Which you can explicitly buy a disk drive for, if that’s important to you: https://direct.playstation.com/en-us/buy-accessories/disc-dr... They actually did a good job giving the consumer choices - it’s just customers…
It’s not corporate speak - they have hard data in digital vs physical sales that they report on every quarter: https://www.gamespot.com/articles/sony-just-reported-a-new-r...
At this point it’s a pretty small portion. Last quarter 85% of all game sales were digital. https://www.gamespot.com/articles/sony-just-reported-a-new-r...
> Amending this rule requires a federal supermajority (66% in House and Senate) or a state majority (66% of state legislatures vote in favor of said amendment). This is actually just the first step - to propose an…
Because a society whose quality of life depends on robust social programs needs working age adults to man those programs Because a demographic crisis is a real problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aging_of_Japan…
Immigration sounds good for Sweden then, because they have a fertility rate of 1.42, well below replacement. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/25/sweden-pm-ivf-...
You can run steam link on a Raspberry Pi. Or like the other commenter said, Apple TV is what I use.
My phone slipped out of my pocket as I was getting into my car, and I unknowingly ran over it. When I submitted an AppleCare replacement request for it, the employee said “Oh man, I hate it when that happens!” and…
In most cases dividends are taxed at the capital gains rate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualified_dividend
Is it actually breaking DRM? Or is it just creating a 1:1 copy of a proprietary format? > Game consoles that are supported include the original Xbox, Xbox 360, GameCube, Wii, and Dreamcast. Physical media from other…
I’m not an expert with web sockets or web development - but re: Get Params, Vaultwarden has to follow the API of the upstream Bitwarden implementation: https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden/discussions/1549#... The…
Visual impairment was just my naive example - but maybe there’s a better one that still persists. Regardless, maybe there’s a path to legislation forbidding smartphone requirements for huge monopoly businesses like…
In the linked video they explicitly print him a paper ticket that he purchased separately.
I don’t think this policy would pass muster under the ADA though. The guy might not be sufficiently disabled to qualify - but for example if you have a blind person without a smartphone, you can’t tell them they’re out…
> Laws apply to actions in the country, they’re not based on citizenship. According to what? Laws can be whatever a country says, so long as they have the mechanism to enforce it. See: the US using special forces to…
Again like doctors, nurse wages aren’t a major factor in the discrepancy between US healthcare costs and elsewhere. They are a factor, in a death by a thousand cuts situation. In a source posted by another commenter,…
I really don’t think doctor salaries are the primary difference when they make up less than 10 % of health care costs: > However, new research by Stanford health economist Maria Polyakova and colleagues — using unique…
You probably know this - but in most jurisdictions in the US, including federal, charges have to be approved by a grand jury of your peers. There’s an old adage “a prosecutor could indict a ham sandwich”* implying that…
The relevant part is that the judge declared traffic ticket proceedings “quasi criminal”: > In the order, the court found that red-light camera cases, although labeled as civil infractions, function as “quasi-criminal”…
Supreme Court transcripts of arguments are posted to supreme court.gov the same day the arguments are made: https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcr... There’s no secret sauce here - their guess as…
> Retail businesses pay property taxes to support that. But they don’t? Copyright infringement is a federal crime - your property taxes don’t fund that. The income tax that we all pay, including the IP holders, do the…
Touché. This will arouse the ire of the “copyright infringement isn’t theft” people - but we also have the government enforce shoplifting and larceny from retail businesses. I believe the legal cost to recoup the loss…
The state isn’t enforcing your rights for free - you still have to hire a lawyer and pay legal expenses yourself. The state is just providing the infrastructure where you are allowed to make a claim, if you choose to do…
Ok Looking at Anthropic’s response they agree with the parent response: > Secretary Hegseth has implied this designation would restrict anyone who does business with the military from doing business with Anthropic. The…
That doesn’t seem to match up with the original tweet though - it sounds a heck of a lot stronger: > Effective immediately, no contractor, supplier, or partner that does business with the United States military may…
Which you can explicitly buy a disk drive for, if that’s important to you: https://direct.playstation.com/en-us/buy-accessories/disc-dr... They actually did a good job giving the consumer choices - it’s just customers…
It’s not corporate speak - they have hard data in digital vs physical sales that they report on every quarter: https://www.gamespot.com/articles/sony-just-reported-a-new-r...
At this point it’s a pretty small portion. Last quarter 85% of all game sales were digital. https://www.gamespot.com/articles/sony-just-reported-a-new-r...
> Amending this rule requires a federal supermajority (66% in House and Senate) or a state majority (66% of state legislatures vote in favor of said amendment). This is actually just the first step - to propose an…
Because a society whose quality of life depends on robust social programs needs working age adults to man those programs Because a demographic crisis is a real problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aging_of_Japan…
Immigration sounds good for Sweden then, because they have a fertility rate of 1.42, well below replacement. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/25/sweden-pm-ivf-...
You can run steam link on a Raspberry Pi. Or like the other commenter said, Apple TV is what I use.
My phone slipped out of my pocket as I was getting into my car, and I unknowingly ran over it. When I submitted an AppleCare replacement request for it, the employee said “Oh man, I hate it when that happens!” and…
In most cases dividends are taxed at the capital gains rate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualified_dividend
Is it actually breaking DRM? Or is it just creating a 1:1 copy of a proprietary format? > Game consoles that are supported include the original Xbox, Xbox 360, GameCube, Wii, and Dreamcast. Physical media from other…
I’m not an expert with web sockets or web development - but re: Get Params, Vaultwarden has to follow the API of the upstream Bitwarden implementation: https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden/discussions/1549#... The…
Visual impairment was just my naive example - but maybe there’s a better one that still persists. Regardless, maybe there’s a path to legislation forbidding smartphone requirements for huge monopoly businesses like…
In the linked video they explicitly print him a paper ticket that he purchased separately.
I don’t think this policy would pass muster under the ADA though. The guy might not be sufficiently disabled to qualify - but for example if you have a blind person without a smartphone, you can’t tell them they’re out…
> Laws apply to actions in the country, they’re not based on citizenship. According to what? Laws can be whatever a country says, so long as they have the mechanism to enforce it. See: the US using special forces to…
Again like doctors, nurse wages aren’t a major factor in the discrepancy between US healthcare costs and elsewhere. They are a factor, in a death by a thousand cuts situation. In a source posted by another commenter,…
I really don’t think doctor salaries are the primary difference when they make up less than 10 % of health care costs: > However, new research by Stanford health economist Maria Polyakova and colleagues — using unique…
You probably know this - but in most jurisdictions in the US, including federal, charges have to be approved by a grand jury of your peers. There’s an old adage “a prosecutor could indict a ham sandwich”* implying that…
The relevant part is that the judge declared traffic ticket proceedings “quasi criminal”: > In the order, the court found that red-light camera cases, although labeled as civil infractions, function as “quasi-criminal”…
Supreme Court transcripts of arguments are posted to supreme court.gov the same day the arguments are made: https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcr... There’s no secret sauce here - their guess as…
> Retail businesses pay property taxes to support that. But they don’t? Copyright infringement is a federal crime - your property taxes don’t fund that. The income tax that we all pay, including the IP holders, do the…
Touché. This will arouse the ire of the “copyright infringement isn’t theft” people - but we also have the government enforce shoplifting and larceny from retail businesses. I believe the legal cost to recoup the loss…
The state isn’t enforcing your rights for free - you still have to hire a lawyer and pay legal expenses yourself. The state is just providing the infrastructure where you are allowed to make a claim, if you choose to do…
Ok Looking at Anthropic’s response they agree with the parent response: > Secretary Hegseth has implied this designation would restrict anyone who does business with the military from doing business with Anthropic. The…
That doesn’t seem to match up with the original tweet though - it sounds a heck of a lot stronger: > Effective immediately, no contractor, supplier, or partner that does business with the United States military may…