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aoetr··on Will MOOCs Destroy Academia?
Yes, hopefully.

Schools make no sense.

aoetr··on Accidental layer creation
Yeah, but in the example the text is not transformed, it's merely overlaid on a composited surface.
aoetr··on Accidental layer creation
The text in Firefox doesn't lose subpixel antialiasing, at least in my browser.

Also, it's perfectly possible to use GPU compositing with subpixel antialiased texture, you just need a separate texture to store the (Ra, Ga, Ba) pre-component "alpha" vales and either dual source blending, two rendering passes (first to apply alpha to destination, second to add color), three rendering passes (one per color), or a pixel shader that takes the pre-blend target surface as an input.

If your browser doesn't do that, file a bug.

aoetr··on Microsoft owes Denmark $1B in taxes
Taxation is theft.

Especially given that surely Microsoft hasn't consumed anything even remotely close to 1 billion in Danish goverment services.

Hopefully Microsoft will be able to resist this armed robbery attempt.

Otherwise, they could simply use half that amount, $500 million, to purchase missiles and drone planes to defend themselves and counterattack (they can buy 500-1000 tomahawk cruise missiles or 10-20 MQ-9 Reaper drones with that amount).