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Ah yes, the rise of fascism and populist authoritarians and oligarchs is definitely a uniquely American thing that hasn't happened and can't happen anywhere else because they don't have privately-owned guns... how silly of me.

The year of the Apollo 13 incident, Hastings sold his software business Pure Atria to another tech company for more than $700 million.

Umm, I think they've mixed up movies with real life. Nothing was being sold for 700 million during the Apollo era.

• Pure Atria was founded in 1991.
• Apollo 13 the space mission happened in 1970.
• Apollo 13 the movie happened in 1995.

Though according to Wikipedia, Pure Atria wasn't sold until 1997, though it did go public in 1995.

Now that I have my pedantry out of the way...

I agree that Netflix has become a schlock-generator that is hurting actors (and anyone else whose pay is based on film performance) as it's become another large company, but I don't think that disrupting Hollywood is a bad thing.

Hollywood had become a stagnant pit of corporatism and corruption long before Netflix existed, and was already hurting everyone who wasn't an A-lister, Producer, Director, or film company executive. I want good movies and film as well, but let's not lionize an industry that's rife with sexual abuse (including of minors, which is a problem your average workplace doesn't have), worker exploitation, and more.

This isn't a gun problem, it's a fascism problem.

They think they can make it up with H1B workers they will underpay and abuse, and to some extent they're right, but it's just selling their futures down the river. Eventually the H1B employees will dry up or start demanding better wages as well. To some extent this is already happening with India, and some companies are now shifting their outsourcing and H1B hires to Pakistan. Anything to avoid paying compensation that actually reflects the contributions to the org's success.

I agree that Republicans are going full-fascist (even more than they were in the past), but if the establishment Democrats are clearly more willing to hand Republicans control than change themselves or lose control of the party, are they really any better? Nazis vs Nazi Collaborators isn't much of a choice. I would have said that was hyperbole in the past, but the centrist Dems covering for Israel is making it pretty on-the-nose.

Most executives at large publishers aren't gamers. Pretty pictures are more likely to entice them than deep mechanics. They could assign 5 people to make a game like Balatro or Stardew Valley, but they never would because they don't work like that, they came up through the MBA route and think in terms of enterprise software development lifecycles. Also, "making money" isn't good enough for them, they want to make so much money that they can pay themselves millions of dollars despite never actually contributing to the game.

Esurance

To be fair, it's entirely possible that they've been refused insurance. My relatives near water cannot get insured for anything less than a small fortune. Insurance companies know that climate change is making disasters more likely, and they're adapting. Hell, I had my auto insurance literally drop me over wild fires here in California (despite me living in an urban area that will never have one), and that's literally mandatory coverage to drive.

• Final Fantasy Tactics Advance
• Rebelstar: Tactical Command
• Fire Emblem All GBA

The British turned London into an absolute surveillance nightmare, and sadly most British people seem to be fine with it. I'm not surprised that OSA passed, nor that it's doing exactly the kind of chilling of speech that it is.

It is. Their economy is not in a great place for most people, same as the US, and rather than fixing it the government is casting blame around or pretending it's just personal choices rather than a wider problem.

My current team has had a great solution to this, which is to re-build in parallel. Build the new system alongside the old one, including the reporting and integrations. You'll find the edge cases pretty quickly.

I'm extremely wary of any law that can be used to censor or otherwise remove material online, but one gripe i have with the Techdirt article is their assertion that hash matching is expensive or difficult.

Generating a SHA hash of an image when uploaded is very inexpensive in terms of processing, and there's already going to be a db somewhere that stores the image metadata, so it's not like putting the hash there is hard. Similarly, a simple No/SQL lookup for a known hash is incredibly simple and non-intensive.

The real issue is the lack of an appeal mechanism, the lack of penalty for, or legal mechanism to, ignore false reports (which should probably be about spam/ volume of requests, rather than single requests), and the lack of definition around what exactly a site must do to show good-faith, reasonable compliance.

I agree that she's not at all progressive, but she is Centrist, and that's too progressive for the DNC. I suspect that Biden made the call to make her VP independent of the DNC leadership, given that he's generally had his own circle of confidants and friends.

They've literally been lying about theft data for years to try to push their anti-consumer practices. CVS closed stores in SF during the pandemic, claiming it was due to shoplifting, only for people to find out later it was union-busting. The NRF is a lobbying group, plain and simple, and nothing they report should be taken seriously.

Too progressive for the DNC, for them to allow her to win. Not progressive enough for voters.

Ubisoft has never been a mod-friendly publisher, and none of their titles support modding to any extent that I'm aware of. The mods that exist for it are pretty limited in nature (i.e. they modify existing values and textures, and don't really expand the game afaik). I like FarCry 2, 3, 5, New Dawn, and 6, but the series has definitely written itself into a corner. Removing the guns makes it not work (e.g. Primal), but they've literally ended their timeline with 5 and New Dawn, and 6 just makes it feel like they don't know where to go and are doing offshoots. 6 felt more like Just Cause than Far Cry, to me.

I’m saying that’s why she lost then. She was in a field of better progressives as well as the status quo rep.

This ^ is what tacosanonymous said. I'm not sure where you are getting "lost something because she was too progressive" from that.

Here you go:

1. She was never very progressive, which made her less appealing in an open primary like 2020 (to actual voters) than other options like Sanders
2. She was still too progressive for the DNC to back her, until Biden dropped and they were left with the prospect of a snap primary they couldn't exercise control over, at which point they backed Harris running with a platform that was significantly less progressive than her 2020 primary platform

After Biden dropped out, if she had been more progressive, more voters would have backed her, but if she was more progressive the DNC would never have backed her. You need both the voters and the party to back a candidate for them to win. The DNC refusing to move leftwards towards voters is why they've lost 2/3 of the previous elections.