Heck, for just $5 / review, I'll gladly "review" your product. Just send me some "box opening" pics, features you want called out, and some Chinese cabbage seeds or whatever. I could knock out like 200 reviews / hour easy!

Totally unrelated note - does anyone know how to get SimpleNLG on a "free" AWS instance? Asking for a friend.

I may have a zoning issue ...

I know a management professor who actually had a graduate class watch Office Space during class time. Like in grade school for PE on rainy days, but with Ron Livingston. She said it would a) prepare them for the real world better than any lecture and b) they'd immediately get references dropped by any pointy haired boss.

Probably the smartest prof there....

Could be there is now a president in office that isn't a nutter, listens to science and experts instead of sycophants, and has an actual plan vs. being dismissive of the pandemic and primarily wondering how it affects his ratings. Most of the outrage, and thus posts, was because bad shit is happening and 45 was ignoring it, and not taking real action that was in his power and purview to address.

You must be new here ....

Oh come the hell on - this only news because "Tesla". Not "vehicle crashes at 100mph in residential area - driver survives and no massive gasoline fire" but instead harping about shrapnel thrown from a massively violent impact.

Plus no reported injuries, and driver walked away.

God I hope it has changed, but I talked with a good friend consultant of mine who did work for a nuclear frigging power plant. The control room display system runs on ActiveX controls in IE. .. I was going to add more info, but I think that just about sums up everything.

Cripes - just using "ladder logic" alone adds 0s to costs. The ladder logic for common PLCs (Allen Bradley, Omron, Koyo, etc.) is convoluted, with dense technical documentation, expensive programming software, and, for a traditional software programmer, crap for a programming environment and debugging toolset.

Compare that to writing even something Wiring (arduino), or python, or *gasp* even C# via Net Core. Gads easier, and I can even self-host a simple web server to pump out the captured data.

So I wonder if the "buy one, get one free" promotion invalidates that? You are in essence getting something which is viewed as valueless. You purchased the first at full price, and a second was made available at no additional opportunity cost. Thus, you can't grow something from the "first" bag, but the second one had no contractual value - nothing was 'exchanged'.

No -you're confusing a specific implementation of block chain typically used with witnessed transactions, such as cryptocurrencies.

More generally, a block chain is literally a chain of blocks. A subsequent block adds its own data and and then cryptographically signs the whole mess, conventionally a hash. Voila - the entire chain is now trusted to be complete & un-altered - at least without breaking one or more of the crypto signatures.

Bitcoin and its ilk then transmit the *entire damn database* of *all* bitcoin transactions to 51% of all bitcoin witnesses. That's so you can't "spend" a bitcoin multiple times. But guaranteed sensor data from Mars? Or a single banking or legal transaction to be executed on your behalf by your agent on Earth? Yeah - block chain makes sense.

Um... prooobably not. There are a few thousand similar products floating around on Amazon, so unless a) CBP sucks and can't find a needle in a haystack or b) there are lots more seizures not publicized, this was selective and/or over-zealous.

(on (a) CBP only inspects a fraction of shipments for IP infringement, but that is a funding/political willpower thing.)

CBP seized the wrong product. They look physically similar to the AirPods, and that was justification enough. This happened to SparkFun a while back where their totally legit house-branded yellow digital multi-meters looked enough like Fluke low-end multi-meters that CBP seized and destroyed the shipment. In that case all parties acted like responsible adults and everything was cool. Thing is - Apple (should have) had little to no direct control of this. CBP acts on behalf of, but independent of, IP holders. CBP made a mistake here, thoug - that's clear enough.

Hopefully Apple, CBP, and OnePlus can come to a happy solution.

If I were an American (I am), I'd ignore "social media" ....

JUST GO VOTE

And if in North Carolina, vote early and vote often :)

I'm interested in seeing of "race" alone is the determining factor, or if there are co-factors with it - like quality of hospital services, underlying conditions, etc. IE, if a white and a Black person are in the same hospital ward, same health background, etc.

If its something in the DNA then basically nothing you can do - a person is who a person is. Some people are more susceptible to certain cancers. If its because of controllable factors - like (making this up with no known basis in fact) hospitals near Black neighborhoods are understaffed & underfunded, then that's something we can address.

Maybe for 1-way content, but you'd require an uplink as well. Phased arrays make it a bit harder to detect, but there is still a lot of signal leakage from the ground station which can be detected and triangulated if there is political will.