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This is apparently a controversial opinion but I don't think the government should be allowed to break the law. And no cheating by writing a law that laws don't apply to you.

It's more the breach of trust and how systemically rotten the entire company must have been to make a decision like that. I don't really buy that one guy could be the cause, and it also appears to be the CEO's job to hit the eject button when the company needs a scapegoat. The board of directors decided that the president of EA should run unity, and I think they're all still around.

There isn't any real coming back from this other than waiting a decade for people to just forget about it. They went out of their way to do something that was highly unpopular, retroactively binding, with nebulous enforcement rules that unity decided. This was a massive unforced blunder.

I haven't seen any evidence that giving more money to academia improves student results. It certainly hasn't worked for colleges, where you've seen a negative correlation over many years between quality of education and funding.

> That is what you get when you stop funding general education because you think people should pay for it themselves. People lose the ability to separate fact from fiction, lack the ability for critical thinking.

On the other hand, this sounds like something you just made up and decided to connect to the current topic. Is this fact or fiction?

That's the issue I take with the "phonebook" defense. It justifies doxing people by collecting and connecting publicly available information online. All the information is out there, it's all on a phone book, your email was published online, and so on, but the end result is clearly bad so something in the process should be handled more carefully.

I can't imagine having to experience the world exclusively through WW2 propaganda.

If I published a list of all name and addresses, that's still different than "here is harywikle's full name and address". I imagine you wouldn't be too pleased?

That's a positive feedback loop. Ads are the root of all evil on the internet, and the end of that loop is "no more ads". And I don't want to hear shit about the internet dying without ads, in the same thread people are talking about cloudflare serving TBs of data for free or a $4 unmetered VPS.

> Wow, ok. So that kind of idea is really completely new, so it can't be valid?

Theoretically it could be, but you should be aware if your argument directly contradicts years of other people advocating for DEI. The idea being sold isn't "we need jobs to be more merit based" but "we don't have enough merit and have to discriminate".

> It's possible that your country may codify gatekeeping and privilege, and the only way they may know how is to do the same thing in the opposite way.

My country, the US, codifies that you're not allowed to racially discriminate. Somehow this doesn't stop people from declaring that we must explicitly perform racially discrimination in order to offset some perceived discrimination.

> The relevance of DEI shouldn't be held exclusively with its implementation at any given time, as long as it's improving. Kind of like software, maybe.

The relevance is that I'm a race it explicitly disadvantages, and so it my family. It's illegal, racial discrimination is apparently immoral when it's done to anyone else, and it needs to go.

> I'm not sure where your observation is based on - happy to learn and read from any studies though beyond anecdotal differences.

Go look at medical schools. High scoring Whites and Asians are about as likely to get in as extremely poorly performing Black students.

https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/med1.jpg?x850...

American States have their own culture and identity. The ideals of America was never being an economic zone to house the entire third world, who think the only utility of a state should be to fly over it.

What do you think the word "Flyover" means? You live in it now, they let you in so you're not flying over it. It's obviously derogatory, and even your link says it's derogatory. That'd be like me going to India, and then complaining "As an American living next to untouchables..."

> DEI is more about getting equally qualified candidates to the table that are ignored or missed.

This is the first time I've heard that. The normal party line is that, yes, they're worse at the job but it's because they never got the opportunity to learn. You can observe in colleges that DEI-appointed students do massively worse overall despite probably being given even more leeway than normal students.

There should definitely be a clickbait exception to that. Sure, "YOU WON'T BELIEVE what robot vacuum ABC hacked" might be work better if you want an unaltered title, but it's objectively worse in every way.

You don't. Any language that tries to do both turns into an unusable abomination like C++. Good languages are stable and the bleeding edge is just the "new thing" and not necessarily better than the old thing.

Why are some functions addressable in C++ and others not? Seems like a pointless design oversight.

"Denial" crimes. There's at least 3 of them involving race, gender, and religion. Good luck getting funding or even keeping your shitty job if you commit any of these cardinal sins.

This also applies to the US to a lesser extent. If you want to work in academia, there's a very strict subset of ideas you're allowed to even consider.

Yeah, when we make generalizations like that we have to assume rational actors in the same earning bracket. I was also describing people outside the US where people are a bit less willing to buy the new thing every year if they can't afford it. Ukraine before the war, for example, had a massive economic crash and no one could afford to repair their computers anymore which put most repair shops out of business.

No, it's just vague whining about the idea of capitalism itself. Updating capitalism is not talking about any specific problems.

>No! I actually do take personal responsibility by:

None of these are taking responsibility. This is just a normal nihilistic life style being spun as meaningful behavior. You not having kids isn't making a sacrifice because there is no world in which you have kids.

> With enough around you could run a low-power mesh network in an emergency to keep communication open between folks that are separated.

And it plays videogames. Sounds like a win-win to me.

Every single thread has someone complaining about capitalism. It's childish, and more importantly, not interesting. We get it, capitalism bad, but communists produce even more e-waste.

> People don’t want to pay to fix things

This just isn't true, as long as there's repair shops out with a sizable customer base. The issue is companies do everything in their power to make it impossible for that service to exist. It also largely depends on the economy; If the economy is great, people throw their old stuff away and buy new stuff. If money is tight, they repair it, and if there's an economic collapse they let it stay broken. I wonder where we are?

> consumers choose what to buy, who to buy from, and how often.

Sure, but when companies can all collectively decide that they're only going do one thing, you either stop consuming entirely or put up with the abuse.

> Why should government need to step in

Because companies won't do it on their own.

> what is government going to do?

Write right to repair legislature. None of these are difficult problems, you just seem to have a libertarian mindset which inevitably means you just play defense for corporations doing whatever they want.

I don't know anything about warfare but it's impressive that everyone here is an expert in it. AI, drones, AI powered drones, I just can't keep up.

I don't think it's part of an antitrust case, but I am tired of seeing every item being sold from 200 chinese companies with randomly generated names and fake/bought reviews. Walmart has started to do something similar with their online store. I'll use their words.

> It's easy to sell online with Walmart.com. Partner with the largest multi-channel retailer and put your products in front of millions of Walmart shoppers.

Americans are used to American storefronts going through American regulations, but now you're essentially being dropshipped hazardous unregulated products. I generally try to buy from companies directly but this hasn't stopped my family from buying chinesium children toys for me that go straight into the trash.

Is this a joke? Right, women wear makeup, might as well AI generate every image we look for.

> But it's their product they can do what they want.

To the extent that we let them. There's no natural rights going on here, so theoretically (if you believe in democracy) we still get to decide how much power foreign companies have.

It's important for low skill developers. I never understood why everyone was afraid of the shit chatgpt output, until I finally realized it actually surpassed many "software engineers" in skill. Sobering!