dillekant

Yes, that's why I'm saying, the companies just have to rent in perpetuity. Also, yeah you can't rent forest carbon unless it's sinking it that year.

Well that too, but it doesn't require legislative change.

TIL on this one. Thanks dude.

I'm not sure I understand the problem. My only guess here is that the issue is that you buy a carbon tonne and it's meant to be sunk "forever", but that's not really possible to verify a-priori. So, why not just rent the carbon? Each tonne you put into the air, you just rent it from the forest or whatever, and if the forest burns down, you have to rent it from somewhere else the next year.

A recent Unlearning Economics Live video had Cahal mentioning that it was pretty easy to identify essential workers, and if that's the case we should earmark housing for those workers in the relevant areas. If it's been so easy to classify them, there should probably be other similar accomodations (eg tax breaks) from a payment perspective.

I dunno man, you said you wanted to find parking but we passed like 10 parking spots because you wanted to park closer to the shops and now you can't find any... Feels like you just don't want to park.

One thing which is irritating is just how ingrained Bunnings has becomes into our culture. Many people just go to Bunnings just for browsing. Unfortunately, they will also suck the air out of the room and basically force you to go to them. I have had to go to bunnings on occasion and have spent well more than I wanted to there.

Xbox (console) is now a problem on both those metrics. Simple as that, no fanboying or villifying required.

Hard agree

Away from the current hardware model.

I (and I believe you) are talking about Microsoft in context. The latest SkillUp video talks about Spencer's role and what his strategy is, and I think it's fairly astute. He says: you don't see Nintendo or even Sony say the same things as MS here. Their businesses are growing because they have created something compelling for the market. I think Microsoft's view is that the money is in the software, so why bother with the hardware? I think this is at least half true, so we'll have to see, but often the point of the hardware is to bring something to market which isn't really possible with just software. The Wii was an example of that. The Switch is a sort-of example of that.

Having said that, almost all the examples are "first party". Switch games suck (many are on Steam Deck and the Steam Deck version is better), but Nintendo Switch games are great. Sony third party games are just as good on PC, but Sony first party titles are great, so maybe this is a gap in SkillUp's thinking here. Like: Why when you can just sell the whole thing to PC? Especially why when the EU is eventually going to force, say, Nintendo to offer third party app stores on the Switch 2?

It's so bite sized yet moreish.

I don't think it's a death, it's more of a transition. Firstly, a lot of XBox games have been coming to PC, intentionally, because Microsoft basically own the market*. They've also created XCloud + Game pass, possibly the most convenient way to play games, and you don't need an XBox.

The real people who've turned on the device itself has been devs. Some of the stuff they've been saying at GDC have been at the same level as the stuff they say about Linux as a target. Like your game shouldn't be that dependent on platform, it hurts things like archival.

If you live in the areas it's extremely clear this is satire.

Happy Apr 1.