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To be honest, urban dictionary does everything this author wanted. Any 18 year old and up knows that if you want the right insult (or the right descriptor to a sex act you want to propose) you gotta use the right vernacular.
mass arrest -> leads to questions about why 1000's of young couples are being arrested due to them not wanting to pay mortgages on houses they can't move into for years, and has no construction progress (the construction is abandoned), and this is a contagion that will lead to another city starting to rebel, leading to more mass arrests. Not talking about 1 or 2 people, but thousands.
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the central government is taking care of the people by forcing a company into bankruptcy so they can't take advantage of people anymore.
The 2nd is the better narrative. That's what they picked. Doesn't make sense, but is what happened.
What you are also missing is that sometimes, parties are not allowed to abandon ship. Couples who have bought homes with mortgages but are not moved in for years are not allowed to give up, they are not allowed to stop paying on threat of imprisonment.
The organizations on the countersign are also not allowed to give up on mortgages because the existence of their company is at the will of the government.
There was an uprising where people banded together and just stopped paying their mortgages and basically threatened the local police to mass arrest them, and that's one of the things that spurred the greater bankruptcy, because the government didn't really want to arrest all the people, cause that would indicate they are not in control. And seeming to be in control is what the government will opt for every single time in every single decision they make.
medicine, environment, climate effects, stuff that the James Webb Telescope is observing (for example the idea that the universe is way older than we thought), every single moment we are creating or observing something new and suffering from (or benefiting from) the impacts of what we found or created.
If a person wants to go from "I don't know anything about this topic such that a wikipedia article is too confusing to interpret" to "I can understand an arxiv paper and discuss about its significance" they absolutely need to know why they want to do this.
There are a lot of topics in the world, and it's past the time where a DaVinci can master topics from anatomy to physical science to philosophy all in one lifetime. Gotta pick and chose, and knowing why is a big part of picking.
do you really care about this or do you just want to win internet points?
there are so many topics in the world, why do you need to put energy into this one?
it's kinda like someone asking which programming language to learn because there are too many of them and all the introduction to programming tutorials are too obtuse and too hard, without a real reason for learning programming in the first place.
like the previous poster said, if you do care about it, the wikipedia article and the footnotes are a good place to start.
Nobody is expected to know everything. You don't need to announce to the world that you don't know something. In fact, there is an assumption that if you don't voluntarily post any comments, that you don't know enough about the topic to discuss about it (or just don't care about it).
when asked why would they shut down something they were fighting nail and tooth for, they would shrug and say it's not in the okr. (and gaslight everyone again, saying they never thought it was important to begin with)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhDVC7-QgkI
One site that he mentioned was https://kernelci.org/ and the dashboard https://linux.kernelci.org/
the interface is a mess, accessibility concerns or not. It's truly an equal opportunity offender in all the worst case.
Or maybe they all died from cancers of all kinds, just not categorized as such, or died by murder / wars before cancer became an issue.
there is no modern western bank that is capitalized 100% - if everyone goes to every single bank and withdraws their money, the entire western economy collapses.
it's up to the depositors (the customers) to know that if they withdraw 100% of their cash, the entire system collapses.
as a human living in the current era, you either buy into this, or you go and live in a compound with gold bricks and weapons stashed in the basement, or you become a cryptobro, or you become like Russia and start wars to gather resources and land.
"JDK 20 reached General Availability on 21 March 2022"
Should be 21 March 2023
Not sure who can edit that page but putting here.
seems like a higher priority task than generating artificial art.
let's turn the GPT's toward something like a softwaresupplyGPT that can be trained on all the software on all the individual package/dependency managers that are in existence.
Just because all cars can get it easily doesn't mean F1 want it. Most often the quoted reason is to have a better spectator sport and to make it safer. I really doubt those reasons because you can still have a difficult and tight race while having all the modern safety features. For example why don't F1 cars have entire car air bags (ie air bags that envelop the entire car that deploy when the car goes airborne in a crash/rollover)? if it's too "heavy" just make a rule that all F1 cars need to have air bags so the playing field is even.
F1 cars should have self driving collision avoidance that can activate faster than human response times as well. that would be way safer for everyone involved.
Without the results/successes of tech developments, we probably wouldn't have as much witch burnings and hunts.
Think about doctors walking around healing people, doing surgeries. That's basically what a witch does. Where else do they get their power?
the Massachusetts witch trials were 1692-93, and pardons only started being given out well into the 1700's
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/a-brief-history-of-th...
There's also the critical theory about how the Enlightenment is only the Enlightenment in retrospect. During that time, it would have been a miserable existence full of broken and exploited people, and people believing in totally different realities and agendas.
It's like someone looking back 500 years in the future would would say "during the covid era science developed significant breakthroughs in universal vaccine technology"
Where as looking from today, it's all about vaccine/mask denialism, protests about 5G microchips, mass information, mass deaths (a lot of people died in the last 2 years from disease), etc.
The problem is that it's not enough money for the greedy owners behind the scenes who have nothing to do with the games themselves. Think the hedge fund owners, the banks, the note owners, etc. They want increasing amounts of money such that there's no money left to sustain the teams making the games.
A pure case of greed.
Blizzard itself can most likely stand on its own.
Shed the FIFA license (fifa wants more and more licensing fees every year) - and spin Activision sports out as its own entity/product line.
The successful products are fully capable of sustaining their own production & staff, without having to feed the corporate coffers of a conglomerate that only wants increasing profits without any regard to the products and teams themselves.
Everyone at the company wins except for the overlords who lorded over the profits and continued on the path of consolidation for the only reason of lining their own pockets.
In medieval times, if you "declare bankruptcy" your family and dependents get sold into slavery and your wife is sold off to the highest bidder who will buy your debt.
In many previous times, if you couldn't pay debts you'd just be killed.
If so, the answer is that fonts are a major underpinning of how an organization or a product is presented to the world.
To make an analogy that the hn crowd might understand, the value of a typeface for a design system is like the value a cryptographic primitive or a library like openssl to a functioning security system.
Nobody (aside from designers and typographers) will think "oh wow that font is so great they must have invested a lot into it", but it underlies every written visual interaction between the brand/product/company and its audience.
That said, are there many other fonts available that fall into the appropriate style, usage, licensing terms, etc that GitHub need? Perhaps. But uniqueness is a value in itself, and having a decision about a set of fonts that the company uses is a pretty important thing.
It's like the 3 spaces or 4 spaces vs tabs discussion. Some people use one, other people use another. But in a company, having an approved typeface that is recognized internally as the typeface to use (of course, you can have different typefaces for different scenarios/uses) - is just as important as determining which one to use.
China has been in a state of economic warfare since the 1920's.
Same story with mirrorless to be honest. Too little too late is the story of Nikon's plight with digital photography for the last decade.
The thing is, they were really innovative in the DSLR space and could go toe to toe with Canon, but in the last decade or so Nikon has been late with each product focus (video, mirrorless, etc)
(and once Sony makes the money, it uses the same profits from Fuji to compete against Fuji.)
It's a sort of reverse competition, where by Sony is guaranteed victory simply because they participate in their competitor's victories.
Photography never went away.
In fact, we share and post way way way more videos and images than before. No development time means you can get all 5000 photos that you snapped online with data everywhere!
Nikon makes cameras, lenses, medical and consumer lines, but their market cap is roughly 529.86 billion JPY
So the Canon company is a lot larger.
Sony itself is even more Juggernaut. They make a ton of things and market cap is about 12 trillion yen.
Market cap doesn't tell the whole story, but you can understand why Sony and Canon are referred to as "juggernauts" compared to Nikon.
On the imaging side of things, I think the current rise of casual videography is eating Nikon alive.
Even if you don't have youtuber / OF aspirations, almost all cameras that sell today need to have some kind of video mode. Cell phones excel in this segment, being able to take short videos of people just walking around doing their day-to-day stuff, having fun, working, etc. In my opinion, video has taken the place in society that taking still photos had back in the 1980's and 1990's.
Anything that goes viral these days is a video uploaded on worldstar or youtube or tiktok or instagram etc.
Canon and Sony both have pro-video recording line (used in TV/cinema industry), and I think what they did was cross pollinated the video knowledge very early on with their consumer digital cameras.
Nikon has always been a "stills first" camera company. They did put a lot of video features into their cameras, but it wasn't enough.