How is this meaningful?

It is meaningful.

I agree, a huge drop in people making less than $5 a day, does not equal a huge drop in people with guaranteed access to medicine food, etc.

However, it does mean that a ton of people now have at least 5 more dollars. Not a life changing amount, but it is an incremental improvement.

And realistically, that’s how we’re going to complex social problems like global poverty. With incremental improvements.

Note that the graph doesn’t say which policies are causing the drop. Only that a drop is happening. It is possible (in fact likely) that some policies are making things worse (IMF restructuring prioritizing private creditors over local people) and other policies are making things better (PEPFAR)

The graph also shows that while the current mix of policies correlates with huge drops in extreme poverty, it has barely made a dent in regular poverty (< $30/day). This shows that if our goal is to get rid of all poverty, the current policy mix is not doing that.

Just because you can’t derive any use from the graph, doesn’t mean it’s useless.

funded by the Gates & Melinda Foundation

This is an ad hominem attack. If you want to argue that the data is wrong. Do that, don’t vaguely wave towards the evil boogeyman.

Omg, this. The part time legal thing is happening to me right now.

I’m building a small app for a (multimillion dollar) company. Nothing major. I tell the project manager: “hey, you guys need a EULA to publish in the app store. You can use the std apple one or write your own. Tell me what you want to do.”

This woman comes back to me with: “what do you think we should do?”

Like b#%^!, I don’t know! Why would you want me to tell you how define the legal relationship between you and your customers?

After some prodding, she forwards the request to legal and sends back a DRAFT EULA asks: “Can you review this?”

NO. I cannot review legal documents. I’m horrendously under qualified for that!!!

/end rant

Honestly, I jumped the gun with the “destiny must die” statement. I got snookered by the article’s false dichotomy of “it must be one ore the other.”

The best thing bungie can probably do is to keep both of them running. Dropping destiny isn’t magically going to fix bungie. But, then again neither is dropping marathon.

If forced to choose, I’d still pick marathon. I don’t know if it’s the revenue maximizing choice, but Sony has already acknowledged that Bungie isn’t a $3.6 billion company. I’d rather have a smaller Bungie focussed on making good game(s) than a Bungie desperately trying (and failing) to restart the destiny money printer.

Destiny should die. The story has no where left to go and there literally no plan on how to fix PvP so it doesn’t suck.

Marathon is not great, but it has room to grow. I don’t know why the article thinks it’s a smarter idea for Bungie to “pause D2” and spend years thinking up, funding and implementing a currently nonexistent “Destiny 3”. Instead of just addressing user feedback in Marathon.

Then again, this is Forbes. These guys are a cancer on the creative industries. The basic strategy is to keep milking IP and never create anything new(ish). (I know i know. Marathon is existing IP. Sigh. Will we ever get anything new?)

6/10. Fair. I really only feel bad about missing

I see red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple. Basically the rainbow flag.

Iran has gone woke. They’re supporting the gays.

Tbf, the phrase “as the movies say”, makes it reasonable to assume that OP meant AGI. Not the broad definition of AI.

I mean, when is the last time you saw a movie about the dangers of the k-nearest neighbor algorithm?