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They have to choose the default tip amounts so I’m pretty sure tips are off by default. Also, there was an interview on Vox or NBC where business owners state it’s off by default but “you are leaving money on the table by not asking.”

> You wonder what do all these people living here do for a living?

Most of those people either a) commute a long distance to scrape by and lose a significant chunk of their earnings on gas because they own a 30 year old hoopty of a truck or b) live off of welfare. That’s how a lot of these small communities continue to exist. People can’t afford to move out and obviously don’t want to commit suicide (nor should they).

Having come from a small town, I don’t think these people will move even if it’s paid for. Many rural folk have these warped views of more populace towns and cities because of the warped political rhetoric and constant bombardment of negative news coverage.

It’s an extremely difficult problem that I don’t personally believe has a solution because you have to have willing participation (some will, but most won’t).

I’d say a good 90% of ads I view on YouTube mobile (I have an adblocker on desktop) are for Google Fiber which 1) is a Google product and therefore doesn’t generate income on ads sales and 2) I’m already a customer of so they literally can’t make a sale on me with the ad. It’s completely useless so I should be able to block the ads as they serve no purpose whatsoever.

The other 10% are the scam “get solar for free” ads.

Sydney has metro rail lines that go out into the mountains as an alternative to driving.

Do you need a personal vehicle to carry a few sandwiches, some water and a first aid kit? If you are going camping can’t you rent a vehicle, how often do you realistically go camping that it justifies the cost of ownership over renting when you _truly_ need it?

If you really do need a car, that’s totally acceptable! But how many people don’t actually need it for anything other than weekend grocery shopping and work commutes? Hint: a very large portion of the population.

Do people not have to schedule around 15-30 minute drives? How is that any different from “I can be there in 15 if I make the S3 train otherwise about 25 since I’ll catch the 86 bus that runs shortly after”? There really is no defense at all for being car dependent. Literally every other country in the world proves you don’t need them.

The huge concern here is not that Microsoft can’t compete, because they can as they have far more studios than Sony does. The issue is their strategy overall which is top earning multi-platform companies, like Bethesda and ActiBlizz, to cut off revenue from competitors. Meanwhile Sony’s biggest acquisitions were studios that mainly focused on their platform to begin with.

Nobody expects it come without a cost. But I would sure as hell prefer paying roughly the same in taxes as what my premium is in order to not have to worry about leaving the doctor or hospital with a lifetime of debt.

I’m not sure it’s that unrealistic. The trailer shows off a LOT of features carrying over from CS1. Some stuff might be cut, sure, but they aren’t swapping engines so the breaking changes might not be as significant as one might expect.

It looks like this is all of CS1 rolled into one base game with an engine upgrade plus QoL improvements, for only $50 I might add. I saw numerous features added by DLC in this trailer. Examples include: day/night cycle (After dark), industrial zoning (Industries), mixed transit hubs (Mass Transit), dynamic seasons (building on Snowfall), college campuses (Campus). I’m sure I missed some other details as well.

Some real “old man yells at cloud” vibes from this post.

The Discover feed has been helpful for me to discover libraries I can use or projects to contribute to. I approve of it much more than the profile badges (which seem abandoned?).

To the author: believe it or not but open source is a community. People need help and others want to offer help, just because a new discover feature isn’t for you doesn’t make the company the ruin of all software programming.

I second the SoundSticks, my gen2 are still rocking over 10 years later.

HDMI beat DP, it’s one that will always bug me.

Agreed, less single family zoning automatically means 30 story skyscrapers. There is no such thing as duplexes or quadplexes. There is also no such thing as townhomes. /s

Because that’s where it’s been?

Why do you think “more dense” automatically means “so dense your whole apartment is a bed”?

My house was built around the time the automobile became common, meaning long long long before parking requirements or even driveways and I have a yard… I highly suggest you take a look around - even within the US - at older neighborhoods and see how nice and quaint it can be without loud, smelly, space wasting cars.

So if they’ve determined old games won’t be profitable, then why do they make it so difficult to access and play games that they haven’t sold for over 20 years? What do they gain from shutting down ROM sites other than the hatred of online communities?

Uh, what?