I actually thought it was higher than that. I checked and Google AI says it is 58%, other sites seem to round up to 60%.

...we don't? For the past few weeks, I've had Chrome act really squirrely on my daily driver to the point I VM'd a machine on a bastion to verify it wasn't simply a virus on my Linux box. Nope. The brand new install with base software and no extras was acting squirrely too, in exactly the same places in exactly the same way. No, not going into it just yet because I could be doing something incredibly stupid. Yes. I make mistakes sometimes. That's how you know someone is actually doing something and not simply lollygagging around. People that aren't working and doing new things never make mistakes. It's careful people that don't make them where it affects production.

How do they send the bribes to the call center workers? Or are they possibly screwing them as well and just convincing them they will receive something?

I find that the assertion of 60K jobs in seven plants to be failing the smell test. That would be 8,571 people per plant. Mr. Google pants show me that on average a chip plant employed 2,200 for a 24/7/365 operation and that the job curve is skewed to warehousing, custodial, and security, with relatively few making more than 40K, slightly above poverty wages ($32,150 for a family of 4).

My suspicion, with no real evidence other than history, is that the announcement is a targeted effort to please the vanity of one particular person in Washington DC. Not the first time this has been done, nor the first time that particular person stopped a merger/acquisition from personal pique because a party involved was a perceived enemy.

Initially I thought it would be more prudent to wait for the next model, but the tariff threat got me to buy asap. It seems likely this is a big part of the surge.

In this case, given India's history of running air craft, railroads, and other mass transportation, I'm thinking it has little to do with Boeing and more to do with maintenance cycles. It's been reported that someone (unclear if it was maintenance or a random passenger) was taking pictures to document wide spread electrical failures in the passenger cabin on the flight prior to the crash. Which is not to say that Boeing isn't blameless, nor that in my opinion that their "leadership" has serious issues and failures. There's a reason folks say:

IF IT'S BOEING, I AIN'T GOING!

"So we're going to put out everything that we think is of the highest quality"

Let us know when you start.

I think he means "using rocket engines to land". In which case he is right, nothing that goes to orbit lands using rocket engines, they use atmospheric friction and parachutes. All things landing under power, including boosters for orbital spacecraft, are sub-orbital.

I would not count on this requiring the app to update.

The fact that "walkable cities" scare you indicates the problem is on your end, not your fantasy Europeans.

Making the stolen phone worthless is what they want.
And from the video, the thieves did not get farther than across the street. No time to reach the ocean, or even a storm drain.

Nuclear power cannot solve climate change without electric cars and heat pumps. I would blame the idiots who spew hate, fear, and uncertainty about those. Quite a few people in favor of those are in favor of nuclear power too.

You're not counting product placement in the "program" - which to my mind has become simply the primary ad of a endless stream of ads. Keeping in mind that I stopped watching any mainstream "entertainment" 25 years ago because of the damn ads, not just on OTA, but premium and 'exclusive' premium products. (I'm not counting being forced to go see a movie as a work 'team building' exercise). If there's a way to extract another dollar from any situation, you may be sure that the end stage capitalism we are in will find it. On the whole, I don't object to the ads in principal. I object to the stupefying ignorance and idiocy of them and their assumption that will sell me something.

The usual practice is to have rate limits on the API to prevent things like runaway ansible playbooks creating thousands of allocations. I don't recall which of the cloud providers but that API limit was usually set to no more than 50 to 100 VPS creations within 24 hours. Yes, the limit could be raised. One customer doing quite legitimate work would start spinning up thousands of VPSs at XAM their time, and spin them down at the end of their work. I am not allowed to say why, but it made sense to me, kinda. I don't know if they ever found out they would have gotten those same resources for less if they'd just leave 'em spinning or not. The customer was not one we looked forward to dealing with.

Support at [different cloud providers I worked at] would sometimes raise a ticket to allocate IPs to specific customer VPS instations. Unless it was a well established customer, such requests were usually declined but given root access to the infrastructure, it's possible to do - if there's a good enough reason to do it. Money for one. Big customer (which is another way to say "money") is another. I've even seen cases at one cloud company that would delete someone's instantiation without warning to evacuate the resources from the specific infrastructure, and pass it off to the customers as "an emergency hardware failure". Which was utter BS and would tick me off. We had tools they could use to safely and seamlessly evacuate instantations but either did not know, or did not care, or most common didn't want to justify it to the change management control process. Change Management is a pain in the neck, I know, but when dealing with hundreds of thousands to millions of servers in tens of dozens of data centers around the world, some process control is not avoidable even if it is a PITA.