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That some people are evil and should be stopped.

That's the rhetoric of both sides though, isn't it?

the only difference is in who the far left vs far right each believe "should be stopped".

customers who have used fewer resources have covered the costs, in a way, for other customers who have used much more resources

Literally the business model of every "shared resource service model" on the planet. Hetzner's entire business model is built on this... them acting like they're shocked to discover this is... disingenuous at best.

This sets a dangerous precedent for attacking unsuspecting army personnel, even when they're off-duty.

Warzones don't have a day shift and a night shift...

Arch does this, Gentoo does this, NixOS does this, why does Debian has to be different?

I say this as someone who ran Gentoo for years and daily drives Arch today.

Because sometimes you don't want entire swaths of your server being rebuilt/tinkered with on a regular basis under the hood. "Move fast, break everything" is great in dev/test land, or a prod environment where the entire fleet is just containers treated like cattle, but contrary to what the SREs of the valley would believe, there's a whole ecosystem of 'stuff' out there that will never be containerized, where servers are still treated like pets, or rather, at least "cherished mules", that just do their job 24/7 and get the occasional required security updates/patches and then go right back to operating the same way they did last year.

I could be mistaken on this, as I don't live in an area where such things are common, but my understanding is the issue is that if your house is destroyed by say, a hurricane, no insurance provider (or fema) gives you a bag of cash and says "move", reimbursement is predicated on rebuilding the structure where it stood.

So.. we should break a fundamental aspect of an 'open and free' internet by introducing a link tax, just because the horse and buggy people haven't taken the last 25 years to figure out how to sell automobiles by now?

Right, because everyone on the internet, and who ever possibly enjoyed Omegle is either a sex abused child, or the pedophile who preyed upon them.

I had forgot, this is 2023 where there's never a middle ground in any discourse, regardless of topic. Thanks for the reminder.

A park is in public view. A library is in public view.

And yet heinous acts of abuse/violence/etc have occurred in both.

By your logic, we should pave all the parks and burn down the libraries.

Except part of their 'value prop' is "We have this giant trove of human created content, and AI companies need to start paying us to utilize it when training their models".

... and now there's an HR mandate that managers need to give extra preference to applicants who are located closer to the office.

don't contain <the correct> government backdoors.

Fixed that for you. :/

After all, that's all a human has.

As a human that has only eyes, I've smashed the underside of my front bumper on many a curb over the years in various cars because just sight alone, blocked by the hood and front end of a car is a crappy way of judging things like that.

I say this as someone who absolutely loves his Model3.. but a step back is a step back, no matter how one spins it.

Radar-delete was a user experience negative for me as well. My autopilot experience today is far more 'jerky jerk' in terms of stop/go traffic than it ever was in the glory days of 'radar distancing data', so much so that AP is now banned on anything but 'smooth sailing highway driving' when I have certain motion sick vulnerable individuals in the car. Add on to that it's now (rightfully, given it's lost the radar available data) far more touchy about weather conditions before it'll even engage. :(

There's currently some concern in IT circles that Broadcom is intending something similar to "The CA Business Model" with their vmware acquisition. :(

It's a real system that was made in the United States

Not sure that's true (most of the founder folk appear to be non-US based, and the foundation is Swiss if I'm not mistaken), nor is it what the US Govt is claiming.

The SEC appears to be saying "45% of the validator nodes on the network are US based, therefore the transactions happened here, and our laws apply". Which is a horribly bad statistical assumption by an agency that would, one hopes, employ actual mathematicians.

I'm far from an ETH fan, more old school BTC myself, but to me, this feels like an exact reminder of why centralization (Even at the country level) is bad, and I can only assume that someone somewhere, who is working on the "next generation of blockchain" just scribbled "GeoIP based node populations limitations/banning" onto their feature roadmap.

Honestly, I know this answer isnt going to be that popular in some circles, but.. yes. leave it. If it offends your sensibility so much that you just can't be 'caretaker' for this mess, walk away.

But if it's "working fine and generating heaps of cash" as far as upstairs is concerned, there is no way you play the 'refactor/redesign/replace' game and come out ahead.

Since for most properties the majority of the value is in the land itself

I'm not sure that's the case for the majority of the country. At-least it's not here in my greater metro area (suburbs or rural... yuppie downtown areas... perhaps, but again, downtown is not majority for most places)

rising oil

Monthly inflation numbers have been > 5% since May 2021. Oil didn't exceed 2018 $s until will into October 2021.

Well, to be fair, they don't want a CNN+ on their hands.

(toosoon?)

I do not think it is unreasonable to expect a brand new laptop to ship with either of them.

For a Dell, HP, or other multinational conglomerate who gets new chipsets in advance from Intel and always has a dozen or more models on the never ending merry-go-round of 'hype the new, dump last seasons at Costco on the people who don't know any better', no, it's not unreasonable.

For a small batch manufacturer who's been shipping laptops less then a year and is still effectively on their first model release? All in the middle of a pandemic induced supply chain fiasco?

It kind of is.

To be fair, the people that run SaaS platforms that extort a 3x multiple to go from "Pro" which just happens to have every feature they offer EXCEPT SAML, to "Enterprise" which, low and behold, adds no value /other/ than SAML all need to line up and die in a fire someplace.

revisit and scale later with a proper solution

But there in is the problem. Most Marketers I've had the pleasure of working with/for will never come back and implement the proper (scalable, secured, etc) solution. By the time this first ad-hoc creation has either failed horribly or taken off, they're off on the next new "idea".. there's no time to property revisit that last one, why would we? It's either dead and forgotten or working as I gloriously intended!

I've actually already seen Zapier go 'full lifecycle' in two separate environments. It went from "cautiously approved" to "banned by both name and by functionality" both times due to the marketing team zapping their collected data off to, lets call them.. overly public output storage locations.

The company my wife works for will only confirm whether an employee was employed at a given date, or not. No salary information. No titles. Nothing other than a yes, or no.

This is pretty common. My state is pretty liberal in terms of what's allowed legally, but even as far back as the 90s, the official party line in most shops was that you couldn't say more than "Joe was employeed here between 19xx and 19xx". And that's assuming you, as a persons former manager, were even supposed to take the call. Many shops had a "refer all inquiries to HR" rule and would only tell them the same basic answer.

Unofficially, a common tactic was (and I believe still is, if recent experience is anything to go by) to to exploit the use of "personal references" as opposed to former Employers. Hope (or 'suggest') the candidate used a former co-worker as a personal reference, and then on the call ask things like "On a personal level, given the opportunity, would you look forward to working with Joe again?" Anything less than an enthusiastic "oh definitely" was a polite tip off that Joe was not someone you wanted in your shop.

disappointing to see people still framing it as a purely individual decision.

Unless you live a in cave on the side of the mountain surviving off berries and forgoing all human contact, nothing in life in a purely individual decision.

Dog owners are more likely to have their pet physically hurt a small child than people who choose hamsters. Owners of Dodge Charger Hellcats emit more CO2 to the environment than Prius owners. Nobody _needs_ to make six figures a year to survive, they could all perfectly well donate everything above their 'need' to a local soup kitchen... but I don't know anyone who does.

The last I checked, all of these things are still considered perfectly acceptable decisions in polite society. Nobody is out shaming those choices. Except maybe the Prius owners.

that is getting people killed.

Twice as many people died in the US last year from Heart Disease than from COVID, but I'm pretty sure we don't (yet) ban youtubers who extol the awesomeness of gluttonous fast food in weekly videos.

At some point, people need to grow up and take responsibility for themselves, and also allow others to do the liberty to do the same. If someone is an adult, in the US, and not vax'd by now, that's on them. Period. Not anyone else.

To put it another way, I owned not one, but two separate copies of "The Anarchists Cookbook" over the years growing up.. the number of governments I have, to date, attempted to overthrow? Zero. Why? Because I was capable of reviewing the offered material and going "yeah, not today prison, not today."

If you verify with tax returns, it would be easy to borrow money from a friend and count it as income every year just for loan qualification.

1) Where do I make friends with people who have such large piles of cash laying around they're willing to front me stacks large enough so I can lie and claim it as income on my taxes to inflate the size of the loan I can get? Multiple years in a row?

2) Once I claim it as income, I owe about a third of it to the federal and state governments in the form of.. income tax. Is my friend okay with only getting about 70% of each loan back after each tax season?

I mean, if my rich friend loans me $100K each year, after three years (the number of tax returns I had to show for my last mortgage), He'll have lost about $90K on the deal... wouldn't have just been easier for him to gift me the $90K the first year and I could put it towards my house and then not needed such a large loan in the first place? It'd have saved us all three years of hassle.

The ranking of best VPNs on the site is mostly a ranking of VPNs that offer the largest referral fees [1].

Can't we replace "VPNs" with pretty much any service at this point though?

I haven't trusted 'review/ranking' sites in ages, because after see the same top 5 "best hosting providers ever!" lists one 3 sites, you kind of get a hint.

Indeed, busy people should just grab 20 McNuggets on the way home and be done with it.

I mean, the nerve, wanting a bag of quick already shredded lettuce that they can use for tacos tonight, a salad for lunch tomorrow, and finish out on Friday night burger grilling.

Horrible people they are.

Wow, that's a mighty big generalization you have there. Congrats.