I used to race RC cars in competition. Both "Stock cars" (we called them pan cars) and drag races. We're not talking about walmart RC cars here... Mine were custom cut out of graphite sheets with a CNC router. My pan car would do between 70 and 80mph real speed, not scale. The drag car wasn't really measurable but it's speed resembled an arrow in flight. Random video I found: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Basically everything Tesla is doing was stolen from my old hobby. The torque possible with an electric motor is only limited by the fleshy bit behind the steering wheel. Tesla could literally kill you if they let the motor wind out at full torque. The biggest problem I had to deal with was the heat on the power cables. The cables were the size of pencils but they were draining 20+ c-cell batteries completely dead in just a few seconds. As the tech advanced, we eventually had to get rid of battery connectors completely. We'd solder the battery backs directly to the speed controller. Then the cables between cells would start melting, so we spot welded sheet metal directly to them. Then the speed controllers started frying to we switched to mechanical relays that just dumped the entire battery at 100% at once. We had so many car fires, the school gyms that we used to race at wouldn't let us run there anymore. If you're wondering, to get batteries to dump that much juice at once, you have to "Train" them... we'd hook them up to tractor headlights from the local farm implement store and dump them quick. Then charge them quick. Do this hundreds of times and they'd turn into these super high voltage power houses. I think a while later, after I left the hobby, they put limits on the voltage output of the batteries, because they were getting pretty dangerous. I saw people get hurt at some major competitions by batteries exploding and in one case a car punched through a 3/4" sheet of plywood and broke a persons leg. That was from a standing start from less than 100 feet away.
As far as tires go... that's nothing. Regular car tires... well they suck. They're made very hard so they'll last a long time. To make a tire than has insane amounts of traction is easy... only problem is it only lasts 5k miles. But if you're buying a $200k car, I doubt you care.
None of them. I doubt we'll even remotely understand machine intelligence once we realize it's here. We barely understand out own intelligence. I actually suspect machine intelligence is already here, in a very weird, hard to grasp way. Notice we're spending a significant portion of our industrial output to device new and faster processing, improved battery life, everything AI would need? I'm not suggesting there's some secretive AI tricking us into all of this, I think it's a lot more subtle than that.
I work for an ISP. The way it works is, the 2 isp's have a free peering agreement... Every month or 3 they compare traffic and true up. You ate up 100gig more than we did? You party us X. And vice versa.
What happened with Netflix is they colluded with level3 to try and force the ISPs to not charge them for that disparity or otherwise set that peering agreement up in such a way that made it favorable to Netflix. Level3 tried to charge insane rates to connect to them. Generally the isp's would trade trunks... Let's say ATT and Sprint... Each would have the same number of trunks from each other. In the end, those agreements come out as a 'wash' for both sides
No one makes or losses money. Netflix bet that their traffic was so important that the isp's would start to lose customers over Netflix access and would give in. What Netflix didn't count on was the fact that residential broadband isn't very profitable to begin with, and the customers that uses Netflix are like the fat guy that shows up at the all you can eat buffet... The owners don't want him there anyway. The isp's then, likely colluded, to muscle Netflix out. Netflix played their card too soon. If they waited 10yrs or so they might have been successful.
The privatization of the herds has been well documented and is a very interesting success story. I've seen at least 2 documentaries on it. http://www.smithsonianmag.com/...
Basically, if you're a big game hunter, there's not much left to hunt. So people raise the Rhinos on farms and then sell them for hunting or whatever... They sell for tens of thousands of dollars, far more than their horns are worth, so you can rest assured the farmers protect them ferociously.
The problem with this approach is that a lot of endangered species aren't something someone would want to "Buy" so it only works for animals that look good in a trophy room. In the U.S. for example, most of the surviving large animals are ones that hunters protect because they like to hunt them. Around me, hunters have reintroduced wild turkeys, black bears, cougars, bobcats, etc... none of those species lived around here when I was a kid, but a couple of years ago my father hit a black bear that was big enough to total his F150. They're so plentiful they're a nuisance now. Hunters are some of the most involved conservationists there are.
Make the Rhinos more valuable alive than dead, and the problem solves itself.
You're in a bad situation where you carrier is billing you, and you have to pay. You don't get to question the data. That said... use the Android data limits, have it warn you at a certain level, and turn off data when you reach your limit. Uninstall Facebook, their app is disgusting in the way it consumes data. Auto-playing videos, messaging app on all the time in the background, refreshing itself with no option to disable it. It was by far and above the worst offending app, even with most options disabled, that I've ever had installed on my phone.
A lot of apps have options like "Only download big files over wifi" turn as many of those on as possible. Most google apps have features like that, like Picasa can be set to only backup while in wifi. Do everything you can over wifi.
One thing I'd like android to do more of is give more options for wifi usage. It seems to treat all open wifi the same, which is certainly not the case now that a lot of wifi requires login. I don't want my phone just using my work wifi willy nilly for example.
As far as Apple goes... if you've got an iPhone, you clearly don't value money anyway, so your question is moot in those cases.:-P
Right... the one thing I've learned as I've grown to be an adult is: There is a God Without a God, the fact that the earth isn't a smoke cinder yet would make no sense at all.
1. It's illegal to keep a endangered animal captive. 2. They don't breed well in captivity. 3. Keeping them alive costs a fortune. 4. Selling their horns is, again, illegal. 5. They don't want to create a market for the thing they don't want people to use. 6. If selling farmed horn is legal, distinguishing between it, and illegal horn, would be impossible.
I've been wondering why someone hasn't done this yet. They are 95% the way there... the only part they are missing is LYING. Tell them it's REAL black Rhino horn. Flood the market with FAKE horn and call it real. Bring the price down to pennies... i.e. killing a Rhino would not make you more than the price of the bullet. Then the poaching will stop.
So the NSA is clearly useless, and making the situation worse. They are not, and cannot protect us electronically. Instead, they are collecting all of our information and storing it for the inevitable hack that will give it to the rest of the world. The first question I ask when I'm asked to secure data is: "Do we actually need this data?" You can't steel what doesn't exist. Why the hell did this agency have data on people going back to the 1980s? Why is the NSA collecting data on all of us? It's a pointless endeavor that's putting us all at risk.
That's the first problem when you have an agency like the NSA. There's absolutely nothing to stop them from doing something like this and arguing later that it was for national security.
First off, it would take a particularly stupid intelligence agency to keep its personnel records on OPM computers where just anyone could see them.
This is the second problem when you have an agency like the NSA. You believe, like in the movies, all the top talent is there and nothing like this could happen. But in reality, all the talent that's willing to do what their told without question is what's there. Quality may not be their strong suit, and again, this is the feds. They invented the term "Fubar"
Secondly, unless you're absolutely sure who has the information, you don't confirm it for the world by a quick (over-)reaction.
They are going to torture and murder your employees. How exactly are you supposed to react?
And thirdly, why do you think YOU would notice what the government was doing with its embassies? If it were doing something abnormal, would you even recognize it as "something abnormal"?
I agree with you on this point. I'm assuming they moved whatever they could out of harms way before we even heard of this attack. They might have even discovered the attack because they lost a few people and figured out there was a leak.
I believe the most likely way we'll actually have any impact on Mars is via genetically engineered microbes, as we've recently seen Darpa has mentioned. http://science.slashdot.org/st... This, at first blush, seems harmless, Mars is already dead. But given the increasing evidence that Mars and likely many other celestial bodies have in the past and maybe even at the present microbial life on them, and that it's extremely likely all of the planets in the solar system routinely trade biological materials via asteroid impacts. It seems that logical to assume that Biological Tera-forming of Mars is also Biological Tera-forming of Earth.
In short, the Bugs we design here, and send there, will eventually come back to haunt us.
Do you have opinion on this? I love science, and want us to use it to our benefit. But I'm not ignorant to the fact that nature has the uncanny knack of turning our best intentions to ashes in our mouths.
We are all . . . children of this universe. Not just Earth, or Mars, or this system, but the whole grand fireworks. And if we are interested in Mars at all, it is only because we wonder over our past and worry terribly about our possible future.
This is just another example of why 3D printing isn't "There" yet... The concept is cool, but the material it's made out of isn't strong enough to make this a high torque device. That leaves precision, but 3D printing isn't nearly precise enough either... by the time this has made enough turns to make the output even do one revolution, the sketchiness of the printers output makes even the idea of labeling it 3,000,000/1 kind of a joke.
Maybe you could use the parts as cast forms to make metal parts out of? But even then, why not just mill it?
Doesn't the government still pay farmers to NOT grow food as part of a subsidy program to reduce supply and thereby artificially raise prices?
I'm a libertarian and hate subsidies, but having many farmers as relatives, feel I have to correct your misinformation.
Lets say the price of corn hits something insanely high like $10/per bushel. You might think to yourself "I should get into this corn farming thing" and invest money in starting up a farm. As you do that starting a farm is expensive. Equipment for farming corn is unique and can't be used for something like Peas. But the price of corn is so high, it's worth it. After you harvest you get your money... whew! What a good investment! But by the 2nd year you realize a lot of other people had the same idea you did and they started corn farms as well. The market is glutted with corn, the price crashes to $1/bushel But you notice Peas are selling really high so you switch to farming peas. It costs you a fortune for new equipment but you get your peas planted... and 2 years later, you run into the same problem, everyone switched crops at the same time you did, Pea prices fall through the floor and you're trying to buy back your corn equipment.
This happened at the turn of the century a LOT. No individual farmer can be expected to accurately predict the price of corn the following season. So the feds do it for them. They offer a floor on the price of their crops, and they pay farmers not to plant. This stabilizes the market, prevents over-saturation and allows farmers to be more efficient. The cost to the government is actually a net profit because those wild swings in the market price cost them a lot of tax revenue.
There're lots of examples of prior art local to me, if anywhere else that has a mains electricity supply, and that's pot farms.
Here, they tend to explode as people use halogen lights at silly power densities (like 6kW/sq.m) and lag the shit out of their lofts in an attempt to conceal them from police helicopter FLIRs, then wonder why they catch fire.
That's kind of the joke here... their methods are 100% stolen from people who've been figuring out how to grow pot in their basements over the past 20yrs so they can avoid the police/criminals involved in normal marijuana transactions.
So once these and others like them gobble up all the matter in the universe and then they start to work on each other, will we eventually end up with something akin to the makings of another Big Bang?
Astrophysicists?
No, Dark Energy more than compensates for any gravitational affects. The current leading theory regarding the end of the universe is called: The Big Rip I find the idea very unsatisfying though... not that the universe cares what I think.
Your argument is what's commonly used to explain leftist economics, and I'll never understand it. "Our system is so complex that math doesn't work!" I'm here to tell you that you are unfortunately completely wrong. Greece's Economic output is less than Greece's Spending It's as simple as that. Any ATM in Athens will confirm my math for you.
Your argument is what's commonly used to explain leftist economics, and I'll never understand it. "Our system is so complex that math doesn't work!" I'm here to tell you that you are unfortunately completely wrong. Greece's Economic output Greece's Spending It's as simple as that. Any ATM in Athens will confirm my math for you.
Basically unless they rehire Taylor or Pao steps down, this is just a bunch of community knob-slobbery with no actual value behind it whatsoever.
I keep hearing this statement, but we've no idea why she was fired. She could have came to work high on cocaine, started doing shots in the break room and then admitted embezzling millions for the company. Reddit can't legal comment on it, which makes sense.
The real problem here is that they had such an "indispensable" employee in the first place. Even worse, they seemed to have no idea how important she was. They should have know what she did, why she did it, and what to do in the event something happened to her. This is Business management 101
Yep. Reddit isn't serious about anything until she's gone.
Anyone who ever subscribed to Star Wars Galaxies experienced this exact kind of management. SOE endlessly would apologize for their "lack of communication" then proceed to continue on their destructive changes no one liked not altering their course one degree.
Don't associate them with SOE/Daybreak. Reddit management is just stupid... like your dumb cousin the wrecks your car every time you loan it to him, you can only be so mad. SOE/Daybreak actively lies, cheats and steals from their customer. They will say "Buy our game and you get X!" and then you buy the game and you don't get X... they lied, bold faced, cheated you. That's entirely different.
The biggest problem is that they are running a web site that caters to ignorant and petulant children who believe they know all there is to know and deserve all there is to have.
Replace "Website" with "Business" and you've described literally every corporation in existence. If it were easy, we'd all run one.
This is the first time that I can think of that a population directly voted in the affirmative to collapse their economy.
I hope that's just me being cynical, but I think that's what's on the way.
No, it happens every election. But generally it works like this: Politicians lie, promise things that will destroy the economy to get votes. Voters say "Yay! Free stuff and no taxes!" Politicians get elected, then quickly forget all about those promises, because destroying the economy you actually live in is a terrible idea.
This time however, politicians kept their word. They get to move to the US/EU after shit hits the fan... so... yea...
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I used to race RC cars in competition. Both "Stock cars" (we called them pan cars) and drag races. We're not talking about walmart RC cars here... Mine were custom cut out of graphite sheets with a CNC router. My pan car would do between 70 and 80mph real speed, not scale. The drag car wasn't really measurable but it's speed resembled an arrow in flight. Random video I found: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Basically everything Tesla is doing was stolen from my old hobby. The torque possible with an electric motor is only limited by the fleshy bit behind the steering wheel. Tesla could literally kill you if they let the motor wind out at full torque. The biggest problem I had to deal with was the heat on the power cables. The cables were the size of pencils but they were draining 20+ c-cell batteries completely dead in just a few seconds. As the tech advanced, we eventually had to get rid of battery connectors completely. We'd solder the battery backs directly to the speed controller. Then the cables between cells would start melting, so we spot welded sheet metal directly to them. Then the speed controllers started frying to we switched to mechanical relays that just dumped the entire battery at 100% at once. We had so many car fires, the school gyms that we used to race at wouldn't let us run there anymore. If you're wondering, to get batteries to dump that much juice at once, you have to "Train" them... we'd hook them up to tractor headlights from the local farm implement store and dump them quick. Then charge them quick. Do this hundreds of times and they'd turn into these super high voltage power houses. I think a while later, after I left the hobby, they put limits on the voltage output of the batteries, because they were getting pretty dangerous. I saw people get hurt at some major competitions by batteries exploding and in one case a car punched through a 3/4" sheet of plywood and broke a persons leg. That was from a standing start from less than 100 feet away.
As far as tires go... that's nothing. Regular car tires... well they suck. They're made very hard so they'll last a long time. To make a tire than has insane amounts of traction is easy... only problem is it only lasts 5k miles. But if you're buying a $200k car, I doubt you care.
None of them. I doubt we'll even remotely understand machine intelligence once we realize it's here. We barely understand out own intelligence. I actually suspect machine intelligence is already here, in a very weird, hard to grasp way. Notice we're spending a significant portion of our industrial output to device new and faster processing, improved battery life, everything AI would need? I'm not suggesting there's some secretive AI tricking us into all of this, I think it's a lot more subtle than that.
I work for an ISP. The way it works is, the 2 isp's have a free peering agreement... Every month or 3 they compare traffic and true up. You ate up 100gig more than we did? You party us X. And vice versa.
What happened with Netflix is they colluded with level3 to try and force the ISPs to not charge them for that disparity or otherwise set that peering agreement up in such a way that made it favorable to Netflix. Level3 tried to charge insane rates to connect to them. Generally the isp's would trade trunks... Let's say ATT and Sprint... Each would have the same number of trunks from each other. In the end, those agreements come out as a 'wash' for both sides
No one makes or losses money. Netflix bet that their traffic was so important that the isp's would start to lose customers over Netflix access and would give in. What Netflix didn't count on was the fact that residential broadband isn't very profitable to begin with, and the customers that uses Netflix are like the fat guy that shows up at the all you can eat buffet... The owners don't want him there anyway. The isp's then, likely colluded, to muscle Netflix out. Netflix played their card too soon. If they waited 10yrs or so they might have been successful.
The privatization of the herds has been well documented and is a very interesting success story. I've seen at least 2 documentaries on it.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/...
Basically, if you're a big game hunter, there's not much left to hunt. So people raise the Rhinos on farms and then sell them for hunting or whatever... They sell for tens of thousands of dollars, far more than their horns are worth, so you can rest assured the farmers protect them ferociously.
The problem with this approach is that a lot of endangered species aren't something someone would want to "Buy" so it only works for animals that look good in a trophy room. In the U.S. for example, most of the surviving large animals are ones that hunters protect because they like to hunt them. Around me, hunters have reintroduced wild turkeys, black bears, cougars, bobcats, etc... none of those species lived around here when I was a kid, but a couple of years ago my father hit a black bear that was big enough to total his F150. They're so plentiful they're a nuisance now. Hunters are some of the most involved conservationists there are.
Make the Rhinos more valuable alive than dead, and the problem solves itself.
You're in a bad situation where you carrier is billing you, and you have to pay. You don't get to question the data.
That said... use the Android data limits, have it warn you at a certain level, and turn off data when you reach your limit.
Uninstall Facebook, their app is disgusting in the way it consumes data. Auto-playing videos, messaging app on all the time in the background, refreshing itself with no option to disable it. It was by far and above the worst offending app, even with most options disabled, that I've ever had installed on my phone.
A lot of apps have options like "Only download big files over wifi" turn as many of those on as possible. Most google apps have features like that, like Picasa can be set to only backup while in wifi. Do everything you can over wifi.
One thing I'd like android to do more of is give more options for wifi usage. It seems to treat all open wifi the same, which is certainly not the case now that a lot of wifi requires login. I don't want my phone just using my work wifi willy nilly for example.
As far as Apple goes... if you've got an iPhone, you clearly don't value money anyway, so your question is moot in those cases. :-P
Is there a difference?
Right... the one thing I've learned as I've grown to be an adult is: There is a God
Without a God, the fact that the earth isn't a smoke cinder yet would make no sense at all.
1. It's illegal to keep a endangered animal captive.
2. They don't breed well in captivity.
3. Keeping them alive costs a fortune.
4. Selling their horns is, again, illegal.
5. They don't want to create a market for the thing they don't want people to use.
6. If selling farmed horn is legal, distinguishing between it, and illegal horn, would be impossible.
I've been wondering why someone hasn't done this yet. They are 95% the way there... the only part they are missing is LYING. Tell them it's REAL black Rhino horn. Flood the market with FAKE horn and call it real. Bring the price down to pennies... i.e. killing a Rhino would not make you more than the price of the bullet. Then the poaching will stop.
"I don't see a problem with this, but you have to trust the authorities in they're doing what they think is best," said Curtis Ray.
Um... no you don't
So the NSA is clearly useless, and making the situation worse. They are not, and cannot protect us electronically. Instead, they are collecting all of our information and storing it for the inevitable hack that will give it to the rest of the world. The first question I ask when I'm asked to secure data is: "Do we actually need this data?" You can't steel what doesn't exist. Why the hell did this agency have data on people going back to the 1980s? Why is the NSA collecting data on all of us? It's a pointless endeavor that's putting us all at risk.
Paranoia getting the better of you?
That's the first problem when you have an agency like the NSA. There's absolutely nothing to stop them from doing something like this and arguing later that it was for national security.
First off, it would take a particularly stupid intelligence agency to keep its personnel records on OPM computers where just anyone could see them.
This is the second problem when you have an agency like the NSA. You believe, like in the movies, all the top talent is there and nothing like this could happen. But in reality, all the talent that's willing to do what their told without question is what's there. Quality may not be their strong suit, and again, this is the feds. They invented the term "Fubar"
Secondly, unless you're absolutely sure who has the information, you don't confirm it for the world by a quick (over-)reaction.
They are going to torture and murder your employees. How exactly are you supposed to react?
And thirdly, why do you think YOU would notice what the government was doing with its embassies? If it were doing something abnormal, would you even recognize it as "something abnormal"?
I agree with you on this point. I'm assuming they moved whatever they could out of harms way before we even heard of this attack. They might have even discovered the attack because they lost a few people and figured out there was a leak.
...and here I thought I couldn't dread going into an MRI machine any more than I already did...
I believe the most likely way we'll actually have any impact on Mars is via genetically engineered microbes, as we've recently seen Darpa has mentioned.
http://science.slashdot.org/st...
This, at first blush, seems harmless, Mars is already dead. But given the increasing evidence that Mars and likely many other celestial bodies have in the past and maybe even at the present microbial life on them, and that it's extremely likely all of the planets in the solar system routinely trade biological materials via asteroid impacts. It seems that logical to assume that Biological Tera-forming of Mars is also Biological Tera-forming of Earth.
In short, the Bugs we design here, and send there, will eventually come back to haunt us.
Do you have opinion on this? I love science, and want us to use it to our benefit. But I'm not ignorant to the fact that nature has the uncanny knack of turning our best intentions to ashes in our mouths.
We are all . . . children of this universe. Not just Earth, or Mars, or this system, but the whole grand fireworks. And if we are interested in Mars at all, it is only because we wonder over our past and worry terribly about our possible future.
— Ray Bradbury, Mars and the Mind of Man, 1973.
Mars One is a pyramid scheme. They aren't shipping anyone anywhere.
This is just another example of why 3D printing isn't "There" yet...
The concept is cool, but the material it's made out of isn't strong enough to make this a high torque device. That leaves precision, but 3D printing isn't nearly precise enough either... by the time this has made enough turns to make the output even do one revolution, the sketchiness of the printers output makes even the idea of labeling it 3,000,000/1 kind of a joke.
Maybe you could use the parts as cast forms to make metal parts out of? But even then, why not just mill it?
Doesn't the government still pay farmers to NOT grow food as part of a subsidy program to reduce supply and thereby artificially raise prices?
I'm a libertarian and hate subsidies, but having many farmers as relatives, feel I have to correct your misinformation.
Lets say the price of corn hits something insanely high like $10/per bushel.
You might think to yourself "I should get into this corn farming thing" and invest money in starting up a farm.
As you do that starting a farm is expensive. Equipment for farming corn is unique and can't be used for something like Peas. But the price of corn is so high, it's worth it.
After you harvest you get your money... whew! What a good investment! But by the 2nd year you realize a lot of other people had the same idea you did and they started corn farms as well. The market is glutted with corn, the price crashes to $1/bushel
But you notice Peas are selling really high so you switch to farming peas. It costs you a fortune for new equipment but you get your peas planted...
and 2 years later, you run into the same problem, everyone switched crops at the same time you did, Pea prices fall through the floor and you're trying to buy back your corn equipment.
This happened at the turn of the century a LOT. No individual farmer can be expected to accurately predict the price of corn the following season. So the feds do it for them. They offer a floor on the price of their crops, and they pay farmers not to plant. This stabilizes the market, prevents over-saturation and allows farmers to be more efficient. The cost to the government is actually a net profit because those wild swings in the market price cost them a lot of tax revenue.
There're lots of examples of prior art local to me, if anywhere else that has a mains electricity supply, and that's pot farms.
Here, they tend to explode as people use halogen lights at silly power densities (like 6kW/sq.m) and lag the shit out of their lofts in an attempt to conceal them from police helicopter FLIRs, then wonder why they catch fire.
That's kind of the joke here... their methods are 100% stolen from people who've been figuring out how to grow pot in their basements over the past 20yrs so they can avoid the police/criminals involved in normal marijuana transactions.
So once these and others like them gobble up all the matter in the universe and then they start to work on each other, will we eventually end up with something akin to the makings of another Big Bang?
Astrophysicists?
No, Dark Energy more than compensates for any gravitational affects.
The current leading theory regarding the end of the universe is called: The Big Rip
I find the idea very unsatisfying though... not that the universe cares what I think.
hrmm... damn slashdot removing php characters...
That was supposed to read:
Your argument is what's commonly used to explain leftist economics, and I'll never understand it. "Our system is so complex that math doesn't work!"
I'm here to tell you that you are unfortunately completely wrong.
Greece's Economic output is less than Greece's Spending
It's as simple as that. Any ATM in Athens will confirm my math for you.
Your argument is what's commonly used to explain leftist economics, and I'll never understand it. "Our system is so complex that math doesn't work!"
I'm here to tell you that you are unfortunately completely wrong.
Greece's Economic output Greece's Spending
It's as simple as that. Any ATM in Athens will confirm my math for you.
Basically unless they rehire Taylor or Pao steps down, this is just a bunch of community knob-slobbery with no actual value behind it whatsoever.
I keep hearing this statement, but we've no idea why she was fired. She could have came to work high on cocaine, started doing shots in the break room and then admitted embezzling millions for the company. Reddit can't legal comment on it, which makes sense.
The real problem here is that they had such an "indispensable" employee in the first place. Even worse, they seemed to have no idea how important she was. They should have know what she did, why she did it, and what to do in the event something happened to her. This is Business management 101
Yep. Reddit isn't serious about anything until she's gone.
Anyone who ever subscribed to Star Wars Galaxies experienced this exact kind of management. SOE endlessly would apologize for their "lack of communication" then proceed to continue on their destructive changes no one liked not altering their course one degree.
Don't associate them with SOE/Daybreak. Reddit management is just stupid... like your dumb cousin the wrecks your car every time you loan it to him, you can only be so mad. SOE/Daybreak actively lies, cheats and steals from their customer. They will say "Buy our game and you get X!" and then you buy the game and you don't get X... they lied, bold faced, cheated you. That's entirely different.
The biggest problem is that they are running a web site that caters to ignorant and petulant children who believe they know all there is to know and deserve all there is to have.
Replace "Website" with "Business" and you've described literally every corporation in existence. If it were easy, we'd all run one.
This is the first time that I can think of that a population directly voted in the affirmative to collapse their economy.
I hope that's just me being cynical, but I think that's what's on the way.
No, it happens every election.
But generally it works like this:
Politicians lie, promise things that will destroy the economy to get votes.
Voters say "Yay! Free stuff and no taxes!"
Politicians get elected, then quickly forget all about those promises, because destroying the economy you actually live in is a terrible idea.
This time however, politicians kept their word. They get to move to the US/EU after shit hits the fan... so... yea...