Why does it have to be in the USA? You can IPO at other stock exchanges. For example, CD Projekt Red, the game studio that developed the Witcher series and Cyberpunk 2077, is listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange (Poland) and valued at ~$10bln (although the stock price has been really volatile recently).
Good point, I haven't played games much since the late 90s and I'm returning to gaming only now (partially thanks to Proton), so my experience with multi-player is based mostly on modem or LAN parties with friends, where the social aspect helped to prevent cheating. I guess it's very different now when you can play with random people on the other side of the world.
Maybe that trade-off should be more flexible and dependent on the "league" a given player wants to play in. The criteria could be more strict for the "pros" where cheating can lead to significant gains, like professional athletes who have to pass regular anti-doping tests, but you wouldn't expect the same invasive checks from (for example) people participating in a charity run.
I get your point, but wasn't Linux the simple solution that got improved over time vs GNU Hurd which tried to implement the perfect micro-kernel architecture?
I've never used 1Password, but both LastPass and Bitwarden support hardware tokens like Yubikey for two-factor authentication. Keeping the encrypted store locally might give you some edge, but I personally need to be able to access secrets from more than one device, and once you allow external access then the advantage of your solution compared to hosted services disappears.
Agreed, and you can easily add proper tiling support with the Krohnkite extension, which makes anybody coming from a DWM-inspired tiling WM like Xmonad feel instantly at home.
Belarus is the last European dictatorship considered a pariah state with no international influence and propped up economically by Russia, so I don't think it has much leverage over Apple. The situation would be very different if it was, for example, China.
I think you're confusing "trust" with "belief". Trust (and reputation) is the foundation of human society and doesn't have to be related to religion. You get on a plane based on trust in the science and engineering that makes them fly, not because you personally verified every single component. Personal verification simply doesn't scale.
> A better question would be why America has a two-track system of rights, where one must constantly defend their violation from the government, but also completely abandon them the moment they walk into their workplace.
One argument could be that it's much easier to change jobs than to change citizenship.
Not really, for example Reader had really low maintenance costs. In fact at some point it was maintained by some of its former developers in their 20% time with no official head count.
Makes sense, I personally don't mind snaps for proprietary applications (mostly Slack and Spotify) which are otherwise hard to discover and keep up to date on Linux, but I don't understand why Canonical would force this for Chromium which is already packaged and open source.
I agree in principle, but it's worth pointing out that Snap is designed for end-user applications, so it's unlikely to be used on a server or in a Docker image built for deployment.
Specialist cops with machine guns were deployed at train stations and airports in case of a major terrorist attack after a couple of them took place across Europe, not to deal with "regular" crime, so the situation is very different.
> They reuse shared data, similar to how Git only tracks the delta's between commits, rather than multiple, full copies of the file.
I learned about immutable data structures at Rich's conference talk years ago, and the whole concept blew my mind as well. However, what you said above is not strictly correct. The idea is not to store deltas (which is what Subversion does), but immutable copies of objects (in case of Git identified by their SHA-1) that can be used to build multiple versions of a hierarchical data structure (e.g. a list, tree or hash map). Git commit is basically a tree of other objects with some metadata. The problem with deltas is that they need to be iteratively applied to some base snapshot which requires computation (and probably a cache as well), while immutable objects are easily accessible in constant time.
We developers sometimes struggle with the distinction. The point of laws and regulations is usually not to make fraud technically impossible, but increase the cost and/or risk of getting caught. People still use locks on doors even though they are easy to pick.
The sad truth is that it's much easier to make money on people who are less savvy and not good with money. They are less likely to switch, more likely to take a loan or overdraft, and have to pay higher interest rates.
The world has changed a lot since 1987, so this post-colonial mindset might need revisiting. I don't know about cotton mills, but now the biggest steel manufacturer in the world is ArcelorMittal, an Indian company. On the other hand, British Steel was initially acquired by Tata, an Indian conglomerate, and recently "rescued" from insolvency by a Chinese investor. Any productivity advantages in manufacturing that might have existed decades ago are clearly gone by now.
I really hope that in the near future at least some African countries could be in a position to move up the value chain and take control of their own destiny as well.
Let's assume that you're genuinely interested in having a conversation, not just shifting the definition to fit your argument, and I will give it another go: Most subcultures regardless of the generation (e.g. punk, metal, emo) use "weirdness" to distinguish themselves (with music, fashion, looks) in order to distance themselves from the mainstream and are often considered cool as a result of that.
Just a random example: I personally consider obsession with anime weird, but kind of cool at the same time. Are you sure that you cannot name anything you would consider both weird and cool?