Man, we need a better term for this criticism.

The US right now is more harsh to live in than the US pre-Reagan, which was more harsh than many countries with a strong welfare state, but all of them are capitalistic.

That game, Timberborn, shares some design elements with roller coaster tycoon.

A block based 3d world they can be modified by the player.

Units walking around on player defined paths, with their mood influenced by pretty bushes.

But there are no obvious performance considerations like in the article.

77% of the ’normal orientation’ per year, but the graph and 131% value is for a day in winter (January 15 this year). At least that’s my read.

In theory the change in electric field will induce a small current in the other wire, and their magical science lamp turns on at any non-zero electricity. Whether the wires are connected or not at the far end doesn’t matter.

They never clarified how strong the other current would be.

Usenet was a very open system, where iirc moderation sometimes happened per discussion group but otherwise everyone individually had to ignore bad actors (add to killfile). It scaled badly with more people and spammers. Arguably it started going downhill 30 years ago. Found a decade old discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9987679

$100 appears in your account. That’s one part. The other part depends on why.

* you moved money from another account, the double is -100 in that account.

* you sold stuff, +100 in income.

* you borrowed some money, +100 in ‘debt’.

In a physical book each of these categories would have a left and right column, and each transaction has numbers in one left and one right column. Or in many columns but the sums of left vs right columns must be the same.

Certainly marketing and media (as evidenced by the article) find this useful, but I think many consumers also are more interested in the game than in the creators. So it makes sense that this language shift happens.

But yes it certainly misses the theoretical point of a category like that.

And would be nice if it was replaced with a technically correct word. ‘Indie-like’?

It sounds better if they artist got your entire monthly payment (after payment processors and Spotify’s fee), but probably a nightmare for accountants.

I don’t think a good solution exists except to keep those games to locked down consoles only.

But maybe a more transparent appeals process could help, even if it gets expensive.

From what I can tell, it’s more like they have a short term contract they are happy with, but their business model requires them to be able to extend it. They can avoid the new fees ‘simply’ by not letting any user download their Unity games after Jan 1.

But yeah, using free software would avoid this.

Fortunately usage has consolidated. In my experience a factoid is generally intended to be true in (American?) English, but untrue in Swedish.

Since the air follows a curved surface instead of straight ahead, you could perhaps apply your intuition for centrifugal force. Momentum sort of pulls the air away from the surface.

I’m not even sure this explanation is wrong.

In this case it’s 106m away from a perfect circle. Almost nothing compared to 20km, but a real thing.

In this analogy Coinbase' story seems to be that they asked how to apply to become a licensed pharmacist, but never got an answer. While the SEC suggests they never tried.

This gets confusing when the crime is phrased as unregistered heroin sales.

To me it looks like a clearly-defined line between text and real-time voice/video. What the user experiences, not the technical background.

Ie it would have been perfectly fine for google to ban text chats, and just use calls/meetings; even with the same software. As inefficient and unpleasant as it would be.

If it only allows a paying user to make a local copy against the company’s wishes, we would have about the same situation as today. And maybe also a lot of banned YouTube/google accounts when detected.

Further laws around spam might help, but you don’t need the government to actually run anything for this.

And perhaps also, “remember: Monty will always open a door, and the contestant knows it”.

Makes me wonder if there were similar shows where the host can choose not to open a door.