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I don't think you understand how discourse works?

I made no demands and I made no assertions about entitlements. That reply to me was a strawman.

I made two statements: 1) I suggested people have multiple criteria for selecting a workplace, not just culture. 2) I suggested people should have the ability to voice their input over their work. (Note, that's a weaker claim than "people should have input over their work". Just that they should feel like they are able to voice their input.)

Neither of those two things are demands nor entitlements, and the latter I would assume would be pretty non-controversial unless you believe that bosses should have absolute and complete control over every facet of a worker's job. (I guess I work in tech, where it's pretty widely accepted that people have autonomy to make some decisions on their own about how and what work is achieved.)

That's all I was saying. Valve is way ahead of most of the rest of everyone else. But they are still shady.

We should be ok with pointing at the shady parts of things we like and going, "It would be better if it were not so shady."

Valve is good in many ways! Valve would be better if it didn't profit from getting kids to gamble on skins!

I look at neither for reviews. Steam Reviews are often bombed to hell for things like, "Game has woman. Woke." or "Game has racism." or other culture war nonsense. Or the very common, "Creator I follow on Youtube liked/disliked this game, so I left a similar review" or "Creator I dislike liked/disliked this game, so I left the opposite review". Or, the worst of all, "Game uses Unity/Unreal/Godot/Something Else, automatic dislike".

Ultimately, reviews of games tend to be pretty useless because people who play games have very little understanding of a) what makes games fun, and b) the complexity involved in making the games.

I have creators I follow whose tastes are closest to my own, and I watch their content for reviews, then go to the store that makes the best offer.

Additional allegations of discrimination: https://discriminationandsexualharassmentlawyers.com/valve-c...

Allegations of unpaid labor: https://web.archive.org/web/20160209211205/https://www.reddi...

Of course now it does, but it was bootstrapped off the back of commercial success. The parent poster was suggesting Epic could only finance a game store off the commercial success of Fortnite. Which seemed to be the exact same path Valve took, so I was curious to explore why the parent felt they were different.

That's a weird structuring of the concern. How about letting all developers enjoy the fruits of their work?

Sorta. The animal welfare laws say that getting images out of food production facilities are terrorism. Which suggests that an authoritarian regime could/would deploy a lot more of the state power against them.

And I think "understanding your food sources is terrorism" has impacts too people should be worried about. (To be clear, they ARE less acute than ICE concerns, of course).

You are not entitled to any item in your list of demands.

Can you point to the word entitled in my posts? Or are you putting words in my mouth?

Can you point to any demands? Or are you arguing against something I didn't say?

I don't understand. You think Steam exists without Half Life and Counterstrike?

HN is 'social media', btw.

Sure is! If you read the thread before posting in the thread, you'd see that it's come up already.

What nonsense. A decision about workplace should be a combination of factors -- workplace culture, products you can work on, compensation, skill fit, alignment with your interests, etc.

You should feel empowered to have a voice in the products of your labor. And you should feel empowered to have a voice in the culture that produces those products.

A couple sources:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9aCwCKgkLo

https://medium.com/dunia-media/the-nightmare-of-valves-self-...

Ok!

Happier is a fine place to be. They are both still too high. Not everything has to be binary -- I can think Valve is offering some utility and also think that Valve is charging too much for that utility.

The fact that Gabe has a billion dollars worth of yachts probably suggests that maybe, just maaaaaybe, that 30% could be lower and Steam could still provide you the same level of marketing support and player base.

Valve makes a significant amount of their money from the gambling they've attached to their games, and profits immensely from the culture of farming loot boxes to gamble on for skins and such.

They also take an absurd cut of developer income and saddle devs with costs that they don't always want. (Selling on Steam? Valve takes 30% and forces you to moderate the forums on your listing page that you cannot opt out of.)

They also have an internal culture that's been fairly regularly criticized as being pretty uncomfortable for women and minorities.

Valve has done some cool stuff, but let's not lionize them too much. They are probably better than an average company, for sure, but it's important to remember that they are also sketchy in some very gross ways as well.

I'm aware. If I lost the forum on HN as a side effect, I'd probably be happier overall.

Great. Please raise the age to 115.

I don't understand your comment. Is it an attempt at humor? Don't be a dick.

I don't object to eating animals, I object to torturing animals in the process of raising them. You can raise pork without forcing mother pigs to indefinitely share a space with a pile of their rotting children's carcasses.

Ask yourself why it warrants a terrorism charge to smuggle out photos of animal mistreatment.

Read the article:

https://theintercept.com/2017/10/05/factory-farms-fbi-missin...

https://archive.is/kqBbh

Reread the parent post more closely. It does not tell them: A) which site nor B) which password.

The parent can log in because they have a map of site<->password. But without either the site or the password, the notification that an email address is compromised is useless.

I have those things? Did you miss the part where I have multiple vanity URLs and hundreds of email addresses? Of course I have a paid mail provider and catch all. The problem is the cost of haveibeenpwned is too much for me as an individual.

It is only free if you have fewer than 10 pwned addresses.

I have 15 pwned email addresses. It's free for under 10.

Oh - and 1.3 billion unique passwords, 625 million of which we'd never seen before either.

It's not just email addresses. It's address + password combos.

But also, how did 2 billion email addresses get exposed? Assuming I give an email address to a company (and only that company) if someone gets access to that email addresss they either got it from me or that company. Knowing the company has sold, lost, or poorly protected my email address tells me they are maybe not worth working with in the future.

Have I been pwned will tell me if the associated password for that site leaked. I create unique passwords per site, but lets say my mastercard login gets pwned -- that'd be one I want to change the password for right away.

I might not get an email if someone gets that account info.

It's not the email address itself that I care about, and that's not the service that the site provides. It tells you for which email addresses a related password has been pwned.

The downside to having many vanity urls and giving out a unique email address to each website you visit is that you cannot use haveibeenpwned without paying (despite being a single human). I have no idea how many email addresses I've given out over the years, probably hundreds across at least 6 or 7 domains, and they want to charge me a monthly fee to see which of those have been pwned.

I understand they gotta make a buck, but I find it interesting this is the first real negative to running a unique email address per company/site I work with.

As someone who became vegetarian after reading a Glenn Greenwald article I found on HN about how the pork industry does awful things and gets the government to prosecute people trying to expose it, the key I've found is to look to world cuisine.

Many cultures around the world have awesome food that's easily convertible to vegetarian or is vegetarian already, where meat might be a luxury.

Central America and the Caribbean have tons of dishes with rice, beans, plantains, and flavorful sauces with flatbreads. Or a million ways to prepare corn. West Africa has peanut stew that's amazing. Across the rest of the continent jollof rice and githeri are good solid bases for a meal. Misir wot is a spicy hearty lentil stew. North Africa has a rich vegetarian tradition of soups, stews, and rice dishes. In the middle east there's falafel, hummus, mujadara, shakshuka and about a million ways to combine spices, onions, tomatoes, flatbreads, etc. South Asia obviously has a massive vegetarian cultural tradition, as does Southeast and East Asia.

When I started, I found it hard. I kept thinking "beans and rice... I guess?" Once I started going, "ok, I'm going to pick a small region of the world and see what they eat there and try it" I had WAY more success. The first time I made tteok-bokki or sushi or vareniki I suddenly realized just how much of the world is really already preparing vegetarian meals for many of their meals.

Sure, but spinach, kale, mustard greens, chard, and arugula are all pretty wildly different. With different textures, flavors, and other things going on.