Hopefully it will limit the length of the war, and not just have US/Israel endlessly bomb while Iran fires off what it can randomly at anyone in range.
It seems to me your argument is in bad faith because (taking the parents analysis at face value) you created a straw man "social credit score" that doesn't exist. But there ARE masked goons roving Minnesota.
This is the logic that cost Kamala Harris the election. Liberals are absolutely addicted to putting their head in the sand about how much people care about genocide and Israel's influence on our lives. We've hit the breaking point, Zionism is no longer electorally valid.
We don't have to guess about what was going on at Microsoft in those days. From "Barbarians Led by Bill Gates":
The day the Mac shipped in January 1984, Gates told McGregor to run out and buy a Mac for the Windows developers.
"Reverse engineer it," Gates told him. "I have applications like BASIC and Multiplan that we've hacked out for the Mac, and we're working on other Mac applications like Word with a graphical user interface. I want to run all those Mac applications on Windows." Apparently, Gates didn't see a conflict of interest with this strategy.
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"How are they different?" Gates snapped back. "They both draw fucking lines on the screen, right? They both put things in windows, right? Mac wrote a windows thing, you wrote a windows thing, they ought to be able to run the same stuff together."
Why does their air con take 1kW to run? I wonder how much below ambient they are setting their temperature, and how old that aircon is and how bad the insulation?
The washing machine seems also inefficient.
My dryer is also a lot more efficient than theirs, at least if Miele's app is to be believed about how much it uses each cycle.
> This included alleged representations that CaaStle earned $66.3 million on revenue of $439.9 million in 2023, when it actually lost $81 million on revenue of $15.7 million.
> lawyers said the indictment presented “an incomplete and very distorted picture”
“There is much more to this story, and we look forward to telling it,”
Also a polite reminder that most of those crashes will be concentrated on machines with faulty memory so the naive way of stating the statistic may overestimate its impact to the average user. For the average user this is the difference between 4/5 crashes are from software bugs and 5/5 crashes are from software bugs, and for a lot of people it will still be 5/5
> They literally had record profits the last few years, rather than being forced to lay down solar. I think power should be a global endeavor, not some local for profit business with complete regulatory capture that makes competition illegal.
Sounds more like you guys should be lowering barriers to entry, not setting up a global non-profit cartel.
Just to nitpick, Palantir isn't doing surveillance like Flock. They do data integration the way IBM does under contract for the governments. Some data pipelines include law enforcement surveillance data which get integrated with other software/databases to help police analyze it. There's no evidence they are collecting it themselves despite recent headlines. It's a relatively minor but important distinction IMO.
If you're interested in this I definitely recommend you look into amateur radio licensing. I took mine a few years ago simply out of interest, and I learned so much from the advanced course.
VHF and UFH are so deeply embedded in technology we almost forget it's there. It's fun to sweep for other peoples environmental sensors in your neighbourhood, even more fun to track and listen to satellites as they pass overhead.
There is DRAM which is mildly defective but got past QC.
There are power suppliers that are mildly defective but got past QC.
There are server designs where the memory is exposed to EMI and voltage differences that push it to violate ever more slightly that push it past QC.
Hardware isn't "good" or "bad", almost all chips produced probably have undetected mild defects.
There are a ton of causes for bitflips other than cosmic rays.
For instance, that specific google paper you cited found a 3x increase in bitflips as datacenter temperature increased! How confident are you the average Firefox user's computer is as temperature-controlled as a google DC?
It also found significantly higher rates as RAM ages! There are a ton of physical properties that can cause this, especially when running 24/7 at high temperatures.
I was a NNW user for years and it's why I eventually built my own news reader. NNW had a lot of great features and I wanted to mostly keep them. You might find that NewsBlur takes a similar path but with a different set of opinions.
No, I was not suggesting that.