I blame faulty condoms for RFK Jr

It was all for show from the start.

“Hallelujah!” Sounds way better in Arabic.

According to who?

That’s the basic definition of capitalism: Free market + legal framework that enforces agreements and private property.

Capitalism by definition runs on legal framework. If you’re not adhering to the legal framework, you’re not engaging in capitalism

Are you concerned that Valve runs away with your money?

So there is a network and backbone to it

Yes, it’s a permissionless P2P network.

And you need to do something more than “I give this person a bitcoins for my game”

Signing and sending transaction is exactly it. Transaction says that you send your bitcoins to an address controlled by the other person.

especially when working through a separate storefront. Both to ensure that the person receives their game and you receive their currency.

Crypto doesn’t ensure you get the product. Like with real cash, other party might just run away with money

Well, you take their address, sign a message with your private key saying .001 bitcoin goes there and propagate it over the network. But in very simple terms yep, bitcoins magically land on their address. Whole thing sustains itself on economic incentives and cryptography, without any central authority

As long as merchant doesn’t need to convert from crypto to regular currency, no third party is involved in the transaction, it’s a direct P2P system - in other words - perfect digital cash

Cryptocurrencies themselves are automated, self sustaining systems - no regulation applies at that level at all. In reality crypto “payment processors” provide services of instant exchange to regular currencies, and aren’t even mandatory (but they’re very convenient).

So regulation applies, but only to optional middleman that perform conversion and send regular currency to the merchant

Use crypto wherever you can.

Sixteen kilobytes on the 5200. Sixty-four on the XEGS

Actually, RAM was the most limiting factor back then. Everyone wanted more, so Atari delivered

Used Galaxy S21 for 4 years. Didn’t like that phone. Issues with overheating, I didn’t like Samsung custom interface, battery life too short at the end and loudspeakes are mid.

Go for Pixel 9a. Its fresh this years phone, 7 years of support, Doesn’t cost a kidney, and has pretty good battery. It doesn’t have headphone jack tho.

Yes it would be. You’re wearing it with clear intent of damaging equipment.

You’re missing the point. If your location is outside of UK YouTube and others don’t ask for age verification. Noo need to send your child pics to some creepy middle man

I think UK government has no idea what they’re doing. First the stupid age verification which will eventually result in massive leak of private information, now this.

If they wanted to save the environment they should push for mix of nuclear and renewable energy sources. But that requires effort…

Nope. Server farms are by design made with energy efficiency in mind. You can’t push them any further with regulation

Also super long term archives are stored on magnetic tapes, they consume virtually 0 energy

What is this about???

Where I live there’s no such thing as ‘antisocial driving’. There’s driving under influence. Driving without licence. Causing noise during night hours. Ect.

The Metropolitan police said the cars, including twin purple Lamborghinis, were either unroadworthy or being driven illegally.

BTW, how brand new luxury car can be unroadworthy?