You cannot lock customers in. It is a safety issue.

The doors MUST open when pushed against. Even automatic sliding doors have safety hinges that allow you to push them open in the event of an emergency or power failure.

Beyond that, refusing to let someone leave could constitute false imprisonment.

Locking yourself in a store with a criminal is a good way to escalate a situation to violence. Sounds risky for employees and other customers nearby.

When you start out with a couple boxes and experience sudden growth it is a no-brainer to just rent cloud hosting. Intermittent need, and uncertain volume? -yep, it's cloud time.

When you grow up a bit and have a stable, predictable volume of usage? Bring it in-house.

You might go back to the cloud when you get big enough to need reliable global access. And then bring it back in-house again when you are big enough to have your own infrastructure around the world..

Business needs change over time.

Two wrongs don't make a right.

Per capita is disguising pollution with overpopulation. You cannot simply breed your way to a pollution free world.

"My hovercraft is full of eels"

"We must do something! This is something, therefore we must do it."

...and nothing was accomplished, but it was a performative nothing.

Do you remember the housing bubble? The banks hedged then too. They bundled loans into mortgage-backed-assets that they sold on the investor markets -spreading the risk to individuals and hedge funds (aka our retirement accounts). When the bubble popped we all lost because of the banks hedging their bad loans.

If the AI datacenter bubble pops, we will all be left holding the worthless loans. Our retirement funds. Our government's bailing the banks out.

There were supposed to be new banking rules put in place to avoid this happening again. And yet. Here we go again.

Overinvestment in a single asset class creates a vulnerability to a single-point-of-failure leading to a cascade failure of the financial system.

If you can't make it work, just lie about it.

Electricity too cheap to meter. This was the dream of nuclear power when I was a child. Now being realized by solar.

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.

Treating the symptom instead of the cause is never going to solve the problem.

Mr Tuttle?

National Pride.

Even if NASA decides to send SLS/Artemis to the Moon instead of backing SpaceX Starship, they will not deny Musk the launch authority. Being able to claim the first private manned mission to the Moon and back is American is a big deal.

USA #1

We are also not legally allowed to just kill people accused of trafficking drugs -but we do.

"Enhanced interrogation techniques" will convince anyone to volunteer their passcode. Legal justifications will come later or not at all.

Once the feds notice you, you will not be able to talk your way out of it. Citizen or no.

Fuck the proles!

Serve the rich!

On my 4k tv those old videos look bad.
Just make sure I can turn it OFF when it doesn't work right on a particular video.