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You are not entitled to play games or buy platforms. It is a net negative for the gaming industry to be limited in their revenue streams. You cannot split the baby because some customers CHOSE to buy PS5 but the game THEY want to play is on Xbox. If they want to play it, buy an XBOX too. If that is too expensive, the gamer should increase their disposable income.

Gaming is not a human right.
Perhaps similar, the US doesn't harvest a ton of eggplants, but of eggplant producing states New Jersey is #1 in terms of acreage. About 20% more acres than the #2 state of California. I've idly wondered in the past if it's a cultural artifact as the distribution of acreage in the US is New jersey, then CA, then FL/GA, so some pretty different climates, so this article is interesting!
If Intel split the manufacturing unit, it would not be competitive unless it invested lots more in advanced new processes.
I don't see a realistic argument here. For consoles, there are 3 healthy companies that match your description (Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo) so the vertical integration and exclusives don't seem to be supressing competition.

I'd actually go as far as to say that exclusives are the defining _feature_ of the console gaming market. If you eliminated exclusives - that is, if you could play any game on any console... Well, you just invented PC gaming.
You're both right. "Unaffiliated" votes are the single largest voting block in the U.S. However, the vast majority of unaffiliated votes reliably vote for the same party in each election, so while they are officially independent of a party, in practice they associate themselves with a party in the way they vote.

This discovery and the ability to quantify it was one of the breakthroughs of the Obama campaign in 2008 (the Bush campaign did this too, but the Obama folks really brought it to the next level).
I love the idea and the simplicity, but that's all out the window as soon as I'm asked to log in. Remove the login requirement and you'll likely see more use! Good luck
>> There actually are a ton of gaming companies right now.

Yeah, but from TFA:

>> Upon close, Microsoft will have 30 internal game development studios, along with additional publishing and esports production capabilities.

I don't see a need for this and agree with the notion that companies should not buy companies. There are cases where it makes sense, but I think another mechanism needs to be created because buying and selling companies is often too much like buying and selling people in addition to being anti-competitive.
But not everybody gets to become an 'entrant' from what I gathered. From the article it sounds like you at the very least have to be "working in the fields of arts, culture, audio-visual, and live performance and events" to even apply. Does the truck driver who likes to jam with his mates in the garage or the nurse who paints water colors to relax in the evening get to apply? probably not.
These indie companies are no more independent (the meaning of the word "indie") than a person hawking MLM products is independent. They're effective employees of a bigcorp — with all the same danger of being "fired" by their publisher at any time for misbehavior.

> What evidence? My account is full of games (including top sellers) with no such arrangements.

Ignore indie games that have been on Steam for years and years, or that only get published on Steam and no other platforms; these are the exceptions to the rule (despite this set containing some of the largest hits by sales volume.)

While there are studios that sell only on Steam and other low-barrier-to-entry channels, 99% of them don't last more than a year or two, because selling only on Steam is leaving almost all your money on the ground. There's a reason that many of these games don't get support updates any more and won't run on e.g. macOS or Linux after any major OS update, despite originally intending support for those platforms: the studio didn't survive.

And while there are indie studios that eventually take their console-exclusive game over to Steam, it's often still published by the publisher on Steam. Take a careful look at the Steam catalog page for the "publisher" field. If there is one? That's who's making the direct revenue on the game sales. Like the publisher of a book. The "author" — the studio — is only getting a commission.

There are a few indie studios who manage to "earn out" their deals with publishers, and take over their own Steam pages (though not usually their console marketing rights — the platform owners don't like dealing with the long tail of self-publishers, they much prefer well-known bigcorps as marketing partners.)
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I call myself an independent and used to reliably vote for a mix of both parties and third parties, particularly locally. But I'm now more or less aligned with Democrats that in many respects I don't agree with just because they aren't theocrat monarchist traitors.
Disney’s Star Wars series have been excellent. They bungled the sequel trilogy for sure, but I’m not convinced that they are worse for Star Wars.
I didn't buy into either ecosystem. I'm just trying to show that it's not positive for everyone.
Telephone-based sampling is hardly random sampling, given that most people don't answer calls they don't recognize the caller ID for. Those who do might be pre-disposed to certain sets of political ideology. What we may be seeing is a shift of people who are willing to answer the telephone and take a survey, not a net shift in political opinion.

A practical example, given in good faith: It may be that in their "random telephone sampling" they are only connecting with older people (who are usually more likely to answer calls from an unknown number), leading to unintentional selection bias. In this example, the confounding factor is age, and as such the gallop graphs could be simply showing that younger (ostensibly left-leaning) people are growing less willing to answer the phone (as opposed to the claim that Americans are moving right, idiologically)
> Overweight/underweight problems are just stupid and it takes like 1 hour to explain how to eat properly and then you never have to deal with that again.

I do not think you have a firm grasp of how peer pressure works and how powerful it is. That's like saying "we told people that drugs are bad, so clearly nobody will do drugs anymore".
When technologically impared people make decisions.

Here is a possible solution to your problem: Release an open source library that locally has a trained model to detect child abuse texting. Allow messaging platforms to integrate this library on the user end (you know, after the second "end" in the end-2-end). Implement parental control tools that enable this library to look st messages and report when something is fishy.

Op-in, privacy respecting, user controlled.
maybe you're the exception to the norm, or maybe I am out of touch. When I was in college (in the last decade), everyone gave democrats a free pass to do whatever they wanted. I have heard that gen-z leans more libertarian though
You assume that the Steam users are willing to pay the same price as Switch users, but that's not necessarily the case. Volume matters as well, maybe the number of Steam users is way more than the number of Switch users so they can make up for the lower price by selling more.
I've been playing Control on consoles, great game, independent studio. Not a small studio either.

Hollow Knight was great; if I hadn't nearly fully completed it at the time I probably would have started another playthrough already.
No, I haven’t. You are assuming people give out info for free. What you’re saying is essentially that your degree was free. Someone had to pay for it. For me it was buying books. Did those authors help me with free books? No they charged me just the same. How is this getting help from others? Unless you believe that if you gain knowledge at all even with compensation from someone else is help. But that’s just commerce.
So you're driving 3 hours for a test drive. Then you order a different made for you car online. They ship one to a nearer service center, you inspect it - in your case it just happens to be a smudge that the service center can fix without parts. If not then you're either stuck driving a car that needs fixing or reject delivery (not sure if that's possible) and wait another 3 months.

Contrast that with normal day GM/Toyota/Honda car dealership - you walk in after maybe a 20 min drive, you inspect and test drive any car on the lot and buy the one you like the most. End of story. If the one color you like had QA issues the dealer can't fix in short time you can go to another dealer nearby. In fact that's exactly what I did recently during shortage - was still able to buy a car I like that I could inspect in a day's time.
I feel like the "at Microsoft" already implies billions of funding. However, teams within big companies are not immune to reduced funding and cancelling if their strategy does not work.
On the federal level the biggest problem is the economy in general and inflation and jobs specifically. As the the saying goes, its the economy stupid. Whether its the big guy's fault doesn't ever matter. People will always hold the president responsible for the economy. The effects of inflation has just hit us and prices jumped. The job market is also a mess, there's the great resignation of course but I think I speaks to a larger cultural shift in American work culture that will have long term implications.

On the state and local levels there is the tug of war between governments trying to keep covid under control and those same measures being deeply unpopular. I don't know what the solution to that is but there is a sizeable enough group of voters who just want to get on with their lives that its having an effect.
I would look at consoles first. Why would someone buy a Playstation, when you can now buy an Xbox + GamePass and get access to a large chunk of the biggest games?
^ This comment sums up my feelings on the Biden presidency almost to the letter.
Identifying yourself is the whole point of logging in to a website. Yes, if you want to maintain a distinct digital identity for each website you’ll need to use a different key pair for each website, which by the way is actually feasible.

With our current email-address-and-password scheme that is so difficult to do it might as well be impossible. You’d need a distinct email account for each distinct digital identity that you want to maintain.
I still buy video games, music, and books in physical form. I have Google Music and Kindle, I buy a lot of games on PSN. But if I like something a lot, I will also get a physical copy. Then I also share it with friends.

Many people can listen to CDs only in their cars, including myself. But I still like having CDs.
I already made a stupid proposal above: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29979477
> And I don't support giving illegal immigrants the right to vote, like they did in NYC.

Except they didn't. They changed the law to let legal immigrants vote.
Primaries are a unique situation. Very few people vote in primaries. In fact the people who vote in primaries care a great deal about their candidates. The people who care the most about their candidates tend to the far left/right. The end result is one of two outcomes: 1.) the voters in the main election have to pick from a list (two in the U.S.) candidates that are much more left/right wing than
the actual voter considers themselves. Or 2.) the party realizes that the candidate that is leading is not generally electable and ignores votes to find someone more appropriate.

I think that the republicans in 2020 followed (1) and the democrates followed (2). This is how we get biden. If a more progressive democrat was the candidate, would trump have won? That was the fear of the democratic party.

(I just made this up so take it for what its worth)
The Republicans do have something to offer, which is a damn-the-torpedos COVID policy.

People might not want that, and vote against it, but it's an actual policy platform they could run on
>it is about politically attacking the credibility and reputations of civilian technologist

No question about it, this is accurate - especially given the way the UK has treated those who have a legitimate reason to use encryption for political reasons.

This is cynical authoritarianism being used to confer a totality over protective technology.
> indie and solo developers flooding Steam with mostly low-quality games with a few gems...making it extremely difficult to get noticed

An aside: I know this is a common opinion but it doesn't really mesh with my experience as a player. Quite the opposite in fact - it's not the low-quality Steam games that make it difficult to get noticed, but the overwhelming number of real gems. There have been so many truly excellent indie games in recent years (Slay the Spire, Into the Breach, FTL, Factorio, Hades, Rimworld, Devil Daggers...) that I haven't gotten round to playing all the obvious must-play indie games I want to, let alone going looking for more. Either way, though, from an indie dev's perspective, it must be pretty difficult to get noticed.
Free? Game pass was never free.
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>> What have you done in the last week that you will remember on your death bed?

Why would I need to remember ANYTHING on my death bed? It's not even clear that it will be a "bed". Climate change, nuclear war, next pandemic, political violence could kill me. Even if I am happy enough to have a "bed", I will spend my last minutes watching the transition and not giving a sht to my memories.
The problem is that Blairite/Starmer Labour are just Tories wearing a red rosette, they do not differ on policy in any meaningful manner.
Diablo 2 Resurrected turned out awesome

CoD was never Blizzard

WoW (vanilla) was so good it had a second successful launch 10 years later

Starcraft 2 remains immensely popular
Unfortunately, physical copies of games are not depreciating; BotW, despite being five years old, is still selling at full price.

Good for them though, I mean it's a great game, and it means the games don't depreciate much on the secondhand market either. Although I'm confident people don't want to sell physical Switch games, a lot of them have a lot of life in them and become prized possessions.
I use Google photos with Google One for sharing with family. My mom can figure it out and that says a lot about how easy it is.

Works across all grandparents and I used one of their auto upload a face (I'm sure that's the technical term for it) to automatically send a photos of the grandkids to the grandparents. This makes the whole system worthwhile, I get comments from them constantly about how much they love the auto photo albums.
The M1 also has old cores from the A14. The A15 isn't hugely faster than the A14 but it clocks faster and has other efficiency tweaks. Clock for clock, the M1 is slower than the iPhone 13 Pro.
Germany does not have the notion of copyright like in the Anglo-American legal system, so I guess it's basically only applicable in Germany and countries where they do have the same regulations
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As others have said, you can post to academic conferences. But each field has different peculiarities and patterns. You would start by doing your research, finding a relevant conference, and writing a paper to match their style.

A more approachable avenue could be blogposts and videos. One good example of a scientific blogpost I recall is here: ( https://dynomight.net/2020/12/15/some-real-data-on-a-DIY-box... ) Someone tested very simple air purifiers with limited experiments. It follows the same "abstract-methods-results-discussion-conclusion" format you might expect. Some obvious caveats, this data could have all been faked, and it isn't peer reviewed for methodological flaws. But you can reproduce the experiments yourself for ~$150.

I am in academia but I like blogposts a lot more. I wish they were more popular. I think HTML makes more sense than PDF, and to some degree they cut the middleman out between communicating to peers and communicating to other academics.
I think a death-centric way of thinking about life is unhealthy.

The fact of death isn't what makes things valuable or meaningful.

The fact that our time span to enjoy things is limited also isn't what makes them valuable or meaningful.

The quote is describing much more than mindfulness. It's saying that values and meaning are right in front of us. To reduce that to mindfulness misses the value in what it's saying.
Having an Datomic like store backed by something like this.

https://github.com/replikativ/datahike

Is an Open Source variant of Datomic.

Lambdaforge wants to eventually have this work with CRDTs.

Using the Matrix ecosystem for this is quite interesting as it solves many problems for you already.
That may depend substantially on process node. 3nm would use less power.
The issue is that it looks as though the very real issue of children being exploited is being used by the UK government to undermine E2EE. This is frankly vile, but given the vileness of this government, not at all surprising. Of course, the Murdock media will label anyone challenging this stance as an apologist.
There have been proposals to build conventionally armed ballistic missiles to fulfill the prompt global strike mission. The problem is that if Russia / China / North Korea detect a ballistic missile headed in their general direction they might misinterpret it as an incoming nuclear first strike and retaliate accordingly. A very dangerous game.

Also it's rather pointless to deploy any sort of "drone" from a long range ballistic missile. It would need a complex and heavy braking system to slow down enough during re-entry to allow for controlled flight. Easier to just hit the target directly with a re-entry vehicle.
> Java has had method references for almost a decade.

So how can I pass a method to another method? (without using lambdas)

> Pattern matching also was recently released.

I know, great improvement (if it comes together with proper sum types). One less reaosn to switch to Kotlin.
> If you really believe that the reason the dems can’t accomplish anything is because of Manchin, Sinema, The Parliamentarian, or $WEEKLY_SCAPEGOAT_NAME, I’m sorry to say you’re a mark

Those are all Democrats. If those Democrats aren't the reason, who is?

> It’s like that Key & Peele “hold me back” skit.

You think some of the Dem Senators would vote differently if it weren't for the opposition? Maybe so. When everyone knows a vote will go one way, you can never tell whether people are "sincere" voters.

Still, it can't be that 49 out of 50 Senate Dems are all against the mild social democratic reforms being rejected by the 50th.
We’re also living through a multi-year global pandemic that has made life harder and less enjoyable for basically everyone. When life is hard, people blame the current government.

Obviously political preferences over entire populations can’t be reduced to single issues. Still, I’m guessing the negative impacts of the pandemic have made a major impact. IMO they have a lot of people thinking “why didn’t you handle this better?” (with widely differing views on what constitutes “better”), and thus resenting the government, even if there’s really no silver bullet for handling something awful like a pandemic.
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Call of Duty: Skyrim

Just as long as you don't take an arrow to the knee.
They should just copy Steam Deck.
> a 2hr no-questions-asked policy is unfortunately often abused to return the games after completing them.

Is that really a big problem? Do you have actual numbers to that, and not just a hunch? I would actually guess that most people who can actually afford a game would pay for it. In my experience, most people who cheat in this way would not have bought the game anyway, so it’s not a lost sale.
More desirable food (organic, grass fed, whatever) and more desirable housing will both have increased demand, especially short term. Also even if we hold food and housing constant, more money frees up what people formerly spent on food and housing to spend on other stuff so demand increases there.

America has very high marginal propensity to consume so most of this will be spent. An additional tax that redistributes primarily will also be spent much more because poor and middle class have higher MPC than rich.
> 2A is dead. Learn to 3d print guns. It's very easy. It will get even easier. Some fine folks have even figured out how to make ammunition from unregulated components in Europe.

Huh? Being able to produce something illegally is in no way a substitute for having a right to possess that thing legally.

1. 3D printed guns are crap.

2. Some people would like possess a gun that isn't a "go to jail card."

3. Some people would like to be able to conventionally practice shooting their guns, without attracting "go to jail" attention.

The only thing that 3d printed guns and homemade "ammunition from unregulated components" is to how gun control to be a futile effort, because criminals will still have access to them even if law-abiding citizens are blocked. A criminal planning a crime might not mind points 2 & 3 above, but a law abiding citizen certainly will.
Afaik git branches are merely pointers to commits, so it makes sense, that one can go back finding the correct commit id.
> The group of truly indie studios is dwindling unfortunately.

This is inaccurate.

I don't have the stats to back it up, but the power of Unity Engine and Unreal Engine have effectively created an indie game developer renaissance.

One of my favorite games at the moment, Hell Let Loose, is published by an indie studio that started in 2017 as a Kickstarter project. They launched their PC version last summer and successfully launched an Xbox port this past fall. It is objectively a better (but harder) game than COD WWII or Battlefield V, both of which are considered AAA titles and have had hundreds of millions put into them for development.

Combine that with the lower barrier to entry with the discoverability of games on Steam and Xbox marketplaces and you have a very hot market. Oh, and consumers play video games now more than ever.
Other people are pointing to it in the thread, but it's mostly about forced vaccines and not a damn thing about getting people N95 masks - which was one of the things Biden said he would work on getting everyone access to. And nothing was said of forced vaccines in his run up. Also the inflation and crime seems to be skyrocketing and crime is often better handled by republican leadership. I mean look at Boudin in SF. Ultra LEFT news and you get break ins.

This says it all for me:

https://www.foxnews.com/media/san-francisco-chronicle-ripped...

I know Biden isn't responsible for this, but it's just echo chambers from the top down that causes this.

edit: @nradov, thanks for the clarity there.
Can you imagine if they make it so Game Pass covers your WoW subscription? WoW could see a comeback.
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It may be possible to use gravitational waves to transmit signals, although gravity is hugely more challenging to manipulate than electromagnetism because it's purely attractive and interacts much less strongly with matter, making this very unlikely in my opinion. Another theoretically plausible but very unlikely signal carrier could be neutrinos. 'Tachyon' is a name used to refer to any theoretical particle which travels faster than the speed of light; as far as I'm aware all current experimental evidence rules out the existence of tachyons.