I’ve literally never seen any person argue that forced arbitration is a good thing for consumers…
It’s always corporations
I’ve literally never seen any person argue that forced arbitration is a good thing for consumers…
It’s always corporations
It’s usually a pretty hard sell of “make the company you work at shittier to make more money”, especially since most of the employees probably know gabe personally (valve has less than 400 employees) and likely approve of his leadership.
And most of the ones with the high percent have been there since the beginning, probably close to Gabe’s age, looking towards retirement. They make good money, but retirement is expensive.
I mean. That link from this year said Microsoft was thinking 16 billion. 1% of that is 160 million.
Or they may die and their kids see dollar signs when a vote comes up
Steam is great now, it’s not debatable. But its naive to expect it indefinitely. 10 years, 20 years from now? It wouldn’t be surprising if Valve was a lot shittier than it is today
It won’t last forever
Usually it’s forced arbitration, you can’t sue
It really favors the company. Steam is explicitly saying no arbitration which levels the playing field.
Arbitration doesn’t save money. You still need lawyers.
What’s bigger is this explicitly says it allows class actions. Something that most prevent and require individual arbitration, consumers are better off when they can pool resources for lawyers against a giant corporation, especially since most would require an upfront payment for a large class action.
Not sure, apparently the 25% figure is really new, Wikipedia is sourcing something from 2017 that says he has 50+.
This is the most up to date I can find that attributes a source
https://www.guru3d.com/story/microsoft-reportedly-readies-billion-bid-to-acquire-valve-steam/
Insights from Dior, a prominent figure in the Counter-Strike community, reveal that Gabe Newell owns less than 25% of Valve. This suggests that a significant portion of Newell’s wealth is tied to his equity in the company. The decision to sell Valve wouldn’t rest solely with Newell; numerous employees who likely hold stock options could also have a say through a voting process if an offer were made.
So it sounds like a lot was given to employees from the beginning, which track with Gabe.
Then he may have cashed out a couple times, but I doubt that when he could just do the billionaire thing where he borrows against his stock counting on the value increasing enough to pay off the last with a new?
But then again Gabe is different and might not do that out of principle.
It’s not publicly traded, so I guess we don’t really know unless Valve discloses who owns what. Which I just realized is pretty concerning on its own.
Yeah, but Gabe is down to 25% ownership.
He could be pushed out at anytime. It’s this weird situation where if a serious challenger to Steam really takes off, the 75% may demand Steam gets shittier to make more money.
But Gabe won’t last forever anyways, who knows what will happen without him. Which means people do want some kind of challenger to prevent a monopoly, but that just makes the other scenario more likely
Steam is already a huge outlier
Duh, everyone knows wind turbines kill birds and birds are CIA drones to maintain the holographic disquises of the reptalian vegans…
Why do you think they release doves at the Olympics?!
And I really don’t think you need someone to explain how the Italian Easter Bunny is connected to solar panel. It’s 3027 for Glorgon’s sake.
/s
You can’t out logic someone who didn’t get to their current situation without giving logic a second thought.
Journalist James Ball noted that this is not the first time that Musk has made similar threats to reimagine the block function, suggesting it may be a false alarm.
It’s probably going to a web interface for RGB and maybe mouse sensitivity instead of special software.
Not sure why it would require Chrome to do so, but that doesn’t mean it’s constantly talking to Chrome when you use it either.
It doesn’t seem like we’re getting all the information
Straw is shaped like a straw…
Hay is like grass, it basically is grass really.
Cats play by ambushing something over and over and rolling around with it…
Dogs play by running sprints as long as someone keep throwing a ball…
I’m not sure what your confusion still is
You just see more dogs running around excited than you do cats…
A cat is a solitary predator that uses stealth than pounces.
Dogs are pack predators, they get food by running around making a shit ton of noise and hoping something runs so the pack can chase it down.
That translates to modern pets day to day activity.
If you ever saw a cat run around like a dog, it would pant. If you saw a dog that acts like a cat. You’d never see it pant.
You can. But you dont have to.
Their saliva softens the part their working on enough, and whatever they swallow is still digestible
Yak chews are apparently the shit…
My dog flips out over them, even when it’s just an old one I found under the couch and he already has multiple out to chew on
Ineffective policies for the poor’s that has a negligible effect while giant corporations make billions and exacerbate the problem?
First there was C
Then C+, and no one gave a shit, so they made C++
It’s just C with stuff added to it twice.
It’s understandable republicans ignore the obvious cause, that’s what they do, just deny reality.
But it really fucking sucks Dem leadership does the same thing. There’s Bernie, AOC, a handfull of other progressives that will openly say this is the problem, but a “moderate” won’t say they’re the problem.
We need to take the party back to where it was 80 years ago when FDR pushed to limit pay to fight wealth inequality.
Moderates stopped him back then just like they did for universal healthcare tho. So 80+ years later we’re still fighting for it.
The Phenom 2?!
I barely remember it, but yeah, it was a beast.
But my 1700x went hard for five years. The only reason I tacked the extra 5 on was x3d changes things up.
Now, since I’ve made that comment AMD has solved the Zen 5 latency issues but cutting it by more than half. That’s what was holding it back. So when the Zen 5 x3d comes out, it’s going to be nuts.
But…
It’s going to take a while for those changes to become industry standard. It might be a year before Zen 5 x3d, I’m not sure if they’ve even announced when. So games won’t take full advantage of them right away.
It takes like a 4070 super to CPU bound a 7800x3d, and fine tune some settings and it’ll balance out
We’re not going to have a new screen resolution jump, and that combo can max out 4k 120fps on pretty much anything thanks to frame generation without even touching upscaling.
There’s just not a lot to improve until we see a major jump like VR finally taking off.
Lol. The tweet is defending Zionism and illegal Israeli land expansion, while also denying the history that Jewish people from Europe replaced the natives who had been living on that land for millennia when Israel was created by the British…
Like, imagine trying to sell people that the creation of Israel by the Brits was the one time the Brits actually handled it correctly.
You would just have to find it…
Like, if you didn’t have anything to use the app. You would just have to physically find it…
Same way you find anything else that doesn’t have an app
Oh, I’m fully aware it sucks, just not sure why that person is defending it