As an app developer who has not looked into this beyond this article summary and who prefers to collect as little data as possible, it seems like if Apple doesn't end up providing an explicit option to opt out of serving customers in states where they are going to require you to store data on customers, ironically now I could do that myself manually, but in doing so I would have to ask the user's permission to let the app see their location (or try to infer it from their IP if that were good enough for Apple) just to prove they were in a place OTHER than one of these states with the insane laws before allowing them to use the app, and then I could throw away their location and not have to store anything (and if possible, just not let people from those storage-required states use it at all.)

To the user this would look more potentially invasive, as I'd have to ask for location permission at least once for everyone even in states without the stupid laws, which is both sad and funny.

My point was not about arbitrage, though that's another issue to worry about and imo you are understating it significantly.

The bigger deal is if you bought some of this crypto on blockchain X, and you want to pay someone who bought theirs on blockchain Y, you won't be able to send it to them without an intermediary service, forcing centralization which defeats the purpose of having a coin in the first place.

You can't have a single cryptocurrency be on more than one blockchain and be one single set of accounts / aka one "coin". If it's really on seven different blockchains, then this is actually seven different cryptocurrencies that will have seven different prices at any given time, that could be vastly different on different blockchains, not even taking multiple exchanges into account.

If they really did it this way, this crypto was designed by people who don't understand what crypto is or how it actually works. And if they are going to claim these seven different coins are actually one single one, you'll never know which price is the real one for what you have until they start publishing all seven prices.

Sounds like more of what I'd expect from this administration. I would have hoped that with all the huge crypto companies propping up this dictatorship though, they could have spared at least one or two experts who would say this is wrong.

YES. THIS. FFS they didn't say ampersand, it wasn't a hacking attempt, this is ALL a bug.

This is the way and what smart people will be doing

US exports are pretty much over, at least for the next 3.7 years. They might as well release now.

The educated people starting businesses are going to wipe the floor with those who didn't go to school. They will just have to go to college outside the US now that the US college educational system is shutting down / becoming government propaganda.

This is a huge improvement over the old interface, it reminds me a lot of photoshop back from back before they charged a subscription. I can see how much work went into making that UI work smoothly. I've only been messing with it a little while, but for a .0.0 release, it's pretty nice.

Excellent work, GIMP team!

It's great. I've been using it a lot today.

People's opinions on Musk have been changing pretty dramatically lately

If you are serious, you should at least make your kids learn to do that themselves.

I don't want to be backing up my drive for a week, we will either need to start seeing internal HD interfaces with ACTUAL write speeds approaching 1TB/sec or we'll have to buy two or more with a LOT of internal suspension to avoid data corruption and a special bay that we can just pull one out of and push another into, so we can just swap a new one in to replace the old one. And of course we'd need to deal with a second internal drive and tech inside with Raid 1, and the new drive would have to be stable long enough for the mirroring to finish.

Agreed, this is a great question for a cybersecurity position. The correct answer is fuck off.

Even if it was.. 2k a month is an insane price. It's not much more for an actual human, who already has thousands of years of neurological debugging work finished.