I'm very... let's say "skeptical" of government overreach, but even I can see the obvious "interstate commerce" nexus of a company headquartered in California, domiciled in Delaware, with physical distribution presences in Texas and West Virginia selling tickets to an event in e.g. Georgia.
Dammit, I read 0.1 as
Yeah seems like a pretty good salary, even if he only got to keep 0.1%
$1,200,000,000 *
Who wants anyone to do reviews based on early alpha builds? If you're soliciting feedback from external parties, you want that feedback to come to you constructively rather than in the form of some Twitch streamer broadcasting, "hur dur. it sucks." Why is a non-disclosure/non-disparagement agreement such a controversy? (Unless, of course, the agreement extended to the final product post-release and not just reviews based on the alpha--if that is the case, then fuck the guys drafting that and you're absolutely right that no one who agrees should review anything, ever).
"The NoSQL movement is motivated by new kinds of applications, particularly web applications, that need massive scalability and high performance"
I submit that this covers the vast majority of applications.
I'd argue that the "vast majority of applications" neither need to be massively scalable nor of particularly high performance. The "vast majority of applications' are handling hundreds, not hundreds of millions of records and have a very small number of users. This is why you so often find spreadsheets being used as a "database" because they're very small specific problems being solved by individuals or very small teams.
No, they didn't put the cameras up for the purpose of rising revenue.
Riiight. Cities would never shorten yellow light times to increase revenue, resulting in reduced safety.
In 2021, Algeria became the last country to ban leaded gasoline.
100LL (with 2.12 grams of led per gallon) is still very much used in the US. Around 150 million gallons in 2020.
Not that I don't agree with you in principle that the process itself is the punishment in the case of Darth Cheeto, but there is an important difference here, and it's highlighted by your use of the word "conviction." Darth Cheeto was not "convicted" of anything in that case, it was a civil judgement and the procedures and protections are quite different in those. The law doesn't care that the plaintiff in that case was the state rather than another private party, both plaintiff and defendant are treated as they would be in any other case. The appeals court also favored Darth Cheeto's claim (which I agree with) that having to firesale properties (especially in the current environment) would have caused him irreparable harm and reduced the appeal bond significantly.
I know for fact USAF stopped taking KC-46s like 15, 20 years ago because each plane had something like 40 pounds of FOD in them!
That's an interesting "fact" you've got there, seeing as how the first KC-46 was delivered in 2019 and the aircraft didn't even have its first flight until December of 2014.
This right there. It's a direct result of the "10% more with 10% less" mantra that consultant companies have been beating the drum for, for decades now. The ridiculous notion that it is eternally possible to produce 10% more output with 10% less personnel, every year.
“My Hermes got that hell hole running so efficiently that all physical labor is now done by one Australian man!”
For example, the left-side tail light for a 2024 Ford F150 is $695.00, and that's used.
2024 is a new model/body style, so of course it's expensive to source a used one. A 2023 taillight with the BLIS radar, on the other hand, can be had in the $200 range.
You can't tar all "Android Vendors" with one brush.
For example Google's pixel phones offer 7 year support.
Google's Pixel 8 do get that level of support, so kudos to them. However, it's just the Pixel 8, not something they have always done. Pixel 6 and 7 got five years of security updates, but only three years of Android version updates.. Pixel 4 and 5 got three years of both. Google is also famous for having the attention span of a Golden Retriever with ADHD and changing things like this on a whim, so who knows what Pixel 9 will get?
Oh, horseshit. This is actually one of the things that Apple better than Android vendors: iOS17 runs on every iphone released in the last six years (XR through 15) and things that don't get iOS17 still get security updates.
Safety is not the absence of accidents, it is the presence of controls. The controls are obviously lacking.
Reminds me of the last two panels of this XKCD. Our rights are only being violated half as much. Yay, I guess? Strictly speaking, it's better than the alternative, and yet someone is clearly doing their job horribly wrong.
To thine own self be true. (If not that, at least make some money.)
