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None of the examples you've cited are the only option. Can't use Google, Facebook, or Twitter? Advertise on TV, buy billboards, or hand out flyers on the corner. Can't use CloudFlare? Buy another solution or spend millions to build one yourself -- CloudFlare is, by no means, the sole provider of such services.

The minute you force a company to do business with people they don't want to do business with is the minute you've nationalized the business. So that's the solution -- if the US government so strongly believes that these resources are vital to society in the way that, say, the electric grid is, they need to turn them into regulated utilities. Until then, they are profit-seeking companies who believe they are protecting their shareholders by choosing to refuse service to a customer.

So to be clear, you want to force a private company to do business with someone? How is this any different from a store having a “no shirt, no shoes, no service” sign?

This comment makes it sound like AWS controls web hosting for the entire planet.

There are literally thousands of web hosting options; Parler can go find a different one.

Hillary conceded less than a day after polls closed. A few House members filed complaints during the 2016 electoral count with no Senate support and Biden got the whole counting process over in about a half hour.

I understand the point you’re making, but the both-sides arguments undermine the discussion of a very clear problem we need to deal with as a country: millions of conservatives are comfortable with insurrection when they don’t get their way. They have no interest in democracy. It is paramount we make it clear this is not acceptable and ensure the future of our governmental norms are not disrupted further.

The only way to bring a lawsuit is for an action to occur that triggers the suit. Otherwise, there is no breach of contract to sue over. If Parler believes they have a case against Amazon, they are able to file a lawsuit.

That said, Parler almost certainly has no case since private companies may do business with whomever they please and any terms in place almost certainly contain an at-will termination clause. Parler will need to find a new host and AWS will forfeit any future revenue from Parler. That’s an even exchange.

... it’s comedy. Have a sense of humor.

Just to be clear, you are saying that having favorable trade policies with China is worse than directly associating the presidency with actual white supremacists? Really?

As of the beginning of the year, Pivotal is now a part of VMware Tanzu and collaborating in many of these areas within VMware.

Your choice of clipping that sentence is incredibly disingenuous.

The actual quote is “This suggests that the overall clinical consequences of Covid-19 may ultimately be more akin to those of a severe seasonal influenza (which has a case fatality rate of approximately 0.1%) or a pandemic influenza (similar to those in 1957 and 1968) rather than a disease similar to SARS or MERS, which have had case fatality rates of 9 to 10% and 36%, respectively.”

They are not saying COVID-19 is the same as a flu, they are saying its mortality rate is closer to a bad flu year than to SARS or MERS. And that’s only half of the story — they go on to say that the rate it is spreading is what is truly worrying even if the mortality rate is low.

Please stop spreading disinformation.

The part of that most people, including you, seen to miss is that this goes way beyond those sick with the virus. The strain this virus is putting on healthcare is unlike anything the flu does in any given year, even during epidemics in the past several decades. That means it will kill people who are sick with something else. Pray you don't have a need for an ICU bed any time soon.

In the US, the flu kills between 12,000 and 61,000 people each year depending on the season. COVID-19 will almost certainly reach the low end of that range in between two and three days. It went from 100 to more than 9,000 deaths in only three weeks.

It's not the flu.

P.S. everyone who can get a flu shot should, every year, regardless of age. Herd immunity assists in protecting the entire population.

There doesn’t need to be in-built value in human life for it to be valuable. As a species and society, we have chosen to value life and put rules in place to protect it. I find it inspiring that our species decided that, not a deity.

For what it’s worth, there is not one atheistic worldview; the lack of belief in a god is not an ideology. It is nonsensical just like asking about the shared worldview of everyone who lacks belief in leprechauns or Zeus.

Why would you choose to single out Protestant mega churches and not Catholic churches? This bias seems awfully self-serving.

They aren’t testing most people with symptoms. No way will they start testing random people without.

Anyone with a six-figure sale is nearly certain to end up owing more than they withhold (assuming you sell, which you probably should).

If a company hasn't IPO'ed, an 83(b) election may also make sense.

The Agile you describe is neither the agile I practice nor the one advocated for by sophisticated software development organizations who understand productivity and effectiveness.

The things you describe as “software engineering” are part of any reasonable agile implementation.

Many orgs have done a poor job of implementing agile practices, but throwing the baby out with the bath water seems like a great way to continue repeating the mistakes of those that came before us.

For one, they provide jobs for more than 150,000 people, not including contractors and vendors. Would you prefer those people all land on unemployment overnight? The people who did this should be punished, sure, but that shouldn’t make all of these people liable.

If they can’t recover, the company will be sold off for parts. That’s pretty standard in the corporate world. But to say we should somehow punish middle-class people trying to do good work by disappearing their employer because of some bad actors within the ranks of the company is a bad take.

It doesn’t seem that shocking to me that teenagers and young adults spend more time in shopping malls than people who are in there 20s and 30s.

It wasn’t even a fork. They mirrored a binary he’d released as a test build because it was more bug-free than the prior official build. He’s upset because he didn’t like that.

I’m pretty comfortable tipping via credit card because I understand that the card company and a bank is taking a cut. I am _not_ comfortable with something like this, where it’s not immediately clear what’s happening.

Nostalgia is powerful, certainly. I’m sure it’s in play whenever I hear arguments like this.

The line about US pharma research providing a free ride to other countries is exactly what the pharma lobby wants everyone to think. Meanwhile, they’ve enjoyed record profits leading to huge stock buyback programs and easily capture the majority of profits in the healthcare sector.

Pharma companies are ripping off Americans and we’re letting them.

Consumer expectations of scope, game length, release time tables, DLC, etc. have made this an impossibility.

I think you’d be surprised, honestly. Lots of people put hundreds of hours into games like Battlefront 2, Destiny 2, World of Warcraft, etc all while screaming at the top of their lungs about the good old days and how awful it is now. Meanwhile, they’re effectively paying $0.50/hour.

If you’re a casual player, I get it. To contrast, Destiny 2 originally launched with casual players in mind, resulting in casual players becoming less of a vocal audience after the first month or two (like you’d expect for most games) while the more hardcore players never stopped shouting their dissatisfaction.

At the end of the day, the hardcore side are the ones who usually determine if a follow up will be successful or not; balancing both audiences is likely an exercise in frustration and futility.

It was a beta. For all we know, they decided to switch DRM protection formats or make other sweeping changes in the months since the beta build was originally forked.

I don’t think it’s unreasonable for them to say “sorry, this beta must be deleted and the full game must be retrieved.” That’s the life of a beta tester.

That’s not necessarily true. If a new item introduces a new perk/mechanic/effect, adding the triggers for said effect may have wide-reaching effects. Texture files are often bundled as large bitmaps with dozens or hundreds of textures laid out in one binary, resulting in the entire texture file needing to be re-downloaded.

People want “games as a service”-level updates without having having to download big patches. Or they get upset that a patch comes out every week or so.

There’s really no winning.

If someone in the US isn't buying Apple or Samsung, what do you suggest they buy?

Your opinion that "it is never good for consumers or developers to have proprietary hardware and development kits" isn't much of an argument, it's just an opinion.

So do we just stick with USB-A forever?

How, exactly?