Back in like 2005(?) when it came out it was also the first game that I ever saw supporting dual monitors. I had the overhead map on one screen and normal view on my main screen. That was pretty darn cool back in the day.
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But to the moon, right!
Sure it does. Once you reach a large enough scale you kind of need to do stuff to attempt to not be losing money on the development & hardware costs of such a large platform.. so you end up changing, even if it's not 'for the best'.
First, EVEN if what you are saying is true (spoiler alert- it's not). There are always private options if you really want to pay for it. So your argument of "there are wait times" basically goes away, because if you really want something "like you have now", you can pay and get it.
Next, what is better.. never being able to afford an elective/non urgent surgery, or wait 4-6 weeks (or perhaps even longer) for it? The point is you will get it and not go bankrupt.
And if it's urgent, you get it right away. Anything else you have heard is bullshit or has some other context you don't realize.
I mean, do you realize how many people in this country are living with conditions that probably even being able to go to a doctor on a regular basis would massively improve their life? But they can't afford it- even with "insurance".
>I hate the system in US, but at least it gives a chance to people who can afford it;
>here, everybody is equally screwed.
How do those two statements make any sense? You literally just said it gives a chance to people who can afford it... then claim everybody is equally screwed. No they aren't. It's like anything else- the top maybe 10-20% have no issues with it because they can afford it. So fuck everyone else right? The same top 10-20% who just love that the stock market booms during a pandemic because they can just continue to print more money.
Man your attitude pisses me off.
>The only thing that works well here is giving birth, that is free, you can cover that by the state or federal in US too
The hell are you talking about? "Insurance" covers birth yeah, but it'll still generally max out most peoples deductibles so it's still thousands and thousands of dollars... and heaven forbid you have a c-section or some other complicated birth.
Also, I lived in the UK for a number of years. We had so many trips to the doctor for our birth. Cost? Fucking 0. Yeah peoples taxes are a bit higher once you make descent money, but that's the damn point! People who can afford it are paying into a system that makes everyone better off.
We should be trying to make EVERYONE AS A WHOLE better off, not only the top 10-20% which is apparently what your logic is.
I mean, I know who you are. People who have a great job and don't really have to worry about insurance. Or maybe at a university where insurance is probably covered well. So f everyone else, right?
I am self employed so I have to worry about paying all this shit myself; 11k family deductible with 40% co-insurance for $1200.
Every time my young kids have had something that was not like a massive emergency, you know what the thought is? Oh god is this worth going to the hospital for and spending 1k? Or when I had my own person health issues, my first thoughts are always how much is this going to fucking cost?
So yeah, if you think OPs link is exaggeration.. it sure as hell is not.
Of course.. but, that's basically why health insurance should be "required" for everyone, because then it's not an issue.
Because if you are not gaming the system, and make a simple mistake by OP, it can be fucking life altering.
I was in a similar situation a few years ago. For whatever reason our auto payment stopped on the health insurance on a year-to-year rollover. I didn't notice, everything is on autopay. Sure it was my 'fault', but you know what the result was? I was uninsured for 9 months (except for a garbage plan I could find that I'm sure would have done almost nothing).. if something serious had happened I would have been FUCKED.
So yeah we can sit here and say all this bullshit about eligibility windows. But the truth of the matter is every one of these things just points to why the entire country should be covered.
It's honestly SICK how some people think healthcare should work. And honestly the amount of resources put into all the billing jobs and compliance and all the bullshit is STAGGERING. How much energy is wasted on the bullshit billing systems and rules which are just made to fuck people over who have health problems.
/rant off
Media coverage dominates new technology [3d printing]... SHOCKER I TELL YOU!
So I would agree it's "deception" in terms of they are pretending to post actual content, but it's 100% meant to be an advertisement for financial gain.
And hey whatever they can do as they please.. but it really does fall under a similar category.
You have absolutely nothing like that in the non-VR space. Being able to physically swing weapons is night and day vs clicking a mouse. Picking up a bad guy and throwing him, etc.
Also, in some FPS type games (like paintball, or Battle Dome).. being able to literally peak around corners is a game changer for the feeling of immersion and it makes a huge gameplay difference.
Finally.. Climby! Being able to have a climbing simulator that you are really using your hands/arms and having a feeling of vertigo. You don't get that with keyboard/mouse & 2d.
Hmm.. I think you are in the vast minority for sure. I've been following (and an adopter) of VR since the beginning and I think this is really the first time I've heard someone say something like that.
What I don't get is you say "sensory deprivation" but you are anything but deprived on sensory.. you feel like you are in another place with visual & audio. I guess when there's a loading time or something and it's all black, I can see what you mean a little bit..
Well what I find ironic is you are against the concept of interest but consider a cool technology like blockchain an "investment". If you were really so righteous about economics you would realize turning cryptos into "investing" is a total scam.
The very topic of this post "Bitcoin breaks above $20k or $20,000 USD / BTC". How can something that can only be quoted in terms of another currency be inflation resistant?
That I completely agree with and have almost as much issue with. But at least the underlying's have some value. The actual value is up for debate, but it's actual value of something (like an underlying company and their cash/IP/other assets etc) or a commodity which is physically useful (an ounce of gold, a barrel of oil).
Bitcoin has no underlying value. You equate that to conch shells- ok, but that's all they had when they used it. We already have currencies. So comparing it to a situation where a civilization may have used conch shells is pretty laughable. If all we had was conch shells and you came up with bitcoin? Great! Seems like a nice idea, it's an improvement. Bitcoin, however, is not an improvement by any stretch of the imagination.
>The world wants and needs a medium of exchange, otherwise we are back to bartering fish for sheep skins.
That's what... currencies are for especially the USD in particular. You say otherwise we are back to bartering fish for sheep skins.. huh? We are not there, we have currencies... Are they perfect? Of course not. But we have a few extremely large currencies (like USD, EUR) that do exactly what you say.
And now here's the humorous thing. You will tell related to currencies- "well, what good does USD do to me, I'm in Country X and can't use it or don't have it!" The fucking price of crypto is being quoted RELATIVE TO CURRENCIES so... wtf?
If you are in Country X and want to send some value to the person in Country Y.. ok so yes you can send bitcoin. Great. But what if you actually want to use your money? You have to convert bitcoin into X or Y?? There is no point to all of this!
And because of different costs of living all throughout the world, the 'amount' of bitcoin you pay someone would still 'relative' to their underlying currencies worth.
I'm just getting tired even trying to type this insane circular logic.
If there were no thieves and people were perfect, then crypto might make sense. But because there is no recourse for accidentally sending money to the wrong person, literally losing your hard drive or whatever and you can't recover, someone hacking into your account etc.. crypto is MEANINGLESS for any normal use.
I don't understand why you make this comparison?
Gold is a physical item with real-world use cases. Gold is rare and has physical applications which is why it's valuable. We can't magically create more gold.
Now you are going to say bitcoin is fixed as well. Fine, but it has basically no use case. Also, it can be replicated a billion times over with any other cryptocurrency. So I would even say it's debatable to call it 'rare' or 'fixed', even though I know what you mean.
The amount of gold which has been mined in the entire human history is about a 20m cube. That's it. Gold is used in very useful in many industries around the world and is visually appealing. THAT is why it has value.
If Gold was "rare" but looked like garbage and had no physical application then it would NOT be valuable. I don't get how you are trying to make this argument.
I 100% understand what you are saying but I also 100% disagree with it.
This is all greed with no substance. Wealthy people and those who desire to be wealthy are doing everything they can to arbitrarily prop up something which does not really have value. And they seem to be winning- which is everything that is wrong with the world right now.
>belittles everyone who doesn't share your narrow ideology
Wake up to the present. People who actively try to ban same-sex marriage are just as bad as segregation was back in the day.
Calling this "narrow ideology" is preposterous.
There is nothing wrong with homosexuality and they should be given the same rights as everyone else. It's NOT a debate. So if someone is actively trying to campaign against equality then they are flat out wrong and deserve the backlash.
I mean hell, when I was in the UK our landlord gave us the wrong banking info and we were paying for 6 months to the wrong account! I don't know how our landlords went 6 months without knowing they weren't getting paid.. but once they told us I called the bank and they were able to contact the owner of the account it was going into and pull the funds back to the correct account.
Now sure if the owner of this "wrong" account was doing something sketchy it would have been more complicated, but there still would have been as full of recourse as possible. It's not your money just because the bank puts wrong money in your acct.
And sure wire's are a bit more complicated..
But yeah- end of the day the banks are able to do something if it's legit.
I actually just tried again, and Netflix does not seem to be doing it.. only Hulu. It does this on multiple machines so perhaps just Hulu <> Firefox specific.
I really like the picture-in-picture feature of firefox. However, if I have a video in PiP mode and I click pause, randomly about 5-10 seconds later it unpauses and keeps playing. This happens on both Hulu and Netflix.. on multiple computers and has been going on for quite some time.
Seems like such a common thing I'm surprised it hasn't been fixed.
Part of me thinks it's 'intellectual elites' here that simply can't fathom not working at a FAANG job making 250k+ and don't understand the problems most people have. And if you aren't working at one of those you must be the ultra silicon valley entrepreneur trying to do the next big thing because money.
Probably downvoted for this but whatever, I think it's the truth. When I first was on this site a few years ago I thought it was a cool forum for geeks, but it's just not that at all really.
It's all about expectations...
Sure it does.. it says "Realtime Raytracing on the SNES". To any normal person "SNES" means a super nintendo you would have at home.. not one that has expansion cards etc.
Anyway cool project but the title is indeed a bit misleading.
I don't know, whenever the topic of Kim Dotcom/Megaupload comes up people on hackernews act like he has done nothing wrong and is a victim. Now the community is against a business being built on uploading stolen content by anonymous users?
Ok.