Delivery drivers aren't employees according to Walmart. Wanting to be paid at the end of day isn't unreasonable for gig workers.

Still clearly anti-competitive if they aren't allowing the linked transfer account to be a third party bank. And the fees are absolutely absurd for an in-bank transfer.

Also this is a whole bunch of bank shenanigans already. If not for industry opposition Fednow would be the norm to instant settlement transferred, with a fee of less than a nickel per transaction.

20 trillion just to build. Factoring in maintenance and operational cost (maintaining a vacuum that big is a very hard task)

A more conventional train moving at 200 mph moving freight might be worthwhile, but that's contingent on finding enough freight that isn't just as easily loaded on a cargo ship. A 15 hr ride could still command a ticket price, either by being cheaper than air, or providing room to lie down and sleep on the trip. I imagine an overnight train leaving NY at 9 or 10 AM and arriving at London 6.AM the next day would be popular. Take a day or two for business, and then take a 11 PM train out of London and be in NYC at 8AM.

If the issue hit a major Linux disto (a third party driver causing a kernel panic), you'd just need to edit the kernel command line in your boot-loader to not load the problematic kernel driver, run updates and reboot.

Breach of contract here is pretty weak, as you can pull down most of this data without an account or even having to click through a TOS page. 3,4,5,7, and 8 fall away if 1 does.

Unjust enrichment might stick, but it's pretty weak, OLpC databases and subscriptions aren't going to dry up because the value here isn't in the data per se, but in the cooperive management of it. The fact Anna incorporates unlawful sources and has no real corporate identity means it's useless to library members. It's unlikely here that olpc can prove they've lost any actual business or revenue here. I doubt they can point to one library that has canceled services and decided to use anna's archive instead.

9. The only thing new here is increased server costs, which is still heavily reliant of the breach on contract theory. Trying to call the data in the database chattel property really isn't supported by law or any precedent that I know of.

11. Is just plain silly even if you consider the database as chattel, because data is not tangible and conversion requires the intent to deprive the owner thereof. Copying is not theft.

When I drove a taxi, it was 2/3rds priuses. Average shift was 200-300 miles, though some days you went way out of town and might get 500.

Regen makes a whole lot of sense in the city, plugging in to offset only 10% of miles doesn't though.

Mixers don't provide anonymity but rather plausible deniability. Instead of a transaction having a send, receive, and change address, you mix multiple transactions together so that there are 10 senders and 10 recievers.

Keep doing the same thing over and over, statistical analysis will sus you out, should anyone care enough to bother doing the math.

I'm sure many military drones are faster.

I'm guessing it's C++, sigh 80% of the code being macros.... but don't worrry somebody will reprogram it in Rust sooner or later.

Ya, the only that that consistently works are dumb, but expensive devices on isolated serial networks running mod-bus and custom code on a PLC.

Can the Linux foundation bring back the community seats, and provide independent Linux developer positions? This endless steam of alliances and foundations where all the foundation member sit in a big circle jerk congratulating themselves on keeping up with the next computing trend is starting to get silly. Really there are spending more on blockchain then on their core product.

Anything above 128 kbps is going to be fairly high quality to peoples ears. While Vorbis still beat .mp3 at these bit rates it's not really noticeable. Above 200kbps plus... might as well use a lossless format, of which FLAC is quite popular.

Medium bit rates is where .ogg had a good use case, 48,64,96 kbps sort of rates. However Opus is better, and has lower latency at these bit rates, and can tolerate the occasional UDP packet loss.

Figure out a cellulosic ethonal process and it would. (The only commercially viable cellulose process today, is done of the fiber material left over from corn ethanol.)