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Define doing. The government is completely block from legislating since the coalition parties will not approve any law, only those that can help their separatist movements. The national budget hasn't been renewed since 2023, affecting new projects.

What we have is a corrupt president and party he'll bent on remaining as long as possible to not face the polls

It needs to start somewhere though. Obviously you can't just drop a single building in the suburbs and call it a day, it should be many, with plans for public transport, axing the zoning code to allow for the ground floor of the building to be used for comercial purposes.

The death toll for the Venezuela raid is between 80 and 100, out of them only 10 were civilians. I feel bad for those 10 civilians but, for the rest, I feel no sympathy, as they were oppressors.

Reminder: extra heavy oil means that there is more processing required to get useful materials out of it, which in turn becomes higher operational cost. So, if Iranian oil entered the market, prices would go down making Venezuelan oil non competitive (I believe the break even price for Venezuelan oil was close to 80$). At this moment the numbers don't add up to make companies go back into Venezuela given the price, uncertainty and past expiriences.

In a three way chat between the movement, politicians and the game industry, you need to know the technical details to rebuke the arguments and support your claims.

Also, the technical decisions are not just about saving a buck but getting the game shipped. If my game is about growing vegetables and I want to let the player drive to the state farm, but I don't want to spend time (and money) building my own physics engine for driving, I grab a solution off the shelve with their license and go back to the core of my game, this same thing is repeat for many other things like authentication, anti-cheat, networking, etc

What SKG movement want, in short terms, is that game developers/publishers of live service games and online only games be forced, once the games is no longer supported, to provide tools, software, executables to the community to keep the game going. They are using the banner of consumer protection and a public EU initiative to force the EU politicians to debate and come up with a solution.

The drama mostly stems from the fact that the head of the movement is a gamer with no knowledge of either software development or game development, so he has a VERY simplistic view of how a game server-client works and thinks that developers just have a .exe executable running from a raspberry pi that can be uploaded to github and that's it. When people with knowledge call out that there are TONS middleware used to develop a game with their own licenses and that a server nowadays is more than a single machine, he just says: well, this movement is no retroactive so new games will be develop with that in mind and automatically every software vendor will be fine with distributing their code so that everyone can keep playing.

While I support the spirit of the movement, this will ultimately end up with a warning label in a box because real life has more nuances.

Yes, because the employer just happened to be the first one to find the fully built and equipped coat factory and he declared himself the boss. He in no way shape or form had to risk his capital to set up a successful business, so he should be living from scraps

Before anyone starts telling us how they are attacking a legitimate president and that the people will defend it, take your time to find your closest Venezuelan (there are 8 million around the world, so don't need to look to far) and ask him how he feels about this, you will find that happy is part of their emotions.

Yes, my Uber eats delivery guy drives a bike on the rain just for fun. He doesn't want to get his Ferrari wet

So sad that LLM tokens are so cheap that wanna be philosophers can regurgitate walls of text with no substance or understanding of the subject

Not "like using", they are mandated from the top to use DynamoDB for any storage. At my org in the retail page, you needed director approval if you wanted to use a relational DB for a production service.

You are comparing a toy that had no knowledge exchange, learning or improvement capability, or cult like enterprise adoption with LLM.... You might want to rethink your counter example

> - Apple insinuates they only give 1 year of warranty, but it magically becomes 2 years if you remind them they're in the EU.

3 actually, if bought after 2021

The behavior is Org and department specific. What happens is that those questions are map to a 'Org Health' metric (satisfaction, innovation, etc) and they are Manager aggregated, so your Manager's manager saw those report and your Director saw your skip manager's and so on. I would say my org was very healthy in terms of handling it, no treaths or anything, just asking us what we thought was going wrong, how to improve and coming up every year with a new SOP to do the connection's review.

Again, YMMV.

Do we also point out being the first to implement DRM and erode digital ownership, being the first to tie game installation to a platform client, creating micro transactions or being fine with child gambling (CS skins) in the net negatives, or are we not allowed to criticize Lord Gabel today?

Not EU wide. At least in Spain, entry level cars don't have neither camera nor sensors

Why don't you do us a favor a show the public statement from the Carter Center and the UN related to Venezuela. Or you would rather show me statements from great democracies like Russia, China and Iran?

Elections =/= Democracy. Let me know when they have free, independent elections with international observers

By "them" who do you refer to? Because I believe the people from Cuba haven't been to choose their govement for the past 70 years

Please explain how Cuba is a democracy and the top brass of the government is suffering shortage of food like the rest of the population

They have been getting free oil from Venezuela in exchange for helping the dictatorship there for the past 25 years. They then sell that oil for resources to pay the military and the top brass well fed while the population starve

Wow! An incel in HN

My phone doesn't have an SD slot but following the sentiment of keeping the important things local: I was back home for a month in a country with poor connectivity, so I "downloaded" some podcast on Spotify. After 14 days the app stopped working and asked me to log in through their website to change my location. Luckily I have 30gb of music on every phone that I have ever had so I didn't miss it, but still was very pissed off by it

And still a better experience than chrome with ads, plus I almost never encounter a website with problems

That would be the user's choice :) stop trying to protect a wall garden against giving user options

Then don't install apps outside the App Store and live you life inside the prison

That sounds a lot like price fixing and the same thing that Amazon is being grilled on with FBA

That's how propaganda works, they are trained to project that image of NK abroad

I see you went to the economics school of Venezuela and Zimbabwe

Pretty much non of them use it outside the random A game here and there, they use UE5 or in house. The only ones I remember that used Unity were Ori and Cuphead and those were not first party studios