I am an avid user of Linux, but the fact that it is 2022 and we are still boasting about improved Bluetooth connectivity in a major distro release is a perfect illustration of just how far Linux has to go before it is a serious competitor to Windows and OSX on the desktop.

What is actually sad is how much time this PRINCIPLE engineer wasted performing this experiment. Relying on an ORM to produce optimized queries for different SQL engines is naive. I expect that if the author took a few hours to do some research and write some optimized views instead of relying on ORM he would have seen 2x or better response times over SQLite.

But it does point to a fundamental problem with these NFTs. Most people who purchase these probably believe the are actually purchasing the the image and all associated rights. BAYC still owns the images pointed to by the NFT. The people who purchased the NFT own nothing but bragging rights.

True. But he actually gets to own the physical painting. NFTâ(TM)s rarely come with copyright, and the NFT amounts to nothing more than a URL to a document hosted on the public internet.

Plenty of people buy used cars, especially young people and people at the low end of the wealth/income spectrum. My first vehicle was a 1990 Pontiac Grand Am that my dad bought for me when I was 18 for $900 in year 1999. I considered myself privileged that my dad could buy me a vehicle, even a $900 jalopy. Many young people's parents cannot afford to buy their child a car. Those kids who really want a car will buy a used vehicle with whatever money they can earn flipping burgers or stocking store shelves.

We can't just hand-wave away the fact that not everyone can afford a new car, or even qualify for a loan large enough to purchase one.

It's going to take manufacturers retiring their ICE vehicle assembly lines so that no new consumer ICE vehicles are available. ICE vehicles past their useful life that are on the roads now will need to be replaced with EV's. It's going to take a decade or more for this transition (Mine and my wife's current vehicles are nine years old and function perfectly well, and will continue to do so for several more years). While we wait for these vehicles to cycle out, we need a strong push to install EV infrastructure everywhere. I think it will eventually take a program similar to Obama's "cash for clunkers" that will incentivize stragglers holding on to their ICE vehicles to trade them in for a credit toward a new or used EV. Car dealers are not going to want those cars for trade-in because they are past their useful life.

And, for at least 4 years of the next decade, we should expect a Republican government who is going to put up every obstacle to the EV transition. I would not be shocked if the next republican president reverses any Biden policy to install or accelerate EV adoption.

I am for EVâ(TM)s, to be clear. However, EVâ(TM)s are expensive up-front and inconvenient for many people. Many people overnight park on a street, or in a parking lot and cannot slow-charge while they sleep and will be reliant on charging stations. Many cannot afford a new car, and buy used. Used EVâ(TM)s are not plentiful or cheap.

âoeSorry, world. We were going to do something about the vast amount of CO2 emitted by our transport infrastructure, but someone vandalized a charger, so we gave up.â

If your solution to any problem is âoeAmericans will change their behaviorâ then your solution is unworkable. The only solution is to make owning and operating an electric vehicle as inexpensive and convenient as driving a vehicle with an internal combustion engine.

My position is not that all labor is exactly equally valuable and fungible thus every person who does any form of labor should receive the same pay for the same time performing any labor. My position is that some labor is rewarded far beyond any reasonable level of compensation, and that compensation is not based on the value of such labor or the initial risk of the investment.

You realize that billionaires are billionaires because they keep an inequitable share of the profits from the labor of others, do you not? Does Jeff Bezos literally work 10,000x harder or more efficiently than his warehouse employees and is thus entitled to 10,000x more of the profits? Of course not. Billionaires do not earn their billions. They inherit them, they horde them, or they steal them.

Demonstrably false. Many of the largest businesses still in existence today were built at a time when the top income tax bracket was over 90%. During the same time the middle class was built, and so was American infrastructure, and our education system was among the best in the world. Federal income taxes largely built this country, and without them our infrastructure rots, our education system is falling behind, and income inequality is at its worst in US history.

Inventor of Bitcoin, probably: âoeThe government failed to properly regulate the banking industry, resulting in a collapse, bailout, and the deepest recession in decades.â âoeTo stop this from happening again, we need to create a currency and financial system that is impossible to regulate. That will solve our problems caused by too little government regulation.â

⦠say all of his campaign advisors. I have no love for Trump - none - but his Twitter account was the best thing for his opposition. Keeping him off Twitter has not slowed the disinformation juggernaut that is right-wing opinion media, and never was he less popular than when he was tweeting his paranoid, delusional, and despotic ramblings for everyone to see.

The professor did not say that they do not /read/ the work. If you read TFA, you would see the bits about her leaving feedback for the authors.

Except that the comment was no statement of opinion. It was a prediction based on a trope.