I can't quite grasp this. Candidates A B C i prefer in that order. I look at the polls and see A and B are close, but i much prefer them to C, so I approve of A and B. But the results come in and B won over A by 1 vote. Lets say me and 5 other people thought and acted that way. We're disappointed because we were not able to express our preference.
Lets say we 5 people do the opposite and only approve of A because we want to avoid the above, but it turns out C wins by 1 vote over B. We're disappointed we took a gamble to avoid the first situation and ended up with the second.
I understand RCV 1 2 3 may lead to weird situations downballot and horse trading, I know those examples but they seem infinitely harder to game out and vote defensively on compared to approval.
The explanations of approval all seem to rely on the falsehood that the voter approves of their choices equally.
You say that would be double taxation, but that's only because bezos avoided taxation entirely on that appreciation while alive, a nice perk the vast majority don't get. So really with the most modest reform you tax the appreciation 20% cg then estate tax on the remainder. Considering all that appreciation compounded without tax for years, they still make out astoundingly well
Google knows all this. I figured they're keeping the skeleton of a flagship, branding, marketing, and distribution as a countervailing threat to oems like Samsung that have played around with Tizen or thinking of going too propietary. If an OEM decides to drop play services or the play store then all google has to do is dump some money into their pixel org to make things move a little bigger and faster. Plus it helps to have a flagship when you're developing new Android features. Telephony features and dual sim was supported by pixels first, at least in a non hacky way
there's also the negative pressure. We might see a Telco give 1k to 50 congressmen and think they bribed cheaply, which they did. But it also means if you betray their trust they're willing to spend 50k on your opponent. Also, making sure a plurality of people in the room have some stake in the Telco can prevent uncomfortable conversations from even arising. After all, there are always other issues to work on that won't upset your colleagues
I can't believe individual resteraunts have to deal with credit card fraud through these services, and it's not a value add. maybe that's how payment processors want to handle things, but still, it would be very easy for these services to act as an escrow service. many already require photo proof of delivery and encourage the sealing of bags by the resteraunt. one more photo upload before that and you have auditable chain of custody, no blockchain required
This isn't true, but considering every Google outage is a one in a billion rube goldberg domino machine, it could be true. Put this comment in the post mortem!
At this point, even after Stadia, if Amazon is getting into, and i trust Amazon biz and market analytics more than Google or Xbox, the only conclusion I can come to is that they know the venn diagram is small but they must have data showing that it's getting bigger. They must be targeting people growing up just playing on their phones already paying subscription who want to play those cool AAA games with the smallest investment possible. That's me backing into this conclusion. I'll look forward to see what the next Deconstructor of Fun podcast says about this. They focus on the biz/money part of games and have been appropriately bearish on streaming (Stadia) in the past.
So I thought the consensus among economists, hn, etc was that the best most painless way to solve climate crisis is a carbon tax, that doesn't drastically alter the economy all at once. So what to do with the tax money? Presumably invest in green energy. A lot of that can help people directly, like solar and nuclear jobs, and indirectly, like better trains, or subsidies for the poor on any essential goods that price was raised by the carbon tax a lot. We can probably find a use for all the money raised by placing a carbon tax at the rate needed to prevent catastrophic climate change. But if we put the tax at the right rate and have some money afterwards, what's wrong with free college?
There wasn't even a coherent line throughout elementary and middle school in Orange County. One year, 1/3 of our curriculum was geology, which was 90% of what we covered last year. More flabbergasted than concerned. It was more stressful because I was nervous about which classes were going to be hard and which easy and then that curve ball comes along and i dont know what to think!
There is no federal id (except for DC drivers licenses). Drivers licenses are not proof of citizenship, Social Security card is not proof, university id card is not proof. Passports are expensive and time consuming to get
Not listed here is Tetris the Grandmaster 2. TGM2 hits the sweet spot between tgm1 and tgm3 in terms of predictability from the perspective of many fans. It increases the number of rolls to avoid dealing a piece in the 4-piece long history from 4 to 6. Essentially, it decreases the odds of a "history duplicate" from ~10% to 3%. With a 1 piece preview, it encourages a very unique type of planning, where you know what piece you need to prepare for immediately (at high speeds this means holding inputs before it even enters the play field), and also know with almost certainty the next piece is going to be 1 of 4 pieces. Unlike bag systems where the duplicate chance is 2% every 7 pieces here it's only 1% constantly, and the chance of drought is also much lower than bag. The chance of a 10 piece drought for I pieces is almost 0, but you're basically guaranteed to have a random unpleasant drought of 11-13 pieces in a long enough bag7 game. This strongly encourages you to use the hold mechanic strategically for safety, breaking flow and speed.
This may all seem academic, and it is very important for the type of high speed games tgm is, but it really is the biggest thing I miss playing modern tetris games. Barring other gimmicks, you build and plan the exact same way in every modern tetris game. With the ever present hold mechanic to switch out a piece, you don't even need multiple piece previews that some new games give you. Consider, after playing 3 pieces, you know with certainty the next 4. With the hold plus 1 piece preview, you spend over half your time in the second half of the bag knowing the next three pieces.
1. I'm really not sure yet. They haven't given any details publicly or privately. I'm most curious to see how this will be supported on iOS.
2. The demo on the keynote gave a great use case where a school nurse called the speaker about their child, and she was very lucky to pick up and not let it go to voicemail.
There are still a lot of use cases for calls to hammer out important details, even if they are becoming rarer, like health or car maintenance, or places where sms is associated more with spam. This is a great way to get the best of both worlds, even if it's technically during the decline of calls.
I'm surprised that Respawn has had so much trouble controlling cheaters in Apex considering they handled security in Titanfall 1/2 amazingly well. The f2p barrier probably contributes a lot to the problem.
>No analyst has the nerve to ask that question point blank on the earnings call.
Ooooh, I need to Google to see if this has happened. Obviously investors and analysts would prefer to have those talks privately to avoid alienating anyone important, but it has to have happened sometime.
Could Snapchat be something close? I don't know all the features, but it had games, a social geo map, commercial published content, and personal social content. Although the only third party integration is for filter and ad creatives, it "feels" like it might go there someday.
I highly recommend Citations Needed's episode on Perseverance Porn. If you have ever been uneasy with stories about people walking 10+ miles to work or relying on charity just to survive a common misfortune, this will open your eyes to just how prevalent it is.
https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/episode-23-the-medias-gri...
You're kind of burying the lede here by saying "Completely correct" and ending with "There has been court ruling around this area in the past few years". Haven't workers under a union been able to opt out of political giving since Abood in 1977? And public workers have been able to completely free ride since Janus
Agreed. For GE or P&G that have tons of vertically integrated moving parts and the complex accounting for it, I can intuitively understand that compliance and accounting would be huge and complex. But there are many billion dollar companies with a more streamlined and simple economic model, and the tools should exist to comply with the SEC as part of the normal workflow.