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Over here still holding my breath for a hi-def remaster of the Fate of Atlantis game.

Because the rules around running a business in the COVID-19 environment have been set such that large companies can afford to comply with them but small business can’t without losing money. So all their employees, and eventually the business owners themselves, bear the brunt of that.

Okay for all the people that are talking about how great this is, try this one.

What if it turns out a company that they sold all of their data to was later contracted by a government to develop biological weapons? And what if they were suddenly able to target those weapons at specific populations because of all the DNA data they had?

Is it still great that they can do this?

EDIT: Here is a concrete hypothetical for people that pretend they don't understand what I am talking about...

Imagine that [oppressive communist superpower] decided that they were tired of all the criticism they get for their treatment of their [minority Turkic ethnic group originating from and culturally affiliated with the general region of Central and East Asia] population. Rather than overtly mistreat them, they (via third-party contractors) go to the DNA database and find out that members of that population typically share a vulnerability to a dangerous strain of flu to which the general population has a resistance.

Rather than overtly oppress them in camps, they could now just custom tailor diseases to handle the "problem" for them, and not have to suffer the PR backlash.

I actually had a similar idea to discourage certain news outlets from posting inflammatory but misleading or untrue headlines and articles for clicks, and then later changing them to something more factually correct after the damage has been done.

Is it just me or does that sound an awful lot like a foreign government interfering in U.S. elections?

"Thanks for your feedback."

Does it strike anyone else as odd that the two skulls found practically "nose-to-nose" are 40,000 years apart in age? How do two humanoid skulls coincidentally end up right next to each other with 40,000 years gap between them?

You can see an inverse of the 3D image by simply crossing your eyes until things "line up". It will appear 3D, but things that are intended to jump out at you will sink into the page instead. But that will at least give you a general idea of how it is supposed to work. Then after you get it working this way the whole "unfocus your eyes" approach will make a little more sense.

Did anyone else immediately search 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42?

It's ironic that Epic is going to accuse anyone of being irresponsible. I got an alert from haveibeenpwned a while back showing that my login credentials from Epic were part of a leak, including my password in plaintext. It wasn't a password that shows up in public password dictionaries.

I think it is ironic that Google et al like to point out when governments are asking them to censor something, but make no mention of when they themselves are censoring something.

"Governments are the real bad guys here. Trust us."

As an American, this is definitely what it looks like to me.

I didn't see MarketWatch on their chart...

I have been a long-time fan of the Razer Deathadder, and I was talking to a friend about it the other day and realized that the reason I like it so much is because the form factor is very close to the original IntelliMouse.

I feel like if it is the latter, Github will quickly lose market share to non-Microsoft competitors. Developers on the whole seem to care a lot more about those kinds of tactics than computer users in general. Surely Microsoft understands this and doesn't try this kind of fuckery.

Let me also add that it doesn't teach them all at once. It starts from first principles and adds on new libraries as the tutorial apps become more complex.

This is true, but I feel like the popularity of the Raspberry Pi has done a lot to improve the ARM Linux ecosystem in recent years.

I recommend the e-book Fullstack React (https://www.fullstackreact.com/) (I have no relationship to these guys, other than being a customer).

I have had junior engineers read it in the past to get up-to-speed and it does a great job of teaching all of those technologies together in a way that makes sense and is easy to understand.

It may also be worth noting that judges in Texas are elected, not appointed, the same way as any other politician.

I think I would prefer the Indiana Jones approach. "Leave it alone! It belongs in a museum!"

Do you want to get regulated? Because that's how you get regulated.

Great point. We already know from the 2012 election and from the 2015 Podesta e-mails that Facebook doesn't exactly have a great record of political neutrality.

This may be possible, however it is going to be interesting to see how Facebook gets standing to sue CA. From what I understood from Zuckerberg's statement, the agreement was between Facebook and Kogan. If CA got the data from Kogan, it seems like Facebook wouldn't have standing to go after CA directly. I haven't seen the specific agreements made by each party in this case, so I can't say for sure, but traditionally I think Facebook could only go after Kogan, who then may be able to go after CA depending on the specifics of their agreement.

It doesn't help that anytime Facebook changes their privacy policy or their available privacy settings, they tend to set it to a convenient default that benefits them, and that Plumber Joe is likely to never even know about.

The Podesta e-mails have conversations between John Podesta and Sheryl Sandberg about meetings to help elect the first woman president. So, while I think Facebook is morally reprehensible, this latest media outrage because of connections to the Trump campaign feels a bit like an economic hit job more than anything.

I always hear in my head the voice from old Maxis games like SC2K that says, “reticulating splines”

I feel like the bigger story here is that Second Life is still around...

Skynet probably wasn't built for its own sake. It was probably built to protect the people who owned Skynet from the people that didn't.

I am considering buying this for an engineer that works for me to get up to speed on React in the very near future. I only want to start him on ES6+ syntax though. How long do you think until it will be up-to-date?

When I was practicing law, my first job out of law school was working for a local defense lawyer who was somewhat of a celebrity. He always told me the trick to dealing with the press is not to answer the question you were asked, but rather the question you wish you were asked. He was right.