I think it may be evidence that Amazon has a shitty corporate culture that squeezes every penny it can out its employees.

Corruption can happen anywhere, but it's more likely to happen in totalitarian cultures where people feel like the system is rigged anyway. That's why countries like Russia and China have corruption problems. But I suspect the same feelings of me vs. the system occur in a capitalist enterprise like Amazon where employees are governed by dystopian, rigid, computerized metrics.

The restrictions are a mix of reasonable nuisance management and paranoia about who is flying drones, what they can do, and chain of custody.

Beijing proper is a city with a population density of over 21,000 / km^2 -- so you can imagine the chaos if any tech enthusiast resident could fly a drone without a permit. Except for a couple of free zones in the outer boroughs, New York City restricts drone launcing and landings within the city to flights with a permit and flight plan, because otherwise the sky would be black with drones. Many cities -- both red and blue -- have zone restrictions for drone flights, and those currently hosting World Cup matches have tightened them for the duration of the tournament.

I'd agree that if it weren't for immigration issues the UK would likely have stayed in the EU. They lost control over their own borders and have had a great deal of issues with cultural conflicts from the imported population and just plain housing them.

The trouble with that is, you let the cities rule the country. City and country interests don't always align, and letting city folk decide policy who've never set foot outside of populated areas is a recipe for disaster. At least currently there can be some mitigation as remote populations wishes can be heard because their votes matter.

He claimed people should likely have more protein for better health/outcomes.

You cited 'common wisdom says otherwise'

He provided evidence of average consumption and better health outcomes of increased protein consumption in a few different ways (skeletal muscle mass retention etc)

You appear to claim common wisdom trumps measured data, because the data did not sample from everyone everywhere in the world.

Just be aware of what you sound like.

Considering many peoples pseudo-spiritual usage of the word 'gender' to be something they inherently 'feel' about themselves it's pretty consistent of him to reject the concept.

It doesn't help that the very people who insist that gender is different from biological sex are insisting on surgery even though sex has nothing to do with gender supposedly.

Or that it's regressing on the whole idea of equality of the sexes, that ladies can like power tools and guys can like dolls but that doesn't make men women or women men, everyone can like what they like.

The concept of 'gender' was made from whole cloth by robert stoller, but popularized by john money. Considering it derives from genre and genus meaning type it's fairly ill suited considering modern usage.

The pushback would be less severe if it weren't being pushed so heavily. Spirituality pushers have been around for forever, what makes people dislike them is when they turn to "you must believe in my spirituality as being truth or you're evil (transphobe)"

People are entitled to believe they're a pink space unicorn deep in their soul. Other people will be polite and quietly think they're nuts to themselves, when the space unicorns demand being recognized as space unicorns, when they are in fact people. You have problems.

Funnily enough bigoted is being obstinately and blindly attached to some creed, opinion practice, or ritual; unreasonably devoted to a system or party, and illiberal toward the opinions of others.. Which is often the behaviour of those calling others that word.

People can tolerate others, even if they they're being odd/crazy. Not so much when they insist others must be part of it/accept it as truth.

That's when it directs fairness/safety of others. Most people can keep away from the wrath of the cult if they keep their mouth shut and just keep on treating people fairly as humans. When you see unfairness happen beyond a threshold, that's when people react/perk up.

Well you haven't given him much to work with.

Bloated relative to what? total package size is about 7mb on my system. There's a lot of non-core features there like gitweb and git gui, but really it's still quite minimal compared to most things.

Nothing stopping you writing your own minimum functionality required version. On disc format hasn't changed since 2.0.

Without a frame of reference we don't know the goal. It would be neat to see some of those demoscene folk make a full basic implementation in 96k though.

One of the lessons we've had as the Federal, multi-branch nature of the US governmennt has frustrated Trump is that the government may be fucking us over, but it's not doing it in *unison*. It's doing it piecemiel, on the initiative of many interests working against each other, just as the framers intended. The motto on the Great Seal notwithstanding, there are myriad roadblocks to consolidating power in the hands of a single individual. It takes time and repeated failures. This is why the second Trump Adminsitration is worse than the first; they've figured out ways around things like Congressional power of the purse, put more of their henchmen in the judiciary, and normalized Congress lying down and letting the president walk all over them. It's a serious situation, although fortunately Trump isn't long for this world.

Golden Promise is my favorite barely for beer making! (Home Alone face slap emoji here).

While that's true, a responsible generation aims to boost the next generation to a *higher* level than the education they received. The world has become more complex and faster-paced, and even if that weren't true, the consequenes of aiming high and falling short are better than the consequences of aiming for the status quo and falling short.

So while I'm 100% onboard with skepticism that technology will magically make education better, I think the argument that "the education I got worked for me should be good for them" isn't a strong argument. What we need is a better ecducation that would have been a better education fifty years ago: stronger math, science, and language skills, general knowledge, and, I think critical thinking and media literacy. Possibly emotional intelligence -- it's kind of pointless to teach people critcial thinking skills if they are carried away by emotions.

There are no economic or security reasons to blockade Cuba, so that leaves *political*.

It used to be believed that bullies were low status individuals who are lashing out out of frustration. But research has shown that bullying is an effective strategy for achieving and maintaining social status. In other words it's a political winner. So the focus of research has shifted from the bully to the people around him who enable the bullying. The inner circle are the henchmen -- people without the charisma and daring to initiate the bullying, but join in when the bully gets things started. Around them are the audience, the people who wouldn't risk participating but enjoy the bullying vicariously. And around them are the much larger group of bystanders, who don't approve but are waiting for someone else to stop the bullying. Then off to the side are the defenders, who stand up to the bully.

Perhaps the least appreciated supporting factor in the phenomenon of the high-status bully is the silence of the bystanders, which is dependent upon the perception of widespread approval. Since you can't visibly see the the line between the approving audience and the apalled bystanders, the silence of the bytstanders is absolutely essential in sustaining the bullying.

Lot's of Americans are apalled at the idea of using military force to inflict suffering on the Cuban people. But that's only politically advantageous *because* of *them*. Tney are indistinguishable from the relatively small number of people who are thrilled when Trump announced he can do anything he wants wtih Cuba. The gap between actual approval and *perceived* approval is absolutely critical in establishign and maintaining any kind of authoritarianism. This is why would be authoritarian leaders are so focused on punishing and marginalizing any kind of expression of disapproval.

The way it has worked out in Australia is the grid charges you around 35c/kwh, but pays you 3c/kwh. Feeding back to the grid gives you almost nothing, the only real savings is in scheduling household appliances to run during the day consuming the solar before it goes to the grid.

In 1790, the US population was 94.9% rural. There is no country. in the world today that rural -- Burundi, which looks like blanks spot in the world at night satellite picturs, is 88% rural.

The largest city at the time was New York, with a population of 33,000. Northern Manhattan was near-wilderness, mid-town was farms and country houses.

In 1790 the US was. country you could "police" with sheriffs and volunteer posses, largely to keep the peace. If you got robbed, you hired a private thief catcher. This works in a 95% rural country with just 3.4 million inhabitants. It would be chaos in a country 87x larger.

8GB is plenty of RAM for what most users use their laptops for, if the OS doesn't gobble it up with background tasks. Probably be a good idea to steer clear of Chrome as a browser on these things.

It's actually more like an iPhone 16 Pro runing MacOS in a laptop form factor. Apple basically rummaged through their parts box and pulled out a mobile CPU that'll deliver 50% more single core performance than what's in a high-end Chromebook with only 80% of the power draw. And Apple's got *massive* economies of scale on those parts, so they can afford to deliver a lot of bang for the buck.

The only place the Neo appears to falls short is in RAM, but this is *not* a power user machine, it's for basic office tasks and multimedia consumption. Realistically 8GB is plenty for many users.

In any case, the desktop isn't the center of most users's universe anymore; the switchboard of their life is their smartphone. This is a gateway drug to MacOS IOS integration, and eventually onto the upgrade treadmill. Users will switch seamlewssly between their iPhones and Neos all day long, with data on iCloud and iMusic etc., and when it comes time to upgrade their phone or their laptop, they won't be *stuck* exactly, but if they leave the reservation they lose a lot. But they certainly could upgrade to a *much nicer* Macbook....

It's no wonder the other laptop makers are sitting up and taking notice. Apple has set up a one way conversion ratchet for people tempted by a really nice and perfectly adequate entry level machine at an entry level price.Nobody else has the vertical integration -- chip foundries to device manufacturing, to software platform -- spanning desktop and phones that's needed to do this.