Rubbish. If my phone isn’t so thin that it can double as a knife, it’s not worth buying.

Is there a cheesy black market?

There is, like there is for olive oil, or maple syrup. Especially if it’s authentic. Olive Oil infamously has multiple fakes floating about, where it’s something else passed off as olive oil.

It’s kind of bizarre that if I pay 7 bucks in the US for a pastry and coffee I might need to sign the receipt.

You half-expect them to pull out the old card-roller and carbon paper at that point.

No. Tap to pay only requires a PIN for large purchases ($100 or so), or if you turn on the setting to ask for a PIN for small purchases too.

I’ve only needed to enter my PIN for small purchases when inserting and using debit/EFT@POS functions.

1. Naked wrestling…

That just sounds like a euphemism for sex, not an alternative.

Other companies? Companies also need things, so they would also need things to buy and sell. Buying and selling to each other doesn’t seem entirely unreasonable, particularly if the goods are non-physical. A company selling editing services for articles to a company that writes those articles for a news company who might be selling stocks to an investment company, and ad space to an ad company, etc.

Realistically, though, that doesn’t tend to be that high a priority, or much of a long-term worry. Most of the concern these days seems to be focused more on the short-term profit more so than anything else, even if it will ultimately harm the company.

Not that it would really matter for most, since a lot of the people who might otherwise be affected would likely be out and away by the time that that rolls around. It would barely affect them.

Or have a single general footer that they all refer to.

Error message? McAfee can’t write to the drive because it’s full of photos of their grandchildren and dogs, so it clicks up “can’t write to c:\temp\sqlite_arcane_computer_magic.log: Disk is full”, and it goes from there?

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Assuming that they went out to look for it, and didn’t just poke google with (“sqlite hacked my computer”) until they found a phone number.

If they had gotten the phone number for a company called Super Queasy Lite and Easy/SQLitE instead of the developers, the company might well have received the calls instead.

I don’t think that’s how you’re meant to use a WHERE.

It even has questionably-helpful mysterious blinky lights at the bottom right which may or may not do anything useful.

One of the reasons why the 1/3rd pound burger lost to the 1/4 pound burger, was because people saw the 1/4, and thought that the quarter-pound was larger for some inexplicable reason.

I would be very surprised if there wasn’t at least some marketing suggestion focused around “number that looks big is better”.

Unclear. But eventually, people would work. People get bored, it’s nice to have something to do, and get paid extra on top of it.

UBI just ensures that if they don’t like a job, they can just quit, rather than be forced to keep working on pain of starvation.

Tests so far seem to be fairly positive about it working. People who get UBI aren’t likely to sit on that money, they’ll just go and spend it either paying back debts, or buying something nice for themselves, so the money will keep going around (just look at the COVID economic stimulus packages). They might even spend more than they might otherwise have, if they’re not just scraping by.

Making the world a better place doesn’t need to be some grandiose revolutionary affair.

All the little things you do while being alive would add up. Whether it’s hanging out with a friend, giving your pet some extra pats, or cleaning up your own space, and that would put you a good deal of the way there, if not be enough on its own.

Or at least, for introductions.

Probably fine once dialogue is established.

They might not be. We’re already starting to run into the limits of silicon as it is, and I can’t imagine that we can keep pushing it for another 3 decades.

It seems like it would be fairly easy to find. All you need to do is find out where the price drops massively, and work backwards from there, since it doesn’t change the code going forward.

Wayland really doesn’t like RDP/remote access, so X is the only way to go if you want that to work properly.

Don’t grills use charcoal briquettes rather than actual lumps of coal?