Interesting to juxtapose with Zuckerberg's comments from a few months ago.

"So, we're going to get back to our roots and focus on reducing mistakes, simplifying our policies, and restoring free expression on our platforms. More specifically, here's what we're going to do."

Typical techbro billionaire hypocrite, they love free expression until it's something they don't like. It's easy to be for free expression when someone else is paying the price.

In the unlikely occurrence that the FDIC doesn't just merge the failed institution with healthy bank so you never lose access to your money.
"It is the FDIC's goal to make deposit insurance payments within two business day of the failure of the insured institution."
source: https://www.fdic.gov/bank-fail...

First of all every PhD I've talked to, at least in science, has talked about the incredibly abusive environment. Examples where their advisor ignores them and so they spend years without even getting a paper published. You can go on youtube and watch endless videos about the cruelty one has to endure.

Next I talked with a professor in engineering and even twenty years ago he said all his PhD student were foreign because it made no financial sense to get a PhD for a US citizen.

Then of course in even the least competitive majors there are 20+ candidates for each position and in the more competitive majors, it's hundreds or thousands of candidates per position. Most people trying to stay in academia end up in low paying, poor if any benefits and no stability post doc or adjunct positions.

Transparency and common sense in action:
1. Generally it makes no financial sense
2. It will mostly like be an abusive experience that will damage your mental health
3. There is so much competition that getting a good professor or research position is extremely unlikely.

The decline should surprise no one.

> They are saying you, as a business, cannot remove a negative review, nor prevent one from being posted. In other words, that would be a violation of the person's 1st Amendment right to free speech and as many on here have pointed out, just because you don't like what someone has to say doesn't mean you get to censor it.
The 1st amendment is a limitation on the government not business. The first amendment nothing to do with this. Unless your review is on a government hosted web site your review has no 1st amendment protection.

I can't wait till I no longer need to park in the city.

Switching from an Android Pixel to an IPhone SE 5G I noticed the cellular service to be generally poorer and it took longer to reconnect when I reentered a service area (I hike a lot in areas without coverage). The SE is a great piece of hardware but as a phone it's pretty mediocre, so a new chip sounds like it could be an improvement. Also, I was told all the RF is already on a single chip so I thought WiFI and Bluetooth were already on the chip.

This sounds like something that no user is going to want. It even goes against the trend of anonymity like private browsing modes.

So of course we ask who benefits and it's Microsoft who will now collect and sell even more of your information. Windows is pretty much just an analytics and advertising framework now. They say the information will stay on the computer and of course it will. For now. But pretty soon they'll add "features" which need to send information back to the cloud or they will just secretly send it to the cloud anyway.

If you think this will not happen remember AT&T and Retroactive Telecom immunity. It will happen and Microsoft will not be held accountable. The problem is OSs are now going to the cloud (NetBooks Windows365...) and so for many users it's already there.

Microsoft has to be the worst when it comes to adding features that I don't want while totally not fixing their own products. But it seems like most software companies prioritize adding features we don't need while not fixing critical bugs. Years ago I tried to use the Windows backup and restore capability and it was totally broken I used it for a while and then when I needed something it wasn't there and I investigated and found it was a totally broken mess. Why would I even think of trying a feature like this when Microsoft was not able to implement the most basic backup and restore applications. If Microsoft wanted to actually improve the user experience in their products they could fix the "green bar of slowness" or various other inexplicable slowness. Or perhaps they could stop removing random applications (my fully legal and licensed copy of Excel, in one case) for no reason (they suspect that it hadn't been updated was the reason). Those are just two of the multitude of problems that should have been fixed. A truly horrible experience that Microsoft chooses every opportunity to make even worse.

Huh. Yes if you exclude the cost of almost everything and live like a monk sure you can live on almost nothing. In California, at least from where I am familiar, you cannot just take water from a random stream (there are water rights) and running a rain sourced cistern might not be as easy, cheap and reliable as you think. You also need to also consider things like sewage. A solar roof btw is not necessarily going to be enough if you're not connected to the grid you'd need storage of some kind. Also having a garden might not be as cheap as you think and maintaining a garden of the size you specify sounds like a lot of work. Leading a subsistence life can wear you down. Trying defining a budget and living on $2,400/year and see how it works.

Yes, I can't disagree. Subsidizing new technology like solar, electric cars etc. is welfare for the rich. The cheapest solution is to keep whatever car you currently have even with high gas prices it's still much less than the average $50,000 and you have higher car insurance and vehicle registration. You can buy a lot of gas for $50,0000. I plan to drive my cars for as long as possible.

Yes completely agree. I live in southern California less than a hundred miles from many large refineries. Last year I went to Kauai, Hawaii on the middle/west end where isn't much, like the middle of nowhere gas was 50 cents cheaper then I can buy here in California.

You are required by law to file taxes. Youtube is private corporation, you are not required to watch youtube videos or have a youtube account. They are in no way comparable.
It is insane that in 2024 the USA doesn't have a simple and free way for tax payers.

My experience with windows is waiting for the green bar of slowness or waiting for something I can't even tell or the disk running for some unknown reason. Maybe I have malware who knows because windows is so insecure you don't even know. Bad software can use an infinite amount of CPU cycles. Throwing hardware at bad software will do nothing.

Except "the desktop" is less of an issue because user interfaces are moving to the web and phones. #1 is becoming a don't care.

Uh, you might want to look at the Uber's history in New York.....