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Having lived overseas, the US isn't a "veritable wonderland of consumer choice". There are 5 grocery store chains, for the great majority of the country there is one way to travel: car. At the store (Kroger), I can buy 2 kinds of salt on the shelves. Where is the "veritable choice"? It has been told in the advertising but the reality is very limited.

They are not executive employees, they are Musk employees, not the same thing.

Simple answer: No.

Nah! I think the CEOs should be the first ones sent into the combat front line zones.

I agree completely! My favorite weed killer is my own two hands and a weeder. Having said that, I live in Arizona and the dominant landscape design here is trees and bushes planted with rocks for the ground cover. A leaf rake is real good at picking up both the leaves and the rocks. I wish there was a leaf rake that didn't pick up the rocks. I have grudgingly bought an electric leaf blower because of the rocks :-(

Don't trust the "Cloud" for your backups.

My impression on both is that they are US/European centric. Not very true to their "scouring the world for newspapers" line. So, they only show events that impact or are reported on in those areas. I know that newspapers.com has a few (2 or 3) asian newspapers but that is all.

Very True! It is about choice of transit. The US has NO Choice of Transit. It is either Car or nothing. How very free that is to be limited to 1 choice!

I worked at BEI Electronics and one key position there was the Industrial Automation role who defined how things got built. Another one to look at is Process Control.

Remember: Bigger is Better Economies of Scale

They both benefit the few and sacrifice the many but are sold as ways to "reduce" costs and hence prices for the masses.

Oh but remember: "Bigger is better!" and "Economies of scale"/s

I do so wish we could stop using the term "backdoor". When it comes to computer systems, there is really no "front" or "back" and so any access granted is just another door. This then removes the idea that it can be made "safer" just by calling it something different. There are so many cases of "hidden" or "secret" APIs being made public because people found them, there is absolutely no way that an additional can be made any safer.

A post like this pops up every few months arguing one way or the other. I have lived in absolute nightmare monolith systems with so much cyclic dependency that you couldn't move without breaking something. So monolith isn't the answer. I have also seen many instances where people have completely missed the underlying principles of microservices and have ended up with an equal nightmare. Neither is a hero or panacea, what matters is to understand what you are building and why and get the interfaces correct. Then understand the principles of different architectures before moving forward. If you fail on this, you get predictably a nightmare. There is plenty of nightmare code sitting on this planet everywhere we look. My recommendation isn't to vilify either architecture but to understand their strengths and weaknesses.

What!?!?!?!

What explains the "communist" countries behaviour is "Animal Farm". The "communist" countries are just a variant of Monarchies. They have replaced some of the birth-rite of monarchies but it is still the same with all the behind the scenes power plays and purges.

You need to visit Taiwan. Tea drinking and tea buying is still practiced in many stores. They have even made the bags of tea leaves traceable to where the tea was grown. It may be the tea experience you are looking for!

The infamous "fungible resource".

This is exactly "Fahrenheit 451".

I received a settlement from the case because I worked at Intuit, also a party to the cartel.

You're not alone in this feeling. I left the industry because of the "trendiness" or "shiny object syndrome". Then put on top of that the change from serving people to spying on people and that was all for me.

I would love to look at Mullvad. Every time I try to connect to their website using Firefox 101 it fails with Error code: SSL_ERROR_RX_RECORD_TOO_LONG. Is anyone else experiencing this?

Excellent advice! I wish more programmers paid attention to this than just the 2-3 rules. The 2-3 rule tends to create unintentional tight coupling between things that becomes an iron bar that is even more evil to rectify.

Give Krita a try, it is done in a similar manner to blender.

Can anyone else who is using Firefox read their main page? All I get is a white screen even after refreshing.

And surveillance advertising...

Here let's do some numbers since this group likes numbers: Population of China: 1.4B Population of USA: 330M China Population/USA Population ~= 4.5 Case Count China: 81250 Case Count USA: 19285 China Case Count/USA Case Count = 4.2 Given the current rate of increase and the lack of action, the USA is on track to be in a worse situation than china and is still trying to figure out what to do. Best to look to countries like Taiwan, Japan, S. Korea, Singapore and maybe learn from their actions because the current approach is clearly not working.

I think the unfortunate fallout from this is that China now has confirmation that they are in a dominant position world wide and likely will start to exploit that fact. This isn't a statement on the country, as any country in that position would do the ame and has done so in the past many times over.

I think the unfortunate fallout from this is that China now has confirmation that they are in a dominant position world wide and likely will start to exploit that fact. This isn't a statement on the country, any country in that position would do exactly the same thing and had done many times in the past.

I think this should be sent to the government officials that they were able to find in their research, it might get them to wake up and stop treating it so lightly.

My question on avast is: How do we know it has completely uninstalled from our devices? Given the reputability of this company whose to say they don't leave something behind after we uninstall. It would be great if someone with the means could do a before and after test to verify this.