What? No it doesn't. I can download the text from each comment here to put it offline and in a blockchain. All blockchain is is a datastructure, nothing more.
No, blockchain is a protocol allowing to insert data into that data structure in a decentralized and secure way. Do you know what "block" in blockchain is for? It is there solely for more efficient application of proof of work algorithm. If you appended each transaction to the chain individually, there would be a lot of reorganizations, unneeded network traffic and wasted energy, hence the "block" that clamps thousands of transactions together.
I was just recently given a free disposable CBD vape with my latest dispensary order. They are quite popular in many more segments than "teenagers and preschoolers"
The comment was highlighting that their disposability and ubiquity leaves them too accessible to kids too young to know what they are or that they could be dangerous, not saying that only teenagers and preschoolers would be interested in them.
At any bar you go to just about every girl inside will be puffing on a vape (discretely or not) regardless of age.
Guys seem to generally prefer old school cigarettes outside. But many of them vape too.
Personally, I took up unfiltered hand rolled grits while in Europe for a bit (when in Rome…), and my throat is still recovering. I can certainly see the appeal of the vape. But as I don’t have any sort of anxious/depressive tendencies, nicotine is not something I have any desire to consume.
Not very true here in California where most people take the indoor smoking ban pretty seriously, and recently in France it seemed like regular cigarettes still outnumber vapes 20:1 or more. I haven't been to Japan in a couple of years, but regular cigarettes were still very popular there in 2019, and I don't recall seeing a single vape, though I wasn't specifically looking for them. Seems like a very regional thing -- I know that in the Midwestern USA for example, vaping is extremely popular across many demographics.
At least in Nürnberg and surrounds, vaping has taken over for people under 40. I’ve had colleagues vape on camera during informal meetings. The vapers I know (adults past college age) were all tobacco smokers before, so this is (hopefully) better for them. They definitely smell better!
Adults tend to use the refillable ones, and I usually can’t smell what they’re vaping, but I see high school age kids with the colorful, flavored disposable ones that my little kid seems to have a tropism for.
There are other ways one can cache dynamic blog pages, like with CLoudflare. Some frameworks will automatically cache database calls as well, like with Rails.
I don't think the second point has any weight when people are shipping miniature computers in literally everything these days. Personally, I don't want these devices using all of their power.
The first point is indeed tragic. But I think some of the blame has to fall on the consumer for failing to keep abreast of changes, and for not forcing manufacturers to change their ways.
We're super quick to cancel companies for social justice stuff, but not for spying on us?
It is interesting and tragic how the business community absolutely refuses to let something just be. That would be leaving money on the table. And we can't have that, not at all.
To be clear, I am talking about consumers having to explicitly opt-in to those things and to have a clear understanding of what data and rights they are giving up. If someone wants to allow advertising and behavioral tracking, that should be their explicitly-authorized option. And definitely not the default configuration.
The current status-quo is that TV manufacturers abuse and intrude with abandon because nobody is making a fuss about it and politicians are too busy trying to throw each other in jail.
I think software iLok used to work if it were licensed to the yabridge environment; whatever device identity parameters it read were implemented in WINE. For hardware iLok and other stuff, yeah, you're pretty stuck, they usually use goofy hacks or custom drivers that can't be handled in WINE. Someone would have to reverse engineer the DRM and figure out how to redirect the licensing methods. Or just remove the DRM from the plugins (crack them), which is the honest answer to people probably do it in the real world.
