What is true of the most informative, insightful, and interesting posts on hacker news, but is also true of the laziest most worthless posts? They're both flagged, to keep you from seeing them.
I support this. Border security SHOULD be a national issue. The flip side of course is that this means that California WON'T be able to take down razor wire that border agents put up should the national leadership change.
If you sent out probes to calculate the travel time of beams of light between two points, but at Lagrange points from one another, and then had them simultaneously slow their orbits to fall into the sun, and considered the "edge" of the sun the point at which it destroyed the probes...
Is it a lack of access or a lack of faith in "big pharma" and the bureaucratic medical industry? If a large part of the motivation is a distrust institutionalized medicine, then trying to use this as justification for government run healthcare isn't going to win you any additional support.
Not saying these "wellness" treatments are legitimate, but your response has the smell of a beltway elitist pretending to represent the interests of the scammed without understanding their motivations or views.
"Science communication" is a label adopted by so many shills chasing ad revenue (and thus controlled by elite through algorithmic censorship) or outright direct paid shills by corrupted institutions (such as the WHO). The goal therefore was never to more effectively "communicate science," but rather to use the legitimacy of the label of science to promote approved conclusions. This article assumes a misunderstanding where intentional misrepresentation was involved.
Odd that suffering should be equated with evil. It seems an almost universal aspect of so many secular philosophies to elevate reduction of suffering over achievement or joy. Then again, maybe this is just a left leaning political view, which just happens to be associated with atheism in our day.
There are so many benefits for a front end application (written in javascript) to just assume it will be the backend that does type validation. A new field column added to a table? Cool, update the api layer, but the javascript just gets "the object" and now you have access to it immediately. No need to duplicate your definitions in both code bases, and it's not like front end security is real anyways. Sounds to me like a lot of "I learned to code in some derivative of C" programmers couldn't possibly consider that different languages could be optimized for different use cases and just want all coding to be "what they're used to." Then they moralize it and use shaming language to push it on everyone else. F typescript. I use different languages for different things, and strong typing makes a ton of sense IN MOST INSTANCES, but certainly not all.
Ummm why didn't my two aces qualify for jacks or better? Also if I changed enough settings (moving the bet up and down) then the game glitched out on the first deal.
Build product / service at a loss. Product becomes popular because it provides so much value so cheaply (because is being sold at loss). Maintain through continual investment and chasing "growth." Bill comes due. Investors left holding the bag and ecosystems built around assuming bubble was real have a bad time.
In many ways it's the best form of socialism, cheaper products and services provided to the people, paid for by investors who are rolling the dice on a pyramid scheme posing as a business model. Completely voluntary and works even within a capitalist system.
Now all we have to do is hope Unity goes under really quickly, then gets bought up for cheap by a business either willing to make far less as their investment was well below the cost of development for the tools... or that another sucker comes along to buy them at a higher price to either enter the market or expand their own dominance in it as they are still on their "chase growth" curve.
Does Steam force game exclusivity for their platform? No.
Do they put up barriers to entry to keep small devs / publishers out unless they pay to play? No.
Do they force you to repurchase your games if you move to new hardware? No.
Do they prevent you from using other people's hardware? No.
Do they engage in mass censorship or shadow banning of content? No.
Do they force annoying ads on you? No.
Do they contribute to open source development, upstream so that even competitors could use it? Yes.
Do they allow you to share your library with family (and let's be honest friends too)? Yes.
Do they allow you to play your games offline while not connected to their servers? Yes.
Do they allow and actively encourage mods and user control of their content? Yes.
Are they a "first mover" that actively brought new business models and technologies to market, which they themselves developed? Yes.
Have they reversed course when users complain or give negative feedback? Yes (such as the paid mod idea years back).
About the only shame thing regarding Valve is that they were in on the microtransactions craze along with many others in the industry for a bit there (TF2 hats anyone?). Not a perfect company, but the "monopoly" here isn't "competitors can't come to market." It's more that they just offer a far better service and have NOT abused their market leadership in order to chase short term profitablity over long term success. More monopolies like this please.
> The elephant in the room meanwhile is the countless improvements Valve engineers have made to the the Mesa OpenGL and Vulkan drivers as well as to the kernel graphics driver components. Not just to the AMD graphics drivers for benefiting the Steam Deck's hardware but also to Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan and then other common infrastructure. But in this area of the Linux graphics driver support, Valve's contributions and those of their partners have been incredibly beneficial to the Linux desktop ecosystem even outside gaming.
Yep. Vulkan (the open version of Mantel) for graphics, Proton for low level Windows emulation, driver support and controller customization and options (the Steam Controller was NOT a failed project, just a precursor), and giving it all away upstream... There's something to be said about the ability of a privately held company to execute a vision long term. Everyone from Canonical, to Nintendo, to Activision/Blizzard should be worried about Valve coming to eat their lunch, and they'll do it by giving customers a better experience and thinking long term.
This is signaling. Macron can't blame "the migrants" because that's not socially acceptable (without giving credit to his political rivals), but most of them are disgruntled younger (compared to native Frenchmen) men. This is how he can point the finger at their demographic without having to actually do so. Perhaps ironically, this IS a racist dog whistle.
Because if you have a private company that is tightly controlled and essentially acts as a projection of your state, while pretending to be independent of it, you can trick some people into thinking it's a free market. This applies well beyond social media.
Coming from "the conversation" I can't really take this too seriously. It would be like Ann Coulter claiming that the studies she's cherry picked show that most women oppose legal abortion.
I ask where you get your "facts" from. Humility is important for sure (or perhaps taking pride in becoming right rather than being right), but it is pointless if you have no solid footing for epistomology. A "humble" academic who is endlessly skeptical of all personal observations, but turns a blind eye to the distorted incentives and lackluster filtering within the halls of the academy (concerning both publication at the surface level and the demarcation problem at a more fundamental one), is just a different form of arrogant.
Calling CEOs sociopaths is like your ex a narcissist. It's trendy, and might even be true in some cases, but I gotta think there's some projection going on here.
If I can watch the lectures for free and get help from a chatbot... why pay for the piece of paper again? Oh right, social signaling. The real struggle of the education system: they need to innovate, but any such innovation will show just how useless (as an institution) they've become.
Much like [decent but overrated entertainment], the issue isn't with travel itself. It's that the vast majority of people who are "into travel" are insufferable.
There's a problem. Don't every ask why though. The only acceptable solution is to throw more money to institutional authorities claiming to represent the best interest of children. Looking any deeper or suggesting any other solution is not acceptable. Now move along.
Are they equivalent though? If all companies that are "neutral" eventually become corrupted by subversive influence, then the only immunization is to be actively opposed to it. Which "side" as aggressively pushing their BS on you, and which one is being open about its motivations and building new things rather than attempting to corrupt existing things? These two "sides" are not the same. It's politically expedient to claim to be aloof, or beyond the partisan bickering, but more and more people are coming to the conclusion that there's no ability to avoid the conflict.
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While writing this comment the article story got flagged. Who is trying to make sure you can't see stories like this? Eventually a "side" must be taken because one of those sides is determined to not allow you to decide for yourself.
Used to be family, then people became estranged from their parents and many didn't have kids. Then it was romance and marriage, but fewer people can even find those, let alone keep them into their old age. Friendship is the next in the line of "good enough" bonds people might accept to avoid completely loneliness. Of course there's always AI and pets as the new "true companions" for 2040. Readers of the Atlantic seem like exactly the sort of people who will need this copium going forward.
Local police forces can be reformed and replaced outright as needed when they become corrupt. There really is a "too big to fail" effect where any institution that is no longer allowed to fail will invariably become about maintaining itself and its own power rather than performing whatever duties it was established for. The question with the FBI however, is whether it has become corrupt, or if it always was.
If it does there will then be the "verified YouTube critic score" and the "audience score," where only the critic score is displayed at first glance. You know, because actual popular sentiment is the antithesis of advertising.
Ah yes, with the title "Welcome to 2030. I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better." If anything the "You'll own nothing and be happy" is LESS distopian than the essay. I mean, unless you don't read it as a peon completely beaten down into Stockholm syndrome. Plus it's all predicated on "free energy" and other such fantasies, while STILL looking like a nightmare to anyone who reads it.
I have a bet going with a co-worker regarding the state of this conflict by the end of the year. He gets his information from what would generally be considered "reputable mainstream sources" and I from the "darkweb underbelly" of the internet. It'll be an interesting test to see if I have been able to discern between the truth and misinfo, and whether the institutions behind his sources do a better job at vetting information, or are just propaganda mouthpieces. He thinks Russia is about to lose handedly, I believe large swaths of Eastern Ukraine will effectively be part of Russia going forward. We put some money down. Time to see which epistemological approach wins out.
Worked there (in Chase tower downtown Chicago) last year. The oddest thing is that it was hybrid work (where we were onsite 3 days out of the week). So good luck tracking things the other two days. I took to listening to midi files of old VG music as my "background tunes" during work, so as to not use bandwidth that would be tracked for streaming music while coding. The tracking didn't really get to me (after all, it is "their time" that they're paying for). The tough part is that it makes "Oh I need to do a personal thing for 5 / 10 minutes." a near impossibility, and a change in my personal life drove me to switch jobs for better work life balance.
So no, I don't think that this tracking is the dystopian nightmare it's being portrayed as, but it does have consequences, which make the post-covid work / life intermingling schedule impossible to maintain. The real dangers of such a policy are who they will lose as a result of it.
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I feel the need to add, that the tracking at the time of my departure was not as extensive as some of the claims being made here, which I am a bit... skeptical of.