Is that how you think about your bills?

“Your rent can be paid on the 10th, and you can pay late up to the 31st”

Ironic timing https://christianselig.com/2024/10/juno-removed/

I agree it’s dumb, but I’m also trying to understand how politicians think changing the tax rate for healthier or less healthy foods can possibly affect behavior in the USA when it’s set up this way in stores

There’s some evidence it somehow works https://publichealth.berkeley.edu/news-media/research-highlights/do-soda-taxes-work

But I’ve never known what I’ll be taxed on a specific item

My belief that it’s intended to incentivize behavior is from talks about things like the “soda tax,” where some goods are taxed at a different rate to try to reduce consumption

I don’t understand how they can be effective when you don’t see the price on the sticker, though

I was all in on GOG 10-12 years ago when they said they were working on Linux support “soon”

After so many years of promises and no action, while Valve pays developers to improve Linux gaming, I’d rather buy from Steam

Prices tend to be similar between the platforms here, though

Both GNU and GrapheneOS have staunch requirements and will accept no compromises.

This is a situation where their requirements don’t align, so they’ll never reach an agreement.

GrapheneOS, for example, is also strictly against making the Fairphone line of phones a little more secure because it doesn’t meet all of their security requirements

In this case GNU won’t certify GrapheneOS as fully open because it includes binaries that aren’t open

The FSF is more along your line of improving the situation where they can

If an attacker gets access to your system, they will be able to ensure you can’t get rid of their access

It will persist across operating system installs

However, this requires them to get access first

North/south imply certain regions can’t improve and is far worse than developed/developing

If layperson words didn’t have an issue with 1st/3rd world, you wouldn’t see so many comments about it

Yup, it does change. It was attempted to mean “poor” and it’s been reappropriated since

If you’re trying to use modern language, it’s “developed” and “developing”

We went with moissanite, and everyone thinks its an insanely expensive diamond

Moissanite is sparklier than diamond, so for what people look at in rings, it ends up looking better than diamond

It looks like an alternative to LocalSend rather than Syncthing

Not to mention that even in the 60’s Nixon’s cabinet has stated he specifically started the war on drugs and marijuana in order to imprison black people and anyone against the war.

“We could arrest their leaders. raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news”

https://www.cnn.com/2016/03/23/politics/john-ehrlichman-richard-nixon-drug-war-blacks-hippie/index.html

My assumption is that because “the state claimed the rights” for that specific book makes me think this is a special case in their laws

Can a US state or the federal government claim the right to someone else’s writing?

The Netherlands use the same copyright laws?

I always assumed that was just the US copyright system

Yeah, and as densities have increased, fewer passes have been needed to even do that

With an HDD, your operating system can (mostly) directly access bits on the magnetic disks, so you can wipe them by just writing 0 to it over and over (historically, there was a paper saying 7 times would make any bits unrecoverable - this changed as density got higher)

With SSDs, your operating system has very little control over what bits a write is touching, a lot more was moved into the firmware on the flash memory itself

So SSDs need a special command “Secure Erase” to wipe them

Ohhhh I read the congee statement as you shouldn’t eat it, not that you should

Now I understand. Thanks!

Not exactly - I’m wondering if 酸粥 is being discouraged, while the Han are still eating 稀飯

Do you know what the link to Uyghur is?

The Han Chinese people I know from Shaanxi still seem to eat congee regularly

Is there something lost in translation that the Uyghur style congee is different than the Han style or something?

Is anyone familiar with what they define as “exercising their freedom of expression”?

With the total number of people imprisoned globally for exercising their freedom of expression estimated to be at least 339

339 globally sounds extremely low to me