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Those are all great reasons. What's the need to push for yet-to-be-subtantiated fears of microplastics?

What is OP fighting for? Idk, an unbiased view of reality, maybe?

probably also to not make feel Trump too isolated in fears he does something unfixable.

Well Airbus is doing much better than Boeing so I'm not sure what's the problem.

> Russia has been trying to export their nationalistic totalitarianism to the EU

Let's not pretend that nationalism doesn't have deep roots in Europe.

Well they did put in their contracts with the Israeli government that their services can't be used for mass surveilance which makes them slightly less evil than Google/Amazon.

Do you wanna discuss what is the reason is for like 50% of those countries being dictatorships? https://mondoweiss.net/2012/01/carter-us-backed-egyptian-dic...

When you're doing mass surveilance, including storing every single phone call, of a population of 6 million people, storage needs tend to pile up quite fast.

But it's simply an economic fact that EoS will be more efficient with a task that's so easy to offload somewhere else.

> unless a country is affected by US sanctions

A list that's growing by the day lol

But they're only limited to 5000 keys. beyond that requires special approval, which is not given if the game is being sold more outside Steam than inside.

> Valve is seeking a balance.

They're demonstrably not. I'd advise you to read up on the concept of a monopoly.

> They made 17 Billion in rev last year, so nearly 25 Billion went to game makers / publishers. This is 2-3x what spotify paid to artists in the same year.

And? I don't understand why you're just comparing two values in absolute values. You're talking as if Valve is giving away money.

> Considering Steam is the launcher most people use for most games, that's a totally reasonable tack.

That's exactly how you create a walled garden. You build a garden. Get people in. Then wall it up.

> bigger organizations get more bargaining power and get better deals

This is exactly how it's setup right now.

Of course 30% seems reasonble to you, you're not the creator of the games. It's quite confusing to me that you're endorsing the side that has an insane ROI instead of the side that is sufferring greatly to make ends meet.

How do you throttle bots? Everyone will stop having commit msgs mentioning LLM agents. then what?

Can we please do something about these AI slop articles? It's becoming really sadenning having to open a frontpage link only to find the same, meritless, braindead article one time after the other.

Egyptians and Israelis hate each other, not their governments. They're on friendly terms relatively speaking.

This is somehow even less helpful than the og article.

> At least with popular systems there’s a lot of state level hacking activity so zero days get patched routinely

Not sure how you're implying one leads to the other.

> Would Git have been significantly better if it had collected telemetry, or would the data not have just been a distraction?

I'm not sure if you're implying it's obvious but it's not obvious to me that it would be unhelpful.

What do you mean by most academics? In Europe? That's just blatently untrue.

who said it has to be novel?

Nukes in Iraq?

at a range where short-range anti-ship missiles can reach ships from Iranian territory.

Did Israel peacefully withdraw from the Golan Heights? No? Unilateral annexation condemened by nearly everyone in the international community.

> aesthetics are a type of philosophy.

What philosophy is that?

> Shares in the California-based company rose by about 6% following news of the proposed settlement.

Yeah that's fair you guys should still call it DoD. I think I'm gonna stick to DoW from here on out though.

Personally, as someone coming from a region that has suffered many times over by the actions of this so called "Ministry of Defense," I feel like "Department of War" is a more accurate and honest term.