us software salaries are insanely high compared to the rest of the world, because the cost of living in SV is insanely high.
with a €60k a year salary i’m in the 90th percentile of earners in my country and it took me about two years to have enough to finance my own three-bedroom apartment on one income.
everything in moderation
there are actually lots of people outside
the question in the book is 6×9, because of course it is
…unless they’re valve games
adding mobile games to steam would probably make it unusable
fair enough. i just know ibm is a big actor with many european governments as well, more so than the others. probably by virtue of having been around a lot longer.
Edit: sorry, reuters seems to be stripping stuff off of the link. the quote i linked to is
Technology giants Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft, and IBM were named as “central to Israel’s surveillance apparatus and the ongoing Gaza destruction.”
they probably do, just that we don’t get to hear about it until a couple of years have passed.
you say that, but if that was the case why would ibm go to all that trouble to get an exclusion from the json user agreement clause “the software shall be used for good, not evil”?
doing it incompetently is arguably worse, because that involves storing way too much info and sharing it too freely.
also a very useful way to mask your true reason if your true reason is “i want to build a database of people”. four horsemen of the internet type shit.
maybe. when china did it with their law about children not using their phones after curfew, they handled it by building a face database of everyone except children, then matching against that.
well, we’re here. but the companies and governments pushing this are already looking at possible next steps, like building systems where your real identity is used everywhere.
hah.
personally i think a big part of the problem is that real-name identification for things that shouldn’t need it is just sort of accepted, rather than being criticised as the massive invasion of privacy that it is. whether it includes children or not is a side note in my mind.
did you bypass verification prompts as a child? so will they.
i mean, to matter which way you go you’ll have created a database of people’s real identities. which is a problem.
the fact that they want the data.
what about insurance and healthcare?