There's a timeout, so if you're patient it eventually stops
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As an example.
And if no one is even willing to call China out on its shenanigans, why would they stop? They'll just get even more emboldened. HK, Tibet, Uighurs are resolved, so the next stop clearly is Taiwan. If Taiwan's independence is eroded and the US doesn't step in militarily, it's game over.
Digging a bit more, on the investor side, there are value investors who look for solid, if unspectacular businesses at a price point and buy and hold over long periods of time.
On the company side, there are exceptional founder run businesses like Amazon, FB etc. that don't care very much what things look like in the short term (Bezos claims he's willing to be misunderstood for long periods of time for example).
> It asks a lot of the player, and takes a while to work it out. You have to play it once in order to understand what's going on. You have to be willing to spend time with it, and that’s not where most gamers are these days.
However, there's plenty of games like this being made today. Paradox games all require hundreds of hours of playtime before you feel even barely competent at the game. Stellaris is one of the best games in recent memory for me. CK3 just came out and is pretty popular.
I don't think gamers today are more / less patient than gamers 30 years ago. You just have a larger, more varied audience but the type of people that are attracted to strategy gaming still exist in good numbers.
What if they exclude a company because of political ties to communist regimes? Or ESG concerns? To me neither of these is acceptable. I would be pretty annoyed if Exxon was excluded from SP500 because they contribute to Global Warming.
Go pick another index is not a defensible position when I'm criticizing the index's policies specifically. Yet to hear good reasons for why a committee "exercising judgement" is a good thing for the average investor.
We need a more algorithmic index, not one ruled by one central committee.
Wonder if there's an ETF that simply does market cap weighting and just picks top public companies by valuation.
https://www.levels.fyi/# exists but might be inflated a bit.
I'll need to check out some of the no-code tools again, the world has come a long way from WYSIWYG html tools.
Imagine we're in '98 - you won't be right until '01. That's some super long dated puts. Easier to BTFD.
Sure you need some STR but if you're playing a mage, keep maxing out that Mana pool at the expense of everything else!
The whole game seemed like a forced distillation of programming into a form that can be consumed by the masses.
If it's the former, there's not much to see here, move on. Just capitalism at work. If it's the latter, I don't see how any pvt company can compete against an actor with such deep pockets.
The USD I think buys 15% less EUR than it did pre-COVID. Similar results even if you compare it to a basket of world currencies.
I agree that this process should in be a lot simpler but I wonder what the outcome would've been if you were willing to hire a broker and pay some bribes to get it done. Of course for you the actual manufacturing might be a secondary goal with the primary one being changing the process itself, but if someone just wants to start doing business, do you know how much it'd cost in terms of broker fees, bribes etc. to get everything setup?
The thing they (Spotify) are complaining about now with the EU antitrust case is the 30% gate keeping toll Apple charges which is an entirely different thing.
I don't think Apple management sat down and thought, right, how do we kneecap competing music streaming providers? Okay lets build Apple Music support for Siri but not Spotify.
It was just that no iOS apps had deep Siri integration and they've been one-offing implementations for common usecases like timers, alarms etc. for the longest time. I assume someone got a project funded by the Music org to go one off the Apple Music usecase as well and here we are.
Vice is generally okay, so I'd give them the benefit of the doubt, but think twice before you subscribe to any opinion that the NYTimes / Vox et. al. have about tech.
What's surprising for me is the claim that the behavior of the app changes if it detects someone is inspecting it. This seems a bit handwavey to me and would like a more detailed explanation if anyone has one.
At this point, I think for me the bars for me are:
Don't upload content that I haven't explicitly posted to your servers. This can come in various forms:
- Assuming you gave an app access to your album because you wanted to post something from there. How do you know it's not simply uploading all your photos and videos silently in the background?
- Microphone data: Again you let an app record some video and thereby give mic access to it, a malicious actor can then snoop in and listen to your conversation whenever they want.
These criticisms apply to both iOS and Android although iOS is a little better in terms of how background services work. Don't do mobile-dev as a profession, so I'd appreciate it if anyone could correct me if the OS does enforce some sort of protections here.
It is so bad now that it won't even show me content from my subscriptions if I haven't watched those specific channels in a while - For several months last year, I was really into photography channels and my feed was just gear reviews, photo technique videos and such. Now I barely see them anymore and I have to hunt down people I like / subscribed to and watch their videos manually. Serendipity is totally lost.
This should be a simpler problem than getting balanced news, anyone have any tips on how to solve it?