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This isn't a bad thing.

This scenario seems like something that's more common in freelance work where the client has access to the code for whatever reason.

Because I procrastinated due to the overwhelming complexity overloading my mind with the myriad scenarios resulting from those two necessary lines and my lack of experience with this scenario depriving me of the intuition necessary to prune the aforementioned tree of mental complexity in an efficient manner.

Can you provide citations to which countries exactly you're referring to by the phrase "most countries?"

Contact tracing apps sounds like a totalitarian wet dream.

Fucking hell, these politicians are as much a virus as the virus itself. 100% that number was pulled straight from their hindquarters.

You're confusing the object for the verb. The sex habit is "jerking off" not "to internet porn", and all it takes is a simple youtube search for "bonobos jerking off" to see that you're wrong.

No rational thinker would give any credence to words written in a "full communist" magazine about how a system of economics should be run.

It's called "Regulatory capture". They're trying to slow down / hinder competition, while at the same time benefiting from loopholes sewn into the legislation their lobbyists helped to create.

That would be a good thing, not a bad thing. It would force colleges to conform to the rules of capitalism, making the market for education sane again.

Student loans should not be handed out as easily as they currently are.

"entitled white boys"

Wow, racist much?

"Guy" and "guys" are not the same, at all. The s appended to the end, along with the context, drastically changes the semantic meaning of the word. This is how language works. Even an unchanged word can have totally different meanings depending on the context. You argument here is a strawman that ignores context to the point of pedantic absurdity.

Having a ministry of truth totally sounds like an idea that can't backfire. /s

This is great news.

I built a new computer and for the first time in over a decade I wanted to try Windows, but apparently I was missing drivers for something. It never told me what I needed drivers for, and even with all the drivers for all the parts I could find on a separate USB drive, it couldn't find the drivers that I supposedly needed, so I gave up and chose to install Ubuntu instead.

Ubuntu apparently knew all the drivers I needed, fetched them from beyond the great ether, and all was in harmony.

Why is this so easy for Canonical, but not Microsoft?

I like the copyright pun at the bottom.

While all that may or may not be true, that is irrelevant to this study.

This study mentions antioxidants rather than glucose.

Why the hell would you want your diet to be salt free? Sodium is essential to proper bodily functions. You're going to hurt yourself by over-limiting sodium and using potassium chloride.

My eyes don't work this early apparently. I completely misread the comment I responded to.

Open source offices are a result of companies not willing to train. Everyone wants to hire someone with experience in their tools, and also only hire young people, so what are young people going to do? They're going to teach themselves free tools.

EDIT: I'm apparently a blind idiot in the morning. Misread the parent comment.

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From what I understand, a lot of that is due to a combination of factors from bugs and spaghetti code from prior to purchase, to the necessity to not change too much too quickly, which might cause a community uproar, to simply just trying to recoup the cost of the IP purchase in the first place by developing projects around the IP, which the main game (java edition) doesn't see any progress from.

Much of the popularity of the game has a lot to do with the modding community as well, which is where you go when simply building in the vanilla game is no longer interesting. Any change to the vanilla game can have major ripple effects on the modding community.

Lastly, I'd say that one huge development they recently fixed in the code base was the block ID limit. Now that the ID system is name based rather than number based with a hard coded limit, the number of blocks that can be added to the game isn't limited by anything other than the direction of the creative team and new mechanics.

So private equity buys a sports publication and see that they're not publishing anything related to sports, so they tell them "hey, please publish sports related articles" whereby the staff whines, quits, and is replaced? And this is a bad thing, how?

Or just make them taste like taking a pill which isn't supposed to be chewed or overconsumed. I never said anything about making vitamins taste good, nor do I think outliers like the case study discussed in the video are relevant to the general population, especially when the situation discussed in the video is a "fish out of water" scenario and not something relevant to a 3rd world resident living in the 3rd world where the native languages are being used.

Also, since when do we need "compliance" with regard to offering a cheap solution to a common problem that isn't infectious? People are intelligent enough to know what they should do. Let them have the free will to take the solution or not. We don't need to force or seek "compliance". That just sounds kind of dystopian or authoritarian.

Well, it kinda helps that they were the first good search engine. Their name is synonymous with performing a search, much in the way people say "let me grab a kleenex" with regard to tissues,or "I used a q-tip to clean my ear, doctors and their advice be damned" with regard to whatever the hell q-tips are called without referencing a brand name.

Granted, as a result of that in Google's case, their market dominance is kind of self-perpetuating, because that higher usage leads to better results, since our brains think very similarly, so that thing you were thinking of has already been searched for, and thus their algorithm has already filtered the results down to what you likely want before you even know that you need to search for something.

Take a new video game for instance where you want to search for the map or walkthrough for a particular level.

You'll get better results using Google, because most other people are already using Google to search for that exact same thing, whereas when I do the same with duckduckgo, it's hit or miss on the results.

What is "mandatory returning of bottles against deposit"?

Can you define lamettrieism for me? I haven't heard that term before, so just curious.

Naive Question: Wouldn't a multivitamin be a cheaper and safer solution to counter a broad range of vitamin deficiencies?

If not, why would growing crops be a cheaper solution? What is the opportunity cost of growing golden rice to feed your vitamin deficient family vs. growing something else to sell on a broader market?

How the frick do you accidentally drive into the US?