Remember that Bitcoin is still using the inherently wasteful “proof of work” pattern to incentive the necessary hash computations.

And that it’s less of a currency than it is a speculative security. Kind of like in-game currency for a MMO that allows real-money exchange, but without the game and somehow with even less stability or efficiency.

I wager we could get New Hampshire, Vermont, or Texas to challenge the uniform time act as a violation of the 9th amendment just for the fun of it.

I wouldn’t put it past California, either.

Most laptops or other portable computers are not repairable. Heck, even desktops these days are highly integrated with often just three chips and maybe a graphics card inserted into a motherboard.

If you really want reduced telemetry, switch to Linux NOW and only use systems that F/OSS folk approve of.

If you don’t need a PC for gaming, consider something like a raspberry pi.

How so?

The comic looks like a pretty clear joke that identified the issue in a straightforward issue.

“professional athlete” is a very low bar and is not the ticket to an easy life that you suggest.

https://en.as.com/nfl/what-is-the-average-nfl-player-salary-n-4/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minor_league_football_(gridiron)

Elite and famous athletes have very high potential earnings, but stand atop a very large pyramid of hopeful amateurs and less-elite but still full-time-for-money professionals.

Correct.

Pointing out that way too many things are simply harder for Americans who appear black is called “recognizing that there is a problem”, which most adults agree is the very first step to solving problems.

Throwing good money after bad would be spending another $200,000,000 to retrofit the monstrosity and be sure there are no “Russian clocks.”

Just demolishing the thing and acting like a Kaiju stepped on the east wing might be petty and wasteful, but it wouldn’t be throwing good money after bad.

GoG actually implements something the rich tool* behind steam once said: “piracy is a customer service issue.”

Broadly speaking, folk only private games for three reasons: either the DRM limits how they can play their game, they don’t want to make such a purchase sight unseen, or they haven’t the funds to purchase the games they want.

There’s very little that will turn the third type into paying customers, but the first and second can be converted by some combination of.the straight removal of DRM and a generous return policy.

It’s also worth noting that pirates of all three groups will on occasion make a game purchase, due to a desire to support an especially liked game or studio or behavior.

To be salty: you seem kinda bad at math.

2019 was.six years ago, not “basically ten”. Which wouldnt matter, if the rest of your post didn’t have such “if the raise put me in the next tax bracket I’d actually lose money” energy.

Car insurance is typically for the market value of your car as-s. Not the price for a car from the same model year that has a dealer’s warranty behind it.

Or to put it another way: insurance should pay out the amount you could get if you sold your car, not the cost to buy another similar car.

Now, there are insurance companies that will sell you “replacement cost” insurance, but this always means they’re charging a higher premium than they otherwise would.

And you’re absolutely right that insurance companies categorically suck. Auto insurance is actually the friendliest one that regularly has to pay out. Health insurance is even worse.

(Sorry for being so salty.)

It was the message for when the phone service was disconnected. While this often happens after the person dies, it could have also meant they were away for an extended time. (Such as "I’m going to stay with my daughter for a few weeks after the birth of my grandchild.)

Absent other explanations, though, death is a probable explanation.for a grandmother’s phone being disconnected.

(Note that “poor with no money” is also possible, since phones cost money.)

AI will likely be similar to Asimov’s robot series, but just a bit grittier.

• Useful almost-human thing we don’t know if it’s a person or not
• Ubiquitous and relatively harmless
• Winds up killing millions if we put it in charge.

Better. That actually supports the assertion that Russia does engage in left-targeted disinformation (in Canada, on Twitter.)

It also supports the original point you dismissed as “wrong” – of the 90 “most influential” accounts, only 9 were subjectively identified as “Canadian far left”.

Maybe you should spend more time reading the actual articles, and not just their headlines?

True enough. But even a tyrannical government at least has a presumable intent of working for the betterment of its country. (Albeit through wrongheaded and small-minded means )

A.foreijgn power, especially a historical adversary and bad actor, is instead presumably working to harm or diminish us.

You presented it as proof that Russia is supporting misinformation on the left. To be that, it has to both include all three parts of the claim – that there is disinformation on the left, that Russia is covertly supporting disinformation, and that some of the disinformation on the left was supported by Russia.

If your wife sleeps around, and I engage in casual sex, it does not necessarily follow that I slept with your wife.

A common suspicion in America is that Vladimir Putin believes that Trump as POTUS is good for Russia, and that Putin interferes with US politics with a specific goal of helping Trump.

If you have some reporting that directly links Russia to left-wing disinformation I’d love to read it. But the BBC article I read after following your link didn’t have any such link.

Your article doesn’t seem to mention Russia once.

Rumors and smears are part of free speech. To the extent that right-wing trolls and their audience are actual voters, it’s essentially just a coarse form of ordinary political speech.

The extent to which a foreign government acting coverly is either creating or artificially boosting such content is scandalous.

Tech folk seem to not realize that “this image could have been faked!” has been a problem since the very first photographs.

Every step in evidence collection literally served to put someone’s name on it, so those people can go before a jury and say “yeah, that’s the stick i used to get the video from their security system”

They’re rarely called,.AFAIK, mostly because “that video must be faked” needs some corroborating evidence to be plausible. And for that matter, so does “this video shows him robbing my store!”

Follow up thought after dinner: AGP is also auto-misandry and a strong example of toxic masculinity.

For those not familiar with the term, it’s the idea that all trans men are only trans men because they think themselves sexually appealing as women. Which is fairly strongly disproven by “cis women feel that way, too”, but also exposes a wretched opinion about cis men.

We’re SUPPOSED to think that we’re sexually attractive. If we want to get laid that means we need to find someone who finds us attractive, and that’s damn hard when we can’t even think of ourselves as sexy.

“Unsettled science” is putting it far to charitably. From the second paragraph of that wikipedia article:

Scientific criticisms commonly made against Blanchard’s research include that the typology is unfalsifiable because Blanchard and other supporters regularly dismiss or ignore data that challenges the theory

You could keep reading that Wikipedia article down to its sections on “Transfeminist critique”, “Transgender men”, and “Societal impact.” I also recommend reading what Julia Serano wrote on the topic. (Which I find it to be a strong case that AGP is just bad science.) https://juliaserano.medium.com/making-sense-of-autogynephilia-debates-73d9051e88d3

Or, to be brief: AGP is transphobic because it reduces transgenderism to a sexual fetish. There are non-transgender cross-dressers and transgender men and women who are asexual or demisexual, not to mention thousands of definitely-transgender children who haven’t had a sexual thought in their lives.

Kindergartners are definitely old enough to understand “no touching without permission” and “no touching in the underwear zone period.”

When my kids were.tiny, we decided our bodily autonomy rule would be phrased as “the only times you’re allowed to touch someone else are in an emergency and with their permission.”

FWIW. I certainly grew up in an era where some adults didn’t even grasp "no means no "

Godwin himself pointed out that his law doesnt apply when discussing actual fascists.