Polarization is causing a lot of people to doubt that the collective money actually will be put to good use. In a lot of places (like my country, Israel) they're damn right, it's not.
I guess each country might have its own laws about this. Many countries have agreements (I forgot the term for this) where they would send each other's wanted criminals back so they can be tried where they committed the crime.
Just yesterday I joined a Discord server and one of the rules is:
II. There Will Be No Tolerance For Intolerance
SKG enforces a zero-tolerance policy towards hate speech or discriminatory behavior based on race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religion, disability, or any other protected characteristic. Any use of slurs or language intended to demean or dehumanize an individual or group is prohibited. Violation of this rule may result in immediate removal from the server.
I thought "no tolerance for intolerance" is kinda funny, especially when phrased that way, but obviously I think the policy is good. Just an amusing little oxymoron.
Sorry for going 100% off topic but since it came up, please everyone in the European Union go and sign the Stop Killing Games initiative: https://www.stopkillinggames.com/ the deadline is coming up and the goal is to reach at least 1,500,000 signatures! It's looking like it's doable, every signature counts!
I think SQLite is a great middle ground. It saves the database as a single .db file, and can do everything an SQL database can do. Querying for data is a lot more flexible and a lot faster. The tools for manipulating the data in any way you want are very good and very robust.
However, I'm not sure how it would affect file size. It might be smaller because JSON/YAML wastes a lot of characters on redundant information (field names) and storing numbers as text, which the database would store as binary data in a defined structure. On the other hand, extra space is used to make common SQL operations happen much faster using fancy data structures. I don't know which effect is greater so file size could be bigger or smaller.
I think smartphones definitely win when it comes to convenience, accessibility, and ease of use. Even at home I use my phone a whole dang lot for general chill purposes, even though I have bigger and better screens to use.
I can't comment on porn because I genuinely never watch porn of any sort (yes, I'm serious), but I have watched and enjoyed YouTube and Netflix et al on my phone, even at home. I usually prefer a bigger screen but sometimes the portability wins out.
I really don't see what kind of percentage you were expecting. To me it looks almost exactly like the market share of android in the areas of the world where PH is used.
Under video game consoles, it lists 0.1% for "Other (3DS/PS Vita)". Unless PornHub offers 3D porn that works on the 3DS (do they?!), I refuse to believe even 0.01% would use the 3DS browser in this capacity.
(On the other hand, that's 0.1% of video game consoles, and I can't imagine too many people use their consoles for porn in the first place... Basically I'd love to see absolute numbers for this)
I think it should be both. Punishment can be a good deterrent, and it's really not possible to measure how much of an effect the deterrence has. You don't have statistics on people who would have committed a crime if there weren't harsh punishments.
I know it's off topic but what has been proven to work best is to prevent crime by improving the lives of would-be criminals before they get to that situation. It's cheaper and just better in every way.
whatever Android has a healthy update life guarantee and easily unlockable bootloader.
The Fairphone is really looking sweet. I'm fairly sure my next phone will be a fairphone if it's at all feasible for me, but I expect my current phone to last at least a few more years.
You're right (and upvoted accordingly), but if said evil company is as much of a clusterfuck as OP said, I wouldn't bet on them having competent security measures in place.
Is that an enemy? As I recall they're an item that only the player can use, they never appear out in the wild and you don't have to fight against them (unless they ricochet back at you). Also, this is just my interpretation, but they seem mechanical to me, not alive.
which is clearly not as reliable a source as it could be
Just to expand on this: in the Zelda series it differs from game to game. In some games they are bomb flowers (e.g. Tears of the Kingdom, also Wind Waker if I remember correctly), in other games they appear to be man-made and are bought in shops (e.g. Ocarina of Time, Twilight Princess, I think?) and are presumably conventional bombs with gunpowder as you mentioned. I don't remember any game where bombs are an enemy like you said, but I'll take your word for it. I haven't played every game.
I got confused by your explanation, I think partly because of conversion to decimal without specifying whether column A is 0 or 1. To match the row numbering system, I'd assume it's 1, but mathematically it might be easier to analyze if it starts at 0.
Here's my attempt to understand it better.
How many spreadsheet rows are 1 digit? 1-9, that's 9 rows.
How many rows are 2 digit? 10-99, that's 90 rows.
How many rows are 3 digit? 100-999, that's 900 rows.
The pattern is: there are 9 × 10^(d-1) rows that are d digits.
Now for columns. How many columns are 1 letter? A-Z, that's 26.
How many columns are 2 letters? AA-ZZ, that's 26².
How many columns are 3 letters? AAA-ZZZ, that's 26³.
The pattern is: there are 26^d columns that are d letters.
Now let's look at running totals. How many rows are at most 2 digits? 9 + 90 = 99
How many rows are at most 3 digits? 99 + 900 = 999
The pattern is: 10^d - 1 rows are at most d digits.
How many columns are at most 2 letters? 26 + 26² = 26×(1 + 26) = 26×27
How many columns are at most 3 letters? 26×27 + 26³ = 26×(27 + 26²)
Alternatively: 26 + 26² + 26³
I can't find a more compact way of writing it.
The pattern is: Σ26^k (k from 1 to d) columns are at most d letters
I might be wrong but I don't think this matches up with what you said, which is 26×27^(d-2) + c (where c is some constant for converting between what we're trying to measure, probably 1 or -1)
Polarization is causing a lot of people to doubt that the collective money actually will be put to good use. In a lot of places (like my country, Israel) they're damn right, it's not.