Or just have all gambling be run by the government so the profits go to social services to support people who bankrupt themselves from gambling.
In the US most of the lotteries are run by the government (typically state governments). If they can do it we can too.
The idea is that if the government gets all the profit from gambling then that money can go into social services to support the people who bankrupt themselves from gambling.
Because you can strictly enforce spending limits per person. The current system allows people who hit the limit to go down the street to an ATM and get more cash out. A digital card system is designed to close that loophole.
I don't think "ACAB" is a great credo, and it's probably a self-fulfilling prophecy. Don't dehumanise cops, most of them really are trying to help.
Already has I think. Especially with tools like radar/sonarr/jellyfin that let you "follow" tv series/movies and automatically download them as they become available and put them into your own personal "Netflix" style media server. Piracy now is better than ever.
In a capitalist economy it's normally a "growth or death" situation, for many reasons.
My understanding is that all of the codecs we are discussing are deterministic. If you have evidence to the contrary I'd love to see it.
You can boot from USB with UEFI, that's not a showstopper. Unless I'm missing something?
It's still a bad idea. If they have some really nasty malware installed it could rootkit your device, and vice versa - and you never really know. Just build a small portable computer (eg. Raspberry pi, NUC, etc) and use their KB/mouse/display.
Other peeps are saying just connect to a remote desktop you have hosted somewhere using your friend's PC - don't do that, you can't trust their software/hardware.
After a brief search I can't find any mention of any punishment for Sisyphus if he stopped pushing the boulder up the hill. That said, this is all taking place in Tartarus so there probably isn't much else to do and endlessly push a boulder up hill might be the better option lol. I can relate.
Are you negging him cos you want him to be your man baby?
Plato's "the cave" thought experiment (circa 400 BC) is basically a suggestion of simulation. Modern science agrees - human perception of reality is limited and effectively a simulation. You don't need modern digital technology to imagine living in a simulation.
I laughed at the word 'fastness', but then realised it's a lot safer than offering 'speed' on the internet lol
Yeah that caught my eye too, seems odd. Most compression/encoding schemes benefit from a large dictionary but I don't think it would be constrained by the sometimes lesser total RAM on a GPU than the main system - in most cases that would make the dictionary larger than the video file. I'm curious.
I agree, the delivery services are definitely price gouging to a degree. It sucks that we're charged for delivery, service fees AND the item prices are inflated by around 20% too. Thing is, I think there's a bunch of reasons that TonyDelivers will eventually become as bad as the current market leaders. As his company grows, takes on employees, builds infrastructure, overheads increase, management grows - they'll fall into the same "traps"/profit seeking the other delivery companies have fallen into.
Exactly, most services can be tied into a central authentication system/SSO and can automatically be disabled upon disabling an SSO user.
A global minimum tax is designed to stop multinationals avoiding taxes. But some experts argue it may have unintended consequences.
Next year, Australia will introduce a global minimum tax aimed at preventing multinationals based within its borders from evading tax.
It's been dubbed the "race to the bottom".
However, Singapore's effective tax rate can be much lower, as its government has incentives that greatly reduce or remove tax obligations for multinationals that set up operations and services in that country.
Last year, the ATO reached a settlement of almost $1 billion with mining giant Rio Tinto over its Singapore-based subsidiary.
Professor Sadiq says the tax will "raise very little" for Australia, providing $210 million by the 2024 financial year, "less than half a per cent of the $93 billion in company tax revenue" expected for that year.
Professor Sadiq says it would be better to distribute corporate tax revenue to countries with a company's activities actually take place.
(I welcome any recommendations for a better summary website to use.)
Max Chandler-Mather says magnitude of the tax concessions ‘morally reprehensible’ as stoush continues over housing crisis
