Medicare caused a LOT of rural hospitals to close. I remember growing up in the 60's. Small town at the time 2300 people. We had a 30-40 room hospital where most people in a 30 mile range were born. When medicare came along, the hospital would have been forced to make a TON of "mandated" upgrades to qualify to be able to take medicare patients. They closed the hospital, the doctors stuck around for a few years then they left too. After that happened, if there was an emergency, instead of being a couple minutes from an ER, you were sent in an ambulance 25 miles away. Not only that, once medical insurance, medicare/medicaid came along, RATES for doctors visits, hospital stays went through the roof! Companies started buying hospitals, doctors offices and what not. Now, in most towns & cities, there is ONE hospital and all of the doctors are "owned" by the hospital. So you can't really shop for a less expensive doctor. Other than the urgent care places you are really screwed.

Linux and ARM would disagree. Probably loads more too.

I guarantee this is the big difference between what Bernie's bill says versus what the administration is proposing. In one case, you have a bill saying that the people receive ownership without having to incur the risk of an investment. The other proposal is very likely that the government it has to invest at the same valuation that all these VCs did.

So when AI valuations pop, the taxpayer is now on the hook

That statement was AI Slop, there is no reason to put any weight behind it whatsoever.

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Everyone knows that you use Archive.org to bypass a paywall.

I don't need 4,304 sensors, cameras, touch screens and other do-dads. Give me a good stereo, AC/heat KNOBS, BUTTONS, DIALS.

They aren't doing that.

The certificate is expiring. When it expires, it will no longer be able to talk to the server to validate the license.

In order to fix it, they need to issue a new certificate, which requires updating the software - which they no longer update.

The problem is rooted in the time-boxing of encryption certificates.

To say that a country is thriving at the expense of suffering and loss of life is a grotesque and rancid idea.
It incentivises continued conflict in order to maintain benefit for the country.

To say that "Countries that fail to follow suit risk disaster" raises serious moral and humanitarian concerns direction
the world is heading.

Not to mention most of those "college grads" are probably stuck with their heads in the phones, instead of actually be productive.

Just doing some checking, using google earth map, 3,000 acres for one solar farm, 2500 acres for another one, and this one will use up 2,400 acres of land. From the locations, this is FARM LAND that was used for GROWING FOOD. I have no problem setting these things out in barren land, but FARM LAND? That's around 9,000 ACRES of farm land that will now not be able to grow food.

ANYTIME humans tinker with "nature" it usually does not end well for the humans. One of these days they are going to bio-engineer something that will collapse the world.

I wouldnt say it was "Sorted Out" - I had to sell my home - it was that or end up bankrupt and homeless - and still unable to work due to the burnout it caused. The house sale was traumatic in itself and i had to borrow off family until it the sale completed. The positive i suppose was that we had enough to just about clear the mortgage and move to a cheaper home in Wales. Though - it has no kitchen and needs a lot of work doing to be properly liveable. An amazing view though and no mortgage or rent to pay.

Gamers are a fickle bunch and speaking as someone from inside the industry there are still some that can be very mouthy and entitled when they dont get what they want. Larger companies with public IPO also have the press to deal with - bad news affects share price. There are certain dates throughout the year eg : christmas , easter and other public holidays where new updates and releases are expected. Things cant go out the door buggy, and if they do the punters get upset and the press report it. If features get cut to meet deadlines that doesnt pan out well either. All of these things are a sign of bad management and planning but also sometimes shit does just happen. I dont know if what the solution is to appeasing all the expectations of gamers and the press - but Im personally a beleiver in promising less and delivering more. Crunch culture sucks, it burns out developers fast - were usually not paid proper overtime and free pizza and cake isnt healthy doesnt make up for the long nights time after time Over time that gets refelected in the product.

Just chiming in - I went through a year long ideal , also in the games industry i worked for the company in the UK that make a well known space exploration and trading game. Id been there nearly 11 yrs. Covid and lockdowns provided a stock surge 10x the current price. When the bubble broke they had a management reshuffle - and shed over 200 people. Similar problems with the return to work policy also. I can only assume that since id been there so long the payout would have been quite sizeable - thats when they tried to sideline me and bully me out - I fought them with IWGB for over a year, there were discrimination issues due to my disablity which they were exploiting. IWGB helped me get a settlement, i could have got more but the year long fight burned me out (im still in burnout) and i couldnt stick it any longer to take it to a tribunal. Just wanna say - even if your company doesnt officially recognise unions , you are still legally protected and if you find yourself in an unfair situation its well worth having them by your side - you are entitled to have them represent you in any meetings and there isnt much your employer can do about it.