That's a tautology, my original comment was pointing out that the law needs to be updated. Pointing out that the current law isn't like that is not interesting.
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It's a balancing act between individual and social rights (individual in this case being twitter), but these companies very explicitly build to scale to be a sort of "town hall" and in doing so start having very large social influence the likes of which no one in history has ever had.
When they get to this scale there has to be extra responsibility here for the good of society as a whole.
But it would be akin to claiming modern day esports started in the late 1950's because Tennis for Two was released and is a competitive game.
No, modern day esports can trace it's _lineage_ back to the late 1950's.
It'd be akin to claiming Counter-Strike has been an esport since the early 2000's because people would get together and compete in very small tournaments. CS:Go was the first version to be explicitly made for competition and it was released in 2011.
It was a completely dishonest response.
And because I no longer play I have, over time, completely lost interest in watching it. Part of that is that the OG players I used to watch have pretty much all retired save a select few.
I'm sure there are people that continue watching it long-term after they quit playing, but I doubt it's a hugely large percentage. The only exception is going to be championship games, where I'll still sometimes tune in (especially worlds) until NA falls out and then I don't even bother watching the actual final game.
Starcraft and Warcraft 3 had what they called "custom maps" that people would play competitively online, with completely different styles of gameplay than the original game.
There were probably thousands of custom maps, but over time "genres" of map became more popular than others.
Dota is one such map, but it became so popular that in 2013 Valve released Dota2. Valve got involved because a few of their employees were fans of the original Dota mod and they wanted to build a modern sequel.
Dota, in terms of esports (aka Dota 2), is less than 10 years old.
Dota as a genre can draw it's LINEAGE back to the original mod from 2003, but that's about it.
- not all strategy is action oriented, scouting early to discover your opponents strategy is a thing, for example
- in professional SC2 it's also about the meta-game. It's a game of bluffs and predictions. If a strategy doesn't work out both opponents have to decide if they're going to change or not in the next game in the series. Sometimes your strategy failed because the other player used the counter-strategy. But if they keep the same strategy and you use THEIR counter-strategy, you'll win the next one.
That last point is much larger than you might expect. It's a bit like poker.
tetris for sure is having the same thing.
And while I don't watch SC, I do watch tetris. It's a guildy nerd-pleasure of mine, if you will, but I can tell you the events aren't huge nor glamorous and it doesn't take away from the m at all.
But I think I would consider both to be timeless at this point.
I mean, I get it. Every time I point out other groups have challenges too, you're going to attempt to explain why those challenges are not relevant to this conversation.
And when you're done with this conversation, you'll be in the same spot you were before.
No, the premise you require in order for me to be wrong is that society forces this on everyone, but I live with a woman who has crippling anxiety to the point of being on disability for it and I can tell you that's emphatically untrue. Even SSI related meetings happen over the phone because of her disability.
Those with ADHD have many challenges that other people don't have, but asking the whole of society to suddenly be able to understand them better is like asking all women to be start preferring short men. It just is, and those with these challenges will have to learn how to deal with them (and you see posters on HN all the time talking about how they've done just that). For those for which it's truly debilitating, we need to make sure they don't fall through the cracks (and for the most part we do this).
It's as much a part of reality as the person with 2 missing thumbs having more difficulty grasping things than someone with both thumbs.
> straight people are the problem for not wanting to date gay or trans people
It just is. Everyone has challenges, people with ADHD have challenges that can be particularly difficult for sure, but blaming others for not being like you is and telling them it's their responsibility is the same thing just reversed. It doesn't improve your situation.
skepticism is requiring facts, cynicism is a generally negative outlook.
You can change skepticism by producing facts, you cannot change cynicism that way.
confusing the two is a very common mistake.
These subsidies were created to affect the behavior of farmers and now there's bitching that farmers want to keep the behavior that most benefits them and people are doing it by trying to argue these farmers are just bad for doing exactly what people initially wanted them to do.
If you think farmers are using the same techniques they were back in 1066 then perhaps you're strawmanning more than just me.
> the reason agriculture has to be run more centrally is because farmers are actually amazingly bad at farming. There are entire offices filled with people who's job is to try and convince farmers to do things that work. From new crops to new technology to when to plant to climate change, farmers just refuse to budge.
What you're describing is different priorities, which I completely understand. But if those changes are forcing farmers to take on more of a financial responsibility (as an example), then maybe the ones making those decisions should be more willing to consider that in their decision making.
It's not a matter of these farmers not understand, but that they don't agree.
It's like security people telling developers they're not allowed to execute powershell scripts on their local machine. It's easy for them to make that decision because they don't deal with the pain of it.
absolutely not what I said, if you want me to engage you seriously please read back over and avoid the strawman.
Consider that even too much water can kill a person and the original computers filled buildings.
Maybe it's true, but how likely is it?
It's more likely the farmers have concerns that are not being addressed. I can easily see "You should do this because it will make more crops and we don't care about your increased financial burden from it".
You see this a lot in academia as well, they absolutely love to name things, and think the teaching and learning of those names is important in some manner.
And my primary desktop is i3, if that tells you anything. OTOH, even when running KDE I tend to use small tools such as leafpad, konsole, vim, etc.
Part of the problem with current CI/CD solutions is trying to solve for everything.
And I think the local thing would be a killer if for no other reason than the ability to debug it locally.
So many people don't get that their design decisions have consequences and using a SPA is absolutely a design decision.
People talk about enterprise architects as these pie-in-the-sky people who shit diagrams and everything works wonderfully. In practice it's "seagull architecting", with everyone else forced to deal with the reality on the ground.
At some scale architects need to be more hands off. When that happens they need to have a _very_ strong relationship with the people on the ground or it doesn't work well. Even then I would argue they should be getting their hands dirty in terms of reading code, etc, they just may not have time for implementation duties.
I explicitly opted out of most web development when it turned into angular/react and later vue. I've done work in both angular and vue so I've not been able to avoid them completely, but mostly.
And the reason was a fundamental disagreement with their approach. It has _always_ felt to me like people took a good idea (AJAX) and took it entirely too far.
And they found themselves fighting fundamentally with the browser, so the industry's solution was to create new standards such as the history API, when the REAL solution was to just not do what they were doing.
Does react bring legitimate good ideas? Probably, somewhere, but thank god we're starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel.
imo the best thing to come out of it all is typescript.
Furthermore, many people use debit cards backed by an actual bank account and the vast majority of people can't afford to have those drained in any meaningful fashion without experiencing some severe consequences.
And thirdly, when the equifax breach happened I didn't bother doing anything. Why? Because I do NOT have the attitude that it's ok to be defrauded of money since someone else will pay for it. There was nothing for them to go after.
This woman should be in jail, criminal negligence is a thing.