I think pixel art works in a way that your brain can fill in the blanks. It's probably really hard to create a remastered version that would capture the imagination in the same way, ie so that most people who liked the original would find it an improvement. Some kind of a heavily styled thing perhaps.
Because the rules around running a business in the COVID-19 environment have been set such that large companies can afford to comply with them but small business can’t without losing money. So all their employees, and eventually the business owners themselves, bear the brunt of that.
Okay for all the people that are talking about how great this is, try this one.
What if it turns out a company that they sold all of their data to was later contracted by a government to develop biological weapons? And what if they were suddenly able to target those weapons at specific populations because of all the DNA data they had?
Is it still great that they can do this?
EDIT: Here is a concrete hypothetical for people that pretend they don't understand what I am talking about...
Imagine that [oppressive communist superpower] decided that they were tired of all the criticism they get for their treatment of their [minority Turkic ethnic group originating from and culturally affiliated with the general region of Central and East Asia] population. Rather than overtly mistreat them, they (via third-party contractors) go to the DNA database and find out that members of that population typically share a vulnerability to a dangerous strain of flu to which the general population has a resistance.
Rather than overtly oppress them in camps, they could now just custom tailor diseases to handle the "problem" for them, and not have to suffer the PR backlash.
That's like saying what if the charity for the homeless to whom people donated money suddenly was found to be a front for a global human trafficking (slave) organization.
People would be rightly outraged and angry, but that doesn't mean they made a mistake by giving their money to the charity.
Everyone makes judgement calls every day, it's the way the world works.
There's a number of charities that have been exposed like this - care homes run by charities have been exposed for sexual abuse and violence, homeless charities have been exposed for selling data to deportation agencies. The situation there is different because people come to those organizations expecting help in a crisis or untenable situation and end up harmed rather than helped. In the case of people giving their genetic data to a for-profit corporation there is the reasonable expectation that that data is not and was never safe because any such organization is a target to friendly or hostile takeovers by organizations that wish to harm the users. So in one case it's a matter of a broken promise, an organization doing the opposite of what its very purpose of existence is, and in the other case it's just capitalism doing what capitalism does.
> there is the reasonable expectation that that data is not and was never safe
This is key, and not everyone has this expectation when they use these services. Most people do not, and they're not entirely wrong. If you examine the various genetic testing corporations' user agreements, many of them place explicit limits on what happens to original DNA or replicated copies if the company is sold, merged, or otherwise changes. Companies do tend to hold to that kind of legal agreement provided it was sincere in the first place (there's no fine print providing loopholes) because it can get them sued.
Even the companies providing genetic data for research aren't providing the original DNA, only marker or SNP data, and it's probably de-identified to comply with HIPAA and other privacy laws.
Security through obscurity. That's all you're proposing.
Your DNA is out there. You're constantly leaving your muck wherever you go. As its value increases people will continue to harvest it: your favorite restaurants, your employer, (semi-)public restrooms, etc.
Don't try and put worms in a can, learn how to live with worms.
you can already do this. there are lots of public databases of data representative of different populations. signatures of different populations are known.
If that’s your worst contrived scenario then you’ve only convinced me that this is a good idea. All technology can be used for good and evil, things will get more extreme but continue towards net positive. Your evil scenario is outweighed by the global benefits of medical research.
Next time, just jump straight to saying [oppressive fascist superpower] and [minority ethnic group originating in and culturally affiliated with a small Middle Eastern nation]. We’re still more sensitive to that one.
I actually had a similar idea to discourage certain news outlets from posting inflammatory but misleading or untrue headlines and articles for clicks, and then later changing them to something more factually correct after the damage has been done.
AIPAC is a much more overt and pernicious form of a foreign government interfering in US elections. They donate money to many US politicians, and actively setup campaigns against those they don't like, such as Ilhan Omar. It's far worse than anything Russia has ever done. And it's out in the open, so people somehow assume it's OK.
To be fair, a lot of Americans support AIPAC, either from ethnic solidarity, Christian dispensationalism, or just because they like Israelis. But they've certainly been involved in some shady stuff which should merit them being registered as Foreign Agents.
FWIIW the FARA act was passed in 1938 because of fascist and Nazi groups like the German American Bund interfering in US elections. Maybe as time goes by, AIPAC will become about as important in US politics as the German American Bund.
AIPAC is an American Organization. Composed of Americans. Why on earth should they register as "Foreign Agents?"
You may not like people because of their religion or nationality, but they are allowed to have a lobbying and education organization without an accusation of not being real Americans.
Politicians can choose to listen to them or not, just like the NRA, the American Cancer Society, and the AARP.
The German American Bund was also an American organization made up of Americans ... and getting its marching orders from abroad in service of a foreign regime. That's why we passed the FARA law in 1938 in the first place. Foreigners are not supposed to influence US elections. Everything you have said about AIPAC applied to the German-American bund when they passed the FARA law. Neither the NRA or the American Cancer Society are advocating for policies for benefit of a foreign power: the German American Bund used to do this, just as AIPAC does today. If you don't like FARA, lobby to get it revoked. I'm sure that will go over well after the Russia hysteria.
There's also the example of the Lawrence Franklin espionage scandal of 2003 for shady AIPAC doings beyond this:
AIPAC were pressured to register as foreign agents back in 62, but Kennedy being shot kind of pushed that aside. Ended pressure on them to stop their nuke program as well.
Um, OK I guess stating historical facts is insane and full of hate. Would you like to clarify your statement or are you comfortable denouncing me for knowing my history?
Citations were provided for every factual statement I made.
Does it strike anyone else as odd that the two skulls found practically "nose-to-nose" are 40,000 years apart in age? How do two humanoid skulls coincidentally end up right next to each other with 40,000 years gap between them?
Sea mines placed miles apart during the second world war sometimes end up settling right next to each other, several miles away. Sometimes tens of miles away. Sometimes next to a leftover mine from the first world war that arrived the same way.
The environment in which they exist subjects them to varying pressures and forces, making them move. When do they stop moving? When they reach a point at which those pressures and forces cease. That point is the same for all items that get swept there. Wait long enough, and if another one is part of the same system of forces that directs towards the same null point, it'll turn up.
Happens with sea mines over the course of a few decades. Could it happen with skulls over tens of thousands of years? Sure could. Happens with lots of objects.
One of the articles I read stated they suspected the skulls were originally in different caves but had been caught in a flood that washed them into a common area.
You probably mean this as a joke, but we often underestimate our ancestors who were as smart and curious as we are (and surely as dopey and uncurious as well).
You can see an inverse of the 3D image by simply crossing your eyes until things "line up". It will appear 3D, but things that are intended to jump out at you will sink into the page instead. But that will at least give you a general idea of how it is supposed to work. Then after you get it working this way the whole "unfocus your eyes" approach will make a little more sense.
It's ironic that Epic is going to accuse anyone of being irresponsible. I got an alert from haveibeenpwned a while back showing that my login credentials from Epic were part of a leak, including my password in plaintext. It wasn't a password that shows up in public password dictionaries.
