Damn, you guys are morons. Even the Taliban knows banning WiFi has NOTHING to do with immorality or Wi-Fi .. people in Balkh don't like the Taliban. It was, and is, a Northern Alliance stronghold (now called National Resistance Front - NRF ), they are annoying the heck out of the Taliban. Reference: https://www.afintl.com/en/2025... https://www.youtube.com/watch?... https://www.afintl.com/en/2025... https://moderndiplomacy.eu/202.... This ban will make things a lot worse for the Taliban there, not better. The reason for the WiFi ban is because the Taliban thinks the attacks on them were coordinated through Wi-Fi and that the NRF use it to communicate.

Yup, 'cause the Taliban is known for giving up easily and being lenient to people breaking morality decrees. /s

They offer you more than minimum wage because of the existence of a minimum wage. Otherwise they'd offer you not $1 per year, but just enough to afford to return to work when added to whatever welfare they can squeeze out of government and society. Minimum wages do apply to salaried jobs as well. Check out what you can earn in countries that don't have them, and then thank a union. Or throw off the shackles of the minimum wage and get into a type of work that really doesn't have one, gig work, and let us know how that supply and demand thing works out for you.

The Luddites died in grinding poverty with all indications being that they were correct, it was their grandchildren who got the new jobs that came along as a result of the automation that ruined their grandparents. Wages and standards of living have been stagnant for a half-century at this point. There are people frantically applying to hundreds of jobs they're well-qualified for and not getting so much as an interview. Over 100 people are applying to each job opening these days, and likewise it takes over 100 job applications for an average applicant to get a job (both rather conservative estimates). If improving productivity led to rising wages, why are we not earning 40% more for the same number of hours people worked in the '70s? Why has going from mainframes and dumb terminals to present-day computing added approximately jack shit to ~90% of workers' pay?

Good for you! Especially if you work in tech. Sucks for the people who aren't part of your anecdote though.

Look up the history of the ones you don't think may have value and you'll learn about the workers who fought and/or died to get the laws in place that keep you from experiencing the same thing, which you now take for granted. Or if that's not enough, maybe you should experience a 996 work schedule in China, work alongside a nonexistent/laughably low minimum wage in a Caribbean country, or do some dangerous work in a Nigerian e-waste mine to get a taste of what happens without all those regulations.

College is needed for STEM .. especially engineering and physics, because most people need to be told to do all the requisite math. Yes you can learn mechanical engineering from online videos and books.. in fact that would no doubt make the best mechanical engineers .. but then only about 1/3rd of humans would be able to do that without the motivation and structure college provides.

Related Rick and Morty - er, Summer ...

So, just close your eyes and think of Erlang -- or something like that? :-)

Fast, good, cheap - pick two.

Or, hire another programmer.

And... Trump gets editorial control and preferred feed placement, Pam Bondi gets warrant-less access to all user data, Stephen Miller gets control of (shadow) banning people and Karoline Leavitt is in charge of "fact checking" ... And JD? Nothing, no one likes him. :-)

The answer is another question: Better for who?
If Trump had his way, there would be no data from anyone, just his say-so -- and we can all imagine how that would go...

In this case, you both may be correct.

Everyone who remembers it is clearly dead.

I mean, some delays are good. An example of this is when Apple decided to leave only USB-C ports for everything on Macbook Pros, but in the newer generations, they added HDMI back and also an SD card reader.

Which is very welcome. Adding HDMI to a $2k machine costs nothing and can save your ass. If you're a speaker at a conference and need to connect your laptop, it's probably gonna be HDMI, certainly not USB-C.

The SD card is also welcome by photographers and videographers who make heavy use of SD cards.

Certainly two very valid use cases for people who own macs really, and that aren't a compromise for other users (they're not taking anything away by adding HDMI or SD).

USB-C promised a lot and it hasn't materialized. I wanted to hop into USB-C at the very beginning, about 8 years ago, and it's only become worse. USB-C may or may not have PD, Thunderbolt, DisplayPort, etc. Apple does it mostly right with "all ports supporting everything", PC manufacturers are hit and miss, and it seems to be mostly a laptop thing. I'm not sure about the current state of desktop motherboards but last time I checked, they didn't really support Thunderbolt or DP and they only included one single USB-C connector.

If you're a laptop user, many monitors include USB-PD to charge your laptop, and DP to send video to the monitor, plus a USB channel for USB-C. You basically use your monitor as a docking station, with a single, thin cable. It's very neat. But AFAIK, you can't do this with a desktop computer.

Cars can't be manufactured in significant volumes in rsilvergun's communist utopia, therefore the sour grapes propaganda that cars are bad. Only the elites and the ones in power will have the burden of owning cars and that's in addition to the suffering they face living in palatial mansions.

You realize the car has a camera in it right? Pam Bondi (US attorney general) has already said anyone who vandalizes a Tesla will be charged with terrorism (Reference: https://www.bbc.com/news/artic... ). But if it does happen, the car owner will have to clean it up, you've seen the movie Taxi Driver with Robert De Niro right? I suspect that will end as soon as people find themselves doing 20 years for leaving a scratch on the car seat.

Waymos have been in operation in San Francisco and other places without any problems like that .. And that's without the threat of terrorism charges.