The Chinese government. They're a lot further away and have never been interested in annexing us. The US has also more frequently declared economic war on us then the Chinese. At that America has often been the biggest threat to my freedom and even my life with your habit of electing senile and dumb Presidents, who are often also crooks.

Yeah and those people would have thrown a bricked bike through the front window of their corporate headquarters.

Amazon tried real hard to upsell me a wifi sprinkler timer yesterday.

Ha, no, the $18 microcontroller-based timer will do just fine. They could have temped me with a Matter/Threads unit but no, they don't try that hard. Doesn't "Work with Alexa".

Imagine my garden dying because a tree fell on the Comcast line and it took a few days to rebuild. Such weird expectations! I wonder how many "smart" households went bonkers during the 4hr Starlink outage?

In the GSR (Gossip, Shame, Rallying) Model this is a biological imperative.

So you would expect high costs to be easily paid if the model is accurate and the service fills the need.

Some might say the theory fits the data.

I'm that weirdo who won't save fifty cents on a can of Spaghetti O's by signing up for a "loyalty" surveillance card but most people aren't in the slim minorities.

A subset of people are really against DANE which lets you self-attest your TLS cert without a parallel PKI. DNSSEC was the PKI in that model.

There are pros and cons but a big con was people not paying for certs.

Now with LetsEncrypt we have DV certs almost everywhere, few people pay for certs, and two PKI's with little protection for anything else that uses DNS.

Oh, and LetsEncrypt would be marginally better off with DNSSEC. Their new observation standard at least helps mitigate BGP shenanigans.

You should be careful of taking the claims of the Chinese Communist Party at face value. China has universal health insurance, but it is administered in a way that many people canâ(TM)t access critical care *services*.

For example if you are a rural guest worker in a city, you have health insurance which covers cancer treatment, but it requires you to go back to your home village to get that treatment, which probably isnâ(TM)t available there. If you are unemployed you have a different health insurance program, but its reimbursement rate is so low that most unemployed people canâ(TM)t afford treatment.

Authoritarian governments work hard to manage appearances, not substance. This is a clear example. It sounds egalitarian to say everyone has the same health insurance, but the way they got there was to engineer a system that didnâ(TM)t require them to do the hard work of making medical care available to everyone.

If you want an example of universal healthcare, go across the strait to Taiwan, which instituted universal healthcare in the 90s and now has what many regard as the best system in the world.

If Proxmox et. al. had a mole inside Broadcomm they couldn't do much better.

Microsoft was too overt and sloppy.

Even the Vice President is calling out their pivot to an Indian H1-B labor force as bullshit.

On top of just being caught using labor in China to administer US DoD systems.

Nadella is going to become the poster boy for unAmerican behavior by immigrant management.

"My boss believes: "if it is not written down, then it is not done""

If you are an ISO 9001 certified establishment, that's literally the belief of the certification body.

"Look at Gmail. Never been mass hacked"

Nah they just allow relay attacks, which is far worse.

Yes, but people who don't know how the markets really work have strong opinions to the contrary.

In the end, though, this is about AI HFT, not economic justice.

Interesting that power scaling wasn't available at release time, but nice that they're doing it.

Power bills never go down and AI is squeezing family budgets.

It might also help in warm climates without air conditioning, both to avoid overheating and not warming up the house as much.

Certainly that microclimate change is something they can actually have an impact on.

And the binding membership of the ICJ is limited to those party to that particular treaty.

cf. "Hauge Invasion Act"

They ought to turn one of those British military bases in Cypress into the new UN.

No snow, geographic center of the world's land mass, and contiguous with the largest UN landholding.

Being in NYC negatively affects NY, USA, and UN.

> thinking they have special insight that others don't

I would have agreed with this but the paper says they think a majority believe the same thing.

I probably don't believe the paper is well constructed. I doubt it's a conspiracy beyond the authors but it's a good thing we have detectives, investigators, and prosecutors who all theorize about conspiracies and then try to prove them beyond a reasonable doubt.

Schizo behavior is sometimes described as conspiracy theorizing by people who are later charged with RICO.

"It's a starter wage intended for highschool and college students and others who are getting their first jobs in fast food places and grocery stores etc."

LIAR.

https://www.lowellsun.com/2017...