justeleblanc

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism

I'd prefer living in a world where social security is enough for me not to worry about things like "saving money".

Nope. I'd rather there not be a thing called a stock market at all.

So something that produces nothing of value to civilization. Gotcha.

Uh? Where did you get that comparison? China's top income tax rate is 45%. I cannot see how that could ever be "far below" what someone's income tax rate would be in California (37% federal + 12.3% state). Mind that the top bracket starts around $140k in China, whereas in the US it's about $590k (federal or Californian).

Ah yes, the famous centrally planned economy of San Francisco, California, USA.

So Next.js did everything right, but is built upon React that does too much. Okay?

Make sure that someone doesn't tamper with your device. No, it's not infallible. Yes, it's better than nothing.

Your first link is an obvious PR piece to stave off customers' panic.

I don't know where you got the impression that google fonts was "automatically banned".

Why wouldn't a "agreement" already be in place by the mere fact that those URLs are open to the entire world on purpose?

What does that even mean?

It only seems complex because everyone has been implementing user-hostile datamining operations for years before GDPR was enacted. So for every external service you use, you must make sure that they implemented GDPR compliance or not. If GDPR had been a law since the beginning, it would be much simpler.

Although I'd like to know, what difficulties have you been facing in your startup, exactly?

How is a game running at 144 FPS more "fun" than one running at 60 FPS?

While the sibling comment has answered on why this is nothing like social media or video games, I do wish that the energy cost of these activities was taken into account more often. Video games in particular have become massively wasteful. Just downloading these 100GB behemoths expends useless energy. And everyone is pushing for 8K 172FPS games. Why? Just why?

And yes, before you answer, that applies to any hobby you can think of. You won't be astute by pointing out that e.g., car enthusiasts are similarly wasteful.

Louis XIV probably never said that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27%C3%89tat,_c%27est_moi

Sure. Continue to pollute.

And I get angry when selfish people refuse to do anything to lower their emissions and impact me and my family.

You bought a shitty heat pump and decided you were okay with living in a state that produces electricity using fossil fuels. What's your point again?

We can get rid of a whole percent in emissions by giving up nothing important, and you think it's not a regulation that the government should pass?! What should the threshold for a regulation to pass, in your opinion? Should it cut single-handedly emissions by 2% on its own? 5%? 10%? 50%?

Look, I just created a file named "aux.rs" on my Windows machine. It's not true.

Every common command has a short alias, or often multiple short alias. Get-ChildItem => "ls", "gci". Get-Content => "gc", "cat". These aliases are standardized, you can look them up with Get-Alias (or "gal" ;) ).

It means that working in the terminal, you can use short commands, and when you write a long-term script, you use the long names so that the script is more readable.

What I find great is that flags also have aliases that are standardized across commands.

This is why I'm annoyed at this meme. It just stems from ignorance.

It's just a knee-jerk reaction people have in any thread where powershell is mentioned. "Hur hur long command names." Doesn't bring anything to the discussion.

There's a "aux.rs", also a verboten filename in Windows.

That's not true.

And then there were some that differed only in case, which honestly I don't know how we manage that, as the non-Windows side is macOS, and yet roughly once per year someone introduces two files, same name, differing case into the repo.

Sounds like a crappily maintained repo.

What were you expecting? Scientific notation with error margins? "We fired 5×10²±5 employees"?

What makes you think that 500 is the actual, exact number? It's probably just an approximation used in that PR piece.

The US is not a beacon of consumer safety. In my European country, having your phone in your hand while driving is illegal.

You can have any opinion you want. But it may not be worth much.

Don't be absurd. Microsoft and AB decided themselves to make their deal conditional on the CMA's approval. They're not going to pull out of the UK market. I'm amazed that this kind of take rises to the top of the comments.

You can read their 418 pages report here and see if they understand what they're about: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/644939aa529ed... Section 8, "Theory of harm 2: Vertical effects in cloud gaming services", starts on page 192 and contains 442 paragraphs. The conclusion is about two pages long, I encourage you to read it.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6448f377814c6...

Why did we review this merger?

28. The CMA’s primary duty is to seek to promote competition for the benefit of consumers. It has a duty to investigate mergers that could raise competition concerns in the UK, provided it has jurisdiction to do so.

29. Microsoft announced in January 2022 that it had agreed to acquire Activision for a purchase price of USD 68.7 billion. The Merger was conditional on receiving merger control clearance from several global competition agencies, including the CMA.

30. While both Microsoft and Activision are US-based entities, the question for the CMA is whether the Merger may have an impact on competition in the UK. This link to the UK can be established based on the turnover of the business being acquired in the UK (ie whether the UK turnover of that business is more than £70 million). In this case, we concluded that the CMA had jurisdiction to review this Merger because Activision met that threshold in FY2021.

You can read the full case here: https://www.gov.uk/cma-cases/microsoft-slash-activision-bliz... Microsoft and Activision/Blizzard decided themselves to seek the approval of the CMA.

The CMA's final decision is a 418 pages-long report. I doubt any of the commenters here have read it before throwing in their opinion about the case or the decision.

I'm not sure using a dated synonym that was only popular in British English is better.