That feels creepy enough to discourage people from using it. If they don’t self-regulate what they can do with that level of personal data, we’ll see laws passed in states like California and then adopted by others.
Fat binaries with slices for each architecture, much as was done for 32+64 bit x86 and is still done for iOS. Porting x86-only code to arm can sometimes be a lot of work, but supporting both x86 and arm at the same time isn't any more work.
Yet it took another year, with the sinking of HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse, for the British Navy to finally acknowledge that aircraft carriers, not destroyers, are the future.
The F-35 program isn't going anywhere, but the Pentagon and the CIA have been quietly building out drone bases across the world for years.
I don't have raw numbers, but last I checked the cost estimates of maintaining these aircraft over the long term is still projected to be cheaper than the alternative.
Some of the aircraft flown by the USAF and the US Navy have higher annual operational costs than the sticker price of those same aircraft. The F-35 is an attempt to avoid repeating the same mistakes, but obviously, easier said than done.
last I checked the cost estimates of maintaining these aircraft over the long term is still projected to be cheaper than the alternative
I think that if nothing else is learned from this program, it's that 'cost estimates' regarding it fit someplace between 'meaningless' and 'fraudulent'.
We spend 68 million dollars on the military per hour. An aircraft carrier group alone costs somewhere between 2-3 million per day to operate. We spend huge amounts on force projection, but argue over school funding and basic social services.
Well, school funding at least has been shown to be irrelevant to outcomes (at the ranges of funding we currently have in the US), so it makes sense that people would argue against increasing spending there. And when it comes to increasing "basic" social services - you do realize we spend multiple times the military budget on them already?
Regarding the first, while funding per pupil doesn't directly correlate to outcome, it's not irrelevant to outcome. Additionally, students in lower income areas are more expensive to teach per pupil.
> Schools in high-poverty neighborhoods are more than twice as likely to be among the least-productive school districts
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Regarding the second, I sure hope that we spend multiples of our military budget on services! If we didn't that would be absolutely astonishing. Other than services for the people, what else should our government be spending money on?
But we spend more than many other countries. We put about 15% of our federal tax dollars into military spending, compared to, say, Germany (12%). If we scaled back a percent or three on our military, we'd have hundreds of billions of dollars to spend on schools, infrastructure, healthcare, public defenders, etc. etc. etc.
The point was that social services cost an absolute fuckton of money. Yes, you could (theoretically) cut the military budget by 20% and move that money elsewhere - but that wouldn't pay for much improvement. The US government spent 771.2 billion dollars on primary and secondary education in fiscal year 2019 [0], and 1,203.3 billion on education as a whole.
890.8 billion was spent on defence.
Cutting the defence budget by 20% and moving that to education, therefore, would be a 15% increase to the education budget.
15% isn't going to do shit to the structural issues that plague our education system. If anything, it'd be counterproductive - because it would shift power further towards the federal government in education and reduce the ability of states to try different things.
Funny thing about that - the US already spends 150-200% of the military budget on Medicare and Medicaid. So eliminating the military would be nowhere near enough to expand that to the rest of the country...
(The US spends about $2000/yr/person on the military, and $8500/yr/person on entitlements)
The icing on the cake was they disapproved one of the ads due to the destination URL not loading.. which was in itself surprising, because everything outside of the affected region was running fine.
They're investing in solar, who knows if it'll pan out. Throwing money at a problem works to a certain degree, and there's no question they have a sizable reserve to throw around.
At the risk of being downvoted, any Pixel users enable "Hey Google" recognition on their phones only to regret it?
I'm constantly dealing with the phone interpreting commands intended for a Google Home speaker, which sometimes results in both the speaker and the phone acting on the same command. To my dismay, there's no way to disable Hey Google recognition on the phone after it's been enabled.
Perhaps someone here has run into this issue as well? It's a huge pain point for me.
You can register different trigger words, or at least you used to be able to. I had my phone wired to OK Google and the Home wired to Hey Google. Wasn’t an issue once I made the distinction. I no longer have an Android so I can’t comment on this still working. If you have external parties at your home regularly, that would obviously complicate things.
It’s not a fallacy, it’s an ideal, a goal to be strived for while accepting human limitations. No one can perfectly design and build a house, but we don’t shrug and say “Perfect right angles are an illusion, enjoy your crooked house.” Besides, there are laws around this concerned with something called *the appearance of impropriety” which is to be avoided by judges, elected officials, and others. You can legitimately get yourself in deep muck, not only by being improper, but by merely seeming to be (to a reasonable person standard).
Absolutely! There are not many, but we have got lots and lots of hours out of these:
- Mr. Jack: My highest recommendation. One player is "Mr. Jack" (one of, I think, eight characters) and the other player is trying to find/arrest him. Some very fun mechanics and generally seems like an evenly matched game.
- Rivals for Catan: Great if you are in to Settlers. Lots of expansions as well.
- Patchwork: Relaxing, fun little "quilt building" game. We always take this one camping for quick plays.
- Boss Monster: A very basic dungeon building game not specifically for two players. We bought this randomly from a book store while on vacation and have been pleasantly surprised by it, though not much depth overall.
- Takenoko: Also not specifically two players, but still very fun with only two. This is a very clam little game about planting and eating bamboo (:
- Terra Mystica: If you are in to longer, complex games, this is probably my favorite game in general. The two player setup is a little forced and it's definitely way more fun with four, but I highly recommend it in general.
