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You do need a desktop to put the GPU into and the space in your house forever taken up by that rig. I'd rather sit in a comfy chair with my Macbook.
> What is the meaning of private property if individuals can not move it abroad as they wish?

Move your money wherever you want, after you paid your taxes.
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I would bet that the reason HTML/JS is "underrated" is because it presents a unique problem: that no two browsers behave the same way when it comes to HTML rendering.

As a quick test I just opened two browsers in my PC (Windows), ran the Acid3 test, and got different results at different speeds. My phone's browser gave me yet a third result. That's a bad start for a multimedia platform that I'll be in charge of supporting.

For all its weaknesses, there was a platform that offered all you mentioned plus good portability and saw the success you speak of: Flash.
If you CEO/CTO/top of that corp it seems ok for me

If you decent person of course
Not necessarily if you factor in some sort of impact for the slightly degraded experience they'll be offering you. You and Google may buy the same gaming pc and clearly they'll have lower costs, but that doesn't mean that your experience playing locally on that machine is the same as the experience of a streamed game on that machine. To compare apples to apples you'd have to compare the kind of machine you'd need to replicate the streamed experience, and that would very likely be a cheaper computer, so it's really an empirical question.
Exactly. I think the estimate is that 30% of the world lives under a totalitarian regime. So the good-guys having a need for encryption probably outnumber the badguys 1,000 to 1
There are dozens of us! Dozens!
In the cases of Brave and Moana at Pixar and Disney Animation respectively, the story definitely came before the tech was developed. I was an intern at Pixar during the production of Brave, and I worked on Moana, and I can say that in both cases, there was a mad scramble to develop the tech to catch up with the story. We didn't really have the water on Moana working completely correctly until like 6 months before the movie came out.
You said 'being a dick to women' and 'is finally paying for it'....
I don't know why you don't think a trial doesn't carry seriously negative and scary connotations, but it does and no rational person just subjects themselves to persecution.
I'm a person within the superhero demo who has seen a couple of Marvel movies recommended to me, and have not connected to them at all.

That being said, they certainly mean a lot to a lot of people, and it elicits a feeling they seek out, which is enough to call it art in my books.

I may not enjoy the films, but I'll always be interested in getting to know why people feel as strongly as they do about it, instead of dismissing it because it isn't mutual.

EDIT: This is more relevant re: the Scorsese quote. Alan Moore obviously hasn't discounted them as art.
Reddit is overrun with pro-PRC shills and trolls, it's pretty eye-opening on any thread about Uyghur genocide, Hong Kong protests, or throwbacks to Tiananmen Square.

edit: And HN too, apparently. Like clockwork, downvotes galore. I'm willing to hear someone on the other side out on the Uyghur genocide if they'd like to offer their perspective on it.
Yeah I thought it was about smashing facecrabs with a crowbar.
That's subject to a lot of well-known social biases, for example the fact that more attractive people are perceived to be smarter and better-intentioned.
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I think this is more the kind of thing Moore is criticizing.

Is "The Boys" really deep and insightful look at human nature, or just continuing to indulge in material meant for kids with more violence and nudity to make you feel more grown up while watching it?

I love comic books by the way. But it's meant as simple escapist pleasure where you know at the end the good guys win. Making them anti-heroes and upping the "transgressive" content while keeping all hte other tropes doesn't automatically make it deep art.
Pretty awesome that it’s open source.

For large companies there are some proprietary solutions for this. Example:

https://www.trendkite.com/

Disclaimer: family member works there so that’s the reason I’m aware that this niche exists.
In our post-shame, fact-resistant world, maybe we should recalibrate what a superhero is. Perhaps it's someone who values public good over personal profit, and someone who doesn't compromise their principles in the face of trolling and smearing. Children should be looking up to THAT, not being able to punch through walls. The bar is pretty low.
It is a highly complex issue. School is expensive. However, I know a gastroenterologists with a starting salary of $425k in Arizona. It is insane that anyone needs to make that kind of money, straight out of school.

Medicine in US feels like a sham, people are stressed out about medical tests because of cost. A millionaire can be bankrupt by a serious illness. It is insane and I can't believe it is not a bigger issue for most Americans.

People like to talk crap about Obamacare, but Obama was the one that got rid of the policy limits. I have read stories about families loosing their insurance because their kids were sick and they went over their limit of 1 million dollars.

If you are a part of this rotten medical system and are fine with it.....i dont know how you sleep at night.

Edit: Obamacare was not a good solution but it helped some. If other countries can have lower cost, we can lower the cost of care in the US.
hundreds of thousands at the moment
In this case it's not even about people not having good internet. It's about people not being physically near a data centre with the GPU that is playing your game. Come home from school, turn on Stadia? Bad news, everyone in your time zone just turned on stadia too and so the nearest slot is in NY, congratulations, you've got >100ms latency.
I stand corrected; I wouldn't call Snowden a whistleblower either, and his leaks were irresponsible.
The current administration, given its stated opposition to a deep state, is perhaps best characterized as The Shallow State.
Thanks, that could be it!
Consoles solved the sysadmin problem decades ago.
i played through most of srw t on ps4 remote play while house sitting & it worked well enough for the most part. unfortunately games like ff tactics and disgaea aren't big ticket AAA blockbusters that require a supercomputer to run smoothly.
The big idea that the first Half Life explored was never breaking from first person. No cutscenes. Sometimes they’d trap you to focus your attention on something but they never took away the player’s control to look at what they wanted to.
As a Canadian, random examples: Indifference to violence, hypocrisy on nudity, monetizing privacy (no respect for privacy), monetizing medical care.

(I don't mean to start a flame war, but they are topics where EU and Canada tend to disagree with major US trends)
I haven't watched the show, but as I remember it, the light side was pretty much absent from the comics. I assume they heavily deviated from the comics?

I'll know when its gone too far when they make "Crossed" into a TV series.
If you enjoyed The Karate Kid when you were younger, I would recommend Cobra Kai. It's a very good expression of the idea that everyone is the hero of their own story; everyone thinks they're the good guy, and yet everyone is a jerk in their own special way.
Given the previous history of the Half Life franchise, we're most likely in for a FPS Shooter with lots of environmental physics manipulation through a new VR control scheme, utilizing the Valve Index (and other VR controllers).

Given what other people in this thread have mentioned, you will not be moving within a virtual space via VR inputs with full body mapping to in-game movement, as that's a recipe for getting sick.

Given my experience with VR and playing games that required a fair amount of movement, Superhot VR and BeatSaber, the space needed was just enough to stand up, and move my arms around. I am really unsure of why this space requirement issue keeps popping up. Unless you're doing full room mapping, which I highly doubt this game will utilize, I cannot imagine that most people with an entertainment center or with a desk dedicated to their PC, don't have enough room to stand up and move their arms around...
everyone I knew had a Google+ account and none of them knew it.
Somehow even Steam in-home streaming between two wired PCs is a mess of distracting artifacts for me when playing a turn-based game from 2005 at 1080p. Is it really that hard?
I have to agree with Scorsese here. I don't remember the last superhero movie I saw where I didn't walk out with a yawn. They're just so predictable. Everyday guy or gal gets bestowed with or discovers powers of some sort and cut to blowing a bunch of stuff up. End credits with some teaser afterwards. And that's just the first of what will inevitably be many more movies culminating in blowing even bigger things up (has any of them gotten to the point of blowing up a whole planet yet?)

If I'm being fair, this predictability problem is pretty rampant in Hollywood. I rewatched Pulp Fiction recently and I remember seeing it for the first time and being blown away. It was anything but predictable. It was hilarious and disturbing at the same time but, most of all, it was creative. To my mind, there's little true creativity to movies anymore.
Quite. I think I'll stop responding to this thread because we're not going to see eye-to-eye here. Despite the current US President's love for despots and totalitarianism, that doesn't describe the USA.
>The problem I have with Stadia is that you need a monthly subscription and also need to pay full price for all games.

And I don't have any confidence in Stadia being around for the long term. If I buy a game on Steam I'm fairly confident I'll still be able to play it in a decade. If I bought a game on Stadia I wouldn't be confident in the service still existing two years from now.
Did you mean that old organisation which defend world from soviet invasion?
>Scraping the secret-classified documents of the State Department, handing them over to a foreign organization, and saying "You'll make the best use of this, I trust you" isn't whistleblowing

So, what better method should she have used? Remember she was on active duty, and already under a lot of stress from personally being aware of the atrocities being hidden.
Something about, even though it’s supposed to be flat, human organizations just don’t work that way, so the hierarchy is still there but instead of explicit it’s implicit—kinda like high school.
Yup, very convenient that the pseudo-charges (He was never formally charged) were maintained for ten years, but as soon as they complicate extradition to the US they get dropped.

It's not the only thing in the Assange case which is blatantly political persecution. You got to wonder how most of the press can keep pretending it's not.
Ah.

So, I am not super educated on this history, but I am the product of at least three generations of beef cattle farming. My understanding is that this phrase is true, and I think it makes some intuitive sense: if your community is based around herding cattle, stealing cattle is literally stealing the your livelihood. Furthermore, there's an "outsider" aspect to this kind of crime; it's not like there's farm A, and farm B, and farmer B steals some of A's cattle and now they have more. It's someone sneaking in from out of town, stealing your stuff, and leaving. In general, people are more likely to be lenient to their neighbors than to strangers.

I believe, if memory serves, there's a sort of racial/settler component to this as well. It ties into the whole "cowboys and indians" thing. Goes along with the whole "insider" vs "outsider" dichotomy.
He fled and ran the clock out. He's a coward and should stay in prison
Better wait for HL3.11 for Workgroups.
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>>You basically have to marry into this social group, and _none of us really seem to mind_.

Can confirm. Vancouver is a completely difference experience when you have friends/family that actively introduce you as a trusted vertex into their pre-existing social graphs. It feels like a social-stakes version of the "Sand Hill Road warm intros" game.
Valve supports some weird stuff, but I'm glad they do. They've put a lot of work into improving Linux gaming, and their Steam surveys show that more people have VR setups than use Linux for gaming.
and screw him for asking a question!
It is my understanding that the USA has been repeatedly admonished for their relationship with torture (prison system, off shore detainment centers, waterboarding, guantanamo, abu ghraib, the recent issues at the border with refugees, etc).
This is a serious mic-drop line that had my jaw hanging open:

> In fact, I think that a good argument can be made for D.W. Griffith’s Birth of a Nation as the first American superhero movie, and the point of origin for all those capes and masks.

Super heroes capes and masks as inspired by KKK hoods? I don't think it was probably intentional/conscious in the minds of those who originated it, and I don't think Moore necessarily means it was either... but it's definitely an interesting cultural collective unconsciousness sort of lineage.
Movies are an easy example: Do you want to watch the original ending of Return of the Jedi, the special edition ending, the revised ending post-prequels, the 4:3 edition or the widescreen edition? There are plenty of reasons to want to keep a copy of the version of the experience you enjoyed and want to experience again.
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No, I’m living life. If you measure your entire worth through your position in a corporate hierarchy, sure, no future.

Life isn’t about how much stuff you have, but that’s for you to find out - most only discover this just before they die, if ever.
Examples of people being tortured in the US are plenty. It all depends on what you mean by "similar to what Assange would be accused of". He was accused of rape, which is one of the few crimes that the US takes much more lightly than Sweden does.
While I don't disagree with your assessment of the article's lack of sources, I do think there should be more press coverage in general of privacy issues, so I'm conflicted.

If this article was written in a more "honest" way then it might just be the author's opinions on what scary things Google could someday do with massive troves of health data.
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All one need is a black face/not black face AI. Or whatever will be taboo in 20 years.
I suppose the importance of "lost when the project closes" depends on the lifespan of the project.

Every Flash/Shockwave browser game is becoming increasingly hard to play. Games for ancient Windows versions can be devilishly hard to get running, and games for PowerPC Macs are all but impossible. Emulation is flaky and incomplete for console games of all kinds. When it comes to something like a music library, "buy don't rent" makes a lot of sense to me, but the lifespan of software and particularly games tends to be finite even when you do own them.

Now, I totally grant that Stadia will probably have 10% the lifespan of Flash or PowerPC architecture. But lots of people avoided a string of ephemeral music-streaming services and finally bought in with Spotify or Google Play Music. Lots of people avoided ebooks, but are finally starting to come around. So even if Stadia looks too short-lived, the second or third big game-streaming service might convince people it'll last as long as any other software does. (Along with picking up all the users who are only interested in one or two AAA titles to begin with.)

I share the rest of your concerns though, so that sort of worries me more. Streaming games may be what finally enables the death of free/independent modding, DRM-cracking, tracker disabling, and offline play after years of battles with publishers trying to push them directly.
Fitbit also has a privacy policy, as does Google. It’s not actually the practice to sell your data. It’s much more valuable for them to hold onto it and sell products that use your data.
Completely agree - there were also far more interesting components in sets. Take for example the Lego technic backhoe 8455 (from 2003), which had pneumatic cylinders that could be repurposed to all kinds of interesting builds, as compared to the current Technic backhoe 8069 which uses plastic axles and simpler mechanics.
The saddest thing about Assange's story is that when one lives in the realm of the paranoid for too long, the paranoia eats them.

The US and A isn't in the business of assassinating visible targets. There's plenty of people who believe they are, but there's plenty of evidence they aren't. If they were, Manning wouldn't still be breathing.
Case in point: New Yorkers moving to Florida and Californians moving to Nevada.
> it is stealing

I would disagree (although it is closer to the definition of thieft than stealing data is as you lose the ability to withdraw the money).

> That translates to "technically she stole classified documents and betrayed her country that she swore to protect."

No, it doesn't. The "court" could as well say "the sun rotates around earth and the moon is made out of cheese", it would not make it correct.

> unless we prove the court-martial framed Mannings for something she did not do.

Guilty until proven innocent, eh?

> Saying "the court says that X did that" and "X did that" it's the same thing.

You seem to be putting a lot of trust to the authority of the court. To me the court does not hold any more credibility than anyone else.

> it's not something special to Mannings's case

Not claiming otherwise.
> Was it still a good movie?

Sure. It might even be good enough that you want to have a copy of your own that you know you'll be able to watch at any point in the future.

> Maybe longevity is overrated? If you play a game for a month or two and enjoyed it, it's worth the price

It probably depends on what sort of games you enjoy, and why.

I still pull out games that I bought 20 or more years ago and play them, and am very happy that I can do that. I wouldn't pay money for a game if that weren't possible.

You feel differently, and that's fine. Different people have different needs and wants.
> Yes, i am biased against losing control over my computer and the games and software i can run on it and mess around with

I share your sentiments, but this battle was already lost a decade ago when Steam won - Apple is just twisting the dagger with it's App Store and their unceasing march to turn OS X into an appliance (limiting 'root', and with catalina, what you can put in '/')
> So you're saying Christianity's discouragement of sex (which is not from the bible) actually came from the Roman/Greek world?

No, not at all.

The original link was about a hermeneutic developed in the 7th century. The post I replied to was speaking about what's in the Bible itself. My reply concerns the latter.
Sorry, I've lost the narrative. In group? Out group? Like when I can't remember which fork is for me and which is for salad.

Why the downvotes? I really want to know.

Because obviously correct statement about the bell curve distribution of a personality trait is somehow whackadoodle?

Or is it because those who volunteer are just virtual signaling SJWs who's only motivation is to mock misanthropes?
If the money wasn’t fake it would bother me more but all this is doing is hiding inflation or delaying it perhaps until the money repatriates at a later time.

I might even go as far as saying that to a certain extent fiat money disappearing is better for the economy than the government allocating it towards something that is a net loss in terms of actual productivity (compared to something else the same people/resources could be doing instead).
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The particular common themes and tropes used for escape-ism are not irrelevant to understanding the cultural context. Superhero stuff obviously isn't the only kind of fiction that can be used to get a little escape-ism, and fiction isn't even the only way to find a little escape-ism, but superhero movies are a currently especially popular one, and it is not silly to look at the cultural resonances of why that might be.
I'm not certain about the sensitivity in this context. Going full-retard in trading means betting all your funds on one trade.
He is not a US citizen. Fighting US laws is neither his right nor obligation.
They are repairable, just not at their stores. They do swaps at the stores and send out the old parts to be disassembled and remanufactured into warranty exchange parts. They are just as environmentally friendly as they present themselves.
Moana wasn't Pixar btw.
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I played a stationery FPS vr game and it’s certainly a weird disorienting feeling. I also get motion sick pretty easily. That said it didn’t really effect me much outside of a little disorientation.
> Eli, 7, was secluded more than a dozen times in kindergarten and nearly 50 times in first grade while attending The Center in East Moline, records show

What. the. fuck?
This something that is going to have to be planned will also need a way of dealing with copyright issues. It sounds like an extremely difficult problem, which is why YouTube is having trouble in the first place. I doubt they enjoy these (very public) mistakes.

For example, how exactly do you catch videos using copyrighted material and deal with disputes when thousands of hours of video are uploaded every hour? Doing this manually is likely infeasible. But algorithms are error-prone, as YouTube exemplifies very well. Or how exactly do you stand up to these massive billion-dollar media companies without going bankrupt during your first court case? Which (I think) is why YouTube currently simply goes along with whatever these companies demand.

Criticizing YouTube is easy. What is hard is coming up with better solutions that could actually be implemented in whatever YouTube could potentially be replaced with.
One cannot simply compare total number of downloads (Tiktok) to number of monthly active users (Instagram) to make assertion that Tiktok may be as big as Instagram.
That's just your world view and western conditioning. I don't know what you mean by "free country" or what that has to do with state actors persecuting another political actor. Help me understand. I don't have the conditioning to read past the slogans and just understand why certain nations are pure.
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Yep, I've been itching for a good example of this kind of long form immersive VR game.

Budget Cuts and Apex Construct give a taste of it, but I find myself really wanting to just be able to play some version of Portal 2 that was somehow suited for VR and wouldn't make you instantly throw up.
I don't know why you're asking me, I'm just reporting what the trial was about and what the prosecutors said.

The court ruled against Manning in favour of the prosecutors.

She was "acquitted of the most serious charge, that of aiding the enemy, for giving secrets to WikiLeaks" under the spionage act, which means treason.

If you want an explanation from me, they said that the fact that she stole classified documents regarding national security and gave them to wikileaks, which is foreign to U.S.A., is an act of treason.

The central point is that Manning never denied to taking those documents illegally, at the time she (was still a he) said she wanted to spark public debate on the matter.
In any group of meaningful size you can find most any opinion you're looking for, the majority of reporting these days seems to boil down to "Person has thoughts, some others share them. Check out the ads below, to the side, and don't forget the modal"
There are plenty of arrested, but not convicted, prisoners in city and county jails in the US. Often for months or longer.