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They’ve won. Your comment nails it. They have convinced us that every choice is binary and you are either right or wrong on every issue. They managed to convince us there is no nuance in anything; while every bill never does any one thing. They overstuff every one of them with things you hate to the point you can’t like it anymore. And yet, here we are, arguing that there should be no middle ground on anything and you are either right or stupid. How did it come to this? How can no third party ever come up? Seriously, just create a party that’s right in the middle ground on every issue, it would win by popular vote every time. While that would be difficult, it’s not impossible, and the gerrymandering would finally be challenged by the need to let all 3 parties (or more) have territory.

Are contraceptives and legal abortions for edge cases like rape, not the middle ground here? Is it really that hard not to get pregnant in modern times? What I’m not understanding is how there is a human alive that would prefer an invasive medical procedure to using a condom or taking a pill, much less the convenience of IUDs. Neither side seems to like the line there, but I’m just not sure why that isn’t a good compromise.

I too was surprised to see this. While I do believe that is the case, I don’t think it nefarious for the editorial staff to have some serious conversations about leaving comments open when there could be real threat of physical harm to their staff or others because of the sensitivity of the topic. I would be very surprised, if the staff at The Verge did not sign off on the author doing this. And if not, they may regret that. Remember the MAGA folks are on the other side of this, the crazy folks that stormed our capital. The comment section is not going to go easy on them.

Insert "he’s tryin’ his best, OK" meme

I was expecting to find some controversial opinions. I was not disappointed. I make no judgement, but that’s a hot take.

Gay marriage winning, in the way it did triggered this chain reaction. I’m not at all against it, it just needed to pass as a bill. SCOTUS expanding the constitution made them political for the first time. Roe v. Wade was already on shaky ground. Everything else, like Cassey was settled by precedent. They are absolutely coming for gay rights next. SCOTUS used to be conservative, that word means something very different in modern times. Their will is supposed to be to preserve and guard, not to create law. We opened Pandora’s Box, except in that story there was hope at the bottom.

Crappy people exist. Pretty much everywhere. Those revolving door abortionists will do that with or without laws. However, I do believe that the overwhelming majority, struggle with that decision. Efforts would be much better focused on expanding access to adoption, and you know, making it not cost $20,000 to adopt a child on average. Counseling mothers whose partners run away during this time, and helping them care for their child after birth. There are thousands of ways people could make this situation better – laws aren’t one of them. This will continue with or without laws. The only thing this will end up making is edge cases where doctors we need and are in short supply of are arrested for having more compassion for a mother that is their patient, than a child that is unborn. Or worse, a mother who has an underground abortion and is injured during the procedure and has no legal recourse to sue for malpractice now. We created a black market for abortions and abortion vacation packages. We still didn’t actually fix the problem.

Someone should draw a political cartoon of a map of the United States and how crazy it would be if States made up their own mind on everything. Texas made of electric chairs, guns, and handcuffs for someone buying contraceptives. Florida floating off into its own island and going full retard; sponsored by Disney. Ohio being split into 3 states with completely different laws. The bible belt banning alcohol. The land of marijuana. I can see this whole thing.

As someone in the center, I will not be held responsible for my choice to vote for Trump, due to the Democratic Party’s choice to run one of the only people that was not popular enough in her own party to win. It wasn’t her, it was her politics. She did not represent the majority will, and neither does Biden. He won because everyone realized Trump was toxic. Well, not everyone, evidently. The party needs to put forward a progressive agenda and end the GOP. It needs to become unthinkable to be a Republican. It already is, the public just needs to understand that. The appeal that Trump held to me, or the lie that took hold; was that he wasn’t in bed with the GOP. He was this crazy maverick who agreed with no one and was going to clean things up. Did I believe that? Only enough. Enough that it felt like the better of two terrible choices. Let’s not go back.

Like the other commenter said, this tends to be more marketing than anything else. The modern Internet is very different than it was. We had to make it faster, and we did so through CDNs, effectively caching the content closer to you. Netflix for instance, placed video caching servers at nearly every major ISP at one point, to end the buffering. DNS is how your computer figures out where to route data to, and it’s rarely the actual origin server. It’s some sort of caching server in almost all cases. By using Cloudflare DNS, you remove this quality unless you are accessing content that happens to be on their CDN. It’s funny, but ironically, gamers do this all the time. It actually hurts their latency to connect to servers further away from them. DNS should be your closest (as in on a map), lowest ping time server. If your ISP truly sucks at DNS as much as you say, buy a Raspberry Pi and run a local DNS server to cache the results from your ISP. Then it will only be doing lookups with your ISP for sites you haven’t been to before.

>Crypto can be used for money laundering.

It is not it’s primary purpose, nor its best or most practical use. It’s nothing more than a thing that can be done with it, and you can do it with cash too. Bitcoin is extremely traceable, and that would mostly be a bad idea. Even with more secure coins like XMR, it’s not full proof, and the money still has to come from somewhere to get there, and that’s normally BTC, because it can be bought directly.

There is a reasonable expectation of privacy when data is anonymized on purpose. The transactions in the "public" ledger only use a wallet ID, the digital equivalent of having a username protect your real name when using this very website. Except that every username in this case is both unique and random, nothing more than a string of characters and numbers. It’s only once someone says "my wallet id xxxxxx" that a pattern can start to form from investigating different transactions. The system is secure by default, calling it public, is only from the verification aspect that anyone could look at the ledger and say "this person transferred xxx to xxx." They have the same expectation of privacy that you have in posting a comment to this website. You don’t know who I am, and I don’t know who you are.

I mean, yeah? It’s a teaser trailer, not a gameplay demo. Does this really need the warning on the bottom "not actual gameplay footage" to appease you?

Let’s get them away from Google, they are evil.
Let’s hope Meta doesn’t get them, they are evil.

Here’s the reality, they are so tied to Google Cloud Platform and the Google Maps API; it’s very unlikely anyone will buy them that doesn’t like Google. That would be some serious tech shift. That’s why I don’t even bother bringing up Apple or Amazon buying them.

Nintendo, if they bought them, would not be interested in the same directions. They would want to put them to work on their own IP, and release more Nintendo-themed games like Pokemon Go. Zelda Go, Metroid Go, Mario Go, you get the picture. Nintendo seems to have a different direction in mind for their mobile games.

Posting this from Internet Explorer, rumors of its death are greatly exaggerated.

I just want to remind everyone that this is just another symptom of a disease that George Lucas started when he went back to mess with Star Wars. Now even video games are doing it with these remakes and remasters. There is no such thing as a movie being "finished" anymore. Ready Player One had it right, nostalgia will drip the hallways of the metaverse; not because it’s cool, because it’s financially easier than coming up with new ideas.

Part II is already out for PS4, and has an optimized PS5 version at either 4K@30 or 1440p@60. Part 1, is a "remake" compared to the PS4 "remaster" in that it is not only improving the graphics, but changing how the game plays. It’s called The Last of Us Part 1, now, to bring it up to par with Part II, both in terms of graphics and gameplay.

Meh, those customers have every choice to go run Mac or Linux. It’s pretty entitled to feel like you need leverage to get the Operating System you want. That isn’t capitalism. That’s stockholm syndrome. The government needs to stay out of trying to regulate what people don’t like. They aren’t good at it.

No, because then AMD would need to be in on it too. If they could have AMD would have supported every one of their chips just to spite Intel. What really happened was Spectre/Meltdown and Microsoft not being OK with the technical overhead required to secure those chips. Estimates said performance impact of Spectre/Meltdown was 10-12%. Imagine that, on top of a 4 year old processor, on top of the newest OS built to take advantage of new hardware. Microsoft did this, they spelled it out to the Insiders in detail in a blog post. This was done for "security" reasons, which really translates into we don’t want another Vista situation, where people say the OS sucks because they run it on unsupported hardware. It runs fine on the i7-7700k that I have; but I also recognize that same processor would run a lot better on 10. It is not in the best interest of these people to upgrade.

"Where is Spotify Hi-Fi?" is what I want to know.

When it’s a AAA cinematic game that expects nothing less than 10’s everywhere. Could you imagine if GTA 6 released to a 82/7.3? This was Kojima after Metal Gear Solid, and a failed Silent Hill project. We expected better. We got an average game.

Ya know, you miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. Apple actually doing something they were absolutely expected to do is kind of new. Normally they balk at us and give us minor features and tweaks.

Maybe, just maybe, PC gaming should have actually matured.