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Worse than the Superconducting Supercollider?

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The article is poorly written. "Scammers are using cellphone's Bluetooth option to hack the pump - and get it for free." is all the detail you get. My cellphone's Bluetooth doesn't have that option.

So one has a right to privacy and the other doesn't? Are companies not allowed to secure their data?

Yes, works fine on Windows 11

Seconded. It can use some work but I do enjoy the ability to add my own music and workout to a favorite album with the playlist option.

The Gram series has been phenomenal in my experience, especially considering the price.

Funny enough, I learned about Claudette Colvin from this Drunk History episode. https://youtu.be/Tov2tLSFq5k

The reasoning is well established at this point. It was started by the Nixon administration to reduce the amount of left and left-leaning voters, particularly black Americans.

"The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did." — John Ehrlichman, to Dan Baum for Harper's Magazine in 1994, about President Richard Nixon's war on drugs, declared in 1971.

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say this is probably a test record for whatever software they use.

I'd rather just focus on the 10% that is the detailed content, versus 90% hype, but to each their own. I don't need to be told for 3 hours that every minor feature is an Earth-shattering event.

Yeah this is an extremely limited use case with very few data points. It doesn't take into account corporate discounts, spot instances, reserved instances, savings gained from replatforming/rearchitecting to *aaS options. The author here must have very limited enterprise cloud experience.

A bit hyperbolic don't you think? We've had Medicare since 1966 and despite the bad press the VA gets it has the highest rate of satisfaction of any system in the US. https://news.gallup.com/poll/186527/americans-government-hea...

Coming from a planet that launches a lot of alien spaceships, is it that implausible that it could be (or could have been) an alien spaceship?

"media.block-autoplay-until-in-foreground" if you're searching for this.

As someone who has negotiated with AWS at the $1m/month level this is completely false.

I started drinking Japanese whiskey because it was a better value than Scotch. Now I drink Scotch again because it's a better value than Japanese whiskey.

I think it's pretty obvious that on the whole, quality is generally proportional to cost.

There are numerous examples that this is not true, and is a very common consumer misconception. If you found a LASIK place that charged $50,000 for the procedure, doesn't that make it a better quality procedure by your own definition? What about $500,000? Expensive wine comes to mind. It's easy to find examples of consumer perceived value in the wine industry. I can get a $20 bottle of wine at Costco that costs $40 at a nice restaurant. I'll still pay the $40 because it adds to the dining experience, but at the end of the day I'm drinking the same $20 wine. Natural diamonds have massive perceived value but you can get a lab produced, flawless version for a fraction of the price. Consumers put a higher value on natural diamonds because of clever marketing and decades of supply chain manipulation to make them seem rare.

Different surgeons use a variety of different equipment and have widely varying levels of experience.

That's true and definitely something to consider other than just the cost. The cost of something shouldn't be the sole indicator of the quality, so telling people to stay away from cheap LASIK centers solely on cost is not giving a complete picture. It's going to vary from center to center often times regardless of cost. Here's a good read on perceived value: https://moneyandvalues.blogspot.com/2008/03/psychology-of-mo...

I have no evidence to back this up, but I'm guessing...

I don't understand. You have admittedly have zero evidence that paying less for a LASIK procedure results in more complications, yet you seem to have a very strong opinion about it. What does the cost of the procedure or advertising techniques of the practitioner have to do with the quality of outcome? If you get a great deal on a new car, do you think that car is going to break down more often than one that cost the sticker price?

I love the incessant deification of Steve Jobs, regardless of his mistakes, juvenile behavior, and constant stories about his abuse of his staff. In this story Jobs mistakes the wrong person for John Carmack, becomes deeply offended by a silly t-shirt, screams at his staff and slams his hands the table like a 2 year old. But the author is impressed with Jobs and makes him out to be the hero. At my work we would call this a hostile and abusive work environment, but within the Jobs cult of personality it's a net positive.

If only we used all of that money spent on football programs to pay for higher education for poor kids. Wishful thinking I know.

The irony being that Musk pushed the original engineers out of Tesla and took credit for their work.

Sorry but this is complete crap. I'm not sure if you read the article, but it states:

"More than two dozen clinical trials are aiming to modulate brainwaves in some way — some with flickering lights or rhythmic sounds, but most through the direct application of electrical currents to the brain or scalp."

Two dozen clinical trials which will hopefully lead to a breakthrough. This and countless other medical advances have come about through hard science and rigorous testing in the realm of traditional medicine, not "alternative health". Crystals and homeopathic magic water aren't going cure Alzheimer's.

As a former landlord, I don't think this is an accurate comparison.

Or as average/low income non-elitists call it: my affordable computer that works just fine for what I do.

Right, you don't have to have your servers and IT infrastructure physically next your your gates to work.

I'm quite surprised that their whole operation is region dependent. I work with hospitals on high availability/continuous availability of critical systems and would think that a company as big as Delta would consider a regional power outage as a high risk and plausible scenario.

I'm not a tax expert nor purport to be one, but I have a good US CPA and Dutch tax person and leave it in their hands.

Amsterdam. As an American (or Japanese) citizen you can get a residency card easily here if you start a business under the DAFT. You can also get a 30% tax break for up to 8 years as a highly skilled migrant, which is good because the highest effective tax rate here is 52%. Aside from those things, the city is very clean, extremely safe, cheap groceries, tons of green space, and extremely easy to navigate by bike or public transport. My wife and I came from LA where none of those things are true. Going out to eat is also about half as much as LA, and there is a lot of restaurant variety due to the multicultural nature of the city. Cheap insurance for individuals with a highly rated health care system. Downsides are the weather can be unpredictable, and definitely cold and gloomy in the winter. Also high rents in some popular areas, but that's probably true for most places. Overall though, we're extremely happy with our choice and considering staying long term. Also speaking only English is no problem.