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by cloakandswagger 7y ago
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/08/05/fired_goo... > "They made every excuse in the book to avoid taking down something that made Donald Trump look bad. And I saw a number of other i
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by cloakandswagger 7y ago
Trump's tweet references Kevin Cernekee, a former Google engineer who claims that Google has an anti-conservative bias and took actions with a goal of influencing the 2016 election. Whether that's actually true and whether it woul
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by cloakandswagger 7y ago
What's there to say? Amazon is a revolving door of developers, most of which don't make it to 2 years. It would take a year or more for a dev to become familiar enough with their domain and its systems to even know to suggest a re
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by cloakandswagger 7y ago
I'm fine with this. If you can't behave yourself in court, you get a zap. Either that or a bailiff cracks you over the head with a club. It's amazing how effective corporal punishment is even past childhood years. Singapore h
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by cloakandswagger 7y ago
I did find that quote funny. No kidding it's a win for you, by not exercising due diligence you got 25 people to work on your game for free, and you got to walk away with their work and the rights to the game. Talk about a windfall!
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by cloakandswagger 7y ago
If you're confused by the downvotes, it's because the stock market is not a zero-sum game. This is a common misconception about equities. The stock market can both create and destroy wealth because it is not a zero-sum game.
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by cloakandswagger 7y ago
Do you really believe that an industry worth hundreds of billions of dollars got to that point purely through hype? No benefit to platforms like AWS and Azure at all?
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by cloakandswagger 7y ago
I recognize that this tangent isn't particularly productive since it's so philosophical and no one is going to change their mind from a comment thread but: I have a difficult time believing that we arrived on a planet perfectly su
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by cloakandswagger 7y ago
Do you have a source for that? Here's an example of the notification Steam gives you when a key is revoked due to fraud: https://content.invisioncic.com/r273030/monthly_2017_05/Unti...
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by cloakandswagger 7y ago
I think the devs claiming that users simply never notice that the license was revoked are the ones who are lying. Every time that's happened to me (for example, a time-limited version of a game or a beta), Steam presents a notification
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by cloakandswagger 7y ago
If the problem is as pervasive as the devs portray it, these sites will quickly cease to exist--G2A would quickly gain a reputation for selling keys that will be useless after 2-4 weeks, and the benefit of getting the game for cheaper would
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by cloakandswagger 7y ago
Which is why I'm having trouble finding sympathy for the devs. They're complaining that they can't have the best of both worlds: They want to sell their game through their own storefront to avoid the platform fees, but they d
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by cloakandswagger 7y ago
Both of you are proposing an emotionally charged witch hunt. As one of the top comments stated, embracing a punitive culture toward engineering accidents has no long-term benefits. In my work (and this is probably true in any successful org
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by cloakandswagger 7y ago
The EO requires health officials to propose a regulation that achieves the proposed price transparency. In that sense, it's an EO compelling the government to create a new regulation, not a law.
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by cloakandswagger 7y ago
The ACA had a "chargemaster" rule that required hospitals to post a list of standard charges for treatments, but this doesn't include charges for office visits or elective procedures. More importantly though, these standard f
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by cloakandswagger 7y ago
>I know a bunch of people who are not particularly responsible with their money (splurging) but they are beneficiaries of a lot of unearned income (interest, dividends, rent) and I have yet to hear a coherent argument for why this u
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by cloakandswagger 7y ago
It's much easier to rob someone when you convince yourself that they didn't actually earn what they have. This us vs them reductionism is seen in the early days of any communist system (the mass killings come a bit later)
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by cloakandswagger 7y ago
The cheapest route to moderation is automation, and I would be stunned if there isn't a thick layer of it applied before this content reaches human moderators. My point is that ML is not a magic wand and we're still in its early
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by cloakandswagger 7y ago
As evidence of what?
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by cloakandswagger 7y ago
Right, so wouldn't they be highly motivated to create models for detecting it automatically? Even if it cost millions of dollars to develop, they would both save money on human labor and boost PR by avoiding articles like this harangui
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by cloakandswagger 7y ago
Queue up the next Verge article in 6 months: "Facebook discriminates on the basis of mental health"
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by cloakandswagger 7y ago
Nearly half of his 300 page report was on "Russian interference" in the Presidential race.
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by cloakandswagger 7y ago
The familiar nihilist refrain of globalism. "We live in a global world now, homogeneity is futile." And they wonder, after presenting their ideology as an unstoppable, all-consuming force of nature, why people take issue with it.
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by cloakandswagger 7y ago
Valve has never been good at building progression systems, and that's exactly what killed Artifact. You get no rewards for playing the game. If you want new cards, you have to spend money on packs or spend money to enter drafts. This o
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by cloakandswagger 7y ago
>The problem, of course, is that Epic isn't developing original content And Valve is?
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by cloakandswagger 7y ago
What do users really need from a platform beyond basic social features and the ability to, you know, launch the game? I've used Steam chat and voice comms all of about 3 times. Discord is better. Profile pages and achievements? Couldn&
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by cloakandswagger 7y ago
It scared me too. I started learning Russian a few months ago and Anki (the flashcard software) has been invaluable.
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by cloakandswagger 7y ago
I think there's a clear difference between breaking the law and a personal moral objection to doing business with your country's military.
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by cloakandswagger 7y ago
And will destroy the company in the process. They already sunk a large military contract and are setting their sights on AI in general. If Google accedes to all the various pet issues of individuals working there then they won't have a
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by cloakandswagger 7y ago
Because those products are unrelated to AI. Big players will not (and are not) touching GCP's AI solutions for this exact reason: it's only a matter of time before the virtue signalers are no longer content with policing the decis

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