ferrocarraiges

Filter bubbles are easy: We are good, They are bad.

Real life is hard: We are imperfect people, They are imperfect people.

How are you supposed to feed the anger center of your brain if you occasionally have to see the objects of your hatred acting all kind and neighborly around your community? It's much easier to avoid Them and only interact with those who have the internet points to prove that they are ideologically pure.

They are very annoying when you block JavaScript in your browser.

We don't know, but the Market would figure out if it were possible for other app-hosting platforms to compete.

Some would try to woo developers by taking less of a cut, and unprofitable ones would go out of business. Eventually, an equilibrium would be reached.

Do you mean unforced error?

They didn't need the metaverse, but they did need some sort of new direction; buying out nascent social networks was a stall tactic to prolong the time before they became uncool with the hip youths.

I don't think it's too far of a stretch to say that Zuckerberg read Snow Crash as a teenager, loved it, and either missed the punk ethos or edited it out of his memory when he found himself in a position of respectable authority.

"They" are whoever holds the monopoly on violence in the region. Sometimes colloquially called a "government" or "state".

You probably don't pay them to uphold their power to close roads whenever they want, it's just a consequence of the aforesaid monopoly on violence.

If you think it's wrong, you can try to bring competition into the market, but if history is any indication you'd better make sure you have a lot of upper/middle-class people who agree with you first.

The engine was fine, it was a square peg / round hole situation.

They picked an off-the-shelf engine that was designed to simulate tabletop games like Dungeons & Dragons in 3D. Maybe they got a good deal on it.

The bird's-eye click-to-move camera mode is what the engine was designed for, but the developers kludged in some keyboard controls because they were making an action game.

The odd timing-based fighting styles sort of make sense, because the engine wanted to handle combat with dice rolls on a mostly-fixed interval.

It could have turned out a lot worse, when you consider what they were working with. I hope they keep some of the weird quirks, like the rhythm swordplay.

It's a statement about how we are destroying our heritage, our history, and our future.

It makes people think about a world without the famous works of art which tether us to our past, to highlight how far adrift we are now.

That sounds like the opposite of terrible. We are long overdue for some bloodletting in residential real estate markets.

I often wonder why people don't use SI prefixes for money.

We could say that they've spent on the order of 10 gigadollars.

Oh, just wait until you start to work with cantankerous senior engineers.

I once worked with someone who convinced the boss to do a silent yoga retreat as a teambuilding exercise, with a plan to quit before it happened.

I am genuinely curious: why did the FTC take this enforcement action?

There is no fine, no prosecution, no consequences of any sort. Essentially, they're just asking the executive to "implement an information security program" at any companies they head.

This seems to send the message that there are absolutely no consequences for getting caught hiding an extremely negligent data breach. Was that the FTC's intent?

Agreed, it's in the same vein as self-driving cars.

Sure, it could put a lot of programmers out of a job in theory.

In practice, the emergency brake alert goes off for cars waiting to turn in the oncoming lane, the blind spot warnings trigger on cars that are ahead of you, the lane departure warnings are usually wrong, and so on.

I'm not worried, and I prefer to avoid the uncertainty even if it means outsourcing a bit less effort to the magic AI pixies.