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No one wants this war, or wishes it on anyone,” said Tal Beeri of the Alma Research and Education Center
Bit naive imo. Netanyahu is a bit of a strongman that catastrophically failed to keep his people safe, which betrays the most foundational appeal of such a figure. His approval rating demonstrates this, and he’s facing criminal charges to boot.
He has one route forward for personal preservation–more war.
This is probably going to improve, not decrease, their profitability. They wouldn’t have been so blase about burning all those bridges otherwise.
Yeah, they make revenue from game devs, but there’s costs there too. If the costs are too high compared to their industrial contracts, then the smartest move is to kick all their game dev customers out. While preserving as much general public goodwill as possible.
So, how else could they escape the game engine business? The method they chose would be more effective than any other I can think of. It preserves a trickle of game dev revenue and makes them look silly instead of backstabbing. When a proper backstab was actually the desired result, but too bold to actually say they wanted.
My hypothesis anyway.
MacArthur’s “I have returned” speech. The moment the Imperial Japanese Army decided to create the Imperial Japanese Army Navy because the actual Imperial Japanese Navy hated them. Kristallnacht. Most long medieval wars at some point. The latter half of Henry VIII’s life, probably starting with his jousting accident or killing his first ex wife maybe. The whole French Revolution. The assassination of Franz Ferdinand. The assassination of Lincoln. Probably a lot of assassinations, I’m going to stop now.
Minor quibble that game devs are actually a smaller fraction of their overall revenues, as their tech has uses far beyond games. They have industrial product lines too.
Kinda like how Amazon’s main thing isn’t selling shippable products anymore, it’s cloud computing and digital infrastructure. Or was last I checked anyway, it might’ve changed again.
You’re otherwise totally right though.
You know, companies could avoid situations like this if they just engaged directly with their fanbases more, proposing ideas and collecting feedback. This way, even if they decide to do the unpopular thing anyway because they have to for financial reasons or something, at least they’re not springing a sudden surprise on their fans.
People really don’t like negative surprises. They can usually handle plain old negative news though, especially if they got time to prepare for the idea first.
I think they sometimes try to use focus groups to collect feedback, but members of a focus group may exhibit unique behavior simply because they’re in a focus group. It’s not an actual representative sample of the public.
Anyone have a good youtube source recommendation on Indian history? Preferably that dry, longer-form documentary style you get from a lot of the youtube history folks that makes for good background audio.
Particular biases are fine so long as they’re not trying to hide them, which I would see as dishonesty. I’m particularly interested in how the society and caste system has evolved from post-WW2 to the present day, my knowledge of Indian history ends rather abruptly with Ghandi.
Actual Indian sources in English language preferred, if any quality ones exist.
Just to add to this conversation, if China is fucking around in the US democratic system, wouldn’t it make sense for them to do the same thing with a much more nearby, even more hostile neighbor? If more Indian people are spending time worrying about Pakistan, that is less energy to devote towards worrying about China.
It seems like the problem will probably require a tech solution of some sort. Here in the States we can’t shut the propaganda valve off in any other way without betraying our freedom of information-type values. (1st amendment rights basically)
Yea, exactly. And to further expand, everyone should focus on their work, the work they’re trained for and good at. The people that are trained for and good at exploring potential fallout are lawyers, philosophers, historians and doctors I suppose. Probably missed a few.
These are different folks from the people building the actual things. They’re specialized in building things, not exploring potential ramifications. It’s a different skillset, and while not mutually exclusive, they’re certainly distinct from each other. Having one does not come with the other.
This is why its not zero-sum. The people deciding what is right and wrong to build (with laws) and the people doing the building are not and should not be the same people. Since the “teams” are different, the work of one does not need to slow another. Nor should we really slow, because we have heavy international competition in this field and frankly cannot afford to fall behind in capability. That would almost certainly create an even greater risk than blundering ahead, since other people would just blunder ahead without us. That gets us nothing.
We as citizens have work in this field as well, to discuss these things around water coolers, dinner tables and forums, and in articles, books and conferences, to decide how we ourselves feel about the issue and how it’ll affect our fields. Shits changing fast.
… that’s probably unwise. Since we got it though, that’s a pretty huge data set that could probably assist in some useful research, if they wanted to anonymize it and give it to scientists. Or they could just keep it for themselves I suppose, until it reveals new uses.
I mean, yeah, we probably should be taking a look at how things will be affected, things like the Hollywood strike are heavily about that. I highly doubt that made any given team slow their own work though.
But yeah, we will need laws and shit. Like if you make a sentient robot and it kills someone, do you get in trouble? That might require a new law, I don’t know. So yea, nothing wrong with taking a look at potential fallout. It’s not a zero-sum thing though.
Nobody wants to pay for anything, but we do it because having taxes to pay for shit like an army is kinda important. Do I want to pay for the army? No. Is it important? Yes.
If everyone only just does whatever the fuck they want, the US goes from stable and prosperous to a clown car of overweight chucklefucks who disagree with each other on half of everything. Sound familiar?
Were they being paid at a similar level to their generally older, more experienced co-workers?
While there certainly could be a wide variety of possibilities, age as a factor has a correlation with so many different things, it’s wise to narrow it down a little bit by eliminating the most obvious possibilities. Financial compensation is an extremely easy first one to consider, as a factor.
NTD.com, or New Tang News, is a Falun Gong-funded organization founded in NYC in 2001. It is owned by Epoch Media Group, the owners of the Epoch Times. It leans strongly right and does not check its facts. While still potentially capable of reporting true things, this is one of the least reliable sources out there.
Ahhh thank you. That does clear it up.
They keep talking about this map of claims published a month ago, but I’ve known for at least a year that they claim a broad swath of territory that basically matches the furthest extent of the Qing Dynasty about 200ish years ago.
I vaguely remember reading about their modern territorial claims on wikipedia, of all places. I remember clicking on the map to look at it zoomed in.
So I don’t get how this is supposed to be new. That said, yeah, historical territorial claims are dubious at best. If we allow them all, then all sorts of people get to simultaneously own Turkey for instance.
edit: I’m trying to decide who the biggest winner would be, if we validated all territorial claims throughout all of history, and associated each one with a modern day state.
I’m thinking Mongolia (Mongol Empire) is the happiest. But the Brits and Spanish are really not far behind. The Dutch and Portuguese (all colonial empires) would be major world powers again as well. The Italians (Rome), of course, are doing quite well, as are the Greeks (Macedonians under Alexander). Iranians (Persia), Turks (Ottomans) and Epygptians all get a fairly similar looking empire and are happy. France (Napoleon) is quite happy, as are Germany (Hitler) and Russia (USSR at its largest, including claims). Poland and Lithuania both come roaring back with the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Japan (Japanese Empire) is doing well, China (various dynasties extended their reach into SE Asia, Korea, etc) has a map larger than their 10-dash one actually and should be happy. We have to give Aztec and Mayan lands to Mexico I suppose, Peru is Inca I guess? Who gets the land Atilla the Hun conquered, I don’t know who Huns were…?
Anyways, it’s been a fun thought experiment. lol I’m thinking either the Brits or Mongolians are happiest.
edit2: I was wrong… If I’m validating all territorial claims, that must include those gotten through marriage.
Austria, with the Austro-Hungarian Empire, had married into basically every royal family in Europe over the centuries. They could stake an indirect, but still valid, claim on basically every European empire. Since all those empires are also getting all their claims, the Austrians win.
While this marriage loophole does apply to most European monarchs, thus giving each of them most of Europe due to the collosal amount of royal inbreeding, I think the Austrians had the most ties.
One thing that worries me regarding that… If you consider the past couple thousand years, a very large number of different peoples have tried to conquer the world, from Alexander the Great leading the Macedonians to Napoleon and his European conquests. They all failed, and their works were often ruined after their deaths. If not ruined then, then within a few centuries.
Much like how an individual can make mistakes and learn from experience, so can a culture, society or organization. The peoples that tried to conquer the world learned lessons from that experience, that altered their behavior moving into the future.
China, specifically, is a proud, rich and prosperous land. They were extremely insular for most of history, they actually never once tried to conquer the world to demonstrate any objective superiority they may believe in. So they never learned this cultural lesson in the same way that others did.
The idea of this lesson needing to be learned the hard way, in the modern world, with modern technology, worries me significantly.
If everyone within a church is saying something is true, you will have a very hard time convincing them otherwise, their perceived credibility is too high. In other environments, you could attempt to find some kind of proof or evidence. Without faith to get in the way, proof can sometimes change people’s minds when they are wrong.
I wonder, was the messy divorce before or after she met this guy?
Exactly. If some random consumer-grade laptop has a 10nm in it, a competitor being able to make 7nm sometime soon should probably be expected.
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