The math for a company is pretty simple.

If it’s less expensive to hire new people and avoid a long delay, versus capitulating to the demands of the workforce (and it’s almost certain that the demands would include higher wages/salaries) and perhaps facing a long delay while negotiations are underway, a company will…

Like most things, it really depends.

The reality, statistically, is that most parents who do this with their child/children will only do so if they truly see/have evidence that the child/children is actually talented. This is made easier, ironically enough, in larger families, because you can see how each child takes…

It’s not particularly surprising that he’d pick up the bill. Namely because there’s very strict limits on outside parties picking up the tab for legislators, lest they run afoul of various campaign finance laws.

What’s surprising is that Michigan has such a high salary for their state legislators, coming in at over…

It’s a really tough situation for Biles because, as you said, it does feel like parts of the media are implying a great deal more than what she herself as claimed.

I, like many others, have been diagnosed with a mental health disorder (major depressive disorder, in fact). It’s not pleasant, but there are ways to work…

Anyone worth their salt who has played high level athletics (or any competition), let alone one where your team/state/nation has been unbeaten for a decade, would use that terminology. It’s jargon intrinsic to the sporting events where one person/team has dominated for a significant period of time.

You think the 1980…

This doesn’t tend to work well in industries that aren’t heavily unionized.

The reality is that for plenty of would-be developers, working for a big company like Activision-Blizzard or Ubisoft is a dream come true, and being presented with a bunch of job vacancies for a company that is in need of developers is a much…

Reminds me, in a couple of styling cues, of the EB110.

but a hip hop has ALWAYS had an adversarial relationship with amount of success not being in line with level of talent (Macklemore comes to mind but there are many more)

Well I certainly didn’t know that the contestants don’t get paid, in which case, leaving my son during this tumultuous time with no sort of financial recompense isn’t something I’d personally do, but we also don’t know the nature of their relationship so it’s rather hard to speculate.

I do. I think it’s silly. I don’t think it adds anything to the historical narrative or whatever story they were attempted to tell.

Make note that I said historical figures shouldn’t be race-swapped or gender-flipped, not that it isn’t done. It’s usually very hard to pull off, and again, doesn’t necessarily add…

Black Panther could theoretically be cast as a white person since it’s a title that can either be inherited (as T’Challa inherited) or won (Killmonger won the title by beating T’Challa in combat). It’s not specifically tied to a race, only to someone who is Wakandan and/or of royal blood. So, theoretically, if there…

I shouldn’t even bring you out of the greys, but here goes.

Shaka Zulu was a real, historical figure, so of course they shouldn’t be race-lifted or gender swapped.

Black Panther, as it were, is a title. Hence why it has passed from T’Chaka (father), to T’Challa (the son), to Shuri (the daughter). Theoretically, if there…

She’s got her gay, black best friend defending her, so I wouldn’t be surprised if she feels that it’s about as good of a cloak as possible.

As a writer, I think the first imperative that any writer should have is to tell the story they want to tell, and to tell the story they want to experience. If you can’t find your own satisfaction in what you write, it becomes almost impossible to ever create something that will satisfy a large audience, as the whims…

Being a comedy (or a comedian) doesn’t automatically absolve one’s sins when you put out a shit product or do shitty things, even if they’re ostensibly in the pursuit of “comedy”.

While comedic taste is of course subjective, what’s truly annoying is that many of these creative artists don’t just come out and say “I…

You’re right, but there’s also a reason why AMD/Nvidia will usually release drivers (even beta drivers) for new game releases because of this exact possibility, since it’s relatively common that older drivers for specific GPUs might not play well with a newly released (or in-beta) game.

Considering that the game was…

You would then have to control for the specific settings being used by that player in the game, along with a whole host of other things.

Again, I’m not taking any particular side in this. However, unless we see that multiple different models of cards all the way down the line of performance, it points more to a issue…

Not really.

Logically, if the game was the issue, then multiple cards of different specs would be having the same issue, ranging down from various 3090s to lower-end cards. However, it’s only this particular model of 3090 having the issue.

This isn’t unheard of. Usually it’ll effect a specific model of card (like…

Or the most likely case is that the game isn’t particularly optimized for high-end, multi-core/thread CPUs, so much of the strain is being off-loaded onto the GPU. This is less-common nowadays, but it’s certainly still a thing.

That being said, this particular card should be able to handle 99% GPU usage. These cards…

Plenty of wealthy people pay for things with a debit card, so I don’ty think that’s particularly out of the ordinary. Regardless of the payment method, you still wouldn’t want to have to unnecessarily deal with your bank/credit card company.

To your point about Shane being an entitled prick, sure, he’s an entitled…