McKinsey, always putting a rubber stamp on whatever corporate slop needs officiating. Intricately expensive means of procuring a circle-jerk.
Having met this guy's boss, Mayor Johnson, the pandering hypocrisy doesn't surprise me. The Democrat establishment is robotically Orwellian.
It is underappreciated in the mainstream how irregulated wall st is, just like health care, travel, banking, and any other despised industry of modern society. Capitalism would be letting stock markets decide if insider trading is permissible, not federal congress. Quarterly obsession is a combination of a forced framework and a century of abysmal financial policy.
On Windows, Librewolf doesn't auto-update, which is unacceptable for core internet facing software. Linux with package management is different, however I'm using Brave so I'm uninformed about librewolf versus Firefox.
Have an minimum viable product of whatever game(s) you've been working on. Not shippable, but just enough to have all-around experience of the dev and design process
As for strategy, RPG, and other sandboxes, I think what's needed is aesthetically sophisticated procedural generation. Flavor text, faction banners, entity behavior and motivations, so on. Take Rome 2: TW and think what it would take for a computer to generate meaningful start positions and cultures for fresh experiences (Civ games, but not necessarily dynamic landmasses). Furthermore, how are CA/Paradox Games arbitrarily free-form and inconsequential where the map ends up either one color or jigsaw vomit unrecognizable to how nations form in the real world. Imperator Augustus should be something that can happen over the course of a 272 BC campaign.
r/all was already largely shit when I joined in 2011. Such is the way of any platform that doesn't undertake exclusionary measures to curtail groupthink and other human maladies.
Serious investors make the point that strong stock market performance of the past 70ish years isn't guaranteed in the future. Diversification goes beyond 3/6 etf strategies, ideally including a rural estate, food rations, ammunition. Seems less fantastical than society taking the risk of a depression surpassing 1930s virtuously.
This is the point I made to imp when 'we covered the story late and sparsely’; that SBI is not itself in control of triple-a and that he missed our first post. Conspiracy narrative minded people and normies alike (oft enough overlap) won't wrap their head around the concept of prospiracy that is the decline of entrenched civilizations. Reality is mundane, self-interested, and spontaneously organized, which is noise to gossipers.
Whatever triple-a trends palworld copied from triple-a. On rails open world prefab survival craft unlive-service ephemeral arbitrary RPG. Cater to normies that think Samwise Tarly can be obese post wall expedition because dragons exist and "it's fantasy".
Individualism is bipolar. To some it's independent thought, individual responsibility and consequences, and to others it's a free pass to degeneracy.
Generally, explicitly right-wing libertarians support controlled borders. Center libertarians have done a lot of damage to whatever potential the movement had, with humanist positivity peddling and a lacking adherence to game theory both on platform (I.e. some in favor of special tax breaks that lobbyists make sure don't apply to small business) or in campaigning (ex. Jo bending the knee to BLM).
At the very least, use services where pseudonyms are the norm. Won't protect against the FBI with a warrant, but at least gives a chance against the robots in school administrations. Probably too much to expect regular teens and pre-teens to use messengers that don't archive by default and aren't run off a Silicon Valley VC business model.
Libertarians have been a vocal minority shunned by many establishment types, for example the Moral Majority or left-leaning academics too dependent on government infrastructure. Certainly so by the mid 00's when I was discovering politics beyond the watered-down version taught by grade school. But it's certainly intensified from relatively fringe snarky mockery to the modern vitriol shared with Trump supporters, Brexiteers, and other right-wing populist undesirables.
I guess consequentialism (superset of utilitarian) and not letting beliefs distort perception reality are what is important. It is disconcerting that there are/were influential people that guided by literal utilitarianism, humanism, etc without an comprehensive anchor (what the word holistic is supposed to mean). Uilitarian libertarianism happens to be an identifiable brand that contrasts with single-issue fuckwads and true believers.
Look, if you liked Duck Tales as a kid, fantastically fine. But shared values mean jackshit if that means globohomo appreciation of American Idol. This is why I'm distrustful of some "trad-cons" in this forum whom I'm convinced have a hard-on for whatever televangelists and Robert McNamara sold last century.
The 1800s and 1900s proved that nationalism can be subverted just as easily as any other social system if there aren't foundations of redoubtable first principles instilled in the populace. Some theories are at odds with nature (communism, progressivism), but any system with potential still requires a virtuous populace willing to spill blood to defend it.
Utilitarian libertarians for the most part support controlled borders.
Right, it's a pipe-dream for enough people to break free of the matrix (incl. the useful idiot commie left) even if doing so is necessary for humanity to not collapse in the post-industrial age. Just like how diminishing religion didn't change people's propensity towards dysfunctional conformity, but discarded the positive effects of official religions with the masses embracing covert quasi-religions.
It's the reverse of the "gateway drug" slippery slope. America largely turned pro-marijuana, and the three letter agencies haven't lost any power. 2020 showed how static 2/3 of human society is.
There's a good chance I'm missing context, but its fine to use the enemy's tactics against them.
Rebuild is still much higher production value than much anime farmed out to the lowest bidder. I think this scene shows off character and cinematography.
Pointers make more sense if coming from machine/assembly. I recommend Code by Charles Petzold for a general overview of computing, and few days of any form of assembly to really get C pointers.
That filler, boisterous fake shouting expression at -2:36 is contemptible whether it's a guy or girl performing it. Other ritualistic behaviors are more obviously bizarre when not presently performing them. Shitty taste is inexcusable, and never exists in a vacuum. Don't go beyond smalltalk with any women who can't help have shit taste. Heads of families should disinherit any trustfundies who gravitate toward the lowest common denominations of our culture. Paris Hilton's granddad sorta figured that one out.
Teachers. Any GenX or millennial had access to knowledge that their desired profession had gone to shit before they reached adulthood. Pay that has little correlation with performance, teachers unions, "right to education" making it inefficient to discipline problem students or separate the slowest quartile. The very concept and implications of state compulsory education.
Parents. A majority of people do not practice due diligence, and if so, with a level head. What should be standard is home schooling or being intimately familiar with curriculum. I repeat, voting for and tolerating the very concept of state compulsory, age cohort Prussian education.
Kids. The majority of people are retarded, else they'd reject Britney Spears, Billie Eilish, rnb slop (adjust for contemporaneous fashion). Bad taste predicts real educational outlook (ie talent, critical thinking) and perverse normie behaviors. Kids past kindergarten are capable of thinking for themselves, and often choose not to.
Like micro-transactions in an MMO (cosmetic only or p2w), I don't expect this to preserve the sanctity of the core product because typical people don't attempt first principles.
In an MMO, if I were to have any mtx, it would be limited quantity to be bid on one time only, or on a seasonal basis. It should go w/o saying that a sensible amount of time and skill should remain viable against either type of mtx. Done with care, the company isn't "throwing free money away" while preserving the intrinsic value of the core offering and exclusivity of the mtx. Disclaimer, this is intended as an alternative to prevalent mtx schemes, not my preference for games.
In food and beverage (modern industry in general, too), a bean counter's motivation is demonstrable impact on revenue, w/o taking into account Hazlitt's one economic lesson. The right way instead to do surge pricing is to find a certain threshold of customers where everyone's experience is negatively impacted, but unfeasible to maintain capacity for. Only late customers will be charged extra, until the queue is under control.
One can say this is all a bad idea, but I at least prefer upfront bargaining over bait and switches to get around consumers' (and voters') emotional, shallow thinking. In grocery stores, people have a visceral response to inflation, so brands will instead keep the same sticker price and obscure a lower volume of product. Same category of thinking that has people not presently impacted banning "price gouging" during crises. Due diligence and caveat emptor are facts of life, despite wishful action to the contrary.
Supposed to be independent. Native American nations don't have sovereignty, and have suffered under imposed socialistic policies over the past century.