Article II, Section 1, Clause 7 of the US constitution would disagree with this assertion

The President shall, at stated Times, receive for his Services, a Compensation, which shall neither be encreased nor diminished during the Period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that Period any other Emolument from the United States, or any of them.

The fact that a government agency doesn't have protections against this, when I can't even plug a thumb drive into my mere 'corporate' work PC is absurd.

Eh, just start charging fines to companies that issue incorrect DMCAs. You can even put it on a 'per offense' basis. Get it wrong once on accident, well that's only $10. This is your 100th time issuing a DMCA that gets reversed? Bam $100,000 fine. If the risk of getting it wrong is that high companies will make sure they double check their DMCA complaints before issuing them.

The 7th amendment states that in civil cases, your right to a jury is preserved. By signing an agreement with an arbitration clause, you are waiving your right to bring a lawsuit in the first place. There is nothing in the Constitution that preserves your right to bring a case.

I think it's a lot of things. Sure there's been other voice apps before. Sure there's been other text chat apps before, sure there's been forum like rich media platforms before. But I think discord is probably the first platform to integrate all of these things together relatively well, AND because you only need one singular 'discord' account you can join multiple servers without needing to create 20 different accounts for each one. Additionally it takes a lot of the relatively arcane technical aspects of creating and moderating a forum or chat room and eliminates it, so the average layperson can easily make a discord server about any topic.

Very valid points, and very likely what they'll do. The primary purpose of my post was to point out the error of OPs math.

Your numbers are off, 1BTC valued at about $49,000 on Coinbase as of this posting, and that's actually down from recent highs of over $60,000. 3879 X $49,000 is about $190,000,000 at current market prices. If anything Sony has gained money from this attempted theft.

There are some unique qualities to comics that make them attractive over other media. For one thing it's far easier to self publish a novel concept or story in comic form than it is to create a fully animated feature. It's also much easier to 'eyecatch' someone with a comic given it's visual medium than it is to sell someone on prose. It's less of a time investment than a full length book, which is appealing for both people trying to sample something to see if they'll enjoy it, and for people who don't have lengthy periods of time to sit and read. You can typically get through a chapter of a comic in just a few minutes.

So I don't think that comics are dying per se, just like how radio didn't completely destroy the written medium, or video games destroy television. It's a different form of entertainment and has it's own strengths and weaknesses just like any other.

This is a solved problem that's in a transition phase. The world didn't get rid of all it's incandescent light bulbs for CFLs and LEDs overnight either.

Current 'proof of work' style cryptocurrencies are going to lose out long term to alternative validation methods like proof of stake. While the electricity cost of PoS block generation isn't zero, it's a far cry from current PoW mining. Conservative estimates say that the eventual switch of ethereum to PoS will reduce the electricity costs of block validation by over 99%.

Blockchain technology is here to stay and despite all the joke currencies out there there are a number of legitimate things happening in the crypto space that have significant real world applications. Like Helium for example.

There's also a lot of interest in crypto in parts of the world that don't have access to traditional banking. And smart contracts give Ethereum a lot of potential uses.

Is there a lot of speculation still going on with crypto; sure. Is it possible that the value of Bitcoin drops significantly, maybe even to zero? Absolutely. But cryptocurrencies in some form or fashion are undoubtedly here to stay.

Technically NVIDIA doesn't manufacture chips at all; they're an R&D company. They produce the designs and outsource the actual production.

People should not be beholden to bribes, *ahhem* excuse me, I meant to say tips to make a living. You should be paid a reasonable wage for whatever work you do from your employer, not have to rely on the customer to give you extra money above and beyond the price of the goods or services rendered.

A non-fungible-token. Essentially it's a cryptographic token on a block chain that is functionally unique. Unlike say 1 bitcoin, which is functionally identical to another bitcoin, and is therefore 'fungible' (or how one 1 dollar bill is functionally identical to another dollar bill also making it fungible), an NFT is functionally unique. You cannot simply swap one NFT for another as they are not interchangeable. Each one represents something unique and ownership of the NFT is cryptographicly secured by the ethereum blockchain. The problem that this article is point out is that even if you have ownership of a token for digital artwork in the form of a URL or what not, if the original URL goes offline you basically own a permanent dead link.