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New cars have 3G cellular transmitters constantly sending telemetry data. This started becoming common in 2012.

Still down as of 22:31 PDT.

Show me the person and I'll show you the crime. -Stalin

This was a person they wanted to let go and needed an excuse to get rid of that would save them severance and lawsuits, I'd wager.

Who would collect such a dossier?

Who would want such a thing exposed?

How many Trump voters care about the details of JD Vance enough to change their vote (zero)?

Why has Zuck publicly shifted from strong anti-Trump positioning to neutral or mildly pro-Trump?

The Razor only works when you use it.

Efficiency means minimizing the use of the costliest components. It's installing fault points into a system on purpose.

Robust systems minimize fault points. Efficient systems come at the cost of robustness, and vice versa given a fixed definition of what is being conserved, i.e. costs or energy.

For example, a four cylinder engine that gets 15mpg will have a longer life than one that gets 30mpg, given the same cost.

My uncle works for Nintendo. He says Bird Flu is going to start getting real bad in two weeks, like REAL BAD.

The consensus at the very large IT provider I work for, amongst the staff, is that India is a good bet for a script running operations team, but poor on ingenuity, innovation, and creative problem solving. The best Indian talent are as good as anyone, but the average talent level is far lower than American, Asian or European.

Zig looks fun, as a low level alternative to Rust. Similar use case as Rust, but much simpler.

In my niche, platform engineering, grey-hairs is a positive indicator of competence.

Women often eventually discover they want children and are on a tight timeline. Men do too, but they are not on the timeline. They can start families at virtually any time in their life.

By biasing work income towards men it gives women a larger selection of men to choose from to start families with while they are fertile. It also incents them to move sooner rather than work their own career longer to achieve their lifestyle goals, which conflicts with their fertility timeline.

It's sad seeing my older female friends reaching the end of their fertility and realizing they don't want to live lives without children and families, but being at a disadvantage in the relationship market because the men they consider to be at their level are seeking younger women.

"Woke-ism" is looking more and more like the inversion of reality. It is the denial of fundamental realities in the service of highly questionable ideals.

In fact the ideals of "woke-ism" are so questionable that it only survives because they aren't allowed to be questioned.

Anyone can build a bridge that will stand.

It takes an engineer to build a bridge that will barely stand.

A second of life beyond the warranty period is profit that the manufacturer can hold on to rather than give to the consumer. With microprocessors and new materials you can cut the edge closer and closer. Who cares if you destroy the brand's reputation, the executives and PE will be gone before that matters.

The corporations finance.the politicians, so no. It's all for show, and lines the pockets of the lawyers, who are the primary political class.