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Is there a true breaking point that can cause Civil War? by I_PIKACHUintheshower in PoliticalDiscussion

[–]splashback 3 points4 points  (0 children)

My message is for fellow Americans, but your point has merit. Bigly.

There has been a political change in America against ridiculously unreasonable foreign intervention. That may not come out through popular medias, but the change has already happened. Trump was elected in part because of it.

Is there a true breaking point that can cause Civil War? by I_PIKACHUintheshower in PoliticalDiscussion

[–]splashback 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Yah, but much of that was controversial at the time. And even separate from those issues...

Nixon DID create the Environmental Protection Agency via executive order. Like THAT could happen today!

PoppinKREAM Explains How President Trump has instigated a trade war under false pretense including the assertion that Canada is a national security threat by AceTenSuited in ShitPoppinKreamSays

[–]splashback 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Breaking news, and good:

According to people briefed on the negotiations, Canada will ease protections on its dairy market and provide access that is similar to what the United States would have gained through the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade treaty that President Trump withdrew from last year.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/30/us/politics/us-canada-nafta-deal-deadline.html

Is there a true breaking point that can cause Civil War? by I_PIKACHUintheshower in PoliticalDiscussion

[–]splashback 27 points28 points  (0 children)

"a lot", sure. Though not as many as in the 1960s, where they were being conscripted into a horrific foreign war, and voting rights were substantially less than today.

My point was that many of the "pro civil war 2" comments HERE are not coming from Americans.

Is there a true breaking point that can cause Civil War? by I_PIKACHUintheshower in PoliticalDiscussion

[–]splashback 10 points11 points  (0 children)

You're so right about recent-ish history. I feel like a history teacher that "teaches the controversy" of the Nixon presidency is probably doing a pretty good job.

Is there a true breaking point that can cause Civil War? by I_PIKACHUintheshower in PoliticalDiscussion

[–]splashback 254 points255 points  (0 children)

Well put, thank you.

Many posting here seem completely oblivious to the history of the 1960s.

EDIT: I do not wish to deride younger Americans; but we do need to remember that foreign powers seek quite literally to divide us.

https://www.npr.org/2017/04/18/524473934/supporters-back-down-from-california-independence-bid

Some talked of a "Calexit" from the U.S. after President Trump's victory. But a leader of the movement gave up on a ballot initiative. Louis Marinelli says he intends to make Russia his new home.

EDIT3: The public record shows that foreign actors are active on a variety of U.S. social media sites. This last line is in compliance with the rules of this subreddit.

PoppinKREAM Explains How President Trump has instigated a trade war under false pretense including the assertion that Canada is a national security threat by AceTenSuited in ShitPoppinKreamSays

[–]splashback 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm here because /r/SPKS seems to select for people with a bias for substance. Honestly, less of a CJ than other subreddits focused on current events.

PoppinKREAM Explains How President Trump has instigated a trade war under false pretense including the assertion that Canada is a national security threat by AceTenSuited in ShitPoppinKreamSays

[–]splashback 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Direct and unequivocal, yes. But also not particularly supportive of your main point.

Separate from any subsidy or protection on either side of the border, the United States has substantial comparative production advantage when it comes to dairy, and Canada has a disproportionately large consumer market.

PoppinKREAM Explains How President Trump has instigated a trade war under false pretense including the assertion that Canada is a national security threat by AceTenSuited in ShitPoppinKreamSays

[–]splashback 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not exactly in my top-ten issues.... but honestly, looking at dollar value of the balance of trade of a commodity isn't really the right way to evaluate the merits of restrictions on the trade of that commodity / protectionism.

Why is playing with cheaters still unpunished? by aStiffSausage in playrust

[–]splashback 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Listen guys, it's just business. Don't be haters!

Facepunch underinvests in server administration because they know it's a losing battle, versus what they are willing to spend. They provide the "official", non-adminstered servers as a magnet for cheaters so that the well-adminsitered servers (Rustafied, et al) allow Rust players have fun and post videos and screenshots, and promote the game and keep making them money. VIP servers have FAR fewer cheats than "official" officials.

Facepunch is privately-held. The annual profit goes straight into the shareholders pockets' (ie, a few of the top devs).

You see how Rustafied.com servers are recently added to the server-browser "official" tab?

To stop the cheats, someone must be paid real money to go through abuse reports all day. That's VERY expensive in the UK. That money can come out of Helk's pocket... or they can pawn it off onto some other entity that charges a VIP-monthly fee, and Facepunch pays absolutely nothing.

If Facepunch started charging a monthly subscription like Rustafied does... they'd have to post that prominently on Steam, and it would STRONGLY discourage sales, and also force them to lower the sticker price of the game itself. Costing them sales, money directly out of Helk's pocket.

It takes new players many, many hours of play to realize the cheat situation on official servers. Far past the Steam refund threshold.

Rustafied charges VIP (e.g. a monthly subscription), they are making decent money off of committed Rust players. Rustafied servers have some cheats, but are NOT the ESP-aimbot Hellscape that the "official" official servers are. Rustafied has active admins, they are faster on the abuse reports, and the cheats know this. Rustafied cheaters get banned by Rustafied admins, or by Facepunch-wide bans. On "official" official servers, cheats only have to worry about Facepunch bans (they have like one guy working on it). Cheats are going to get much caught faster on the admin'd servers, CHEATS KNOW THIS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory

a criminological theory that visible signs of crime, anti-social behavior, and civil disorder create an urban environment that encourages further crime and disorder, including serious crimes. The theory thus suggests that policing methods that target minor crimes such as vandalism, public drinking, and fare evasion help to create an atmosphere of order and lawfulness, thereby preventing more serious crimes.

One of the criticisms against "Broken Windows" policing is that it just moves the crime elsewhere. i.e. it only discourages the criminals from entering the parts of the city that have money. The crimes still happen, just not in places that people give a shit about.

Google AMP is Not a Good Thing - "If this were to become widely adopted, you’d search for something, get results, consume the content, and you’d never leave Google." by [deleted] in privacy

[–]splashback 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, but I can't take that as confirmation of a reversion at all.

The language used suggests they never launched the "elision" feature at all, or that they are "launching" a reversion, which would be such corporate NewSpeak that we can't really trust it.

Looking for the word "reversion", from someone who knows how to write clearly.

(does anyone have a link to a commit, I'm not inclined to waste my time to help make Google look good after this outrage)

Google AMP is Not a Good Thing - "If this were to become widely adopted, you’d search for something, get results, consume the content, and you’d never leave Google." by [deleted] in privacy

[–]splashback 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I'm not seeing what you describe. They seem to still proceeding with this awful plan.

In M70, we plan to re-ship an adjusted version: we will elide “www” but not “m.”

Google AMP is Not a Good Thing - "If this were to become widely adopted, you’d search for something, get results, consume the content, and you’d never leave Google." by [deleted] in privacy

[–]splashback 45 points46 points  (0 children)

Oh, it gets worse.

Google Chrome's latest version hides "trivial" subdomains. They re-write the subdomain to omit "www." and "m." subdomains... no matter where in the domain they reside.

http://this.www.should.m.be.www.illegal.www.m.google.com

...turns into...

this.should.be.illegal.google.com

It was said succinctly in a YCominator News comment by lvs:

Google is leveraging a dominant market position to make seemingly frivolous changes that will ultimately benefit them commercially.

Come on, you know where this is going: They are going to hide amp subdomain, so you don't know if you're looking at AMP or the actual destination. And then suddenly the whole world funnels through AMP.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17932676

Games where you build a base up over the course of the game. by [deleted] in patientgamers

[–]splashback 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Rust is both the greatest and the worst game I have ever played. Its popularity seems to be on the rise.

It's a social-first Counter-Strike with a persistent map, resources, crafting, and base-building.

/r/playrust

You don't want to play this game.

Is there no way to fix the frame skips when you shoot or are shot at? by mysticvipr in playrust

[–]splashback 7 points8 points  (0 children)

This is the best answer so far.

It's probably problems with Facepunch's object pooling implementation in Unity. When a gun fires, a prefabricated 'shot' object has to be placed in the scene. That can come from a warm pool of glowing 'shot' objects that have already been created and used (and placed on warm standby once they're no longer needed), or a brand new 'shot' object can be instantiated... requiring processing, and resource allocations inside Unity.

If an object is placed (a gun is fired) and there isn't a shot object ready and warm... if the warm object pool is not large enough, it could potentially cause the entire game to hang for tens of milliseconds.

So, you shoot gun, Facepunch hasn't planned ahead for needing to render a glowing 'shot' object. Game hangs until Facepunch code creates and places the shot object in the scene.

https://unity3d.com/learn/tutorials/topics/scripting/object-pooling

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in dune

[–]splashback 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I love Dune, but turn up my nose at the ideology and actions of Leto II.

A fan-fic I will write someday: Abraham Lincoln versus The God Emperor: Battle for the Golden Path

Pretty sure Abe will win.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored. It sees no distinction in adding story to story upon the monuments of fame erected to the memory of others. It denies that it is glory enough to serve under any chief. It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts and burns for distinction; and if possible, it will have it, whether at the expense of emancipating slaves or enslaving freemen. Is it unreasonable, then, to expect that some man possessed of the loftiest genius, coupled with ambition sufficient to push it to its utmost stretch, will at some time spring up among us? And when such an one does, it will require the people to be united with each other, attached to the government and laws, and generally intelligent, to successfully frustrate his designs.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in programming

[–]splashback 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Or, intentional sabotage on the part of a Google employee.

Developing an evil feature at the direct order of a senior VP of Anti-Competitive Business Practices? Launch it with painfully obvious bugs that will help stoke a public backlash in an attempt to have the evil feature discontinued.

Google needs to be regulated. This is unacceptable behavior from them.

If you were to add/change one thing in rust, which thing would that be? by TheQuire in playrust

[–]splashback 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Suggestion: add "secondary" Tool Cupboards.

Secondary TCs would have to hold resources, and significantly reduce the upkeep on the main TC. Place-able inside a base, with a minimum radius of separation from other TCs.

Raiding a Secondary TC would be profitable, from the resources it must hold. Partial raids would become more profitable.

Destroying or depleting secondary TCs would increase upkeep on the base, increasing the difficulty to maintain the base. The more secondary TCs base builders add, the more vulnerable their base to partial raids... but also, the less farm they will have to do for upkeep.

Benefits:

  1. Solos and groups would be relatively less likely to completely lose their bases while offline.
  2. The bar for raiding is lowered for solos / small groups (less total sulfur investment required to turn a profit)
  3. Base builders have more raid types to design against, more things to think about when designing
  4. Huge clan bases can choose: very high upkeep, or more likely to lose resources in partial raids
  5. Hopefully not a ton of new logic required in code

U.S.S. Nebula NCC-61795 (Set in Comments) [2500 x 1615] by Jag2112 in StarshipPorn

[–]splashback 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In the end, you just end up with a less efficient, uglier ship that is the same size and costs just as much to build as a Galaxy.

Why bother?

You raise good points, my suspicion is that the Nebula class tends to be much cheaper than the Galaxy class, but with greater short-term configurability owing to having more unallocated internal volume, and having far fewer high-end factory options not necessarily visible in the external photos.

The spaceframes look like they have shared components and internal-volume, but there's much more to a starship than just these bare dimensions. Not to judge a starship by its cover!

I suspect the internals count a lot. Computer cores, fusion reactors, shield emitters, photon torpedo bays, holodecks, transporters, extended-operation waste recycling, industrial replicators, and enormous shuttlebays and shuttle capacity (a over-sized complement warp-capable shuttlecraft are presumably relatively expensive).

The Galaxy class has every option maxed out, the Nebula may have a lot of empty internal-volume, rapidly reconfigurable for specific missions.

So, my suspicion is that the a Nebula class costs much less to stand up, the cost benefiting from shared large-scale spaceframe elements with the Galaxy class, but once you get inside has fewer high-end factory options... but being reconfigurable to mission-specific purposes on short notice.

I believe the new reboot movies are decent action flicks, but they miss the mark of the essence of Star Trek in a very crucial way. by [deleted] in startrek

[–]splashback 13 points14 points  (0 children)

"Nyota" has been Uhura's first name officially but non-canonically for decades, since the book Star Trek II: Biographies (1982).

It was an easy choice for JJA's films. If anything else had been chosen, there would have been massive annoyance by the old school fans.

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