It should be the opposite: The design of the delta class submarines is older than Star Wars and it would make sense that George Lucas took some design inspiration from soviet russia. He did take a lot of inspiration from Nazi Germany and it would make sense that he also did take a look at the USSR as America’s cold war enemy.

This should be human usage - the user survey was done by phone.

Yeah, and don’t pretend that comparable software like Google Drive, Sharepoint or Dropbox is faster.

RSS is not gone - you can read RSS by mail and it’s quite awesome. Check RSS2Email or Nachrichtensortiermaschine

Most people are not really using the OS. All they do is starting the webbrowser and that’s it. They need input & sound from the OS, but that’s it.

That really is interesting - all this talk about “Reddit is not profitable, we need to monetize in order to continue business, we need to layoff people” and now we’re learning that it is just some greedy assholes stuffing their own pockets

Yeah, that will be a real problem. Germans really have a special culture on Reddit where they are writing a unique form of German. If you train an AI on /r/de , /r/ich_iel or /r/okbrudimongo , you’ll produce something special.

In a better world roads would be closed for cars which exceed the capacity of those guard rails. Just put up a sign, do some enforcement and people will start buying smaller cars when they can’t use them.

Dear Bill,

the german government has a banking account where you can send them money, no questions asked. Feel free to send over your fair share of taxes you are avoiding by routing the Microsoft profits from Germany via Luxembourg and other tax havens.

It does work. People are distracted and are not reading every message correctly. And payment processing in the appstores is also kind of easy - so you might be able to scam a few people into subscribing and they might not notice this directly. You know that you are not checking your credit card bills in details every month. So you can get a nice revenue stream of unsuspecting customers for a few month until you’ve burned down every little bit of trust and user base you had

How was their free service abused?

I really would like to be able to buy a car like that. Looks fun and practical