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The future is even more horrifyingly bland and dystopian than imagined by our best cyberpunk writers

RIP and a hearty fuck you to every bastard who helped kill it

Yes, well, we keep making people read Shakespeare during our most impressionable years.

It is structurally impossible for these teams to actually be independent. All claims to the contrary are risibly and offensively false and should always be met with vocal contempt lest they start to sound credible to too many people.

I love the idea of shipping a "bug-free" feature before the heat death of the Universe, it's beautiful to have noble ideals like this.

Oh, I thought the article was going to be about how it's because people suck at games. But I guess these days with lets plays you don't have to earn the right to see the later levels.

"The Nature news team is independent from its journals team" lollll

One generally applicable reason is that you can make a few cups and it will be fine in the rice cooker for days. Pretty convenient.

A more personal reason is that I don't want to cook anything an instapot can cook except rice, so it doesn't add any value compared to a rice cooker.

Awww, he's just like the rest of us, except worse

(e-begging and) getting funded by a dominant player that wants to maintain the illusion of meaningful competition in the market is not "breaking even", it's being a useful idiot. when has mozilla made anything that actual customers actually wanted to pay money for in large & sustained numbers?

Who cares what Mozilla is betting on? They've never been able to break even, never mind make a profit.

Facebook is the obvious first example that comes to mind, but given how many other languages they probably use I don't know if you could be sure of getting on a PHP project.

Bikes. Kids? Bikes for them too. Wife? Another bike for her. Mother-in-law? She can walk.

TIL that lemmings are a real animal

Every WeWork location I've ever used in New York (about a half dozen, I think) has multiple private single-person cubicles available for use. Actually, I've never seen a co-working space that doesn't have this.

I do wish each location had way more of these booths, though.

It is weird, because aside from surgeons, dentists, ER docs, paramedics, and nurses, the work they do is trivial/clerical

It was fine for what it was - a Switch prototype & a stopgap to hold space in the market while the Switch was finalized.

The Wii U was a chump blocker, basically.

Sounds about right. Maybe you could do 4 hours if you really wanted to push it.

I do think you could then have another 2-3 hour block of something completely unrelated every day and be very productive doing that as well.

Cos I like beating people like you

I don't understand why so many of the comments seem inclined to assume this is unintentional. Given the extreme sensitivity of the issue and the extreme amounts of money/power at risk / in play on all sides, it seems highly likely that this is intentional (although not necessarily official MS policy - it could of course also be internal bribery-fueled sabotage and/or a hack).

That could be very interesting and fun - compelling even. Many upsides. But without risk to life or limb and without a test of human (or monkey, or dog, or self aware AI, etc) emotional and psychological and spiritual and physical limits in real time, it could never be cool or sexy or glamorous or badass or epic or moving.

I'm so tired of this passive aggressive guilt trip "my product is free but if you want me to keep providing it I need you to patreon me" "business" model. Charge! Non-optionally! I'll pay if you do that - not before.

Maybe. But it definitely would have been avoided if everyone was riding bikes.

Well, it's not quite 1:1, but the difference is only about one order of magnitude...the average military spending seems to be about 6-7% of federal budget, and the average federal income tax rate seems to be about 25%, so about 1.5-1.8% of taxable income worldwide is going to defense. I am hugely back-of-enveloping of course, but it IS also apparently the case that military spending is about 2.2% of GDP on average. So, again, only about one order of magnitude by a second measure.

We might say this suggests that our bodies are about an order of magnitude more efficient and/or civilized than our societies, which seems conservative if anything, no?

Anime is often the best source of high quality general-audience information about a topic

No wonder increasing the defense budget tends to be such an easy sell. It's literally in our bones.

They are literally playing catch with baby porpoises & I think it's just because it's the closest they can find to a ball.

No amount of hardship or injustice can relieve someone of the obligation to do what they believe is the right thing, but having as much money in the bank as Jon Stewart certainly makes it a lot easier and more pleasant to fulfill that obligation.

Airlines are lying, bait-and-switching pieces of shit and the flying experience gets worse every year, so the only thing that's surprising is that there aren't way more of these incidents

TL;DR: Adult whose TC is probably $300k+ makes time to write a whole ass blog post indignantly complaining about a $30 price hike for an annual subscription to a children's content channel