Government debt isn’t inherently bad.
For example, Infrastructure projects typically pay back several times in value, so it’s often sensible to fund these using debt. China has built shitloads of infrastructure over the past couple of decades
Government debt is bad if it’s not funding infrastructure and is instead being used to pay for things like tax breaks on the wealthy and vanity projects
Thanks for the knowledge, didn’t know that one
Laugh
A good baseline philosophy is that nothing really matters on the internet, especially on forums and social networks like Lemmy, etc
As long as you genuinely weren’t an asshole, it’s just funny that someone would block frivolously in such a small community of people
If you were an asshole, the block is a moment to self reflect
No one who could use that money is getting a cent of it
It’s just another way to funnel taxpayer cash away from tax payers
Like this is kinda death cult levels, now
We’re only talking about it because we’re very likely to get a new Labour leader and prime minister soon, so the candidates are either trying to/being forced to say something about it because our media has a fucking pathology for boosting talking points such as Brexit that might allow them to put Farage on the screen too.
Oh, I feel like I’ve gotta let you know the (post 2003/7?) Microsoft formats are technically “open” in that the spec is available for anyone to implement, license free
They saw ODF coming and made sure to kneecap any advantage
#3 is an incredibly recent development. You don’t need to go back even half a decade before everyone was happily gargling Microsoft
Microsoft had an almost total stranglehold on Office productivity software for about 3 decades, only their formats really mattered. I think they still have over 3/4 of business & enterprise market share.
Google’s productivity suite is probably in 2nd place in terms of usage today (much more popular than office outside of business) which I believe doesn’t have an external file format, followed by either LibreOffice (via OpenOffice, the originator of ODF) or maybe even the Apple suite.
Essentially the support isn’t super ubiquitous because, especially until recently, the percentage of documents created in that format is quite small compared to the Microsoft formats
HDHomerun is the commercial solution that is relatively painless assuming you have something that can run a client that supports it
Open source, you probably want to look at tvheadend and a USB DVB-T tuner (hauppauge still make decent ones I believe) attached as the next most straightforward option, it can take a little bit to get set up but it’s pretty seamless once it is. Same caveat about clients
You can do it with any language where whitespace doesn’t matter and Whitespace
It’s not unheard of there to be English language tracks that drop in random French, Italian or Spanish words and phrases
It’s just regular cultural exposure to other languages ultimately. No rule says you need to stick to one language in a song, so some musicians throw in some stuff from other languages they’ve heard, because why not
I’ve always wondered why Americans “take” things so much. “Take a shit”, “take a shower”, “take a look”
You “go for” or “have” those things in OG English.
Now, I know one of the reasons Piefed exists and has had success is down to how people don’t like the political views of the main Lemmy devs.
That said, I’ve gotta be honest, the personal opinions of the Piefed dev seem to have a much more tangible impact on the software than the other guys. This is definitely not the first instance of subjective default post filtering being built into the software.
Given the demographics of the fediverse I’m surprised this kind of clandestine moderation hasn’t had more of a pushback.
Kinda
In a normal transaction without a phone you use a plastic card issued by MasterCard/Visa/Amex (or a local processor). The processing company charges a merchant a small percentage fee on that transaction to the business. In some places they might add that processing fee to the bill, but that’s illegal in my country nowadays.
When you add Google/Apple into the mix, they’re importantly not replacing anyone, they’re just adding themselves in to basically just replace the “plastic” part with “virtual” in what I said before. So the payment processor still takes the same fees they always have, it’s just a phone talking to the card reader rather than a chip in a card.
So how do they make money? I believe Apple just charges the bank a small percentage, which I imagine they reconcile out of the payment processor fees. Google, on the other hand, I think offers it to banks for free, because as is tradition, they’re more interested in the data.
Worse, the NSA is (theoretically) below the government in the pecking order
Palantir are trying to elevate themselves above governments
That’s a bad thing because ostensibly democracy allows us to influence the government, there’s very little we can do to influence palantir
Lol of course he is
UK/EU has had contactless payments via our bank cards for about 2 decades now. America caught up eventually some years later
When phones got the ability to act as our bank cards, it made sense for them to use something compatible with the same technology that was already deployed
Funnily enough, America (and I guess also Korea, given the companies) dragging their heels on standard contactless is one of the main reasons why Samsung/LG briefly put out a couple of generations of phones that had a magnetic stripe mimicking payment feature in addition to standard NFC (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_secure_transmission)
Data centres notoriously don’t have heads, but I love the enthusiasm
Literally to private equity, right?