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> "They made every excuse in the book to avoid taking down something that made Donald Trump look bad. And I saw a number of other incidents just like that...They thought Trump should have lost in 2016...They really want Trump to lose in 2020. That's their agenda."
Whether that's actually true and whether it would be illegal or not is debatable, but the "without evidence" qualifier that Reuters added seems strange.
It would take a year or more for a dev to become familiar enough with their domain and its systems to even know to suggest a report that would sniff out this fraud, and even more time for them to have the political capital to get support for the project.
It's amazing how effective corporal punishment is even past childhood years. Singapore has some of the lowest crime rates in the world, but act out there and you'll get a caning.
I have a difficult time believing that we arrived on a planet perfectly suited for our habitation and rife with resources that become unlocked at the exact point in our progress where we have technologies that require them, purely by chance.
https://content.invisioncic.com/r273030/monthly_2017_05/Unti...
Every time that's happened to me (for example, a time-limited version of a game or a beta), Steam presents a notification that the game has been removed from my library.
That doesn't seem to be happening though. I don't buy the argument that a huge number of G2A customers simply never notice that they've lost access to the game (not to mention what that implies about the quality of your game).
I'd never heard of G2A before this, but I'll be checking them out the next time I'm considering buying a game.
They want to sell their game through their own storefront to avoid the platform fees, but they don't want to deal with chargebacks or fraud.
They want to give away hundreds or thousands of free keys, but don't want the keys to be resold and don't want to exercise due diligence when giving the keys away.
They want to recoup their losses when fraud does occur, but don't want to expend the effort of sending G2A evidence of the chargeback to get the 10x refund.
This is called being a business--each dev needs to decide whether avoiding Steam's cut is worth the headache of being your own seller. Trying to fight the entire concept of reselling itself is a much more time-consuming and futile effort than just choosing one option or another.
As one of the top comments stated, embracing a punitive culture toward engineering accidents has no long-term benefits. In my work (and this is probably true in any successful organization) even the most severe screw up is examined honestly and without emotion so that it can be prevented from happening again. If the immediate response is to fire a bunch of people or throw them in jail, people are going to do everything they can to avoid responsibility and ultimately fixing the problem.
If in the course of an investigation it comes out that Boeing execs were willfully negligent or malicious, then we can start discussing throwing people in jail and bankrupting companies, but that shouldn't be the first reflexive impulse.
More importantly though, these standard fees do not include any negotiated rates between insurance providers and hospitals, making it effectively impossible to comparison shop. A hospital's chargemaster price for procedure X might be $10,000, but might be only $2,000 for a particular insurance provider due to negotiation.
That's the difference between the ACA rule and this EO; the EO forces hospitals to post the real prices for each insurance provider.
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This us vs them reductionism is seen in the early days of any communist system (the mass killings come a bit later)
My point is that ML is not a magic wand and we're still in its early days. Facebook would love to have a model that accurately identifies offensive content, but that level of AI does not exist today, and no amount of money thrown at it will instantly advance the state of the art to that point.
The fact is that the state of the art for ML is simply not to the point where you could build a model for reliably identifying a category as broad and ambiguous as "violence".
I would hope HN users, even if they aren't directly familiar with ML, would appreciate that it isn't trivial.
"We live in a global world now, homogeneity is futile."
And they wonder, after presenting their ideology as an unstoppable, all-consuming force of nature, why people take issue with it.
As humans we have the agency to control our nations and their respective cultures and genetic makeups. This only becomes impossible when you adopt a Western value system that makes never-ending economic growth your only goal.
You get no rewards for playing the game. If you want new cards, you have to spend money on packs or spend money to enter drafts.
This old fashioned "just play the game because it's fun" mentality is dogma to Valve, but nowadays users want and require the Pavlovian reward systems.
And Valve is?
I've used Steam chat and voice comms all of about 3 times. Discord is better.
Profile pages and achievements? Couldn't care less.
Streaming? There's Twitch for that.
What I really care about from a platform are the games that are available for it. Valve waved the white flag on that a while ago when they abandoned first party game development.
They already sunk a large military contract and are setting their sights on AI in general. If Google accedes to all the various pet issues of individuals working there then they won't have a business anymore.
This is the risk of appeasement. Google (and every company for that matter) should try a new stance: If you fundamentally disagree with the areas and methods that our leadership has chosen for our business, then find a new place to work. Working for a company while using it as a staging ground for a coup against it is unacceptable.
Big players will not (and are not) touching GCP's AI solutions for this exact reason: it's only a matter of time before the virtue signalers are no longer content with policing the decisions of their own company and start targeting customer workloads.