I'm currently a super happy Pixel 3a user, which I got on sale for $350 on Amazon. A $1000 or $1400 is hard to justify when there are amazing phones at a fraction of the cost. As a longtime Motorola user (Moto X, Moto G5s), you can get amazing phones for cheap. They aren't waterproof or have wireless charging or a 120hz refresh rate or whatever nonsense, but they are still great.

The added features on these Samsung phones (128 gb storage? nice display?) aren't worth $1000 more than a Pixel 3a. Especially not because phones get damaged, the batteries wear out, you don't get operating system or security fixes. Which means you're going to replace it every 2 or 3 years.

Exactly, you've said it 100% correct. Congress sets the budget and the President passes it (or not). The President has no say on the budget other than signing his name on the document.

So many people (including politicians ) have no understanding how the constitutional form of government works. This is even more obvious among presidential candidates promising things that will never happen nor could ever realistically be signed into law. Universal health care? Free college for all? If you are a Senator proposing this while running for President, it should almost be disqualifying. If you want free college and you're a senator START WORKING TO WRITE AND PASS THE LAW. You're a lawmaker! President's don't form policy, they can only sign legislation that passes both houses.

Like it or not, but it is the responsibility of well-run companies to use all legal means to pay as little taxes as possible. If it's not illegal, then that necessarily implies that it's legal. It would make no sense for a company to not use all legal means to reduce taxes to as little as possible, right?

If loopholes exist in the tax code, then Congress can pass new laws to close those loopholes. And then when that legislation is passed, they should fully expect all companies to read those changes to the taxes and continue to use all legal means to pay as little tax as possible.

Taxes don't help a company grow, offer new products or services. Taxes paid to the government takes money that the company can use or pay to shareholders and removes it from the table. Therefore, if there is a legal means to avoid taxes, companies must take it (whether politicians like it or not).

One of the most insane shows in TV history, and it makes Twin Peaks: The Return look like re-runs of the Andy Griffith show. Incredibly well-shot, insane story, completely trolling the audience and their expectations. I think the director was honestly trying to see how far he could push Amazon and get away with it.

I declare this scene to be the best of TV in 2019. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

As with any scarce resource, it can never really just "run out". Instead, as it becomes increasingly scarce, the market will react to changes in the elasticity curve.

In this case, as easily obtainable IPV4 addresses run out, the price should go up. As prices go up, organizations that have large blocks of IPV4 addresses could sell them which increases the overall supply. Older companies (HP? IBM? ) from the good ol' days of computing are probably holding onto vastly more blocks of addresses than they could ever need and would be able to sell them. Organizations (universities?) that have large blocks of IP addresses could also move to put themselves behind NAT or equivalent technologies and free up addresses.

I think there really isn't much to worry about here, especially since we've been talking about this since 2011 (https://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/04/14/2237237/asia-runs-out-of-ipv4-addresses ) and 2015 (https://tech.slashdot.org/story/15/07/02/1437236/north-america-runs-out-of-ipv4-addresses ) and the world just keeps on moving even as the number of connected devices has exploded. How? Because efficient markets in allocating scarce resources have come into effect.

My guess is that (over time), the Intel driver sites become overwhelmed with the number of drivers and files available that it can make it tougher to find what you want. Imagine 15, 30, 45 years from now: Would they still host the files? Files that are downloaded a small handful of times per year, but continue to bog down the experience of the finding the useful current drivers? Are you going to have an "Select your Operating System?" combo box with 40 versions of Windows?

My feeling is that they should segregate the older drivers onto a separate site that is more static, and allow for the currently supported devices to more easily found.

This far-out left-wing conspiracy video has been on Youtube (and previously Google Video) for about 15 years now. But I guess that doesn't fit into the narrative of radicalizing right-wingers.

The rich by far pay more in the total taxes collected that the middle and lower classes, even if the tax rates are off. This is because they earn more of their income through things like stock (which is taxed differently than regular income). There are many reasons for this, and they are not loopholes: Tax income is treated like investment income because it is subject to risk.

The fight over tax rate fairness is a misguided effort to raise anger at the rich when in fact they already pay disproportionately a large share of the total tax revenue.

Note also that in the US, the middle and lower classes pay lower tax rates and total tax dollars than similar classes in European countries (where the social safety nets in terms of social security, health care, etc, are much higher). If we are talking about Medicare for All, that won't be paid for by increasing taxes on the rich. Instead, we'd most likely be looking at tax rates in France or Scandinavia where they effective tax rates are around 40%. Let's see how popular that messaging is.

Just a quick test shows this significantly reducing my speed and increases latency. Using Fast.com, on my un-VPN wifi, I got 72. Enabled, fast.com takes much longer to load. The speeds averaged 850k to 2mbs.

Downloading "Between Two Ferns" from Netflix took about 30 seconds on my phone. The file size is reported at 321 megs.

Pretty good! Not awesome. Obviously it leaves some room to make Warp Plus attractive. Still, this is pretty great if you're on insecure public wifi

Since the government can't limit regular drivers driving around, Lyft/Uber drivers can mark themselves as offline/unavailable, at which point they are no longer Lyft/Uber drivers cruising around.

Further, this is essentially unenforceable as it would mean that the City government would need to track all of the drivers and their busy/idle statuses before determining if the offense has been committed. What if a driver gets stuck in traffic due to an accident blocking a tunnel?

This law (whatever its intentions are) seems to be doomed to complete failure.

The problem I have with the nerds on BBT is that they are all nerds in every aspect of nerd culture, whereas in the real world, nerds (like myself) tends to specialize. Nobody is a hardcore Star Wars + Star Trek + Dr Who + Spiderman + Batman + LOTR nerd, right? They tend to specialize into different subcultures and go all-in.

This show makes it seem like nerds are nerds in all aspects of their lives. Whereas someone like myself is obsessed with Star Wars and GI Joe, but has zero interest in comics or cosplay or Dungeons and Dragons.

People don't walk around acting Super Autistic Nerd full-time.

Also, the show is just a lame network sitcom with a laugh track.

It's actually a well-known fact that this is the Most Watched Show that Nobody Actually Watches. Congress actually held hearings on this scientific paradox.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

This show isn't funny. The nerds on this show are the worst and most unrealistic nerds ever.

To me, the most interesting development in phones has been the incredibly value in the sub-$300 price, as evidenced by Motorola's various phones, Huawei, Honor, OnePlus, etc.

At the top end, perhaps prices will continue to climb but that certainly doesn't imply all prices will increase. The top tier phones will be luxury items for a certain segment of the market, but the overall trend in terms of phones being shipped has been the amount of value being delivered in the and mid and low price tiers, and that should be heart-warming for consumers. That $1000 phone might be better or the best, but it won't be $700 better than the Moto G6 or similar phone.

This is exactly right. It's not about open vs closed source, but eyeballs. For instance, take the HeartBleed / OpenSSL bugs from a few years ago. OpenSSL is used extremely often and all over the place, including by Google, Facebook, etc. But it had vulnerabilities in it that had existed for years and years, and it was because OpenSSL was really only being maintained by a handful of people.

But I think even more so, some organizations just aren't dedicating people to finding problems. You can still exploit Android, even though it's powered by Google and Linux. Intel has issues with its processor designs. Apple had a bug a year or so ago where anyone could log in as root. And these are the companies that supposedly have the best developers and essentially unlimited resources.

Is there anybody out there that actually trusts Facebook (except the people who work for Facebook)? At this point, aren't people in the position where they don't trust (or even like, or enjoy) Facebook, but quitting it altogether isn't an appealing option either due to how integral that platform is to communications and their daily lives?

Google and Apple are slightly different: I'm sure there are large numbers of people that do entirely trust (rightly or wrongly) Google and Apple.