With streaming service password crackdowns I keep thinking that virtually bridging your family and friends networks might be the solution, but don’t understand modern networking well enough to know where the flaws might be.

No, Tesla is not. Ford would not be part of the Chinese EV wave just because it was able to sell cars in China (if it could).

Not really, both are more like traditional cable channels, that are limited to specific programming and amounts of time.

I’m imagining more like modern streaming services where a any item from a massive catalog can be streamed / delivered to anyone. So any work could.be put into it and it would be fre to use, but the author would get a cut each time it was used.

Meanwhile, North America is applying tariffs to Chinese Electric Vehicles, rather than subsidizing North American EVs, allowing North American car manufacturers to continue to invest in and sell Gas Vehicles.

If we actually cared about competitiveness we would be subsidizing EVs to match China (if not exceed) so that NA companies could invest in new technology and supply chains. Instead by discouraging foreign competition, we’re just defending our auto industry’s right to not innovate and to keep burning fuel.

Its a tragedy but not an unavoidable one. It’s a direct result of choosing to fund information via the same scarcity based model that we use for physical goods (capitalism).

We don’t need to, unlike physical goods, in the digital age it is virtually free to copy and distribute information, but because we still fund it via a model that only gives it value when it’s scarce, paywalls or advertising end up being the only way to pay for it.

We should instead have the equivalent of government run subscription services that allow us to provide all information to everyone while still rewarding creators, without using advertising as a middleman / drain on society.

I mean, there are huge problems with American health care companies and insurance in general will always tend towards being a scam unless it’s extremely heavily regulated, but at a fundamental level insurance does offer a service (that of socializing the cost of extreme losses), and while executives do have fiduciary duties, the idea that they always have to pursue short term profit no matter what from a legal standpoint, is overblown and exaggerated.

We left Reddit because it was a corporate captured shit show that killed the only nice apps for interacting with it. We didn’t leave because they were too mean to health insurance executives, or because they made glib jokes in dark situations.

Understandably. I’m emotionally removed from the situation enough to know that I shouldn’t actively celebrate, if I knew a loved one who’s medical care was denied by a for profit health insurer or if I had to waste my life fighting with them for basic care, then I’m sure I would be actively celebrating too.

Quite frankly, executives of health insurance companies continually make money by denying medical coverage to people with children and letting them agonizingly die slowly.

I’m not on here celebrating his death for the sole reason that I think it’s just as likely this corporate espionage / assassination for money, but if it is a normal person shooting a health insurance executive for denying a loved ones’ coverage it’s hard to imagine how the executive didn’t deserve it.

You don’t get to be separated from the morality of your actions, just because you use neutral sounding business language to describe how you’re fucking over and killing people for personal profit.

Just a reminder that if a headline is a question, the answer to that question is no.

Yeah, by the end of Subnautica I spent my time

Top contenders:

• Subnautica
• Dishonored
• Prey
• Bioshock
• Control
• Titanfall 2
• Modern Warfare 2
• The Outer Wilds

Pretty much all high level languages do because they’re already designed around automatic memory management.

If you’re going to ban piracy you should also ban all pro copyright communities and comments, it’s only fair.

The most important traits for doing well at work (in this order):

• clear, effective, and efficient communication
• taking ownership of problems
• having your boss and team members like you on a personal level
• competence at your tasks