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Reposted from a more reputable interpreter of the results on reddit:

"I look at these results

(Fig. 2 from the journal article, supposedly demonstrating an improvement in frailty markers) and just see noise. No dose-response. No consistent benefit across measures for different treatment groups.

The figure shows four different tests for resilience to age-related frailty - each fig. 2a, 2b, 2c and 2d represent how each of the treatment groups performed on these tests at different time points.

There were three treatment groups: patients receiving 100 million cells (100-M), patients receiving 200 million cells (200-M) and a placebo group.
The 100 million cell group showed a stat dig improvement in the six minute walk test.

The problem, though, is that the 200 million group did not. So there is no dose response relationship. Generally, if a drug is real, the more drug you apply the stronger treatment effect you observe (lots of caveats to this generality, but none seem too relevant here).
Further, the 100 million group on showed a positive outcome in the six minute walk test. It failed to demonstrate efficacy consistently in the other three tests the researchers used to measure resilience against age-related frailty. In some cases it was even worse than placebo.

I would happily bet an amount of money that mattered to me that this result would fail to be replicated in a randomized, placebo-controlled study."

Can we all just take a minute to sit back and remind ourselves this is not normal.

We were warned that perhaps it was a bad idea to give nuclear launch authority to the crazy real estate mogul/reality TV star. But the electoral college made sure the 'merica contingent prevailed.

The Earth isn't flat, it just looks that way.

And yet, their stock trades at $345.10 a share [google.com], and their market cap is $57.59 billion [google.com].

That their stock price is ridiculously over valued is the best investment thesis you have?

Another company that doesn't make a profit: Amazon [forbes.com]. Shorting them too? Good luck with that.

Amazon has almost always had positive cash flow to fund their operations and growth. They had to go the capital markets just once many years ago. Tesla has to continually go the capital markets just to keep the lights on. https://imgur.com/a/IKilJ And their cash burn is still increasing - Q3 results will be the worse yet. Once they run out of OPM they are toast.

Plans can't win an unwinnable battle, so let's talk about the battlefield first.

Elijah Cummings won his last primary against a guy whose campaign was a vertical cell phone video where he rants about Elijah Cummings "has not fixed the issue" and that he's going to "go to Congress and get the money". He got 8.9% of the vote.

It's 25,000 votes to win. That's not a whole hell of a lot of bulk effort. It does mean getting most of the reliable voters (there are only 33,000 registered Democrats who voted in all of the last three primaries, out of around 50,000).

Elijah has only a few fanatics--and very few in the district. Most of his Facebook followers are all around the country; he has NINE THOUSAND people in District 7 actually interacting with his page (follow, comment, etc.) or posts about Elijah at all, out of 550,000 Moderate to Liberal democratic voters. He hardly communicates with anyone.

This uphill battle is turning more anti-climactic by the day. Nobody I encounter who isn't a raving Conservative fanatic really dislikes Elijah; he's a great community leader and he really does have the people's best interests at heart--he's just ineffective as all hell, and everybody knows it. The most I get in his favor is a consoling look and the counsel that I have a tough battle ahead of me; usually folks tell me that Elijah just isn't doing anything useful and needs to go, even though they don't think he's a bad guy--just a bad Congressman.

I actually encountered a political discussion group meeting in an elementary school that had replacing Elijah Cummings as a repeatedly-surfacing concern.

Do you know what the strategy is for that kind of playing field?

Name recognition and don't make people hate you.

I've been knocking on doors. I'm having actual campaign materials printed up. I have a Web site (which is getting some traffic at least). I've got a Facebook page that's getting followers, and I engage my followers; Elijah doesn't engage his, and I respond to his (sparse) posts and get people actually following me--I'm actually canvassing his own territory. I do the same on some radio show social media pages, and on some forums for the Democratic party. I have digital marketing campaigns that are giving me returns now at under 50 cents per click, follower, or whatnot.

Elijah loses more than 10% of the primary vote to no-names and unkempt fools--not to disparage anyone in particular, but the folks who have against him in recent elections haven't exactly been hard-hitting candidates. You can't even find out anything about these people, about their plans, their positions, anything. Do you really think he has standing power against a competent campaign?

Sure, he can fight back; the question is: is it too late? Everybody knows who Elijah is. What's he going to do? He can't open his mouth, shout loudly, and hope to get more name recognition; he has to convince people that the Elijah Cummings they know isn't the real Elijah Cummings. He doesn't have anything with which to fight back.

Will I win? I don't know. Can I win? I can crush this guy; but I can't do it without funding.

Here's a screen capture of Chips and Dips

> The thing is? The "Genius" used the wrong terminology, in my opinion, which made things sound
> worse than they really are. A speck of dust is most assuredly NOT enough to jam up one of the
> new Apple keyboards. CRUMBS, however, from people eating by the machine? Absolutely possible.

Dust, crumbs, pollen, dandruff, boogers... whatever. I've been using computers in the same environments for 20+ years and laptops for 15+. If Apple's newly-designed keyboard cannot deal with the same things that EVERY SINGLE OTHER KEYBOARD has successfully handled in that time, APPLE FUCKED UP. Period, full stop, <local terminology of your choice>.

I've been using Macs for 20+ years. I'm using one right now. This is what my ~ten- or fifteen-year-old keyboard looks right now. (Apple fans will know that they shipped these clear & graphite ones with early G4s. Later G4s came with white-and-clear keyboards, or maybe that started with G5s or white iMacs. Whatever. It's still pretty damn old. PowerMac G4s were discontinued in 2004.) You can see all the crumbs and stuff that have worked their way all the way underneath it. You can only imagine what's actually among all the keys right now.

That picture is from today. You can see this post in the background. And I shot that pic with my iPhone. I like Apple stuff just fine. Like I said, I'm using a Mac right now, and I've used this keyboard since it was new. I've never had this or any other keyboard fail for such a trivial reason as DUST. Or even (God forbid) CRUMBS. Jony Ive needs to step out of his glorious white room and spend some time in the real world.

Who knows, maybe he'll have a epiphany and make phones 2mm thicker and fill that space with battery. Hey, a boy can dream...

Aisle filling is dominated by women.... https://www.niddk.nih.gov/heal...

It's a six percent difference ya clad. And women are much more likely to have body issues. Guess what happens when you feel pressure to be stick thin and you're not that body type. Your diet fails and you feel like a failure and things get out of hand.

Aisle filling is dominated by women.... https://www.niddk.nih.gov/heal...

It's a six percent difference ya clad. And women are much more likely to have body issues. Guess what happens when you feel pressure to be stick thin and you're not that body type. Your diet fails and you feel like a failure and things get out of hand.

"I realized that it's because he's wearing shoulder pads that are way too big."

They are called 'Pauldrons' http://i.imgur.com/zspUckx.jpg

As usual, various media and political groups have interpreted the actual findings to their own benefit. I looked at the source paper. The conclusion is very tenuous and as the authors wrote, "should be interpreted with caution".

If you look at their data, you will see the scatter plot in Figure 1 which supposedly demonstrates the relationship between legality and trafficking. However, once you ignore the line that they drew on it, you'll see the relationship doesn't actually exist. Every combination of legal status and trafficking volume is represented in the chart.

So even assuming everything they did to gather this data was perfect, the relationship is still barely there. Setting any sort of public policy based on that is just dumb.

As for why its handling is so good, in large part:

1) It's surprisingly light. The SR version, at 3549 lbs / 1610 kg, is lighter than average for its class, while the LR version, at 3814 lbs / 1730 kg, is still far from the heaviest in its class. Note that the reviewers above were driving the LR - the SR should handle even better.

2) The CG is low. This is standard for all "designed from the ground up" EVs, not just the Model 3, and minimizes body roll.

3) The polar moment of inertia is abnormally low. Diagram here. Unlike the Model S, Model X, and ICE vehicles, the Model 3 has an abnormally low polar moment of inertia. Its battery pack (the largest single chunk of its mass) is positioned between the wheels. A low polar moment of inertia means that it takes relatively little force to rotate the vehicle.

But are they fluffy?

Choosing someone who is a good manager is choosing a person who, partly, is good at resolving conflicts. Often cultural pressures limit a person's abilities. Sometimes a person is able to avoid cultural pressures. One example is Dorsa Derakhshani, an Iranian Chess Grandmaster.

Someone said bump fire? :D

3d Print your own Bump Fire gadget!
https://mega.nz/#!Vjp1XaDR!0YL...

Pic of gadget
https://i.imgur.com/bZuDcZq.pn...

See it in action:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Here's the new ID prototype they've come up with.

my favorite is KiwiSDR, it is a SDR that plugs on to a Beaglebone Green and the Beaglebone has Debian on it, and i am gradually tweaking the KiwiSDR software to my personal liking, nothing too drastic, mostly user interface things https://imgur.com/a/d6dJ4

knowing that you're already de-sensitised to any warnings as you see them every time you open a document that contains a macro

Assuming users even know or care about these warnings

Firefox 57 is very disappointing. I kept hearing about how it's so much faster and lighter than Chrome, so I decided to try out the latest Firefox 57 beta for myself.

My test was simple, realistic and practical: I started the browser, I loaded the Slashdot front page, I watched how long it took to load the page, and I checked the memory usage afterward.

This is what the memory usage was like. Firefox used 829.9 MB of memory, while Chrome used only 683.4 MB. So Firefox used almost 23% more memory than Chrome did for the same usage pattern!

Firefox also felt far slower, too. Firefox took longer to open. Firefox took longer to load pages. Even using the Firefox UI feels slow and laggy, while Chrome zips along really quickly.

Firefox isn't making a comeback. It's dying.

If Microsoft ported Edge to Linux and macOS, we'd finally have the real Chrome competitor we've wanted for so long. If Edge ran on LInux and macOS then we would have no need for Firefox.

Then:

In 2008, Trump took over the licensing and management of a Puerto Rican golf resort, the Coco Beach Golf and Country Club. But the resort filed for bankruptcy in 2015, leaving Puerto Ricans with nearly $33 million in outstanding bond payments.

Now:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/...

Really?

I think you need the doctor's prescription.

Sadly the choice is largely one of living like this or ditching the smartphone. I've chosen to be one of those sad figures in the crowd but.. I wont defend it as the correct choice.

"If you can *actually* do this"

I most certainly can.

"You get instant payment which you can cash out into local currency, Kraken charges maybe $10 for a wire transfer to my bank account."

I refuse to participate in the bullshit non-backed bullshit that is Bitcoin. At least the fiat dollar has some backing in the Petrodollar and the current slavery economy that the United States is shifting towards (look at all the sudden uprising of more unions and complaints about wage discrimination, etc.,) and before that was backed by hard tangible assets such as gold, which as all kinds of uses from making medicine to making electronics to making jewelry. Bitcoin has the backing of wasted electricity and resources and shitty coding and a shit community which can't agree to anything and splits up more than Hollywood celebrities, and has no wide diversity of uses. It's just a repeat failure of 70s technology and ideas (permissionless and distributed databases,) this time it's worked it's stupid ass into the economy instead of just regular database usage.

Cash in hand, direct bank-to-bank wire from their actual account, maybe at worst PayPal. I won't accept any other option. No cheque, no credit card, no gift card, nada.

I might accept marijuana if it is of acceptable quality and potency.

"If you can *actually* do this"

I most certainly can.

"You get instant payment which you can cash out into local currency, Kraken charges maybe $10 for a wire transfer to my bank account."

I refuse to participate in the bullshit non-backed bullshit that is Bitcoin. At least the fiat dollar has some backing in the Petrodollar and the current slavery economy that the United States is shifting towards (look at all the sudden uprising of more unions and complaints about wage discrimination, etc.,) and before that was backed by hard tangible assets such as gold, which as all kinds of uses from making medicine to making electronics to making jewelry. Bitcoin has the backing of wasted electricity and resources and shitty coding and a shit community which can't agree to anything and splits up more than Hollywood celebrities, and has no wide diversity of uses. It's just a repeat failure of 70s technology and ideas (permissionless and distributed databases,) this time it's worked it's stupid ass into the economy instead of just regular database usage.

Cash in hand, direct bank-to-bank wire from their actual account, maybe at worst PayPal. I won't accept any other option. No cheque, no credit card, no gift card, nada.

I might accept marijuana if it is of acceptable quality and potency.

"If you can *actually* do this"

I most certainly can.

"You get instant payment which you can cash out into local currency, Kraken charges maybe $10 for a wire transfer to my bank account."

I refuse to participate in the bullshit non-backed bullshit that is Bitcoin. At least the fiat dollar has some backing in the Petrodollar and the current slavery economy that the United States is shifting towards (look at all the sudden uprising of more unions and complaints about wage discrimination, etc.,) and before that was backed by hard tangible assets such as gold, which as all kinds of uses from making medicine to making electronics to making jewelry. Bitcoin has the backing of wasted electricity and resources and shitty coding and a shit community which can't agree to anything and splits up more than Hollywood celebrities, and has no wide diversity of uses. It's just a repeat failure of 70s technology and ideas (permissionless and distributed databases,) this time it's worked it's stupid ass into the economy instead of just regular database usage.

Cash in hand, direct bank-to-bank wire from their actual account, maybe at worst PayPal. I won't accept any other option. No cheque, no credit card, no gift card, nada.

I might accept marijuana if it is of acceptable quality and potency.

"If you can *actually* do this"

I most certainly can.

"You get instant payment which you can cash out into local currency, Kraken charges maybe $10 for a wire transfer to my bank account."

I refuse to participate in the bullshit non-backed bullshit that is Bitcoin. At least the fiat dollar has some backing in the Petrodollar and the current slavery economy that the United States is shifting towards (look at all the sudden uprising of more unions and complaints about wage discrimination, etc.,) and before that was backed by hard tangible assets such as gold, which as all kinds of uses from making medicine to making electronics to making jewelry. Bitcoin has the backing of wasted electricity and resources and shitty coding and a shit community which can't agree to anything and splits up more than Hollywood celebrities, and has no wide diversity of uses. It's just a repeat failure of 70s technology and ideas (permissionless and distributed databases,) this time it's worked it's stupid ass into the economy instead of just regular database usage.

Cash in hand, direct bank-to-bank wire from their actual account, maybe at worst PayPal. I won't accept any other option. No cheque, no credit card, no gift card, nada.

I might accept marijuana if it is of acceptable quality and potency.

"This comes across as preemptively shouting down dissent, rather than engaging"

There's not much to engage, the business class preaches free market for the masses but secretly loves state subsidy.

Energy subsidies

https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/survey/so/2015/NEW070215A.htm

Science on reasoning, your brain does not see the world as it is, see the science:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349

Testing theories of representative government

Testing theories of representative government

US distribution of wealth

https://imgur.com/a/FShfb

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html

It is possible see the difference between 1080p and 2160p.

No it isn't.

Here's a link to a study verifying your claims.

I thought about this long and hard. Here's how I think it works: click for spoiler.

Relevant: http://i.imgur.com/kpzUS.png

I found this fake antifa manual circulating among US civil war / confederate history buffs in the days before Charlottesville. They are livid and eating up the red meat of each new outrage.

http://imgur.com/gallery/BcZOg?

Someone went to a lot of work making that, and they fully understand right-wing paranoid fantasies. This is too much effort for so many pages of such poor satire. It's not designed to convert/convince but to incite latent fear and hate. If that isn't the Kremlin thumbing its nose at us, then it is someone who wants us to think it is Kremlin. The manual was posted to imgur about a week after Trump signed new sanctions.

We also see evidence of Russian incitement in the troll factory activity on twitter that is more easily linked to their networks.

https://www.dailykos.com/stori...

The most useful idiots are Roger Stone, Alex Jones, Paul Joseph Watson and Mike Cernovich, who are all pushing the idea of a new civil war. We don't need help hating each other, but we are getting it. (Donald Trump is more than a useful idiot. Since he has the full briefings, we have to consider him overtly complicit in the campaign to incite political violence.)

We need to rewrite the rules for Poe's law. The Charlottesville corollary is that satire of fundamentalism provides cover for propaganda and false flag action. The most dangerous weapon in information warfare is one that we never see as a weapon.

Given that the antifa manual is a parody of leftist fundamentalism, it says something about the dangerous political divide that a segment of people can't tell the difference any more.

Look, I'm not going to judge your GUI based on the fact that KDE has been a disaster for years or that you're based on a non-LTE Ubuntu distro that's going to be EOL before you finish getting your wireless driver working right or the fact that you think typing in your GUI to search for an application is a new innovation...

But if you include "beautiful" in your tagline, the very first screenshot you use to advertise yourself better actually be beautiful, and not this piece of junk. Did the person who made that UI even know what margins are?

Video of the Harvard dean addressing the freshman in CS50 has now surfaced:

https://i.imgur.com/zPn4CNd.gi...

Great Value Bottled Water

My boss sent this: https://i.imgur.com/osUaSF5.pn... to our developers to re-think their design... Really has me fearful for the future of applications.

Explains why some of this is going on.

Here's some data which essentially completely confirms a lot of it is money laundering.

News from late Nov 2016
https://www.google.com.au/sear...

Reaction to said news (click 1 year on the chart)
https://www.worldcoinindex.com...

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Now, see this news also, Feb 2017
https://www.google.com.au/sear...

See the reaction in other digital currrency markets (again, click the 1Y chart)
https://www.worldcoinindex.com...
https://www.worldcoinindex.com...

Now, finally look at your local property prices, especially if you live in Vancouver, Toronto, London, Sydney, Melbourne, Auckland.
Any way money can be gotten out of China, it will be by the wealthy / ultra wealthy. The change to my city in the past 5 years, is .nothing. short of utterly astounding. I repeat, *utterly astounding*, to the complete and utter detriment of the locals under 40 / 50 who don't own a place, they're boned. no chance now.

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Regarding litecoin, this one is .particularly. telling, that coin was the "b tier" coin to bitcoin, the silver to gold if you will. Like bitcoin, it had a big run several years ago and then, it died off to a stagnant level, logically so too, why should there even be more than 1 digital currency?
So here's a coin which has settled to a flat, sensible price, then due to talk of China making some moves against BTC exchanges in Feb 2017, is suddenly .booming.insanely. in Mar 2017.
Most of the world buy their goods from there, we're sending our money to China en-masse, immense amounts of it, the wealthy there, are in turn getting out of the country and picking up the premium property around the world. Can't blame them to be honest, devastating for some of the locals though (myself included)

Bonus evidence of how it's being spent, here, just found this morning.
http://i.imgur.com/aTGE6SV.gif

Yeah, I'm something of a minimalist. Here's my homescreen on Android 7:
https://i.imgur.com/xswIxHi.pn...

Just a big ol' analog clock and my most commonly accessed apps from the ground up.
I prefer groups to screens, as much as I like the background scrolling animation. But even then there are just two groups for "Google" and "Nav" apps.
There's just one more screen for widgets: the Google New/Weather ticker, the calendar, and a gTasks Todo list. That's pretty much it.

Previously I had additional groups for:
* Utils: calculators, periodic tables, and other stuff
* Media: youtube, VLC, and other "gallery" type stuff
* Net: SSH, VNC, SMB clients, etc.

But now I just look up the rest of that stuff up in the alphabetical list or via search. It does get a little bit annoying when the app icons are too similar in appearance, but \_()_/

Ah, nice. Yeah, if you graph their data on a reasonable scale, this is what you get: http://i.imgur.com/bzLMMX5.png

It wasn't "Forbes" -> http://i.imgur.com/fVkJLcX.png

All you have to do is buy one made by another company. It's just a brand name, how different could it be? ;)

Can we add Corsair to the list? They've been pretty shifty lately.

Relevant Image

Gather round, children, it's story time. Back when AMD's FX-9590 and Asus's Crosshair V Formula Z were the latest and greatest in their neck of the woods, Corsair cooked up some DDR3 RAM that ran @ 2800Mhz. Now, the above setup would never reach 2800Mhz (without special cooling), topping out at 2400Mhz, but this made for some top grade RAM; I mean, if it could do 2800Mhz, it could easily do 2400Mhz, right? It's overkill.

Well, around the time of DivineKnight's particular batch of RAM manufacture, RAM manufacturers were suffering from something called Row hammar. This makes the RAM very useful as a random number generator, but very bad as a storage device. And this batch had it. Memtest confirmed it.

RMA process seemed straight forward enough. Send the RAM back, get new RAM. So I sent it back. Some time passes, and I am told that instead of receiving new RAM (of the same make and model), I will be receiving a refund check, because they are out of that type of RAM. I say that's fine with me; they say it will take 6-8 weeks to cut a check. Whatever, corporate policies.

Somewhere around 8 weeks pass, and Corsair 'upgrades' their support site, apparently losing all data relating to my RMA. A quick phone call reveals that the old system still exists, but I am still put through several rounds of questions first regarding my RAM ("The system says you haven't sent us the RAM yet" "Check the old system" "Oh yeah, we received it", "The system says that it hasn't been 8 weeks yet" "Check the old system" "Ah, it has been 8 weeks", "We can't give you a refund until it is approved" "It was approved, check the old system" "Oh, yes it was"). And every time I call, I am assured that the Finance people are working on it, and that they will send me an email before the day is out. Oh, and the reason it is apparently taking so much effort to get a refund check is because Corsair normally doesn't cut a check of this size (their words).

Included image includes false dates (for Submitted, Approved, Arrived, Processing) which you can notice where the RAM was 'Processed' before it 'Arrived.' You may also take notice of the amount of time lapsing between comments, and the lack of any action on the part of Corsair (it's 8/28/2017, and still no refund check).

Seems like it turned out ok for Wil.

> Games haven't changed, I have.

Yes they HAVE changed -- often times for the worse. FPS Map Design 1993 vs 2010

Modern games are full of bullshit:

* unskippable cut-scenes
* MTX (micro-transaction) because the game devs don't respect your Time, Space, nor Wallet.
* Season Pass
* bullshit DLC (DownLoadable Content)
* QTE (Quick-Time Events) You remember Dragon's Lair ? Yup, that's what modern "AAA" gaming has devolved into.
* Grindfests aka Skinner boxes
* Flat UI that you can't fucking tell what are UI elements you can interact with vs static elements.
* Multiplayer games that don't allow you to run your own server -- typical EA bullshit.

When the "gaming industry" refers to its customers as "whales" you know they don't give a fuck about you -- only how long they can keep "milking" you. If you wat to know the general state of the "industry" Jim Sterling excellent Jimquisition pretty much sucks up the fuckery that publishers and devs try to pull.

With that said I'm a professional game developer and have over 500+ games in my Steam Library. This is my "best of the best" of modern games are in alphabetical order (I've included the "genre" in parenthesis):

* Borderlands 1 and 2 (FPS)
* Dishonored 1 and 2 (FPS)
* Doom (2017) (FPS)
* Elite: Dangerous (Space)
* Inside (Adventure)
* Left for Dead (1 not 2) (FPS)
* Limbo (Adventure)
* Luftrausers (2D shmup)
* Minecraft (3D Survival)
* Path of Exile (RPG)
* Portal 1 and 2 (Puzzle)
* Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 1 and 2
* Serious Sam 1, 2, and 3 (FPS)
* Terraria (2D Survival)
* Team Fortress 2 (FPS)
* The Stanley Parable (Story)
* The Talos Principle (FPS)
* The Vanishing of Ethan Carter (Puzzle)
* The Witness (Puzzle)
* Torchlight 1 and 2 (RPG)

Stay away from grind-shift-fests like:

* Defiance
* Destiny
* Diablo 3
* Evolve
* Fashionframe, er, Warframe

There are still some good games out there -- but about 95% of them are shit. i.e. Any game that has non-cosmetic MTX is crap.

> Games haven't changed, I have.

Yes they HAVE changed -- often times for the worse. FPS Map Design 1993 vs 2010

Modern games are full of bullshit:

* unskippable cut-scenes
* MTX (micro-transaction) because the game devs don't respect your Time, Space, nor Wallet.
* Season Pass
* bullshit DLC (DownLoadable Content)
* QTE (Quick-Time Events) You remember Dragon's Lair ? Yup, that's what modern "AAA" gaming has devolved into.
* Grindfests aka Skinner boxes
* Flat UI that you can't fucking tell what are UI elements you can interact with vs static elements.
* Multiplayer games that don't allow you to run your own server -- typical EA bullshit.

When the "gaming industry" refers to its customers as "whales" you know they don't give a fuck about you -- only how long they can keep "milking" you. If you wat to know the general state of the "industry" Jim Sterling excellent Jimquisition pretty much sucks up the fuckery that publishers and devs try to pull.

With that said I'm a professional game developer and have over 500+ games in my Steam Library. This is my "best of the best" of modern games are in alphabetical order (I've included the "genre" in parenthesis):

* Borderlands 1 and 2 (FPS)
* Dishonored 1 and 2 (FPS)
* Doom (2017) (FPS)
* Elite: Dangerous (Space)
* Inside (Adventure)
* Left for Dead (1 not 2) (FPS)
* Limbo (Adventure)
* Luftrausers (2D shmup)
* Minecraft (3D Survival)
* Path of Exile (RPG)
* Portal 1 and 2 (Puzzle)
* Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 1 and 2
* Serious Sam 1, 2, and 3 (FPS)
* Terraria (2D Survival)
* Team Fortress 2 (FPS)
* The Stanley Parable (Story)
* The Talos Principle (FPS)
* The Vanishing of Ethan Carter (Puzzle)
* The Witness (Puzzle)
* Torchlight 1 and 2 (RPG)

Stay away from grind-shift-fests like:

* Defiance
* Destiny
* Diablo 3
* Evolve
* Fashionframe, er, Warframe

There are still some good games out there -- but about 95% of them are shit. i.e. Any game that has non-cosmetic MTX is crap.

I live on a farm and get 6ms pings to game servers in Chicago. http://imgur.com/IB88ViM

English does borrow a lot from the romance family through the Normal influence, which is French.

French is anything but normal. ;)

One huge difference between English and Spanish is the information density. They're almost at opposite ends of the spectrum: Spanish has a fairly low ranking in this metric, whereas English has one of the highest.

As the table shows, (native) Spanish speakers tend to speak more quickly than their English-speaking counterparts, so the information rate in the spoken language is comparable (although English is still slightly ahead).

many addresses only have 1.5 Mbps like my own:

http://imgur.com/WgSvnA5

And, I don't live in a poor area. I think most of the houses on my street are worth over a quarter of a million dollars. This claim that only poor areas have slow access is a damn lie.

Well, you could just get out and hail an Uber. But that is the least of my worries being in an autonomous vehicle. I'm more worried about something like this happening.

With the recent firing of James Demore I'm terrified of any technology developed by Silicon Valley based tech companies

Spanish and English are pretty far apart on the language tree. English is a Germanic language, and Spanish is a romance language derived from Latin. You have to go all the way back to Indo-European to find a common root, which IIRC is a theorized language as it's so far back there's no records about it. English does borrow a lot from the romance family through the Normal influence, which is French.

One huge difference between English and Spanish is the information density. They're almost at opposite ends of the spectrum: Spanish has a fairly low ranking in this metric, whereas English has one of the highest.

Elon Musk or Daft Punk?