I lived in EU for a long time and its basicallt subsidizes by US wars and economy since 1940's.

One could say the US itself is now subsidized by Chinese economy.

they gave my buddy water and he died that night.

morbid jokes appart, its not like the COVID vaccines were without hiccups.. or the flu vaccines before that. these are company who's goal is making money, not, save humanity. science is not, in fact, a product.

TFA has zero real information about why it's been refused - so its FUD in all directions.

it turns out - very few humans are able to have a real sense of criticism.

Based on a very quick gloss of the California Notary Handbook, it doesn't look like Notaries can do this. All they can do is attest to the identity of the signer(s) of documents, and that said identity was verified via "satisfactory evidence," which is one of a variety of forms of ID, and then record that ID along with their fingerprint in their journal.

Point being: The identity being verified is disclosed (their full name) as part of the Notary's attestation. I don't think attestations without such a disclosure are possible under the current framework, but I haven't read the actual governing law. (AKAs/pseudonyms can be attested, provided "satisfactory evidence" can be provided establishing the AKA/pseudonym belongs to the person present. It is extremely unclear whether Internet account IDs qualify under this provision, much less what would be accepted as "satisfactory evidence.")

Isnt that the same for any product in the world then?
I mean by that rationale there should be no US company, just Chinese and Indian...

For what it's worth, AFAIK, there is far more than 14k Google workers in India - there's approx 40% of the full time workforce (the 190k figure is also slightly wrong.. and includes non-full time workforce - yay playing with numbers).

I know entire team that have been fired at Google and replaced in India over the past few years, and there was no "Trump" at the time.

look man. im not a special agent. I'm drunk actually. and ive always known whatApp os not private.. its not fucking rocket science. it allows you to recover the private key through SmS. fucking sms. unencrypted. from fb.

The 20 mile range makes this mostly an expensive toy.

Precisely my thoughts. This is a toy for hopping across San Francisco bay.

Total payload is 220lbs. One guy. You will not be going shopping in this.

It's not a car; it's an aircraft (seriously, just look at it -- there's no way this will be rolling down Hwy 101), so takeoff and landing need to be, at best, on a helipad -- which you will have to clear immediately for the next guy coming in whose battery is going flat.

I doubt you could get from Santa Cruz to San Jose in 20 minutes even by air. Atherton and Saratoga will ban these outright because of the noise. Maybe Los Altos Hills or Portola Valley will grudgingly allow a handful of them -- right up to the point a crashing one starts a fire.

to be fair that's exactly how science works. else you'd still sacrifice things to gods to make it rain. process, not "unquestionable truth".

Let me see if I've got the basis of this "shortage" right.

Sam Altman, using money he doesn't have, bought up almost 50% of DRAM wafers that don't exist, to turn into DRAM chips that don't exist (or maybe not; maybe he's just playing keep-away from his competitors), to put alongside GPU chips that don't exist, to stuff into server farms that don't exist, which will consume vast quantities of electricity that doesn't exist -- all to create "artificial intelligence" ....which doesn't exist.

How is this not a colossal scam?

i mean the rocket literally copies most of spacex's haha.

this is basically the political debate of communism vs federal republics haha

Hedge funds and private equity firms demurred on investing in NTP, reportedly claiming that the foundation didn't have a credible plan for improving engagement.

...This is my embarrassed face.

I had previously assumed you were speaking of allocating $1M across all projects used by Google. In fact, you were speaking of giving $1M to each such project.

One would wonder what sorts of strings would be attached to such largesse. Still, that would indeed be game-changing and amazing.

Google could create a new corporate policy to provide a minimum of $1M/year to any open source project it uses.

That would be real innovation.

While acknowledging your noble intentions, no, it wouldn't be innovation. It would be cheaping out.

In the San Francisco bay area, $1.0E+06/year gets you maybe five skilled engineers. Set against the quantity of Open Source projects used by such organizations -- FFmpeg, GStreamer, OpenSSL, ssh, rsync, gcc, gdb, coreutils, nanopb, Samba, Lua, Python, Perl, Git, Vim/Neovim, Yocto, ImageMagick, Blender, the Pipewire framework, the Linux kernel, the Debian packaging system, etc. etc. etc. etc. etc... -- five engineers is miserly.

Google appears to have understaken the expense of spinning up an ocean-boiling slop machine to automagically generate plausible bug reports, and then casually fire off an email to the maintainers.

Note that Google has not undertaken the expense of assigning an engineer to also write a fix.

That they are not doing that is a conscious, management-approved choice.

...Y'know how Google relishes in closing bug reports with "WONTFIX - Working as designed?" I think FFmpeg should close slop reports from Google with, "WONTFIX - Unfunded."