now? There has been a big problem of cheaters in this game, and others like it, the majority of which are Chinese.
Yep, that's the one I have. It's fantastic.
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So, what you're saying is that if in 2010 a TV show put the same thing on screen but had Obama instead of Trump, that everyone would think it was ok?
Can you cite anything that proves it’s worse
Yep, one of the hardest and most important things in life is the ability to agree/compromise with people you have fundamental issues with.

This is one of those cases and his tweet is correct, they can just wait this out until the next election after someone new gets in and we do a 180.
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Regarding recycling... Batteries an electric motor are more recyclable than meeting down some mostly but metal slabs? The main difference is the engine and batteries. An ice engine is probably much easier to recycle than li batteries.
By 2050, 10M people could die each year from anti-biotic resistance
Did GM lie?

I know some people did accuse GM of emission cheating, but haven't heard of any actual proof.
I've worked in modern steel and glass buildings in the Valley, and I've also worked in old (and drafty) converted warehouses in SF. I never really thought about it, but I definitely get more tired in the steel and glass buildings (which usually have inoperable windows).

I work at home now, and while my home is well sealed, I always try to crack the window in my office to let in some fresh air. I'll have to make an effort to do that even when the weather isn't as nice.
It feels wrong architecturally for Google to be pushing this right now:

1) Dart was intended as a Java like language and is inferior to Kotlin, a language they just endorsed on Android yesterday. Dart feels like a step back, not forward. The message is confusing from Google on this front. They have a huge Kotlin developer community already. Why push Dart at all?

2) World + dog is moving towards compiling Kotlin and many other languages to web assembly as well as native. Cross compiling Dart to javascript was maybe a valid choice a few years ago but not in 2019. See e.g. Rust roadmap for this year, .Net 5.0 agenda for MS, Kotlin Native, etc.

3) LLVM seems to be the toolchain of choice for this type of stuff to happen. Go and Kotlin + WASM would be very valid choices for Google to prioritize on this platform.

4) In a browser you need to be driving the DOM to look and feel like a proper web application. If you abandon that notion, you might as well grab something like QT or some other UI toolkit and use that.

My recommendation would be for Google to untangle flutter from Dart and just retire that and focus on WASM and native based runtimes only. That's going to take time and in my view it's inevitable that whatever they are pushing right now is ultimately going to be deprecated in favor of something like that.
At least for MS SQL, code is fully source controllable, I have it on Git and we have all automated deploys and niceties.

Views can be a problem from a performance side, Oracle has materialized views but MS SQL lags behind (I think Postgre has them too).
I feel like none knows how to deal with the Chinese, there's a cultural gap that the US and Europe are not accounting for, the Chinese care a lot about saving face and status
My tests with my meter don't imply that is correct. Almost immediately on recirculate the PPM goes up and stays there.
There are very real problems with how China treats foreign companies (intellectual theft, requirements to partner with Chinese companies and many more). I'm happy they get addressed. However, Trump completely misrepresents the problem and the impact of tariffs. The negotiations clearly are tackling the right issues, yet here he is talking about trade deficits as some kind of theft and tariffs as a straight up win like some moron who doesn't get econ 101. He is doing his (for once) good effort such a disservice. Is he trying to divide the country by even representing his good work in a way that will only appeal to his hardcore supporters or does he truly not get it? Is there a more charitable explanation?

Edit: I also have very sour memories of Obama complaining about the trade deficit with Germany. In that case none of the real issues like we have doing business with China existed. In essence Obama was complaining about German companies being too successful and Germans saving too much money. Maybe I'm particular sensitive to trade deficit rhetoric because of that. If the passing field is level, then maybe the deficit is the fault of the country that has the deficit. In this case the playing field is very skewed and that's the problem.
I'll bite instead of just downvoting.

> China deserves the pain train for backpedalling.

Fine, I'll accept your premise here. Now, on the flip side:

Why do I deserve "the pain train" for what's happening with China? Why should I and others I know suffer for this?

> I don't understand the hate Trump gets for doing what needs to be done.

Because things for me were good before, and now they are less good as a direct result of things he's doing. Trump isn't doing anything to alleviate that, and if he is, I'm not seeing the results.

Finally, he serves me, so I have every right to demand results. He made lots of promises, and he's failed many of them already.

So answer my questions. Especially with the context of him not saying we'd have to suffer for his failures.
I think this is the Telegraph's minisite (with interactive database) about the scandal from 10 years ago: http://parliament.telegraph.co.uk/mpsexpenses/expense-micros...
Related to this and the censorship story already on the front page:

China is censoring internal news about these trade controversies. From family over there I know that the general public isn't seeing this on TV or anything. And even messages on WeChat are being taken down (my wife has had several private postings removed)
Backing by Google has helped, but I honestly think the two main reasons its succeeding are the same two reasons Typescript is succeeding: A "better" language that's "pragmmatic". What i mean is, they both provide the features people want (types, inference, less verbose than Java) and have quality out of the box tooling (because Jetbrains and vs-code). The moment I saw and tested either, I knew they would be a smashing success because they solved the problems people wanted solved, and "just worked".