Understandable, though I don’t share your issue. Or rather, it has usually been a software problem (app wasting battery) rather than HW one.

Well yes. But gotta say, my last three phones lasted me 13 years and counting without requiring any repair. Unless you drop your phone regularly or sometging like that, I am not sure how important repairability really is.

1. What goat says. Still need steam to download and install on new/reinstalled PC.
2. I don’t know of any way to filter non DRM games on steam. If I have to research them one by one, that’s a big friction to buying the game.

Sure, but then why pay for them at all, unless you really want to support the devs?

It being legal and convenient is the improved service that can help reduce piracy.

I personally don’t get the fixation on physical media. Like sure, you may put it on the shelf, which can be nice. But realistically digital is the way to go for most people. I just want what GOG is doing, where you gat a real installer that just works without internet connection, without steam/gog installed, same today as in 20 years, even if GOG goes under.

Ah, that makes more sense. I was suspicious of a news site being so good. The search for good news source continues…

Wow, a news site that actually links primary sources like the SCOTUS decision. 10/10 Absolute amaze!

What is this news source? They claim 21 US vassal states but don’t even bother listing them? Utter garbage.

Cause that would require at least one side of the political divide to fight for something vaguely rational. And it is in the US.

The sad thing is - we COULD produce processed foods designed for our health. We just choose not to.

Yes, mostly.

(Meanwhile we evolved to eat not-ultraprocessed food so obviously that’s best for us.)

Not how this works. Evolution cares about us procreating and spreading our genes, not living long healthy lives. Hence there being plenty animals that die after having children. “We evolved to” just means it won’t kill us quickly, not that it is healthy long term.

Assuming it is implemented well, yes! If the audit paper is a QR code that no one will reasonably check, then it is not worth much.

Exactly this. You are just telling your vote to someone (some machine) that pinkie promises to count it correctly with no asurance whatsoever.

Realistically though, it can be quite a complicated situation. One I’ve written about numerous times before. Servers behind the scenes can be incredibly complex, especially when it comes to games that have DLC and micro-transactions. And then you have to add to that the licensing on music and other things. Plus various other things I’m not thinking of right now

Holy lazy writing Batman!

As if this all wasn’t adressed by SKG 100 times before. Did the author never hear about SKG before writing this article?

So in the case of the emails, where there is plenty of context, it’s not an issue. Right?

You are absolutely right. But you forgot a tiny detail, we are talking about the US of A. Which law there is not stupid beyond measure?

There is no justification if what you describe is true. But a lot of people are willing to give Valve benefit of the doubt, assuming it is false until proven in court. Especially coming from Ubisoft of all places.

Both are true. Manufacturing costs went down significantly, but non-smart TVs are now more expensive than equivalent smart TVs by over $100 from what I have seen.

This doesn’t stop real estate being valued for tax purposes. Use the same approach - proxy valuations.

There is pretty reasonable way to value real estate. Hard to do objective valuation of a company whose value is mostly hype anyway. Also, real estate value estimations are riddled with corruption in most places.

Yeah, that would just be nationalisation. After 5 years the government would own 90% of all businesses.

Re-read the comments up the thread, I asked about the same thing. It is not ment to be yearly.

Average price over the last 30 days.

There are so many issues with this idk where to start. Maybe with: not all stock given as compensation are publicly traded yet. There may be no average price yet when they vest.

PS: Also, the original comment proposes taking 40% of the shares, not monetary equivalent which I originally misunderstood as well. So neither of our comments is really rellevant.

The tax deductions are meant to offset the tax on the loan. You don’t get your loans taxed as income so you don’t get full deduction on repayment. They wouldn’t pay less than you overall in my proposal.