Or, with the user's consent, the user could enter a postcode for tax estimation.

TIL: Leo (Bob) was a math major who tutored physics in college (in Philly).

Nerd as Pontiff could become interesting.

Maybe there are math majors who didn't drop acid in college and I just haven't met any.

I don't know in what world your idea would work. Why should U.S. companies sell any drugs to other countries if they didn't make a profit? Why should I subside sales in one country with the profits from another country other than trying to increase market share to later raise the prices? If a local branch does not manage to gain the margin I expect, I just close shop there.

Ironically, in every country I have heard the same complaint. There is a rumor that a drug is more expensive in your own country than in another one. That's always a clear proof that you pay the development of the drugs sold so cheap in the other country. I've heard the same in Germany, in France, in Spain... As it seems, each country pays the development of a drug for all the other countries in the world.

No. The reality is that each company charges the maximum for a product it can get away with. If the conditions in the U.S. allow to charge on average three times the prices than in other countries, then why would a company not do so? Why should it voluntarily forfeit two thirds of revenue? It has nothing to do with Research & Development, but all with trying to maximize profits.

You mean, like the United Kingdom, which got a deal for their car industry so sweet that the U.S. car industry has already complained? Donald Trump will probably sign anything which has the word "Deal" somewhere just to prove he got them. No one will ask him if the deal actually makes sense.

Reports differ. "Most third-party Nintendo Switch 2 games are Game-Key cards" by Michael Freeman claims that all third-party Switch 2-only physical launch titles other than CD Projekt's Cyberpunk 2077 are Game-Key Cards, citing a post on X by Gematsu. "Nintendo Switch 2 Editions", or games compatible with both Switch and Switch 2, are less likely to be GKCs.

Watch a chargeback not apply to purchases more than a few months ago. Better yet, watch you end up banned from video game store chains and hypermarket chains in your area.

And still, more people buy at IKEA, where you can mount everything with a Philips screwdriver and that funny Allen key you get in the bag with the hardware.

Why in the world would Linus Torvalds want a new kernel to run GNU on a PC? The commercial UNIX kernels that existed were fine.

Yes and no. The news is that the real results measured right now are at the upper level of the estimates, which means that reality is worse than the science popularizations have suggested so far - and they were already called alarmist, when in fact, they were understating the problem.

Our current system allows criminal fraud by corporate actors. A class action suit will cost less than the profit made from intentional fraud and Courts love to claim that a corporate shield protects these actions.

Perhaps it shouldn't.

Until it does don't trust any corporate promises without preagreed consequences.

This is not playing devil's advocate, this is whataboutism. Even more so, it proves the point of the security professionals. If we can't even make something designed not to have backdoors safe enough to prevent unauthorized access, how much more insecure is something which should be designed to have an obvious and an obscure access? Now we have to fight off even more attack vectors, and apparently, we aren't perfect in it.

Raise your hand if you didn't know that Panasonic was still in business.

Alcatraz was phased out because it was too expensive to operate. What would DOGE say?

And you have to keep test systems around based on the different chipsets. The list can be expanded: timing is different on different processor architectures. Memory management is different. Interrupt control is different. The number and the layout of differently privileged modes is different. That means that syscalls have to be implemented differently. And this does not in the slightest exhausts the list of 486 quirks and features (and that of every other chip architecture).

I beg to differ. If Britain's Ofcom classifies Wikipedia as a "category 1" social website pursuant to the Online Safety Act, Wikipedia could become unavailable in Britain. See "Wikipedia Legally Challenges UK's 'Flawed' Online Safety Rules", citing a BBC story.