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> they ship a model per game?

there's no way that's true!?

> This used to be the workplace ... making workplace dating something frowned upon

because the owner of the business do not want relationship frictions to affect people's work.

> there is a line between human freedoms and govt overreach.

and they have not reached anywhere near that line.

Compare this to the land of the free, where ICE police can routinely jack an actual citizen they suspect of being an illegal alien, and face zero consequences. Where the president can declare an illegal tariff with zero consequences.

> Why do you expect hardware vendors not to want to do the same?

of course they want the moat - the point is that society as a whole should force them not to have a moat. Ala, they should not be allowed monopolies.

Unfortunately, this sort of legislation has been lacking recently, and in fact, has been failing even enforcing existing ones from yester-century.

i think they meant the hardware becomes more fungible. This is what made IBM lose their competitive advantage when it came to PCs, because others were able to make IBM-compatible ones that are cheaper and still able to use the same old software.

Everything you listed is exactly the reason why copyleft and GPLv3 needs to be the first and foremost license when opensourcing. If proliferated, it can give you all of these freedoms listed that you (and i) desire.

It stems from the idea that "no child left behind" is a goal. It shouldn't have ever been.

if they use ai to "cheat" the exam by having the ai produce material to learn off, then they literally have just replicated a paid tutor (for cheaper).

Why is that not desirable? As long as the exam does not allow ai usage during it, i don't see the problem.

The university administration needs flexibility rather than draconian rules that dont work.

In any case, even if the uni insist on homework, the teacher can simply mark everyone who hands in their homework 100%. It is impossible for the administration to police it, or if they do, they'd need to hire someone to mark the homework (which conveniently solves the teacher's issue).

the event in 2020 would've only been the last straw in a series of bad policy in education. It might've brought forward this same outcome a few years in advance, but it isn't a root cause.

so why doesn't this happen on the PC?

The fact is, google engineered their app store to be monopoly, following apple's model (which is also engineered - they had more foresight about it).

There are no good artificial monopolies, and natural monopolies should be regulated to prevent undue influence (and unwarranted profit).

but that raspberry pi won't be able to run google apps (or other apps like your bank's) that require play store certification.

you have the choice not to purchase burgers from dairy queens, but from macdonalds, or five guys, or wataburger.

You don't have a real choice in an app store on android (except recently, and even then, the alternative stores don't behave well for google-based apps).

That's why it's not a tax when you choose to buy DQ burgers, but a tax when you choose to deploy an app to google app store.

people hate taxation without representation. That's why this model has to be unsustainable, but the legislation has not caught up at all.

Receiving 1000 euros without having any real work or accountability is the epitome of free profit. No wonder these platform gatekeepers are fighting so hard to maintain it (at the cost of you, the consumer).

And yet people (in general) just dont care, because they don't truly feel the pain until it's too late - issues like privacy and such are like that.

How does AI go from being able to produce software with 95% of the features, to killing every man, woman and child?

People need to stop it with the ai doomerism.

Climate change will kill way more people than ai ever will, but you dont hear a pip about that from those claiming ai apocalypse.

or just a really sturdy fence, and guard posts with guns. That's cheaper than space, and infinitely easier too.

it doesn't matter what reason it's cheaper - consumers only care that it is.

soulfulness has nothing to do with 2D or 3D, but more to do with mass market commercialization of games, where the creative vision is not from an individual artist (or very small number of them), but via design by committee, and various managerial interference for profitability and market appeal.

That's why you will find the modern AAA games (which is of course 3D) very soulless. However, the same soul still remains in indie games.

> wonder how he's still CEO.

it's because he controls the board by being the majority voting shareholder.

This is what happens when the gov't decides that it is legal for share classes with different voting rights. It ensures that you can sell equity to obtain money, without actually giving up control of said company at all. In theory, buyers would discount the sold equity due to this, but in practice, they don't (esp. if they're retail buyers).

but the upsides of AGI could counter the unbounded liability - you will need to actively utilize the AGI to help you retire.

Fridge sellers dont want their product to be seen as commodities, because they can't charge a high margin on those type of products.

not if you want to suspend it above the water.

Tarp, and pitch it across the canal like how you might do a hammock - you just need two anchor points on each side (or 4, at most).

putting tarp over the canal might be an even cheaper solution? You dont need metal to make shade.

> their economic dividend runs out

i dont think it will - they still have a chokehold on battery production (which implies dominance in the EV sector), and they also control the vast majority of all rare earths. The chinese gov't can subsidize chip research/development with these other sectors that are dominating.

The west is the one that need to watch out for their own economic dividend running out from the past century.

it's more likely that the stat for equipping is calculated differently to when unequipping (ala, "same" code in two different places, and one got modified at some point and forgot about the other).

Except the person doing the pooping doesn't drink from the same well as he's got his own private reserve supply.

> It does generally make sense that the OS vendor needs to play a key part in helping ensure trusted parties are involved in the supply chain.

this position of privilege is what the OS vendor (google in this case) wants, because it spells profit.

I dont trust it.

The only trust i have is community trust. Piracy works on this trust, and it has worked for very long.

> Lower volume with consumers fully covering the device cost will probably become the norm

dont know about lower volume, but having the consumer pay the cost of the device fully (instead of subsidized by the later sale of games on the system) is better aligned with the interests of the consumer. You'd be less likely to get monopolistic device sellers signing exclusivity for games like the consoles of the past.

I want the device to be as good as it can be, rather than wanting the device for the exclusive game that it has.

The VR world still has not produced a killer app.

I had imagined that remote work would induce a VR desktop work environment (as the killer app), but that hadnt taken off at all (mostly, i think, because it's difficult to type and do keyboard work in VR).

Gaming has not and will not be the killer app for VR imho. It needs to be business/money/work-related for it to actually gain a level of traction like how personal computing gained traction from mainframes.