Debian.

FLACs are about half the size of WAVs, but more importantly they have a standardized metadata format so you get proper artist/album/title/etc tags.

Paper cash is at least liquid.

Stock prices are part real company value (current assets and profit), part speculation on future profits, part speculation on future stock price based on various theories ranging from price curve shapes to planet alignment. Changes to profit outlooks for a company still have strong effects on stock prices so they are not completely disconnected.

The price of Bitcoin is however purely based on how many are currently buying hoping to sell later at a higher price, compared to how many are selling now at the current price. When people realize that the size of the total cryptocurrency market can grow infinitely by adding more and more cryptocurrencies, meaning zero scarcity, meaning infinite inflation, the Bitcoin bubble will burst because its price is all about the idea that it is a scarcity. The ability to easily and automatically exchange back and forth between CCs takes away from the value of each individual CC, making it all about the total CC market.

Languages evolve because most people are too stupid to learn their languages properly.

Very soon the only free-to-read news media will be far left/right populist, conspiracy theory and other nutwing media with agendas.

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Except that that's wrong. My main browser for the last two years has been Opera, on Linux, Mac and Windows desktops. Opera is faster than at least Chrome, Safari, Vivaldi and Edge. Firefox 57 is faster than Opera and is now my browser of choice again. With "faster" I mean subjective responsiveness, how fast it feels.

I have been running the nightlies and betas for months and I love it. It made me finally come back to Firefox after using Chrome for about 5 years, then Opera for the last 2 years.

Firefox 57 is what finally made me return to it after using Chrome and Opera for many years. Firefox 57 is super responsive! Less sluggish than even Opera.

It was used in the Compis computer that were common in Scandinavian schools throughout the 80s and early 90s. I learned touch typing on one of those.

Can I completely disable Google Assistant? I can't think of a moment where I ever would prefer talking to my computer over typing. At public transport people would think I was a psycho talking to myself. At home, my partner would come 10 seconds later asking "excuse me, what did you say?" thinking I said something to her. In an office space, people would think I should shut up and just use the keyboard like a normal person.

That's because those still reading Slashdot have gotten old, conservative and grumpy. The Slashdot community used to love throwing out bath water full of babies to fix underlying architectural problems. Like if you complained about a kernel or X11 update breaking your Nvidia driver you were just a whiny baby who were just too stupid to appreciate the value of some reduced spinlocking in some thing that never affected you. We were proud of cleaning up shit for the long term even when it caused short term pain. Nowadays, it's just the opposite.

Lake Eat-a-lot.

Wait for Firefox 57 to be released in November. Try the nightly builds if you can't wait. It's worth it.