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Admin privileges aren't the same thing as a kernel-mode driver. Steam does require admin to be installed, but it does not install a kernel-mode driver.

Steam does not have any kernel-mode components.

This would be true if the only alternative to piracy is not using said content or software. If paying is a valid alternative to a nonzero fraction of pirate users if piracy was not an option, then the piracy does affect the creators economically.

> Doesn't work for me in the Netherlands. Down since this morning.

Same for me. It is accessible from my home network (AS206238) and from public transport wifi (AS202189), but not from any other network I can currently access (AS201975, AS50266).

> With timezones:

> * I want to call my friend in Germany. What time is it for her? I guess I'm UTC-7 and she's UTC+1, so she's 8 hours ahead of me. I know that everybody around the world typically wakes up between 6 and 9 AM and goes to sleep between 8 PM and midnight, and she's an early bird, so she should be awake.

> Without timezones:

> * I want to call my friend in Germany. It's the same time here as there. It rises at 13:00 here, but she's a quarter of the way way around the world. I have to look up their typical waking hours. She's an early bird, so is she on the early side of that, likely. What time does the sun rise there? How much does that change over the seasons?

This is actually the same thing. In both cases you have to know or look up that there's an 8 hour difference between the two of you.

The bits about the seasons and being an early bird apply equally to both cases, so it's not really relevant to the comparison.

There isn't enough renewable energy yet to cover all consumption. Which means that you paying extra is only an administrative move. You're just swapping places with the party that would otherwise have consumed the renewable energy.

In my experience it's quite the opposite. We use Flask for a large-scale webapp in production quite successfully and it's enabled us to reduce application complexity significantly.

> Where else are people meant to store money?

Money isn't stored in other assets. It's transferred from the buyer of an asset to the seller. It doesn't cease to exist simply because you traded it for stocks (or gold or anything else). Now the seller has to deal with the consequences of holding the money you previously held. A rational trader factors in the costs of money when they price assets, therefore one doesn't avoid those costs by trading money for other assets.

The domain is different. bbc.com versus bbc.co.uk.

Except that playing Fortnite isn't the thing that's being disallowed. It just happened to contain an in-app purchase system that did not use the Apple-approved method, and Fortnite's developers refused to remove that.

Apple has always clearly stated that this is perfectly fine on websites, just not in apps.

Why would HFT even consider using it? They are located as close as possible to the exchange they operate on, not across states or halfway across the world.

Interactive Brokers offers such a debit card to US clients, albeit not by selling assets automatically, but by using the cash balance or a margin loan backed by the assets. You can then decide which assets to sell (and when to sell them) to cover for the payments made.