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- Comment on Microsoft’s AI boss thinks it’s perfectly OK to steal content if it’s on the open web 1 day ago:
I mean, that’s how I got through high school. So sure.
- Comment on This is what we used to worry about in the 80s. This and global thermonuclear war. 3 days ago:
I love the kinks!
- Comment on Steam announces game recording beta. 3 days ago:
I think Sony wants out of the physical console market. They just don’t know how to do it. The consoles are sold at a loss, but the games sales are massive returns on investments.
If they can double their sales by releasing on steam at the cost of 30% per sale, they still come out ahead, and can save all the R&D cost on developing a physical console, plus the loss from each individual console sale.
- Comment on Why we don't have 128-bit CPUs 1 week ago:
More wheels!
- Comment on Another mystery solved. 1 week ago:
Everyone is in here talking about Godzilla legs.
No one is talking about the Godzilla pizza slice.
- Comment on Five Men Convicted of Operating Massive, Illegal Streaming Service That Allegedly Had More Content Than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Prime Video Combined 1 week ago:
Non
- Comment on Tea Time 1 week ago:
Excellent, I’ll be ready to sell my current batch this coming October.
- Comment on Tea Time 1 week ago:
Coffee beans aren’t true beans. They are the pit seeds of the coffee cherry fruit, similar to other stone fruit such as cherries, peaches, plums, olives, and dates.
- Comment on Tea Time 1 week ago:
What’s the proper steeping time for decaying oak leaves “until the flavor comes out”?
- Comment on Tea Time 1 week ago:
From en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbal_tea :
… most dictionaries record that the word tea is also used to refer to other plants beside the tea plant and to beverages made from these other plants. In any case, the term herbal tea is very well established and much more common than tisane.
Furthermore, in the Etymology of tea, the most ancient term for tea was 荼 (pronounced tu) which originally referred to various plants such as sow thistle, chicory, or smartweed, and was later used to exclusively refer to Camellia sinensis (true “tea”)
- Comment on Maybe those 20 seconds were because of the lack of getting raises? 5 weeks ago:
Na, Miranda is just an exploited shift manager who is making $3.00 above minimum wage that her profit stealing owner has convinced her will eventually turn into a fine quality of life if she just keep her nose to the grindstone so that she will turn around and fire her “underperforming” minimum wage underlings that will happily do something that damages their brain just to make 20 minutes of their 4 hour burrito rolling shift go by faster.
- Comment on Honestly, this is probably how I will end up dieing 5 weeks ago:
I thought the whole point was that the bear in any form was already less threatening than a man.
- Comment on xkcd #2933: Elementary Physics Paths 1 month ago:
We really should have more stringent requirements for joke quality here.
- Comment on How Airbnb accidentally screwed the US housing market and made $100 billion 1 month ago:
Sure. That’s step two. You gotta do step one first.
- Comment on How Airbnb accidentally screwed the US housing market and made $100 billion 1 month ago:
You can easily regulate against that.
- Comment on Using Ubuntu may give off a hipster vibes to the average PC user, but within the Linux community its has the opposite effect. 1 month ago:
Personally, I’ve been gaming on Arch with minimal issues for 2 years. Mostly stick to steam games for the low effort required though.
- Comment on *Naruto 1 month ago:
Depends on if you can smoke it…
- Comment on American wanting to move abroad, what's the best bet for an registered nurse? 1 month ago:
In the UK visas are awarded on a points system. You get X number of points for having a college degree, Y points for it being in a certain field, etc. from what I’ve been told, nurses and doctors immediately qualify for all points required to get a visa just based on profession
However, as someone that moved to the UK 13 years ago, I don’t consider it a great destination. Prexit really screwed everything up. Having an EU passport would have been an incredible complement to my US passport, but now a British passport is no more useful that my American passport, especially since most of my travel is to the European continent. Also, the NHS is being gutted continually so in all id just say it’s not the most desirable location if you’re in the healthcare field.
At minimum, I’d look at countries that are properly in the EU, which includes Ireland. Other countries in western Europe would be great as well I think, depending on what kind of life you’re looking to live in. Something I’ve noticed is that generally Europe very quickly transitions from city to countryside. In the US you’ll get suburbs that stretch for dozens of miles past the core infrastructure of the nearest major city, where as in Europe it’s usually straight to farming fields and two lane roads.
France, Belgium, Netherlands, Spain and Germany would all be excellent locations to start a new life in healthcare I think. Each of those (except the Netherlands maybe) would expect you to be working towards fluency in their language though, so if you’re not interested in learning a foreign language that is definitely something to consider - which is why Ireland and Dublin specifically is so desirable to Tech companies and has been for the last 15 years.
In general I would say that as someone in the healthcare field, you do have a job that is valued highly as far as getting a visa is concerned in Europe.
- Comment on Xbox Has Had More Studio Closures Than First Party Game Releases So Far In 2024 1 month ago:
Trees of green what, is the real question.
- Comment on Google employees question execs over 'decline in morale' after blowout earnings 1 month ago:
I prefer pineapple, liquorice, and a dusting of whatever you can scrape from that space between the toilet and the toilet seat.
- Comment on Google employees question execs over 'decline in morale' after blowout earnings 1 month ago:
Google will always be part of FAANG. It’s in the name.
But if they fail in AI and their advertising business dries up (which if you listen to earnings calls, is pretty much all anyone is concerned about), then their name won’t be stapled to FAANG anymore. It’ll just be FAAN. When you run the gameble having great talent but wasting it, eventually you reach the point where you’re no longer a desirable location for the talent in the first place.
- Comment on Google employees question execs over 'decline in morale' after blowout earnings 1 month ago:
Beatings will continue
until - Comment on Google employees question execs over 'decline in morale' after blowout earnings 1 month ago:
Yeah. Let’s let him teach a Finance 101 class.
I’d be interested in the lessons a guy that approved a 40% headcount increase then did layoffs and said “I take full responsibility” can teach anyone.
How’s the saying go? Those that can, do. Those that can’t, teach.. Go on professor. Schools us. The Investors are listening.
- Comment on FCC explicitly prohibits fast lanes, closing possible net neutrality loophole 1 month ago:
This is how every ISP in the US has acted for the last 2.5 decades. They got their money handout from the government to kickstart broadband country wide (which is why we ended up with oligopolies with things like Cox operating in one county and Comcast operating in another with a little handshake agreement to stay on each other’s side of the imaginary line), under the assumption that those ISPs would continue to maintain and grow those networks as the needs increased. So now everyone has broadband and who gives a shit what the advertised speeds are, because at least they’re better than dial up.
Then a few years later, it becomes clear that they need to upgrade to keep up with the growing traffic demands from services like YouTube and Netflix, which highlights that 1) they want to charge customers more for something the government paid them to build and that they had advertised to the customers without ever actually delivering in the first place, and 2) they pocketed all the money they were supposed to be using to do incremental upgrades along the way.
So, now they say they don’t have money for upgrades, so they need to hike prices so the customers can find the upgrades (which for the customers means they’re paying for something they won’t even receive until some time in the future), and they start looking for other avenue for money to find this (or just grow revenue on general, cuz capitalism “up and to the right”) which is where net neutrality comes in: ISPs turn around and go “hey man we gotta upgrade our network to serve your YouTube and Netflix content, so you should pay for it! You rake in billions. Where’s our slice of the pie?!”
And that sounds like a somewhat reasonable argument… until you realize that their network has already been paid for twice, once by the government, and a second time by the customers. And now they want to charge the companies making money off the Internet users to pay to upgrade it for a 3rd revenue stream. Their justification being “well they’re OUR customers! You need to pay US a cut so you can reach them!” (which is not that far off from the same reasoning the mob or drug dealers use if you try to set up on their turf)
They’re shitty scummy companies run by shitty scummy people. It’s skipping over the principle of the internet: it’s a pay-to-get-on service (or if you consider the fact that most internet traffic historically is porn, a pay-to-get-off service. HEY-OH!..).
Paying for consumption is sensible. Like any other service, it takes money to operate it, and the more someone uses, the more it costs to operate. But to charge the upstream providers of there service those customers want to access is just absurd. It’s like your home customers paying for electricity, then the electric company trying to charge Black and Decker a cut of their revenue to have toasters on their electric network.
At this point, I think the internet should be treated like any other utility. It suffers from the same infrastructure problems that gas, electricity, water, sewer, and telephone does: building multiple physical infrastructure networks on top of each other isn’t sensible if someone is only going to use one of those networks to provide their service. Lots of those services are privatized in the US already, but they’re also heavily regulated compared to regular free market industries. I mean… The government practically bought the ISPs out once already when they gave them the money to build the broadband networks. But because we had a giant swing of “big-gubment bad!” they just forked the money over without any strings attached to determine how those companies operated later.
- Comment on Always happens 1 month ago:
Cause you ugly bruh!
- Comment on Choose your difficulty 1 month ago:
Thanks!
Ya’ll fucking crazy
- Comment on Mullvad VPN: Introducing Defense against AI-guided Traffic Analysis (DAITA) 1 month ago:
blocked
- Comment on Choose your difficulty 1 month ago:
and don’t put your hands in areas you can’t see
Serious question: do you check your bed before you crawl into it for the night? Like, what’s the level of paranoia you guys have there? Does the room get a quick glance then you just go “yeah, I’m sure everything is fine”? Or do you turn all the lights on, rip the duvet up, and smack the bed frame to scare off any creepy crawlies that might be lingering about?
- Comment on "PSN isn't supported in my country. What do I do?" Arrowhead CEO: "I don't know" 1 month ago:
crossplay is fully functioning
Well I’m sure they’re working on fixing that
- Comment on Does Big Ben imply the existence of a Little Ben? 1 month ago:
He’s old okay. It takes a little longer to re-erect than it used to.