.. thus removing a significant portion of income from these so-called tax havens, which generally tend to be poorer countries. No one has accused Germany of being a tax haven, for instance.
> so-called tax havens, which generally tend to be poorer countries
Smaller, not poorer.
Unless you think that current or historical "tax havens" like Ireland, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Switzerland etc. were/are poorer than Germany.
If you have less than a handful of million people even getting a few percent + several thousands of jobs from corporations like Apple is a huge deal. It would be a drop in the bucket for Germany so they have no incentives to make such deals.
In fairness, closed source software is a very very tiny minority of the software available on Linux, which is why ABI backwards-compatibility hasn't been much of a concern. In that respect, it's essentially the polar opposite of Windows and even MacOS.
However, it'd be very nice if it did become more of a focus (especially in the glibc/audio/glx areas), especially now that gaming has become very popular on Linux.
Trying to get old, closed-source games like Unreal Tournament to work on Linux can be a real chore.
I'm not so sure, I like the Linux model of 99.999% of the code you'll run being available in source form. The result is that we have that code running everywhere.
Excellent article. The admittedly abbreviated history unfortunately completely missed the shared (and contentious) history between IBM's 16- and 32-bit OS/2 in the run-up to 32-bit Windows NT.
For seldom used (or cared about) accounts, this is pretty low friction, and most of those will keep you logged in for an extended period of time.
From a perspective of one of these people, why even bother with trying to remembering a login or dealing with tools you don't have, like if you don't even have a password manager or know that they exist.
From a systems and security perspective, it could be worse. They could be reusing passwords.
And why, in 2024, is requiring any encryption at all a violation of RFC 5321, thus making any MITM literally a trivial and impossible to defeat downgrade attack?
Paul Krugman: "[cryptocurrencies] mainly seem suited for things like money laundering and extortion."
This is not new from him, but I still don't understand why he's a columnist for the New York Times, of all publications.
Or why Mr. Krugman writes about a technology that he clearly doesn't understand and is unable to imagine a valid use for.
Incidentally, most types of cryptocurrency are actually terrible for money laundering or extortion, unless one believes that a permanent, irrevocable, and wholly public record of transactions are ideal for those purposes.
Or why Mr. Krugman writes about a technology that he clearly doesn't understand and is unable to imagine a valid use for.
Right - he isn't talking about the technical aspects of cryptocurrencies; but rather their financial use cases, which are much closer to his turf.
Also, he never said there weren't other uses cases -- only that the two he mentioned were in his view the most prominent, or driving use cases (and he is certainly not alone in this view). You may not agree with this view, but there's no need to introduce an unhelpful and misleading misrepresentation of what he actually said.
Dell Rugged vs Dell Rugged Extreme. Rugged Extreme is definitely as rugged as a ToughBook, but with that obvious very visible tradeoff in weight and size.
I'd love to see a list of pros. There are no pros. It's effectively death to competitors and actually extremely damaging to the companies themselves as well.
