This is too strong. There's a large distance between "Unwilling to tell a pollster they regret" and "Are quite happy".

I wonder if the GOP has just forgotten what decade it is with a lot of their voter suppression stuff. Yes, they're absolutely working to suppress the vote... but it really looks like most of the people they're going to stop from voting are their voters.

For a long time, the low-income and minority vote was overwhelmingly Democrat, and those same categories were also "low-propensity voters". Make voting a little bit harder and you'd reduce Democrat vote totals, while Republican voters were rich white people who were well equipped to jump whatever hoops you put up.

But there's been a realignment in politics. A lot of the low-propensity voters are now voting Republican, while the wealthy, dedicated and (especially) educated voters are now leaning strongly Democrat. Make voting harder today and you're likely to block as many Republican votes as Democrat votes... maybe more! I don't think they're going to get the return on their voter suppression that they expect.

What would democracy without capitalism look like? Democratic socialism always ends up quickly abandoning either democracy or socialism. Social democracy (e.g. the Nordic model) works pretty well, but that's still fundamentally capitalist.

Gotta stop you there: No, these panels and any similar plug-into-the-wall battery systems that might come with them will never be able to serve as a backup if there's a power failure. When the grid power goes out they will shut off. Even if you have both sun and full batteries, when the grid goes down, you'll lose power.

The reason was mentioned in the summary:

They also must be certified by an outside safety organization like Underwriters Laboratories and have a feature that would prevent electricity from feeding back into the grid if there's a power outage.

If they could energize your home circuitry during an outage, and your home is connected to the grid, they're also going to energize the grid. This has two consequences. One, you would actually be trying to power your whole neighborhood, not just your house, and two (and more importantly), you would be energizing the grid that power company personnel are trying to repair, which could seriously injure or kill them.

If you want to have backup during a power outage, you need another piece of equipment, a backup interface, and it needs to be inserted between your house and the grid, and to collaborate with your inverter(s). Also you inverters that with both grid-following and grid-forming modes.

During normal (grid up) operation, your inverters will synchronize to the sine wave provided by the power grid, putting power into your home (and, if you're not using it all) into the grid, in phase with the grid. When the grid goes down and your inverters see the grid wave go away they must stop putting out power, both because as a practical matter the signal they're syncing their output to has disappeared and because they must not energize a grid that is down.

When the inverters see the grid go down and stop inverting, they also send a message to the backup interface, which is just a big switch. It physically disconnects your house from the grid and then sends a message back to the inverters, telling them it's safe to form a new grid. One of them (they have to be communicating and collaborate on this) creates a new sine wave, the rest sync to it and they all start putting power into your circuits. You're in backup mode.

Note that this doesn't all happen instantaneously. It's common to have a 1-2 second outage while it all happens. I have 40 kWh of batteries on my house, but I also have small 0.15 kWh[*] UPSes on my networking equipment, desktop computer, etc., specifically to cover that small interval. Both times! Because there's a brief outage when the grid comes, back, too.

When the grid comes back, the backup interface sees it, waits a few seconds to make sure it's stable, then sends a message to the inverters: "Grid is back!". The inverters stop inverting and tell the backup interface that it's safe to reconnect to the grid. The backup interface reconnects, and the house is back on the grid. Note, though, that it's only on the grid. The inverters do not start inverting right away, even if you have plenty of sun and/or battery. Instead, they watch the grid for a minute or two to make sure it's stable, then they sync to it and begin inverting, starting by putting a small amount of power out, then ramping up until they're doing whatever they're configured to do (on my system, because I have DC-coupled batteries, they try to produce enough power to zero the grid draw/feed, allowing any excess solar to flow into the batteries until the batteries are full, then they produce enough power to zero the battery draw/feed, which pushes any excess into the grid).

[*] 150 Wh is actually way more storage than I need my UPSes to have. The problem is that AFAICT no one sells UPSes designed for situations where the UPS never has to cover more than 2-3 s of outage. When I buy a UPS I have to buy it sized by the maximum continuous wattage it can provide/relay, and it will typically come with a battery sized to provide that output for ~15 minutes, even though I only conservatively need 10 seconds.

If your home is connected to the grid, what happens in your home reaches outside of your home. In this case it's particularly obvious: If the grid is down and a lineman is working on the grid wiring near your house, he doesn't expect that wiring to be energized. If your house is backfeeding power into the grid, you could injure or kill him, even if he's a mile from your property.

So, there are regulations that limit what you can do in a grid-connected home. If you disconnect from the grid, you can do what you like (though your insurance company may still want assurances that you're following code).

In your world people just take time off medical leave without reasons?

They are not supposed to be visible which is the point you are missing.

Good for you?

And here is the crux of the problem: You do not represent everyone but somehow think you do.

More than likely it is a clickbait title. After all, there are many "shocking" things that “companies don't want you to know" that will "change the world."

Let's remember that Trump was always a east coast Democrat who opportunistically jumped into the 2016 election as a Republican because it was an opportunity for self promotion and free press. Nobody - including him, I believe - thought he'd win.
When he did, his liberal friends turned on him with their typical viciousness, which hurt his all important ego. They spent 4 years in (essentially) permanent impeachment hearings, based on information provided by Russia, which in his simplistic view, entrenched his victim complex and obsession with revenge.

Couple this, then, with the triumphalist left who felt when they defeated the wicked witch, they could do no wrong, and so decided to spend 4 years taking a Victory Shit on everything they could, from inviting 30 million illegals into the country to having trannies flop their frankentits out at the White House on Easter.

Trump is an exponential narcissist, childish, crude, and frankly rather dumb.
Think how odious and repellent the Left have to be to lose to him TWICE?

The previous poster likes to frame it as a vast right wing conspiracy but the truth is never quite that convenient. Most organized churches & clergy in the US are now about gay priests & rainbow banners, actively spreading and refuting their remaining few hyper conservative rural congregations. Democrats have always been a majority in the US, since the Republicans were formed to get rid of slavery. The only reason any Republican ever wins is that enough Democrats get tired of their own party's bullshit and vote right. In the last election EVERY SINGLE DEMOGRAPHIC BLOCK SHIFTED RIGHT (aside from, predictably, white women). Think about that. Blacks & Hispanics - in particular black men - voted in unprecedented numbers for Trump. Or, more accurately, against a Democrat machine that has milked them for votes for 70 years. The election wasn't really (by modern margins) that close.

Don't let the ideologically captured slashdot fool you. The country, having seen Trump as president once, and offered another 4 years of Obama-Biden-Harris said "No, thanks, we'll take the nutball instead". Instead of swallowing the party line of your own European media, maybe ask yourself why. And unlike Democrats, don't just start with the assumption that anyone who disagrees with you must be stupid. That's an ideology for a child.

I don't even faintly dispute that Trump is a shitty, egotistical president. He is. And he makes some really walk decisions. But he is really what the left made him, and I suspect that only a colossal who like his would have been able to buck the malignant insider cabal of both parties. In this case the medicine is unfortunately nearly as bad as the disease.

Well? How do you expect a DC politician to become a MILLIONAIRE, on just a less than $200,000 a year salary, while living in an expensive place like the DC/Virginia area, while also having a residence in their district back home. It's expensive and those poor politicians are working hard for their people back home (yes, sarcasm). They start off in a small town city council, then move up to a state congress. Then if term limited out, they run for state senate. If that goes well, they sometimes run for state governor. After that they move up to "the big league". Once there, you can bet they get pulled into whichever party boss they are assigned to and told welcome to DC. Here's how things work. DO what we say, VOTE how we tell you to vote and you will get rich beyond your wildest dreams. Go against us, and you'll be gone by the next election. "but what about the people in my district?" No worry, we'll throw you a bone once in a while, so you can record it so it can be played on your local tv stations. The entire DC area is corrupt, doesn't matter which party you subscribe to.

Oh, they'll be found guilty. "Forced" to pay a fine of a BILLION dollars! Boy! That will show em! LOL, they make that much money EVERY DAY, and then some!

Probably the same as Dell, HP, Lenovo, and Samsung products. Probably in the same factories that made Apple products.

So just like Dell, HP, etc.

Sounds like you're trying to fit a square peg in a round hole and blame Apple for that. First of all, for AI work, why aren't you using the Apple Neural Engine that has existed since the M1. Second, you can get external GPUs if you wanted. But again neither the Mac Mini nor the iMac explicitly designed for the task you want. I don't complain a Toyota Prius can't move large pieces of furniture.

"You think techologists have a right to torrent their work for free and profit off of it?"
To answer your specific question: Not at all. (reductio ad absurdam is one of the lazier fallacies, btw). I never even implied that. If they torrented an artists' actual work in the sense of sharing that exact work for free they absolutely should be punished to the same degree Pirate Bay or Anna's Archive is, absolutely.

Of course, that isn't what they're doing, is it?

I was merely commenting on your assertion that "The pinnacle of current technology rests on torrented media and unpaid creatives" like visual artists & musicians whinging that their art has been 'stolen' to feed AI programs ... are in fact hoisted by their own petard, which is built frankly of their own greed.

Put it this way:
- Mary draws a picture (or writes a song) that is genius. Everyone loves it.
- Mary puts that artwork online to either a) sell it or b) sell her competence so other people will buy her work. (I'd guess "a" applies more to musicians, "b" to visual artists but either way the principle is the same).
Now, as far as "stealing" in the context your post seemed to mean, two things can happen.
1) Sam sees/hears the piece, thinks, that's pretty cool and learns to copy it from 01-99% successfully. Now, he cannot copy it 100%, as would be him creating identical artwork and claiming "this was produced by Mary". I think we can agree either of those would be theft? But if he creates something similar, or something stylistically comparable - maybe even openly acknowledges 'like Mary's work' - as long as he actually did it himself, openly acknowledges the source, he's legally fine afaik. I don't even know if he HAS to acknowledge her as a source, but that's polite. As long as he clearly did it himself, I think he's probably ok.
2) an LLM comes along, does the exact same thing. Except this time, Mary insists her art is stolen and demands compensation.

The very concept of 2 is absurd. CERTAINLY she can demand attribution, but money? Are the LLMs ever claiming they are ACTUALLY reproducing Mary's work? I don't think so. Just because they can compress the learning process of decades into a few hours' churn doesn't change the principle.

The irony, to me, is that Mary bitches about the LLMs stealing her work when it never could have happened if she didn't initially digitize her product in search of audience/sales. THAT'S ultimately what provides me a chuckle. If Mary CHARGES people to look/listen at her work, and the LLMs sneak past it, it's theft. But if she's put it up to be enjoyed for free, it's ALSO there for anyone - human or algorithm - to learn from. You can't have it one way but not the other.

Redundancy would not be my concern. Security would be. What does that code plug into? As head of HR, I would imagine that she would have access to sensitive information. If we suppose she extended her calendar app to access all of Amazon employees' calendars did anyone secure that? What data can be gathered from the calendar: Medical leave dates including pregnancy leave, surgeries, etc. Meetings about disciplinary actions.. Meetings about terminations/layoffs. Any notes attached to or recorded at those meetings.

I know if I worked at Amazon "You don't need perfection to start." would absolutely come up in my next review.

I kid, I kid. Galley slaves never get to speak to the captain nor even the drummer for the deck you're on. Today they just get an email "Pull harder or we toss you to the sharks in an hour" - maybe that's what her 100k lines of code does?