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It's in the "Other forms of discrimination" => "Racial disharmony" section, so it's applied in the context of racism (there are other sections that dictate other acts such as sexual harassment etc). There is also another section on "131 - Inciting racial disharmony"

http://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1993/0082/latest/D...

which references the previously mentioned section. But also followed up by

http://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1993/0082/latest/D...

"No prosecution for an offence against section 131 shall be instituted without the consent of the Attorney-General."

Hate speech laws aren't completely uncommon, so individual users would be liable for creating it. In NZ law, it's part of our Human Rights Act:

http://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1993/0082/latest/D...

"It shall be unlawful for any person to publish or distribute written matter which is threatening, abusive, or insulting, or to broadcast by means of radio or television or other electronic communication words which are threatening, abusive, or insulting"

I agree with your point regardless but just a side note that New Vegas was actually dev'd by Obsidian and not Bethesda Game Studios like the rest of your examples.

That's not really a specific counter point is it? The backing foundation is a non-profit that is backed by individuals, presumably they need a day job (not remote?) in order to be able to keep the organization running.

There doesn't appear to be any law of physics or higher power that enforces us to make these two things consistent, why would you assume they have to be?

Are you sure you're describing the same car as I am? It's called a J3 in my country, but appears to be labelled differently internationally. It's also a 2016 model.

Chery A3, M11, Cielo etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chery_A3

> The Chery J3 costs just as much as the Japanese car if not more.

You're really not correct on this. Some of the budget Japanese models come close, they are between 5-7k more in local currency. The popular "standard" Japanese models really are twice the price. The South Korean "Kia" is probably the close in terms of pricing/competition.

Have a look through the AA new car price list:

https://www.aa.co.nz/cars/buying-a-car/car-buying-guide/new-...

We're talking 16k NZD for the Cherry compared to anywhere between 22k - 32k for Japanese models. Maybe you could find some random model that comes close, but we couldn't "out in the wild" when we were shopping.

I didn't know this was controversial in any way, they've been in the Oceania market for some time.

My wife and I own a Chery J3, purchased it new. It came with a 3 year mechanical warranty plus other benefits for like half the price of a Japanese car.

I mean, it's pretty obviously catering for the "budget" market, it is literally the cheapest new car you can buy in the country. But it has suited our needs and we're actually a bit attached to the stupid thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chery

Here in kiwi-land, a bank transfer from one individual or business to another is considered the most basic of banking services and all banks support it.

Here are some screenshots from the KiwiBank web interface, (but it's similar for all banks):

https://i.imgur.com/ug9VU5t.png https://i.imgur.com/HRsyQoN.png

There are no fees related to this unless you start doing international transfers, it's just part of the service.

> and even erroneously has the "RPG Maker" tag on Steam

This is unfortunate, but is effectively a consequence of an enormously over-saturated market. People casually browsing through Steam will make instant snap decisions about a title.

Having that tag for instance will prevent Steam from ever showing it to me as is one of my (many) excluded tags[1].

It's completely brutal and as a developer I sympathize, but as a consumer/gamer the market is so completely and utterly tilted in my favor that I can "afford" to ignore 99% of titles that I might otherwise probably enjoy and still have more entertainment to last a life time.

[1]https://i.imgur.com/fwiiOed.png

I think it's missing the "open source" bit. The github link just goes to an org with a single "support" repo for issues.

I think you ruined your point at the end there by implying this attitude is unique to those that are religious. It definitely isn't and the "fuck poor" sentiment runs deep throughout every part of western culture.

This type of reasoning is completely out of place in the context of a developer having full control of the license they release their own code under.

There are literally hundreds of different software licenses. You can just pick the exact one that matches your ethical world view.

There is no reason to pick one that doesn't reflect your intent, then being a passive aggressive asshole about it when others follow the license as described.

Can I ask what you did in your role as a manager?

Where I work, even though there are some titles that have the word "manager" in, the organization refers to anyone that have people report to them as "people leaders".

They are responsible for the well being of the those that report to them. If you take away the part where you are responsible for your people, what is left?

Even if you take the most clinical and robotic view of the role, you still have to effectively allocate your resources. This means balancing strengths and weaknesses, allocating team members to places they are more interested in to improve performance. All this boils down to getting to know your people and making sure they are happy...

> You should just be able to work and separate yourself from your task in any emotional way.

This is also a crazy statement coming from someone who has people report to them. People don't turn off their emotions just because they are getting paid to perform a task !??!

They previously had their "Windows XP Mode"[1], run via the Windows Virtual PC[2]. Obviously not a container and it's dead now but yeah...

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-nz/download/details.aspx?id=800... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Virtual_PC

Is it really a grey area? Surely it's just plain old copyright infringement?

If facebook shuts down it doesn't mean all multimedia content that was ever hosted there suddenly gets dumped into the public domain. At most you gave the company that run the site an irrevocable, international license to that content (depending on their TOS), it doesn't apply to everyone else and it didn't get put into the public domain or under some other open source license.

Nintendo is sending all users their post history so they can personally archive it if they wish. If anyone else archives it, it's just copyright infringement...

Personally, I respect the work that the Internet Archive and other archivers do, so this is definitely not a hill I'm willing to die on.

> Does this seem spectacularly unreasonable ?

Like everything I guess it depends on your political views. Personally I think it's fine if medical care and research is a massive black hole of funds that the tax payer foots the bill for...

I'd be happy to install an extension that blocks all sites/content that consider viewing ads a prerequisite for accessing their content.

I run an ad/analytic blocker, and I will never turn it off. I also understand that content creation and hosting costs money. If you're not a company that I already give money to (bank, insurance, other meat space service) then I accept the ad-for-content relationship and choose not to view the content.

The biggest problems are that I can't scale randomly adding domains to a host file, and it's difficult to know the intent of content creators/owners regarding ads.

It would be nice to have a signal, maybe a html tag in the header or something to state the intent regarding ads. I would set my browser/an extension to honor it and block access to content instead of accepting ads.

Why would you want to start a business relationship with a company that required you to go through so much effort to buy their product?

In my country (NZ), it is my data. It's the literal law that any agent that collects personal information needs to follow a number of rules. (Search for NZ privacy Act for the gory details).

I'm allowed access to the information, and can request that it be updated. They can't keep the information longer then is necessary, they can't use it for anything other than the original collection purposes, they have to take reasonable measures to secure it, they can't disclose it etc.

I won't harp on about the details, but it's relatively well thought out (apart from some limitations regarding the reporting of breaches, but there are changes in the pipeline to patch that up).

wow, if that is accurate, talk about being a victim of your own success....

60 requests, Loaded in 6.49s. Cripes, if you don't have some marketing department shoving tracking scripts all over the place against your will what's your excuse?

It's just called "getting a decent tea bag" and works pretty well.

The flip side is of course brewing with real quality leaves, but it's more expensive and is more effort. They both have their places, unlike this machine.

It's seriously amazing how much you (and many others) give to the floss community.

I do the 9-5 developer thing and enjoy it very much, but I would probably lose my shit if I constantly had random strangers emailing me on my personal accounts demanding help.

I joke to myself that I would be the worst floss maintainer in the world and immediately reply to every feature request with an hourly charge out rate.

I don't disagree with the point you are trying to make, but how else would you expect the concept of recycling to work?

So, let's take Visy, in the context of this post, they are in the business of waste disposal, recycling, and packaging. For their packaging business, they turn raw materials into packaging. For cardboard, that's either dead trees or recycled/reprocessed cardboard.

So they either pay for brand new raw materials or recycled materials. They decide to skip the middle man and setup a plant, negotiate contracts with councils/governments and take peoples waste so they can turn it into packaging.

That's what recycling is. It's not magic. If there is no one/business on the other end to consume or process it, it's not recycling, it just garbage and goes to a land fill.

I'm just using cardboard as an example because it's easier to grok (trees/cardboard etc), but over the last 5 years there has literally been occasions where the price of brand new cardboard has been lower than recycled cardboard. So yes, sometimes this the recycling industry is all sorts of fucked, but if you don't have industry/business/consumer on the other end of this recycling equation it's worthless.

I tried Atom and didn't have a positive experience, so I'm not going to type out a bunch of words defending it. But the "reinvent poorly" comment comes up all the time on Atom posts. You're not adding any original insight or humor.

Here you go:

https://www.google.co.nz/search?lr=&as_qdr=all&q=allintext%3...

Monogame is practically a drop in replacement which has multi-platform support/targets. FNA is also effectively the same, with a slightly more "purist" approach.

I honestly just assume that anyone that says XNA in the context of development in the last 5 years actually means one of the modern mono implementations.

> porting Terraria (the actual game) from XNA to Unity

Can you talk about this? What was involved? Why do it? Major roadblocks? Do you feel it was it worth it?

This such a hilarious example of HN "HNing" an article title.

Instead of the original title, which literally describes what is happening, we have jargon being shoe horned in for no reason at all.

"Putting a Designer’s Polish on Ikea Products": Oh, some designers are buying Ikea products and doing cool, new shit with them.

"Designers Using Ikea Products as Platform": Don't what the fuck this means. Is Ikea launching some sort of partnership program? Are designers creating their products and selling them through the Ikea brand?

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The article contents effectively describe the former. There is a quote from the article that sums it up pretty well for those with little patience:

“We would tell the client, ‘You can save half if you use Ikea carcasses, and we just skin it.’ That’s where the initial idea started.”

Or put another way: The bits you can see are high quality ~designer~ finishing, the bits you can't see are standard off-the-shelf IKEA parts.

Stuff is like the Daily Mail of New Zealand, as a general rule you should assume everything at that site is complete garbage. That being said, this topic is definitely worth discussing.

I received my degree from a technical institute in NZ rather then one of the major universities. For each level we were required to take a semester (6 months) long paper in Legal and Ethics.

I enjoyed them at the time and have also found the knowledge gained to be extremely relevant in both my personal life and career.

The papers were quite broad and covered a range of topics including the traditional idea of "ethics", copyright law/infringement, the NZ Privacy Act, The Treaty of Waitangi [1]. We had an enthusiastic primary tutor and multiple guest tutors from the industry (privacy officer, lawyer etc). Thinking back, they were probably the best papers I took.

My day job now involves writing software that deals with the vast majority of New Zealanders medical data. The ethical "grounding" and the knowledge gained about the NZ Privacy Act in particular is quite literally at the front of my mind with every commit. It makes me extremely nervous that our educational institutes are shitting out software developers without any of this knowledge.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Waitangi

If you lack the imagination to consider such a future, learn from the best and read the Culture series of novels.