it is called inflation - expansion of the money supply that accumulated over the years (bail outs, social payouts, covid.. ) In terms of gold HDD prices fell.

Most IaaS providers need to collect most of that information anyway because they like getting paid for their services. The only thing they normally don't need is the customer's physical address, and that's the easiest one for customers to get an anonymous form of. The rest, anyone who's concerned about it already has methods of dealing with it. I suspect it won't be more than a mild annoyance for most people and will be completely ineffective at stopping the abuse it's aimed at.

My company, my rules. For example almost all people working for me are Ukrainians, my policy is that Ukraine must win in this war against the murderous ruzzian aggression. Anyone not aligned with my values shouldn't be working here. I also completely support Israel, anyone not aligned with my values, shouldn't be working here.

government has long surpassed that threshold. Government shouldn't be so big, that its failure would take down the country, yet here we are, all of us.

Google is one of the companies that built the tools that allow propaganda to be made much more efficiently, funny its own employees fell for it hook line and sinker.

In the age when males are beating females in sports by pretending to be females the structural inability to tell the truth, to provide negative feedback is not only hurting female sports. Musk will never land a star ship on the Moon or Mars or anything because he is a sharlatan and he hires former government officials who signed government checks, he is burning through billions of tax money with every flight, all of these star ship flights are pointless. Gaza residents and Hamas operatives not only indistinguishable, they share the same values. People protesting pro terrorism (against Israel) are wrong for the same reasons this male athlete is participating in female sports. USA denying help to Ukraine is literally murdering thousands of Ukrainians and promoting putinism, which is terrorism. USA federal reserve has created the inflation by monetizing government debt and so the economy is dying. The planet is going to become extremely hostile to people because we are still burning coal, oil and gas for power and heat production instead of building more nuclear power plants. There are more and more lies all over.

These Googlers are a sad reflection of the modern approach to reality - our game is ignorance, lies and denial and these protests are just a form of it.

Terrorists are very good at pushing their messages, this is clear today. ruZia, hamas, Iran, north korea even, apparently they are very effective at this entire psyops thing. Israel needs to eliminate the threat, AFAIC this can entirely mean whiping out the entire Gaza population also I hope they take out Iran's rocket and drone manufacturing capabilities, this would help both, Israel and Ukraine.

What I wonder is why flywheel storage isn't a popular alternative to batteries for fixed installations. Creating heavy flywheels isn't hard, nor does it require the kinds of toxic materials used in batteries. Tungsten carbide with a steel casing anyone? Mount them on good bearings and you should get >90% efficiency from them, and I'd guess the energy density should be higher as well. I'd have to do some calculations to see if units small enough for home installation would have enough capacity to be useful for a reasonable length of time, but large-scale industrial/commercial installations should be.

...this was the third repetition of the same basic scenario: issue is known and known to be a risk to crew survival, issue occurs several times without anything happening, NASA managers decide the fact that it hasn't caused a problem yet means it'll never cause a problem, issue occurs again and causes a problem resulting in loss of vehicle and crew. One of the first things Scarne says in "Scarne on Cards" is advice for gamblers: the odds don't tell you it won't happen, they tell you how often it will happen.

Note: Boeing management is dealing with the results of that same scenario playing out yet again.

There's usually more than one way to do it, yes, but more often than not there's only one or a very small number of "best" ways to do it and most competent programmers will immediately go for those. For instance, you can iterate through a list/collection type using indexes and a for loop but nobody's going to do that, they'll use an iteration construct (foreach loop or Each() method or an equivalent). Idiomatic code is a thing, and usually the concept makes sense to non-computer people.

The code in question wasn't ever under MPL, it was added by Hashicorp after the license change. Which doesn't matter much, if you compare that code to OpenTofu's code the structural and cosmetic differences are obvious. Note that the articles only link to the code and don't actually show it side-by-side, probably in the hope that people will take the claims at face value and not investigate whether they're correct or not.

I compared the two sets of code mentioned. IMO the OpenTofu code is not copied from the Hashicorp code. There are structural differences that point to the OpenTofu code being independently written, along with the obvious differences in variable names and such. The claims seem to me to be a case of someone trying to smear a successful fork to keep it from gaining traction.

So what that he encouraged or developed something, he is not the person who had actual access to this information, he never worked for any agency in USA where he would have to promise not to disclose information, to him (or anyone who doesn't work for such agencies) status of any 'secret' information is completely irrelevant, as it should be.

For example, if I egged on some general to disclose top secret information about some project and then he did disclose it, it would be on the general, not on me or anyone who encouraged him. HE IS THE ONE WHO PROMISED NOT TO DISCLOSE IT NO MATTER WHAT, not me, not anyone else.

I am not a 'right wing', I am not a 'left wing', I am a libertarian, anarcho capitalist, it puts me completely outside of what is considered to be normal politics in the USA by the way and I say that Assange has done nothing wrong at all and he is being terrorized because he embarrassed people who have power.

*this* is what "proves" it? Not the kidnappings, the torture, the murders? )

Yeah, you don't understand what will actually happen. What will actually happen is just more terrorism by the government that is already terrorist in nature. Kadyrov is a murderer, torturer, terrorist, his fame to claim was that he murdered his first russian at the age of 16. Today he routinely murders anyone who opposes his rule in any way, real or imaginary. His son kidnaps and beats a kid who posts something online that Kadyrov finds offensive. People routinely disappear, never to be seen again. People get tortured for anything that Kadyrov doesn't like.

At the same time Chechnia's economy only exists because putin provides Chechnia with billions of dollars every year from the russian budget.

You don't understand what is actually happening there. They don't care about law or whatever, if they hear something they don't like, you'll disappear and be raped and tortured and killed and that's about it. This entire thing about the music is really nothing at all, it just means that if someone *hears* music that is not Chechen they will report you and you will be gone.

You are correct. What Canada needs is a 3d printed AI government, which would be a vast improvement over Trudeau.