That part is very easy to implement without all the extra cruft that a blockchain also brings with it. Git manages to do that same thing without burning a ton of coal every time you make a commit.
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But then again, WhatsApp actively hides the feature away behind menus and pretends it's not really a thing, while Element is a bit more pushy about telling you about it.
"A casino offers a game of chance for a single player in which a fair coin is tossed at each stage. The initial stake begins at 2 dollars and is doubled every time heads appears. The first time tails appears, the game ends and the player wins whatever is in the pot. Thus the player wins 2 dollars if tails appears on the first toss, 4 dollars if heads appears on the first toss and tails on the second, 8 dollars if heads appears on the first two tosses and tails on the third, and so on. Mathematically, the player wins 2^(k+1) dollars, where k is the number of consecutive head tosses. What would be a fair price to pay the casino for entering the game?"
The expectation value for how much you'll win from this game is infinite, so a naive game theory assessment might conclude that it's worth paying up to an infinite amount of money to play this game.
Of course, the issue is that nobody has an infinite amount of dollars in their pocket. That, incidentally, is also the issue with your naive assessment of insurance policies.
It's not literally a "skin", Firefox on iOS is actually a separate Apple-approved app. It's just that they're forced to embed the Safari engine rather than using Gecko for it.
Don't want them to know your phone number or email address? Simply don't give it to them. It won't break your Matrix experience in any way. Using the centralized identity server is entirely opt-in for this specific reason.
If you were to (theoretically) simulate the whole judgement process with all of its real world parameters, including whether or not the judge has eaten lunch yet, the computer would definitely conclude that the result will depend on whether the judge has eaten lunch yet.
However, whether or not it should depend on that is a judgement that the computer can't and won't make.
It was also never within the scope of Wayland to provide these kinds of APIs (previously when screen capture was available through the X11 interface, that was more of an accident than an intended feature, and it was an intentional design choice not to repeat this mistake in the design of Wayland).
Instead, compositors and applications (that use the Wayland protocol to communicate) were supposed to agree on a standard interface to do these kinds of things and then use that interface. And that's in fact what they did, by implementing the XDG desktop portal system (that's entirely separate from Wayland). I also see evidence of this interface existing as far back as 2016, although I didn't go digging for when it was initially invented.
Notice that this article doesn't say "is it now possible to screen capture when using Wayland", it only says that OBS Studio now uses this standard interface for screen capturing.
Usually that path is: boot the phone into bootloader mode, plug it into a computer, run `fastboot oem unlock`, accept the warning that this will void your warranty, then `fastboot flash <image file to flash>`. An officially documented and supported way to do exactly what you want with the device that you own.
Yes, it voids your warranty, but it's not forbidden or illegal in any way.
> 3. Derived Works
> The license must allow modifications and derived works, and must allow them to be distributed under the same terms as the license of the original software.
Of course if you meant something like panels on the side of the road, or roofs, or something like that then that's fine, those installations would just be pretty standard solar panel installations. But covering the road surface itself is just a bad idea that would require a significant engineering effort and massive cost to work to any degree at all.
Nokia's headquarters have been in the city of Espoo for a long time (near Helsinki). The area in Espoo where they have their office, Otaniemi, is home to many Helsinki-area tech companies, Aalto University, and many science and engineering institutions.
So basically the phones are designed by the same engineers, and the office where they are designed is right next-door to Nokia. The reason it's a separate company is just that Nokia is not that interested in making phones right now.