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See, Dark Brandon would not pass up a good opportunity for ice cream.

Okay. But did it have one of those steam whistles, like on the old railroad? I feel like it would have done better on the market with a nice choo choo.

It's established that every personnel transport operation requires a skilled non commissioned officer to operate. On a ship with a crew complement of 1,000.

I've played this game before. It's because we haven't colonized enough planets to start specialising districts.

I should add, now that Abrego actually has a court ruling finding vindictive prosecution, he should be eligible to collect from the $1.776 billion compensation fund.

Todd Blanche played a key role, and the defense tried to get him to testify to establish vindictiveness. And he's still around.

In the end, though, DOJ turtled up, which meant they didn't do much to rebut the presumption of vindictiveness. So, case dismissed for vindictive prosecution.

But it would still be more expensive, and still have a latency issue.

Imagine a public counterstrike server where there's an extra 30-50 ms delay between when you hit the strafe key and when you start moving.

Alternatively, Counterstrike or another shooter could defeat wall hacks if the server only told the client about player positions in the client's line of sight. But then the Counterstrike player executing a peek would see their opponent pop in 30-50 ms after they gain line of sight. Much Counterstrike gameplay is built upon the short interval between when you see someone, and when you click on their head with your hit scan weapon.

Furthermore, latency is not going to go away for Internet play. The speed of light travel time to circumnavigate earth is 125 ms. That gives a theoretical worst case minimum ping of 62.5. Actual pings I see from my ISP are approaching the speed of light order of magnitude, assuming they are only traversing North America.

The traditional rationale, back in the time of the boomer shooters, is that the server doesn't have enough computational power to update and control the game state for all clients at once, with acceptable latency.

It's funny to me that they're always playing stud like they've never even heard of no limit hold em.

There was at least one "AI" company that was caught passing off the cheap overseas labor as AI.

This is an astute observation.

In fact, macroeconomic theory would say that appreciation in real estate should be tied to the rate of interest, which in turn should be tied the rise of the price level: inflation.

There are discrepancies, of course. Lately real estate has been growing faster than inflation. And importantly, during the Second Thirty Years War, 1914-1945, those European apartments suffered great depreciation and outright physical destruction.

The biggest thing that happened, though, is that inflation essentially did not exist until the second half of the nineteenth century. As far as we can tell, inflation was created by the industrial revolution. Before then, with wide error bars, you can tie prices from the 1760s to prices from the Roman Empire, in the same base metals.

For more evidence, read the works of Jane Austen and Victor Hugo. They are full of specific prices for things that make no sense to modern readers. But the authors expected that future readers would be able relate to the specific prices. Modern fiction authors avoid mentioning specific prices when they want their work to feel timeless.

Source, generally: Thomas Piketty. Capital in the Twenty First Century.

The top secret information is held in Sensitive Compartmentalized Information Facilities (SCIFs), within the pentagon and elsewhere. The security standards for the SCIFs are comprehensive. It is nigh impossible to accidentally end up in one.

The Pentagon itself is ginormous. It controls an upcoming defense budget of 1,500 billion dollars, far more than what can reasonably be kept secret or top secret. 24,000 people work there. And it has its own dedicated metro station. So most of it is not, in fact, classified.