This is usually a very important criteria when it comes to assessing a gender pay gap.
You are confusing the gender pay gap with the equal pay gap. Equal pay for equal work is different to the wider issue of some jobs being dominated by one gender, particularly the better paid ones.
Actually skill at the game isn't much of a factor with a lot of streaming. Obviously if they are really terrible it can be boring, but the majority of streaming is about playing games socially. Chatting about the game and about life, exploring the game world etc.
There are niche areas like speed-running where skill is a major draw, but watching someone play the same 10 minute game over and over and over again trying to shave a fraction of a second off is... Well, niche. And most of the speed-runners just do it on autopilot while chatting for the most part anyway.
Look, I don't get pissy when I see a story I'm not interested in, I just scroll past it. What is your problem?
If you don't want to discuss it, fine, but there is no need to try to ruin it for everyone else. Be less of an easily offended snowflake and move on to the next topic.
Think about the consequences to America of these tariffs. The Chinese are already investing a lot of money in developing their own mobile phone chipsets, after seeing what happened to ZTE. With reciprocal tariffs on US tech this is only likely to accelerate that process.
So rather than US companies continuing to dominate that field for many years, the Chinese are now strongly motivated to replace them with domestic suppliers.
Same things is happening with Brexit. "Oh, the Germans will be desperate to buy our car parts" the politicians said. Actually it's just made them mitigate the risk by investing in local suppliers and manufacturing, even in doing more business with China.
Does this really happen? I've never worked anywhere that throws money at stuff that is working perfectly fine just because some new technology was released.
It's usually the exact opposite. Things could be made so much better, but because they just barely work there is no business case for spending the money to improve them.
There are jobs for millennials, it's just that they are McJobs which don't pay enough to afford the basics of life like somewhere to live and food to eat. So what they mean are there are no good jobs, with good being defined by the cost of living.
Medicare is underfunded because you are being shafted by for-profit insurance companies. A key part of having a social healthcare system is that prices are either fixed at a low level or the state simply runs the hospitals itself.
By the way, when are you going to fix your signature? It's factually incorrect and this has been pointed out to you a few times already.
*In fairness the NHS is becoming increasingly cash strapped and, rather tragically, is being incrementally privatised, so it's not all roses in the 'Garden of England'.
That's a deliberate policy by the government though, not an inherent problem with social healthcare.
Proper controllers, no need to visit dodgy ROM download sites, everything just works... It's no wonder they are selling well.
Everyone is getting in on it now. Sega has some, lots of Chinese manufacturers make them... I read that SNK might do another Neo Geo too. Atari has something coming out, there is a ZX Spectrum box...
It's probably due to women on the whole being aggressive about monetizing their streams.
Most Twitch streams are free to watch, everything is just donations and monetization of things like special emotes (graphics that briefly appear on stream) or having your message read out by text-to-speech bots. So the streamer has to set all that stuff up and promote it to some extent, e.g. by reacting to it and interacting with people who donate.
Also, streamers can make money from special events like all-nighters or by simply streaming 6 days a week (I watch some Mario streamers who do that, 60 hours/week). Subscriptions are for a period of time, rather than a certain number of hours worth of streaming, so long hours worked provides better value to the subscriber at the expense of work/life balance.
By that logic it's older people's fault for expecting more money than they are worth to the company, resulting in them getting laid off.
The real issue is that there is no progression any more. All you can do is keep switching jobs, and if you fail to switch for too long you become too expensive and get laid off.
I saw a diamond ring shop in China where you can only shop there on your wedding day. They require proof before letting you buy anything. Talk about pressure selling, no opportunity to go away and think about it...
I haven't bought my wife a ring yet. She got us matching pyjamas...
If it's biological then why are girls at least equally good, if not better at maths? The anxiety isn't related to actual performance. It's a mistaken belief, a myth that can be addressed.
NFC is just a transport layer, like ethernet or a USB cable. It doesn't have any inherent security beyond the fact that it only works over short distances unless you have a really big antenna.
For stuff like payments there is a secure protocol built on top of it, just like you have SSH built on top of insecure protocols like TCP and ethernet.
NFC isn't a bad solution for opening doors. You can make it secure with a challenge/response protocol that is resistant to replay attacks. I guess maybe someone could come along with a big antenna and do a relay attack on your front door in the middle of the night, but there are easier ways to break into your house and it would be quite tricky to aim the thing well enough.
At least, compared to a physical key that can be cloned from a photograph it's not terrible.
Flying cars will always be just for the rich, because if they ever became popular most of the advantages would go away. Air traffic can't be nearly as dense as surface traffic.
If you thought she was "screeching" in her videos, you should check your equipment because it's fucked.
Anyway, her actual complaint about Hitman and other "murder simulators" like Far Cry wasn't really anything to do with women being abused. In fact both of those videos were about women being used as background decoration and for cheap thrills, not the actual violence.
She doesn't really mind the violence it seems. Some of the games she points to as examples of good female characters are violent, and I recall she said once that female characters in fighting games are not an issue per-se because they have agency and fight for themselves rather than being damseled etc.
None of these stories are about Finland, and all of them actually support my point!
Texas story: Allegation made, no actual complaint or charges, at most it's a civil matter (slander) so why would there be criminal charges? Sounds like you want them to criminalize speech!
Ex-boyfriend: She WAS charged and admitted it (i.e. convicted)! She admitted wasting police time. That's a criminal offence. In fact the last line of the article notes that she is awaiting sentencing for her crime. You are proving that the system works!
3 black guys: She took a plea deal. As the article notes she plead guilty to "two third-degree felony counts of tampering with physical evidence, a third-degree felony count of tampering with a government record and a state-jail felony count of tampering with a government record". As well as a criminal record, she got 8 years probation, $10,000 in fines and 160 hours community service. https://www.dallasnews.com/new...
Israel: Again, suspended sentence.
What is your point here, that the punishment isn't harsh enough?
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This is usually a very important criteria when it comes to assessing a gender pay gap.
You are confusing the gender pay gap with the equal pay gap. Equal pay for equal work is different to the wider issue of some jobs being dominated by one gender, particularly the better paid ones.
Stripping is primarily based around looks. Streaming video games is based around playing the game, community, chat, skill etc.
A female streamer has 100x easier time growing a viewer base then any male streamer
How does that work?
It's a tech news site. Women exist in tech. It's on-topic.
Actually skill at the game isn't much of a factor with a lot of streaming. Obviously if they are really terrible it can be boring, but the majority of streaming is about playing games socially. Chatting about the game and about life, exploring the game world etc.
There are niche areas like speed-running where skill is a major draw, but watching someone play the same 10 minute game over and over and over again trying to shave a fraction of a second off is... Well, niche. And most of the speed-runners just do it on autopilot while chatting for the most part anyway.
Some of us are interested in this.
Look, I don't get pissy when I see a story I'm not interested in, I just scroll past it. What is your problem?
If you don't want to discuss it, fine, but there is no need to try to ruin it for everyone else. Be less of an easily offended snowflake and move on to the next topic.
Think about the consequences to America of these tariffs. The Chinese are already investing a lot of money in developing their own mobile phone chipsets, after seeing what happened to ZTE. With reciprocal tariffs on US tech this is only likely to accelerate that process.
So rather than US companies continuing to dominate that field for many years, the Chinese are now strongly motivated to replace them with domestic suppliers.
Same things is happening with Brexit. "Oh, the Germans will be desperate to buy our car parts" the politicians said. Actually it's just made them mitigate the risk by investing in local suppliers and manufacturing, even in doing more business with China.
Does this really happen? I've never worked anywhere that throws money at stuff that is working perfectly fine just because some new technology was released.
It's usually the exact opposite. Things could be made so much better, but because they just barely work there is no business case for spending the money to improve them.
There are jobs for millennials, it's just that they are McJobs which don't pay enough to afford the basics of life like somewhere to live and food to eat. So what they mean are there are no good jobs, with good being defined by the cost of living.
Medicare is underfunded because you are being shafted by for-profit insurance companies. A key part of having a social healthcare system is that prices are either fixed at a low level or the state simply runs the hospitals itself.
By the way, when are you going to fix your signature? It's factually incorrect and this has been pointed out to you a few times already.
*In fairness the NHS is becoming increasingly cash strapped and, rather tragically, is being incrementally privatised, so it's not all roses in the 'Garden of England'.
That's a deliberate policy by the government though, not an inherent problem with social healthcare.
Proper controllers, no need to visit dodgy ROM download sites, everything just works... It's no wonder they are selling well.
Everyone is getting in on it now. Sega has some, lots of Chinese manufacturers make them... I read that SNK might do another Neo Geo too. Atari has something coming out, there is a ZX Spectrum box...
It's probably due to women on the whole being aggressive about monetizing their streams.
Most Twitch streams are free to watch, everything is just donations and monetization of things like special emotes (graphics that briefly appear on stream) or having your message read out by text-to-speech bots. So the streamer has to set all that stuff up and promote it to some extent, e.g. by reacting to it and interacting with people who donate.
Also, streamers can make money from special events like all-nighters or by simply streaming 6 days a week (I watch some Mario streamers who do that, 60 hours/week). Subscriptions are for a period of time, rather than a certain number of hours worth of streaming, so long hours worked provides better value to the subscriber at the expense of work/life balance.
By that logic it's older people's fault for expecting more money than they are worth to the company, resulting in them getting laid off.
The real issue is that there is no progression any more. All you can do is keep switching jobs, and if you fail to switch for too long you become too expensive and get laid off.
You know they are owned by PayPal, right?
It's all about the brag - you brag about your vacation on social media, about the new phone you bought, your new clothes, etc.
Except that:
- You can only pay other people, it's not accepted by most businesses and Apple certainly won't take it as payment for an iPhone
- The transaction amount is not public, so as far as anyone else knows you might have sent $0.01 to that person
It's still exceptionally stupid but as a bragging tool falls short.
"Actual documented cases", it's just that you can't actually cite of any of them.
I saw a diamond ring shop in China where you can only shop there on your wedding day. They require proof before letting you buy anything. Talk about pressure selling, no opportunity to go away and think about it...
I haven't bought my wife a ring yet. She got us matching pyjamas...
Just waiting for the martyrs to speed-run getting banned. Mah freeze peach!
If it's biological then why are girls at least equally good, if not better at maths? The anxiety isn't related to actual performance. It's a mistaken belief, a myth that can be addressed.
Have you actually seen the videos? Nothing you say seems to have anything relating to her work.
NFC is just a transport layer, like ethernet or a USB cable. It doesn't have any inherent security beyond the fact that it only works over short distances unless you have a really big antenna.
For stuff like payments there is a secure protocol built on top of it, just like you have SSH built on top of insecure protocols like TCP and ethernet.
NFC isn't a bad solution for opening doors. You can make it secure with a challenge/response protocol that is resistant to replay attacks. I guess maybe someone could come along with a big antenna and do a relay attack on your front door in the middle of the night, but there are easier ways to break into your house and it would be quite tricky to aim the thing well enough.
At least, compared to a physical key that can be cloned from a photograph it's not terrible.
Flying cars will always be just for the rich, because if they ever became popular most of the advantages would go away. Air traffic can't be nearly as dense as surface traffic.
If you thought she was "screeching" in her videos, you should check your equipment because it's fucked.
Anyway, her actual complaint about Hitman and other "murder simulators" like Far Cry wasn't really anything to do with women being abused. In fact both of those videos were about women being used as background decoration and for cheap thrills, not the actual violence.
She doesn't really mind the violence it seems. Some of the games she points to as examples of good female characters are violent, and I recall she said once that female characters in fighting games are not an issue per-se because they have agency and fight for themselves rather than being damseled etc.
None of these stories are about Finland, and all of them actually support my point!
Texas story: Allegation made, no actual complaint or charges, at most it's a civil matter (slander) so why would there be criminal charges? Sounds like you want them to criminalize speech!
Ex-boyfriend: She WAS charged and admitted it (i.e. convicted)! She admitted wasting police time. That's a criminal offence. In fact the last line of the article notes that she is awaiting sentencing for her crime. You are proving that the system works!
3 black guys: She took a plea deal. As the article notes she plead guilty to "two third-degree felony counts of tampering with physical evidence, a third-degree felony count of tampering with a government record and a state-jail felony count of tampering with a government record". As well as a criminal record, she got 8 years probation, $10,000 in fines and 160 hours community service. https://www.dallasnews.com/new...
Israel: Again, suspended sentence.
What is your point here, that the punishment isn't harsh enough?