The factorio developers were banned from their own subreddit temporarily for saying that they don't give a fuck about cancel culture.

Pretty much this. I also got sick late October, I wanted to get tested but could not. The closest testing site was over twenty minutes away, and this is in a busy area in the suburbs of Chicago. They also specifically said, if you are showing symptoms, don't show up. So my only real option was to go to the hospital, and as sick as I was, I didn't want to burden them with my presence in case someone truly sick needed care.

How is Venezuela's fiat currency working out for them? Your argument that fiat cannot fail does not follow reality. Plenty of countries around the world have issued fiat, even controlled alternate currencies as much as they could, and it has failed miserably. Also, as I already said earlier, bitcoin is more of a long term value store, less computationally intensive cryptos would be more common in the future, and they would be used for daily transactions, not bitcoin. But having a 'gold standard' to fall back on, even if it is transactionally and electrically expensive, is a good thing, and bitcoin fills that role.

You can literally say the same for any fiat currency. It is a complete non argument. Think of how much money we would save by getting rid of all the banks, all their small satellite offices, all their data centers, all the stock brokers, all the high frequency traders, all the corrupt credit card vendors and their operations. Going all in on crypto would save electricity in the long run. Plus, once we hit 95%+ renewable generation, this is a moot point anyway. But we are then free of leagues of corrupt businesses that serve no purpose whatsoever, other than to screw over the average person.

At this point? It really isn't a pyramid scheme. It has proven itself. People who keep parroting this are going to be left in the dust, and fast. The main issue is that modern banks offer no value whatsoever to the average consumer. It used to be that banks wanted they privilege of taking care of your money, and they would pay you for it, in terms of interest. Modern banks see the average consumer as a liability instead. They must insure each account under $100k, the vast majority. The end result is checking accounts with 0% interest, and savings accounts with 0.5% interest. If you do not meet minimum cash balance thresholds, they actually charge you a monthly fee. You can 'invest' in CDs... locking up your money for 6+ months, to get, at best, 2% interest (and often far less). The modern banking system is a complete and utter failure. Your only alternative then, is stocks, literally gambling. A system that we saw just weeks ago is completely rigged, where big financial institutions can 'borrow' shares that don't even exist, to drive stock you own out of business, and they will collude with the rest of the market to make sure you cannot trade the asset they are tanking. Or you can put it in crypto, and via deflation alone, you are guaranteed better returns on your money than anything a traditional bank offers. There are crypto services out there that also offer guaranteed 13% interest if you invest for a 6 month crypto 'CD'. You can even use gambling sites and probably make money far more reliably than anything you would get from stocks. The fact of the matter, is that the old financial system is dying. And good riddance. It has not served any meaningful purpose in decades, only existing to assist the government in market manipulation.

I think most crypto long term investors see bitcoin as a long term asset, to be used to transfer large chunks of value at once, or as a long term value store. Stuff like buying a car, a house, or transferring chunks of accounts from one bank account/bitcoin/other cryptocurrency to another. So they would hold bitcoin, then transfer chunks at a time to a more lightweight modern cryptocurrency that they can then use for smaller faster purchases. It is like a bank account, except it gains value, instead of losing value like in USD based accounts.

Trump lost the election decisively. Trump lost the election decisively. Trump lost the election decisively.

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Trump lost the election decisively. Trump lost the election decisively. Trump lost the election decisively.

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Can this even compile large projects? AFAIK chromium for example requires more than 16GB of ram to compile.

I guarantee they just stole the designs from Boeing. But hey... we got... cheap scientists who left the country after stealing the plans after 2 years of citizenship in return...? So its a win?

Absolutely, and that is why I am excited about this. 5k seems to be the sweet spot, which is why Apple started making 5k monitors in the first place, but just about nobody else is making monitors higher res than 5k. Luckily TVs are going to push 8k just because they need a higher number to advertise, so we will finally have options for very high ppi monitors just by buying 8k TVs.

The selling point for the original iPhone was that it was purely apple made apps only. There was no App Store. Then when they debuted the App Store, they specifically marketed it as high quality apps deliberately curated by Apple, with the garbage apps left out. You can pretend the history of the App Store is something else all you want, but that doesn't change reality. If developers want a slice of that $54 billion, they can play by Apple's rules. Anyway, we will see what happens. In court. I fully expect Epic to lose this case hard.

Not having 3rd party apps was literally the selling point of iPhones. Apple marketed as such, and consumers bought it as such. This is specifically what iPhone owners want. Whether or not Epic 'could' go into another line of business is irrelevant, they are already involved in a larger market than mere smartphone business. They make games, and an 'app store'. They can sue Apple for banning one or the other, but each is a separate issue and has a separate greater market. In both cases Apple is not a majority market player, and thus cannot be monopolistic.

The only conceivable 'class' I could see having grounds to sue Apple for App Store lockin, are iOS users themselves. It would be an interesting argument, but something tells me the fact that Apple markets the lockin up front, even touting it, and their ToS, would make for a very difficult case.

Right, but the fact that those other markets exist and that they operate in them, all of them, not just on phones, is Epic's standing. And in that greater market, Apple is not even close to a monopoly player.

Not a lawyer, but since Epic is the plaintiff, the standing would be based on the market they operate in, which would be 'gaming platforms in general', as they sell Fortnite and other games on a wide range of platforms. So, is Apple a monopoly in the greater games marketplace? Not even close. You have Windows, Xbox, Playstation, Switch, and Android as competitors. This would give the courts a convenient way to rule on the case without having to worry about the harder question of whether or not to regulate the App Store within its own market, mobile devices. Courts seem to love this sort of deferring the harder aspects for later.