Any significant tax on NEW items, will increase the price of used items.

I had a computer room in my middle school (grades 6,7 and 8) in 1978. It was only a repurposed coat closset. It had a teletype terminal for a shared school district mainframe, and as of the year I arrived in 1978 a brand new Commodore PET. Changed my life.

I think the success of Chrome had more to do with its improvements in javascript performance. Chrome changed the game on js performance and made Web 2.0 possible.

I was unfortunate enough to have to spend a significant amount of time in a hospital in New Jersey USA recently. I wasn't the patient, but someone close to me was. I was quite impressed with the technology in use. Many of the computers were on carts so that they could be moved around easily. Codes on drugs were scanned before they were administered to maintain a complete record matched with a patient. All lab tests were done this way also. During rounds the team of doctors would use one or several of the computers on carts to view all of this test data. They were also able to see X-ray images within about 15 minutes of the X-ray being taken. Similar for CT scan results which could be manipulated in 3-D if necessary. I am sure that the system had its issues and anoyances, but to an outsider it was really impressive.

I don't believe that the Saxons were the original inhabitants. The Celts were the original inhabitants (as far as we know today). The Angles and Saxons were Germanic tribes from Northern Europe that migrated/invaded the island of Britian 500 years earlier. Actually, it is considered likely that many of the Norman invaders were actually Celts who had been displaced from Britian several hundred years earlier. The source of my information is The History of English Podcast episode 29 or thereabouts as best I can remember.

There is no need for the card companies to be involved. My bank sends me an SMS message every time a charge is authorized on my credit card (it is a Visa card). Many times the phone in my pocket buzzes with a text before the clerk has time to hand me the printed receipt.

There is little hurricane risk in Atlanta.

This post from a week ago might have something to do with it. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.slashdot.org%2Fstor...

I would not call it a hybrid exactly. They created a for profit company (capped profit actually) that was majority owned and controlled by a non-profit company. This seems to me like an inherently unstable arrangement, since the incentives and motives of the non-profit board were not well aligned with the minority owners of the for profit company. When the value of the for profit company soared, the instability increased and the whole thing collapsed.

One trillion in debt is peanuts. The US debt is so large that the annual interest payments are one trillion. Now that is a serious amount of debt.

He clearly drank the water.

There have been a number of comments pointing out that Oracle distributes a clone of RHEL as an example of corporate freeloading and justification for Red Hat's actions. It is also worth pointing out that Oracle is a signficant contributor to the Linux kernel (https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Flwn.net%2FArticles%2F915435%2F) that Red Hat is distributing and charging their customer for. I believe that most Linux kernel development is now paid for by 5 large tech companies. Will those companies continue to support Linux if Red Hat is capturing most of the profits? No idea how this is going to play out, but it will be interesting to see if these businesses can come to some sort of accomodation under the terms of the GPL.

Yeah, I did not understand this quote at all. I had always understood the agrument to be that drug use in communities of color was comparable to drug use in white communities, but that enforcement was focused on communities of color so incarcertation rates for drug crimes was higher, and systemically racist. Assuming that Amazon's random drug testing was truely random, if drug testing disproportionately affects communities of color, then people in those communities must be using drugs at higher rates. That is not evidene of systemic racism, and indicates that argument of systemic racism in drug enfocement might be bogus also.

Well said. My only quible is with this sentence.

I don't think that Python has anything to learn because Phython is not trying to be Java, C, Kotlin, C# or Go. A programmer who uses Phython for a professional software project of any size or complexity has a lot to learn. Unfortunately, programmers tend to use the tools that they know, and lerning that Phython is not the right tool for some projects might take a while.

You just need to have adequate crypto mining capacity available to suck up any excess energy. See crypto currency is good for something after all.