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ffgjgf1
3y ago
Unreal is still a lot more expensive even with the fees though?
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3y ago
He was fired and given a huge back of money to reward him for his extreme incompetence.
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3y ago
Epic or specifically the part of it working on Unreal has several times less employees than Unity does. Even Epic in its entirety still has almost 2x less employees…
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3y ago
To be fair it’s still very cheap. Even quite a bit cheaper than Unreal, it’s how they implemented their pricing model and their overall communication that’s the real issue
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3y ago
> backfired into only 25% in expected revenue loss. Where did you get that from? They just got a new CEO who is not as delusional/incompetent/x as the last one? Even if their revenue keeps growing at 30% YoY these cuts still ma
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3y ago
But getting water in an iPhones charging port doesn’t void the battery? It’s more of a safety feature that can malfunction occasionally
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3y ago
You have to be a special kind of nihilistic idealist to do this. Instead of actually making a similar “sacrifice” to accomplish something at least marginally useful..
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3y ago
That’s hardly comparable
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3y ago
> or close to testing the first prototype with the new engines Considering that Russian engineering culture is even worse than that of Boeing (and probably massively so) it’s unlikely that they can ever be competitive if that’s the main
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3y ago
They dedicated massive amounts of resources to this over very long periods of time. This wouldn’t be possible at all even in somewhat less restrictive authoritarian states let alone somewhat democratic ones like Ukraine. There is no way any
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3y ago
But it’s no unreasonable to assume that demand for CSAM would mean that supply would increase to satisfy it.
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3y ago
Requiring all residential buildings have at least a single camera in every room that’s active 24/7 and is streamed directly to NSA(or whoever) would also save a lot of victims of crimes. You could have AI detecting instances of domesti
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3y ago
For some people living there it wasn’t. On average however it was, there is no way around it extreme corrupt/poverty, GDP per capita on the same level as 3rd world countries. It started off more or less on the same level as the Balti
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3y ago
In theory, considering the state Russia’s military is in at this stage of the war, NATO could just steamroll the entire country just like US/UK did in Iraq. If they wanted to AND there were no nukes. Of course the current balance of po
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3y ago
So what? That’s not particularly relevant
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3y ago
Until quite recently (and there is still a massive and extremely hard road ahead) Ukraine was basically a failed state and/or a Russian puppet. So I doubt Russia would’ve had to worry about something like that at all.
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3y ago
> The US wants a war with Russia without putting boots on the ground. Ukraine was a convieinient excuse. That claim seems delusional. US was doing it’s best over the last 20 years to appease Putin so that they could ignore Europe and foc
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3y ago
They seems to have some highly suicidal tendencies and really don’t mind massive casualties these days (e.g. 5x more Russian died in Ukraine in just 2 years than during the entire 10 year long Soviet war in Afghanistan). So one has to doubl
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3y ago
As far as we know North Korea doesn’t have the capability to hit any target in the world (like US, UK, France and Russia) or enough nukes to blow up half of the world. So hardly comparable
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3y ago
The proxy was in Yemen has been going on for almost 10 years. US just doesn’t want to be a direct part of that mess and the Saudis don’t want to damage their rapprochement with Iran. I’m not sure though if a Saudi-Iran-Russia axis would b
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3y ago
> Russia has an alliance with Serbia. Not mobilising would have had significant international repercussions Russia was in no state to fight a war. They lost a war to a second tier global power and not so long and barely survived a major
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3y ago
Except nobody attacked or even threatened Russia and Germany so it’s not really comparable to Pearl Harbor at all. There was really nothing or almost nothing to gain and everything to lose for all the aides involved in WW1. So I’d say it wa
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3y ago
Sheep are generally fungible, land and real estate not so much
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3y ago
Hardly. It might give people a totally unjustifiable sense of security
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3y ago
> make livestock unattractive targets with some kind of technology There is also a much older technology called guard dogs
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3y ago
> wolves have been seen killing 15+ elk in a single hunt Perhaps? How is this related? There is plenty of data from areas where wolves and cattle or sheep coexist. Why not cite that instead of something tangential? Why would wolves attac
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3y ago
> to wipe out the main component of their ranch (livestock). In my eyes that's an insane proposition In my eye this claim you’re making is more than insane. Wolves are not going to wipe out anything. We can spend time coming up with
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3y ago
> further losses Losses that are generally compensated by the government
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3y ago
No, of course not. The whole problem is because they just with the cheapest option (also outright unambiguous corruption in Schroder’s case) and ignored any issues that might have longterm
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3y ago
> 5.5% is still historically reasonable That doesn’t mean much on it’s, you can’t compare interest rates between different periods without taking into account inflation. > were in the 70s and 80s Economically that wasn’t a good period
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