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IIRC Intel and AMD have a patent sharing agreement that dissolves if either is purchased.

They’re not that mad; they’re only offering $10k for information leading to his arrest. That’s less than Texas brings in via civil forfeiture on an average day.

Idk. A few hours for Kelso to solder a jumper sounds about right.

Money can’t buy happiness, but when properly utilized, it’s damned effective at deleting obstructions to happiness.

Jailbreak my TV? I’d rather keep it in Alcatraz (aka air gapped).

To evade detection of payload.

Credit card debt and credit card balance aren’t the same thing, in practice.

If I had long standing debt on a credit card, I’d be paying an extremely high interest rate on that debt even with a >800 credit score.

If I have a balance that’s completely paid every month, I pay no interest on that “debt”. And while that money is floating, it’s in a 4.5% high yield savings account (Sallie Mae).

In the former situation, I am losing money. In the later, I’m making money. (Compared to paying with cash / debit).

The protection offered by credit cards has real value.

Some anecdotes from this year:

I attempted to use LetsRoam over a year ago. It was a spectacular failure and offered no value. Cancelled and all was well. Over a year later they started charging me two monthly fees for who knows what reason. I called them, they bumbled around, and referred it asynchronously to some other department. I’m three months into these mysterious charges. All have been clawed back.

I tried educative.io and frequently encountered non-sense that was objectively, demonstrably false being presented with high confidence. I asked for a refund, and they said they don’t do that. I wasn’t really asking…

I paid a $2k deposit for a Harley that the dealer didn’t have in hand yet. There were unreasonable delays (I suspect they sold the bike to someone else for more), and the dealer’s policy was to not refund the deposit, but to only allow me to apply it to another motorcycle. Guess who else has policies. Because of the amount and timeframe, this was a little more involved, but still only took 15 minutes of my time.

I paid to park, but it appeared to fail. So, I tried again. I was doubled billed. Idk who I’d contact to request a refund. So, dispute it is.

I open my banks app, click dispute, and am refunded. It’s saved me untold hours of dealing with incompetence and/or maliciousness.

I simply don’t deal with this BS. I behave ethically (as best as one can judge that for themselves), but as soon as I hit abusive commercial sociopathy, I disengage. As far as I’m concerned, Visa / Chase are earning their 3%.

A product named after a tool used in its creation is a red flag, to me, that focus isn’t on delivering value to the user.

If I’m sailing the high seas and my ISP gets irritated, that’s a problem. If my VPN provider does, next.

online editors???

This looks promising, but it needs a far improved introduction.

A good start would be focusing on what it is, rather than what you did.

Can I buy a property, rent it out for six months, then re-sell it to this other, totally independent corporation I own?

This seems both obvious and difficult to prevent.

I regressively searched for the app advertised in the previous search. At around depth twelve, a search for “four” gave both an ad and top result of an app named “Four”.

If you’re curious, Four’s description is “Shop Now, Pay Later.”

> I'm not sure what Apple could've brought to the table in regards to making an electric car

I, for instance, would love a minimalistic, self driving, electric car that just works. With wireless charging - no cables. That I can just hop in, say “Hey Siri, take me to target,” and it announces the current weather in Taipei; provided by the Weather Channel.

The waste problem is solved. As with the rest of the nuclear discussion, it’s mostly hysteria.

Here’s a guy kissing nuclear waste. It’s a bit tongue in cheek on the surface, but he’s PhD and there is quality information in the video.

https://youtu.be/lhHHbgIy9jU?si=wE0FvscMgBpLUZ0g

I didn’t expect it to be so realistic.

Sometimes the journey is more important than the objective.

I have a 3d printer because I wanted to play with a 3d printer. Same with a drone, zero-turn lawn mower, welding machine, oscilloscope, and a host of other things my wife would be more than happy to tell you about.

Most of us here are engineers of one sort or another. We tend to have disposable income and a predisposition for gadgets.

I doubt many of us are truly ever under the delusion that we need these things.

Perhaps this is one of those situations where median is more useful than mean.