As someone with first hand experience growing up in the country, you could not be more wrong.

since the server validates everything anyway

Oh you sweet summer child.

The server doesn’t validate shit, because that takes up CPU cycles on THEIR hardware, which costs them money. A huge part of kernel level anticheat is forcing YOU to pay the cost for anticheat, so they can squeeze a few more pennies out of it. And if your computer gets owned because they installed insecure, buggy malware on your system…? Well, they’ll just deny. After all, it’s kernel-level, how are YOU going to prove anything?

Which is ignoring the problems inherant to auto insurance, which is fundamentally a greater force in the price/cost of car insurance than the danger of cars.

Yes, cars can be dangerous, but that’s not why car insurance is expensive, it’s expensive because car insurance companies have a completely captive market in the US- one that must pay whatever the insurance comapny dictates.

As a result, they set the price as high as they can get away with, and then refuse to actually pay it out anyway.

Don’t make excuses for the insurance companies. The risk is the whole point, and certainly does not excuse their gouging.

You’ll notice other countries do not, in fact, have to deal with this level of price gouging, which implies it’s nothing to do with the cars themselves- it’s just the insurance companies, and it always has been.

Stop throating the boot of exploitive companies.

I’m point out establishment liberals that ARE listening to progressives, or are progressives themselves.

Because you’re cherry picking people to be “establishment liberals.”

Bernie sanders exists. AOC exists. Etc etc etc

And then the trolley cross track drifts and murders six people while the third party voter feels smug and self-righteous about ‘doing the right thing’.

The time to prevent the construction of the trolley, to prevent people from being kidnapped from their homes and tied to trolley tracks, is every time other than the election, so your election options are the ‘Not Murdering People With Trolleys’ group.

During the election, you minimize harm.

And for everything else, you push for improvements.

The time to suddenly pull a principled stance about Trolleys out of your ass is not ten seconds before your inaction kills people.

You need to care before the trolley is barrelling down the tracks.

He made $12000 off each fired employee.

Kind of adorable that the last poster’s boyfriend knows her well enough to know that she wanted the lime.

I bet he clocked that thing as something they were buying, possibly even before she saw it lol

What? FF14 is currently running laps around wow’s sub numbers, wow hasn’t been the most active MMO available since before bfa and the bootlicking cratered it.

In programming, this is called ‘Rubber Duck Debugging.’

The televangelists, in this case, were the rubber duck.

But you wouldn’t be able to authenticate the bank transfers- or messages- as real. It’s the exactly same situation the so-called cryptocurrencies run in to, and why all three have added signatures onto it. That doesn’t make any of the three cryptography- just something that exists better with the support of cryptography.

A cryptocurrency can exist without the signature- it’s less useful, but ‘just trust me bro’ is basically THE underpinning for first currencies since the beginning, and the source of a lot of the problems with them.

It’s not borrowing, it’s attempting to entirely hijack and replace the prefix. This is already causing a massive loss in trust of the entire field of cryptography.

As I said in another reply, just because it uses sha256 as it’s proof of work doesn’t make it crypto, as it was essentially picked out of a hat.

And for the signing of transactions, are we going to start calling bank checks crypto? RCS being renamed crypto? Just because something tangentially has some sort of cryptographic signature tied into it does not make that object cryptography or related to cryptography- it just means that it has a signature enveloping that object.

That’s like saying that you’re a English lord because you watched a TV show involving the middle ages one time. Just because a concept contains, as one option amongst many, a thing, doesn’t make that concept the thing.

The proof of work could be anything- sha256 was just something that happened to be picked. That doesn’t make it cryptography any more than you could call RCS cryptochat.

It’s called cryptocurrency because Bitcoin used sha256 as it’s proof of work algorithm for funsies, but has no actual tie to cryptography. Proof of work is not cryptography.

Cryptocurrencies have absolutely nothing to do with cryptography, they just appropriated the name.

Yeah, you enjoy your day and your strawman arguement you ‘won’ against as well.

Also, c’mon, their criticism of this decision in the sentence just before it heavily implies that.

That’s literally not how that works, and you even agree in the paragraph above this one. Why are you even arguing about this?

As for twitch’s working conditions, it’s a company ran by amazon, with management by amazon, so it has a lot of the same problems. From what I understand, the hours are shit, everything is a metric that’s impossible to meet, you’re constantly at risk of being laid off, a lot of the management are jackasses, and it’s very much a bunch of little fiefdoms trying to flex their position and abuse any amount of power they can.

Like, I can sum it up as simply as “Know how terrible twitch mods are? Imagine working for one.”

Not quite as bad as the conditions working in an amazon warehouse, sure, but still not something anyone should have to put up with. Regular inhuman working conditions with a focus on gaslighting and abuse, as opposed to an amazon warehouse’s egregiously inhuman working conditions which are focused more on physical abuse.

They’re talking about the working conditions in general, which are indeed deplorable. They’re not saying this specific act is proof of it, or even an example of it.

Reading comprehension, dude.

Yes, absolutely. Constantly, in fact.

Rust the language is great.

Rust the community makes me hate rust, never want anything to do with it, and actively advise people not to use Rust. Your community is so, so important to a programming language, because that’s who makes your documentation, your libraries, fills out the discords, IRC, and mailing lists. As a developer, any time you’re doing anything but rote boilerplate zombie work, you’re interacting with the community. And Rust has a small, but extremely vocal, section of their community that are just absolute shitheads.

Maybe in 5-10 years when the techbros stop riding its’ dick and go do something else will Rust recover its reputation, but for now? Absolutely no.