Currently studying CS and some other stuff. Best known for previously being top 50 (OCE) in LoL, expert RoN modder, and creator of RoN:EE’s community patch (CBP).
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I thought Frozen Synapse’s ability to let you simulate your opponent’s moves was super cool - surprised I didn’t end up seeing it in more strategy games (obviously not so much applicable to the normal real-time stuff though!).
If you read the article, which part of the last-resort financial consequences do you deem insufficient to curb the “absorb the fines” business approach?
Supermarkets that fail to meet these requirements would open themselves to fines worth three times any benefit they derived from their misconduct.
Alternatively, the fine could be up to $10 million, or 10 per cent of the supermarket’s annual turnover if the benefit can’t be determined.
Those fines would need to be approved by a court, but consumer watchdog the ACCC could also issue up-front infringement notices worth up to $187,800 if they believe there has been a breach.
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??? Why the hell did my link get turned into a link back to Fedia lmao
Procrastination is a hell of a drug
I worry that if mass graves due to covid weren’t enough to jolt near-unanimous support for protective measures, little else will. Would of course love to be proven wrong :(
edit: for the sake of clarity / not accidentally misrepresenting things, graves would be dug up there (as per the article) with/without covid, but the number of bodies being buried in that manner went to ~7x the amount during non-covid according to the article.
Slightly cheaper on other storefronts including Humble and Fanatical (depending on local pricing - e.g., US/USD Fanatical looks cheaper, AU/AUD, Humble is cheaper)
Probably a quirk of having different software. I’m on Fedia which runs on mbin, as does kbin.run which MBM is on. You’re on lemmy, so I guess something was just handled differently for you (and most users!) vs kbin/mbin users.
FYI if you’re one of the people who just sees an image, the original includes a link to this:
Cool idea, though I was surprised by the level of fidelity loss in the fountain example. I would’ve expected that to be a good case scenario for noise cancellation so maybe it just needs some more time to iterate and improve on its level of “false positive” removal.
The graph comparing unemployment assistance across countries was really surprising to me. It makes me want more information about what’s behind that. Do we have a smaller gap between median and average income than most of our peers (maybe from less ludicrous-income jobs in e.g., tech)? Is there a significant difference in attitude towards transfers here vs elsewhere? Is it a difference in economic beliefs (surely our economic situation wouldn’t be that different though right?)?
Like what justification / reason is there for being last there?
I’ve known for ages that the payments are low as compared to median wage, but had honestly never even considered the possibility that we might be dead last out of OECD countries on that metric, and also way under the average.
SO comments are already CC-BY licensed (granted not -NC licensed, but still), but it doesn’t seem to have helped much.
Rise of Nations (originally released back in 2003) had/has some interesting ideas to reduce some of the busywork:
For the most part, none of the implemented options are strictly better than micromanaging them yourself:
But the options are there when you need them, which I think is a a nice design. It doesn’t completely remove best-in-class players being rewarded for their speed as a player, but does raise the “speed floor”, allowing slower players to get more bang for their buck APM-wise, and compete a bit more on the strategy/tactics side of the game instead.
Our courts have a limited jurisdiction and it is just a matter of fact that we can’t enforce our domestic laws outside out borders anymore than an autocracy can suppress foreign reporting of their human rights abuses as much as they may try.
Are you saying this in a “this is how it _should work” way, or in a “this is how it does work” way? Because in the Xitter vs eSafety deal right now, an Australian court has already issued a temporary order to a non-Australian company to block access to something for all visitors regardless of region (not just limited to Australian visitors).
We broadly have two fairly obvious sets of international agreements that can get material taken down through most of the world. The first is child abuse material and the second is IP infringement.
IP law (as I understand it) relies on existing, bilateral agreements - it’s not a unilateral takedown demand from one side because we already agreed beforehand that we’d all have some shared ground in that area. CSAM law I’m less familiar with, but I assume at the very least that relevant laws in most countries are similar enough that what’s illegal for an Australian entity to host would also be illegal for, say, a Canadian entity to host. Maybe there’s also bilateral agreements in place on top of that similar to IP law – again, I’m less familiar with that.
I’m not aware of a parallel for either of these two aspects for the current situation, so I don’t really agree with it being a strawman. I don’t want it to just be a “China bad” thing so instead of saying China / Iran, let’s think about it with friendlier countries. If Canada gets a new government with a small authoritarian streak and they demand a takedown of something from an Australian host using a Canadian law which has no parallel in Australia, isn’t that comparable to what’s going on right now? A country issuing a global takedown just to satisfy their own domestic laws, even when there’s no legal requirement for it within the host country?
I think we could have an argument that on the scale of stuff that should be censored to stuff that shouldn’t, protecting adult victims of violent crime seems like it should fall somewhere between child abuse and IP rights.
I agree with this (and the article) that there’s going to need to be some thinking about where we want our (Australian) laws to handle these situations, but I’m also pretty uncomfortable with global enforcement of domestic laws until we come to agreements with other countries about it (ala IP law). Why was a geo-block considered insufficient? It seems to be enough to satisfy IP law (e.g.) - why not here?
The article’s point is that there isn’t really a distinction between the two legally.
If comparison against average monthly wage is your benchmark, it’s still proportionately cheaper in Australia with average monthly wage being $6,201.43 (i.e., >50% of $11,000, whereas the coffee price is <50% of $10.16).
Average wages here are also higher than the majority of the countries above us on the average-coffee-price chart.
That is indeed the very first criteria listed in the sidebar, despite you being showered in downvotes for saying it.
There is this
I don’t personally know much about it beyond that.