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Would buying 49% prevent any government investigations into the deal?

Thinking selfishly, the absolute quantity of good/bad software isn't as important as the software you have to interact with on a day-to-day basis. Good software is invisible and under-appreciated, you use it for it's purpose and move on, bad software really sticks out.

Then any progress would also stop overnight.

It's about destroying the patronage systems which benefited the Democrats

It's certainly polarizing, the quality of discourse on Hacker News has plummeted in the past few weeks.

"Sure OpenAI is ok, but what if we created a competitor with the imagination, innovation and work ethic of the British Civil Service, all on a fraction of the budget"

Thanks for replying. As a non-Canadian, your response has been more informative than the weeks I spent reading Twitter trying to figure out what was happening.

What were the general public's opinion of the protests?

Also how 'dangerous' was the convoy perceived to be?

Were the actions of the Government deemed to be overreach?

I was thinking of the kinds of games mentioned in this thread: Tiny Glade and The Gnorp Apologue. Small indie games made by people who fill the role of both engine programmer and game designer.

On a larger, more professional scale someone like Jonathan Blow comes to mind

There's nothing wrong with writing your own game engine rather than going for Unreal or Unity, in fact that's one way of creating a truly unique game.

My comment about "half baked" referred to the crates that people release instead of actual games.

The Rust game dev community might be wise to steer away from the "we gave up on developing our game, but hey Rustaceans, here are some crates you might find useful!" approach

Tiny Glade (https://store.steampowered.com/app/2198150/Tiny_Glade/) is an impressive example of a game written in Rust.

Apart from that exception, Rust game development seems more about releasing half baked crates than actual games

The link is about the government and banks colluding to debank industries that they don't like. "Crypto is the answer to debanking" isn't a point that's being made in the original post.

Here's a thread from Nic Carter which goes into more detail about Operation Chokepoint 2.0: https://x.com/nic__carter/status/1861748485424316627

Perhaps this might help you understand my point: https://world.hey.com/dhh/the-spells-are-spent-beaa675b

I'm asking people who don't like the result of the election to stop labelling everything Fascist. I'm trying to be helpful.

There is no right wing equivalent to the institutions I mentioned: CNN, MSNBC, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Hollywood, not to mention schools, universities, tech giants like Google, Apple, Meta etc, all of whom lean left and have shown biases in their actions.

Please try to entertain the hypothesis that maybe I'm not the one in an incredibly well insulated bubble

A great article that will unfortunately be ignored by the people who need to learn from it.

They will continue to double down and will mock DHH for even discussing it

Yes he has called people fascist in some of his speeches. Now compare that against everyone on CNN, MSNBC, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Hollywood, etc etc etc relentlessly calling people names for nearly a decade. The difference is a thousand fold. There is no equivalence in quantity.

Well your belief is wrong. The libs have spent years calling people of certain backgrounds, ethnicities and genders as fascist, racist, homophobic, sexist, transphobic, deplorable.

This behaviour culminates in what you're seeing.

That's the best description of the All-In Podcast I've read.

It's often infuriating to listen to someone being confidently wrong, but occasionally there are some good insights.

So maybe the left should reduce their usage of the word? Especially if they want to win over some of the people that voted for Trump in this election?

Just a thought

Calm down Jonathan, I was just trying to get a clarification on your point, it wasn't flamebait. Besides when I asked the question the other response hadn't been posted. I'll now stop talking to you Mr. Strange.

Yes, and wasn't it silly of him to call his opponents Fascist?

Was America under Fascist rule from 2016 to 2020?

Fascist has become an overused word by the left. Everyone else (the majority of the american voting population it would seem) are tired of the label and tune out anyone who accuses someone of being a fascist. The response from the left has been to double down and accuse more people of fascism.

It's always amazing what a biased media/social network can do to the perception of otherwise rational and intelligent people.

Isn't firing the weak employees the correct long term strategy? Especially with regards to ensuring that the remaining employees stay employed

Dopamine is one hell of a drug.

It's an abbreviation of "proctology"

Cool! I've got both and consider Katz a better writer of English. His prose is just more enjoyable to read and flows much better than P&V's rather too literal translations

A more critical version of Pevear and Volokhonsky's work appears here: https://www.commentary.org/articles/gary-morson/the-pevearsi...

Personally I'd highly recommend reading Michael R. Katz's translation of The Brothers Karamazov instead.