tinglymintyfrsh

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Comment · 3 years ago
What if you have 5 homes (with 5 different ISPs)? Is each a household or are the collection of people households?

What if you have friends who are basically family who more-or-less live with you? Are they not part of the "household"? "Sorry, Bob, while you maybe my daughter's godfather and donated a kidney to me, you're now going to need your own Netflix account because Netflix wants to mash the 'pump corporate profits' button that has been a primary contributing factor of both embarrassing wealth transfer from the poor to the rich and inflation post-pandemic."

Comment · 3 years ago
My first thought: How is this going to block me from Netflixing on a United flight or in a hotel? It seems problematic.

Also, there are nontraditional families with multiple homes. How many accounts do they need?

Comment · 3 years ago
Realize the marketing and support (likely none) of retail parts like these: manufacturers don't believe enterprise customers will not scream at them if some or many of them fail. They can play fast-and-loose to push the boundaries to get marketshare. Big name vloggers and tech reporters may complain.

OTOH, enterprise parts are built and supported towards conservatism and reliability.

There is crossover and a spectrum between the 2, but this case isn't a complete surprise.

Comment · 3 years ago
One of those things no one ever wants to test.

What is the equivalent of Pantex in Russia? Who services them?

Comment · 3 years ago
Waves from a perch overlooking AUS and Giga Texas.

I've run into enough NVIDIA and AMD engineers at The Domain to surmise this is true.

We need a funnel towards training highly-skilled blue-/light-blue-collar workers to feed the strategic needs of said fab industry if the US were serious about building domestic capabilities and competitive independence.

Right now, I don't think the current state of the US education system from national to local levels is promoting the fundamentals needed to attain this goal.

Comment · 3 years ago
And rice produced in North America tends to concentrate arsenic.

Because something is difficult doesn't mean it's okay to rationalize more of it. Marketing something as "nontoxic" has a storied history of failure. DDT for one.

Cost/benefit analysis always. Perhaps in a survival or humanitarian crisis situation the risks of water-borne diseases would be far greater.

Comment · 3 years ago
Holistic contributing factors.

The main barrier to change is a widespread attitude problem: neglect rather than translating intent into action. The average American doesn't know anyone lacking housing and won't get personally involved to help "a stranger".

Furthermore, social workers and aid agencies generally don't take any proactive steps to get out to where unhoused people are or ask what they need. They're usually employees with performance standards and grand initiatives unrelated to practical and meaningful assistance.

Finally, the social safety net in America is a disgrace. Even in so-called liberal states, it treats recipients like criminals and doesn't respect them or their time while delivery inadequate resources to lift anyone out of dire situations (averaging $140 in cash and $225 for food per month). The recent debt hostage crisis engineered by far-right Republicans to attach punitive restrictions on ABAWDs and non-ABAWDs is a further punitive, collective attack on the poor for the crime of being poor.

Comment · 3 years ago
Rotoscoping is similar.

Perhaps Campbell soup shouldn't be Xerox or art either?

Comment · 3 years ago
SCOTUS is dysfunctional: art isn't art and women don't have bodily autonomy.
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These sort of vendor YOLO changes are more of the domain of Microsoft's MDE.

I use an Deciso OPNsense where it doesn't insist on breaking itself on the orders of corporate overlords.

Comment · 3 years ago
American workers are the wimpiest creatures on the planet. That's why they don't have unions, tolerate horrible bosses, and have few protections.
Comment · 3 years ago
America is built on the exploitation of undocumented workers for the food supply and of cheaper foreign labor held hostage by employers for tech. These are forms of coercion much as tying health insurance to employment. Tools of power to keep employees at a disadvantage.
Comment · 3 years ago
Americans don't realize how bad they have it.

America is only a Good Place(tm) for the very rich while its suffering expands out in a Power law distribution. No other "rich" country abuses homeless, the disabled, the almost homeless, and the working poor with as much unequal treatment as much except so-called "third-world" countries. The middle class of America is small, privileged, and unaware of the suffering and exploitation of ~100 M Americans below it and of its enablement of the "1%" to continue the status quo.

Comment · 3 years ago
Amazon corporate just went to 100% in-office. People who were previously remote now have to commute or would be fired. Even if there job has nothing to do with being in an office and their team is elsewhere in the world. My neighbor is one such employee where it wastes gas and time getting them to an office they don't have a business reason to be in except fulfill butt-in-seat mentality of the overlords.

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