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If China did then so did Russia. But let's give Putin a seat at G table.

Hey, this is interesting. Would you care to explain?

It is interesting to see how quickly this post lost visibility.

Anyone else notice how it is impossible to select and copy text?

I'd like to see you put your data where your mouth is.

I'd suggest that even if you love your job, set limits. Your longevity as a professional depends on it.

Population growth is mostly prevented by war, famine, disease and education.

Since Britain is mostly without war, famine or disease, we need education to do the heavy lifting to control the population. In areas, social and economic circles where education is low, the population tends to go up.

A big part of why couples stay together are the pressures that keep them together - economic, social, societal, legal. Right now is just a really shitty time for married couples in Western countries - it is increasingly anti-social, anti-religious, much more individualistic, ultra mobile, but high on public services. Parental laws heavily favor mothers over fathers. So, combine situations where populations tend to go up with a legal / social environment where staying together is completely unnecessary for leading a meaningful life and we have a large amount of single mothers.

We can blame the single mothers, or we can assume that, given a set of opportunities and constraints, people generally behave in a predictable fashion. Don't hate the player, hate the game.

Feelings are there for a reason, mate. Mine tell me that an animal would rather not exist than being born into a life of torture followed by slaughter.

Could you provide more specific examples of "what was happening everywhere else"?

An animal doesn't know if it is being raised for experimentation or food. They are simply being treated cruelly until they are slaughtered. They may even be leading a better life if they are being raised for experimentation than for slaughter. We on the other hand are trying to wipe our conscious clean by rationalizing the reasons behind the slaughter and putting food over knowledge. We don't need to eat meat to survive or thrive, so saying "but it is for food" holds no higher a moral ground than "but it is for an experiment".

In the wild, they get to be free until the day they are killed by a predator. In captivity they are treated cruelly, fattened, and slaughtered with no chance of escape. How is that a "plus side"?

Do you not think that hitting them, packing them into cramped conditions, transporting them in similar conditions is torturous?

Touché =)

Seems appropriate since he doesn't like to drive anyway.

I can't wait for em' to take care of my kids. "Hardest job in the whole world". Come on, robots! What are you waiting for?

Could someone have moved it 45000 years ago as a joke like how Tesla launched a car for the aliens to scratch their heads in perpetuity?

Beginning of the end of Uber. Stay focused, stay hungry. Or perish.

Doesn't chew enough? Doesn't wash their hands before eating? Eats too much?

There's more to the equation! Robots feeding robots built by robots and programmed by robots! A clean solution for a clean planet earth!

You can use Google's search anonymously.

This is a great resource. I hope you see even more traction - I'm going to share this with my friends! Thank yoU!

Yup - the same applies to any resource or service. As costs go down so o barriers to entry.

The article makes a good point in pointing out that people often overlook this when talking about efficiencies leading to lower consumption of resources.

Luckily it was an Indian train, so it couldn't have been very fast :D

Does everything in America need to be healthy in order for it to be legal? Is that why the alcohol lobby so badly wants to prove that booze is good for us?

Context matters though, doesn't it? - Is the CEO known to make jokes / have fun? - Is it April 1st? - Is it an official company statement? - Is it April 1st?

Got it. CEOs are not allowed to make jokes or have fun in public because my God what will the investors think?!

> is not something that can be left to decide to a nerd in his mid 30s

Actually, it isn't being decided by him. Your favorite 3 letter agency is full of older more mature people deciding it for you.

And besides, why do you think people should take you seriously? You clearly seem to hate 30-somethings and nerds. Your bias is getting in the way of your argument.

"Never delete data. Storage is cheap. Just mark it as deleted."

And this is what makes me wary of apps like Signal as well. Who pays for the servers and why are they free?

That's a good point about unions requiring minimum education levels for membership. I suppose this is where apprenticeships come in. There will still be non-union developers, just as there are non union plumbers.

When the industry is highly lucrative on the backs of overworked labor, some type of a union apparatus is the most affective way to ensure fair compensation.

Yes, we can educate others who want to enter the industry, but when you're graduating out of university with a fat debt, you'll accept the poor working conditions for long enough and the cycle will continue to perpetuate.

The best protection against predation is for the prey to act together. Predators will always divide and conquer and go after the weak, and so the weak must be protected. The other way is increased competition - but our environment is becoming more and more anti-competitive.

Okay, let's call it compensation. That is a good umbrella term that includes salary, overtime and benefits.

The compensation for game workers sucks compared to their counterparts in other software fields. This is probably because it is sexier to be a game dev than, say, working at Salesforce.

It is a good idea for game industry workers to form a union or guild.