Wait till you find out the literal billions Georgia (USA) gives away to filmmakers via a tax credit that’s been proven to not be more effective than social programs by a significant margin at generating community wealth…

(https://www.audits.ga.gov/ReportSearch/download/28730)

😴 Sure buddy. Sure. You’re the coolest narcissistic asshole I know.

You’re just a bundle of joy. Bet people like having you around at parties.

Multicast still requires more expensive less widespread bandwidth than sending out analog signals ota & shooting off a few packets of encryption information every now and then. US infrastructure has rapidly improved over the past few years, but we’re still a farcry from anything robust and reliable enough to serve the people benefiting from this type of content.

How I imagine you responding to your singular downvoter:

Epic: “Valve uses their market capture advantage to exploit developers and promote anti consumer policies!!!”

Also Epic: “We’re going to use our market capture with game engines to strongly suggest you support our game distribution storefront by leveraging an advantage only we are capable of leveraging.”

I love customer and developer friendly policies, but it’s so annoying that this is the champion of the “public” industry.

The Russian war machine isn’t geared for a reduction in casualties or losses. They’re likely without intel, options, etc. A good chunk of them are migrants Russia has imported under the promise of citizenship and work, only to conscript to the front lines.

While I almost completely agree with you, never underestimate the power of using the right tool for the right job. HDMI is actually far more resilient to signal corruption in my experience than display port since it implements TMDS and the cables are more commonly well shielded since they expect them to be used in device dense environments, which isn’t really applicable to anyone familiar with technology (don’t group up your cables next to something with significant RF noise/leaks, duh.) but does matter for the end user use case these see. The fees hdmi charge are a scam though fr and we could ask better from the industry.

Digital piracy isn’t theft. Just your daily reminder.

Seems fine. They’re providing food, overtime pay, and pto for use at a future date. That’s a better deal than a lot of employees get. Obviously this isn’t how I think we should do work/living, but that’s about as fair of a compromise as you’re going to see in this particular industry at this time unless you’re extremely lucky.

Yeah… That type of brainwashing is so commonplace now though. Just look at how the US is treating striking dock workers, people keep talking about how they make xxx,xxx and not how the ceos make xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx like it’s the workers being greedy… 🥲

“Ah, alas. Another weakening of protections for the individual while strengthening those for the collective and wealthy.”

Bandwidth is cheaper from the tower since the signal is the “same” for each client and it can then be distributed over a wide area. You send the “DRM” (Just a fancy encryption key) over the network since it’s relatively small and likely unique to each device (probably fingerprinting the device ids to the content invisibily in case of piracy).

Could be a choice to reflect the distribution of different scores. I can’t imagine credit scores are a very linear distribution.

She was a Slytherin.

90% mobile phones my guy.

And a pickup of gains from sending just the delta of changed data for one of their passive update beacons.

And ran a sweetheart campaign for our Russian enemies in the Kremlin…? Come on NYTimes, lead with the treachery.

Nah, just caved to changing it based on your nitpick. Induction cooktops represent such a low margin of the populations cooking needs that I didn’t feel the prior need to be so specific. Common mistake with the internet I guess. 🤷‍♂️

That seems like a mistake.