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Comment · 4 years ago
Which is it? Sounds cool.
Comment · 4 years ago
It’s incredible really that these guys are talking about using Godot on consoles when it is in such bad shape.

Even if it’s a bait and switch, and they spend 100% of the funds on just like, making the engine better, $8m isn’t going to get you to 1/20th of Unity or Unreal. It is an insurmountable niche.

Comment · 4 years ago
Ink
Comment · 5 years ago
The Victoria man is a radical, he's there to start an interesting conversation, he's succeeding.

> power to compel people to do the dishes... and some type of punishment to mete out.

Moneyed, Adam Smith style capitalist economies still had slaves, colonies, wars of plunder.

It's tough. I see from your other commenters you're rooting for the guy. The mainstream opinion that executives should be paid less, that the lowest wages should rise, these are freebies and could be implemented in an afternoon, with no consequences. All the changes in a person's day to day life would be for the better. Mainstream people advocate against inequality not the elimination of money, but yes, there is a transfer, a "handout," as part of those goals.

Comment · 5 years ago
The USA was a fine place to live, many people happily gainfully employed, many investment accounts booking gains, labor and capital coexisting in harmony, when inflation was double what it is now.
Comment · 5 years ago
Nobody said no classes. There wasn’t money like there was in Europe. There were by some intellectually honest estimates 50m people living in N and S America at the time of arrival, a huge number of people were living day to day without money.
Comment · 5 years ago
We could probably 10x the number of “handouts” as you call them, at least in the US, and nothing would change. We’ve auditioned it already: $4T in stimulus, the $600/wk employment checks, etc. What negative negative impact really did that have on an average person’s day to day life? “Handouts” made pay rise for the first time in decades.

Even the landlords. I don’t know any landlords who are on the street because of the rent forbearance and eviction moratorium - and I don’t even agree with those policies.

Comment · 5 years ago
Indigenous Americans, prior to colonists’ arrival.
Comment · 5 years ago
90% of the revenue is games. Mobile Chrome would only need to support idiosyncratic Unity and Unreal web targets for a significant chunk of that revenue.
Comment · 5 years ago
Listen to yourself. “Under the works.” Dude, c’mon of course it was the lawsuits.
Comment · 5 years ago
Show me a traditional App Store app that doesn’t pay 30% of IAP to Apple.
Comment · 5 years ago
It is totally about preventing alternatives to the App Store.
Comment · 5 years ago
National, standardized, digital ID is inevitable.

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