A year or two ago. Yeah. I heard the same thing. And I haven't seen the product release yet. I suspect that the devs probably got a call from some TLA suggesting that their lives would be a lot more comfy if they spent them developing Candy Crush or some other garbage.
Just a guess here: Both plants and animals bio-accumulate lead. Plants store it throughout their structure. Whereas animals tend to accumulate the lead principally in their bones. When you slaughter an animal, it is common practice to dispose of the bones. And so there goes the lead.
They were used all over the world up to 60 years or so ago.
And many of those pipes are still in the ground. Take Flint, Michigan, for example. The lead pipes were causing no problem until someone decided to change the city water source (and associated chemistry) which broke down that oxide layer.
Nearly all the plant-based products CR tested had elevated lead levels, but some were particularly concerning. Two had so much lead that CR's experts caution against using them at all... Dairy-based protein powders and shakes generally had the lowest amounts of lead
Granted, Linux isn't for everyone. Your grandmama will have to stick with a Mac.
And nothing of value was lost.
Just return to hunter gatherer days
Return to? Just come to Seattle. They couldn't close drug stores and grocery stores fast enough to stay ahead of the hunter-gatherers.
was limited to a relatively small number of cell towers in specific remote areas
Probably Stingrays. Cell tower emulators. Since these are typically operated by third partys (TLA law enforcement), they don't have the encryption keys installed to secure the data. No problem. It appears that many telecoms fall back to unencrypted mode* rather than dropping the calls.
*Years ago, I had a nice Motorola StarTac that included an unencrypted warning icon. When it broke, I was unable to acquire a replacement with this feature. Rumor has it that the TLAs were very unhappy with this feature and strongly recommended that it be dropped.
Sounds like you have a group of people to blame problems on
Not so much. It's Not My Problem.
I suspect we're about to find out how much liability these outfits can legally disclaim.
Lots. Just look at insurance companies. By explicitly _NOT_ being board certified medical professionals, they can direct health care treatment, at times overriding a patients own physician's decisions and incur no malpractice liability.
They can see the coming demand for electrical power by the rise of AI. And they want no part of that market.
For example, it's demonstrable that white people holding coke are charged less per capita than black people holding coke per capita.
But now you are messing with the political movement to legalize coke. You don't just look at the numbers of people holding/ using the drug. You look at the end effect it will have on their lives and (mostly ) those around them.*
Rich people with coke; generally not a problem. Poor people with coke; it ruins their lives. Patronizing as that might be, that's the motivation. The users themselves are a lost cause. We just want them out of their respective communities. Particularly if those communities are "at risk" (a favorite battle cry of the Left). Longer jail sentences do exactly that.
*And be damned careful. Because if harm to the community becomes a metric, weed goes next.
dark skinned people who are typically minorities in America the police get tons and tons of false positives
White guy commits a crime and is recorded. Police feed it into the AI and it pops up with a black guy's name. Yeah, that's shit when it happens. But that sort of error is rare.
Black guy commits a crime and is recorded. Police feed it into the AI and it pops up with some other black guy's name. This happens a lot more often. Because, like you said, facial recognition is much less accurate with dark skin. But it doesn't produce "tons and tons" of false positives. Because if it did, judges wouldn't grant arrest warrants for "tons and tons" of people and just laugh the evidence out of court. At most, one warrant would be granted. Perhaps the wrong one. But statistically, the black vs white arrest rate statistics wouldn't be distorted greatly.
Police harass "tons and tons" of colored people because facial recognition of minorities is shit. And they have to hit the streets and start looking at faces in person.
If it wasn't for Newton, we wouldn't have to eat bruised apples.
