Its Turtles all the way down!

We fired everyone and replaced them with AI. We got the answer! Now we need to train experts. Then hire them to find the problems for the answer!

Great examples! Except go back 150 years for Cars and 320 years for Trains.

The common man laughed at Cars. They stunk, broke down a lot, and could be out walked! They were curiosities for the rich for a good 50 years! It wasn't until 50 more years after massive government subsidies in the form of road infrastructure that they really took off for the common man.

Trains were very useful from the get go. But steam and oil powered locomotives took almost 100 years of development. They were mainly used for point to point movement of material. Like coal mine to factory. It took another 25 years before they were used for passengers. And another 50 years before wide spread use spurred by massive governmental subsidies for the infrastructure!

So, how many decades do we wait on AI for the government subsidies to kick in? Assuming we don't count the last 20 years of ridiculously low interest rates in funding data center infrastructure. How many decades before AI becomes mainstream after the subsidies?

Atleast with Car and Train, their use cases were demonstrated and utilized as they became more evolved. They survived on their existing use cases and innovated to the next one. Slowly building their utility and usefulness.

AI promises it will give us cross country transit any day now but hasn't figured out inter-city and barely has in city. They keep telling us, if we just built out the highway completely, all of it will come online the next day! Humm....

Imagine, everyone had to use the first cars or the early horse drawn trains took up the narrow public streets. You would have had riots!

AI over promises are the only thing that are right behind fusion energy. It's always just 2 years out. People love keeping silicon just below red hot.

It should be a combination of. Open up the highways to many. Let the carriers be no different than UPS or FedEx. And let the ISPs be a separate business.

However, this would not be enough for many people, they would still need subsidies. How you subsidize is another matter. We can open up more community centers that provide many services to the community and include high speed internet. We can consider this a basic necessity and use food stamps. Etc etc.

But a sub is always needed and we need to remove the stigma that the ones receiving it are some sort of "failures".

I don't know if you are uber educated and this was some tongue in cheek. But if you don't actually know what Animal Farm is, the GP is talking about how we don't want to walk down the path that leads to the end of that book. Like that's the perfect book to apply here: get rid of your caretaker and "boot strap" yourselves... leads to being worse off as someone gets in power and leeches off the rest.

Just so you know, this was the US majority view and foreign policy until WW1. WW2 pretty much wiped that notion out. We found out that most regions will never settled their differences. They take massive "reparations" from the loser and setup another war with the next generation who suffer for their grandfathers' losses and long forgotten actions of their great-grandfathers.

Eventually the instability engulfs stable nations and they get dragged into an even bigger mess. Disputes not settled on foreign lands will be fought on domestic streets.

Is the US the champions of freedom? No. Do we make bad decisions? Yes. But we take sides, we take positions, and we back them. Our priority is the US first and it just so happens many others also benefit from us. For a nation of 350mil, isolated to one side of the world, full volunteer corps, and latest kid on the block.... we have done well for ourselves and we have a lot of allies.... not territories, allies.

So generally speaking, we are barely doing something right.

Exactly, MS is not at all fault here. And I don't blame CS either. When you offload testing and security to an outside firm, this is the risk you take. Customers could have done staged and vetted rollouts. Customers could have diversified their exposures. Customers could have forced CS to split read only definitions from software code changes. Customers could have audited CS' change management processes.

Nope, people homogenized, got their bonuses, washed their hands, and moved on.

If CS owns people money, maybe they should get extra money for all the jobs well done thus far. I am sure every year they stopped similar events from happening to their customers from malicious agents.

Yup, totally agree. People argue about "synergies" and "efficiencies of scale" and "overhead reduction". Assume they are done right, because most of the time they aren't. The cost of making or adapting to the new operational order has many years in ROI. I don't think those savings are worth the impact due to size to the overall economy or sector if something goes wrong. And once they get bigger than "even larger size" its a detriment to the company. The inertia NOT to adapt and change with the environment, but to stagnate the company and the surrounding economic sector costs much more than those savings.

History will remember Biden very well. Even as a Republican, I concede that. His faults in his early years are more than overcome with his achievements under the Obama and now his administration. Especially his foreign affairs and relationships. He is up there with Regan, Taft, Teddy, and Truman.

As for the Democratic Party, what a bunch of shitheads. They royally messed it up with Bernie and H.Clinton. Now they F'ed it with Biden. They couldn't find a candidate for the past 8 years to go against Trump. They don't have one today. But they are going to drop their only guy in the final quarter of the race. All those asking for Biben to drop, you should have had a set of ready-to-go-groomed individuals for the past 3-6 years. Otherwise, why do you even exist?!?

As for the Republicans, Trump half killed them in his Primaries and they finished dying half way through Trump's presidency. We should have parted ways with the Tea Party like any other government would have. Now any remaining are useless cowards who have no resemblance of values they original ran on. Atleast the MAGA know who they are, the GOP is long gone and dead.

I hope both these parties are completely dead and buried in the History Book of Idiots before my kids become of voting age.

But to be honest, it doesn't look like anything of real value has been or will be lost*. For the past decade, most of the content is "look at me" garbage generated by end users for end users that middlemen take a cut of. Anything over a week old has no value except in auto-promotion in the hope you get hooked to a new channel of recent events.

As for information, each person needs to weed through endless mis-information or parody or unrelated topics.

I hope we are getting to the real version of "That's enough internet this year."

* obviously we won't ever lose porn

They already do have such things since Windows 10 v1709. It's very hard to get into the kernel. This is how they stopped all those BSOD loops from bad/legacy/corrupt drivers. But I guess they gave Crowdstrike a pass somewhere. You won't have this kind of stuff with VMWare or VirtualBox because they won't be touched upon second boot up after a fail.

The problem here isn't CrowdStrike either. Its the Customer's decision to do Zero day Deployment. This is the risk the customer takes. It doesn't matter if the vendor Sales drones say they take precautions X, Y, Z and do lots of testing. The hit rate is >0. And we live in a complex world and a vendor can never do the full gauntlet of testing for all their customer's scenarios.

We been having this conversation with Cybersecurity for the past 2 years on how we can fast track updates. And I been one of the vocal "NOs" in the room that it shouldn't be less than 10 days. Its not enough time to test. I feel like the latest crop of practices totally ignore the user behavior. It's just "Did we follow what the Consultants said?" And they say some variant of what Garner says. And Garner says general guidance that doesn't apply to anyone with a lot of tailoring.

We have lost so many best practices over the years. I still remember the time that you didn't do mass Driver/Firmware updates because introducing new code could break stuff and introduce their own vulnerabilities. But the hardware vendors took a 1Mb driver and wrapped it in a 50GB software suite so now you got applications with barn sized attack surfaces. Same with OS & application vendor updates. Thanks to Google setting the precedent, everyone now bundles features with security. And every addition of code is its own unvetted exposures waiting to be found. And the practice is that we want to roll such out without local testing.

Honestly, instead of asking for more charging stations, Uber & Lyft should be building out their own or at least negotiate lower electricity rates with the local power producers. They got the data, real and historic to bank quite a bit with an "Uber rate" that is backed by Futures Contracts. I am really surprised they aren't doing this arbitrage!

I mean this is their core bread and butter type of economic value add! They can do the same for Oil too. I am surprised Tesla hasn't done this!

That will apply to Gas far more than Electricity. Switching infrastructure to electricity distribution on wire from gasoline distribution on the roads is going to be a net saver. Whether that is reflected in your price point is another topic but certainly Electricity will remain cheaper than Gas.

In the _worst_ case scenario, all the Gas what was delivered to you would be delivered to a central power plant. The p2p rail transport, plant operation, and electricity distribution are leagues better than trucks, your car engine, and fewer tires on the road. Its not even a discussion point.

Its not a ripoff. There are maintenance costs for that charging station and rent for the spot. Its not free. Plus there isn't as much supply so people will over charge for now and over time the as competition gets going, the costs will get lower. Its not much different from Gas Stations. The price of the Gas doesn't fund the infrastructure, its the store sales.