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Good on Vanguard for avoiding these risky, fad investments.

Some people are going to make money with this, and a lot of people will lose money. Likely due to either connections or luck, or, the lack of both of the formers.

The US does not have that. In fact, if you were to move to another job, it is very easy to commit more than you should have to your 401k (Roth or pretax) since the providers only let you contribute a percentage of your paycheck, vs a fixed amount to it.

Do not know if that is a legal requirement for the percentage of paycheck part.

IRAs have the same problem where you can contribute more than you should if you use two providers and contribute to both. They will only track it at their firm.

They said it has been disabled by default for years. There is a cost to maintaining it and a security risk for untested code. I agree with this removal.

> those systems cannot be fixed (old network hardware, doing V2V conversions from old RHEL, etc)

How old are these old systems? V2V conversions? What version of RHEL?

> Doesn't seem as "open and shut" as The Register wants readers to believe.

Looks pretty open and shut to me. Google employed a contractor to avoid the liability of those employees unionizing. In doing so it misclassified them since it is normally work an employee would do-not a contractor under labor law. They were already caught doing this previously according to the register.

> Also, employers refuse to negotiate with employees all the time - how would this be any different? Just because an employee (or group such as one represented by a union) doesn't have their demands met does not seem to automatically be "illegal".

Once a union is recognized by the NLRB an employer is required by law to make a good faith effort to negotiate. This is what? 80-100 year old American law?

https://www.nlrb.gov/about-nlrb/rights-we-protect/your-right...

> The employee's recourse, of course, is to leave/quit. Even if these contractors were classified as Google employees, Google can probably just say "no" to any demand anyway...

That is part of why collective bargaining improves the economic situation of most Americans. Google says no, they go on strike, and Google then has to choose to eat the cost replace and retrain most of those people in this market (and hope they don't unionize) or meet the demands.

Compare this to how Costco handled a unionization recently.

https://www.inc.com/suzanne-lucas/costco-employees-vote-unio...

Added: (and hope they don't unionize)

Nevada at the state level specifically levies taxes on mining rights and gambling.

Nevada is mostly desert with vast strands of land people do not inhabit. They rely on mines, the US government, and being next to California for their money. Area 51 for example. The Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository as another.

California in the past banned gambling so that is how Las Vegas got started. As far as I know now you can only gamble in the state lotteries or on Native American reservations.

They are also trying to do the Delaware thing and be a place for corporations to incorporate in. Many states charge franchise fees and income taxes on corporations. Nevada charges nothing except yearly filing fees. Last I checked Microsoft chose this state for their legal headquarters.

Local jurisdictions levy taxes on property and sales.

Why is this being downvoted? Seems informative to me.

> The more than 300 banks it has said are using the platform represent a fraction of the roughly 9,000 U.S. banks and credit unions.

The article claims big banks lobbying with their own competitor to FedNow delayed the rollout of real-time payments, according to those industry officials. But another factor I want to point out is that the USA has more small banks (and, I assume, credit unions) than any other country on Earth; affecting the ability for the network effects of a real-time payment system to take hold.

"The U.S. has more than 4,000 small banks. That's more than any other country in the world and more than all of the small banks in the entire European Union combined."

https://www.npr.org/2023/05/04/1173488958/silicon-valley-ban...

I am a member of one of the 20 largest credit unions in the US but they only allow to receive FedNow payments. Not send them. I am assuming it is expensive to setup and many small financial institutions may not be able to support it for years down the line.

> I think limits should be placed even on this, as poorer people are more likely to have a bad case as a plaintiff as they can only afford to personally represent themselves.

That is a bad argument. Poor people are unable to afford a lawyer in the first place for this (or they do not know they can sue over this-the poor tend to be poor in more ways than just money). They will act out in other ways. These lawsuits are primarily the domain of the rich or the middle class very vengeful.

Right now, the fact that judges have not already implemented anti-SLAPP as a rule instead of keeping these frivolous avenues to sue is another sign of corruption in the judiciary that keeps lawyers employed.

You can buy it with phone support for $349 per year.

https://www.redhat.com/en/store/red-hat-enterprise-linux-ser...

What do you, as a prosumer, need paid support for?

It is under the Q Public License. Had to look it up because it has been a while Qt used it.

Kinda, apps need to be ported to it, or your C library needs to be sneaky about it.

https://lwn.net/Articles/757042/

If anyone has a newer article, feel free to share.

Ah, makes sense. That is a real issue for Linux and how distros will handle that. Besides cutting 32 bit userland support.

What exactly is the compatibility code?

Surprised that armv7 will be getting 32bit support but not x86. I know arm is huge, but it's platform support is also fragmented compared to an x86 box. Can anyone share some more info on this?

Also surprised they are cutting Power. That is one of the 4 platforms RHEL supports.

> Many don’t even accept coupons or successfully read store loyalty cards. They also seem to be used more in stores that probably should have fewer of them.

Never had an issue with loyalty cards here in America. You scan and it works. Haven't used coupons in a while.

Literally people will look down on you if you don't buy an iPhone.

They back off when they find out my line of work, but you hear about bullying and peer pressure in school over bubbles. That does not end when you leave high school.

One VC said that people that buy Android don't have taste and wouldn't work with them. Now they say Android is for poor people. Freedom to sideload or install a custom os be damned.

For older games it is a mixed bag. Outpost 2 is still mostly broken on Proton last I tried (it was also broken for a while on Windows 10 till GOG patched it up).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIdyqchnPuQ

To clarify: I want to be able use GOG Galaxy for game syncing and convenience. That does not work well in my experience with Proton.

Not for a small screen like the steam deck. LTT complained 1080p made things way too small on Asus ROG Ally handheld while also hurting performance.

Times like this I am happy I am mostly Windows free with my work as a Linux kernel developer.

Still need Windows for a few things. Like playing my GOG.com games. No, Heroic or Lutris do not work well. With the exception of playing the rebuilds of Diablo I.

My next gaming machine will likely be Linux only if I ever get myself to finish the OG Baldur's Gate I and II. You can buy the Enhanced Edition on GOG and put in a support request to have the original added to your library. I bought the original when it came out on GOG. You may want to do that for mods or if you just prefer the original.

edit: To clarify: I want to be able use GOG Galaxy for game syncing and convenience. That does not work well in my experience with Proton.

And?

If they are doing most of the development they need a way to finance that.

Selling GPL exceptions is a Stallman approved tactic.

Why are you posting a nix file?

We are talking about a RHEL clone. Specifically the lack of dist-git pkg for the most heavily changed package that differentiates RHEL from an upstream distro. The forked Linux kernel source code.

This file does not point to that EL fork. Just the upstream with the zen patches... I guess? Not looking at it too much past that 6.6 value in the first few lines.

RHEL for each package has both a source-git and dist-git. The dist-git is used to build the package and for the src-git it can be a link to a tag to the upstream + some patches in the dist-git. Check the spec file. These look like copies of dist-gits.

The kernel is unique because RHEL forks the kernel and backports things while keeping a stable interface for testing and people to build upon (you won't see the removal of some drivers 6 years into the RHEL life cycle because upstream removed them).

Strange, I do not see a kernel or linux package.

And feature and standards support, when I was writing a web app using HTML5 video Firefox would freeze on Android. This was years ago. Thankfully do not have to worry about ESR for Android.

Indeed, wasn't until 2011 or so until I saw my first roundabout in the USA.

For my other Americans, read the Australian's post above. Can get across an entire town without stopping as a reason to remake our towns with roundabouts.

I have seen a few places not take Discover, or Amex, or only take Visa/MC here in the US.

Costco was unique because they used to only take Amex credit cards and then Citi/Visa won that business.

I thought the same thing as well.

Wanted to look up Godot's games since they seem to be in the lead for indie dev. Found out that Godot has at least 5 games on the Switch. 2 on xbox. Does not include the infamous bad port of Sonic Colors for the PC. Godot, except for the console kits, are MIT licensed.

https://godotengine.org/showcase/

https://www.reddit.com/r/godot/comments/pi83s0/sonic_colors_...

Take a quick look at how much fortnite is making per day in 2018.

https://www.cinemablend.com/games/2454545/the-insane-amount-...