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Not to nitpick, but I wonder if we can better define "acceptable." For a good layoff outcome, I'd expect the employee to find a new gig within a few months, that's +/- X% of their previous comp. Open question: has anyone seen this data?

That’s right, I didn’t mean to imply theft of any kind. I’m mostly pointing out that both companies sort of outsourced the body design (BYD in a more questionable way) as they figured out how to grow. Both companies were quite small production-wise in 2009 and are very different today.

> In 2009 the car sold in 96 units, and only seven cars were sold in the full 2010 fiscal year. Production has now ceased. In all, the car sold in only 103 units

This is like saying we should ignore Tesla because the only car they sold in 2009 was a rip-off Lotus.

Speaking as an American, I'd love to see what the presence of low-end (say, $10k range) autos would do to traffic laws and city planning.

Game marketing no longer happens through magazines and legacy websites, but direct to consumer marketing (companies putting trailers on youtube and holding their own live streams) and influencer marketing (Twitch, Youtube, etc). The closest thing we have to E3 is The Game Awards, which is a 2.5 hour commercial that pays lip service to creators in the industry.

If I'm reading this correctly, the author is at least partially aiming at public health campaigns designed to prevent deaths, on the margin, stemming from the US opioid crisis. Only in the second to last paragraph does the author make passing reference to synthetic opioids being pushed excessively by drug companies. Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family are not mentioned.

The Sacklers are currently before the Supreme Court, negotiating a deal that will shield them from further civil action by paying a $6 billion dollar fine (leaving them a few billion ahead)[1]. While I don't think we can extract justice from punishing one responsible entity, articles like these give cover to people, companies, and systems that created this crisis.

1: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/supreme-court-purdue-pharma-sac...

Itch page (with downloads) of a jam game made with the framework: https://saint11.itch.io/neo-city-express

edit: Impressive for a 72 hour jam game. Great art, writing, and mechanically interesting in a way that I wasn't expecting.

Is training with user-generated content a way to launder copyrighted images? That is, if I upload an image of Ironman or whatever to my Facebook or Instagram page as a public post and Meta trains their model on that data, is there wording in my user agreement that says that I declare that I own the content, which then gives Meta plausible deniability when it comes to training with copyrighted material?

(apologies for the run-on sentence - it is early still)

The actual polling report: https://www.gallup.com/workplace/349484/state-of-the-global-...

I'd download and post the pdf, but their form inputs appear broken in firefox. :|

Apologies for the unproductive comment, but this is a clown show and the damage can’t be undone. Sam going to Microsoft is likely the end of open ai as an entity.

I suspect they’ll quit, and the “top” N percent will be picked up by Microsoft with healthy comp packages. Microsoft will have effectively purchased the company for $10 billion. The net upside of this coup business may just flow to Microsoft shareholders.

Anecdotal evidence of macro trends aside, it isn't clear to me what value Joe Coffee provides. It seems like they are a SaaS reseller for a particular vertical (coffee shops), and have some amount of custom software. My local, Barrett's Coffee in Austin (they are excellent, btw), seems to use Shopify on their website, and I suspect that the iPad-like PoS system in the shop is backed by the same inventory and sales management system. I don't really see the value in using a middle-man that's specific to coffee when it seems like a reasonably smart owner plus a general sales platform should do the trick.

Layoffs are always a bummer, and folks in gaming have more than their share to deal with (it seems, I don't actually know how it compares with other industries).

However, seeing the Crown channel go isn't a big surprise. In fact, learning that it is Amazon-produced makes its content make more sense; even as a 39 year old, the programming felt cringy in an overly-produced corporate way.

I read that story as well, and while the company does promise increases in efficiency, the whole thing seems like a very expensive way to do very little.

Based on light googling, a mature tree can capture about 50lbs of carbon a year [1]. Assuming a few hundred trees per acre [2] you could get, let's say, 5 tons per year in the steady/mature state. Small numbers, but it adds up. Leander, TX is a suburb of Austin that sprung up in the last 50 years. It's a useful measure for me as 1) I have some intuitive comprehension of the size (37.5 sq miles) and 2) it was an area slowly developed over the last 50 years. If it were reforested (you wouldn't want to do this because, you know, people live there), we might get 100kton of capture a year (guesstimating). Repeat that 170,000 times and we can get back to the net emissions of the year 2000 - a 17gigaton reduction per year.

Of course, that would require planting an area double the size of the United States.

Anyway, that's napkin math and I hope I'm off.

1: https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2015/03/17/power-one-tree-ve... 2: https://bugwoodcloud.org/resource/files/27435.pdf

I’m a first gen deck owner and am constantly impressed by the quality of the product. The hardware is good, more than good enough, but the fact that it is running windows games mostly seemlessly is incredible. Yes, I know wine has been around forever, but with the deck you barely even notice that you’re running through a compatibility layer. Performance and battery life in all but the last few years of AAA games is also great. The improvements here are marginal, but it’s great to see them making smart, incremental updates.

I’d love to see how the market would react to a deck in a console form factor, with similar input options to the deck (pad plus touchpads) and an APU comparable to modern consoles.

While personally I'd like to see a reduction in obesity rates by focusing on causes (e.g., "sugar taxes" and the like), it's hard to deny the positive impact of these drugs. Obesity is such a destructive epidemic in my country (US) that I see an argument for providing these drugs either for free or at substantially reduced costs via government subsidy. Despite vaccine skepticism, free COVID vaccinations might be a model worth following.

If the public sector doesn't help, I imagine that insurance companies are doing what they can to put downward price pressure on these drugs. If I can pay x now to avoid 10x in payout costs to medical providers for obesity complications (while keeping rates the same), I'm going to take that trade (subject to actuarial data and discount rates).

For whatever it is worth, my skepticism of devices that require a separate app or remote API integration has steadily then dramatically increased over the last few years. I cannot rely on 1) small, perhaps-VC-funded operations continuing to exist more than a few years and 2) even for large players in the IOT space (Apple, Google), I worry about long term support. At what point will I be faced with the prospect of buying a new car to ensure that I can continue using CarPlay? (At that point I'll just buy a phone mount.)

To that end, I recently picked up a Flirc remote to control my byzantine gaming and home theater setup [1]. It doesn't support all the features I need (yet), I'm concerned that the company will not be able to delivery on their roadmap, BUT they release their remote configuration tool as a stand-alone app that I know I can keep running, perhaps in a VM if needed, for the lifetime of the remote. All of the other smart remote alternatives require smartphone apps to program and maintain, and I have zero faith that they won't disappear and turn the remote into ewaste long before the remote hardware fails (or I stop having a need for it).

1: https://flirc.tv/products/skip1s-remote-universal-remote-con...

This reminds me of efforts I've been a part of to open source libraries and others bits of code at companies large and small. The reality is that most employment contracts consider the employee's considered made for hire, meaning that ownership rights, in whole or large part, are given to the employer. Publishing works carries both risk and a cost to ensure the right works are published under the appropriate terms, and expending this effort is only in the interest of the company as a means of retention (and, ironically, letting your workers display their talent can easily work against retention).

> Over 90% of the studio work I've made over my career is locked away forever

Speaking as a developer, my "locked away" rate is probably >99.9% on a line-by-line basis. Glad to see the concept artists faring better, I suppose.