In my country (New Zealand), while we wouldn’t expect that wealth necessarily came from cheating and stealing, the idea of money as “abstraction of reputation and honor” would be foreign to most, I think. For example, while there were some Trump supporters here, I think nearly everyone was confused about the assumption that his personal wealth implied anything about his worth or worthiness.
I’m just on 1080p and a GTX 1070, so haven’t experienced it for myself, but from Digital Foundry’s breakdown of DLSS 2.0 in Control, it sure looks to be more than a “cute hack”.
“Same rules for everyone” resonates very strongly here in New Zealand. There is a book-length study [1] on our national obsession with ‘fairness’ (contrasted with the USA and ‘freedom’).
I think the “Reddit one-upsmanship” that the parent was referring to was actually in the other direction; i.e., people “one-upping” how long it took them to read it.
Exactly. You post about how you broke your something playing sports in hihh school and it's never been quite the same. Someone else posts about how they hurt themselves worse. Seven nested comments later you've got someone trying to score virtue points by claiming they had a wood chipper accident now they're a head floating in a jar like in Futurama. It's bizarre.
I've been constantly surprised about how little scrutiny that kind of statement has received in the media - American or otherwise. I thought it would've publicly raised more hackles here in New Zealand (but I guess we all ultimately just feel powerless in the face of such determined surveillance might).
Same thing in Australia, its surprised me also it's not picked up on more. But after the likes of George Brandis' comments (essentially that Snowden was a crook yada yada), I'm starting to not be surprised. The other thing which I find depressing are comments along the lines of "Oh, everyone is doing it, its fine". I don't see that, I think its a damn scummy thing to be doing.
My understanding is that, as a non US-citizen, I'd be generally considered 'fair game' for a lot of blanket surveillance that would not be applied to Americans. Maybe this is what scrrr is referring to? [Edit: I see this is what harkyns_castle alludes to as well.]
[1] https://nobsgames.stavros.io/