Well, the upside and the downside of GDPR is that if you’re not a member of the EU, you can basically just tell them to go fuck themselves because they have little to no actual power to impact you since you’re not within their jurisdiction.
Mate, you’re talking out your ass. Neodynium is a rare metal, yes. But we’re not going through neodymium deposits fishing out magnets like they’re some sort of gemstone.
That shit gets mined, melted, alloyed with other minerals, smelted into shape then run through magnetic field generators to induce a magnetic charge in them, as just a very rough overall view of the process.
The biggest issue is that making them is INCREDIBLY material inefficient. Making one really good quality magnet requires an absolute fucking shit ton of processing, all of which reduces yield and increases waste product generation every step of the way.
…we can literally just manufacturer super powerful magnets. What the hell are you talking about?
Yeah, because the shitheads lied about the job.
“Oh, yeah, you have to go to remote sites, but the average is only about a 20 minute commute.”
And then once they gave me the job, they assigned me nothing but clients that were all 60+ minutes out of town. I interviewed with other companies on the clock and then quit with no notice.
Fucking assholes.
Hey, they’ve been running successfully since 1999. Hard to knock that sort of longevity and relevance since they’re still getting mentioned here 23 years later.
The forum Something Awful has had public ban notices for age, with a page listing banned or suspended users, the post they were banned for and usually a snarky joke from one of the mods. It actually ends up creating a fun atmosphere where people can get essentially “Go touch grass” moments that everyone can giggle about when it’s not that bad and it’s always hilarious watching some cesspit of a human being get absolutely fucking dumpstered in very public fashion.
That said, I don’t think it would work nearly as well without their registration fee creating a barrier to entry.
Bingo.
When you stop treating negative externalities as though they don’t exist, you can start to properly account for their cost in economic models. A lot of industries exist that wouldn’t if they were to have to actually pay to remediate the problems they cause rather than getting to offload the problem onto the greater community.
That sounds like coward talk.
It’s easy.
You don’t pay for your games in cash. You pay for your games by being an attack node in a hire4pay DDOS botswarm.
The wonders of living in the future.
Ohhhh, the keyboard thing sounds neat. I know some of my friends really love mechnical keyboards, but I haven’t see a lot of cutstom keycaps.
Got any favorites you’d like to show off?
What’s bouldering? Is it just a different name for rock climbing?
Yeah, but if you don’t have any assets in the EU for them to seize, and if you’re not present in the bloc yourself it doesn’t matter for shit. They have no jurisdiction or ability to enforce unless you really, really want to operate inside of their market at scale.