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"people that don't contribute due to their laziness" Care to explain what you mean by this?

He mentions he'll update the blog post with a link to the talk he gave once it's online

In that vein, I recommend this video about the Marvel Universe music and the general use of "temp music". It touches a lot of the points you mention: https://www.youtube.com/…

Off topic, but what's an "AE"?

123.000 people according to the article

I don't think it's about adopting European laws, it's about following a set of principles on how they handle personal data. These set of principles happen to be inspired in an European …

But was there any real guarantee that "old media" was more reliable? Weren't we just getting one view of the world which we assumed was true? I agree, personalized propaganda is a night…

Absolutely this. It's not even a standards issue, for the outside world they're completely different email addresses. The fact that they happen to land on the same inbox for some providers i…

Then again we have cases like the Volkswagen diesel scandal which managed to go past (I guess?) similar processes and make it into full car production.

That's just a big lie, it's nowhere to 70%. Besides it will vary depending on your salary, your state and your personal situation (i.e. kids, married, age). Also worth noting that that tax i…

You're right, my work has been mostly standard (old-school?) AAA games but lately with games being developed more as a service things have changed. Nonetheless, what I meant was there's is a…

Games Industry perspective: Usually getting things done is more important. Code gets rewritten many times and features change very fast, so not much use or time to try to come up with a solution that …

Same with languages. It's incredibly annoying when pages try to guess what language I want by my location, I rather be asked. Same with marrying the language to the country, if I want to buy a fl…

I think the whole article is an excerpt from a full book, maybe that story continues there?

I'd be interested in German stores if you can provide the info :)

Upvote for "The Selfish Gene". Should be mandatory for anyone interested in science and/or biology! A great eye opener about how evolution really works.

I agree completely. My comment was more about the logic (using your quotes as examples) that if you don't like the mouse then you HAVE to support the elephant. You're free to hate the mouse …

why do you need to "take sides"? life is not binary. If you don't like antifa that's fine, but you don't then need to support nazis for that ...

Absolutely true what you say. I feel the same way. Now in the case of Venezuela the minimum salary (July 2017) is 97531 BsF. The (black market) US Dollar is at 14760BsF per USD (as of today). So basic…

is this really the case in practice, though? Are there websites to measure it for amazon.co.uk/.de? Asking honestly as I always assume they get around those regulations in some way.

Don't just take pills, see a therapist.

Something like a Third Place ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_place ) ... And yes, this kind of environment should be encouraged more!…