Yes, rampant inflation creates jobs.

Fuck off with those data points.

I voted for no one and am glad.

I mean, being someone that rolls their own crypto is itself a red flag. It mean's they're an idiot. The major libraries are written by people who fully understand the math, have extensive experience in security, and have lots of eyes on them for peer review. They know how attackers will approach things and how creative they can be (for example, its possible to partially crack some algorithms if you don't carefully write both the if and else branches of the encryption to take the same number of cycles, by measuring how long it takes the algorithm to run).

Someone rolling their own is not going to have that peer reiview, and is not going to be write it correctly the first time. Anyone rolling their own crypto in unqualified to work in security, with the sole exception of people doing academic level research into new algorithms (which shouldn't be used in any production code until its been evaluated to hell and back).

I have never once, in 23 years of programming heard a programmer talk about getting a cert, brag about a cert, or seen a cert hilighted on a resume. I have never known any programmer looking to get a new job or promotion talk about taking a certification class. These are things sysadmins or IT personnel used to care about (any possibly still do), but programmers never did.

There's only one cert that matters for a programmer- a degree in CS or a related field (software engineering, computer engineering, math, physics, etc). And that matters for maybe the first 4 years of your career- less if your first job is at a major company. After that it's your experience that will open doors. And the bachelor's matters more than any advanced degree, unless you're entering a really specialty subfield.

In fact I'd say a cert makes you less attractive as a hire. It means that you thought the best thing you could do to get a new job was to pay to take a test, when instead you could have spent the same amount of time writing code. It puts a question mark on your judgement at the very least.

The previous show was on basic cable, at a time when streaming didn't exist, and when it was just being born. This one is on a C list streaming network (and C list might be charitable) in a world of greater fragmentation of the viewer base than any previous time in history. And it now has to compete with short form video as well. Yeah, it was never going to come in the same ballpark as The Daily Show did, and anyone who thought it would is a fool.

Good public transportation is always empty in Chicago, and it is always a city bus clogging up streets for my Uber.

Public transportation, even if on time, takes 150-300% longer than a car.

It keeps people poor by allowing them to live 90 minutes each way from work instead of making their bosses have to pay them better to afford to live closer.

The one doesn't mean the other isn't true. You can have multiple videos in different stages coming together at different speeds. One can be being shot, another edited, another researched, another being script written, etc.

It's been found in a court of law that the copy into RAM to load a program is a copy that's protected by copyright. There's no way they don't find the copy to a training set to be similarly protected.

None of that matters- the default SMS app is just a UI. They don't need to make a single web call to build one. You can do it in a few hours without a server. They may have decided to send all those texts to their servers for analysis in the advertising, but that's because they saw value in it. But the default SMS app has nothing to do with webservers, SMS transport, cloudflare, or anything like that. It's a GUI and that's it. You can find dozens of tutorials on how to make a simple one, they don't actually have anything to do with sending an SMS other than hosting the textbox you type into

That's not what the default SMS app does. It doesn't send to a gateway, the OS does that. The default SMS app allows you to replace the UI for the messaging app and allows you total access to the SMS database on the device. Basically it allows you to fully replace the built in app. It was valuable to FB because of the "full access to SMS database" part. But they would never have had to pay for an SMS, that's just done by calling SmsManager.sendTextMessage at the OS level

More likel nobody used it. Being the default SMS app doesn't mean you pay for the gateway. It means you're the app that's called when an SMS comes in, and you have sole access to write the SMS database. Basically you take over for the SMS app UI. But the underlying sending of SMS is still done by the OS.

No, work is what you do to get paid. You can love it and dream of it or not. But most people with careers are actually passionate about them.

Maintenance on trains is a fraction of the cost of the cars. They also move far more people per unit time than a series of cars do. The reason this is cars is because Musk hyped up on an idea that wasn't technically feasible (and never will be), then decided that he could turn it into an even bigger grift by self dealing to his own company to boost it's revenue and make people think self driving is a thing (it isn't, they have drivers even in the Vegas tunnel) that will actually happen this decade (it won't even come close).

How I spend my money IS expression and government in the US isn't allowed to censor me.

My freedom of speech = freedom to spend how I want to spend my savings.

With those two agencies it's probably a good thing. Do you want the prosecution to have unregulated access to a judge's chambers and documents? They shouldn't even be in the same building, too high a risk of influence.

Now if we were talking say the FBI and the FDA, yeah that's crazy. But those two it makes sense to keep a barrier between.

Unless you have an entire empty office building, it may be more difficult than it's worth. You could consolidate, but if the orgs consolidating are too far apart they'd come from different congressionally regulated budgets and that would be hard to reconcile. Long term it's a solution, but its not something you can snap your fingers and do.