That's why you need government to fix the failures markets can create. For example car emission control systems. They aren't what the market would create left to its own devices.

As a manager, the difference between a resignation letter and an ultimatum letter is the difference between a grenade whose pin was pulled 10 seconds before it's show to you, and a grenade whose pin is pulled in front of you.

The employee is gone, either way. Neither side will trust each other again. It's over.

If you're going to quit, just quit.

It's good to have a domestic manufacturing capacity. We do have manufacturing capacity of vents in the US. We didn't have enough to meet the sudden, and completely predictable, demand.

It's more cost effective to stockpile things that you know you're going to need than to expect to retool for mass production things that you'll need to just ship out to a crisis area.

The right answer for this problem was to have the needed equipment stockpiled, in this case, PPE and vents. And in the vents case, properly maintained.

But in general I agree we need more domestic manufacturing capacity for national security reasons.

" largest state economy"

Yeah, we have to trade. But we definitely grow our own food. We'd be fine if you all fell into the sea.

"Thomas Sowell"

Lost a lot of people right there. He's a moron.

Only brainwashed sour grapes cultists could call California a "failed state." You don't have average $500,000 homes in a "failed state." Failed states aren't the 5th largest economy in the world. California's GDP Growth rate was 6th in the US in 2017. You don't have a $20B budget surplus in a failed state.

It's a great place to live if you can afford it. If you can't, you move.

Your real complaint is the liberal politics. No one cares. Our success doesn't depend on satisfying your ideological beliefs about how the world works, who succeeds and who fails, who gets rewarded and who gets punished and why.

Well why not just make building models of the environment and reducing surprise at observation compared to expectation the optimization goal?

Isn't that the point of "free energy principle" thinking?

Yeah just like the "everybody must algebra" movement was ludicrous.

I think all students should learn to code, just like all students should learn to do algebra, or find the intersection of two linear equations, or write an essay.

But the end goal is not to make everyone programmers. The end goal is to make people well rounded, aware of how things work, because in most jobs, you benefit from understanding how computers work. And if you can code at all, you understand how they work in a fundamental way.

Yeah, trees aren't doing the trick.

I think engineers can do a bit better.

"VERY left-leaning."

Strange that it doesn't infect their algorithms. I mean I'm a liberal, and my household appliances, computers, cars, etc. all now have a liberal bias, just like me.

Top post is a lie.

This would be pretty stupid. Bugs are bad, mmm-kay? It would be better to just make the code convoluted and redundant but without bugs if you want to wear out attackers.

On the plus side, you'll know when to stop testing! Since you know all the bugs you planted, if QA finds all of them, you've got a great QA team doing their job, and it's likely they found the ones you did not plant as well.

They'll burn all the hours saved recovering from their impending shutdown.

We'll never cut enough to cover the cost of Cruz's last shutdown.

Republicans are a cancer on government function and efficiency.

How can it be a "leak" if it is his own notes?

I think they need to look up that word.