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> You have the right not to pay money to companies that won't give you the guarantee of ownership and access that you want.

I have way more rights than that. Or if not I will fight to get them. I do not want to depend on the good will of corporations. I want fair laws that control their behavior like we have with physical goods.
How is that actually possible and not just completely variable across the board based on each individual's health? 'Often outperforms' leaves the question 'how often?'
> (giving up user data, DoS threats, general increased infra costs with no real ROI)

I'm starting to think the best way to solve this is to bifurcate it.

Create a P2P system which is free-as-in-beer but is possibly susceptible to DoS attacks etc., then have an option which is more robust than that where you pay Cloudflare or someone to host your data in exchange for money, but it's still part of the same network and interacting with the same people.

That way you can acquire new users without shoving a payment prompt in their face on day one but someone who just wants to hand a fistful of cash to a third party to take care of their problems still has that option.

> This still leaves the issue of "all my users' PII is in 1000 different companies' servers" so maybe the body would have to vet & impose legal data restrictions on companies that want to federate with the incumbents, but that would impose on the goal of allowing new players to enter the market with low friction and further entrench the dominance of these incumbents.

This is the kind of problem that gets solved much better by smart cryptographers than government bureaucrats.

Encrypt the data. Use a kind of cryptosystem where only the people who are supposed to be able to have it (i.e. your friends, not Mark Zuckerberg) can decrypt it.

Now some servers can host it so it's not offline when your phone is, but those servers can't read it, only the intended recipient(s) can.

Obviously this is only even necessary for posts that aren't intended to be completely public.
These are games we're talking about. They're recreation. For people to be demanding legislation because a recreational activity isn't set up just the way they like it, when they knew the terms perfectly well before they paid their money, is not "participating in cultural works".
Don't copyrights preclude meaningful competition here? If a game is sold through Publisher X, Publisher Y can't just unilaterally decide that they want to sell it too.
I doubt that in the long term. The long term health effects of the vaccine are largely unknown but already looking grim.
Generally speaking, it's uploading/transferring content to others that is illegal, not downloading it for yourself. At least, de facto if not de jure.
I can read on Firefox Focus.
You're entirely missing the point of the comment if you think it's about games. It's about digital goods.
Not longer term if they end up creating hotter variants through vaccine escape. Look into OAS, I think it's a good thing the latest variant came from Africa and not Israel
i am agreeing with you and parent comment, there is definitely room for growth in how these journals are presented. i think having access to the full discussion would be an amazing step forward for the science community as well as those who are interested in grasping a deeper understanding of how and why the discussion decided to go with their findings
With respect, most of the charlatans I’ve seen over the years have been the people conducting the interviews.

Fortunately, that hasn’t always been the case, otherwise I wouldn’t be in the job I am today. But that does seem to be the exception rather than the rule.
the games wouldn't be released on exclusively on a closed system because they have other paths to monetize

the games you possess and the digital items you possess would have an independent record of your possession and continued access

if you did use a company's platform because of its convenient UI, even if you lost access to that company's platform you should still be able to access all of your games and items

in the Web3 paradigm and idea, the closed systems build themselves around open systems just to make them convenient, and aren't strictly necessary. the open system allows the records of assets to be tapped into and re-rendered in other games, or marketplaces. Think about it like Web 1.0 with updated technology and requisite pieces that were missing back then.
And it has a negative impact for the people without checked bags, but they’ll never realize that something changed — their life just gets imperceptibly worse. Big oof.
The difference is that those parents are usually assholes and deserve everything they got (or don’t get). People who chose to not have kids and just Scrooge their way to FIRE aren’t necessarily going to be the same people.

By all accounts - if you are certain that you don’t want kids, you’re not going to be a decent parent, or you have some severe issues then yeah maybe don’t do kids. But often what I see is a deeper issue of cheapness/scarcity/whatever that could be addressed with therapy and then happy children with happy parents could emerge from that.

Truth is - if you’re in SV and under 35 - you’ve likely had incredible parents. The overwhelming majority of my younger colleagues in SV love their family and were raised somewhat decently. They’re not the meth heads you’ll find scattered throughout rural America.
ProgressIndicatorView an iOS progress indicator view library written in SwiftUI
I can't read the actual article without turning on JS, but yes. In past lives I've both contracted with the USDA to study Americans' daily eating habits and worked in the Japanese public school system, and the quality of each country's child feed is night and day. The Japanese kids get fresh farm to table meals with plenty of fish. Never any fried chicken or pizza or burgers. The most exciting, junkiest food served is occasional curry. They also enjoy way more physical activity than American students.

It's one of those things that blows your mind as an American: a country taking an interest in the long term health of its population. It really underlined how despised we are by our own government.

Exceptions are made for kids with allergies. The article subtitle alludes to no religious exemptions, but I can't imagine any of the teachers I worked with forcing a Muslim kid to eat pork.
I typically do the same. (Ps2-4). I wonder though since a lot of these games now (typically ps4 onward) have fairly large “patches” downloaded when you play them how well the un patched games will play.
> I have way more rights than that. Or if not I will fight to get them.

So let me get this straight: companies are offering a recreational product, games, on terms you don't like. But instead of not paying them money, so they will be forced to either change their business model or go out of business, you want to get the government involved? For games?

> I do not want to depend on the good will of corporations.

Good luck with that. Your ability to post on this website depends on the good will of a corporation. Your ability to buy groceries and other necessities depends on the good will of corporations. I could go on and on.
I'm not blaming the owner of the email account, but maybe we need a technology which guarantees that emails won't get flagged as spam. Maybe even marked as important.

For example Ubisoft could register with Google for a program where they fetch a token from Google's servers, insert that token into the email header, and when Google notices this token in the header, then the email won't get flagged as spam.

Only for the most important mails.

In any case, I absolutely believe that Ubisoft has no right to delete the account. It's not like the user could download his account and use it without Ubisoft.
SVGView is an SVG parser and renderer written on SwiftUI
Ok.We'll see.

I think you could give out 2 doses of a strong laxative and show it statistically protects sick people against covid too. If you take out the weakest, the rest will seem to do better.

https://twitter.com/MartinNeil9/status/1466814347762671628
Ugh Xbox drives me up the wall with their "ownership" scheme. A disc doesn't actually contain the game, It's a _license_ for the game. When you insert the disc, your Xbox downloads the entire game to its drive, but the game won't launch without the disc inserted.

It's the worst of both worlds. After the Xbox store shuts down, none of your discs will work because they don't _do_ anything. And you can't even launch the game without messing with discs because you can't rip the license from the disc- it MUST be in the machine to launch.

At least you can still sell the disc. For now...
Depends if the test comes out positive or negative.
Be careful. There's multiple aspects to a contract.

At the most adversarial, a contract is what you use as the basis for litigation, if it comes to a legal fight.

But a well written contract is meant to avoid costly litigation, by making clear what both parties expect from each other.

In practice, contracts are often boiler plate and lots of provisions do not apply, but would still be legally enforceable. While other expectations apply, but are not in the contract or are not enforceable.

To give a silly example: many of my employment contracts specified some pro-forma working hours like 8am to 5pm. That was never enforced.

But: if I had annoyed my employer in a way that the legally binding parts of the contract did not specify (eg by breaking an onerous clause that wasn't actually legally binding), they could have used those other clauses to annoy me. Or just fired me for officially unrelated reasons, or no official reason at all.
of course, the point is that i eventually realized that i didn't want to be contrarian and somehow transitioned to some form of anti-memetism.

that has led me to be mostly self employed, and when i did take on employment then it was to further my own interests and not toil away on something that i could not identify with just to earn some money. i have never been in a position to be promoted in my job, so i didn't think about that. though it is possible that at least one termination of a job was influenced by my anti-memetic behavior, but that let to some interesting new options, so in my case it was not detrimental.

and yes, not being anti-memetic just isn't an option for me either.
> Don't copyrights preclude meaningful competition here?

No. The game developer, who owns the copyright, decides what channels it gets sold through. If game developers knew that people wouldn't buy their games through channels that didn't give good guarantees of ownership and access, they wouldn't sell through those channels.
My first mushroom experience was 20 years ago. All I remember is I was in a fog so thick I had to move it with my hands in order to see what was going on around me. My interpretation right now is this was an indicator of lots of cognitive distortions at play in my life and a deep emotional disconnect from the body. The second one was at a party and I don't remember much of any of it.

I have no idea what I took or how much.

All of my other trips have been after adopting a stance of radical acceptance and abandoning most of my preferences. Allowing myself to do what I want I think is really key to living fully and helps dramatically with tripping. If you're nervous about your first time, maybe find a trip sitter. There are also integration coaches out there who can help you prepare and followup with practices for integrating what you learn.

Ultimately, if you setup your environment to have all your needs accounted for (which may include putting "flight instructions" nearby and easily visible, taking a big dose and laying down with an eye mask on in a quiet environment can take you very far. You can always open your eyes and remind yourself you're safe, this is the mushrooms showing you what you need, and it shall pass. Don't Gandalf the Balrog, look at it and ask "What are you doing in my head and what do you have to teach me?"

I know people who have had very scary trips and came out having learned very little and changed very little. They also practice deep denials of reality, so I'd check myself for cognitive distortions and work them out or at least get into the habit of pausing and questioning an experience before flying solo.

Are you making music as part of your therapy? I ask because I've found making music allows me to see how I'm applying my brain to things. I practice playing what Sun Ra calls "pure jazz," music without preconceived notion or simply just being. There's no wrong note or wrong time to play it. However you want to be programming your brain to work, if you approach making music from that mindset, it's a safe environment to practice it.

I hope this helps you in your healing journey <3
I think most console games will run without any issues even if you pop in the disc to the console without any kind of Internet access.

There's a Twitter account that documents if games work without having access to the console's network/stores: https://twitter.com/DoesItPlay1/status/1474819155173908484
isnt that backwards from the expectation?
> Can hardly blame people for talking about modern languages in a discussion about obsolete ones.

The point is that the issue does not involve people discussing "modern languages", just mindlessly shoehorning references to Rust into any discussion involving any application of a language which is not Rust.

I get Rust fanboys are excited about their hobby, but this sort of obsessive "when the only tool you have is a hammer" discussion is very tiring and fruitless, and only conveys a poor image of Rust's community.
You could write a bot to minimize the worst-case number of guesses by using a minimax-style tree search with a zero-sum two-player perfect-information version of the game. Here's how that could work.

There are two players, Guesser and Responder, who share a dictionary of words. Responder starts the game by stating a positive integer N, where there is at least one word of length N in the dictionary. The turns then alternate between Guesser and Responder. Guesser proposes any dictionary word of length N, and Responder then provides feedback on each letter in the word (i.e., right letter in wrong place, right letter in right place, wrong letter) such that at least one N-letter word in the dictionary is consistent with all the feedback given so far.

The game ends when Responder indicates that Guesser's word is correct in all places, or after responder has provided feedback 6 times, whichever comes first. If Guesser never guessed the word, Responder gains 7 points. Otherwise, responder gains a number of points equal to the number of turns taken by Guesser.

Alternatively, the bot could minimize the expected number of turns using an expectimax (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expectiminimax) search, under the assumption that the hidden word was chosen uniformly at random from the set of all dictionary words of the same length.
you already have proof of ownership.
Many of the things here I used daily, and thought I was original for thinking it up. Never thought it'd be considered "anti-mimetic" or such. How curious - really the article is 1:1 to how I do things, just because I felt like it.
> For games?

No, for money.

These actions are always dismissed on the basis that they're not selling something important. But setting aside the question of whether that's valid, they are selling in exchange for something important.
I remember a story a while back of a gentleman who had a house fire and then went and later pirated all the music CDs he had lost. I think they interviewed a copyright lawyer who basically says that the law doesn't permit that, I remember the quote that buying a copy entitles you to a copy and that "there is no such thing as a listening right".
Nice! example of a Straw Man followed by Ad Hominem, with a touch of No True Scotsman (e.g. if you aren't a racist Ron Paul Liberian, then you aren't a true libertarian).

Whether you agree or disagree with a position, one should make their own arguments clearly, directly, and defensibly and this should be respected. Equally, we should recognize politics, propaganda, and empty rhetoric for what it is.

There is honestly no mainstream or otherwise political movement I'd align with personally, but things such as open source software, right to repair, and opposition to things like the DCMA and software patents riff on very libertarian ideals. So great! if any of that is important to you, you're racist?
I must confess, I was recently hired by AWS. I didn’t see any LeetCode.

Maybe I’m lucky, but the hiring process is actually quite involved from what I’ve seen, and they have some very specific processes that they go through to try and make sure you’re a good fit for the team and will likely be able to do the job well.

Maybe some of the more dev-focused jobs do have a shared coding environment that they want you to use for the examples they will want you to go through, but they also tell you in advance what that environment is so that you can play around with it before the interview and so that it won’t be totally alien to you.
I can't think of any "digital good" where there is a risk of losing access in this way that isn't recreational in a similar way to games. So my comments would apply equally well to any such goods.
It isn't. Even discounting day 1 patches, every console assumes an internet connection. You're at the mercy of the game devs, and unless you are checking for "internet connection required" (and believing the lack of such on the box means you really don't need one), you can still end up with something that will refuse to boot unless it phones home.
The intent of "make the world a bit better every day" is colloquially understood to refer to things like picking up more than just your garbage, making choices that add less tragedy to the commons, and generally being nice to people even if they're not nice to you.

Deliberately taking "make the world a bit better every day" off to some demeaning tangent tearing down others by wild scenarios designed to discourage does not "make the world a bit better every day".

"...2000 years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change..." Yeah, Douglas Adams got that bit right.
It's definitely fine morally, but unfortunately it's illegal anyway.
Slightly off-topic: corporatist probably doesn't mean what you think it means. Probably just the opposite, actually.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporatism
> App Store Reviewers are completely asinine

I recently had an interaction with a food delivery customer care executive (many like this; of other businesses as well) and the kind of conversation I had with them it seemed to me that someone must have flattened the brain matter with a rock before stuffing it back inside their skulls.

Then it dawned upon me. Nope. They just are as much a victim of these huge corps and their lawyers and their policies that any slip could mean losing their jobs if it turned out that they didn't toe the written line by the letter.
What the large print giveth, the small print may not taketh away. If the large print says "Buy", the small print may not alter that to "License for a limited time that may be ended whenever we feel like it." The small print may clarify what the large print says, but direct contradiction is a form of false advertising.
Christmas brought us our first snow of the season and the beginning of our next big collaboration:

We purchased santaisdeadlonglivesanta.net with the intention of starting a movement in anarchogiving. She's even willing to put a picture of her bearded face on it!

And thank you for your response...I don't see many comments like that on here.
What's the advantage of this? Portions of your corporation can go bankrupt without submarining the whole enterprise?
The fastest DOM update libraries in the benchmarks I've seen eschew the vDOM entirely. See domdiff for instance.
> It's true that only China and Taiwan have retained Covid-Zero status in the face of Delta

China now has local transmission in Xian, known for the terracotta warriors. It's arguable they never stopped local transmission and simply stopped reporting cases and deaths accurately once covid took off outside China. They stopped recording deaths at around 4,000 in March 2020.
These days I generally pirate the single-player content I purchase anyway. Anything that requires Origin, Epic, uPlay, or any other cancerous software to be installed gets paid for and promptly pirated. I trust the Pirate Bay more than I trust Ubisoft.
Two that immediately come to mind are online textbooks and Adobe Creative Cloud.
"We irreversibly logged an entry deactivating your account to the blockchain. Nothing we can do to reactivate it."
Thanks for the clarification!

Yes, interpreting NP as non-polynomial is a common misunderstanding. Especially because it's 'sort-of almost right'.
You're on a forum called "Hacker News" and you can't think of a single digital good that's not recreational?

In any case the biggest examples would be software.
> you want to get the government involved? For games?

The government is already involved, I cannot copy the games from my friend because the government does not allow me to do it. The government protects Ubisoft from me hacking them, or from paying in a fraudulent way.

The government is fully involved in all the steps, I just want that my interests are represented in that involvement.

> Good luck with that.

I do not live in the USA.
> These actions are always dismissed on the basis that they're not selling something important.

No, it's on the basis that the buyer knew the terms perfectly well before the sale, and bought the thing anyway. The fact that it's a game that was bought just makes it even more unreasonable for the buyer to want to retroactively change the terms of the sale.
The terms are not a negotiated contract - they are dictated by one side and even if they are read by the purchaser, the implications of the terms may not be obvious. Many/most people will not understand that after paying hundreds of dollars for games, their games could suddenly be taken away from them without recourse.

For a ridiculous example, imagine there was a clause buried in the fineprint that allowed the store owner to charge you $5000 to unlock the game whenever they chose to. Even if it were in the T&C, it would be ruled invalid because it was so unexpected.

Similarly, removing the right to play a game you have bought with money because you haven’t played it “enough” (according to the vendor) may also be considered unreasonavlble.
Inducing labor. In this particular case it was the Foley balloon, but my understanding is every step of the process is at best painful.