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It’s been stunning how often this story is reposted from various news sources across Reddit and Hacker News. Each time it’s some different outlet - but when you dig in, the piece i…

Which you can explicitly buy a disk drive for, if that’s important to you: https://direct.playstation.com/en-us/buy-accessories/disc-dr... They actually did a good job giving the c…

It’s not corporate speak - they have hard data in digital vs physical sales that they report on every quarter: https://www.gamespot.com/articles/sony-just-reported-a-new-r...

At this point it’s a pretty small portion. Last quarter 85% of all game sales were digital. https://www.gamespot.com/articles/sony-just-reported-a-new-r...

> Amending this rule requires a federal supermajority (66% in House and Senate) or a state majority (66% of state legislatures vote in favor of said amendment). This is actually ju…

Because a society whose quality of life depends on robust social programs needs working age adults to man those programs Because a demographic crisis is a real problem: https://en.…

Immigration sounds good for Sweden then, because they have a fertility rate of 1.42, well below replacement. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/25/sweden-pm-ivf-...

You can run steam link on a Raspberry Pi. Or like the other commenter said, Apple TV is what I use.

My phone slipped out of my pocket as I was getting into my car, and I unknowingly ran over it. When I submitted an AppleCare replacement request for it, the employee said “Oh man, …

In most cases dividends are taxed at the capital gains rate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualified_dividend

Is it actually breaking DRM? Or is it just creating a 1:1 copy of a proprietary format? > Game consoles that are supported include the original Xbox, Xbox 360, GameCube, Wii, and D…

I’m not an expert with web sockets or web development - but re: Get Params, Vaultwarden has to follow the API of the upstream Bitwarden implementation: https://github.com/dani-garc…

Visual impairment was just my naive example - but maybe there’s a better one that still persists. Regardless, maybe there’s a path to legislation forbidding smartphone requirements…

In the linked video they explicitly print him a paper ticket that he purchased separately.

I don’t think this policy would pass muster under the ADA though. The guy might not be sufficiently disabled to qualify - but for example if you have a blind person without a smart…

> Laws apply to actions in the country, they’re not based on citizenship. According to what? Laws can be whatever a country says, so long as they have the mechanism to enforce it. …

Again like doctors, nurse wages aren’t a major factor in the discrepancy between US healthcare costs and elsewhere. They are a factor, in a death by a thousand cuts situation. In a…

I really don’t think doctor salaries are the primary difference when they make up less than 10 % of health care costs: > However, new research by Stanford health economist Maria Po…

You probably know this - but in most jurisdictions in the US, including federal, charges have to be approved by a grand jury of your peers. There’s an old adage “a prosecutor could…

The relevant part is that the judge declared traffic ticket proceedings “quasi criminal”: > In the order, the court found that red-light camera cases, although labeled as civil inf…

Supreme Court transcripts of arguments are posted to supreme court.gov the same day the arguments are made: https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcr... There’s …

> Retail businesses pay property taxes to support that. But they don’t? Copyright infringement is a federal crime - your property taxes don’t fund that. The income tax that we all …

Touché. This will arouse the ire of the “copyright infringement isn’t theft” people - but we also have the government enforce shoplifting and larceny from retail businesses. I beli…

The state isn’t enforcing your rights for free - you still have to hire a lawyer and pay legal expenses yourself. The state is just providing the infrastructure where you are allow…