That's why you need government to fix the failures markets can create. For example car emission control systems. They aren't what the market would create left to its own devices.

As a manager, the difference between a resignation letter and an ultimatum letter is the difference between a grenade whose pin was pulled 10 seconds before it's show to you, and a grenade whose pin is pulled in front of you.

The employee is gone, either way. Neither side will trust each other again. It's over.

If you're going to quit, just quit.

It's good to have a domestic manufacturing capacity. We do have manufacturing capacity of vents in the US. We didn't have enough to meet the sudden, and completely predictable, demand.

It's more cost effective to stockpile things that you know you're going to need than to expect to retool for mass production things that you'll need to just ship out to a crisis area.

The right answer for this problem was to have the needed equipment stockpiled, in this case, PPE and vents. And in the vents case, properly maintained.

But in general I agree we need more domestic manufacturing capacity for national security reasons.

There isn't any "extra hour". The duration of daylight is independent of what your clock says. If you want people to start work earlier in the morning in the summer, then lobby businesses to shift their working day. But futzing with everybody's clocks in the US accomplishes absolutely nothing apart from annoying those of us who have to communicate with people in other countries. Which, nowadays, is more and more of us. Time, in a fixed location, should increase monotonically. It shouldn't go from 01:00 to 01:59 and then back to 01:00 again. It beats me that any sane person would want this.

" largest state economy"

Yeah, we have to trade. But we definitely grow our own food. We'd be fine if you all fell into the sea.

"Thomas Sowell"

Lost a lot of people right there. He's a moron.

It's 1989 in my alternate universe. I predict that before the end of the 20th century, grading answers on coding tests will be completely automated. The answer will simply be executed on a computer for a variety of inputs, and if a student's solution gives correct answers and executes in a time not too much more than the execution time of a reference solution, the student gets credit for a correct answer. (The exact grade could depend on the execution time, if you want to get fancy.)

I thought that PNG was a "next gen replacement" for GIF about 20 years ago?

No, it's not easy. The worldwide free-software development community needs to have hosting that serves the whole community, regardless of any one government's whims, but providing it is going to be difficult. The US government is powerful and wealthy and it will try to sabotage or cripple any globally-free hosting, by for example DDoS attacks, and it will also try to cut off its funding, as it did to Wikileaks.

Only brainwashed sour grapes cultists could call California a "failed state." You don't have average $500,000 homes in a "failed state." Failed states aren't the 5th largest economy in the world. California's GDP Growth rate was 6th in the US in 2017. You don't have a $20B budget surplus in a failed state.

It's a great place to live if you can afford it. If you can't, you move.

Your real complaint is the liberal politics. No one cares. Our success doesn't depend on satisfying your ideological beliefs about how the world works, who succeeds and who fails, who gets rewarded and who gets punished and why.

Well why not just make building models of the environment and reducing surprise at observation compared to expectation the optimization goal?

Isn't that the point of "free energy principle" thinking?

Yeah just like the "everybody must algebra" movement was ludicrous.

I think all students should learn to code, just like all students should learn to do algebra, or find the intersection of two linear equations, or write an essay.

But the end goal is not to make everyone programmers. The end goal is to make people well rounded, aware of how things work, because in most jobs, you benefit from understanding how computers work. And if you can code at all, you understand how they work in a fundamental way.

Yeah, trees aren't doing the trick.

I think engineers can do a bit better.

"VERY left-leaning."

Strange that it doesn't infect their algorithms. I mean I'm a liberal, and my household appliances, computers, cars, etc. all now have a liberal bias, just like me.