But I don't know what you do with people who can't get past the 12-year-old level of thinking of "if you make me pay taxes that's slavery and if you take away Elon musk's hundreds of billions of dollars then my shitty little income and retirement savings are next.."

I keep hearing things like "my grandmother got so confused, I set her up on Zorin/Mint and she couldn't tell the difference."

The more people just use their PC's to get on websites the less they seem to notice if they use Windows or Linux.

Automation is so cheap now that even Chinese labor can't compete. But the government has been forcing businesses to hold off on automation in order to prevent the inevitable economic and social turmoil from laying off that many people. Although it is absolutely hilarious that "communist" China has to worry about keeping full employment...

There are signs that it's changing because their ruling class has consolidated enough power they can afford to start blowing off the public. But I don't think they're quite ready to do it 100%.

It shouldn't take 10 seconds for my right click menu to show up unless I hold down the shift key. And yeah there is a registry hack I can do but on my work PC it's a huge pain in the ass to have it put it in every freaking time I get an update because of course every time Windows 11 updates they clear the key...

I swear Windows 11 is the most user hostile piece of software I have ever used in my life and I have programmed on IBM mainframes...

It would run on any modern browser that runs javascript because it's just a JavaScript script that monitors everything you're doing. It's also nothing new browser fingerprinting has been around for ages and is used by basically any website of any size to try and catch bots.

I'm actually a little surprised they didn't already have a fingerprinting product.

The article talked about the cost of customer confidence lost too. In other words even if they came back online the 6-week pause would have caused them to lose a bunch of customers. And they don't have the capital to get them back through advertising campaigns and discounts and such.

It's actually terrifying how many businesses run at the absolute edge of margins and are perpetually on the verge of collapse. Like how any given city is 3 days away from chaos...

We focus on the tech companies that are making so much money that they literally cannot spend it fast enough. And that also like to keep a ton of cash around for stock BuyBacks. But it really doesn't take much for most companies to start cutting staff and even shutting all the way down.

This is both how and why increasing interest rates "fights" inflation. Businesses lose access to credit because it costs more to loan so any little problem in their business immediately becomes a major disaster because of credit crunch and they go under putting a whole bunch of people out of work. Those out of work people spend less reducing demand which slows inflation. If the business doesn't collapse outright it's at least going to do layoffs and pay cuts which achieves the same goal.

In all seriousness, though, if bankruptcy is a real possibility, the idea of a public buyout of some of these old companies isn't a terrible one. Maybe even have the government buy it and make it free for U.S. citizens, but continue to make money on the property abroad. :-)

Assuming M4A ends up being a single payer system, that would, in fact, make it very possible to force providers to lower costs.

Research should be funded directly, not by paying more for unrelated prescription drugs. That's the whole point of having grant programs from agencies like NIH.

One of the biggest problems, IMO, is healthcare consolidation. When most of the hospitals in an area are owned by big chains, it really doesn't matter if they are nonprofit. Big organizations just naturally tend to bloat and waste tons of money at every level of the system, because they don't have the same incentives to keep things lean. Consolidation has generally resulted in higher prices and lower quality of care, from what I've seen.

Every other entry? Try every entry. Something like 1% of my Facebook feed is actual organic content from friends. 14% or so is from groups. The other 85% is ads. And I'm being optimistic when I say that it is only 85%. When I see about the first or second ad, I close Facebook, because it's just going to be ads all the way down after that.

I'll make an offer right now to buy it for $1,000 with the intent to release the entire catalog into the public domain (CC0) 28 years after its creation.

For the 20 or 30 employees there...

Modern factories don't need a lot of people. China and India have them because labor it horribly cheap there. With access to slaves in many places.

Trump's own commerce Secretary admitted that even in the factories come back the jobs won't

It doesn't matter if it's bad - if China and Russia agree it's bad you have to be for it.

You can never agree with China because they have a totalitarian AI Surveillance Police State there so you must support a totalitarian AI Surveillance Police State here.

If you are against techo-feudalism you must be one of them Putin Lovers.

- The New York Times / Langley, apparently.

I think it ended in the 90s as a method for evaluation. The best way is to look at the work your programmers have done, but not all managers can do that. A lot of Agile managers use velocity as a proxy to make up for the fact they can't look at code and understand it. So get a lot of story points.

Nobody is benefitting from irrationality. In fact, it does extreme damage. Yet we have tons of it.

The problem is the people that fall for this crap. Too many voters with no brains.