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I disagree. "Likely" is a probability statement, not an escape valve. If I say "it is likely the sky will be purple tomorrow", and then it is not, I still must answer: Why did I think it was likely? That's a judgment call.
It's more than just botched PR. The leadership of CD Projekt Red was saying the game was done and playable in January and only needed polish. Employees inside the company knew that was a lie.

> Now, CD Projekt Red employees want to know why management led them down the wrong path and whether all that work was worth it. On the call, one employee reportedly asked why leadership said the game was "complete and playable" in January, even though that wasn't true. The company said it would "take responsibility," without elaborating. Another employee allegedly asked whether it's hypocritical for CD Projekt Red to make a game about corporations exploiting human beings while the company itself was pushing its employees well past their limits.

https://www.svg.com/298958/cyberpunk-2077-devs-take-manageme...
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> Just by it happening, it's already career-limiting

Oh absolutely - and I don't think she shouldn't necessarily be a journalist/storyteller anymore (clearly has somewhat of a knack for it) but not at a NYT/Wapo/WSJ.
You know I'm sure we can fault their fact checkers on this, but given what certain other news sources do (like constantly twist the truth and support the actions of a tyrannical President) I'll keep sailing along and trusting the Times. Stuff happens.
How many public appearances has Dr. Fauci made since January? So much shade being thrown in this thread for a few missteps during a complicated situation. Meanwhile the President of the United States, with access to the world’s best intelligence and expert recommendations on the subject, denied the severity of the pandemic for months after it became an international crisis. He did it for his own perceived political benefit.
True and I certainly agree with that side of things.
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>> Not to mention that it's almost certain no one here will ever be touched by this tax.

What? Y-combinator takes in lots of people for more than 60 days and they're on track to make a lot of money given the success rate of YC startups.

>> When people are getting 5-6% returns on investments (minimum), 0.4% is still not even stopping the rich get richer effect.

How is that relevant to taxing people who dont live there?
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Hum... Facebook has some large experiments on mood analysis and manipulation on their knowledge base. If anybody can measure this, it's them.

What can still happen is that the campaign backfires so quickly that hey don't have time to react. I don't know their reaction time, but they've been doing mood manipulation for long enough to think it's short.
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> but it’s not totally absurd to think you owe something to a country whose citizenship you continue to benefit from.

https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Universal_Declaration_of_Hu...

> Article 15

> 1. Everyone has the right to a nationality.

> 2. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor denied the right to change his nationality.

The US is one of the few countries in the world taxjng non resident citizens.
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> Compliance with mask wearing on TFL is less than 50%

where? my counter-anecdote is I've taken to counting everyone on the carriage I'm on (between zone 2 and 1), and it's never more than 2-3 people without a mask, something like 90-95% compliance (seems down from a few months ago, though). in supermarkets it seems higher than that, to the extent I was quite weirded out to see a single person not wearing a mask last week.
It's a complex combination of all of those things, in addition to more "offensive" type intelligence collection (spying on GRU/SVR buildings, communications, and officers, essentially, and compromising their infrastructure).

You might be surprised about how even the world's top intelligence agencies sometimes do make simple mistakes with domain and network registration which really are just genuine fuckups rather than false flag subterfuge. This is very rarely a matter of something silly like "Russian IP = Russian intelligence" and more like sloppily re-using an ostensibly non-attributable network or nameserver they didn't realize was already burned.

We're still kind of in the infancy of cyberwarfare. Attribution will probably be harder in a few decades.

But, yes, it's generally a matter of TTPs, target selection, goal analysis, and style.
Callimachi's apology on Twitter[1] is itself okay, I think. It's the NYT article[2] that I read as weirdly congratulatory/"look how committed to journalism we are!" while discussing a fairly massive journalistic failure.

[1] https://twitter.com/rcallimachi/status/1339956839082037250

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/18/business/media/new-york-t...
I'm pretty shocked staff in supermarket employees aren't required to wear masks in London.

But this isn't really true: "One staff member with covid will rapidly infect a few 1000 people given how busy they are on a Saturday morning.

Covid is pretty contagious, but you really need to be around someone for ~15 minutes to have a good chance of infecting them. Superspreading events can occur, but they are fairly rare.

I bet supermarkets aren't big transmission vectors.
The best bet of each other state is NOT to send this to SCOTUS, because then they will all benefit from an accelerated exode:

- Cali has concentrates most of the entrepreneurship... of the entire world for the next century, so a bit of decentralization would be a trickle-down equivalent,

- There is already an exode to Texas,

- This rule will make people move,

- And also cancel all their meetings in Cali, to avoid reaching anywhere close to the 2 months per year threshold.
Maybe, but that probably just underscore what has been mentioned before:

There's a good chance Google is fleecing advertisers by shoehorning people into to more valuable groups.

Case in point: I haven't seen a single relevant ad from Google in years. I guess this can only work as long as they sell impressions, not clicks?
It behaves exactly the same, but faster (is the current working assumption based on limited research so far).

So the "problems" it is causing is just that EITHER more stringent restrictions of the same kind are required to contain it OR if uncontained healthcare will be overwhelmed more quickly.

So problems of degree not of kind.
It’s in squished, gray hard to read type, and not in the bounding box formed by the article title and the story.

I’m sure an eye tracker study would show that few people read that part of the page.
This is where my libertarianism come roaring to the fore. To me one of the most dangerous arguments for a public policy is "for the greater good" so much misery and suffering has been inflicted on society by groups and policies based on "the greater good"

Further your position requires one to assume the government will inherently spend the money better than allowing a person to keep the money to invest in a business or blow it on expensive cars yachts (and yes even though things are a net good for society) , your scenario of 100million just vanishing is not realistic as people will move investments in response to losses like that. We can however look at history and see clearly that government does not always spend money wisely

Just look at this comment thread for the cognitive dissonance the surrounds government spending. People asking for CA to justify more taxation in the face of their failure of public policy are simply meet with arguments that even more money will solve the problems

You see government programs are never bad, and never fail because they are bad policy, it ALWAYS because we did not tax or spend enough, no matter how many times this pattern is repeated it is never enough. They could steal 100% of all wealth over 30 Million, and when the problems are not resolved (and they wont be) the supporters of the programs will demand more money, say taking all wealth over 20, then 10, then...

Remember the original income/wealth tax only applied to the top 3% of incomes now it applies to 50%...

Government taxation on income only ever expands, that is the big problem here.
It's scary how a government with such seemingly innocent goals as maintaining the prosperity its citizens can end up doing such horrible senseless things.

It seems 100% counterproductive. It looks like checks and balances don't work that well after all.

I'm starting to see the benefits of small government. The case for a decentralized, citizen-driven monetary system is also increasingly strong. Reduction of government and monetary reform must go together or else we risk corporations or some other large bureaucratic organisations replacing the government and end up doing the same kinds of senseless things.

An economy should not support such massive and immoral waste of human lives and productive capacity.
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> It is sad in many ways to see what happened to DEC (probably more so than AltaVista). It was such an innovative company back in the 60s and 70s,

They should have merged with a PC make obviously.

> but unlike IBM weren't able to reinvent themselves in first the new 80s world of PCs and then later internet.

Ironically IBM did fail to reinvent itself despite inventing the PC and it's cake was stolen from it.
Really you'd think Facebook would be happy about this change, because it gives extra visibility to all the hard work Facebook engineers are doing to deliver you quality ads. Many users might not know about these efforts right now, since it all happens invisibly in the background.
No other western country has actually been willing to do what NZ or Australia did - strict contact tracing, strict lockdowns, and a near-complete ban on entering the country, with those that do being picked up the police or military at their plane and driven to quarantine hotels where the doors lock from the outside.

I don't know why everyone keeps going on about other countries not getting the same results - no other rich country has even talked about trying, as far as I know.
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Few months lockdown is not short at all. Even then they still not allowing international visitor.

My preference is simply based on cost/benefit analysis.

I'm not opposed of covid free at all, as long as whatever method you choose doesn't cause problem that outweight the risk.

Here is some example that is not a lockdown:

Increasing health care capacity

Developing better treatment

Use more accurate test

Sweeden, florida has done very well too without lockdown. Although there is still possibility that their politician succumb to pressure and enact lockdown in the future.

Downside of lockdown: unemployment, bankruptcy, mental health issue, delayed treatment of other illness, kids can't attend in person school, etc.

You can say that all of these is not big deal. I still respect you while I disagree with you, after all its subjective preference.

>elaborate contortions

Please don't use these words just because we have different value.
> Many people really don't watch videos, they consume content, ie. scroll or swipe through an endless stream of tweets/videos/reddit posts stopping and then moving on.

How is that different from plopping down the sofa, turn on the TV and watch the endless stream of content being broadcast to you? This isn't really a new thing, most people consumed TV that way before digital consumption became a thing.
So, will you forsake all propriety computer architectures too? And wireless tech?
Do you have a source showing how that is what happens?

This site[1] seems to refute your assertion

[1]https://firetheboss.eu/personal-finance/dutch-wealth-tax/
There's a difference of scale. EU, US, China, Korea, Japan, etc. have some of this, but also successfully have long-running projects. Things build up over time. You have major institutions and infrastructure maintained over multiple administrations.

This problem is common everywhere, but it's extreme in most ECOWAS countries.
Christ almighty, the replies to this are extremely upsetting and missing the point entirely.

"Eat the rich" is not about jealousy, as the parent comment explained, and as the replies all immediately ignored.

"Wealthy people create good things, so why are you mad at wealthy people" is a phenomenally backwards way of looking at things. People who create good things often become wealthy in our capitalist society. That doesn't mean that the accumulation of literal mind-boggling generational wealth is somehow a good and natural thing.

I am so tired of this idea that the natural goal for everyone in the U.S. should be to become a billionaire. If you wanna get radical about it, in my opinion there should not be billionaires. I think the accumulation of that much wealth is inherently immoral. No one person could ever, ever, ever spend that money on themselves, so why should it be theirs?
But 5-6% isn’t guaranteed, while the tax is most certainly guaranteed. For extremely safe investments the yield is what? 1.5% even on long term investments?
Years ago a friend of my dad's gave me his TurboGrafx and a bunch of games. I'd grown up playing nintendo, sega and PC games and never played the TurboGrafx before.

I have to admit, I found it kind of underwhelming. I had no idea about the expansion port though. That's actually pretty cool.

I know we have raspberry PiS and arduinos and such now, still it's too bad consoles don't come expecting to be expanded ans hacked.

And I have to admit, rondo of blood is my favourite castlevania game. Sadly, the system I have is not Japanese and doesn't have the CD attachment so that game is unfortunately not in my collection.
Nah, backported updates exist: https://www.cloudlinux.com/extended-lifecycle
yes, obviously things mutate, but all your other information in this comment is out of date - the current information is the strain they're talking about is 70% more infectious.
So, I really dislike the word, and I would love it if the industry would ditch it because it sounds so dumb... but also, I 100% support the DevSecOps manifesto[0].

Security being extremely manual, extremely 'tool' driven, being policy based, being dictatorial, is awful and not working. We do need the industry to shift towards leveraging code, APIs, working with other teams, building alongside developers, etc.

And that's all DevSecOps is really saying.

Again, wish we could all just ditch the term, but I honestly think it's here to stay and we need to look past the marketing bullshit to see what's in front of us.

[0] https://www.devsecops.org/
Why do you mock? Is it to put down the other? Establish social pecking order? If you want to help your friend or establish a true relationship based on mutual respect and trust, your speech should come from a place of honesty and a desire to help the other.
It does matter in the context of the author addressing the /r/rust community. If you had posted the reddit link instead this would make sense.

But I don't think the language is relevant for the direct inciteful.xyz site itself. Better to submit both links separately than trying to combine them as they have different audiences.
I remember a listening to a podcast interviewing a physician from a major hospital who made sure to explain the difference between an airborne pathogen and one that is respiratory active.

Jogging my memory. Airborne meaning a virus that a person exhales in an elevator (example) will still be present and transmissible x amount of time later. Respiratory active meaning transmissible by coughing/exhaling in the presence of someone else.

These are important distinctions if true and still relevant.
I've done plenty of reading on keynesian economics. I understand that it's not always a zero-sum game, etc. etc. Also, I never advocated for ignoring the plight of humans. We should always strive to help and lift each other. But there are always costs. We can all agree that I, for example, probably shouldn't give away my resources to the point that my children go hungry. But I certainly can make sacrifices to help others. I was never arguing that. Just saying that we can't evaluate the benefits we get without taking into account the costs. And just because the costs might be difficult to measure and don't feel as immediately sharp doesn't mean it is wise to be dismissive about them.
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Alaskan "homelessness" is very different in practice.
The institutional definition of homelessness is very self serving. Nomadic peoples are considered homeless under this fiefdom.

The stigmatization and criminalization of not paying taxes to lease a deed of property is a big problem, this planet as a whole belongs to all forms of life inhabiting it, not just the primates that choose to play that game.
What the hell? The parent comment tried to explain why this isn't a stance based in jealousy, and you compare it to sexual assault based in some kind of bodily avarice?

The phones and the internet and the jobs are great. Why are you taking it for granted that the people who created those things should have more money than most countries do?
Fauci was obviously lying. Masks are and were well understood to be useful in mitigating the spread of airborne contagions. There is lots of public research confirming this. Here are a couple examples:

1. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24229526/ - this is a paper from 2013 testing the efficacy of homemade masks versus surgical masks finding that both have some effect but surgical masks are better. If you look under "similar articles" you'll find 4 there about masks reducing the spread of airborne viruses from before 2020.

2. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20584862/ - demonstrates 2010 study showing the strong effect of N95s against small particles in the breath (on which the virus is borne) and comparing it to homemade masks. Concludes homemade masks would offer marginal protection. Again, in similar articles you'll see another three from before 2020 on the efficacy of masks.

Masks were well and widely known to be useful at slowing the spread of airborne contagions - especially N95 masks. People knew homemade masks had some effect too.

There was probably good reason to want to save N95's for medical professionals. There was no reason to say masks weren't helpful for the general public though, that was an absolute lie. Fauci and others had all the information they needed at the start of the pandemic and could have said "Masks are useful, that's why we need the best masks for our medical workers. We've put together information on how you can make homemade masks that are X% effective and what you can buy and use."
I hope someone makes an open-world demake of Cyberpunk 2077.
> This is accurate. More often than not, trying to do something good for others will end up making you feel like an idiot. For the person on the receiving end, you are a jackpot. Instead of being shown gratitude, you're likely to be exploited.

Helping others doesn’t mean you have to set yourself up to be a sucker. Which you kinda point out when you about volunteering. But IMHO in any space our own judgement is still required and essential.
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I wouldn't hold anything against a person wanting to end their own life as I haven't been in their shoes. Barring that caveat, coupling your life to a dream does seem pathological - I would worry that someone ending their life for something like that are throwing away a decent chance to still end up with a overall good, fully lived life.
It's important to consider that you can have rough patches in live but recover well. The largest tragedies are when people react on short term mental pain by giving up, where they would have changed their mind if just holding out for just a bit longer. The person who might feel like there's nothing to live for after having to give up their dream might just have their true love around the corner or maybe just a few session with a therapist would have given them a new perspective, finding joy in the moment, etc.

While I didn't downvote - my guess would be that your message was received as support towards the idea that suicide would be a reasonable and healthy reaction to not reaching your dreams - an idea that in itself could make someone consider the option.
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Even if you are busted not all 'news' orgs would come clean, admitting the mistake and detailing out what went wrong.

https://www.npr.org/2017/09/15/551163406/fox-news-has-yet-to...
Facebook isn't successful because of content.

Facebook is successful because of its ease of use comparative to Google+. Facebook's genius was that it was designed to be easy enough for the masses to use. Google+ was clearly designed by engineers, for engineers.

There's your problem right there, but you got it right in the second part of your post.

> Good tech supports the transmission of content. Bad tech gets in the way. Good content is enabled by good tech.

That was the crux of the issue. Steve Jobs understood this. Its why my Mom was able to grasp an iPhone interface far easier and sooner than the Android phone she had had for years before. It still blows my fucking mind how anyone can find the iPhone more intuitive, but I guess that's because I grew up in the 80s and 90s, with 80s and 90s computers as a kid, so you had to learn the technical underpinnings somewhat in order to even operate those machines.

Ease of use = more content.
PPE was recommended for people dealing with Covid positive.

Fauci lied (and admitted to it) that masks weren't effective and suggested that the average person should not wear them.

To be fair, I heard the whole medical community here (I'm in one of the largest medical centers in the world) laugh and scoff at normal people wearing masks (because they weren't trained and it isn't effective).

And now we have no N95 for the general public and idiotic cloth masks (that don't work).

So it turns out they weren't far off I their scoffing... But for the wrong reasons.

Now we see them (and other anto-science) normals flip and ignore the data on bad masks. "Something is better than nothing". False sense of security and just more lies and moral superiority.
> Football, Baltimore, black. That example growing-up environment does not exactly favor a kid to be encouraged to pursue intellectual strengths unless you have an incredible teacher or parents for example.

Wikipedia says "Urschel was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. His parents, John Urschel and Venita Parker, were a surgeon and attorney, respectively. He grew up in Buffalo, New York, where he attended Canisius High School." With no other information, that "growing-up" environment (notably including a private school) sounds great for an academically precocious kid.
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