> Most people own a car for 3 years or less

This seems absurd on the face of it.

What, you don't burn your car and drive it off a cliff on its three-year anniversary?

Every 3 years since 2015 and my corolla just keeps running ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

> China subsidizes them

Maybe we should subsidize some industries ourselves, probably a better investment than more war.

We do. Oil for your old fashioned car and farmers for votes.

> US Army, ADP 6-22, Army Leadership and the Profession

I'm not going to let the army tell me what my job is.

Well yes, but dont call it a profession then.

And lets be pirates and hackers instead.

> OG gamers expected to have their hair blown back .... pretty much every title every time

OG gamer here (started on the Fairchild Channel F). This is absurd.

What is true is that the hardware rapidly advanced, and as programmers got familiar with each platform the software also advanced, but the shelves were full of stinkers and disappointments and copycats.

> That shit absolutely would not scan with older gaming audiences

Are you quite certain about that? https://archive.org/details/Lemonade_Stand_1979_Apple

That's an edutainment game for early grade schoolers. (I should know; I played it in that era.) Nothing in it would hold an adult's attention.

"Older" in this context is "the gaming audience of 45 years ago".

Yeah, that's me. I played Lemonade Stand on an apple some software salesman hustled the local school board into buying, and understand that's the only market that "game" sold into, so it's got more in common with spreadsheet software than PacMan, and certainly isn't relevant to a discussion of popular games and gaming in the 80s. Edit: I wish I'd checked your username before I bothered engaging.

> Cuomo downplayed the objections in a written statement to Fortune

I see he still has trouble with the concept of "consent".

Remind me why someone needs consent to create some virtual/digital data/bytes that represent arbitrary things?

Do I need someone's consent to write 'msft' on a piece of paper?

I always got a kick out of those graphs of projected solar power capacity that showed the line leveling off if not actually shrinking, with successive year's predictions doing the same thing again and again, but the actual numbers continuing to shoot way up.

Like the itanium sales forecast chart, except in reverse.

> I think the earlier console generations where created by a bunch of passionate nerds eager to make something cool.

The very earliest, maybe, but not really once you get into the 1980s.

> Cursing has a long tradition in

By and large the hacker news moderators and commentariat have demonstrated that they do not welcome those cultures here.

For sure. This site is definitely not welcoming to everyone. Lord help you here if you are trans.

I sure wish he did.

At least I'm living now and not in the past. I do believe in gradual progress.

Uh, shitfuck.

> Recently I learned that

Doesn't mean that what you learned was true.

Thanks for your miserly comment. I am glad to have had that little put down from someone that has nothing to add to the conversation or possibly the world. This is because this serves as a reminder that I am not like that, as a rule, taking miserly pot shots at others, as some seem to do, including you.

The most charitable thing you can say about "only those with over-active immune systems survived the 14th century plagues" is that it's so broad as to be meaningless. (Might you perhaps have been thinking of Familial Mediterranean Fever?)

Y.pestis is very good at evading the innate immune response (to the point of reproducing inside macrophages and neutrophils) and likes hanging out in lymph nodes. What kind of increased activity would help here?