That's good to know, thank you

Why exactly?

The Pacific is pretty big, it's an ocean after all.

You can use the charcoal kiln to avoid buying your coal. 10 wood becomes 1 coal, and especially if you're fishing-focused, you should have plenty of room for some trees

1/10000, but I don't think modern banks accept this conversion anymore, so its up to the free market.

Dang a pug with ADHD. I'm glad you have it somewhat sorted, though.

What does that mean

Any company can take barter for their services if they wanted to.

They'd have to be pretty dumb to take a normal quarter as barter worth a whole mortgage instead of 0.25$ though.

Generally barter relies on the good being a similar value, whereas sovcit logic tries to force them to take terrible barter through the magical contract system america is beholden to, because obviously an all-encompassing contractual indentured servitude will have easy cheat codes to break out and get paid while you do.

Not convinced it's not her.

Tweak the story just a bit and you get Sweeney Todd though, that'd be an interesting take.

You nailed him.

Shelter cat, never got over it, and I took the photo while he hid and I was opening a can of his food.

Always concerned, disappointed I stopped for a photo, and hungry.

There's also Tiny 10 and Tiny 11, which take it even further. They're genuinely small, too, they did good work.

If you actually read the whole graph, you'll see windows has 2 entries.

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I am OK with shitty companies washing their hands of it by letting it be freeware.

In fact that's my preferred way for them to do it. Way better.

Companies collect a bunch of telemetry about everyone they can, that's the basis of their ad revenue. The data is used to identify you, your devices, and your preferences, and is called a digital fingerprint.

They also use this fingerprint to detect people doing things like making an account to avoid a ban.

Your fingerprint, when you made a reddit account at work, will have virtually identical devices attached as anyone else using reddit at work. Lots of people have alt accounts for normal reasons, so Reddit decided yours and someone else's belonged to the same fingerprint, probably since you made the account.

But now they got banned. Maybe even got caught actually using a second account to circumvent it, and reddit is cracking down on the whole digital fingerprint because that's "you".

Nah but it keeps any drops nearby and also they can't eat the grass under the fence so it regrows easier.

Also prevents them from wandering somewhere else and getting in the way like any other NPC in town.

I do it for the grass thing, although I use non-fence stuff so it doesn't decay. Lightning rods, for instance.

At one time, it was justified because news was months old and you could not know the candidates in a reasonable amount of time without traveling to DC and you couldn't afford to do so.

So you elected some local guys you trusted to vote on your behalf, basically.

It's a good reason to make the electoral college, but not a good reason to keep it.

"Pinghe Teacher Hotel"

Yeah but it's not as good as a reading direction.

Countries willing to pass on a US patent to China stop getting the chips (or, in this case, chip-making jobs, realistically, but that still hurts)

Also Taiwan doesn't wanna help China and even if a US sanction was just an excuse to hurt China and get away with it they'd probably do it.

Edit: in this case, this chip is "foreign-produced items [...] that are the direct product of U.S. technology or software", according to the article. I feel it was implied but clarity is always good. US technology, used with permission in a Taiwanese good, and that permission could be retracted.

I doubt it.

For the same reasons, really. People who already intend to thoroughly go over the input and output to use AI as a tool to help them write a paper would always have had a chance to spot this. People who are in a rush or don't care about the assignment, it's easier to overlook.

Also, given the plagiarism punishments out there that also apply to AI, knowing there's traps at all is a deterrent. Plenty of people would rather get a 0 rather than get expelled in the worst case.

If this went viral enough that it could be considered common knowledge, it would reduce the effectiveness of the trap a bit, sure, but most of these techniques are talked about intentionally, anyway. A teacher would much rather scare would-be cheaters into honesty than get their students expelled for some petty thing. Less paperwork, even if they truly didn't care about the students.