You know who is paying a massive amount of money to Microsoft, ongoing? Large state governments. You know who has a lot of ancient hardware incapable of running windows 11? Large state governments.

I doubt it'll happen, they'll walk right up to the line and then extend the support another year.

Where are you getting the information on side effects ? All of the vaccines have reported side effects, is there any comparative analysis of the side effects ?

wtf are you talking about ?

Sure. Except, if you want to be a publisher and decide what content is or is not suitable for your private network, then you take responsibility for the content on your site.

Social media companies have been claiming common carrier status, ie they are not liable for the content on their sites. You can't do this and also take an editorial stance.

Sole-proprietor != single person. It means you have sole control of a business, and have unlimited liability for the debts of that business. You can hire both employees and contractors.

I know two people who run fairly high-revenue SP's and they both rack up 6 digit levels of expenses a month (~3-5 employees/contractors) and have invoice balance due in the 7 and sometimes 8 digit range. Now, neither of them are stupid enough to use credit cards if they wind up with debt to float. If you have a sound business plan, there is plenty of access to get normal business lines of credit from banks (I think the SBA has a program that supports it), as well as things like HELOCs in a pinch.

A comment on auto-pay: I use it on everything but my credit cards. I personally find reviewing how I spent money in the past month and reflecting is well worth the minor inconvenience of spending 15 or 20 minutes a month looking at my statement and paying the balance.

It's not close to the same. Typescript works fine on all OSs, it's just a language and the fact it was created by Microsoft matters nota jot. J++ was a deliberate attempt to destroy the write once-run anywhere ethos of java (not that that every worked). Typescript is the best thing to happen to javascript in the last 10 years. I used scala.js for quite a while but its too hard to find developers, and typescript gives 80% of the benefit for 20% of the pain.

The late great Rick Riolo had a story about this, involving genetic algorithms.

The Air Force gave his team a contract to develop the most fuel efficient drone flight algorithms they could. So they got access to the Air Force's best simulation environment, and set up a genetic algorithm optimization that maximized fuel conservation. A few months later they came back, and discovered that every surviving algorithm had more fuel than it started with. The optimization had found a flaw in the simulation environment.

We're a long way from machine learning of affordances, much less meaning.

> It will happen.

So will the heat death of the universe, but I'm not holding my breath.

For what you wish to come true, there would need to not be such a thing as GPUs otherwise new games will always all their high settings to exploit whatever additional power the GPU provided. Forget about it.

Have you looked at:

the GPD Pocket 7.0? It's an atom that can run win10, 8/128gb, 7 in.
https://www.windowscentral.com...

My cousin needs a netbook factor with a real keyboard (and no camera, which kiboshes a lot of options) for use in archival research and was considering one. I never asked her whether she bought one though.

You miss the point. Every citizen petitioner has the right to access to the same avenues of petition regardless of their message. You can disallow protests at 4am inside the White House so long as it's a blanket ban. Letting the Society in Favor of Puppies and Kittens have an advocacy event the Green Room before dawn means that any other organization, regardless of how controversial its opinions are, must be given similar consideration (see e.g.: De Jonge v. Oregon or Edwards v. South Carolina).

I used to do R&D on insecticides. Blue Strat is completely full of crap. DDT was banned for use as an insecticide in agricultural use in the USA and in many other countries, as it should have been given its propensity for bioaccumulation and broad target spectrum. DDT continues to be used for combating mosquitoes that are malarial vectors and vectors for other diseases. However the only locations that successfully used DDT to eradicate malaria were wealthy, had well-developed public health programs, and had only seasonal malarial outbreaks or lower rates of malaria. Mosquito resistance to DDT was noted back in the 50's and today is a significant problem, unsurprising since mosquitoes have enormous populations that can go through over 40 generations in a year providing ample opportunity for the evolution of resistance. The need for rationally designed insecticides specific to mosquito species of interest is dire but funding simply is not there...and about to get worse if Trump and the Republicans cut even more funding from the already resource-starved NIH and USDA.

I drove through parts of the midwest to visit family in Texas two years ago and started spotting Armadillo roadkill in central Missouri. You can find armadillos in Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, as well as extreme southern Illinois and Indiana. Prior to ~1850 armadillos were not found north of the Rio Grande. That's not to say that much of the growth of Austin (and Houston and Dallas) isn't due to yankees though.

In your imagined world only the rich investors or companies have money and all the risks have to be large sums. I think the idea of a maximum margin is to limit the hoarding of profits thus requiring cooperation and smaller but more numerous investments. Micro/crowd investing could raise large sums of capital for larger projects that many people want to take a (small) risk on. I.E. enough businesses/people want better fabs (including a consortium of smaller chip designers that would share them) so they pool the risk and money and make it happen. It requires vastly more communication and cooperation, and thus likely wasn't practical before the net.

I don't know that margin caps are the best option, but certainly that is the end result of competition (a preferable more responsive and free system that is prone to corruption). I would be interested in testing something like the maximum size of your company is inversely proportional to your legal margin cap. Small businesses could have high margins and behemoths would be greatly restricted.

Companies owned by humans (private, shareholders, etc) will charge what they can charge you. Self-driving fleets may start out like that, but it won't take long before we realize that we can automate management and remove ownership.

Thus this wouldn't be the case for non-human "companies" that are essentially a symbiont that are designed to meet the transportation needs of the humans as efficiently as possible (assuming a level of oversight/control that it provides services humans want). First they will drive themselves, then they will manage themselves, then we will bootstrap a service that doesn't require ownership overhead and essentially functions "at cost" because that's how it was designed.

You originally stated "Last I checked, there wasn't any data showing that "spreading out" vaccinations either helped or hurt a damned thing." It took me mere seconds to find an article that unambiguously states that yes, the schedule matters, and parents delaying vaccinations in a misguided attempt to reduce risk to their child are achieving the exact opposite outcome. Further the only way you could describe as a "guess" that increasing the length of time a child is not vaccinated will increase their risk of disease is if you don't believe that vaccines are effective. As for the degree of parental control over vaccination I agree with the American Medical Association: nonmedical exemptions to immunization mandates should be barred.