ToaKraka
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HOI4: $185
Stellaris: $235
EU4: $230 while on sale
The total costs that you give are somewhat misleading. For example, EU4's $230 figure includes cosmetic DLCs as well as functional DLCs. By my reckoning, EU4 with only the functional DLCs (labeled "expansions" and "immersion packs" on Steam) is $170 at the moment.
In any event, if you think that the value-for-money proposition is bad for these games, then just don't buy them. Steam lists me as having around 2600 hours in CK2 and 1800 hours in EU4. Maybe those numbers are slightly inflated by occasions where I left the AI running on observe mode (in order to test mods, or just to see how the world evolved), but that's still well over five hours of enjoyment per dollar spent. If you think that isn't enough, then buy another game. For example, I personally have extracted 10 h/$ from Nioh ($50 at launch, without discount) and 20 h/$ from Dark Souls 2 ($10 with discount).
I don't know if I should get Victoria 3 on release at all
I certainly don't plan to buy it until there's a discount.
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1yr ago
4chan... has an awful interface that has barely improved since 2005
What problem do you have with 4chan's interface? I vastly prefer it to Reddit's, since it allows a comment to have multiple parents. Maybe you forgot to enable the "Inline quote links" option in the settings.
4chan... now requires nigh unusable captchas to post anything at all
Or you can just pay $20 per year for a 4chan Pass.
The default template for all tech codes of conduct
It's the most common one out there
Github's two default choices are the Contributor Covenant and the Citizen Code of Conduct, and neither of those documents contains that passage. It's true that a quick Google search for "will not act" "reverse racism" turns up quite a few hits, but I think you need more evidence for your inflammatory claims.
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1yr ago
Offshore geothermal ocean thermal power is interesting as well.
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Look to the West is an alternate-history series that eschews the small-scale format of such authors as Eric Flint and Harry Turtledove. Instead, like For Want of a Nail and The Shape of Things to Come, it takes the form of a series of excerpts from history textbooks that were written in the alternate timeline. Therefore, each book is capable of spanning multiple decades and multiple continents, rather than progressing at a snail's pace through just a few months as seen through the eyes of a handful of viewpoint characters.
Books 1 through 5 are available for standalone purchase. The author writes on the AlternateHistory.com forum, where Book 9 is in progress.
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1yr ago
a really minor debt
To be fair, forty thousand pounds (fifty thousand dollars) is not what I would call "really minor".
He filed a defamation lawsuit (over three comments under an article on Unz.com and one tweet), effectively lost at the preliminary-injunction stage (before the trial proper) (because the comments were statements of opinion backed up by linked articles, rather than assertions of fact backed up by nothing), and was ordered to pay half of the target's attorney fees (i. e., 13,500 pounds). He failed to pay that half, and the debt has mounted higher ever since.
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1yr ago
A moderation log does exist. In this particular case, though, it does not seem that the moderator (@Amadan) listed a reason for removal.
Judicial records are open to public scrutiny unless the parties can convince the judge to "seal" those records (barring some exceptions that vary by state—juvenile prosecutions, names of children involved in divorce proceedings, name-change requests, names of rape victims, etc.). I assume you can just submit a records request to the court, possibly under the state's FOIA equivalent.
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1yr ago
Smith (the target of the lawsuit) does not provide his "detailed assessment of costs" in the linked blogposts. Two items may be worth noting, however:
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An entire year passed from the filing of the lawsuit (2018-12-07) to the denial of the injunction (2019-12-10); and
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The law firm that Smith employed behaved badly enough that Smith sued the firm and recovered from it the other half of his costs (i. e., another 13,500 pounds).
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1yr ago
This article suggests a sum of 180 k$/a. I think this topic was in the news a few years ago because it was "just another example of how women are being shortchanged".
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1yr ago
test:
two spaces
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reverse slash
test: HTML
br element
All three of the methods listed in the specification seem to be broken at the moment.
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1yr ago
The weird thing is that Amazon's E-commerce arm isn't even that valuable. The bulk (maybe 80%) of Amazon's market value comes from AWS. E-commerce is now being recognized as a not-particularly-good business, and Amazon loses money on it.
Source? According to Amazon's most recent annual report to the SEC (Ctrl-F "Note 10"), operating income was 18.5 billion $ (74.5 %) for AWS, 7.2 billion $ (29.2 %) for e-commerce in North America, and −0.9 billion $ (−3.7 %) for e-commerce outside North America. At least on the basis of those numbers, e-commerce does not look unprofitable.
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In the document that I linked above, which is an official filing with the SEC, e-commerce in North America is shown as profitable (positive operating income: net sales minus operating expenses) in 2021, 2020, and 2019.
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1yr ago
Petition for new rule (and report option): Any user who uses (not mentions) the misspelling "Ghandi" will receive a 24-hour ban, with no exceptions.
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1yr ago
If I see a person put a space before a colon, question mark, or exclamation mark, then I assume that that person's native language is French. I don't know whether any languages other than French employ the same practice, though.
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1yr ago
I wonder whether it would be cost-effective to buy a decked-out car, but then remove and sell all the newfangled parts that you don't want—or to just set up a mechanic shop specializing in such work.
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1yr ago
Or did too many toddlers get run over by Ford Mctrucks with absurd blindspots?
Backover: Vehicle backover injuries and deaths occur when a person is positioned behind a vehicle without a driver's knowledge as the driver backs up. Most victims of backovers are children and the elderly. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) estimates that backover incidents cause at least 183 fatalities and between 6,700 and 7,419 injuries annually; however, the number of fatalities and injuries from those incidents is subject to debate because no comprehensive statistics are collected on vehicular accidents on private property. Some safety groups assert that the number of backover-related injuries and fatalities is higher. Because these accidents often occur on private property, rather than on public roads, they are not typically included in traffic-crash fatality data.
In preventing backover accidents, the size of vehicle blind spots, the area behind the vehicle where the driver cannot see using his or her side or rear-view mirrors, is a key factor. Generally, the larger the vehicle, the larger the blind spot. Children are especially vulnerable since their small stature makes them harder to see within a blind spot. As larger vehicles, including SUVs, pickup trucks, and minivans, have become more popular, more drivers are confronted with larger blind spots. Currently, without a standard, automakers can design similar-sized vehicles that have dramatically different blind spots. For example, among midsized SUVs, a 5 foot 1 inch driver of a 2006 Jeep Commander Limited has a 69 foot blind spot versus an 18 foot blind spot for a similar-sized driver of a 2005 Nissan Pathfinder LE.
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1yr ago
I mean, three million dollars is a lot of money. According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, it's perfectly reasonable for a single person to live on 24 k$/a, which (using the four-percent rule) amounts to the returns on an investment of just 600 k$, or one-fifth of your target. I personally can't imagine working longer than my BLS-based calculations say I need to, just so that I can retire to a big house in California rather than to a small one in Indiana.
In the "cross-tabulated" section, under the "size of consumer unit before taxes" heading, the "consumer units of one person by income before taxes" table shows that the average one-person household that has gross income of less than 15 k$/a has average expenses of 23653 $/a. Those expenses include 3542 $/a on "food" and 6678 $/a on "shelter" (comprising mortgage interest, property taxes, maintenance/repairs/insurance, and rent). Such a household's average pre-tax income consists of only 7617 $/a, including 4092 $/a from "Social Security, private and government retirement" and 1002 $/a from "Public Assistance, Supplemental Security Income, SNAP".
Additionally, on the Census Bureau's website, you can get information on median household income on a state-by-state and county-by-county basis, by looking at dataset S1901 (2021 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates). Compare California's (84 k$/a) and New Jersey's (90 k$/a) median income with Nevada's (66 k$/a) and Indiana's (62 k$/a). From this comparison one can surmise that the cost of living is significantly lower in Nevada and Indiana than in California and New Jersey. Those numbers are slightly misleading, since within-state variation can be pretty big (e. g., 126 k$/a for San Francisco County vs. 76 k$/a for Los Angeles County vs. 51 k$/a for Modoc County), but you can cross-check county median income against the Census Bureau's map of metropolitan areas to ignore rural counties that have nothing but a Dollar General to shop at, and compare apples with apples.
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1yr ago
I love the feeling of directly interfacing with the hardware C gives me
Obligatory article: C Is Not a Low-Level Language
As the saying goes: Have you tried not playing D&D? GURPS Wilderness Adventures seems to cover exactly what you're doing.
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