1. There is CSAM on the Internet.

2. gustofwind has access on their personal computer to whatever they want on the Internet.

Therefore gustofwind has CSAM on their computer. Prove me wrong.

Obviously the solution is to make a wig out of it. It’s the next iteration of portable computing.

Depends on the chip design, but modern chips will have (single digit) billions of transistors per square cm.

The Cartel le of the uhhhh cartel.

Are you in the EU? My understanding is that those rewards are not available in the EU due to their much lower transaction fees. Admittedly, I’m not in the EU, so this is second hand knowledge.

What league are you in (or more specifically, your opponents)? Bronze has a lot of variability, as some of them are new drafters, and some might have just skipped a set and dropped down to bronze again. It’s also near the end of a draft format, so there may be fewer people playing, causing a greater mismatch in your and your opponent’s ranks.

If both you and your opponents are in silver+ leagues, I’d be surprised, but this isn’t unusual for bronze.

I read the article. It says it’s actually pretty easy to solve (I disagree with last write wins, especially given their example, but it’s pretty simple to implement), and doesn’t talk about capitalism at all.

The answer to the headline is just capitalism. It’s not technical difficulty, and this didn’t need a whole article. Every developer already understands this. It’s just not a business priority.

You have to be pretty close to use Bluetooth to identify a car. If you’re that close, you can likely identify the car by looking at it and uniquely identify it with its license plate.

Like, this is technically an issue unique to Tesla, but it’s so very close to what license plate readers can already do that I don’t really see an issue with this.

There once was a final solution
With suffering and mass execution
They said “Never again”
What they actually meant
Was “Palestine’s just an illusion”

The problem is that wotc really didn’t want to raise prices past $3.99. Pack prices hit $3.99 in 2006, and stayed there for nearly 20 years. They raised distributor prices in 2015 without changing MSRP, and then got rid of MSRP (and raised prices again) in 2019.

A pack of Alpha, a pack of Urza’s Saga, and a pack of Khans of Tarkir all have roughly the same inflation adjusted retail price: ~$5.50 in 2025 dollars, which is conveniently the current MSRP for Magic IP sets.

For whatever reason, they’ve found all sorts of excuses for the price increases (all of which they actually control) but never blamed inflation, even though that’s actually a reasonable explanation.

Damn. Biden should have cancelled more EV and clean energy projects and funneled money to the oil companies in his last week.

Canada

About to do the same thing

The UN first has to acknowledge that a genocide is taking place.

If you’re talking about the “Value” booster, your LGS probably won’t (and shouldn’t) stock those. That’s for grandmas to buy at dollar stores and Walmart checkout aisles. It’s an absolutely scummy product, but it shouldn’t cause SKU issues at your LGS.

MKM was less bomb-heavy than OTJ, so at least drafts seemed better. I missed the prerelease, so I don’t know how swingy it was in limited. I suspect quite a lot anyway - prereleases have always been swingy, and as long as rares are more powerful than commons, more rares in a pack will always make it swingier.

The good:

• My LGS doesn’t have to order 3 different types of boosters and guess how much everyone wants of each. They have run out of draft boosters before, and they’re stuck with a bunch of extra boosters from sets that didn’t sell so well. This is partially just a reality of running a store, but only having 2 types of boosters with vastly different audiences is better.

The bad:

• Sometimes there just isn’t a pick 1 in your colors in packs 2 and 3 (on Arena). This is especially obvious in MH3 with the colorless theme, but it’s also possible in normal sets. I don’t know if this is different in arena vs. in paper.

• Everything costs more. I’m in Canada, so draft prices were going up well before the switch, but this made it even more expensive.

• Sealed is swingier. With a chance at opening up to 4 rares in a pack, those that do will have more bombs and more powerful cards in general. OTJ was very bomb heavy, so sealed was even more lopsided. This also affects drafts somewhat, but I think that can be fixed with design balancing once they get used to the changes. I don’t think sealed can be fixed with card design.

Ultimately, I think this is worse for players and better for businesses and way better for WotC. They can fix most of the problems, but price isn’t something they’re interested in fixing (and, to be fair, the price of a booster has stayed well below inflation). Unfortunately, this means that some people just can’t draft anymore or as often.

It’s also in the same carcinogen group as electromagnetic fields, aloe vera, nickel, and kimchi. Most of those things you listed are quite dangerous for other reasons, but cancer is not the primary concern with any of them.

IARC group 2B is where substances end up if a study manages to produce cancer at any dose. If you drink 50 cans of diet coke per day (which is the equivalent of the rat study that demonstrated that it’s possible for aspartame to cause cancer), then you might get cancer caused by the aspartame you just consumed.

Aspartame is not carcinogenic.

I feel like there need to be multiple CS pathways. For example, people who want to go into hardware development might take a set of courses more closely aligned with electrical engineering.

There are.

My university (and many others) offered Computer Science, Software Engineering, and Computer Engineering. Computer Engineering is sort of a middle ground between EE and SE, where you learn hardware concepts like circuits and semiconductors (for hardware development), but there are also algorithm-based courses.

Each of the programs has many options for elective courses, and you can focus on databases, algorithms, security, web development, or whatever you want. The core concepts are the same, and it’s more about learning broad concepts and skills, rather than focused skills. Things like Redis and Elasticsearch didn’t exist when I took my database course - the practical portion was mostly just SQL. Things like Docker came even later. But the broad concepts I learned allow me to jump in and use “new” technologies as they mature and stabilize.

None of the programs were just “coding bootcamp”. Coding was almost inconsequential to my degree (CompEng), though I understand it’s used more heavily in Computer Science degrees. I had a single first-year course that was supposed to teach us programming - all the other courses just assumed a basic knowledge. The focus was more on the design, the logic, and the algorithms. Anyone can code - the bootcamps have that right. But not everyone can design and implement a distributed system efficiently and securely.

I have a friend on ozempic (for diabetes). It really seems like it’s impossible for him to just use it to continue his excessive eating habits, because it suppresses his appetite and he just doesn’t eat much anymore. He still eats garbage, but much less.