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They used to make BD-Rs using this technology, but switched to a cheaper (supposedly not as long lasting) method without any change in branding. It was a minor scandal among datahoarders

You don't drive in the Eurotunnel

Neither athletic nor scholastic performance are objective measures. Sports are contests of arbitrary skills, that on the highest level require time intensive and expensive commitment since basically childhood, and whatever method you choose to measure scholastic performance with it's never going to be free of class/geographic/cultural factors.

Kasparov also believes this to be true, but the last example I can recall of top level player teaming up with a computer was in 2014, when Nakamura played exhibition match with engine against Stockfish and lost 1.5/0.5, since then computers only got better. Maybe someone dedicated to playing computers could perform better, but I doubt it, since anti-computer chess haven't really been a thing outside of bullet and maybe blitz for years, now that computers search way deeper and prune better.

Europe has more both land area and population than the US, in what way is it "a small place compared to the US"?

Am I taking food off other people's plate when I manually skip ads in podcasts I'm listening to? Do people who change channels on TV when ads start steal? Is it theft to toss ad inserts from a newspaper straight into trash?

For many devices it wouldn't be "pain in the ass", it would be straight up impossible. There are millions of devices, like smart TVs, that are out of support and don't receive updates, substantially changing API would break them. It might happen at some point, but it would piss off many people.

I have a gut feeling, that person responsible for those hacks might be working for or at least informing US gov about his actions in advance.

Him talking so openly to a major news outlet and warm response of us gov officials point towards that

Anyone who knows how to setup that RPi to do anything meaningful knows how to spoof mac

Well, update process taking couple of days is it's own kind of nightmare.

And it wasn't my personal machine so it would've been unreasonable for me to do so.

I did 16.04 to 20.04 through 18.04 and it was a nightmare, it would've been faster to do fresh install.

I feel like there might be something different or subtler at play here. I do not get spooked by scary tales, and I have never enjoyed them. But I have perfectly good visualization skills, I can "see" with my minds eye, both recalling my memories or imagining something, same goes for other senses and feelings; I can and do relate to sad/funny/inspiring etc stories, but for some reason spooky stories never clicked with me.

Rue La Fayette in Paris is quite an important street, next to Gare du Nord, and is a part of Haussmann's renovation

Arguably, the short scale, not the long scale used in Ireland is obtuse. 12 zeroes for billion and 18 zeroes for trillion, 24 for quadrillion etc is 6n where n is numerical value of Latin prefix, with short scale you've got 3n+3

Ah yes, COVID-19, technical name for a respiratory disease, totally in the same category as Gestapo