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Comment Re: AWS (Score 1) 45

The solution is decentralization and not letting one group or company have a monopoly.

IOW more countries are going to have to build fabs, first and foremost, because you can't trust anything if you cannot trust the silicon.

It would be great if we got some kind of technology for cheaply making high-end ICs at home like we can with plastic parts now, but it's just not reasonable. At some point you have to trust someone. It's unfortunate, I know.

Comment Re:I'd say the sooner Trump is impeached the bette (Score 1) 136

Most people are quite malleable, not fixed. Their opinions can change over time. Thatâ(TM)s what Trump used to his advantage

What he used was emboldening Nazis. The entire reason those people could vote for him is that their views didn't evolve past "the brown people made my life bad".

Comment Re:Better late than never (Score 1) 45

I don't think they're wrong about historical and often religious corruption existing, it's only wrong to appeal to it. We should be improving going forwards, not using the past as an excuse.

The world will never trust America as much as it did (whatever amount that was — but notably including allowing military bases practically everywhere) again without America's governmental structure changing significantly.

Comment Re:I'd say the sooner Trump is impeached the bette (Score 5, Insightful) 136

People didn't vote *FOR* Trump. They voted *AGAINST* Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris.

How funny. I didn't vote for them because I wanted them. I just didn't want the worst person ever alive to be president, which comes back to what Rosco said above. People who voted for Trump did it specifically because they wanted Trump to do terrible things, which was because they are terrible people. They specifically wanted other people to suffer, because they are suffering, and they think making other people suffer more will make them feel better. This in turn is because they don't know shit, so they are somehow able to believe that punishing people for doing jobs they don't want to do will make them better off.

I don't think for the most part that there are fundamentally, physically "good" or "bad" people, and there may or may not even be fundamentally smart or dumb people, at least not to the extent we think there is — some of those people may just not have learned how to use their brains, and society certainly doesn't want them to learn lest it loses its source of cheap labor. But voting for Donald Trump because you think hurting other people will help you is both stupid and hateful.

Comment Re: 455 calls failed and two callers died (Score 1, Insightful) 21

It's certainly a testament to how many of those calls didn't need to happen, and I'm not seeing here that we're sure those people would have made it if the calls had gone through, or they'd even have had a good chance.

On the flip side, if anyone certainly died because of negligence around a critical emergency service, some heads should roll. Unfortunately, it won't be the ones which it needs to in order to prevent it from happening again.

Comment Re: Ohhhhh! (Score 1) 98

You can get a full sized convection oven. You can also power a medium sized one from 110v@15A. When I was a teen we moved into a mobile with a lousy oven and my mother bought a DeLonghi countertop convection oven that plugged into a regular outlet. It cooked about as rapidly as any normal oven, and had capacity between one and a modern air fryer. Just enough for a turkey basically.

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