Paper money doesn’t exist

I don’t think a BRICS currency will be successful in replacing the dollar unless the governments of the participating countries force their businesses to use it. The reason why transactions are denominated and settled in US dollars is because of the perceived stability of its value and the openness of the US financial system to international trade. People use the US dollar because they trust the American government to not excessively devalue it and for it to be reliably useful later on.

And yes, I recognise that all of these are under attack by the current US government.

Flathub is almost the perfect distribution system for software on Linux. The only thing it’s missing is a billing system. If it had that, it would probably attract more game developers to make their games available as Flatpaks.

Okay, you got me there. I’ll admit that’s a pretty good use for cryptocurrencies

Blockchain is the perfect solution to none of life’s problems

Why not a community order?

This is such a strange punishment which is completely unconnected with the offence in question.

This is actually correct, but not for the reason you might think. It has nothing to do with time zones.

In physics, time is quite literally defined as “what a clock would read”. As you approach the speed of light, time dilation approaches infinity and therefore your rate of proper time approaches zero.

If you reach the speed of light, your rate of proper time exactly equals zero and thus the clock is correct 100% of the time.

There is one caveat: in order to reach the speed of light, your mass must equal exactly zero. In which case you can only travel at the speed of light since deceleration is not possible.

Bearing that in mind, it would be correct from a physics standpoint to claim that a broken clock accurately measures the proper time of a photon (or other massless particle).

I heard somewhere that in Italy, this hand gesture has a meaning akin to “What the fuck do you want?”.

Maybe someone from Italy can confirm whether this is true

Student loans are collected by contracted third-party loan servicing organisations, not the Government.

If you don’t pay, the servicer can initiate legal proceedings against you on their own regardless of what’s happening within the Education Department.

You could, however, accurately say that a French family founded the modern British monarchy. That much is still true. The UK royal family can still trace its lineage directly to William the Conqueror.

I thought the Oregon Trail was a pretty standard part of US history curriculum.

Did any distro give concrete reasons for why they have actively chosen not to package it, or perhaps they just haven’t given it much thought yet?

This is not what I would consider a “political reason”. A political reason would be something like refusing to package it because of what political party Howard supports.

There is plenty of software you’ll find in these repositories that aren’t under the GPL. CMake uses BSD, the Apache web server uses the eponymous Apache license, LibreOffice and Firefox use MPL, Godot and Bitcoin Core use the MIT license, and I’m sure there are plenty of other software licenses that I haven’t thought of yet.

What is Hygge?

Yes, they’re similar, but from what I’ve heard, most UK building societies are basically the same as or worse than banks in terms of fees, rates, and service quality. In the US, most credit unions will absolutely spank the big banks on at least two of those, if not all three.

Oops, I didn’t see that. My bad. Guess I made a fool of myself here.

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I will start. I’m in the United States.

Credit unions! Nearly half of all Americans are credit union members. They don’t seem to be popular in Europe and Asia. A credit union is a not-for-profit co-operative financial institution that essentially provides all the same services as a bank, except it’s run as a democratic institution with directors elected by the customers instead of as a profit maximisation machine for shareholders.

Yeah, and eating hot dogs also goes against human nature. That shit didn’t exist in 3,500 BCE.

Maybe someone can correct me if I’m wrong, but doesn’t Wayland’s security model intentionally prevent this type of “tampering” with another application’s display?