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I played about 14 hours on PC before uninstalling it.

The performance was fine and I had minor glitches here and there. The story bits were simply amazing, but the gameplay needed another year or two of development. This is clearly an unfinished game and most of the promised features are not in the game.

I reinstalled Deus Ex Mankind Divided and the tutorial level has better gameplay (gunplay, stealth, hacking) than Cyberpunk.

I will certainly revisit it in a year or two. Hopefully CDPR will keep on improving the gameplay, not only solve bugs and performance on consoles.
They do, but it's not "qa" in the sense of are there any bugs in the game, there's a checklist you have to adhere to and as long as you adhere to it, you're good. It mostly checks stuff like if you've got voice chat, do you respect parental controls,or are you using any undocumented APIs, or does the game crash under "normal use". An unstable game can pass these was checks, and there are no guarantees of quality from this process.

(Disclaimer: I work on Fortnite, have ample experience with making sure the rules are followed)
You might be interested in the Adventure Cycling Association, which provides excellent printed weatherproof route maps for the continental USA:

https://www.adventurecycling.org/

As another commentor has noted in this thread, routes may not always be ideal because they often have to use existing available road infrastructure, so be careful and check road conditions in advance (and if you can, provide feedback to other cyclists and local communities) - but cycling can be a unique and self-determined way to explore that you'll rarely find in any other kind of travel.
"The system" IS the people in charge
Facebook shopping scams have skyrocketed
Another counterexample is recreational cannabis sales tax. In Colorado they are earmarked for education and arts afaik.
Facebook's statement referenced in the ad: https://www.facebook.com/business/news/ios-14-apple-privacy-...
I would very much like to see prevention advice tacked on to analyses like these. It's very interesting to see how the vulnerabilities were exploited, but I think it would be extremely valuable to understand how to prevent future attacks such as this. What were the root causes of the vulnerability, and how can the community prevent similar ones from being created in the future?

(Ideally with some automated tooling, too.)
The Eisenhower Tunnel is just an automotive tunnel. I believe rail always used the Moffat Tunnel since it was completed in 1928. The two aren't that far apart. (AFAIK it used the Rollins Pass--which had problems with grade/avalanche/etc. previously or just bypassed to the north or south.)
It is "what that is saying"(!).

It is another story whether handling the formalities of hiring for German universities is easy. It is not.
The campaign is going for “freedom loving” red state politicians with a bunch of keywords. They are trying to appeal to conservatives and turn this into a left vs right issue. Apple is projected like the controlling government.
> I would guess 95% of what is in nytimes is true.

This is even worse. The most dangerous lie is a lie wrapped around a core of truth that entices readers to trust the whole package.
If the majority of them weren't addicted to hardcore drugs and could make intelligent, rational decisions, I might agree that giving them money directly could be a good thing. Drug addicts tend to not make good monetary choices.

See this recent documentary by KOMO News in Seattle about their problems, which are pretty similar to Portland's, SF's, LA's and a lot of other major cities with larger homeless populations. Crime is soaring. Most are homeless due to drug addiction. Until that part is solved and they can think clearly and rationalize normally again, giving them cash will likely only fuel the problem and keep them right where they're at. And with everyone walking around with $50k cash in their pocket, because they don't have bank accounts, crime would be even more rampant as they steal it from each other.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WijoL3Hy_Bw
California’s governance with respect to property taxes is horrific and inequitable to the point that it should be illegal in many ways it has distorted the national economy in good and bad ways as folks sitting on property have turned into the 21st century version of a French aristocrat by sitting in their 50s ranch.

That cohort of Californian is dying off now, and it may be better for all involved if companies pull out and disrupt the status quo. California’s incompetence shouldn’t drag down everything.
Yeah, I think Weird Al does occasionally do parody in the legal sense. Amish Paradise for example definitely has something to say about the relationship of hip hop and gangsta culture, which is probably protected parody.
> Real regimes don't mildly torture problematic people and then keep them around at length, as if they were boys[1] enforcing a boarding school hierarchy

That's precisely how it's done in China and North Korea, as well as many other places, and almost every terror regime in history. It's also used in America whenever prosecutors / prison operators want to "send a message."

There's great value in keeping a population cowed when a small percentage of them can recount the horrors they've suffered for disobedience to authority. Execution is only reserved for actual threats to the regime, and the odd show trial.
You can choose your own news sources but here's the wikipedia article.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_James_Byrd_Jr.
It was pretty sickening to read the headlines in the newspapers at the time.
> Also, the Microsoft competitor isn’t Skype, it’s Teams.

How so?
Right this is where it gets complicated, especially by the fact that the US has country specific tax treaty agreements lots of places.

https://www.taxesforexpats.com/expat-tax-advice/us-tax-treat...
I understand that's how things currently are, but I don't believe it's how things need to be.
Agreed. Youtubers talk about the bad stuff in CP because that generates the most clicks, and people who haven’t played the game get the idea that it’s like Anthem. Meanwhile, most PC players are 20+ hours in (On average! In a week!) and having a blast.
You kept the house and the land- probably by far the most valuable assets. Without enforcement of property rights, what stops me from coming in with a bigger gun and just taking the land?

Of course, there are limits to the protection they provide- you can always buy more.
> His individual contribution to that wealth is not 188 billion times greater than that of any of his employees.

It's all in the realm of "numbers to big for our primate brains to comprehend" anyway, but Amazon as a whole only pulls in as much _revenue_ as 13 million warehouse workers, 14 thousand times less than you're implying.

Beyond that, Amazon has over a million employees. Using a simplistic model of their contributions that Bezos is irreplaceable and each worker is fungible, you'd get Shapley values for the whole organization along the lines of Bezos getting half and the workers splitting the rest. In terms of profits before wages the workers are getting far more than half, and even in terms of revenue before expenses they're only getting a few times less than half. As a crude ballpark, compensation doesn't seem to be disproportionate.

Valid counter-arguments include Shapley values not being an appropriate way to allocate payment (which necessitates choosing which one (or more) of their payout properties you'd like violated, e.g. symmetry among equivalent workers or that payment should depend on value added), my model being so simplistic that it can't possibly be right even to an order of magnitude, declaring that even a factor of 2 is actually important in examining Bezos's income, etc. Appealing to a gut reaction based on numbers that are "obviously" too big is misleading at best.
Work long hours for short sprints. Building a company takes years, not months
>> In posting real-time analyses on social media about unfolding terrorism attacks, Callimachi has helped to cement her reputation as a leading source on terrorism.

Seek karma for too long and eventually karma will seek you
Just a counterexample: partial function application.

let add x y = x + y
let f = add 2

Boom, now `f 4` evaluates to 6. I reckon that doing the same with C# would require a lot of boilerplate.

(And I know I could have said `let f = (+) 2`, I just wanted to spell it out for those unfamiliar with F#)
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I should have double checked on clinicaltrials.gov first. (I was thinking of the AstraZeneca trial.)
Searching about I see data like yours and ones like those I include below, which show an excess. Why these differ, I don’t understand.

In your link, if you assume the death rate for the remainder of the year will remain static and calculate the end of year total (it’s roughly adding 5%) you get a number that looks like it spikes, but not hugely.

The below show a clear excess and a long tail after the spike in deaths.

https://www.efta.int/Publications/news/COVID-19-Excess-Morta...

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-1112-0

https://academic.oup.com/eurpub/advance-article/doi/10.1093/...
In that vein, keybindings are again a trouble point in CB2077 like it was for Witcher 3. And I wonder that can be ? From a complete ignoramus to VG programming, but not to programming in general, that seems like a really easy already solved problem, and certainly it is compared to the really hard problems VG run into. No hard coded values, swapable config objects, that seems like easy good practices ?

I'd really appreciate some perspective on this from someone who knows ?
Lots of talk about NYT and bias but by far their biggest is their bias towards interventionalism. Any journalism project under their umbrella that nudges its readers/listeners in this direction is going to face the absolute bare minimum amount of scrutiny.
Apple has found out that privacy is marketable and that there's money to be made. This is a good trend despite their own hypocrisy.
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I think you are missing the quantum leap in search results that came with Google; it blew everything else away pretty much immediately.

There is nothing else on the contemporary horizon challenging Google in the same way in that regard on the open web, whatever bloat it now carries.
Apple confirmed there is absolutely no intention of dropping it. It's coming in spring. I think Apple got already way too lenient in deciding to give developers almost a year-long grace period since the announcement at WWDC 2020.
There is a massive pushback against taking the vaccine going on right now. People coming up with a litany of different reasons not to take it. One of those reasons is a lack of trust in the government. If that smiling 34 year old has a lot of constituents telling him they are scared to take it because it might not be safe it becomes his duty to stand up and take it as early as possible with a smile on his face.

What ever happened to starting out with assuming good intentions?
"Almost there" is doing a lot of lifting when you're talking about cutting through the entire state of Wyoming and much of Montana :-)
It wouldn't have required a laborious review process. A quick skim through the list, looking at 20 or so random recipients near the top, middle, and bottom, would have quickly shown that frontline workers were clustered near the end. You would have seen that some people were WFH, but at the top.

This wasn't some random HR benefits process that they screwed up. It was a triage process. A medical triage process. That's what they should be good at.
Facebook sells us adspace. If we as a community are against personalized ads it gives two things:

1. Cheaper facebook ads as people pull out from advertising on Facebook since they see less effective targetting

2. An opportunity to do better optimization on our end, which currently Facebook offers to everyone including our competitors.

From a cynical point of view, the average HN-user at a VC-run startup could benefit from this.

The hurt given to regular small businesses is irrelevant because we aren't Mom & Pop firms. It isn't in the nature of business people to care about all businesses anywhere. Rather you care about your business, and aim to bury your competition.

Additionally the people who run ad-supported sites outside of Facebook will welcome this change, since it reduces the effectiveness of Facebook's competition.
What minority did Galileo offend?
The point being made above about property rights is much bigger than “does my local police do a good job finding burglars?”.

The point is that the government maintains an entire system for tracking, resolving disputes, and enforcing ownership. Think about who has the final say in a dispute over whether you own your car or your house or your company. The government adjudicates ownership disputes and then enforces that adjudication via people with guns.

It’s easier to notice this system if you imagine the counter-factual: if you lived in a failed state, and you wanted to keep your your home or car you would probably need to hire some guys with guns.

(When you think about it this way, you notice that the “value” of the government’s “service” is much higher for people who own a lot rather than for those that own a little.)
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I would assume putting up a fence at a minimum would be a given.
That is a good question, maybe they had some reserve of local supplies like those cylindrical tanks we see near most refineries in the East Bay or East Texas, and the usage would be pretty low because there's only the clan cars and trading to think about, also, Australia does have some petroleum reserves so we could pretend they were near some of the last active wells. :)
What kind of traffic do you see? Are there a lot of through riders?
Yes, but we've also run the race-to-the-bottom experiment and it doesn't pan out well either.
Sounds interesting on the surface, but a common reality is that the more moving parts there are, the more opportunity for things to go wrong or against intended use.
There have been many iterations of 'Java except it doesn't suck', but which all were extremely similar to Java - Xtend, Groovy, etc. So when Scala came onto the scene, even though it was a serious functional language and encouraged a very different style of programming than Java, it was seized on as a 'Java except it doesn't suck' language because it was much more different than previous ones and so felt more like a fresh start. The sentiment hasn't died yet, although Kotlin should at this point be treated as the official 'Java except it doesn't suck' language, since it's designed directly for it, is different enough, and has mainstream adoption.
When I tried the Google search engine in 1998 for the first time, I dropped AltaVista like a hot potato and never looked back.

Any subsequent AltaVista history is pretty much an irrelevant "all over but the shouting".
It shouldn't be the responsibility of the taxed to analyze the budget. If the government proposes a higher tax, they need to be transparent about where the shortfalls are that require such a tax, so those paying the tax aren't left guessing.

People want to know how their tax money is going to address society's problems. Is that so much to ask?
I doubt it went on sale without fully passing the console manufacturer's certification process.

As someone who has gone through the certification process a few times with these companies, they're not really testing 'does your game have bugs that kind of suck for the player', it's more technical, like 'do the names of controller buttons match our provided excel sheet that tells you what they need to say' and 'did we catch it crashing at certain spots' and 'did the game have periods when it looked like it crashed because there's no animation for X seconds but it's really just loading something and you didn't include a loading animation' or 'can i leave the game on pause for 24 hours and it hasn't crashed during that time', stuff like that. I don't think they try to 'beat the game' or anything either.

And it's usually a standard checklist that can apply to every game.

So something can pass certification but still be a buggy mess in spots, like have objects fall through the ground and stuff, or have crappy jaggy graphics with big dips in framerates like the PS4 and Xbox One versions of this game had.

Although it's been a while since I've gone through the process, so I may not be remembering everything (they are pretty long checklists). Also when we got rejected it was usually just a few small things that we had fixed in a few days (but it took much longer to get queued up to go back through the process, that's what took so long for us). But we also made much smaller games.

Well, I say that, but we did have a game that completely passed certification but the multiplayer networking ended up being super laggy on release and we got dinged pretty hard for that in reviews. The system had a multiplayer test zone where you could simulate low latency, but while we never had problems when testing, it didn't fully emulate what the production environment would be (or at least it didn't seem to for us). We weren't the only game that had that issue either, some high profile games had the same problem on that system and required a patch to fix it.
Why does the food and drug administration only regulate food and drugs?
I think this whole thing could be simultaneously more palatable, more progressive and actually more effective if it was coupled with a commitment to actually meaningfully redistribute the proceeds, rather than just treat them like any other part of the general fund.

The UK has discussed the idea of a "Universal Inheritance", provided to young adults, from a dedicated sovereign wealth fund. Their proposal was that the whole thing should be funded by inheritance taxes, but I don't see why a wealth tax wouldn't be just as appropriate. California already has CalPERS and CalSTRS.
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/universal-minimum-inher...

If the motivation of a wealth tax is to decrease actual inequality, that goal might be more tangible putting cash into the hands of a 20 year old kid than being poured into some mismanaged capital project.
I’m using a search shortcut that just adds “-pinterest” to all searches (and also activates Google verbatim search mode).
I don't understand how you can go from being a postdoc to being a professor. That seems to really diminish the value of the title 'professor' to me, if people can get it as basically their first permanent academic job.
Unless I’m missing something that just gives an apportionment of money to departments.

It doesn’t have any data about what the goals of spending that money was, not what the outcomes have been relative to those goals.

On it’s own it’s essentially useless for determining whether more or less money should go to any of those departments, let alone the state as a whole.
I don’t know whether that’s better or worse, but I dislike it roughly as much. No other financial institution in the world can “just not” anything without me having some recourse.
The interesting part is the next question you have to ask yourself- could Elon have built what he did somewhere else?
Works very well on Stadia. Didn't expect this game would make a case for Google's streaming platform.

Now if Google were so kind to add ray tracing to make it look as good as on a RTX 3080 :)
No, they shouldn't be praised for calling out their own errors--let alone be aligned with "courage"--just as one shouldn't praise an encyclopedia or scientific journal for correcting errors: it's supposed to be de facto matter of course.

The criticisms, however, are against their politically loaded decisions to run certain content in the absence of legitimate sources of truth. If this were an occasional thing, sure, accidents happen. But this has become the modus operandi of what once was the paper of record.

Between the absolute backpedaling of the 1619 Project, copious amounts of Russian influence narrative, and countless "anonymous sources" that turn out to be nobodies or absent integrity, the NYT is an embarrassment to journalism.

They do what you described, though: they build in back doors into their reporting so they can legitimately claim that they weren't "wrong" on a purely logical--but functionally bullsh*t--standing.

No, I don't believe they deserve "praise" for "courage and integrity", because they've left those--and other markers of high character--in the past as they cry their death throes in the changing media landscape.
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Maybe trying to hide the poor state of the game on consoles before launch has something to do with it.
I agree the writing is exceptional. But other than that, all gameplay aspects are mediocre or even poor. Gunplay, stealth, hacking, driving, etc, have been made much better in games even 10 years older than Cyberpunk.

And let's not forget about the outright lies in all the marketing videos. CDPR promised many features which are nowhere to be seen, even on videos that were released weeks before the final release date.
I'd say taxes are less comparable to something that would justify a unit test and more comparable to UX. There's a huge human element that you're just never going to be able to fully control.

Entee is just outlining why this approach probably won't work, not saying we shouldn't adjust laws at all to serve all people. TBH, I think your comment says more about your worldview than his.
Why not both? (Zoidberg.)
The evidence for this is that federal tax revenue as a percentage of GDP has been 15-20% since World War 2. Massive swings in tax policy have not changed this number, proving that those policy changes were more restructurings than tax cuts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hauser%27s_law
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I've been using kotlin in the backend for a few years now, in a team of more than 50 engineers.

The experience is for the most part pleasing, and I'm sure you will find a lot claims supporting that, so I'll focus on the things that I don't like:

* people tend to abuse some of the features (like extension functions), which sometimes does more harm in terms of readability

* Kotlin offers means to do quasi-functional programming, and people tend to write horrible one liners just for the sake of it.

* most tooling seems stuck in Java 8. So you are stuck in that ecosystem (you can, though, compile with Java 8 and run in java 11 of course).

* for mid-sized applications where it makes sense to use DI, using kapt is sometimes a pain (it's better this days, but still I hate the thing)

* even though the jetbrains support is first class, it is still considerably slower then pure Java code.
* very personal: I've come to miss Java's verboseness.

* some tools don't integrate well with it (yet)... So do not expect things like static analyzers to be good or even existent.
> are the ones to initiate, to reach out

one slight nitpick, sometimes (I've heard that a few times) you're the one that always initiate and nobody ever make things with you. It hurt those people a lot and after sometime they moved away.
The problem with Fauci saying we shouldn't wear masks is that there was not some initial data which indicated that this was the right choice, it was just an incorrect assumption based on nothing (or worse an outright lie based on a desire to "preserve supply", as this was known to be a respiratory virus well before his statement).

Saying nothing when you have no data is fine, asserting / prescribing something ("you don't need to wear masks") when you have no data is not. Err on the side of caution, hedge against risk. This is basic stuff and top public health officials need to be held to a (much) better standard.
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