How refreshing it must be to have a government run by a middle-aged person that knows how to use technology as opposed to the 80+ year old gerontocracy we have here in the US...
An empty and self-congratulatory comment is all you need to convince yourself that the UK (and/or Sunak in particular) is friendly to tech? He's an outspoken supporter[0] of the Online Safety Bill, which would effectively outlaw end-to-end encryption and mandate backdoors to "protect the children." A more accurate description of A16Z's move here is that they don't care about invasive and oppressive regulations as long as those regulations don't impact their bottom line, but I suppose "let us keep dodging taxes and privacy regulations and we'll help you spy on your citizens" doesn't have quite the same ring.
Incorrect. As long as your front wheels pass the stop line prior to the light turning red, you are legally driving through the intersection and should continue and clear the intersection on the other side (not stop in the middle).
Imagine how crazy the law would be if this were the case:
- Light changes from green to yellow 1ms before your front wheels pass the stop line
- Other direction traffic runs a red light and hits you from the side
- You're now somehow liable because your wheels entered the intersection with zero ability to react quickly enough (no human can react in 1ms and no car can stop that fast) and the other driver that clearly blew a red is not?
Correct. The law states that as long as your front wheels are in the intersection prior to the light turning red, you should proceed through the intersection. Inexperienced drivers that either stay in the intersection or try to reverse into traffic behind them are breaking the law and create a huge hazard for others.
Even if the light for opposing traffic turns green while the turning car is still clearing the intersection, opposing traffic is legally required to wait and not enter the intersection until opposing traffic has cleared the intersection.
Wen Ho Lee was a PRC spy and was caught exfiltrating secrets. Hardly a reasonable example of unjust persecution.
Are you serious? No US person seriously believes we will deport a Chinese national on a legitimate visa for their political views. Can you point to a single example of this happening?
> Wen Ho Lee was a PRC spy and was caught exfiltrating secrets.
then why wasn't he convicted of it? LOL why is he walking around free, and with a bunch of money he won from a civil suit filed against the government?
who's incompetent here, the FBI, the DOJ, or the courts? how can we assure that every east asian accused of espionage is convicted?
it's a shame you aren't a federal judge, then no spy would ever get away.
There are famous cases of USA deporting a Polish-Lithuanian Jew and a British Actor because of their political views. Is there a reason to believe they wouldn’t deport a Chinese national for the same reason? Particularly since “having been a member of the Communist party” (a requirement for any Chinese citizen seeking a job in the public sector) is a question they ask before issuing a green card.
Thank you for bringing a voice of reason to this discussion. Far too many pilloried the US over the decades for unjust wars. Perhaps there are some, like Vietnam, Iraq, etc, but a far worse outcome would be to have the global security situation be controlled by China and Russia. We know what happens when non-democratically elected leaders rise to global power and decide to exert their will, and it is not pretty (world wars, basically).
The US military industrial complex is incredibly complex and somewhat corrupt - it is a revolving door between industry and government, but the alternative is far worse and leads to genocide on a scale unimaginable since WW2.
I don't think the only alternative is "replace the US with a different (evil) power". An alternative is that the UN plays more of a policing role and we move away from power and justice being applied unilaterally and capriciously.
In no way am I suggesting that this is an easy thing to do, or even neccessarily to be desired, but the idea that the world being run by China-Russia is the only alternative to US hegemony is a false dichotomy.
I don't think this is true at all. Apple keeps releasing amazing new features for Logic Pro and they are free. They also just released Logic Pro for the iPad, and the new M2 iPad Pros are basically more powerful than Intel Macs at this use case.
Apple is clearly committed to their Pro users, but I can see why them dropping driver support for older hardware is frustrating. It's not that they are dropping driver support, it's just that the hardware manufacturers aren't updating drivers to support ARM Macs and not load as a low level kernel driver (insecure). I think your anger is a bit misplaced - maybe you should direct it towards the sound card manufacturer that refuses to update drivers for years?
Or you could just get off their walled garden that assumes you have thousands of extra dollars per year to pay for their various premium lifestyle objects and services.
If Apple is only concerned with Professionals, they should stop marketing to the peons.
I guess you just discovered the difference between a GCP Zone and an AWS Availability Zone.
By definition, AWS availability zones do not share fault domains, other than a geographic region up to hundreds of miles wide. Even for services used by multiple AZs, such as transit to the Internet and other regions, there are two transit centers operating in separate fault domains.
In contrast, many GCP Zones share the same physical datacenter. What they are actually providing you are simply different racks, rows of racks, or rooms in a single physical facility. Caveat emptor.
This really has nothing to do with cloud and is more of an "all eggs in one basket" problem. I wish people would stop painting cloud itself as less capable.
The fact is, most cloud providers offer multiple regions, which have the capability of giving you more geographic redundancy than most companies that operate in their own datacenters have.
Whether you choose to adopt a multi-region or multi-datacenter architecture is really orthogonal to whether you choose cloud or on-prem.
This really wouldn't work for any car made in the last 20 years. Most of them have anti-theft systems that require you to put in a PIN to use your stereo if it ever gets disconnected from the battery. I suppose you could type that in every single time, but there are other computers like your automatic transmission management that learn how you drive, etc, and might not like to get reset every day.
This is false. I have owned many different cars from the last 20 years and none of them did this when you disconnected the battery. A quick google search shows that it's Hondas that do this, not "any car made in the last 20 years".
We have a 10 year old Honda Odyssey that we keep just for long road trips and it has gone 3-4 months without being driven with no issues. I usually do try to fire it up every 1-2 months just to make sure the battery gets a charge and to avoid long term storage issues around oil and belts and other parts that degrade.
Thanks, that's good advice. Luckily we've burned a tank or so every road trip (every few months) but I was wondering about that and whether it was good for gas to sit so long.
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How refreshing it must be to have a government run by a middle-aged person that knows how to use technology as opposed to the 80+ year old gerontocracy we have here in the US...