> In her order, Corley asked gamers for additional evidence to support claims that the merger would potentially foreclose access to games, harm specific gaming industry markets, and perhaps most importantly, harm gamers like them. Her order is peppered with specific questions that gamers now have a chance to answer like, “Why would Microsoft make Call of Duty exclusive to its platforms thus resulting in fewer games sold?” and “What is it about the console market or PC games market and Microsoft’s position in those markets that makes it plausible there is a reasonable probability Microsoft would take such steps?”

She gave them what they need to provide to potentially move forward with it. Hopefully, they can provide what is needed.

Won't actually act on the bans but the lawyers will still be happy.

We don't really know. Less people will be needed to do the same or more amount of work, but I don't think it will outright eliminate large swaths of jobs. I think it will be a mixture of:

• Some jobs will completely reduce in number or disappear completely (think travel agents after the Internet)
• Many jobs will be able to use workers who have learned how to use AI to do their jobs more effectively, thereby squeezing more productivity out of the same amount of workers (which would result potentially in reduced hiring)
• New categories of jobs we can't even think of will be created

I think in the long term, we will adapt. There is no shortage of work to be done. In the short term, there will be a lot of pain and insecurity, especially for the poorest and most vulnerable.

Judge on solid ground if they find that future of gaming as a lifestyle was/is already bleak with or without the merger.

Quite a few of my ebooks are open-source textbooks, unrestricted ones from the National Academies, or older ones out of copyright. But they don't cover everything I'm interested in.

What will happen to president gaming?

Yes. The three previous houses I lived in needed reinforcement, since that many books are heavy. My current home is 70 years old, and was built stronger. Even so, I have to spread the books around the house to avoid overloading the floor.

Side benefits are noise reduction across the house, and the thermal mass reduces heating and A/C cost as the house temperature varies less.

Unfortunately, it is their level best.

It's kind of too bad Microsoft's login doesn't work with popular password managers. They have so little I need, that not being able to log in has been no problem. And I'm a Microsoft developer.

Their public offerings just stink, and have gotten consistently worse. Technical offerings are pretty much a joke - the disparity between what they tell you when they train you, and what actually happens in the real world is such a huge gulf, that it's hard to credit any claim Microsoft makes about its products. They consistently underperform, have critical bugs that have been multiply reported for decades, and I do mean decades, that get the most canned responses, some of them having thousands of corroborating reports. The whole Microsoft devops program is a huge failure. Their own products attest to this.

Z-library is good for new stuff, but the Internet Archive is better for old or obscure books.

So per the greater context, satellites burning up in the atmosphere still uphold conversation of mass as no nuclear reactions are involved?

What happens then? Really massive layoffs?

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Fake endorsements?

Bezos isn't the CEO anymore. Hasn't been for a while now. He does not get paid, he just owns stock

Infosec is still pretty hot in terms of hiring. Companies only spend the money they have to on security, so they haven't really been able to cut it at all unless they're accepting higher risk (which some are, but the skill gap is still huge)

What role is he going for the he can't get interviews? My LinkedIn inbox is still consistently full, and I have had no problem getting interviews when I poke around to test the waters

For anyone with experience, most technical security roles are plentiful

The vast majority of those employees are warehouse and delivery roles

It's useless to lump them in with the corporate and tech roles, which is where all the layoffs are

Because the idea NYC residents hate everyone is media created, and has no correlation to reality.

Do NYC residents curse a lot, and get annoyed by vacationers just standing in the middle of the sidewalks being oblivious to everything around them? Absolutely and they will tell you that. But they also have repeatedly shown in studies to be far more helpful to people than any other city in the US and even in many cities across the world.

Its just like the garbage that NYC is dangerous, which has not been true since the 70-80's when most cities were dangerous due to white flight and a host of other reasons... Its all media portrayed because it makes for fun jokes and stuff... but its not reality to anyone who has actually been there and spent any time there.

I WISHED "southern hospitality" was like NYC hospitality. Since moving to Texas, people are flat out rude as fuck here... and its not the Californians and other transplants... its the natives. Ill never forget the looks I got when I went out of my way to jump a guy stuck at a HEB without any prompting... they seriously though I was after something and I had to tell them no dude, thats just how I was raised.

I have never had to worry about asking for directions or help with my car or something in NYC or NJ... while I would never expect people to go above and beyond, everyone is genuinely helpful and nice as long as you are not going out of your way to ruin their days. Ironically I was even warned by former Texans who I worked with that Southern Hospitality is all bullshit too.

This makes me want to read less.

i just tried it

yah, this is a game changer

people gonna need to adapt for AI stuff like this. i typed in a prompt to create something that came out pretty good. that image is unique, i can do whatever i want with it and it's decent quality. absolutely astounding for something i did in playing around with it for 5 minutes.

Only in specific circumstances. From Wikipedia on conservation of matter

> In reality, the conservation of mass only holds approximately and is considered part of a series of assumptions in classical mechanics. The law has to be modified to comply with the laws of quantum mechanics and special relativity under the principle of mass-energy equivalence, which states that energy and mass form one conserved quantity. For very energetic systems the conservation of mass only is shown not to hold, as is the case in nuclear reactions and particle-antiparticle annihilation in particle physics.

> Mass is also not generally conserved in open systems. Such is the case when various forms of energy and matter are allowed into, or out of, the system. However, unless radioactivity or nuclear reactions are involved, the amount of energy escaping (or entering) such systems as heat, mechanical work, or electromagnetic radiation is usually too small to be measured as a decrease (or increase) in the mass of the system.

> Incorrect. They have no digital copy that they paid to “loan out”. They have a physical copy, which they argue entitles them to loan out a digital copy.

It’s already been established that this isn’t a problem. Libraries have created and loaned out braille books based on the OCR’d contents of their physical copies. That was deemed legal. This is exactly the same thing. They are creating a digital copy from the physical one (by scanning it in) and lending that out. It’s part of the fair use doctrine.

> While that is a factor, I don’t care if I don’t lose income. I care that I’m losing my rights.

What rights are you losing and what is the personal harm with the loss of those rights? There is a balance between personal rights and those of the public at large.

Yes, but the key phrase there is "one of" and it's a hard sell to argue that widespread distribution of a copyrighted work is ever "fair use", especially without adding anything to the work.

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I'ma go out on a limb and say it came from "China".