That’s not what arbitration is. This doesn’t stop valve from reaching a settlement, it stops them from using fake privately funded bench trials

Binding arbitration means the results are legally binding, non-binding arbitration means a judge needs to approve the arbitration results before it’s final. Sometimes it’s with an off duty judge, sometimes anyone can be the arbiter

Regardless, on one side you have a repeat customer, on the other you have someone who will probably never be back - there’s a built in conflict of interest

No, no… That’s how they got into statehood in the first place, you can’t be taken over by billionaires if they already own everything. And there was nothing defacto about it, I’m pretty sure Dole kidnapped a princess and everything

I loved that the Gameboy was designed to survive a fall from the average shirt pocket. I love that the Wii controllers pushed gyroscopic technology so far that it allowed the explosion of quadcopters. I loved the idea of 3d through rapid aspect switching.

I loved when Nintendo pushed boundaries, not just through hardware but through gameplay. I enjoy and appreciate the Nintendo polish

I agree with your sentiment wholeheartedly - good gameplay is much more important than flashy graphics. But the polish was nice - pushing boundaries is what made the difference

No, it has a recurring theme of transformation. You could read the first part as a trans allegory, but you could squint and do the same for Star wars or Harry Potter. It’s the story of the chosen one

Not everything written by a trans person is a trans allegory. Trans people can tell other stories…a trans allegory is about that specific personal journey, not just influenced by it

I think that’s the sign of a good person

If you build a world for good persons, it’ll collapse in your lifetime.

Good persons want to understand each other. People don’t - they want to think as little as possible above all else

Also, every other week we get another reason to make it a priority

The arguments against it boil down to “it’s different and scary/I don’t understand it”, “there’s compatibility issues that might be complicated to fix”, or “well what we have now is good enough for my needs”

I don’t disagree with that position… As a next step, it seems pretty sensible to me

To truly understand where you stand, you have to break false dichotomy - political platforms aren’t one or two dimensional, they’re multifaceted. IMO you have to pick an end goal, and chart a course towards it

Personally, my end goal is solar punk. I want to live in a green world with technology. To get there, I full throatedly resist authoritarianism or centralization of any kind- I believe the larger it is, the more it’ll attract sociopaths seeking power for powers sake

Eco socialism is a step in my desired direction - I have no issue with it. It’s a sensible waypoint and I’d gladly join hands with those who see it as the end goal. But I’d encourage you to chat with gpt (or better yet, local AI) in the context of your end goal and the next step to get there - LLMs are an extension of the user, and I think this is a proper use of the technology

That’s what makes you a leftist. Noticing we waste 1/3 of food and less than 1/5 are starving, and thinking “clearly there has to be a better way, let’s figure it out” is what separates leftists from liberals

For all we know, they’re literally just passing massive checks in a circle to one another to say “yes, it says right here in our bank records that we spent a combined $100,000,000”, meanwhile only 25% actually goes into the production, and they pocket the rest.

That would be illegal and easily discovered

But you could pay $10M to hire another company to do the sound mixing. They might spend $500k to do the work. You might also be the owner of that company, and the money ends up back in your pocket…And that’s not embezzlement or a kickback, because that’s what it’s called when poor people do it

Recently, a bunch of people on tik tok found this “bug” in their banking app where you can write a bad check, then withdraw the funds before it clears… Then started crying about it when their balances updated

Dude definitely thought he discovered a cool new life hack

It’s actually “Tesla real”, learn to speak Spanish you uncultured swine

Printing for a single city has got to be more than hosting for an entire country

Think of all the people you need to print everything out before the next morning - you need a big enough staff of editors and reporters that you can get everything ready in a short time frame, you need the staff to handle the printing overnight, you need drivers to deliver within a 3-ish hour period and the staff to coordinate and load them up

Meanwhile, for a website, a team of 5 developers/devops could handle all of it. You still need journalists and editors, but they are no longer on the same time frame - they can just release things as they’re ready, and maybe curate an email for the day and what appears on the homepage.

As far as paper and print costs vs hosting costs? If each paper cost 1 cent, were talking like between .01 cent and .0001 cent per page view, maybe even a tenth or hundredth of that. It adds up quickly, but compared to paper and ink?

I too appreciate when entities take the mask off

Women are causing the same as a little bit of a lot of people

I have this recurring thought that this world is like a training program. Like it’s to show what happens when you think “let’s organize people into hierarchies” or “this is what results from your ideas playing out”

Squeezing down a crevice to poop

Stride down a hallway like Dio, alongside my infinite alternate selves, synchronizing perfectly as we sit upon the porcelain throne

Bonus points if it’s plain black tile to the right or left (don’t need mirrors for that part), but a mirror prism on the back wall that’ll make it feel like the mirror dimension. It’d kaleidoscope little warped fragments of you as you walk through if you do it just right

It depends on how it’s implemented - if it’s just enough to patch the system for a while, it’ll just become a way to squeeze more out of people

If it’s enough that work becomes optional, it’ll lessen the pressure enough that consumption will drop. More people will grow food, cook, and DIY everything from repairs to cottage handicrafts. They’ll have the time and energy to organize, politically and otherwise

Regardless, UBI is a stopgap measure - it can just extend the game of capitalism a little longer, or it can be the start of a transition

Just to put this in context:

There’s only so many ways to turn a bunch of files into one - mainly, you stick them back to back. Easy.

Then, there’s an infinite ways to compress that file… You could come up with you own method, but what good is that? It’s better and smarter to use a format already supported by your users

So of course most bundles are the same archive type under the hood. Everything from backups to installers - you shouldn’t be inventing new formats without a damn good reason

No way. It all comes down to the most expensive piece of most software - if they write a translation feature, and it works 98% of the time, that’s a complete success. That last 2% will probably take way longer to whittle down than the feature took to deploy

Even if the percentage was lower (and honestly I think it’s even higher from my own use), to even figure out if it’s worth it you’d have to put man hours on breaking down the numbers, estimating alternatives, and then actually doing the work

In this case, I don’t think​ it’s actually feasible - translation isn’t that resource intensive. If you’ve already done the cheap language detection so you don’t run it on everything and are using a reasonably efficient translation method, the last few percentage points of accuracy would probably take more resources than the occasional pointless work

It might not be too bad, once you get into code breaking, some of the simple techniques quickly yield metrics that can guess at the language with not much processing (depending on the total message length, but you could get a similar low effort guess by just analysing a sample)

It’s as simple as measuring the average distance between letters in a sample, and you could probably do more by using something like average ranges in UTC. Each language will vary, so you can build a map with some sample text, them just take n letters to guess the language with reasonable accuracy

On top of that, you could use user feedback or other factors to further narrow it down…Not perfect (and would look strange like this when it does fail), but then you could flag a defected language and give users a one click translate button

They probably don’t do the translations until requested like you said (there’s a lot of languages out there to translate into after all), but a platform as big as YouTube might be using big data to decide what to preemptively translate into what language (and maybe using low demand periods or optimizing for engagement, maybe a combination of both)