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- Consider how you'd like to be treated; like for real. What if it was you?
- Burning bridges over something like this isn't worth it. Burning bridges over anything, is almost always a bad idea. Seek to mend.
In this case the "boss" is the cash cow and keeping it alive; also maintaining marketable skills incase the thing dies.
Having too much time and money on your hands can also pose certain social and mental health challenges. It seems everyone has a job whether they like it or not.
They've had pre-launch source codes leaked by hackers, gameplay ruined by hackers; they probably don't like hackers.
I wouldn't be surprised if they signed up purely out of spite to tarpit and frustrate hackers.
Why should they prioritize people who break their hard work and coerce them into paying for protection?
I might be biased; always wanted to work @ Valve Software since HL1.
Innovation as a goal sounds noble initially, but in my experience it's like chasing the wind. Faithfully doing what is already known to be good seems better for everyone. It might even be the quicker road to innovation.
What if it were mathematicians from all over armed with the same Calculus book hand waving that everyone should ignore the idiosyncrasies of their alma mater or their professor's flavor of finding derivatives? What if the founding documents they wrote all spoke highly of Calculus; Calculus books in every classroom. To me it sounds like people weren't hand waving away God, but setting aside their idiosyncrasies to worship the same Christ.
The US was founded by entire colonies of people coming overseas to worship the Christian God freely. Many key founders were deeply religious; believing all forms of government are doomed without the help of the Christian God. The Christian God was a huge factor in government and repeatedly credited as the guiding force and inspiration for the entire endeavor.
Christian prayer and Bible reading was a public school item until the mid 1960s. Church and state separation was entirely redefined around then as well; it didn't mean back then what people think it means now. The ten commandments was in courthouses. There are people still alive today that were led in prayer to the Christian God every single day of public school (and required to read the Bible); they're everywhere.
Well, Bitcoin itself is a get rich quick scheme for its founders. So are most of its spinoffs.
Ecclesiastes. Read it. But know that once you read it, you can't un-read it.
The same can also be accomplished for $4 with an old iPhone and the AirBeam app by Appologics. Just point an AI capable device to the video feed or auto sync snapshots with the dropbox feature.
The app has some quirks though. Vizy seems like it might be more reliable.