Unfortunately the judge only ruled against Halligan‘s appointment, and not on the merits of the (garbage) case itself.

Hmmm... a lot of issues would be automatically avoided if there's no "Robux" equivalent, but it would seem like you'd need some sort of centralized version to police safety. I wouldn't expect every kid running their own service to be able to totally keep predators off their servers.

I was just thinking about that! I was originally thinking of a company pitching a new “like Roblox but not evil” competing project, but if they’re a commercial company there will always be the temptation to turn evil.

By "scientific orthodoxy" I think you mean "science."

The really vexing thing is that the underlying *technical* foundation of Roblox, their user content development tools is impressive and *in theory* should be a great avenue to get kids into computer science. But Roblox lacks a *moral* foundation.

Dr. Sleep was an absolutely brilliant movie. It definitely deserves more attention.

When people get that rich, they can squash critics with libel suits, drop hundreds of millions on political patronage, buy media outlets and much darker stuff without breaking a sweat. They can't be locked in here with us.

The libertarian line is that other people's wealth doesn't hurt us and the only reason you'd want leveling is because you're a envious. In fact, when people get too rich and powerful, they break the system.