You can tell this one spent his childhood expanding his spider collection.

Kids in suburbs "socialize" with great enthusiasm. They are constantly at one another's houses, or borrowing mom's crossover to go somewhere with their friends. Before they can drive, mom is wrecking the planet driving her progeny all over creation for every kind of sportsball you've ever heard of, and a number you haven't. The parents all have each others phones because they're constantly trying to figure out which friend their kid has absconded with, or which one gave them the pot they got caught with. Phone storage is permanently at 100% capacity because they're filled with stupid videos of their friends.

Honestly guy, the more you say here, the more painfully obvious it is that you have lived a sad, lonely life.

Maybe. I suppose that's a side benefit that some are excited about, and the worst of those will abuse it. Mostly these laws are symbolic: the ruling class doesn't really care about any of this. They're busy arranging government contracts for their spouse's private business, getting their kids no-show non-profit chairmanship jobs, etc. The "ban" is their sop to the latest moral panic, and enforcing it generally would be nasty, so they just enact it with no real enforcement plan and get back to lining their pockets. Whenever some kid causes a headline making outrage, the narrative will include accusations of negligence with regard to social media bans, and they'll persecute the kid's parents, but beyond that nothing of note changes.

Yes, the Raptor 3 is turning out to be a challenge. They're making progress on it, and it's important that they do, because those engines are key to the performance and economics of everything SpaceX. But they now have a long record of solving such problems.

Competing on price is somehow a "scam".

You are rapidly becoming the poster boy for AI Derangement Syndrome.

Ah yes. gweihir. The resident AI denialist.

This one has been lurking on any given firewalled network interface for 7 years: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord/...
This one is a subtle race in openvpn: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord/...

Two examples of either making the kernel demonstrably more secure, or identifying and correcting non-trivial problems. There are hundreds more, in case you'd like to get some of the shit out of your head.

Don't care. You've had time: this is no surprise to anyone that's been paying the least bit of attention for several years now, and isn't still stupidly indulging AI denial. The excuse window has closed: if your business is security and you didn't know at least as 18 months ago that you could expect to see exactly what is happening today, you're a seat warmer and no one cares what you think. And you're going to be obsolete soon as well.

My ISP offers failover wireless Internet service for my cable internet at a reasonable cost. I haven't adopted this yet, but I think it's pretty admirable that they do it, and it solves more than just the power loss problem.

There is a future where essentially everyone has large battery capacity at their residences and commercial facilities, and it will probably become mandatory. Sodium Ion battery tech is coming online in a big way, and it directly addresses the numerous issues that hinder endemic battery deployment today, including safety, reliability and (ultimately) cost. At that point, the obvious thing is: everyone gets batteries and the power system relies on their existence throughout the grid to solve its storage and reliability problems in a mundane and low cost manner.

That reply is wrong in degree, of course, but, sadly, it's not wrong in kind. We've long tolerated insider trading by Congress, and a revolving door between regulators and the companies they regulate. The Supreme Court has allowed its justices to take veiled bribes, and even ruled that government officials can accept bribes as long as the payoff comes after the action. Prior to Trump, presidents and their staffs stayed out of this mud, but if others can do it, why not the president? The root of the problem is voter acceptance of corruption. Too many Americans just assume that all politicians are corrupt and there's nothing you can do. They're wrong on both points -- and in fact the US previously did have massive public corruption and then mostly shut it off, but Americans don't know their own history -- but until voters care enough to get Congress to act, this is the new normal.

So much this. Dems do themselves a disservice when they roll their eyes at the "both sides do it" responses. Because when Dems do it, it just enables Republicans to do it 100x worse with clean consciences. When Biden, for instance, gets turned down by Congress on student loan forgiveness, so instead goes looking for ways around Congress via executive power...how the hell do you think Trump got a similar idea?

Or look at reconciliation. When reconciliation was created, it had a specific budgetary role in 1974. It got co-opted in the 90s to grab more power by passing non-budgetary law that they didn't have the votes for via the normal process. Since then, it's just become the "normal" way of doing business. Now there's even talk of eliminating the filibuster, on both sides. It's just a slow ever-marching degradation of civics until in the end we'll have no checks and balances (if we even have any atm).

What, exactly, is unpredictable about a sedentary human falling asleep? People do that while driving.

These robo-car companies imagine attentive humans, amazed and alert at all times, enjoying the thrill of this wonderful service, eager to swipe away with their payment devices.

Based on what you've written, your PayPal experience is largely as a payor, and not a payee. That's certainly the most common case.

The other side of the transaction is very different. PayPal is heavily biased toward the former. That's a problem, because PayPal is quite unforgiving for payees. A big part of the problem is that payees are often ignorant, reckless or outright criminal, and their heads are often filled with small-business-person shit. People think they're clever or take things for granted with PayPal and get caught: accounts get frozen or shut down when people fuck around, and people do a lot of fucking around.

They frequently don't see it as fucking around. But that's a chronic condition, especially for business folks. You'll notice the lack of details seen from PayPal haters. When they do share, you'll learn all about how fast PayPal picks up on all the screwball things people try to pull, and how little patience PayPal has for the nonsense in the heads of these people.

PayPal isn't perfect. Handling money is complicated, and PayPal has made mistakes. But you can safely chalk up about 99% of the PayPal hate you see to payees that learned the hard way that their bullshit won't fly with PayPal.

Here is data on government corruption. Louisiana is the worst with 1.05 convictions per year per 10k government employees. California is better than average with 0.25.

Rating corruption based on convictions? That's a terrible measure. I can assure you there's few convictions in Russia and China, for instance.

This.

Culturally it would have been a big shift, even given the talent they have, but they just don't have the courage of leadership it would have taken to do this. It's been 60+ years since IBM had that, when they bet the company on the 360. The PC doesn't count; that was essentially a side project for IBM. They didn't create the hardware or software for it, and the companies future wasn't riding on it.

It's a part of their business, but not a majority of it, even before AI. They've added AI coprocessors to their Telum CPUs for their Z series platform, but it's not a significant player in the world of AI money. More of a checkbox me-too thing that probably will be of use for legacy customer applications, but no one is building data centers full of Telums to compete with OpenAIAnthropticGoogleEtc.

Maybe. I doubt it: Intel seems to have figured out that x86 is not it's exclusive future, a change in corporate mentality that long overdue.

Also, this story must be fake news: Tariffs Don't Work! member?