I say take the cash and open a new company under different management and build more offshore wind turbines, now that you have a billion.

you know, living is harmful to your life, every day is getting you closer to death. Eating many foods is harmful, drinking many things, breathing the air in many parts of the world and during different weather conditions. Having sex may be harmful, it can degrade your quality of life in the long term.

There are millions of harmful things, you will die and everyone else as well. I am not proposing for everyone to do everything, I am saying - if you enjoy it, don't allow people to dictate to you, do it.

you do understand we live only once, what's wrong with porn, gambling and drugs? Enjoy it if you want it.

is that a serious comment?

ever heard of team drivers? they exist to avoid sitting idle for half a day due to regulations.

We build many professional Android and iOS apps for the trucking, logistics, shipping and related industries. It is a complete disaster, what Android app store has become over the 11 years we have been dealing with them. Things are only getting worse, more complicated, longer, more expensive. I don't know what they have achieved with this but they haven't made it safer.

obviously. It was clear as day to me decade and a half ago.

The West is really really really shortsighted. Like seriously shortsighted, arrogant, incapable of learning or making any smart strategic choices. This is in regards to everything, wars, weapons, power generation, allowing Islam to penetrate its borders, now even cheering FOR Islam and against Israel, not taking out putin and all of his little helpers all around the world judiciously, printing money like it's out of style, getting rid of manufacturing and declaring that now its economy is something else, but not manufacturing and production. In fact declaring that its economy is 'consumption based'. Getting off the gold standard. There are many stupid things the 'collective West' engaged in, will it be able to correct course? I don't see it, not yet.

Should companies bw forced by whatever, unions, or anything else, to maintain employment numbers that does not make sense to them? why? compare to this: once you had your haircut and paid for it, should you be forced to pay the barber every day until you need your next haircut?

That's something I've said for a long time. And unlike permanent DST, going to permanent standard time doesn't require Congressional approval. Any state can do it any time by just passing a law.

Is MS doing the blocking themselves, or is it an RBL that's doing it? And if an RBL, which one? The MS mail admins can answer those questions easily, and then affected senders can direct their attention to the appropriate target.

Is it AI driving this? Or is it just the fact that if your gross margins are 70-90% there's a lot of difference between the value you're providing and the price you're charging and your customers are recognizing that? Because I've done tests with Claude and while it might be acceptable for boilerplate code it still falls on it's face with complex business requirements and logic unique to specific internal processes that don't appear elsewhere.

under 2% less light is all it will take to reduce temperature, absolutely irrelevant for agriculture but may be 100% necessary for the survival of the marine life and of all life on this planet. If marine life gets kicked in the nuts, so to speak, so will we as civilization.

A V8 in a city is strictly for racing. It's got too much power for most purposes. The one place it does have a use, trucks or vans for carrying heavy commercial/industrial loads, isn't a huge market compared to personal use. Big pickup trucks look and sound impressive, until you need to find a parking spot for them. Or deal with rough streets. Or tight residential streets. Or stop-and-go traffic. Then practicality wins out.

I look at the US auto industry today and see it repeating the strategy of the early 70s. We know how that ended. The same motivations are at work now. Their focus groups may say "big and powerful", but consumer wallets say "small and economical".

The AIs understand "stakes" just fine. They just understand them correctly, without human emotion getting in the way. Humans place an emotional value on other humans, even if they're the enemy. Computer algorithms don't. They calculate in cold hard numbers, optimizing for the lowest casualty count on their side for the least cost and effort. Casualty count on the enemy side, if it factors in at all, is a lower priority than reduced casualties on the computer's side.

Yes, that's horrifying. Go ask some first responders about triage at a major accident scene. They have to do much the same thing when the injuries are more than they have resources to manage.

Cyanide safety training at a mine: "When the cyanide alarm sounds, leave the area. Do not stop. If you see someone down, do not stop to help them. Not stopping gives the rescue teams 1 person they know to go in after because you told them. Stopping gives them 2 people to go in after, except they don't know that because you're down and dying of cyanide exposure and can't tell them.".

we need aerosole based sun ray reflection and thus cooling to be done immediately, this is way beyond CO2 content in the atmosphere, which we will not get rid of even if we stop producing any and all new CO2 right now. It will take thousands of years for the existing CO2 to be reduced and burried by natural processes. There won't be any natural processes if we don't cool down the planet asap.