The used-game market isn't nearly as important to new gamers as it is to older gamers. They're used to change, and for the majority of ALL gamers, it's not a big deal.

This decision was almost certainly backed by market studies and accounting projections. They realize there will be "resistance", but like the Borg, resistance is futile. There won't be enough of it to get anywhere NEAR break-even with the revenue increase this move is going to create.

In the end, it's all about the Benjamines. They're confident that when the dust settles, it's going to be a net-positive for their stock price. And at the end of the day, that's all that matters to them.

We need some new laws on the books though, enshrining strong consumer protection for digital assets.

oh no! AI is coming for my click-bait articles!

It's just another pebble on the "AI is good" side of the scale if you ask me.

Wikipedia has some great examples of what happens when someone that's been promised "points" (a share of the net profit) on a movie has enough money to sue the studios that try to rip them off.

They scurry under the fridge like cockroaches and settle for big amounts to avoid having their accounting practices further scrutinized. I don't see why they're so afraid of it, everyone knows they do it.

My expectation is that the mechanism that puts an end to it will be the IRS or similar. Like Al Capone learned, the government lets powerful people steal from the powerless, but it doesn't tolerate it when you steal from the tax man.

Sounds similar to the practice of "hazing" new pledges at college fraternities. Too many times the frat organizations kept saying "it's not our fault, we didn't know, they were acting independently!". Finally campuses basically said the buck stops with the org, it's such a common problem you can't turn a blind eye and say you didn't know it was going on. It's your responsibility to be actively LOOKING for it and making sure it doesn't happen. And if it still happens, you'll be held partly responsible.

Funny how the (severe/dangerous) hazing suddenly stopped after that. Hold the managers responsible for what goes on during their watch and suddenly they start doing their jobs.

> How many people does it take to run a data center after taking up all this property and all this land that could have been used for something else?

Some medium number of H1B's?

No, the jobs are not going to the citizens of the county where the citizens are subsidizing for all this for their own enslavement.

Who would ever believe such a thing after the Covid lies?

I know someone who really wants to be an electrician's apprentice but the same three slots that have existed in this metro area for the past decade are the same three slots that exist today.

Ah, well, there are pointless wars to fund and Surveillance Bros to enrich.

> Electrical Workers

Damn, son, good catch.

Some of them do metal stud framing. "Framers" might be more accurate?

> I could have done myself if the government didn't require a licensed install?

Are you going to call the cops on yourself?

Nobody pays attention to cartels where I live.

Their War on Energy has to be about depopulation at this point. They've destroyed 20% of world oil, sulfur, helium, fertilizer, natgas, and now they're going after the building blocks of home solar installs that could help people cope.

At the same time the RFP for Draft Management Software closed today.

Even Alex Jones is calling for impeachment. They've gone totally off the deep end.

Power Inverter means:
A bi-directional power device or system that converts direct current electricity to alternating current electricity, or converts alternating current electricity to direct current electricity, to include microinverters, string inverters, central inverters, and hybrid (battery-based) inverters; and Contains components that enable remote communication, control, sensing, data-collection, or monitoring through Wi-Fi, cellular, Bluetooth, or other similar connections.

Everything useful has Bluetooth in it now. That's how you hook it up to Home Assistant. Somebody should tell the FCC that Bluetooth doesn't reach to China.

Imagine all the crime the Bell System was used to perpetrate!

So many Russians use Telegram, including front-line soldiers.

There's more to this story that we don't know.

The responses it provides are "the right responses, most of the time", so it comes with the same risks.

Like when you're working in the kitchen and swing your elbow and bump the handle of a knife and it flips off the counter and starts to fall. And you "instinctively" reach out to grab it, only just stopping yourself in time to avoid cutting your hand.

Your cerebellum said "I got this!", and it took your brain a split second longer to "countermand" the order to grab the knife. It took a little longer to process all the context of the situation, so it wasn't just looking at the "catch falling thing before it hits the floor". Your brain realized that on this specific occasion (when the falling item has been identified as a knife, and previously learned knowledge says it's dangerous to carelessly grab it) that was not a good idea. The cerebellum lacks the "memory" of the cerebral cortex, or the "processing power" to identify the falling object, so it's doing the best it can with the information it's got. In MOST cases it's a good response, so the CT provides a fast, strong response to reach out and grab it.

Computers that try shortcuts run into essentially the same problem. As a rule, computers are good at coming up with quick solutions to either very general OR very specific problems. They struggle in the middle-ground where analysis of context and history can change the desired response.

iirc that's entirely the job of the Cerebellum. It monitors stimulus on the way in and responses on the way out, and when it's seen it enough it creates "shortcuts" that allow for both faster and more automatic responses.

Indeed, the first one we learn is walking. (balance without a cerebellum is very hard) There's a rare defect where the cerebellum fails to form / fully form, and those people have a really hard time living all their lives on "manual mode".

Riding a bicycle is a good extension from walking, your cerebellum gets to go back into intense learning mode all over again.

I really don't see why any of this is "news", we've known about the concept for centuries, and the mechanisms behind it for decades.

How are these people not in prison?

Klarna sounds like a crypto scam.