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This kind of government-encouraged or mandated joint venture is barely different from what China does. To be quite honest, for stuff like silicon manufacturing, it's probably a good idea.

Why would you absolve POTUS when it's clear his administration's policies created the environment that enables CBP officers to take this liberty?

Additionally, the CBP spokesperson[1] defended the action, and despite reporters asking questions, the administration has done nothing to walk back the action or apologize. All signs point to the administration being very okay with stuff like this happening.

[1]: This might not be widely known, but one of the first actions that happens on inauguration day is the replacement of US government agency spokespersons with new political appointees. One of the powers of the executive branch is the bully pulpit and smart administrations seek to use it from day one.

I don't think you're going to find any on-he-record first person testimony. It's going to be unnamed government officials, or front-line government employees who are talking to reporters and providing information without direct attribution

To speed up a comprehensive port probe with service discovery, one could use a few different systems on different IPs and divide the work.

Still on severance and chilling out maybe?

Per the article:

> In 1964 Sherman Kent, a cia analyst, coined the phrase “words of estimative probability”.

So that must have been even before Carter

This is a very useful article if you want to understand the technical language used by the UK and US intelligence communities, which is often parroted by the media reporting on topics using sources that leak intelligence from those communities. This language has been standardized within their respective communities so that all parties involved (from the President to the lowliest analyst) should be on the same page with respect to the intelligence.

According to the article there are two measures:

- a probabilistic measurement and associated language, which speaks to the assessed likelihood of an event occurring

- a confidence measurement and associated language, which speaks to the assessed quality of the source(s) of the intelligence

This list seems weird. Advanced aircraft engines? The latest homegrown Chinese airliner (Comac C919) uses western LEAP engines.

> Laurie Smyla, a 73-year-old retiree from Sloatsburg, New York [...] Smyla has a degree in environmental science and even served as coordinator for the local recycling program in the late 1980s, as she explains when reached by phone. She was able to quickly identify the envelope as polyethylene, the most common type of plastic.

I gotta wonder, how many people did the reporters have to contact before finding the perfect subject to put a human angle on this part of the story. Kudos to them for doing the legwork

The phone contact list becoming the root of trust for defining personal trust relationships is rather unwelcome. Then software taking that data and wordlessly interpreting it as a binary trust/do-not-trust decision is also unwelcome.

If I am networking at a conference, I frequently exchange contact info by entering info into each others' contact app or sending each other a text. I'm sure I'm not the only one to do this.

It's one thing to tell two users that both parties are using Signal and in each other's contact list (contact discovery). It's another thing to encourage users to broadcast messages to all of them (via Stories, and the default share setting is all contacts)

In summary, while I'm neutral on the Stories feature, I think the implementation/rollout has been clumsy.

This might not be a problem that matters to the Google bean counters, but it would be a problem that a responsible, moral, and just company would solve.

Imagine getting done in by your own Google Glass.

Frankly, as someone more interested in emulation than virtualization, I have been occasionally unhappy that most of the energy behind QEMU goes to virtualization. Some of the things QEMU has done to better adapt to virtualization do not translate well to the emulation use case.

In case you’re looking for whether this says anything about the butt plug allegations, this report does not. It only concerns cheating on an online platform, not in person cheating

I'm curious about the ownership, profits, and dividends to ownership for a private company. Obviously, details on this are not easy to come by. It seems like Patagonia is self-sustaining from a cash flow perspective.

So Patagonia is 50 years old and did an estimated $1.5 billion in revenues in 2022 (according to Wikipedia). From the article, it seems like Yvon, his wife, and his two children held both ownership and control. It might even have been 100% within the family, given that NYT explicitly writes that, "the family irrevocably transferred all the company’s voting stock, equivalent to 2 percent of the overall shares" and "The Chouinards then donated the other 98 percent of Patagonia"

I wonder how much of the company's profits over the years were reinvested back into the company and how much went to Yvon and the other Chouinards. Seems like most or all of his wealth derives from Patagonia and he lives modestly but comfortably.

EDIT: Even at a 1% profit margin, at $1.5 billion, that's still $15 million.