Expensive enough that I'd rather spend my money on other stuff.

My belief that China will lead the world is founded on the fact that the people view the government as servants of the people. They don't waste any more time thinking about who is running the system so long as the system runs.

America is failing because no one seems to accomplish anything anymore because they're wasting their time attacking each other thanks to a constant bombardment of negativity where even the president of the country wants half the people to hate the other half.

Around 2017, I started looking at Huawei as an alternative to Cisco. I have been abandoning Cisco in favor of Huawei ever since.

It all started when the US government started advertising that Huawei was so good that without government intervention, American companies would not be able to compete against them.

I researched them quite extensively and even visited their headquarters. And the US is right. Huawei products are really good and their customer support was way better than Cisco's. And with the inflation of the dollar and much further inflation of Cisco prices, I really needed an alternative.

The "Huawei Ascend rhetoric" flooding the press these days has me investigating Ascend as a NVidia replacement. After all, one news article went public a few months ago about how a customer has problems with Ascend. I work with a $20 million NVidia DGX HPC which sits mostly idle because it overheats and crashes a lot, so most people move to the Cray or Bull Sequoia. HPCs are generally difficult and a Chinese HPC they can deliver today compared to an American HPC with a two year wait... Let's just say it's worth buying a few nodes and trying.

Seriously, England is famous for being Europe's America.

They make a lot of noise, are inconsiderate, poor majored and oddly are at their worst when complaining about others behaving just like themselves.

A campaign like this is beyond wasteful.

You're extremely naive.

I was listening to Spotify earlier by saying "Alexa play music". The algorithm eventually played George Michael (I think) rather than music. I realized at that point while hearing "sex is natural, sex is good, not everybody does it, but everybody should" that

'When did this become not shocking?" and "could you hear this playing in and old age home or even a church lobby on the radio and not care?"

We are numb.

Simply expect that sooner or later, active cameras will be in every bathroom or shower to let robots or highly trained sub-minimum wage workers can direct robots to flush for you.

I wouldn't be surprised if on day food companies produce food additives that monitor your intestines from the inside and transmit the data.

Privacy is dead and I'll gladly mock anyone who is naive enough to believe we live in a world where we can change any aspect of that?

Do you think Meta released these without deciding beforehand to fight the backlash? Do honestly believe they didn't decide they are confident they will not just win, but end up profitable?

Skip the restaurants you don't like for their policies. If they're any good, your lost business won't matter.

There were people who emphasized his middle name to turn people against him. That is fact.

I'm happy to report that he was elected anyway. People liked who he was.

Oh I certainly agree with your reasoning: free services should come with tech support. But that does not mean they actually do. Google, in particular, has been notorious for giving users the middle finger when they were in need.

I would like to see these free services get nailed in EU, under this "consumer rights directive." I would further like to see America follow the EU's example, in that case. But until then, I am sticking with cheap paid services that have proven their reliability.

These services auto-renew. And even if you can't pay, they only suspend the account, they don't just instantly delete everything, so you can re-activate it when you do pay.

Technically someone in Mississippi could also set up a server and do some kind of age verification for people who sign up on that server in Mississippi.

Which party is that?

Free services come with no tech support, and therefore, should not be relied-upon for anything important. It's that simple.

Proton is not the only paid mail provider. There are others, like Fastmail (which I prefer). These services are very affordable ($30 bucks a year give or take), and the interface is nice and clean since they don't serve you ads. And they have every incentive to give you customer service when you need it.

There is also Apple's iCloud mail. It's "free" in that there is no yearly subscription for the basic tier, but you set one up when you buy Apple hardware, so they still make money that way, and still have the right incentives. I have one of these addresses too and have received customer support from living, breathing, human beings at Apple the one time I needed it.

So, that's my recommendation to everyone: Use one of these instead of Google/Yahoo/Microflop/AnythingFree. And if you need to host a website for your business, use something you actually pay for, not Meta.

North Dakota is a rain forest?

It means they ran the models longer, until they found a problem:

These climate models aren't accurate at those time scales.

It's probably not constitutional. It got past the first step of the Supreme Court challenge, but that's probably because of opposing lawyer incompetence:

It failed because WiFi routers started coming with passwords pre-installed.

For me personally, I eventually added a password because people watching movies on my WiFi was eroding my ping time in online games.