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Comment Re:Impossible (Score 1) 56

> laws are mutually exclusive

Yeah, that's the play here.

Make sure the US companies know that if they comply more than locally that they will be in violation of US law.

They ought to slow roll it and let the foreign government sue, like in the 4Chan case.

Under the US Constitution when a foreign state is a party to the suit SCOTUS has Original Jurisdiction.

They'll be far less accommodating than a District Court judge.

Comment Hmmmm. (Score 2) 34

It's basically a year to a year and a half off people's life expectancies, from the heat alone.

Although this is not trivial, the antivaxxer movement will likely chop 10-15 years off life expectancies and greatly reduce quality of life for much of the remainder, same again for the expected massive reduction in air quality that will result from modern political movements, and the absurd puritanical movement in the US will likely chop another 10-15 years off the life expectancies of women.

These are, therefore, substantially more significant, although politically impossible to deal with right now.

I fully expect that, if current trends prevail, by 2040, life expectancies will resemble those of the Neolithic and Bronze Ages.

Comment Due to circumstances (Score 1) 207

Attending work for 2 days means I pay £190 per week to work, with no recompense from the company. Because there's a decent amount of holiday time, my wages have only dropped £9000 per year from last year. If I needed to attend 5 days a week, I would have to leave the only job that I have ever held that actually made any functional effort to handle my disabilities. In other words, if I lost this job, I would not be capable of functionally working in any job at all, simply because most companes don't give a damn about disabilities. Legally, however, I would be deemed "capable of work". As such, I would have no wages and no benefits. Once my money ran out, I'd be on the streets. There is simply no viable alternative.

If a business guy thinks adding to the homeless is the best way to improve work morale, then maybe he's not a business guy that holds any opinion of value. He may well be listened to, which will cause a LOT of problems for a LOT of people and WILL increase unemployent and, in countries with failing industry, increase the homelessness of people who are far more competent than him, but that does not make his opinion valuable, merely incredibly stupid and sickeningly naive.

Comment Re:Chomsky (Score 1) 60

> an innate ability for language

His theory is pretty good descriptively but there's a South American tribe that speaks in a way differently than what his insistence on specific biological structure supports.

The precept that language is innate vs. how language works being innate are probably different claims.

Academic linguists of the Expert Class type get super mad when people bring up that tribe.

IMO it's better to be a scientist than an acclaimed Expert.

Comment Re:Not a Great Idea (Score 1) 92

That's an interesting comparison I had missed. Good call.

Presumably the military needs decent chips fabbed on US soil. Doesn't have to compete with AMD or Samsung in the PC CPU market.

GF bought IBM fabs, TI isn't relevant, TSMC is just coming online but is still controlled by Taiwan. Is Motorola/Freescale around anymore?

With an engineer in charge maybe Intel stands a chance of a rebound. Competition is good so let's hope so.

I haven't bought an Intel desktop or server chip since 2018 but plenty of their low-power SoC's , Atom/n1xx. They still make good stuff in certain markets.

Selling railcar loads of Xeons for a 20x markup to buy Marketing people McMansions is likely never coming back.

Comment IRS (Score 1) 371

Stop having Venmo narc every non-trivial txn to the IRS if you want people to unload their stuff.

They already paid taxes on the income and first sale.

OK, wait ... don't tell Trump that would help EV adoption.

Screw it, just promote Monero in your community. It's actually fungible.

FWIW I've installed several 220 outlets outside my house (generator, pressure washer, etc.). Not difficult and high voltage actually makes it easier becauae you need less copper.

The metal box I used has a cover that protects the outlet in all but driving rain. Only 50A for mine; it looks like this is high-end for home use with 80A being commercial, typically, based on one guide that came up on search.

Comment Targeting Data (Score 2) 29

There's some evidence that Meta provided Israel with targeting data from WhatsApp used to flatten civilian apartment buildings in Tehran.

The IRGC put out an urgent plea to its citizens to uninstall WhatsApp within a day or two.

But people will say, "yeah, but there's no good alternative," so actually providing one is smart military strategy, if they've actually built a viable competitor.

If Americans think In-Q-Tel funded Facebook but don't have access to its data ... yeah, well they slept through the Snowden drops.

Comment Re:I can't even imagine kids after 50 (Score 1) 4

Well, some of that is for classes for people who can't see that default 3-pixel wide scrollbar on Windows 11 in high contrast dark mode. :-)

Fair. Just making fun of Windows 11.

Yeah, you're blessed to have one of each. Until they start conspiring against you, which you KNOW is going to happen.
ha!

Hopefully we'll raise them better than that. And let them see us honoring our parents.

Comment Re:I can't even imagine kids after 50 (Score 1) 4

You charge to "upgrade" to Windows 11? How evil are you? :P

For all my pro-life ramblings, we were granted only one child.

Precious. I feel bad you couldn't have more though. G-d has been very generous to us.

Keeping up with two toddlers after age 50 can't be easy.

And yet i wouldn't trade it for anything! Thank G-d, we have a lot of help. Especially, when some neighboring girls come by to take our son for a walk. G-d bless them all.

Comment I can't even imagine kids after 50 (Score 1) 4

For all my pro-life ramblings, we were granted only one child. He's 22 now. I'm not sure if I'm jealous or worried about you. Keeping up with two toddlers after age 50 can't be easy.

In other news, by marrying close to my age, I'm spending 51 to 54 in caregiving activities to the point that I can't keep up with a 40 hour a week job, and the job market is such ain't nobody gonna hire me anyway, so I'm striking out on my own and trying to trick old people into paying me $300 to back up their Windows 10 boxes and switch on TPM in UEFI if it exists:

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Finformationr.us%2F

Comment Re:Interesting (Score 3, Insightful) 56

> It definitely takes a certain personality type to be able to do sales for a living.

Short-term gains, sure, but good sales people generate relationships that result in repeat sales.

When they started pushing batteries hard when I ran in for a relay I knew the end was near.

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