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  • The rise of the ‘machine defendant’ – who’s to blame when an AI makes mistakes?

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  • An insurer is an interesting one for sure. They'd have the stats of how many times that AI model makes mistakes and be able to charge accordingly. They'd also have the funds and evidence to go after big corps if their AI was faulty.

    They seem like a good starting point, until negligence elsewhere can be proven.

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    Stop telling men/guys that height matters in a relationship!

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  • Yeah but if you call her a chonkin' land whale first, you can then turn around put your sunglasses on and power walk into the sunset 😎

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    CrowdStrike shareholders sue over global outage, say company concealed info - National | Globalnews.ca

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  • If the CEO was lying to the investors that's akin to being lied to about the odds of a slot machine. It should totally be prosecutable.

    At the same time I don't feel sorry for them, and think they should be last in line after all the other victims

  • US claims TikTok collected user views on issues like abortion, gun control.

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  • Like literally every American company does. I'm not a tankie and I'm definitely not a fan of China, but this is one of those situations where the US government doesn't actually care about the issue, just that they're not the one doing it

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  • I'm fairly sure the vouchers are sponsored, they're so low it's essentially advertising for Uber Eats

  • Windows 11

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  • So CrowdStrike shouldn't allow real time threat protection? That's what caused the issue. It needs to update its threat library to do deal with any day 1 attacks. It's one of the main reasons it's used

  • Windows 11

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  • Forced updates of an optional corporate anti-virus designed to immediately detect and distribute information on threats should be illegal?

    Or is this just an unrelated comment?

  • Windows 11

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  • I don't understand how so many people are taking "Program with level 0 access shipped faulty code that caused the OS to refuse to boot until a single file is removed" as "Windows bad lmao". Not that I disagree with Windows bad, just the over liberal application and acting like this is some sort of Linux win.

    Give me kernel level access and I can make anything refuse to boot

  • Linux: winning... at what cost?

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  • Just to clarify, at different times and on certain specific distros. So the meme is still correct. It's not strange that a bug several months ago isn't affecting Linux at the same time as the Windows bug.

    The Linux people can be annoying, but that's not an excuse to spread arguably false or irrelevant information

  • violently cries and sobs

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  • I've been playing with this thought for a while, and it's nice to see someone else express it

  • Valve runs its massive PC gaming ecosystem with only about 350 employees

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  • You can look it up yourself, I was just giving a worst case scenario

  • Valve runs its massive PC gaming ecosystem with only about 350 employees

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  • $0.025 per GB is the most expensive option on S3 I could find rounded up. It would be absolutely insane if Steam were paying those prices when they have their own servers. I also used 100GB game size as a large number, and $30 as a small price tag (for an 100GB game).

    I was trying to be charitable with the numbers and it still came out pretty positive

  • Valve runs its massive PC gaming ecosystem with only about 350 employees

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  • Download. It's also rounded up. Storage is negligible compared to bandwidth, especially considering Steam's business model

  • Valve runs its massive PC gaming ecosystem with only about 350 employees

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  • No harm meant. I do think Steam is the golden example of a big business done right. All I'm saying is that there's room for improvement.

    However do we know their full PNL/balance sheet?

    We can make an educated guess. Amazon's S3 charges roughly $0.025 per GB, so an 100GB game would cost $2.50 for Steam to upload to a user. For a $30 game, that's around ~8.5% or just over 3 downloads before it's unprofitable.

    Obviously Valve isn't paying consumer level S3 prices, and obviously users can download multiple times. But I would be extremely surprised if they didn't make a rather large margin on each sale

  • Valve runs its massive PC gaming ecosystem with only about 350 employees

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  • I agree with you, but justifying anything by saying they're successful in a free market is really iffy. There are plenty of large evil companies that are incredibly successful. That said I agree with everything else you've said.

    I personally think 30% cut is too much for any app/software store. But if anyone deserves it Steam does

  • Here’s how much Valve pays its staff — and how few people it employs

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  • You pay less because you get less. I'm selling a product. The last thing I'm going to cheap out in is sales. I'm not going to see great sales from the EGS because A)Nobody uses it

    That's exactly it, Devs have to accept Steam's cut because it's essentially the only place you can sell things. It makes logical sense, but do you not see why this is a disadvantageous position for the Devs to be put in?

    It's like trying to sell your hand made Combs. The gas station on the corner is happy to take only 20% of the profit. They're all over the place and accessible. But you really want to sell it at the boutique shops because they have more comb-seeking customers.

    This would be a fine analogy, if there weren't a single digit amount of storefronts. Steam and EGS are more equivalent to supermarkets. Sure the odd person is going to go to speciality stores on occasion, but the vast majority of sales are done through supermarkets. Steam is a supermarket competing against speciality stores. The only other real supermarket in town is EGS and as you've discussed, it's such a dumpster fire no one shops there.

    I'm not disagreeing that Steam deserves its position, it does for sure. But we live in a world where it has no meaningful competition, and one of the ways it exercises its position is by maintaining their 30% cut. A cut which was established by stores that had to manage the logistics for real physical copies of the games.

    My point is that there isn't a reason that Steam has such a high cut, other than it wants more money, and has the market saturation to command more money

  • Here’s how much Valve pays its staff — and how few people it employs

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  • Taking a different and hopefully more productive stance than the other guy, I just want to explore people's thoughts.

    People already have built these alternatives. Itch.io, EGS, Humble Store, Microsoft Store, GOG. These platforms exist, but they struggle to achieve the full market dominance that Steam has as the "default" platform, meaning Devs are borderline forced to accept the 30% cut if they have any hope of making sales.

    As shown by Steam's huge profits, they certainly take a higher cut than they have to, and they can definitely stomach a smaller cut

  • Gunshots reportedly fired at Donald Trump rally - as former president rushed off stage

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  • I hate that we even have to hope this. Everything is so fucked

  • Public servant advises woman facing homelessness to 'use witchcraft' or 'manifest' home

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  • Read the parent comment again, particularly the second paragraph