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Student loans should not be handed out as easily as they currently are.
Wow, racist much?
Ubuntu apparently knew all the drivers I needed, fetched them from beyond the great ether, and all was in harmony.
Why is this so easy for Canonical, but not Microsoft?
EDIT: I'm apparently a blind idiot in the morning. Misread the parent comment.
Much of the popularity of the game has a lot to do with the modding community as well, which is where you go when simply building in the vanilla game is no longer interesting. Any change to the vanilla game can have major ripple effects on the modding community.
Lastly, I'd say that one huge development they recently fixed in the code base was the block ID limit. Now that the ID system is name based rather than number based with a hard coded limit, the number of blocks that can be added to the game isn't limited by anything other than the direction of the creative team and new mechanics.
Also, since when do we need "compliance" with regard to offering a cheap solution to a common problem that isn't infectious? People are intelligent enough to know what they should do. Let them have the free will to take the solution or not. We don't need to force or seek "compliance". That just sounds kind of dystopian or authoritarian.
Granted, as a result of that in Google's case, their market dominance is kind of self-perpetuating, because that higher usage leads to better results, since our brains think very similarly, so that thing you were thinking of has already been searched for, and thus their algorithm has already filtered the results down to what you likely want before you even know that you need to search for something.
Take a new video game for instance where you want to search for the map or walkthrough for a particular level.
You'll get better results using Google, because most other people are already using Google to search for that exact same thing, whereas when I do the same with duckduckgo, it's hit or miss on the results.
If not, why would growing crops be a cheaper solution? What is the opportunity cost of growing golden rice to feed your vitamin deficient family vs. growing something else to sell on a broader market?