I think remote work increased teamwork with the group I work closely with. We have an internal IRC server that me and a handful of others that deal with each other on a regular basis are in. It works a lot better than frequent meetings, office drive bys, and email. You can send files like email. You can say what is on your mind to whomever like a drive by. You can have a private conversation like with IM, phone, or a drive by. One to many communication like email, and meetingware (zoom, teams, etc), secure communication with TLS, users can pick a client that works for them. A competent admin on a Linux box can integrate an IRC server with whatever auth system the org is using. It is old school, but there is a reason it is still around.

Maybe it is how it is taught? Literature can be a great way to understand the cultural elements to a period in history and provide perspective on social and political issues. It can be a way to get people to think about ethics without talking about trolleys. For example, novels written during and about the US great depression can provide insight at the micro level vs the macro level you would normally get in a US history or economics course.

I am not a lawyer, but I don't think it would require an amendment. The method of the state appointing electors for the electoral college is up to the state. See Article II, Section 1 of the US constitution: https://constitution.congress....

How about an in-app purchase that costs $10,000,000? All the app does is have a gold star pop up on startup that says thank you for supporting Proton Mail!

Wall Street. Find a VC. If you can get well known, then the NASDAQ or NYSE. Once the company goes public, the VC can cash out. The people buying your shares will be index funds if you are lucky enough to make an index, people who speculate on the bigger fool mindset, and people who don't know how to read financial statements.

I haven't read or book, or know their family dynamic, so take this with a grain of salt. The ethics of publishing the claims about Donald aside, assuming normal family interaction, there is a good chance she as spent as much time around him or more than the typical psychologist has with their patients. Unlike most situations, she had the luxury of seeing his behavior for herself instead of relying on interactions in a clinical setting and family testimony. If my assumptions are true and she is making her claims about his mental health in good faith, I think they are probably accurate. Normally I would say going public with this is unethical. Considering psychologists are often mandatory reporters if they believe their patient is likely to commit certain crimes, I don't think going public in this case is unethical due to his position.

Yes, ZFS can do inline deduplication. Make sure you have plenty of RAM though. Turning it on is easy:
# zfs set dedup=on|verify|sha256|sha512 your/dataset
ZFS also supports inline compression that you can enable in a similar manner.

Does anyone know if there are any potential unintended consequences for this? Suppose we start sucking power from the earth at a pace in the TW or PW range? Would this affect the earth in 5, 10, or 100 years? When humans started burning coal and oil over a century ago, I doubt anyone anticipated global warming.

I never formally studied physics beyond the introductory level, so forgive my ignorance. How does thermodynamics play into this? Once a few PJ of energy are sucked out of the earth, how is it replenished?

This isn't always the case with mergers, but it isn't entirely a bad thing. Hear me out. There is still Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics, Boeing, and many other big companies in the business, so there is still some competition.

I have worked at a facility with government contracts before. The facility I was at had contractors from several companies, often performing very similar roles. It sounds strange, but this sort of thing could actually save the tax payer some money. Instead of having 2 24x7 support contracts with 12 people each from 2 different companies, if they were to merge, the total people could be reduced from 24 to 18.

There were actually quite a few contractors and products from smaller companies where I was at.

Another possible upside is better quality in some cases. Since multiple companies had stuff on the same network performing similar functions, data storage for different applications for example, the storage systems could be consolidated resulting in better performance and lower costs.

The way some contracts work is performance based. Take cruise missiles for example (no, I didn't work with cruise missiles). It would be expected that if an agreed upon number of cruise missiles don't work as advertised, say it misses its target or its warhead fails to detonate, the amount the government pays for the contract drops significantly.

You are correct on the key management, but I disagree with the reason. I don't think OTP distribution is as big of a problem as OTP generation. Cheap, dense storage solves a lot of the distribution problem. How many credit card transactions could a retailer process before using up the data on a single SD card? I think the real problem would be generating the pads. How would you even go about generating enough random data on a regular basis to consistently fill 512GB SD cards, or worse, a 6TB LTO-7 tape? I bet we would start to see a lot of effort put into compression algorithms.

As someone else mentioned, one time pads could be used in certain applications, but the following things (and certainly more) could no longer be trusted:

• Online Shopping
• Online Banking
• Email
• Wireless Home Networks
• Internet Software Distribution- no app store, no package managers, no internet updates
• Anything of importance that relies on private electronic communication would no longer be viable

I think salesforce is shooting themselves in the foot. Pun Intended. I would be very hesitant to do business with a company trying to do this.

Why would I do business with a company that would be willing to arbitrarily decide I need to change my product or service or they will stop doing business with me? If they make it clear ahead of time, that is one thing. After the fact like this, I would lose trust and confidence in them.

This is why I use FLOSS as much as possible.

I doubt I am unique in thinking this way.

I'll admit I did not read the article, but I have a few thoughts based on the summary.

I wonder if there is less demand because the market is flooded with them? As someone else mentioned, it use to be a ticket to print your own paycheck. My guess is that people figured this out and rushed into the programs. The market flooded and drove down demand. When everyone has an MBA, you need something else to set you apart.

I have known people that have gotten various degrees for the piece of paper. They want the paper so they can get a job that pays more. I question how much they learned. A good interviewer can see through this.

With the exception of myopic and crooked organizations, your ability to get the job done is what really matters. I think people are realizing this. When I look at job listings, I often see requirements of X degree or X years experience demonstrating the equivalent skill.