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This is extremely unsurprising and I'd expect anyone important enough to have a PR and/or legal department to have a shitlist.xlsx containing anyone of note who ever said something insufficiently nice about them. The solution is to have a powerful state so that the public interest gets to kick their poo poo in.
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I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!
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HUMAN FISH posted:I feel like this belongs here When I co-designed the mobile game "The Dozens" (yes, the one with the Wayans in 2004 ... a card game based on "Yo Momma" insults ... it supported a SMS version, as well as the fancy J2ME, Brew and a lesser WAP version). I still have the SMS insults. This: Yo mama’s so fat, she pulls up a chair to an all-u-can-eat buffet. Became: F@ puLz ^a chAr 2 allUcanEat buffet Or: Yo mama’s so old, she drove a chariot to high school. Became: old she drove chariot 2 hI skul Allowed for a 4 card game. But the winner of the best SMS game was the 'shooter' BotFighers. In Moscow that game was clearing about $500k a month. It was a "see who's around and fire first" thing that worked because the servers would get position info from cell towers. Brilliant.
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Cheesus posted:Some disruption I can get behind. They actually used the word "tattle"! 
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suck my woke dick posted:This is extremely unsurprising and I'd expect anyone important enough to have a PR and/or legal department to have a shitlist.xlsx containing anyone of note who ever said something insufficiently nice about them. The scandal is that they used a Word document.
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Richard Nixon just had an enemies list, but at least he tried to be as subtle as he was able to be regarding that. Which, granted, isn't subtle at all but its existence didn't come out until the Watergate hearings.
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Cheesus posted:Some disruption I can get behind. quote:Nulty says there are privacy concerns. And he asks, what's next? Will cities hire companies to check that if you buy a sink at Home Depot, that you've got any required plumbing permits? Why yes, housing is exactly the same thing as putting in a new sink. Also, having spent a good amount of time in the Crappy Construction and OSHA threads, it might be a good idea to check that people installing poo poo in their houses actually know what they're doing and have the right permits.
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The Bro Culture is strong at many game companies: Game developers, composer named in sexual assaults: https://boingboing.net/2019/08/28/game-developers-composer-name.html Jeremy Soule, the composer of game soundtracks such as Morrowind and Total Annihilation, was named by developer Natalie Lawhead as having raped her when the two worked together in 2008. Following her post, other game developers spoke out about having been assaulted by their peers, with Alex Holowka (Night in the Woods) and Luc Shelton (Gears of War) among the accused. At The Verge, Andrew Webster suggests that #MeToo may have finally reached the insular game-dev community.
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Aug 30, 2019 00:38
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Not surprising given how much game devs treat their employees like garbage overall that sexual harassment and rape isn't considered worth responding to.
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VideoGameVet posted:The Bro Culture is strong at many game companies: Just remember these men picked their targets through the hiring process. They literally hired people they wanted to gently caress.
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Lead out in cuffs posted:Why yes, housing is exactly the same thing as putting in a new sink. As the roof to my apartment is currently leaking because someone did some unsanctioned plumbing work on their apartment above mine (this is the plumber's guess, he's still looking for the root problem), yeah, it'd be loving amazing if you had to actually get a permit to install a new sink.
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Every home improvement forum on the internet always has threads with Boomers complaining about gubbermint regulations making them get permits and every one ends with an actual edit: "contractors" =/= experienced professionals ryonguy fucked around with this message at 19:24 on Aug 30, 2019 |
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Aug 30, 2019 15:06
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ryonguy posted:Every home improvement forum on the internet always has threads with Boomers complaining about gubbermint regulations making them get permits and every one ends with an actual contractor coming in and telling them the regs exist because you people are idiots who don't know what you're doing but try anyways. In my former code-enforcement life you could ALWAYS tell who these people were from like the very beginning. For inspections I used to open with "Hi! I'm from the government. I'm here to help." Most of them were not amused. But I was, and that's what matters.
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ryonguy posted:Every home improvement forum on the internet always has threads with Boomers complaining about gubbermint regulations making them get permits and every one ends with an actual contractor coming in and telling them the regs exist because you people are idiots who don't know what you're doing but try anyways. To be fair, at least around here, contractors violate the poo poo out of regulations and licensing. Either they are operating under shell companies with no assets so they just dissolve and reform a new shell, or they just tack the fines onto the sale price of the properties they're working on. Also they tend to rent the properties for 2 years before selling so they are clear of any liability as to the quality of any new work they did.
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Aug 30, 2019 15:21
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Our landlord's son is an electrician.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Tesla Tesla's cars might be more expensive (on average) to insure than the general pool of all cars in CA (where they are opening the insurance business) because Teslas are more expensive than average, because they have to be repaired more often, because the auto insurance industry is cautious about the cost of insuring a relatively new product. Tesla might actually be able to compete on some of those terms because they do the majority of repairs to their cars and will probably not gouge their cousin companies, they have better data on Tesla repair rates, whatever. There are legitimate advantages Tesla might pursue. BUT To manage risk in an insurance pool, you want to diversify. You want all kinds of drivers (as long as they aren't crazy) and all kinds of cars that live all over the state. Tesla insuring only Teslas doesn't have this, so they are taking a relatively large risk that nothing bad happens to their higher-than-average-correlation risk pool. This means that insurance is probably a loss leader for selling more cars (by reducing the cost of ownership) where the company takes on a bunch of extra risk.
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MickeyFinn posted:Tesla's cars might be more expensive (on average) to insure than the general pool of all cars in CA (where they are opening the insurance business) because Teslas are more expensive than average, because they have to be repaired more often, because the auto insurance industry is cautious about the cost of insuring a relatively new product. Tesla might actually be able to compete on some of those terms because they do the majority of repairs to their cars and will probably not gouge their cousin companies, they have better data on Tesla repair rates, whatever. There are legitimate advantages Tesla might pursue. BUT They're just reselling insurance products from regular car insurers.
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Motronic posted:In my former code-enforcement life you could ALWAYS tell who these people were from like the very beginning. For inspections I used to open with "Hi! I'm from the government. I'm here to help." Thanks to your avatar I'm imagining Ron Swanson say that which makes it better
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Trabisnikof posted:They're just reselling insurance products from regular car insurers. How can you buy insurance from other companies, sell it for less, and expect to make money? Are they planning to “make it up in volume”? Also, none of that changes my argument, except that it adds the real insurer’s premium to Tesla’s costs. Maybe they are limiting pay outs by the ultimate insurer and gambling on that?
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Aug 30, 2019 17:45
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MickeyFinn posted:How can you buy insurance from other companies, sell it for less, and expect to make money? Are they planning to “make it up in volume”? Also, none of that changes my argument, except that it adds the real insurer’s premium to Tesla’s costs. Maybe they are limiting pay outs by the ultimate insurer and gambling on that? my guess is that they are trying to deal with high wait times for repairs by loaning insured drivers unsold teslas also, captive market for tesla fanatics who are already proven to just buy whatever garbage elon throws at them
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https://twitter.com/jbillinson/status/1167446484599660544?s=21 lol
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Cant they just google 3 x 8 = and get an answer
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Jesus, executives are just incapable of relating to anything on a human level. I can imagine layers of workers snickering as they implemented this.
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:Cant they just google 3 x 8 = and get an answer Or the calculator built into their phone.
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Ruffian Price posted:Jesus, executives are just incapable of relating to anything on a human level. I can imagine layers of workers snickering as they implemented this. No, this is intentional. They shot down the idea of having it be a password at every level and I guarantee two people minimum have been written up for thoughts contrary to the mission of Youtube Kids. Big Hubris fucked around with this message at 18:44 on Aug 30, 2019 |
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I was under the impression that Youtube Kids' main problem is that most people don't know it exists and send their kids roaming on regular youtube instead. Maybe try to address that before even thinking about locking down the platform further?
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EdithUpwards posted:No, this is intentional. They shot down the idea of having it be a password at every level and I guarantee two people minimum have been written up for thoughts contrary to the mission of Youtube Kids. How would a password prompt keep kids out either?
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fishmech posted:How would a password prompt keep kids out either? It would be the parent's password and the kid's account would be attached to a parent's account. Of course, any effective way of gating it is counter to the real purpose of Youtube kids. Youtube Kids is for targeted advertisement and the really annoying/creepy children's entertainment channels. The ones that pause so kids can reply. Big Hubris fucked around with this message at 18:54 on Aug 30, 2019 |
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Sextro posted:To be fair, at least around here, contractors violate the poo poo out of regulations and licensing. Either they are operating under shell companies with no assets so they just dissolve and reform a new shell, or they just tack the fines onto the sale price of the properties they're working on. Also they tend to rent the properties for 2 years before selling so they are clear of any liability as to the quality of any new work they did. Same around here, edited post to be more accurate. ryonguy fucked around with this message at 19:25 on Aug 30, 2019 |
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MickeyFinn posted:How can you buy insurance from other companies, sell it for less, and expect to make money? Are they planning to “make it up in volume”? Also, none of that changes my argument, except that it adds the real insurer’s premium to Tesla’s costs. Maybe they are limiting pay outs by the ultimate insurer and gambling on that? Your question is purely hypothetical since it appears the rates they quote are significantly more expensive
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EdithUpwards posted:It would be the parent's password and the kid's account would be attached Right so it wouldn't work, just like kids frequently figure out their parents' phone unlock codes.
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Aug 30, 2019 19:39
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Why bother with the math question at that point?
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Plausible deniability They don't want to block the kids they just want to pretend they're doing something
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Pochoclo posted:Plausible deniability This is correct. The kids are ad revenue, period.
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:Cant they just google 3 x 8 = and get an answer Or watch a you tube kids video on basic multiplication
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fishmech posted:Right so it wouldn't work, just like kids frequently figure out their parents' phone unlock codes. Hackers figure out people's passwords too, so it is a wonder why banks even require the stupid things; amirite or what
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RBA Starblade posted:Why bother with the math question at that point? It's clearly not what the intent was here, but from an edutainment perspective, it's basically a perfect product. If kids are going to successfully bypass whatever system you put in place sooner or later, might as well make it so that bypassing it teaches the kid something useful.
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fishmech posted:Right so it wouldn't work, just like kids frequently figure out their parents' phone unlock codes. You know, I didn't think I would be interested in the answer to this question, but now I really am... How comparable do you think the percentages are of a) computer savvy kids who can answer 3 x 8 vs. b) kids who guess their parent's passwords? Be specific please
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