It's not irrelevant. To understand what the program is actually doing and how the computers actually work, you need to understand pointers. They aren't necessary in day to day work, but not understanding how they work will lead to subtle bugs.

Alphabet can absorb way more fines than prison sentences.

Hopefully they won't be Evil.

In case you never took that course, the classical economist David Ricardo figured out that if you were a tenant farmer choosing between two lots of land, the difference in the productivity of the lands makes no difference to you. Thatâ(TM)s because if a piece of land yielded, say, ten thousand dollars more revenue per year, the landlord would simply be able to charge ten thousand more in rent. In essence landlords can demand all these economic advantages their land offers to the tenant.

All these tech companies are fighting to create platforms which you, in essence, rent from them. Why do you want to use these platforms? Because they promise convenience, to save you time. Why do the tech companies want to be in the business of renting platforms deeply embedded in peopleâ(TM)s lives? Because they see the time theyâ(TM)re supposedly saving you as theirs, not yours.

Sure, the technology *could* save you time, thatâ(TM)s what youâ(TM)d want it for, but the technology companies will inevitably enshittify their service to point itâ(TM)s barely worth using, or even beyond that if they can make it hard enough for customers to extract themselves.

The Earth's magnetic field is weakening which is measurable by the accelerating traversal of the magnetic poles. That's why a relatively small CME last year caused the same Northern Lights all the way down to Hawaii as the Carrington Event which was 10x stronger. The beauty is unquestionable but the impacts will cause us difficulty.

There was a recent solar storm which ionized the atmosphere more than we are used to as "normal" in our recent history, which sets up the conditions for lightning to travel further. The physics on it are pretty simple with all variables considered.

We're going to see more of these than we're used to as the pole shift continues to accelerate.

This happens every 6000 years or so and we're right on schedule but we're really unprepared to handle it. Preparing for this ought to be a planet-wide project for our species, and to help out the other species that rely on geomagnetic migration for their reproductive success.

As a kid in the 80's we only needed to update our compass calculations for variance to True North every 20 years or so; now it's yearly.

I wish Humanity could not plant their heads in the sand on this one but I'm planning like we will.

Exactly.

The question is if it has now become more efficient to collect the tariff than when de minimis was implemented. Does anyone know?

If not, this move is lose-lose no matter which way you look at it. Except, of course, if you're Trump since you get whatever is collected and l can add it to a total without mentioning that it cost a lot more to collect...

I notice the threshold for the USA is a lot higher than other countries...is the USA really so inefficient, comparatively?

Yes, it's quite rare that a Congressman's constituents are his voters.

Maybe a dozen, max.

Yet incumbents win reelection 92 % of the time.

We also have the government we deserve.

Just for history's sake, it's obvious that mimicking these cavities on a nanoscale chip could be very useful in optical computing.

Hello, future archive.org viewer.

> It also has its own NIC.

Now the story makes sense.

Thank you for the important context.

Now we know the name of the reboot character.

and only Play Store can do background security updates due to special privileges.

For F-Droid you have to run a Magisk extension on a rooted phone. That's bad for security because most people can't or won't.

Detractors claim Epic just wanted Google to run the Play Store infrastructure at a loss to increase Epic's profits.

Nobody numerate believes that but they claim Epic did it for that reason which would be shitty except they didn't.

Somebody could probably make a good business out of running a store at 5% markup.

They yammer on about Temu but the hardest hit sector will be small R&D shops that get parts and components as the need comes up and now they'll have 2-3 week delays on every order at Customs.

I've seen stuff disappear into the Customs black hole for six weeks and there's nothing you can do but reship and home the Chinese Roulette favors you.

It would be great if Adafruit and Sparkfun were 50x their size but that's not reality and manufacturing was driven out on purpose. It can't return for a decade even if a project were started today.

Watch: the media will say small businesses are complaining about the 15% to try to fool everybody. In prototyping almost nobody cares if an SoC is $10 or $11.50.

Trump's Corporate donors will be just fine and face fewer upstart competitors so it is working as intended.

You are what you think they are, and they are not what you think they are.

You're looking in the mirror mounted on a windmill.

All that to avoid switching over to DDG for another search?

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fduckduckgo.com%2F%3Fq%3Dmaur...

Haven't even tried Yandex for this one.

"Work too hard, I want somebody else to do it for me for free."

I don't begrudge anybody who takes two weeks to learn how to admin a linux system with Docker, but if you fail, keep working, don't insist everybody's municipal government take over and tax your neighbors to give you "free" luxury services.

And, yes, never will everybody have the skills to self-host. Some people could never learn to program their VCR and their oven clock always blinks. They can't even handle a Synology.

"I failed, this is doomed" isn't how a society progresses. Ask a friend to give you a hand.