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More civilian lives would be lost or destabilized if there were no interventions.

https://mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt0139.htm#5

Your comment does not specify which part of my previous comment is "delusional". The notion that Communism never worked out well is a historical fact.

Looking at the mess that the healthcare sector has become presents yet another example that Communist-style policies do not work well.

Regarding the corrupt and inefficient healthcare system, the solution I would have preferred would be if the government had an unlimited low-interest credit line for each citizen specifically for medical expenses. This would allow anybody to get medical treatment regardless of their financial situation, but still keep the prices low by encouraging bargain-shopping as the credit line would still have to be repaid. Payments could be deducted from paychecks depending on income just like regular taxes.

Government manufacturing consumer goods is by definition Communism. Communism has been tried before in many places, and it never worked out well.

This manufacturing plan may bring some short-term results, but long-term cheap tax-payer funded insulin will destroy competition and ultimately make insulin more expensive. There might also start a black market smuggling cheap CA-produced insulin outside CA.

I don't know why the CA politicians could not decide to investigate what trends caused insulin to get so expensive, and to introduce programs to make it easier for existing manufacturers to produce cheaper and for new manufacturers to enter the market.

A transcript of an "interview" with this AI system is at https://cajundiscordian.medium.com/is-lamda-sentient-an-inte...

I bet in a little bit they'll do yet another press release regarding how "excited" they are to sell themselves to Microsoft or Oracle or something similar to "transform" "enhance" "integrate" and "optimize" "enterprise cloud services" with "new AI capabilities" or similar.

Did the private roads require plan submission and building permits? The plans likely got stored in some government map database, which in turn got sucked in by Google.

Stop complaining that you can't get an RP4 you stingy mofos! Under $200 is still very reasonable -- https://www.ebay.com/itm/313962570333?epid=18047669553&hash=... (I'm not associated with the seller)

From https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/production-and-supply-chain... :

> "...supply constraints have prevented us from flexing up to meet this demand..."

Wish they would have elaborated more on what kind of supply constraints they are facing. Is there a limit to how many microchips that they can order that they can't manufacture themselves? Seems to me regardless of the supply constraints, if they raise the price by $20 to $50 and pass that money on to the suppliers that would positively motivate them to increase the supply.

> Where units do appear, bots often attempt to scalp stock which is then resold at higher prices elsewhere. Many Approved Resellers have implemented single-unit limits to combat this, with Adafruit and others going further and enforcing two-factor authentication – we’re encouraging other Approved Resellers to consider this route.

For as long as the price is artificially constrained, what is there to prevent secret mafia deals between reseller insiders and the bot farm operators, or what is there to prevent the bot farm operators from infiltrating the resellers, and quickly gobbling up the supply as soon as it is available, to sell at market prices for the easy profit??

I've had this happen to me when the SD card would snap in 2 inside the SD card holder on the PI. Happened twice with the CanaKit PIs, once for PI3 and another time for PI4, with the SD cards that came in the CanaKit. I just put Raspbian on some fresh SD cards that I bought separately, plugged them in, and everything was back to normal. I think the overheating was from the short circuits inside the snapped SD cards.

Can be done with RP4 8 GB. Make sure to use the 64-bit Raspbian https://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspios_arm64/images/ for much better efficiency, a USB3 SSD, and that the power supply is supplying sufficient amps, or the CPU will down-throttle.

Indeed, RP 4 with 8 GB is a very powerful versatile product, needed for all kinds of industrial and commercial uses, where it would in turn build more value for the rest of society, generating wealth. Attempting to restrict this product to only some specific privileged group will not only be futile, but harmful to the whole society, including that privileged group, as the wealth that could be generated will not be.

The current big problem is that 2 years of Coronavirus pandemic and the active Russian beligerance have created unprecedented economic disruption, effectively ending the prosperous times following WWII. We are no longer living in the same world, and expecting things to be cheap and plentiful is no longer a practical frame of mind.

The best known way to allocate meager resources for best possible use is not to interfere with the free market. And anybody who disagrees and tries to do otherwise will learn this fundamental the hard way.

It is too bad that there is really no viable alternative to RP. The current competitors do not provide good ongoing support and are only compatible with specific versions of the Linux kernel, or modified versions of the Linux kernel. I suppose eventually a credible competitor will rise up maintaining good support, without any fair price manipulation BS, and with less weird hardware quirks, and everybody will just switch over to that platform.

Indeed, if the demand exceeds the supply then the prices have to go up. This way more money will be available for the manufacturer to increase the supply. This is the basic law of economics, and anybody trying to play games around it will only make things worse and end up in poverty.

One way to make it less likely to get caught up in a mass-location harvesting case is to disable GPS on phone, especially on a non-de-googled Android phone. I'd also recommend paying with cash whenever that is an option. Another biggie is not to vote for politicians supporting public surveillance laws, and to cast an abstention vote when no anti-public-surveillance candidate is available. The abstention sends a signal to other prospective candidates that the election-winning politicians are not un-defeatable by a candidate better aligned with the voters who abstained.

Presumably, those people could prove their worth through other methods, ideally one closely related to job at hand. If they can't do that, then maybe the IQ test was a bad proxy.

I'm not saying not to test using other methods too.

https://old.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/86sc4h/three_student...

And isn't it ironic that a US citizen is currently laying low in Putin's Moscow, of all places, because he does not expect a fair or humane treatment from the US judicial system over his alleged "crimes".

Lots of times the CIA guys really create more problems than they solve, like the 1953 Iranian coup d'état, and plenty of other examples.

How come the article is not naming who was doing the torturing, and does not mention anynothing regarding attempting to contact the office of the US Attorney General to ask why no criminal charges have been filed?

"...a 1971 Supreme Court ruling that decreed IQ tests and other tests unrelated to the job to violate the Civil Rights Act of 1964..."

Plenty of programming screens and interviews involve all sorts of brain puzzlers that are never used in actual programming. Does that mean they are racist too??

An IQ test would be inappropriate for an occupation that does not involve heavy analytical skills, but if that VC firm posting was for some VC analyst and not a janitor, then I don't see any problems with trying to hire workers with high IQs as long as they feel that would be the best for their organization.

Seems to me that preventing IQ tests from being used as a criteria for positions requiring heavy analytical work is discrimination against individuals who can do well on IQ tests.

It disgusts me to see anybody "apologize" for this. It's like as soon as they get accused of being "un-inclusive" they start "apologizing" before some imaginary mob bursts in and hurts their social media rankings. This is so spineless.

Maybe you got down-voted by pissed-off Russian men, but your prediction regarding what will happen in the Russian society is spot on. The problem with the alcoholism and prostitution over there has already been pretty bad, but now it will of course get much much worse.

Unfortunately, so far in history Russia has only been a one huge long tragedy. Navalny gave a speech at his kangaroo trial that his wish is that Russia be happy. Maybe some day they might eventually figure out how to make that happen. But maybe not. 50 / 50 chance perhaps. But the next best thing would be that Russia does not spread tragedy to all other countries with radioactive fallout, and also no way to say for sure if that might happen or not, but does look likely.

At least for Amazon warehouses that are not in tornado areas, warehouse workers are instructed by the managers to go to the center of the warehouse building during extreme weather events.

I do not know for sure if that same procedure would have applied to DLI4. But my feeling is that unless the state of Illinois, Madison County, or the city of Edwardsville have a specific regulation requiring such buildings to have tornado shelters, then there was no such shelter at DLI4, and workers were instructed to assemble in the center of the building.

Internal office sections of large Amazon fulfillment centers are off-limits to non-managers, and unauthorized entry is prevented thru the use of door badge scanners, which will not unlock the door unless the badge owner has sufficient permissions.

I can't imagine what an awful, dehumanizing, and absolutely terrifying experience it was.

A lot of smart people don't want to join the police to either condone their behavior or get in confrontations with them, and / or eventually possibly become one of them.

Indeed, Kelly Thomas, brutally murdered by Fullerton police, was not black. And furthermore, his dad was a police officer.

Sometimes I wonder if BLM may actually be a pro-criminal-police conspiracy to divide the population by re-framing the police brutality problem into a racial issue.

I think everybody already knows, there is just no serious organized movement to fix the police (and the activists yapping "defund the police!" are not credible).

"... Employees asked the police for help. According to a court filing, the police responded that dealing with this crowd was “not in their job description,” and they left. ..."

At least after the 1989 Hillsborough Disaster there was an inquiry into that police.

Article should have been titled The Dangers of Government Inaction and Lack of Accountability

I wonder why they didn't post the database to Github. That would have been very hard to block and data could then be exchanged p2p.

Had Cuba and Iran not been sanctioned it would have been a lot worse.

Good point, good point. The recent NordStream deal was disgusting. Unfortunately Western morals are only marginally better than those of the tyrants that Western politicians sell out to.

I suppose whoever cares enough for Western morals to improve needs to try to sell out a little less themselves.

Pulling out of Russia might have zero immediate impact on stopping Putin rigging elections which are rigged anyway, but it would definitely reduce his and his mafia's wealth and power, thereby helping bring about the inevitable regime change sooner, and in a less turbulent way.