Fortunately most countries have other methods of licensing plumbers, electricians, doctors, lawyers, nannies, or nurses. Most are far more stringent than taxi drivers. So the city doesn't need to take responsibility for it.

In most places you cannot turn up at a hospital and say "I'm not a licensed nurse, but that's ok, I'm just "sharing" medical care, not providing it. Now pay me."

I don't see a need for licensing painter or interior decorators, TBH.

And yet it takes so long to say what you summarise in four lines.

Yes, the all the math is good to see, it's not just making this all up. But this article starts out so promising and ends abruptly just when it gets around to the interesting bit.

The article is very shy about actually saying how many people contribute to, or watch, these streams.

I guess if you say you "Got the Internet To Watch People Code", it can mean just about any number from 2 to 200 million. But who's counting?

Having them as addons is the browser makers getting the message. Some people want what an addon does, some people don't. Providing capability for addons to deliver functionality is giving people exactly what they want, and not burdening them with stuff they don't want.

Or would you rather have your browsers provided as bloatware full of functionality you don't want and can't get rid of?

Was a 50-50 option too obvious to include?

Because it may not be the end user who has done the overclocking. The supplier may have in order to claim a higher spec to the hardware than NVidia is willing to support.

Also, by providing the option it could be claimed that NVidia is supporting the option. That makes them liable if it causes a problem, particularly something nasty like overheating and an electrical fire.

Can you spot the flaw in the plan?

See it now?

The whole idea is riddled with problems just waiting to happen. How will they know I live where I say I live? Are they going to verify that?

What's stopping me registering the property of a drone operator so they can't fly in their own property?
What's stopping me entering my address, and all of my neighbours?
If a drone still flies over my property, who do I sue?
If the last owner of my house made it a no-fly zone, but I want to fly drones in my back yard, how do I remove my house from the list?
What's stopping me asking to remove other peoples' house from the list?
Does having a drone flying one foot outside of my property boundary really differ from a drone flying one foot inside my property boundary? It can still see over my property.

Why would Sony be getting paid for adverts on a Samsung TV?

Except I didn't know exactly what they meant. I thought it was indicating the discovery of some kind of volcanic activity. I have never heard or seen "pop" used alone in place of of "pop into view" or even "pop up".

There's a big difference between language change and single instances of rotten use.

Q: How do you know if someone doesn't own a TV?

A: Don't worry, they'll soon tell you.

Are you seriously suggesting that a fish understood the concept of "breathing air", decided it would be useful, and set itself the target of developing lungs?

"Keep anything" of what?

This is the split of what Spotify pays out, not what users and advertisers pay in to Spotify.

Except it's not just their messages. It's messages sent to and from others, who didn't sign up for gmail, just corresponded with it.

And you're at least a decade slow if you think that google is "an email service".

I found this post IAU.