taladar

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[–] taladar 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Self-regulation can work for safety but only if the measures needed to make things safer are cheap and pretty much don't require quality control (e.g. do not install a slippery type of floor in front of your butcher counter) and the consequences are severe even without regulation (bad press, significantly fewer customers, medical bills to pay for the customer who does slip,...).

[–] taladar 2 points 1 month ago

Self-regulation can work in cases where the incentives are set up just right, but when it works you have no real need to bring up regulation at all so whenever regulation is worth considering at all self-regulation has already failed pretty much by definition.

[–] taladar 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

A city builder game based on the online urbanist movement to transform existing cities with different transport infrastructure and changes to energy and heating technologies might be interesting. Unfortunately I haven't seen anything like that so far.

[–] taladar 1 points 1 month ago

Or just cutting down the time they are allowed to spend on researching the issues properly.

[–] taladar 9 points 1 month ago

That looks like some sort of graphics glitch where some triangles have a different texture applied.

[–] taladar 51 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Among computing hardware companies Nintendo is really second only to Apple in making sure to remind us to never buy their devices on a regular basis. Well, unless you count Sony perhaps but not sure I would count smart TVs in quite the same category.

[–] taladar 19 points 1 month ago

At the same time Linux is eating their lunch on the server side thanks to containers and immutable systems not really being a thing that is possible for anyone but Microsoft to build on Windows and licensing becomes extremely complicated compared to Linux in those areas.

[–] taladar 4 points 1 month ago

It is almost as if this whole "face-to-face" thing that was brought up so much in the online meeting debate when companies insisted on video calls isn't always as universally helpful as some people think. Almost as if human interactions are complex rather than simplistic.

[–] taladar 3 points 1 month ago

Most of the technical problems with learning/teaching are actually caused by sticking to outdated 19th century concepts in schools such as having the (by definition average) local teacher explain things instead of someone who actually knows how to explain the subject matter well and pretending that kids need to memorize everything in a modern world instead of incorporating the ability to look up things into the learning process.

Most of the actual major problems with education are caused by funding structures and deliberate sabotage by parts of society who benefit from an uneducated population without critical thinking and research skills.

[–] taladar 2 points 1 month ago

While I can see your point I would like to point out that that might excuse problems parents have raising their children but not parents making that everyone else's problem by insisting the rest of the world is made child-safe somehow.

[–] taladar 39 points 1 month ago

It would take too long.

Making the bet that is, it would be leaked before you are done setting up the betting system.

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