Some people make real money in this "market," or try to. Check this out:

I Spent 24 Hours with CS2 Millionaires

I'm not saying any of this is real, but I bet some sizable purchases have been driven by dreams of such.

Cockroaches!

Already 100 million years old when those johnny-come-lately dinosaurs came along.

I guess Pokeman cards were just too tangible.

On this page they identify 1.5C as the initial "tipping point" of specific bad things. There is a fairly wide uncertainty around that estimate, but it's considered the best estimate so in that sense it wasn't picked out of thin air.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

"Which means that we're going to have a period, bigger or smaller, with higher or lower intensity, above 1.5C in the years to come"

You cut off the conclusive part - we're going 1.5C above baseline. How much, being open in part to what we do now.

ok I'm going to wave the white flag on this one.

What I'm saying is the new goal to target 30% profit margins (sure, why not?) might or might not be accomplished through further price increases. I know they already did raise prices, and I there's been some pushback and even reductions of announced sky-high prices for upcoming games by other companies. Microsoft doesn't dominate gaming and they don't have the power to arbitrarily increase profits by jacking up prices.

I can't read the paywalled article, but the summary doesn't say anything about raising prices. What it does talk about is reducing costs by cutting languishing projects. For games to be in development for 7+ years is no way to run a business.

To make it fair, how much of the value generated by Linux would go to Linus personally, vs. all the contributors to the Linux ecosystem? For example to the Apache Foundation? Stallman seems perennially miffed that GNU built a whole environment and then Linux swooped in to host it and took all the glory.

Interesting although linux has created so much value because of its ubiquity, which would not be the case if it had been monetized - like Ultrix, Solaris, HP-UX and a hundred others.

An additional level of this is that Reddit is itself crowsourced. They didn't pay anybody to write their content. I'm more sympathetic to something like the Encyclopedia Britannica or NYT or the movie studios. (Although even there I agree it's still debatable).

Everybody is so negative these days. Why not say, "I'm glad to hear google is doing real physics-based research with big potential for long-term impact instead of just chat bots!"

Developing a landing capability that requires a trip to the moon to test must be a huge challenge. Want to have an external camera view of the attempt? Hard. Want to return debris from a failed attempt for study? Very very hard.

As we have seen even with any amount of theory and computer simulation there is still a lot of trial and error.

It sounds good to me. The robots are standing in for Japanese workers who were never born. They direly need to largely automate their economy or they are going to be in a world of hurt.

As for the Filipino workers being 'exploited,' this gives them an employment opportunity they didn't have before. What's bad about it? It sounds like easy work.

And that attitude is why you are going to lose.