At most I could see it being a kind of novelty for stuff like movie theaters to add to the immersion. And the obvious ads bullshit.

Is it really unreasonable to explain that nothing you do on a work computer is private, though?

Obviously you don’t want to do any of that. But if you have a reasonable set up, you can when you need to, and telling people not to do shit they shouldn’t on company hardware is a good thing.

Ranked choice enables actual sane candidates, because people are allowed to vote for people who aren’t insane without costing the lesser evil (because primaries massively benefit the most liberal/conservative in their respective parties) their vote.

Third party candidates are wasted votes now. Ranked choice lets you vote for them, then if they’re eliminated, you still get to vote for the less bad person.

No, I’m not. People don’t turn down free stuff with no strings attached. It doesn’t happen.

Because it’s free. I guarantee you 90% of people will take free shit if offered free shit.

Including it for free completely undermines the whole reason for removing the cable.

Then everyone will claim one and you’ll increase waste.

The whole reason they’re removing the cable is because of pressure from governments not to waste materials including it.

His brain is still fucked.

It’s too early for him to seriously evaluate anything. Just rule him out, let him recover, then convince him in the offseason.

Because there’s very little overlap between people who need them and people who know that it’s an option.

The people claiming them would primarily be people like me who do know how it works, know that I probably won’t use it, but am going to take it anyways, because it’s free and because it is within the realm of possibility that I need another cable as a temporary replacement until I get another one.

That’s ugly as hell too.

Yes, it does.

An “extraordinary claim” is a claim that is incompatible with our current understanding of the world based on a large body of prior evidence and belief.

Claiming someone walked on water requires substantially more, more persuasive evidence than claiming someone walked on a road. A video is extremely strong evidence of the latter and not meaningful evidence of the former, because the priors are different.

They get a cash payout as a whistleblower. I could easily see not reporting it directly and reporting it through the channels that pay them instead. Also, if they contracted out, they may not have anyone with the basic understanding of tech to identify the issue even if “these requests shouldn’t have been filed” was reported up the chain.

It’s still negligence, but it doesn’t have to be deliberate fraud.

I could pretty easily see how such a bug could happen if the description in the article is accurate.

The right way to do it is to have the entire transaction in some pending state, and nothing is permanently saved anywhere until the transaction is completed. (This is called an atomic operation. It usually applies to distributed databases, but the same concept applies here, where the transaction takes a long time to succeed or fail.)

If, instead, you add it to the “reimbursement list” while putting the actual “make the pill” and billing part in the pending state, then forget to remove it when the transaction isn’t completed, you get the outcome described in the article.

I think the assertion is that it’s intended for actual low volume low value trade, and that a retailer operating in the US but packaging the shipments in China (to bypass the normal import laws that apply to companies operating traditionally and importing in bulk, then packaging here) is not how the exception is intended to be used.

I sincerely think they should rule him out for the year, as officially as possible, and save the real conversation for the offseason without the pressure.

(The end result should be him retiring because a guy with his history being as reckless as he was on his most recent concussion is a danger to himself.) But save it for the end of the season so he’s as recovered as he’ll be and the people involved can focus on the conversation completely.

lol you’d think I’d be happy, and I guess I am, but it’s really just counting the minutes until Maye plays. Jacoby was not willing to throw it even to pretty open guys down the field.

I definitely think with your full roster you can pose a bigger threat offensively. They can win routes with regularity. I’m with you that you could do better than Taylor, though. The QB makes you a destination.

I think their offense looked super bland. He wasn’t awesome but they didn’t really make any effort to counter anything we did, barely ran the ball when they were having success and we were daring them to, and just didn’t give him any opportunity to create much.

I was watching all-22 for our side, not yours, but it felt like Taylor just wanted his guys to win their routes outright, and they didn’t.

Don’t play an injured dude week fucking 2.

I get the balance late in the season and in the playoffs, and why guys push the envelope then. But not week 2.

I don’t know how that dude in that spot lowers his helmet into another dude.

If he can’t even make smart decisions about protecting himself, letting him back on the field is even more concerning.

There have been games that showed hints of stuff you could get to, but I think BOTW was the first major open world game that actually universally followed that rule and didn’t have invisible walls all over the place.

Like Skyrim there was a lot you could “climb” by abusing the mechanics and spamming jumps until you got lucky, and everything existed in that sense. But it was glitches, not part of the mechanics. BOTW having points of interest almost entirely discovered visually was unique.

I would say the defining characteristic that sets Breath of the Wild apart from its contemporaries is its “chemistry engine”, as they call it.

It’s traversal. The interactions were cool, but mostly about the puzzles.

What BOTW changed was how exploration works. You see a landmark in the distance, start moving towards it, and figure out how to get there. There’s nothing you see that isn’t part of the traversal system. There are no invisible walls. Some things are absurdly high to climb, some things are slippery, etc, but everything you struggle to traverse is clearly a product of the systems the game uses and makes sense.

(The problem was none of that exploration got you anywhere interesting, but the core element of “everything you see is a destination” is the thing about BOTW that was groundbreaking.)