philippejara

And is bought by people that think the company is valuable enough to give the stock said value. You can argue that those people are wrong, sure, but I don't get what point you're trying to make. He isn't taking money away from someone else or being given "underserved" rewards, when the people that are keeping the value of what he receives believes it to be of such value.

As long as the one deciding that is the US, the one that conveniently ignores the deeds of their allies in the region when they're not busy themselves destabilizing it and toppling their heads of state, no.

And now most democrats don't care when the brunt* of this is being felt by those who they are against and seem to be in love with the organizations doing the acts they once protested as long as it is against their political opponents. During new revelations of impropriety of the FBI, at times admitted by the FBI themselves as incredible as it seems, they routinely accuse people who raise concerns about its actions as being unpatriotic "russian assets", as they have been doing with zealous fervor for over half a decade already.

I completely agree with your position that the stance on the war on terror was abhorrent - although I wouldn't claim it to be as uniquely republican as you make it out to be, democrat warmongers were and are aplenty, and it was under obama that the biggest surveillance scandals of this century occurred-. All this shows is that both sides are about as hypocritical as the other really, three letter agencies are good when they're on my side, bad when they're on the other side, the population in general be damned.

*:curiously they may not even have been the brunt of people that felt it, due to its use on the george floyd riots.

Random quotes add nothing to the conversation and won't convince anyone that didn't already agree with what it says.

Nobody is getting suspended or fired over a spaces vs tab or vi vs emacs discussion.

> That's an idea of what grades are and what they're for. It's not the idea.

Can't see how there can be any other idea for grades as long as they're being used as a measuring stick for completing a class, and if they aren't something else will just using another name. You need to be able to know enough about a topic to pass a class, and there needs to be a way to measure that, sure the measuring can be often flawed but unless the class itself if a "learning to learn" class you can't have the goal to be maximize how much you learned about a topic, instead of if you know the topic presented.

> People don't value exam results, in their own right, because they're not that valuable in their own right. A course's job irl is to educate, not accredit.

I agree that the commoditization of higher education is horrible and leading to a decline in something that should be about curiosity and not as a -now, often needlessly mandatory- career stepping stone, but the "free" curiosity part of it should be open classes and such, even in this kind of more relaxed regime you still have limited resources from labs and such that need to thin out their option for candidates and accreditation will come into play sooner or later for those that wish to follow into serious research, particularly in areas where you actually need access to tools that realistically only research labs have. This isn't a huge problem in maths or computer ""science"" but most hard science fields you just can't do advanced research without specialized stuff.

those videos are public regardless of who is the owner

at its finest being very good doesn't mean that at it's worse shit didn't come out of it.

You have a white menu bar that suddenly just gets cut off by a black square, its distracting and jarring. I can assure you the people that are giving up the entirety of length of this bar to not have the black portion stick out aren't worried about "waste".

obama and bush took office way before 2015.

the messages are rendered client-side and there's no way discord will bother messing with detection of client-side bot "tampering" that scrapes the output, and that's assuming it would be even necessary to do it this way. It's entirely pointless, if someone wants to do harm with the information its trivial to get it regardless of TOS, and those that don't get the short end of the stick.

At the end of the day the last thing discord cares about realistically is keeping their users "safe" anyway (and rightfully so in my opinion).

I'll believe the words when I see them take action. As the text itself points out, the message is not new, and that just makes it look worse for them.

You aren't going to get any confirmation or material evidence until the chinese government allows it to happen, and with their initial reaction to the situation before the rest of the world kenw what was happening and their reaction to the WHO inquiries, odds are we'll never get anything aside from "low confidence".

Science isn't a magic wand, its a process, and honestly assuming we do get access an investigation like this most likely wouldn't even involve the scientific method at all. If science was enough to determine the origin given current available knowledge it probably would've been solved already.

No, it isn't entirely possible(any more than anything else is technically possible). In the rolling stone article:

> "Clapper agreed with Gistaro, telling Helgerson, “Trump doesn’t read much; he likes bullets.” Instead, during the Trump administration, the briefer would summarize aloud key points since the last briefing and provide three documents (none more than a page) about new developments abroad. This was all part of an effort to make the PDB “shorter and tighter, with declarative sentences and no feature-length pieces.”

> “Trump had his own way of receiving intelligence information—and a uniquely rough way of dealing publicly with the IC,” Helgerson wrote, “but it was a system in which he digested the key points offered by the briefers, asked questions, engaged in discussion, made his own priority interests known, and used the information as a basis for discussions with his policy advisers.”"

> "These and other difficulties agencies encountered under Trump led Helgerson to conclude that, “The system worked, but it struggled.”"

He clearly had access to more information than any civilian, and was engaging with it.

This is a good example of the title turning people off from the content. The content of the article is a nice intro to how some artifacts are created while streaming and how to deal with them, for sure it is interesting and useful for developers of games that wish to focus on streaming to build a name or community and lack that knowledge. There's hardly any argumentation as to why the general game should have this option contrary to what you'd expect with such a title.

It isn't the police that is making mexico one of the most violent places in the world, I'm sure they play a part in it as in all developing countries but said violence ends up being linked to the "violent warlords" anyway more often than not in the form of corrupt policemen working for them.

Tourists tend to be treated with kiddy gloves by organized crime because of the response that diplomatic blunders trigger. Odds are as well that, if you as a tourist went out of your way to go to a warlord controlled area you were(or were seen as) their client.

there is nothing stopping them from doing the thing that "makes them complete" for leisure like most other people. AI art doesn't stop you from drawing, it might very well impact the commercial viability of it for sure but all that's lost is that.

20 untagged links starting with 2 other youtube videos and the antiwork subreddit, and ending with a dozen links to twitter. Much better to actually put a decent written source if you want people to actually pay attention to it, especially with such an inflammatory title.

This seems to be the most complete source out of the bunch for anyone looking for it: https://www.gamedeveloper.com/culture/q-a-with-blizzard-lead...

could we get the link switched to an actual written source instead of some youtube person speaking for 20 mins?

I don't get what the issue is, do the bail terms prohibit one from using a VPN? if so it's a done deal but if it doesn't there's absolutely nothing wrong with him using it.

is there no mechanic for them to be prosecuted by the UN itself? as some kind of court-martial or something? Or even their own countries, sounds absolutely insane to expect the judicial system of a country that needs a peacekeeping force to come in to deal with it.

you're speaking of multiplayer games, which is true, but even single-player games will face this when they have denuvo, once the denuvo server goes out you're also unable to play your single player games.

EMPRESS is the last line of defence.

The US had no qualms making itself a pariah amongst its UN allies by spying on them back in 2010, germany included, when biden was still vice president no less, so I don't think that's much of an argument against them doing it. Especially when you are talking about NATO, an organization where the US power imbalance is even higher.

That isn't enough to blame them for it of course, but to assume that Putin is not behaving logically because the alternatives are so "unthinkable" is misguided.

I don't think this is a problem of election integrity, the abuse is being done by un-elected people which while some are appointed most aren't. It is an accountability issue, call something a threat to national security and now everything's free game. The people doing those violations should at the very least be fired, but repeatedly doing them -or repeatedly overseeing them- should lead to jail, especially if it is targeted at political parties.

"In another incident, the FBI ran searches using the “names of a local political party,” even though a connection to foreign intelligence was “not reasonably likely.” The DOJ explained the errors away by saying FBI personnel “misunderstood” the search procedures, adding they were “subsequently reminded of how to correctly apply the query rules.”"

Fascinating, FISA was created iirc in part in response to nixon's spying on political groups, half a century later this is what we see and the response is just to...remind them how to correctly apply the query rules? If that is the response to such a thing I find it hard to believe it isn't a common occurrence that is just being hand waved away because it "leaked". And the article itself is filled with even more examples.

I'm not opposed to calling the new age church committee politically motivated, it clearly is, but at the very least they are trying to do something about it. It's pretty sad how after the russiagate conspiracy theory took steam the "left-wing" media started putting the intelligence community in a pedestal and now it seems like distrusting them is a republican position, bizarrely.

how can one possibly tweet more than 2400 times a day? Surely this cutoff was chosen because people do but...how do you even live your life outside twitter at that point? Bots I guess?

If I had to guess it becomes a question of how easily can you replace/train up new people to be proficient with the engine/maintain it. Fighting game engines are probably the simplest game engines there are to make but new people still need to be onboarded on it, the knowledge will be internal mostly, you can't find people with knowledge in $propietary_engine to hire right off the bat let alone maintain it. Capcom will use I believe their RE engine for sf6, already used it in dmc5 replacing MT Framework so it's not like it isn't happening in some places, but the AA developers where most of fighting games sit probably can't justify the costs to train and maintain a proprietary engine versus the cost of dealing with roadblocks in UE.

Trump-esque? what words has trump even done that for? Changing the meaning of words to fit what you want has been happening long before the printing press even was invented by people in power, vying for power, reporting on things they have a biased interest in or just wanting a quick win on an argument. Not everything needs to be a trump analogy.

Just like "A monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors" it'll only make sense and click once you already understand the concept, at least the haskell one was satirical. Those simple phrases are I admit a fun experiment to see how much you can compact concepts, sometimes it is actually useful to come up with new words to represent common phenomenons in a given field to use with the people that already know of the concepts(hence why you pretty much need to "expand" almost every couple words of the phrase for the laymen to understand).

There is value in doing this expansion to teach the laymen, and the author does make the expansion somewhat in his post to be fair.

> When you're older, you don't have as much time, but you have money. Then (in my opinion) you should be able to use money to get on par with the people who have spent all the time gaming you spent at work and with your family.

the problem with this is that you assume "all the time gaming" is a bad and nonfun thing, at that point you're essentially paying the developer to not play the game. Sure those situations do exist, but they are design flaws* that should be fixed. Accepting a quick way to get thru them gives the developers incentive to not fix them but to actually make them more prevalent, and this has been happening in games more and more, just look at overwatch 2 and the hero unlocking speed as an example on a huge AAA game.

>This is why people selling MMO accounts is a thing. People with money want to enjoy endgame content with friends who have unlimited time.

This could be argued as a reason for selling currency, but for selling accounts I harshly disagree. The vast majority of people that buy accounts in MMOs do it to get "stolen valor" such as buying gladiator/rank 1 accounts in WoW or exclusive items/mounts/etc. The endgame activities most take part in takes orders of magnitude more time to progress in than the lead up to it nowadays, makes no sense to buy an account to skip it if you're genuinely time constrained. I could see that being a relevant case back in Ultima Online days for setting up a new PK character but that's not really a thing today in any big capacity.

*: some exceptions exist to make balancing passes I suppose, just to not speak in absolutes