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Comment A private discord server is a public forum. (Score 1) 22

Any place not access controlled by the entity attempting to control X is considered a public forum for purposes of legal issues which may arise from their control of the intellectual property and associated contracts in question. If any specifics of game development beyond work hours and conditions were discussed on said forum which union organizers who were not employees of R* had access too, R* was within their rights to fire the employees participating in the forum. Which since most people can't compartmentalize for shit without extensive training was almost certainly the case.

Comment Re:I got an idea.... (Score 2) 51

Because the coders never designed the table to match commercially available parts.

If he uses off the shelf parts, the table won't look right and the physics will be different.

My first thought was 'why doesn't he just use parts available on the market?'

But if what you create doesn't look and feel like Space Cadet.... the effort feels like a waste of time.

Comment Sportsball for "tech" (Score 1) 9

This is sounding more and more like sportsball but for people who align themselves in some way with the "tech"-industry. Whatever these companies produce is mostly high-cost entertainment anyhow. They keep ignoring physics, so their "solutions" are unreliable when before a simple db-lookup would give the same result every time, we now are gambling like in a casino, and the house always win.

Comment Re:The fact that anyone is getting any gains (Score 0) 88

If the rates are similar to other forms of gambling than the majority wouldn't be due to insider information. Edge cases will be, but unless you think they have inside information about the weather, the rates between Polymarket and regular gambling wins are relatively consistent as detailed in the article.

Comment Smugness all over (Score 1) 176

During the cold war there was MAD and it was taken seriously.
Now the Russians still take it seriously but our side has become extremely smug. "we survived that long, we clearly know what we are doing" , "the russians are bluffing, we can keep pushing and they'll never dare go nuclear" "those russian nukes are in such a bad state they won't even launch", I've heard every stupid argument.
Meanwhile we have bombed Valdai while Putin was there, we bombed early warning radars and nuclear bombers, and we keep going longer distance with our drones.
There was always the fear that MAD wouldn't work against real crazies. Well, the real crazies are us.
Certainly not the Iranians, they're completely at the other end of the spectrum. Capability ok but actually building nukes, woah, won't go there.

Comment Re:That is not how the math works! (Score 1) 176

Yes. But not as precise as the numbers suggest. It's more like Drake's equation: you don't really know but you fill in different numbers that look reasonable and each time you end up with the same conclusion. In this case, it becomes hard to see how human civilization makes it into the 22nd century.

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