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Epic doesn't care about the store, they only care about trying to force companies to host Fortnite without getting a cut of any money spent through their platform.

A graduate who can't read or do basic math isn't contributing much to society, and their social life likely isn't great anyway. It's likely better all around that they get forced into learning the basics than pushed along into things they have no chance of understanding.

I think the problem is that the creators, and by extension the moderators were bought into the idea of a giant wiki of all programming knowledge. The vast majority of the users just wanted a Q&A site. This led to the infighting and lots of counter intuitive rules as the gamification part conflicted with the goals of being a wiki.

When they added review queues there were badges tied to closing questions. The queues made a lot of existing problems a lot more public and prominent.

There's not a sensor that can detect another train with enough warning to matter. Stopping takes miles, and turning isn't an option.

Valve has ignored the quality problem of submissions for years. Lazy asset flips of demo levels have been common for years. It's less of a hedge and more of a restatement of what their position has been since they opened the floodgates. AI just made the bad stuff look better than it used to, so people have to relearn how to filter.

It's not that hard, you can reword almost anything to make even a high performer look like a failure. Then you just let people go a handful at a time

The US has a highly functioning train system. The US has the largest rail network and is third in the world in of volume shipped by rail.

It doesn't have to be mid career. A mix of people retiring early to hold office and younger people that start a career later in life after being elected would be amazing. Leveraging your elected experience to create a startup is also a good path.

Politics isn't supposed to be a career. It's supposed to be an act of service for a limited period.

What pisses me off is people criticizing anything discussing men's issues by bringing up that it's still worse for women.

Trucking is also one of the largest sources of employment in the country. It's quite literally the backbone not just because they haul so much, but because they are a massive source of income for families.

Building on vacant industrial land is more expensive because you have to clean it up first. It might even be a superfund site, no one is interested in actually finding out. There hasn't been any room on compromise or cleanup assistance in most cases.

The balance in the 90s was double counting social security surplus while also spending it as intra government debt.

All good is due to MyParty, all bad is due to OtherParty.

The industry as a whole is growing, it's way more than just Sony, and way more than just consoles.

Video games are just another example where the pricing is mostly greed. The market is massively larger than it was in the 90s, digital distribution has massively cut the cost of goods sold, new games are sold with tiered pricing, recuring revenue is now a huge part of a games viability. Game sales aren't the primary income anymore, it's all about keeping whales buying in game items, discounts are only offered when there needs to be a new influx of players to keep whales happy.

You absolutely can and should exclude the known bad drivers from the stats because they are essentially outliers. If you don't, it's very possible that widespread adoption of AVs actually makes the average driver more dangerous.

Copyright doesn't protect a work, there's probably also a reasonable argument that exact reproduction of a work is overrated in the first place. Others could just as easily produce a verbatim copy of 1984 if there wasn't copyright. The original theatrical release of Star Wars is almost impossible to find because Lucas altered it several times. Copyright isn't protecting the work, it's letting the holders exploit a rerelease 50 years after the initial release.

Safer than the highest level numbers isn't really a win though for autonomous driving. All human caused deaths includes drunk drivers, inexperienced drivers, and elderly drivers. An autonomous system should never be any of those things, so comparing them against is disingenuous at best and outright manipulative at worst.

C suites typically aren't middle management though.

1. The damage was understood, fairly easily measured, and could be done repeatably. 2. The cause was widely agreed upon. 3. Solutions weren't predicated on massive societal change. 4. Compliance was fairly easy to track and enforce.

Climate change is lacking all of these to various degrees.

As a former manager once told me, "if you aren't replaceable, you aren't promotable either." It makes sense for the company even if it sucks personally, but it's something you can also address yourself.

Medicare has been playing a shell game with reimbursements for decades. They cut the base rate for an office visit or hospital stay to below the cost of the actual service, but allow for separate charges for various things that make up the difference so that doctors don't just stop accepting Medicare in mass. That's why you get billed $37 dollars for aspirin, $15 for drug administration, $50 for IV placement, $10/bag for saline drips, $75 for vitals checks, etc. That way the hospital can make up the money lost from the actual visit charge, this also requires more administration overhead, to both keep track of all the additional charges, and to make changes as the rules change.

Later is just as likely to never happen, as happen. Billionaires have promised all sorts of things to get tax breaks for the things they want and never followed through with the parts that benefited others.

With AI doing all the work there is more time for meetings. Product folks aren't going to tell AI to make the code, they are going to still have a meeting to yell at someone that their AI generated requirements weren't followed the way they wanted. You'll also need meetings to discuss how more AI can prevent the AI from taking down production so much.

The Apollo program successfully beat the USSR after having been noticeably behind. As a proxy for conflict it was a great deal.

Nursing has become a pretty bad job in modern times, and being a male nurse tends to have more downsides. Exploitation is high in the nursing field, support staff are non-existent, mandatory overtime is common, patient ratios are trending up, break times are non-existent in some areas, being assaulted is increasingly common. Being a male also tends to mean you are expected to do the harder or heavy lifting parts the majority of the time in addition to all the other problems the profession has.

This was also closely related to their initial plans with the Xbox One to essentially kill used games, which they were about a decade to fast on rolling out.

There's already a growing amount of smoke in almost every sport, it's not going to explode like it should because no one is actually interested in enforcement outside isolated players.