Some of it was VC money, but quite a bit of it was the exact same thing that happened when the App Store became popular. People were going out of their way to try to create things that would be bought out by larger companies.
I was around in the 2000s when YouTube got bought by Google. I don’t disagree that the Internet used to be a blast, but I do disagree that corporate interests weren’t already fucking it up and going into overdrive by the end of the 90s.
I am 6’4” @ 190lbs, I’ve never believed for one fucking second that he was only 30lbs heavier and an inch shorter than I am.
I would argue that started happening the moment they got online. The dot com crash didn’t happened for nothing.
Maybe I am misunderstanding what you’re saying but this sounds like an entitlement issue. Kids don’t need to be able to do more than schoolwork on school provided computers.
After years and years of this debate, I’m starting to feel like the time change is just the best compromise. Because we’re never going to satisfy the people that for some reason don’t understand that we can just start things at a different time.
You do understand that’s why they ran a centrist right? They need to stop trying to court third-party voters.
As with pretty much every other billionaire he was simply in the right place at the right time.
AFAIK wire transfers are still considered cash transactions.
Mostly people who are ‘investing’ in houses. For instance it is legal to use profits from the sale of property to buy more property and not pay taxes on that income as long as it’s done within the same calendar year in most US states.
That depends, how comfortable are you with SQL injection directly from the webpage with no other security measures?
As a dev who’s been unemployed for 18 months your last sentence was pretty much my first thought when reading the article.
The draft never left, that’s what the Selective Service is and all men in the US are required to be part of it at 18.
The Service is supposed to be turned off when we are done with the draft.
Nor in medieval North and South America for what it’s worth.
The number of times that I have been downvoted into oblivion for pointing out that the Internet is not the World Wide Web is too damn high.
The case in the picture looks cool, but it doesn’t have an optical drive. I have a a Fractal case too though, but it was one of the only ones I could find that had an optical drive slot.
According to the article that has been posted a million times on Lemmy over the last week, they are the fastest growing solar market right now.
They want TSMC too. Intel isn’t up to taking over for them so having TSMC would mean having significant control over the global economy.
Just so we’re clear, “the last century“ was 26 years ago…
My grandma used to say “put your wants in one hand and take a shit in the other and see which one fills up faster.”
The point is these are school computers, they shouldn’t be treated any differently than a computer lab computer just because they’re at your house.