If your company is dependent on 3rd party software you're at their mercy and not truly independent.

If your company's software relies on someone else to run it you're at their mercy and not truly independent.

You should be able to target multiple platforms and if you're not self-hosting to either be redundant already or be able to quickly move to new digs.

I've helped too many people bail water when they make those decisions incorrectly and wind up in an existential crisis for their company.

You don't need that kind of stress.

"But it's cheaper!"

Many people need to touch the stove.

Hopefully they can see their way clear to porting it to a platform where VR isn't a quixotic side-quest for a company with numerous other profitable business units.

Maybe PICO?

I don't think that this is true at all. It's just not something people want to pay used car money for. I'd love to have something like it (though I'd rather have a cable than have the battery pack on my head, what a shit idea that is) but I'm not fucking rich.

It's good billionaires are going to have something to spit on us from. I'd hate for them to have to use lung power to do it because they're in a mere limousine.

Sony has digital exclusives you cannot buy on physical media. But more importantly, a "Seller" of a "Product" (THEY are the ones calling it a sale) should not be able to fuck you out of it like this later. They should have to make clear that it is a rental at every step, but that would reduce sales. (If it wouldn't, they wouldn't not be doing that.)

There are two kinds of users without internet access, those who never had it, and those who had it and lost it.

There are also two kinds of idiots...

Perhaps, but one of the nice properties of a command-line app is that the addition of features needn't slow down people who don't need those features.

E.g. git could add 300 more keywords, and as long as the basic "git clone", "git update", "git commit", and "git push" keep working, I won't be effected by that at all.

A GUI-based tool, OTOH, will find its user interface getting increasingly cluttered (and/or cryptic) proportional to the number of features that get shoehorned into it.

While this is completely true, we still should want this principle to win even if Leon is a hypocrite whose actions have helped to kill tens of thousands of people and we would like to see him test pilot a leaky rocket.

If we can get our government back then we can use the same principle against him in the future if necessary. If we can't, then we've got bigger problems.

Then the government should fund it.

OK, but how much of that is due to the deliberate dumbing down of the populace by the Republicans since the Reagan era, which we can only combat with more education? Instead of free day care, we should spend the money making school longer, and instead of cramming it with more shit, give more time for personalized instruction and alternate learning methods.

There's not one right way for students to learn, because different people learn best in different ways. The idea that all students will benefit most from trying to learn from books at home is a ridiculous one at best.

After they practiced doing it wrong for an hour at home as their first exposure to the idea? Great plan with no drawbacks!

School districts are tied a model where the executives and consultants can make more than the teachers. It's a travesty and it needs to stop.

The teachers hate it because they're getting fucked over bigly.

The kids hate it because it's shit. If only we allocated funding correctly and didn't fuck over teachers (these things are related) then perhaps they could have decent schooling.

True. It's really fucking stupid to have everyone working more hours than necessary to do more work than necessary because we have so much waste and duplication of effort built into our society specifically to keep us all too tired and busy to revolt.

You didn't address the comment to which you replied AT ALL. Not even a tiny bit.

Schools should have twice as many teachers and the school day should be one third longer. Good luck finding funding though?

I don't criticise the concept, but the concern is whether it has long-term adverse neurological effects, and a "quick study" doesn't sound like it'll tell us that.

It's essential we have more ways of dealing with treatment-resistant depression. We just need to make sure that they're less harmful than the depression itself. You willl, of course, recall that each and every single bad decision by medical boards to approve a treatment has been because they wanted to rush through a "medical cure" that turned into a medical hell.

I'm not stupid enough to say that mushrooms would cause long-term damage, but equally I'm not stupid enough to say that we should only look to see if it has short-term benefits.

The correct approach would seem to be to make sure there aren't any immediate hazards and, if there aren't, then to continue the study to check for consequences of long-term use whilst authorising short-term prescription use, on the understanding that the prescription use permission will be extended outwards to whatever the data cansafely tolerate. In other words, don't deprive people of necessary treatment but equally don't claim greater confidence than the data supports.

This tightrope has only got to be walked because nobody has been seriously studying depression for a very long time and now we've got a hunge backlog of cases that are refusing to shut up, making it hard to ignore. This research should have been done years ago, but politicians were far too ignorant and far too swayed by religious money. But that doesn't mean we should rush.

I'm sure the scientists know how to keep a level head, but the CEOs and the politicians clearly can't and they're the ones who will be making the demands.

"Since you don't dispute anything he said, you have agreed with it."

You're an even bigger Nazi troll idiot than he is if you think that is how anything works. I owe neither him nor you an argument.