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It's pretty frustrating how Americans have such authoritarian and dictatorial workplaces. We need more workplace democracy. Employers shouldn't be allowed to dictate what you legally do in your non-working hours if it has no impact on work (contraceptive coverage, etc.). This is how we got to the point that Amazon workers are pissing themselves in warehouses while trying to meet asinine metrics. Sad that all these gains in productivity haven't been leverages in any way to help wage earners and have mostly just continued going to the top .01%.
Nothing that could be described as "major," no.
There is actually quite a bit of work going on in Linux without MMU. Check Linux Plummers conference RISC-V track for example.
Hospital food is not "just as processed as drugs are." They give you cooked and raw fruits and veggies, not pills derived from them. The lettuce in your hospital salad is the same as any other lettuce.
> XMPP was supposed to solve all those problems when it came out in the early 2000s.

The really frustrating thing is that it almost did. I swear I remember at some point in the mid-2000s being able to send a message from Google Chat to Facebook. I think the option was hidden behind some account flags to enable external messages, but it was there.
Android isn't working on Neverware. Linux (crostini containers) and crosh both work.

x230 is some old i5, 100GB SSD and some RAM. Battery is still OK and getting replacement battery for Thinkpad is no hassle.

It works all right and the keyboard is a dream.
> Assuming you don't smoke tobacco, aren't the health effects of nicotine (at the levels 99% of people limit themselves to) basically nothing?

Nicotine itself is believed to be associated with higher risk of cardiovascular disease. (the "Cardiovascular system" section of the wikipedia page on Nicotine is quite lacking)
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Idk if I agree with this. When I think of ban waves I instantly think of CSGO, and the ban waves mean nothing. IDK what data they have collected and what specific things they mitigate before triggering a ban wave, but it's completely ineffective. People are spin botting in MM lobbies the very same day as a ban wave. Especially with Valve where they rarely if ever auto-ban and rely heavily on user-reported cheats and Overwatch where actual community members vote (which is already very imperfect because you don't retain audio to know what calls are made and the tick rate of GOTV makes things look sketch that maybe aren't).

I could see waiting to ban a wave of people if you also release an update that addresses the exploit being used. But I don't know that I have ever seen that be the case. The hacks that existed before the ban wave are often equally effective if not the same exact cheats as the ones being used after the ban wave. The author updates a bit of detection bypass code, and they are done.

So if it's intentional, it's not a very effective methodology in my experience.
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I don't think that Linux is the problem. Companies don't like banning players, that's lost revenue and bad press.

I suspect that a lot of cheaters use Linux as a cover up. In fact, if I wanted to cheat, I would do exactly that. Not only the more open nature of Linux makes it harder to detect cheats but it also gives me a reason to complain.

So I'm sure there are false positives for Linux gamers (it has happened), but I wouldn't be surprised if the vast majority were actual cheaters.

And BTW, why play Battlefield V on Linux? Maybe I am wrong but from a technical perspective, it is a lot of hassle just to avoid running Windows, and performance is likely to be worse. And from a philosophical perspective, Battlefield V and EA are not exactly in line with the ideals of free software, so if that's your reason for not using Windows, why are you giving your money to EA?
This is the most ethical choice, the animals are already dead and treated much better than factory farms. Their flesh will rot in the fields, it should feed people and not bacteria.
It is great if it succeeds and useful, but if not, it's usually a great learning experience.
As in a temporary loss? It's been a while since I've used this, but I believe some of those services support an "Offline Mode". Not perfect, but it's something.
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Most 'Smoke-free' policies are superficial and often make the problems worse e.g. Smoke-free sites mean people smoke near entrances, causing more annoyance for non-smokers. I've noticed most building sites around London are smoke-free as they have a line of builders smoking on the pavement. Their smoke becomes unavoidable to anyone/ everyone walking past.

I absolutely detest smoking, especially when they're exposing others to their cancer. When my dad died [of lung cancer] we weren't on good terms as I wasn't sympathetic to him. It was no surprise he got lung cancer as he smoked like a chimney and had a chronic cough for over a decade. The reason I have zero sympathy is because they made my sister and I breathe that crap in as kids (my sister is also very anti-smoking).

However, I don't have a problem with vaping. It is many orders of magnitude safer than smoking yet it is tarred (excuse the pun) with the same brush. In The States along smoking kills 500,000 people per year. Lives would be saved if people were encouraged to vape (it's by far the lesser of two evils).

The media is even more anti-vaping. Like the scare stories about that mystery lung disease killing vapers. As I vape CBD myself (I have a condition that causes muscle spasms, vaping is by far the most effective way to reduce them) I followed the story very closely. It was apparent that it was THC vape products in/ around New York from the get-go, yet a totally different message was coming from the media. Even if they did attribute those deaths to vaping, 14 [in total] is better than the 1,400 per day from smoking!
You can't tell people to play something else other than what they enjoy just because it'll "make cheating harder".

Many of the very popular games now require good aim. Some people spend countless hundreds/thousands of hours just practicing their aim and muscle memory. It's part of the fun for them. CS:GO is a notable example.

The problem isn't really that it's impossible to ban such cheating. ESEA do it pretty well in CS:GO - their anti-cheat is practically a RAT.

It's that banning cheaters and making a bulletproof anticheat has two issues:

1) To do it properly you need to basically code a RAT, which has some privacy issues. If Valve do it, it could hurt activity, platform support, and be controversial. ESEA have done it since day one, but their player base is much smaller and more competitive. ESEA is also limited to Windows.

2) It's not profitable. That's the honest truth. They ban obvious public cheats and the cheaters will buy another account and come back, probably use another cheat again, get banned again, repeat. Some games don't have awful cheat protection because the company can't make a good one, they have awful cheat protection because it's not profitable to alienate all the cheaters in the game away from the platform (and their many purchases per person; legitimate players only buy once).
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Yep - the motivation of health insurance is to keep people out of hospitals and away from healthcare professionals as much as possible.

Sometimes that aligns with keeping people healthy, but other times that aligns with women not getting routine prenatal screening and thus increasing the infant mortality rate.
> How would that work in case of MMORPG with open world ? One clan would votekick competing clan? Any group votekick whoever they want?

Checks and balances. It's a political problem at that point. MUDs had sometimes very traditional political institutions for bans/player behavior issues, and the same can directly apply to MMOs: "councils of multiple clans", for instance. You can already think of most corporations running MMOs as "BFDLs" (benevolent dictators for life) and there's good reason to ask them to add juries/trials for a more open democratic process to bans, as one common political solution to dictatorship. The same obviously goes the other direction that if players want more involvement in bans/kicks, they need structures like juries/trials to keep things transparent and to bubble up such issues as appropriate.

You can't always solve political problems with technical solutions, but more importantly sometimes technical problems have good political solutions.

>> Provide the server software for players to host their own servers and provide their own solutions to these problems.

> Dosen't apply for most MMO games.

Arguably it should. At the very least for long term archival, MMO games should feel more pressure to provide server software access to players to host their own servers. There's also a lot of interesting history associated with MMOs that had open servers (many MUDs), or reverse engineered server shards (things like various Ultima Online player-created shards). Even if most players would prefer a "canon" experience in BFDL hosted shards, that isn't necessarily a strong reason to avoid offering players a choice to host their own servers. Arguably most good MMOs hosting your own server cluster is a great amount of effort and would be A) self-limiting (only certain groups of players would have the combo of resources/interests/skills), and B) at least somewhat useful to the game owner themselves as a form of CI/CD test (if other people can reproduce your Production environment you are more resilient against possible mistakes/failures in your Production environment).
Totally forgot about that last part... man, never buy a MB or Graphics Card from Fry's if there's a sticker on it... avoid like the plague, and never buy a laptop/desktop there either... head to BB for that.
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Nice! One suggestion, though: a common operation is to take one board position and move one piece on it. As it stands now, you can't just drag a piece, and if you click on one it disappears and you have to click on its type at the bottom.

I would prefer if you could click a piece to delete, and then, by default, your next board click puts that piece in the new place.
Tesla also used to say that "hey, you only really need to touch the steering wheel every 15 minutes", before they were coerced into something more realistic. So, there are nuances.
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Using wild heavy-duty (or faux-heavy-duty but just as hard to manage) solutions where 2-3 colo'd servers running boring services + Cloudflare would do is so well-accepted as normal practice in Startup Land that it's not worth fighting. Just take the free résumé sugar and don't rock the boat. You won't get anywhere anyway, and on the off chance you do win all you're doing is ensuring that you, personally, are to blame for any problems that come up. Meanwhile the costs and problems of Kafka and Kubernetes and all that jazz are no-one's fault, because that's "industry standard".

[EDIT] in fact it's pretty much the norm outside startup land, too, as soon is you're involved with any kind of bigco "innovation" or greenfield-development division.
I think the title is misleading. They are not permanently banning Linux players. Some Linux players with a certain set of software installed are being banned. They’re opening cases with EA. One person confirmed their was case was not overturned and their ban stands.

The players banned are using Lutris, a third party game launcher which is likely against the TOS. I most certainly it don’t agree with EA, but there’s more color than flat out Linux bans.

EDIT: it also looks like they’re using dkvs, the vulkan gl implementation which allows users to swap shaders which would obviously constitute cheating. Probably they caught some cheaters using dkvs, added it to the list of disallowed software without fully understanding what it was and now it’s flagging a lot of false positives.
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> A vibrant ecosystem of banking functions, asset management, trading exchanges, and more have sprung from this, requiring Ethereum to quickly respond to external events and triggers.

That's a bit of a stretch isn't it? Other than speculation and money laundering, I don't think any dapps have gained any traction at all, let alone a vibrant ecosystem.
The checklist isn't saying that all the points apply to all languages.

It's a framework to evaluate other people languages (or your own)
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Sorry, I'm not as enlightened as you. Which self driving car do you own?
Is it possible to sell to single payer health providers in other countries? Something like this could have massive implications for, say, the UK's NHS.
It will accelerate the death of some declining industries like brick and mortar retail, coal extraction and a lot of logistics work (trucking, etc). They will become less relevant and/or automated. They won't die, but will reach new lows and never fully recover.
You don't need a postgrad degree to get into ML/AI if you have a Math or Stats undergrad. Since you are in the UK I would recommend applying for internship opportunities as a quant with fintechs, banks, or other tech companies in London.
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They may have more head injuries than cyclists(citation?) but unlike cyclists you're not at risk of being run over by a car after a fall in your shower and also you're probably not showering at 25km/h when you fall so the potential damage is much lower.
The reasoning is that somewhere down the line introducing an ice age may lead to a contentious hard fork. Better to include it upfront so that expectations are set that PoW on Ethereum is not a long term thing.
Interesting idea that might work well for simpler games but what you call display lists on today's games can be very large. Modern video codecs are also very good, so the trade off is not as obvious as you make it seem.

And even then it wouldn't stop cheating. Bots would just look for triangles drawn with enemy uniform textures (very easy if you have the display lists) and aim at them.
Agreed... I've had relatively bad luck on mail ordered laptops and monitors in particular, stick to a physical location I can return them to in general. Walmart seems like a decent middle ground with online to store and returns.
Hardly a "nice counterpoint", it's the polar opposite and is merely stating that innovation will be near zero and the status quo will continue. It's possible to have an outcome between TOTAL innovation and ZERO innovation.
That's a good point that Farmer Dave addresses in the book: this ACBAG model is totally different than large-scale biofuel production. The integrated farm permits high-efficiency closed loops. For example the leftovers (DDGs or whatever they're called) from fermentation can be fed to livestock. Or used to culture mushrooms and then fed to livestock (after the mushroom crop is harvested.)

All the nutrients and trace minerals stay on the farm: the molecules of alcohol are made from atoms that come from the air and water. In effect the farm is exporting sunshine in the form of reconfigured air and water.
The nicotine half life is 2 hours. Don't know how they plan to enforce this.
What are some of the strategies that you use to increase value post-acquisition?

Do you mostly try to twist the dials a bit to boost net margins, e.g. increasing automation for a product that is "already written" and can go on maintenance mode, or is it something more nuanced? I'm super interested in this topic as I've been building out 2 pretty neat SaaS products (basically web APIs that solve concrete problems for developers, similar to a Stripe or Twilio model, but for an industry that is not quite as open as telecommunications/payments) and I'd love to hear how investors look at this segment. Thanks in advance!
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I think the _"thinking he's found the holy grail"_ and _"eating Domino's at his parents basement"_ were added more for flavor than anything.

He had an idea, that seemed good, and invested $40k that apparently he could afford to loose. He made some mistakes that could be avoided in hindsight (like everyone trying something new).
The dreams of being billionaire and stuff is just to make the reading fun (it did for me).
Also flaxseed. And most seeds like pumpkin and sunflower.

Shout out to sesame seed esp tho’ my childhood fav. Toasted and ground sesame seeds with a little bit of jaggery and made into tiny snackable balls.
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You spend the whole comment putting down the author for making mistakes and then try to make it look like you're retracting this by putting a positive spin on it towards the end. Not because you especially care, but because you don't want people to downvote you to shit for this obvious trash talking.

"try to use other peoples' money next time (smiley face)" A++++ douchery. Nicely done.
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I've read parts of Holzmann's Spin book but haven't actually tried to apply any of it. Without some experience I can't really compare other tools to it.

Also I've forgotten like half the language already :/

The primer still sits of my bookshelf, disapproving of my life choices.
They’re flat for years. Ten years ago a premium AAA title would typically release at $49.99 to $59.99 and still have expansions and other DLC for sale.

In constant dollars the retail price of top-end games is basically flat, or even lower now.
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Investment opportunities that provide 15% return exist in the public markets with easy liquidity options, so what is the benefit of trying to squeeze that out of a private company where you can’t sell unless the company goes public or you try to find a buyer on the secondary market? Unless the company pays out a dividend I don’t see the appeal - usually VCs trade liquidity for the hope of massive returns that aren’t typically found in public markets.
I use a Solowheel unicycle. It is perfect for me to run my errands around my neighboorhood but wouldn't use it to commute to work. The only problem so far is that they are rather on the heavy side otherwise i'd commute between public transportation and the final destination. They seem hard to ride but once you spend 10 hours on one it becomes second nature, almost easier than walking..
Look at the return vs return std dev graph. The fact that fund of fund beats VC on both metrics suggest VCs add negative value
Indeed, switching the loops is valid and might or might not give you an additional speedup. I had hoped, that someone figures this out :-).
However I think in order to understand the basic algorithm the way in the readme is the better one.
Found the smoker.

Joking aside, non-smokers should not have to pay the insurance costs of smokers. It is all fine and good if you want to do that to yourself, but you should also have to pay for it. Simply not hiring smokers is the right decision, they dont get tangled up in the details of sorting out what diseases stem from smoking and what are natural.

It's different paying for insurance to cover incidents or conditions that people can't control (accidents, genetic diseases), or would be bad for society to not cover (pregnancy, psychological issues).
Yes, good point. I get ground up flaxseed that is mixed with berries from the grocery store. Lots of omega-3's. Ensure it is ground up. Unground flaxseed will pass right through you undigested.
>Interesting to see this in a tight labor market.

Most Americans still can't put $400 together for an emergency and wages haven't risen in decades, so even though the unemployment rate is better it's clear workers have zero leverage to negotiate for better working conditions or higher wages. We need labor unions badly in America. This would never happen in Western Europe. While America may be a democracy, most Americans live under the tyranny, for better or worse, of their employers.
Both. The economic conditions of 1894 were the precipitating cause. The paternalistic policies were a contributing cause.

Pullman, Illinois was the definition of a company town.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/business-july-dec01-lab...
Part of being a successful founder is spinning a yarn for your startup though. It's not improbable that the majority of successful founders are also just good at telling the story about it while glossing over the boring hard parts.
Really good writing.

Definitely a questionable move to quit their job for a business with no market research, but I enjoyed the second-hand learning experience.
If you are clever enough to learn these things on your own, why are you then not moving on to advanced courses which will challenge you so that you are getting better value for your money? Instructors will often consider allowing you to take a class for which you have not taken the prerequisite courses if you can demonstrate you have the knowledge.
The rent problem was the straw that broke the camel's back, but the paternalism was what inclined the workers to respond to it so forcefully. The workers in Pullman were already frustrated with the company, and then the rents-and-wages issue pushed the situation over the edge.
> How would this lack of shared context be resolved between an adult and a baby, so that the adult could provide "multi class labels"?

The baby would do multi-modal learning - learning the associated sound (name) with an image (object).

I don't think the parent and baby lack a shared context. They are both agents in the same environment, who often interact and cooperate to achieve goals and maximise rewards. The baby understands the world much earlier than can speak, the context is there.