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From what I can see at a glance its mostly loads upon loads of graphics code / graphics cards stuff. Its possible they have upstreamed entire drivers into their code base.

I spotted some stuff that hints at low level protocols as well (i2c f.e.), so probably its just a whole lot of work to support AMD graphics cards. Potentially they upstreamed a driver or something.

>There's a reason PC app stores are moribund, and it's that browsers do the job of delivering software. Mobile app stores would go the same way, if mobile browsers did the same job – and without people needing to use the Apple App Store.

This is an interesting conclusion, especially considering that packet managers on linux are alive and well and that Microsoft is currently building their own (winget i believe it is called). Now of course a packet manager isn't the same thing as a store, but I am pretty certain that the app stores will survive. There is value in having your apps update automatically and without you having to worry about it. Not to mention the ease of installation and discoverbility.

In a lot of countries it is possible to simply change the way share based voting works.

By default 1 share equals one vote. But quite a few jurisdictions allow companies to define a different voting scheme, allowing to f.e. limit a person's votes to at most 20% of the total amount of votes, regardless of their share ownership.

This of course depends on the jurisdictions in question.

While that is true, one could argue that these reports are either split into distinct parts written by individual authors or are not written in parallel.

A report doesn't have ten people writing the same page. If everyone writes a chapter then merging is trivial. No need to learn a complex tool

Can you make any recommendations for replacement of dairy products? Personally i found that dairy stuff (cheese especially) is the one thing that seems to not have any acceptable plant based replacement (IMHO)

Most other vegan alternatives aren't good, but they are toleratable. The vegan cheeses i tried so far however were absolutely atrocious.

Yes. That said, i do also believe that taxation would have to be fair. Assuming you spent less than ten hours on these mails in total that would mean you would "earn" so little that most likely you would have not earned enough to have to pay any tax anyways.

Not to mention that in a situation like this they probably wouldn't come after you anyways, but i think they should still have the right to.

Also please note: This stems mostly from my personal opinion of not doing work outside of work hours unless explicitly agreed to. If I am on a vacation i don't do work unless everything back home is collapsing in a pile of flaming garbage.

> If a someone is on a trip abroad and gets a call/email from a customer from another country, they are technically working. Would that require a work visa?

Depends on the country in question of course but many places have different visas:

- Visitor visas: Usually valid for only a couple of days / weeks and geared towards business travelers. These usually allow working in the country.

- Tourist Visas: Usually valid for weeks/months and geared towards tourists.

If you are on the first then working isn't a problem. If you are on the second then (as the name implies) it is kind of assumed that you are a tourist/on vacation and as such won't be doing any work at all.

So to answer your question: If you are on a trip (I interpret this as a couple of days at best) then you won't need a work visa. If you want to stay there for a while though then technically yes.

> The world is changing and laws aren't really keeping up.

Are they though? I think it is fair to say that if you are staying in a country for an extended period of time (longer than a visitor visa) they have a right to tax you.

> I recently generated a single-use card with a $1 spend limit to sign up for a free trial of Masterclass, for which I would have been automatically charged an annual membership fee of $180 if I’d forgotten to cancel on time.

Now, i understand that most businesses most likely won't bother, but theoretically, in a situation like this: What stops a business from sending you a notice about your agreed payment being late?

Unless i am missing something this isn't really all that sound advice? Why not keep a calendar with reminders?

One stop at Wörgl if i am not mistaken. Trains in Austria are pretty nice indeed, but of course only if you have a train available. If you first need to drive to the train station then more often than not the commuter trains aren't worth it time wise.

If you catch one of the fast trains though then of course it is a different story.

Potentially this[1]:

> Under EU law, standard contract terms must not: > * be contrary to the requirement of good faith; > * disadvantage consumers (in terms of rights & obligations), in relation to sellers/suppliers.

There might be a more specialized law/regulation though. The EU is pretty bad with their public relations stuff so it's hard to tell.

[1]: https://europa.eu/youreurope/business/dealing-with-customers...

> Question 2. Why do we refer to them still in mainstream discourse as systems that even qualify as cryptocurrencies?

Because a sizeable part of the population that doesn't care about cryptocurrency but cares about climate change has been sold on the idea of it. They were told that PoS can get by without the energy waste of PoW.

Marketing for PoS was pretty good.

> But why would you want TV without speaker

I mean, you can grab some dedicated speakers or a sound bar or something? In fact, some people do this instead of using the TV speakers anyways since it usually results in a better experience/higher audio quality.

Most likely because those landline phones transmitted via a copper cable while mobile phones send the audio via a heavily compressed and shared wireless connection that isn't exactly all that reliable.

Cabled connections are superior to wireless ones, even more so because traditional landlines had dedicated connections and as such had no need to compress anything.

> You can "choose moderation" by not viewing Twitter accounts and conversations you don't care about and muting words you dislike.

In that case however I would also like the possibility to turn off any algorithms that recommend stuff to me. I want to see only things i put on my whitelist, otherwise i will have to constantly moderate and it will take up loads of my time.

As long as that doesn't happen I am more than happy to let others do the moderation based on some frameworks that I agreed on (ToS in Twitters case).

And while we are at it, maybe also bring back laptop docks that work by setting a laptop down on top of it? With connectors on the bottom of the laptop instead of a cable to plug in?

One can dream

> Right now the most convenient way to send money from EU to Russia is crypto.

Which is kind of the point right about now? I am not sure one can compare deliberately introduced sanctions to crappy products...

Which means the next generation would be even smaller and so on and so forth until at one point the thing is reduced to a point where it is no longer sustaining the spiral.

Or at least that's how I imagine it would go.

In other countries the caller pays for calls/texts. The way I understand it that isn't the way it works in the US (something about callers not knowing if they are calling landlines or mobile phones?)

For example, over here in Austria you can tell exactly what type of "line" a callee uses and so you know in advance how much you have to pay (even though in practice most people have unlimited calls/texts).

This means that when running a spam bot you will soon run into big issues because it simply doesn't pay off financially to send that many texts and calls.

What you are looking for is the Common Reporting Standard:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Reporting_Standard

So the information is still being exchanged, but as i understand it most stuff is essentially handled by local tax authorities, so for most people they don't need to care about it or fill out forms.

Isn't skin color based privilege the same though? If someone darkens their skin so everyone perceives them as black instead of white, then that person lost their privileges of that point forth.

White privilege is very much a treatment by society. Racism and sexism are both enacted upon by people based on social norms.

There was swing before that as well!

I think what OP was trying to get at is that a dark web crypto exchange would not offer any benefit over a clear web one (both need to know who you are to send cash).

Meanwhile, there simply is not clear web drug store, so dark web ones don't have to offer anonymity to their buyers

You might be talking about "Essentially Patents"?

> Standards organizations, therefore, often require members disclose and grant licenses to their patents and pending patent applications that cover a standard that the organization is developing. > https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essential_patent

Please not that this is less of a "You have to offer licenses or else" and more of a "Hey please do that."

Not really. With these souvenir shops etc they have a baseline price X for locals and then a price Y for tourists where the price Y is deliberately higher.

In the case of online goods they have a price X in USD because that is the currency the seller has / uses. They sell it to everyone at that price, they don't upcharge people who have to convert currencies.

Now, it is very well possible that those people will have to pay quite a lot for it, but that's because they buy from a seller based in a region that's financially better off and as such has higher prices in general, not because the seller tries to get as much as possible out of them.

Please don't miss understand, i do agree with you. In an ideal world one should be able to reason with others, people should care about their surroundings and the society that they are a part of.

However, in the world that we live in you also need to keep in mind that we want to get things done. In my experience things such as eminent domain are only used after quite a while of failed negotiations.

The simple truth is that we expect our institutions and governments to get things done. We want them to eventually build a road, not argue with people for years on end whether or not they should sell their property. In many jurisdictions around the world eminent domain or similar is also tied to court proceedings, making it truly the last option.

The current status quo is a compromise nobody is happy with:

* People expect governments to actually get thing done * Some people cannot be reasoned with in a timeframe that is acceptable to society

So they came up with the easiest solution: Negotiate with them until it's clear they won't budge or it takes too long, then force it your way.

If there was a way to get everyone to see reason in a reasonable timespan we might not need the status quo. However, as of right now nobody around the world has achieved that. If anyone manages to do so then we might be able to get rid of things like eminent domain, but until that's the case we are stuck with it, for better or worse.

Same behavior on windows in firefox. I am pretty sure this is the default for most browsers

> In this particular example can't the holdout see how it would benefit the economy (as roads do) that they're part of, possibly reduce emissions into the environment they live in, etc.?

Zou are trying to use logic here, but the simple truth is that a lot of times people don't care about that. They are emotional beings. They simply do not care about any of the points you made, they want to keep their house/property/whatever. They don't care.

Smoking is bad for people and the people around them, yet many don't quit. Wearing masks is great for the public good, yet many do not. One could go on about vaccines and other topics but the simple truth is: They do not care.

That is why laws exist to take these properties from them. If they are absolutely opposed to the offers made, unwilling to sell and can't be moved then you take the property, hand them what others agree is a fair price (or at least the fairest they can come up with), and go through with it anyways.

It did have this:

> as of v11 this module uses the peacenotwar module.

Over on its NPM site: https://www.npmjs.com/package/node-ipc

And as far as i can tell they bumped up the major version by a digit. Whether or not that counts as a "Bright red warning" i don't know but personally i believe that a warning notice + a major version bump should be enough. Those who don't care about that would most likely not care about a bright red warning on the repo page either.

It's clearly a questionable thing to do, but is it illegal?

Did they inform you that the food was poisoned? Does it come with a bright red wrapper saying "warning poison?

If they just hand you food without a word then (at least in quite a few jurisdictions, but maybe not all) they are liable.

> no warranty, expressed or implied

This isn't enforceable in quite a few jurisdictions anyways. The best you can do is "No warranty to the extend permitted by law" at which point this specific use case is pretty much no longer relevant.