While I’d love a percentage based fee, this is a damages suit, so it should be actual damages these people are owed, as determined by the court. A percentage just doesn’t make sense here unless punitive damages were also on the table.

In principle I agree, though, breaking the law should not be an affordable “cost of doing business”.

It could be good because if they actually gave their customers a refund or access elsewhere then they’ve at least made up for the closing.

Naturally, if you received something actually of equal value, it’s generally alright, in the same way that I’ll accept a FedEx van running into my mailbox if they paid me enough to replace it.

The emphasis is on “could” because they tested the claim that they’re doing the equal value thing and found they don’t seem to be. So the claim of giving something worth the digital goods you’re losing just isn’t holding up, so they’re shit.

Just because the world has started copying onion articles doesn’t mean the onion wouldn’t make fun of someone by making an article about them bullying a 12-year-old.

I wish the world had a bit less overlap with onion articles but this one is definitely somehow oniony and realistic at the same time.

Because companies insist on it and when growth stops they’ll start to cannibalize their own company and charge more money for things that used to be free or fairly-priced until they price themselves out of the market entirely and die as a service.

Yay, capitalism!

“Gen Z ruining clickbait ‘Gen Z are ruining industry’ industry. Will they never realize complaining about them has been a national pastime for 400 years?”

That’d be a great Halloween vibe. Bit pricy for my Halloween budget though.

I wish I had fiber. I get 100 Mb from T-Mobile 5g and 80 from spectrum. I’ve had two significant gaps in coverage from T-Mobile, but I also had internet during a power outage with a generator and an extension cord, which was huge.

For 50$, I’ll take that over a more consistent 80mb for 100-120$.

Definitely a rural thing, less 5g congestion and all. a physical line makes way more sense in a city, ideally fiber, but 5g internet has a pretty big niche.

I have never thought of writing things with static ipv6.

I have been missing out.

Only if the AI used discriminatory criteria from a protected class.

They CAN fire you for feeling you’re likely to sue. They can’t retaliate against a lawsuit, but there isn’t one yet. At-will employment sucks, and the thing that protects against this is a union, not discrimination laws.

Yeah the out is that you can buy goods and services with it. I could’ve paid for my VPN (Private Internet Access) with Bitcoin, Overstock takes Bitcoin, those ATMs exist.

If everyone suddenly wanted to cash out, it would crash and very few people would get money for it, but that’s also what separates it from a Ponzi scheme, the fact that I don’t need to transform it to USD to spend it. There was a hard push by Bitcoin enthusiasts to get some places to accept it directly for exactly that reason.

Well, so a lot of people call it a Ponzi scheme, and it certainly has been used as one before, but the thing that separates it from a true Ponzi scheme is there is a product, and it’s not you.

Places accept Bitcoin as a currency, there’s Bitcoin ATMs, all that. This makes it valuable as a method to make online purchases, specifically, as a third-party payment processor. First you convert your money to Bitcoin through a service of your choice that’s not related to the person you’re paying, then you transact, and eventually that person cashes out Bitcoin for money. This generates 3 transactions, which a Bitcoin miner can authenticate and be paid in Bitcoin for their efforts.

This seems convoluted but it’s about the same process as using a debit card, with MasterCard or Visa promising to balance everything in a bit and acting as an institution to verify trust.

This process is not the only positive thing about Bitcoin, but it’s a major one and ensures two things. The first is that those exchange services give everyone in this “Ponzi scheme” an out. While they’re running, you can’t be pumped and dumped in the usual way. This creates some confidence, which helps keep people in, which raises the value. A normal Ponzi scheme promises an out, but has none.

The second, because there’s people who trust in Bitcoin on actual merits, is that Bitcoin becomes a legitimate investment. It becomes equivalent to currency exchanges, where people exchange their money anticipating the value of USD or the euro to raise or fall. Again, very much like a Ponzi scheme, but since these people have an out, this is a risk, not a scam.

As far as I know (I’m not an expert) these two kinds of transactions are the bulk of the transactions in Bitcoin, but between the two, Bitcoin will remain alive with frequent usage and that enables bitcoin mining. None of this is stable, but it’s also not a scam.

During the big push to get some vendors to accept Bitcoin this system hadn’t formed, there were plenty of people willing to sell and mine Bitcoin, but few that were willing to buy it, and calling it a Ponzi scheme was appropriate. It’s just the end goal wasn’t to sucker someone into giving you money, it was to sucker them into supporting an economy that didn’t exist. They succeeded, so now it’s not a scam, just risky.

That’s not what the article said they meant.

An EU split that can comply, and a rest of the world split that continues to monopolize the iPhone.

Yeah mine does, I love it. I just want it to be standard.

Yeah. Wireless charging helps some of that, especially if the pad is itself connected through a USB-C cable.

Ideally, in my mind, someday phones themselves will be able to charge wireless devices, so we’ll connect the phone through the USB-C cable and place the watch on top and they’ll both be ready to go in the morning.

Poker chip maybe.

You can also get a custom AirTag skin and put that skin around something else (probably the poker chip, or a broken AirTag) to have a perfectly sized photo for the slot.

A contract related to Disney in Florida wanted a forever, couldn’t legally do it, but you could do a timeframe from a person, so they picked the last British monarch after a certain birth cutoff, essentially giving them something like 300 years (very rough estimate don’t remember well enough) in a contract that wasn’t intended to really do more than 100.

satanic temple doesn’t believe in satan anyway, they’re solid.

You can’t really avoid it in any easy way. If you could, the field of statistics would get a decent amount simpler. The only way to deal with the bias is with a survey pulled from random people, which you can’t really do easily here.

But this one will have a lot of bias, all the same.

Yeah that’d be great. Then we could get extensions on mobile.

I just use whatever phone is cheaper, and a family member had just upgraded their iPhone. Gotta say, it’s been reliable at least.

iPhone’s Firefox is still safari under the hood, but without the support of being a native app on top of it.

At the moment, it’s ok, I also have problems, but it’d be great if iOS opened up more and allowed a real Firefox browser to exist.