mrjangles

It sounds to me like what you are saying is that developers have discovered it is best to offer an amazing free product to the whole world in order to get them involved in the game, and then this attracts rich people, who then go ahead and pay for the whole things themselves. But if you don't attract the little guy with free stuff, you don't get a great game, and so you don't attract the rich people.

Seems like a good system that everyone happy with. If they weren't happy they would go play other games that aren't free.

Does firejail or any of those similar tools offer protection from this sort of thing?

Yeah I'm glad you asked, I do have a question. I read that comic linked above, it was incredibly horrifying, but as I kept reading, something felt off about it. The guy who wrote it is clearly a professional writer and he uses many common manipulative tricks to engage the reader, and that bothers me a little, like he isn't being completely honest.

So I did some research and it seems most of his facts check out with what other people say, but I have to wonder particularly about the part where he claims that they forced him to scream at and abuse his parents in exchange for holiday time. Do you know anything about that really happening? Did they really force kids to act crazy in front of their parents in order to ensure they got locked away at Elan for longer? I haven't heard anyone else corroborate that part.

Edit: actually a read your other comments and it seems it really was as bad as this comic book says. Controlling what you were and were not allowed to say to your parents is crazy.

Huh, you are absolutely right. The internet is full of articles saying the exact opposite, but none of them compare California to other states. Turns out this is part of a push, by certain political groups, to introduce even more laws to disadvantage landlords into the California property market, and I fell for it. Thanks for setting me straight on that.

What I think is hurting science more than anything else is people conflating academia with science. Academia, the process where ideas are evaluated on how popular they are, has been around for thousands of years, usually controlled by religions.

Science was literally invented as a reaction against academia, and the world was better for it.

I say this because while I agree with the notion of what you are saying, but you are making the same error.

Real, and amazing science is being done right now at Monsanto, at Intel, and at every medical company around the world. None of these problems you mention exist in this real world of science.

This reminds me of agriculture under the Soviet Union. Stalin wanted to build a technocracy with the brightest in charge of there specialized fields, so he brought in the most famous Russian agronomist, Lysenko, and gave him complete control over the Soviet agricultural system. Lysenko took control away from those ignorant and backward Russian farmers and revolutionized Soviet farming with all the latest scientific breakthroughs.... It wasn't long before millions of people were starving to death.

Probably this article from the New Yorker not the Times.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/the-purges-in-putins-...

The reason no one is building expensive apartments in these areas with socialist like governments is because of things like rent control and laws that disadvantage landlords, and which make the prospect of leasing to poor people completely undesirable. This is why a huge number of the apartments in California are sitting empty, because it is still better to have an empty apartment than having a poor person living there and paying you money. Any laws that force people to build low quality homes will just mean no one builds at all.

People always want to control everything, and when there is a problem they think they can fix it by forcing everyone to do what they want. No one ever wants to consider that it is them that is causing the problem in the first place.

Good section in there for people who think sanctions are bad for Putin

>Things changed, especially after Western sanctions were introduced in 2014, and mostly because of money. Before 2014–2016, we had these oligarchs, and they were, at least to some extent, independent. They had their contracts in the West, they had their contracts in the country, so they’re quite powerful. And maybe back then they could say something to Putin. This option was there.

>Now it’s completely changed because of the sanctions. What happened is that Russian oligarchs, many of them, lost their contracts in the West, and Putin was really smart about offering them financial help by providing military contracts. So you had some people who own huge enterprises producing metal, engines, this kind of thing, and they lost their contracts in the U.S. and in Europe. All of a sudden, now they had something of a problem, but because of the sanctions and because the military-industrial complex is getting bigger, they got this military contract. And that made many of the oligarchs much more dependent on the state funding.

What a ridiculous article. People playing monopoly are greedy when they get rich on monopoly money? Mercedes drivers are less likely to stop at cross walks (never mind they are old and have no idea what they are doing)? Oh rich people don't agree with my political views, it must be because they are heartless (cough not because they have statistically higher IQs, no of course not).

How about we take some real examples. How much more likely is a poor person to murder someone? Beat their wife? ... you know the answer already, which of course was the point of these whole "rich people are antisocial" posts. It is attempt to try and subvert some inconvenient truths - truths that need to be subverted in order to push a certain ideology.

Anyway, from a personal note, I grew up in a very working class area, and I have been to many third world countries. Let me tell you, poverty, real poverty that is, really turns people into absolute pieces of shit. There is no judgment here, it would probably happen to me or anyone else reading this if they were in that situation, but poverty really ruins peoples morality and decency. That is a fact.

Yeah that's a good point. There is not a single person complaining about cancel culture today that wouldn't immediately join the snarling mob and try to cancel someone that argued something like "we should rape 1 year olds" or something like that, for example.

If we kept the arguments to "It is wrong to hate people just for holding the same opinion as 50% of the population", or "Hating someone for making a joke is wrong", it would make a lot more sense.

You know, the more I think about it, the fact that there are a large body of people who literally hate and want to destroy the lives of half the people living in the western world, simply because of their opinions about life, really rubs in how psychotically dangerous they are. It is amazing they are allowed to get away with their behavior. The reason is that people really are instinctively terrified of a ravenous mob (and rightly so), so they keep quite, but, in the age of the internet, there is less to fear from these mobs.

There is no connection between this and what is in the article, which is about age verification for viewing adult content. If you are commenting on social media, those companies already have all your information.

>In Germany you study for free.

By "free" I think what you are trying to say is that in Germany working class people, the majority of whom don't go to college, pay for rich kids to go to college, rather than having those people pay for themselves.

That made no sense so I followed your link and found that C is uncontrived not contrived, which then makes perfect sense.

Every option has either 2 words that make no sense, or one word that makes no sense with "her movements were natural" and one that does. Only option C has two words which make sense with both. This question is just basic English comprehension and should be on every exam.

What a ridiculous rewriting of history. Fascism has a huge body of work starting most famously with Giovanni Gentile, the father of fascism, and then going back through many italian philosophers like Mazzini, Rosmini, Gioberti, Spaventa and ultimately leading back to Hegel and Karl Marx.

I've found that whenever someone says "no one understands why this happened", it is usually because everyone understands why it happened and they just don't like the answer for ideological reasons.

In case it isn't clear, this article is not someone who was there talking about the history of fascism. There are plenty of history books for that. The whole point of this article is to give a different perspective on fascism and to rewrite history in a new and original way that just so happens to be more convenient to them.

This whole thing can be summarized simply as "Everything I dislike is fascism, even things that have absolutely nothing to do with fascism, and everything that actually is fascism and has a lot in common with my ideology, wasn't really fascism, and certainly wasn't socialism, even though they all called themselves Marxists"

or to quote the article specifically:

>The article on fascism signed by Mussolini in the Treccani Encyclopedia was written or basically inspired by Giovanni Gentile, but it reflected a late-Hegelian notion of the Absolute and Ethical State which was never fully realized by Mussolini

in other words, sure it was developed by Marxists (Giovanni Gentile, and everyone else behind fascism were all Marxists philosopher), but it "wasn't real socialism". It is exactly the same "not real socialism" that all defenders of socialism always use when their ideology goes down the drain.

> Germany suddenly realizing that the road to peace through mercantilism....

I'm pretty sure what he is saying is that Europe and Germany have realized that the road to peace through free markets won't work and that they are returning to a mercantilist/socialist approach - both by strengthening the bonds between government and business, and by using business and trade restrictions as a weapon.

I'm almost certain Brave would have something like this too as advertising is their business model, right?

I know exactly what you mean. What people don't realize though, is this idea of creating scams for extracting money from trust fund kids has been around for a very long time, it's called the stock market.

I also think these things perform a very important, and underappreciated roll in society and have a lot to do with the success of capitalism. In the old days wealth would be concentrated in rich families who could use it to hold on to power for centuries, despite their incompetence. Money is power, and the more methods society invents of redistributing that wealth away from people who shouldn't have to those that should, the better.

Edit: That being said, the first movers in the NFT area who are now all rich are definitely not the "dumb" ones, like you seem to be implying.

Everyone in the comments repeating the basic facts about complex number they learned in high school needs to read the article. This is Physics Today. Every person who reads it or contributes is already aware of what complex numbers are.

You know, normally I agree with you. But I looked it up, and Intel has only barely tripled revenue in the last 20 years. Their stock price has followed almost exactly this increase in revenue.

These are not what I would call super gains, they are definitely good gains, but they are what anyone would expect from a blue chip company like Intel.

So the point is this isn't people looking at the short term, this is a company that used a strategy to optimize growth over a 20 year period. Yes they hampered future growth after those 20 years, but this is a technology company, most technology companies don't even exist after 20 years. I don't think there is really any policy or attitude or anything at all you can implement to get people to maximize revenue over a longer period than 20 years, especially in a technology company. No one would invest in such a company because, because such an investment would be extremely risky.

I know it sounds radical, but I think all mergers should be banned all together. capitalism works best when good companies with a good culture are allowed to grow, become powerful, then die when they turn to shit, and leave room for the younger generation (a survival trick that all life on earth learned long ago).

At the moment these companies are acting more like viruses, infecting and feeding off smaller companies to stay alive, and often killing them to reduce competition.

I know many people upon reading that would say "what about my payout for the hard work I put into my startup". However, I feel like this culture of selling once you are successful only exists because once you are big enough to become a target, the prospect of continuing to fight against one of these giant monopoly giant-tech-monoliths is dauntingly impossible. If mergers were banned in the first place it would be much smoother sailing all the way to the top.

Then again I've never experienced a startup so I probably have no idea what I'm talking about.

Whenever I read something in one of these left-wing cultural publications like the Atlantic it always reads like a 12-year old discovering history for the first time, and then they talk as though the stuff they discovered is some kind of amazing gotcha, but which is actually stuff that literally everyone who occasionally reads right-wing cultural publications has heard a thousand times. And then they, invariably, misinterpret their new found knowledge for whatever political end they desire.

Anyway, Adam Smith was from the ruling, landed classes in Britain. He was a natural enemy of the capitalist classes, who were, at the time, fighting to overthrow them and bring classical liberalism and internationalism to the world. It isn't at all surprising that he had bad things to say about capitalists. What is truly interesting about Smith's work is all the good things he had to say about what capitalism was bringing to the world. He was simply describing what he saw at the time, which makes it extremely different to later philosophers who tried to both describe what they saw, and hypothesize some amazing future like seers.

As for this guys claim that today's globalization is like the mercantilism of antiquity, it really is just not a good take. They are almost diametrically opposite. The entire point of free markets and free trade is to put a stop to all the corruption that he mentions in this article. yes some still seeps through but it is a million times worse under mercantilism, as he does rightly recount. Just because some bad things still exist under today's free market economy, doesn't mean mercantilism and free markets are the same thing.

The revelations book fits this description. And we already have a religion that bases itself around it: the Jehovah Witnesses. While your idea sounds cool in theory, in practice the results is a crazy cult which no one in their right mind would want anything to do with.

I'm glad you brought that up. I feel the class warfare aspect of these things is under appreciated.

For anyone confused by this terribly written article, what I think they are trying to say is the following:

Researchers trap ultracold atoms in a gas that is very dilute. The diluteness means the atoms can't react and combine into molecules because molecules have an exact energy, but two colliding atoms have some other energy, you need a third atom to collide at the same time to take away the excess energy, but this rarely happens when a gas is dilute.

Then they use a magnetic field to modify the electron orbitals in the molecule until its energy is exactly that of two colliding atoms (within that the energy-time uncertainty principle at least). This means two atoms can collide and react together without needing a third to take away the excess energy. When the magnetic field is just right they see a huge increase in chemical reactions and they can compare that with their quantum mechanical calculations of molecular energy orbitals.

I have never met a physics student that even knows what functional analysis even is, despite it being at the core of quantum mechanics. I can't even imagine why someone in a physics department would learn about measure theory. True that any student learning General Relativity will get an introduction to differential geometry.

Seriously what the f*ck makes Gabriel Weinberg think that myself, or anyone else, gives a damn about his personal opinion on what I should and should not be reading. The arrogance of these people is astounding.

Also, absolutely zero of the standard base of Duck Duck Go users are the kind of people who don't understand what a Russian state controlled news site is, and why one would have to be careful reading it. Those people may well exist, but they would be using Google. This move makes their disdain for their users obvious.

There is now no reason to be using Duck Duck Go over startpage.com, which also doesn't track you, but gives you the results straight from google, which are always much better than duck duck go.

I think starting with a guy who looks almost exactly like Tom Cruise in the first place really gives the computer the advantage it needs to look believable. You can see him here https://youtu.be/p7-B8S734T4?t=77

I come to HN to learn new things in fields I know little about, like tech and computers, I always find the comments to be authoritative and interesting.

However, whenever I read the comments on any subject I happen to know something about, like physics, they are always completely nonsense from people who clearly have absolutely not even the smallest amount of experience in the area they are talking about. The worst part is, all these comments sound extremely authoritative, if I didn't know any better I would have believed they were experts.

This makes me very worried about the Gell-Mann Amnesia affect. I'm very worried that all the comments I've been reading on here about tech and computer topics are also just from larpers who are pretending to be experts but actually don't know anything.