Per gb price of ram is now almost 50% higher than during the peak of COVID price spike that lasted just 3 months. I'm comparing the current gen at the time - ddr4 during COVID vs ddr5 now

Much longer than that. There was a spike in 2021 that brought high end 2x8gb ddr4 kits to about $180-200 but that's still significantly less than what you pay for decent ddr5 now. I think you'd have to look to back to early DDR3 or even further to DDR2 prices to get higher per gb amounts.

SSD prices were this high briefly (2-3 months) mid-2021. Before that you'd have to look all the way back to times where 1tb was the largest consumer grade SSD you could buy

HDMI Forum has fewer than 80 members and membership fee is 15,000 USD/year. Valve could spin up 80 companies, have them join the forum for a low low price of 1.2M USD and outvote remaining members to open source the entire spec.

I don't see how an email that has no proof of delivery (could have ended in spam for example) would be legally binding.

Accepting a ToS update simply by virtue of no action is also questionable unless provisions permitting that were in the ToS you've accepted and even then it would not work in the European Union, because that's listed in the forbidden clauses registry.

About 10% fps bump and even bigger battery life improvement at the same time borderline justifies the title in my book

Yes. PSN is only available in about 70 countries (out of 190). E.g. in the entire continent of Africa only one country has access.

Even some members of European Union don't get PSN.

Decibel scale is logarithmic, which means 10db change is reducing perceived volume by half.

Historical definition of decimated: reduce by 10%. Not to 10%.

Modern definition: reduce by significant amount.

Act like she's gonna do it: get all the paperwork you might need to defend yourself and have extra copies (notarized if possible) deposited with friends and/or a lawyer.

With that done seriously consider spilling the beans to remove that threat. Btw did you know IRS rewards whistleblowers 10-30% of any evaded taxes they recover and fines for that evasion? Sounds like a great way to fund a vacation...

There should be calls to toss him into a volcano and they should be getting serious traction

• don't be an asshole
• everything is allowed as long as nobody is getting hurt
• act when you see something wrong
• when you are able to help do so
• in all other cases mind your own business

Anything that requires a public, immutable database. Land registry would be one example. Notary public for electronic documents would be another.

You can leverage the majority consensus to create a trusted software build system. Each block would be a package build

Now make a $12,000 version with door locks and a basic AC and I'll buy one this week. I miss 4th/5th gen Hilux

I've had a company require employees to install MDM on personal phones (remote control/management) to be allowed to use them for 2fa app or email access.. there was a surprised Pikachu when I refused. Eventually they issued me a company phone, because it was impossible to do most tasks without 2fa. That device was on 9 to 5 only.

She'd lose battle of wits against a stuffed iguana. She's essentially unarmed

Nothing makes them talk about gun control faster than minorities arming.

EU regulations that can be triggered in response to tariffs include an option to make that completely legal

Edit because I'm getting asked for a source: EU Anti Coercion Instrument that got passed in 2021 and came into effect in December 2023: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=OJ:L_202302675

Specifically Annex I, paragraph 7:

ANNEX I

Union response measures pursuant to Article 8

[...]

1. The imposition of restrictions on the protection of intellectual property rights or their commercial exploitation, in relation to rightholders that are nationals of the third country concerned, which may amount, as necessary, to the non-performance of applicable international obligations with respect to trade-related aspects of intellectual property rights.

This applies to copyright and patents, but not trademarks as far as I know.

Netflix limits you to 720p even on windows, unless you are using Edge: https://help.netflix.com/en/node/23742 (expand HTML5 browsers and scroll down).

This limitation doesn't apply to all content - it's the worst case scenario if copyright holder really put their foot down.

Mandatory training to become a police officer:

• US: 600-700 hours on average, much of which is gun and combat training and not policing
• Canada 2080 hours
• Spain 2880 hours
• Germany 4000 hours

With that little time spent training and heavy combat focus a US cop might get as little as 2-4 weeks of training on everything that a cop does that doesn't involve guns. People get shot by US cops because they weren't taught anything else. People don't get help from US cops because they were never taught solving problems that don't involve shooting a minority.

Cartman yelling respect my authoritah! is not far off from what a rookie US cop knows about being a police officer.

Fewer than 80 members. 15k/year membership fee and very lax joining requirements. $1.2M gets you majority allowing you do to whatever even with 100% of current members opposing :P