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Every game that has hit points and damage is stealing mechanics from historical war games in the 50s, which was then stolen by naval war games in the early 70s, which was then stolen by D&D in the late 70s, and has since been stolen to this very day haha

Imagine hit points being patented...

It costs more money to hire software devs to make a custom piece of software that needs to be maintained and fully supported with customer service than it sticking SteamOS on it and providing support and having customer service. Valve did all of that hard work and rnd and paid for it all, hp just needs to pay for an oem license —probably a very good deal for them

Small nitpick: They aren't really protected by copyright. Only the exact way mechanics are described are protected, you can describe any mechanic in your own words. This system was patented, though, which is what you need for a comprehensive state-granted monopoly on game mechanics. See Magic The gathering patenting its entire game mechanics (expired now): https://patents.google.com/patent/US5662332A/en

"Nearly"

That's called regulatory capture and is a prominent feature of capitalism. Many big companies will form a regulatory cartel in the name of safety, but position themselves as the arbiters of safety and anyone who doesn't invest as much as them is an enemy of safety

Believe whatever you want, I don't care. I'm for open borders and he is not. I would have voted for him like I voted for Kamala, but libs be libs and many anre not for open borders like I am. I want Ellis island back like my ancestors were afforded to come here, but Bernie and many libs are not for an Ellis island. It is what it is, and it is my main gripe with the guy.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/437790-bernie-sanders-blasts-open-borders-theres-a-lot-of-poverty-in-this-world/

He's not for deporting the dreamers, but get their parents outta here says he lol. If you're poor and want to come to America? "America's closed!" says he. He chooses his words so carefully. He is for deporting innocent illegals humans. He doesn't think they're innocent and deserve deportation by armed forces. He's wrong, flat out, I welcome the poor from around the world to come here. I love my immigrant family and I love my immigrant neighbors and I love the immigrants coming here for economic prosperity, and I want that to be as easy as Ellis island again.

Closed source. Who's to say it ain't credential sniffing and spyware?

How do you suggest they "leave" society against their will? That's literally deportation—very abusable by fascists today. Unless you are suggesting they can voluntarily leave... which is a "solution" I guess. Who will be doing this? This would be a federal thing so you want to fund the DEA to make these arrests? Yeah blowing up the DEA budget won't help fascists either.

It's not a slippery slope if that's literally how this country has been working for as long as you or I have been alive. These laws require funding and budgets and law enforcement agencies to enforce these laws. This is literally drug enforcement, it's or course going to be the drug enforcement agency to do the presidents bidding. An executive branch agency mind you.

What law that allows persecution of these people won't be abused by fascists to apply to people they don't like? We all want laws where we throw people out of society we don't like, but there's a reason fascism needs democracy to exist. I'm obviously for some sort of solution, but preferably one that doesn't have all of the tools for fascism to use against their political enemies.

And remove the need for keys to exchanged and suddenly the impossible is possible. Access to the hardware can always beat any software, it just needs wits. It has to communicate over some sort of NIC or other chip that can be desoldered and replaced with a custom firmware. Or its pins might have a Linux socket connection. Who knows how many insecure holes are there once you have access to the boards. Once you get there it, and enough people care to do it, it can be as easy as an ifixit guide away with an open source board or something, or hopefully just a flash of firmware away.

If I had a Tesla and someone smart enough to hack into I wouldn't doubt I could probably figure out how they build their dashboards and reverse engineer them, they're most likely browser based or qt or something like it. It'd be too costly to do it in anything else and Id bet many spacex dashes are the same tech. But I ain't rich enough to get one of those things so someone else has to. There's only so many ways to draw pixels on a screen in the name of profit

I don't want to be too much of an infighter, but look at Bernie's immigration stance over the years. He isn't sobbing too much about the undocumented getting deported because he claims they take from documented Americans. It makes it hard to believe him knowing how he has looked directly into the eyes of innocent humans and still chooses to treat them as drains of documented american society.

These people want three things:

1. for the democratic party to continue existing
2. for different democrats to be elected and for us to be the ones in Washington to change it from the inside as democrats
3. for your votes and donation dollars to go to the Democratic Party because they need to win those elections

Their plan: in two or more years, replace many old liberal, Republican-lite dems with young progressives. This will allow them to push more progressive policies. The problem is they had 8 years, nearly a decade, to do that or else we get fascism and failed and now want to believe in their two year plan to start the change of fascism to a progressive democracy.

I hope fascism is willing to wait for democracy to do its thing as much as these two are betting on it with their strategy, but there are democrats out there taking on AIPAC money and stomping out progressives because they aren't getting the donations going to the Democratic Party fundraisers because they don't take corporate donations. There has to be more from the party "of the people" than this.

I failed my hirevue (I got a 40%) but my recruiter talked to the company and my previous manager gave a glowing recommendation so I got the job. I allegedly did a good job on the hirevue by all humans involved. Fuck this AI shit. The only way I got this job was because of humans, the ai did everything it could prevent the company from getting their preferred candidate. If the job market wasn't so fucked and I haven't been unemployed for 5 months in the past two years I'd give this company the bird and tell them to fuck off too, but I don't have health insurance and my bank account is drained.

Those kids whos who also depend on that income don't deserve it. Have some heart for your fellow neighbors please

I used SOAP in my first web dev job over a decade ago when I was making flight search software and connecting to horrific APIs owned by the airline industry to get flight details and purchase tickets. Why are these two things even remotely the same? It's closer to SQL than SOAP, and I'd choose graphql over any soap api. I still wouldn't do it over http if I could avoid it though.

Then complain to Apollo or whoever created the server, not the graphql spec. I've used graphql over a web socket on production apps for almost a decade now. I don't use http for graphql if I can avoid it and I always have been able to.

What's wrong with graphql over a web socket? Graphql doesn't necessitate http or any other transport method, it can be done via pigeons. Graphql has zero control over how http works when you use graphql over http, it doesn't force implementors to use http at all

So was the onion at one point

How long will USPS last?

I remember when armed Pinkertons were sent to a normal guys house by a corporation for having a few pieces of paper with stolen artwork on them only a year ago.

Some guy got some magic the gathering cards early so wizards of the coast did what any reasonable group of people would do and violently intimidated the guy until he gave up his goods.